- November 18, 2024
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May 27
Getting a raw deal
7:35 p.m. First block of Ryarbor Drive. Armed robbery.
A man went to meet two other men to buy a car, only to have one of the men take his cash at gunpoint and drive off with it — in the car the cash was supposed to be for.
The victim, according to a Sheriff’s Office report, met the thief and the other man, the actual owner of the car, in a driveway in the R section.
He looked over the car and decided he wanted to negotiate the price down, then took out a wad of $10,200 cash as he did.
The thief then pulled a black handgun, said something to the victim — exactly what he said is redacted in the deputy’s report — grabbed the cash from the victim’s hands and drove off with the other man in the car the victim had wanted to buy.
The victim and a witness tried to follow the men, but couldn’t according the report.
They called the Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies found the car and it’s owner at a home on E. Booe Street, and brought the victim and witness thee to identify the car and the owner.
They arrested the owner on a charge of grand theft over $5,000 and principle to armed robbery with a deadly weapon.
They do not yet know the name of the thief who pulled the gun.
May 28
Not a clean getaway
3:03 a.m. First block of Langdon Drive. Burglary.
The reports to the Sheriff’s Office started after an L-section couple looked out their window at night and saw the dome light was on in their car.
The husband walked to the door and looked outside, and saw someone rummaging around in the trunk of his Ford.
The man’s dog ran out the door, and the thief saw the dog coming at him and turned and ran.
The couple called 911.
And when deputies arrived, they discovered that three other L-section cars had also been burglarized.
The thief made off with just a ring of keys — not car keys, but work keys to a local fast food restaurant — from the car of the couple that called the Sheriff’s Office.
But, according to a charging affidavit, he also stole a change purse from a Nissan on Langdon Drive; a wallet, owners manual and sweatshirt from a Honda on Lindsay Drive; and an owners manual, registration and service paperwork from a Nissan on Lamont Lane.
There were “multiple electronics” in the Lamont Lane Nissan that weren’t stolen, according to a charging affidavit, but a key was broken off inside the car’s ignition.
The thief had also taken an empty beverage can that had been on the car’s floor and placed it in the cupholder.
Deputies checking the area for a suspect heard movement in the wood line near Linda Place and commanded whoever was back there to come out. Instead, he ran.
Deputies tracked the thief — who turned out to be a 16-year-old boy — hiding in a covered backyard hot tub.
The teen told deputies that he’d been walking when he met up with another male, also a suspect, and the two “began to check car door handles.”
Deputies found many of the stolen items in the wooded area the teen had been hiding in.
They charged him with multiple counts of burglary.
