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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Crooks Caught in the Neighborhood

This is a blurb that was just posted on our neighborhood crime watch. Enjoy.

I am sure you know by now, but there was another attempt at a breakin. Three black boys came running down W Indianhead around 8:30 this morning. A man was running after them yelling for them to stop. Bless his heart, he was running in bare feet, and going as fast as he could. My husband called 911, and gave the kids description, just as one of the kids stopped and the man stayed with him until the authorities arrived.
A state trooper drove by after the other two. I heard dogs that kept barking over near Jim Lee, so I got in my car to drive down Jim Lee just in case I could see them. When I got to Lola, here the 2 kids came. They were sweating and slowing down, when I drove by them they realized they had been spotted and took off again. The trooper was just around the corner I stopped him and told him I'd just seen them and he took off, but he didn't find them.
I drove down Orange Avenue looking but didn't see them again. I figured since they would still be in the same clothes it'd be easier to spot them. One of the boys looked 14-15 yrs. old, 5'9",light skinned, tight haircut and wore a long white T-shirt with light colored blue jeans, the kind that look like they have been bleached out. The other boy looked about 13, maybe 5', very dark skinned, short hair with maybe an inch grow out, wearing a white T-shirt and long black shorts. If anyone saw them, maybe we could get a better idea where they went, or were heading. The third boy got taken in thankfully. (He was in dark blue basketball shorts with white markings and a black t-shirt).
We owe a big thank you to the man who ran and caught that boy, and the men who came out to support him(they were working on a house in the neighborhood and heard the man yelling and came running also). Actually, many neighbors came out. We are a tight neighborhood, and I feel certain as we continue to stand together against crimes in our neighborhood, we will prevail.

1 comment:

Harry Everhart said...

UPDATE -

Please make sure the neighborhood has the following information in reference to the burglary that occurred yesterday.

Officer Blackburn responded to this location after a neighbor saw three suspects running from the residence after hearing glass breaking. Neighbors chased the suspects. One suspect was caught three blocks away. Officers and the Fairview SRO later identified two other suspects. The other two suspects were located at Fairview and arrested. All three were taken to JAC and charged with Attempted Burglary. The back door had been broken out with a brick.

Arrested / Michael C Owens / B/M
Arrested / Dante Smith / B/M /
Arrested / Roosevelt Johnson / B/M /