daylight robbery

[winterbadger]

Where the hell am I living, the Wild West? Things are getting way out of hand...

January 11, 2009 (12:45 p.m.)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

On January 10, 2009, at approximately 3:29 p.m., Takoma Park Police
responded to the 6800 block of New Hampshire Avenue to the La Fonda
Chiquita restaurant for reports of an armed robbery. Three armed gunmen
entered the restaurant during its regular business hours and overtook
the restaurant, pointing their handguns at the employees and patrons
making demands. One of the suspects grabbed an employee and forced her
at gunpoint to the rear of the business and demanded that she open the
cash drawer. After taking money, the suspect then assaulted the
employee striking her with the firearm. The other two suspects in the
front of the store robbed the employees and customers of personal items,
wallets, cell phones and jewelry. As they were leaving, one of the
suspects raised his firearm and fired a round into the air.

The suspects are described as all wearing the same type of clothing:
black jackets and jeans. They did not attempt to hide their identities.
They were described by the victims as being young, ranging in ages from
18 to 25, Hispanic males. The suspects had been in the business earlier
in the day.

There were no serious injuries to any of the victims.

Investigation continues under case #09001704. Anyone with information
about this crime is asked to please call us at 301.270.1100.

Comments

[aitkendrum.livejournal.com]

Eeek! Time for Sheriff W. Badger to sort that town out. My dad knows some people...

Things have calmed down here oddly since the traffic disappeared from MWFVillage.

Saying that Edinburgh just had the "head in a bag" murder.

[winterbadger]

Obviously law enforcement is never going to be there to stop every crime. But these guys apparently feel safe enough from random LEO interference that they are ready to do this in the middle of a Saturday afternoon. That tells me we do *not* have enough police here, at least enough where people see them.

But everything in government budgets at the S/L level is "cut back" now, not "increase". My guess is that we'll be seeing more and more crime as long as that is the case.

[ban-leodhasach.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh that is scary! And why did they need to assault the employee after she had given them the cash - I just don't understand it anymore???

And they obviously had no fear of the law when the didn't even disguise themselves.

[winterbadger]

Yeah, the part about them not disguising themselves would have had me panicking if I had been in there, as I would have assumed it meant they were going to kill everyone in the place. Apparently it just meant they were really stupid, since they've been identified as people who were already in earlier.

The hitting the employee is nasty, yes. I guess I would figure they are amateurs and were probably scared shitless the whole time and trying to 'brave' themselves up by being as scary as they could imagine how to be. The firing the shot into the ceiling fits with that--that's like something straight out of a movie--probably something these guys watched the night before!

[onlyrobin.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I live in a tiny village in Scotland!!!!