Tag: Crime

Where to begin, where to begin. News10.net “reports” that gunmen robbed moviegoers at the Century Theaters at Ethan Way and Arden Way early this morning.

They were talking all kinds of crap, and pretty much robbed us and took our money and scared the living daylights out of everybody.

The following is a game I like to play called “Choose your own snark” which is “pretty much” self explanatory…here goes:

Pretty much robbed? You mean like how the Century Theater “pretty much robbed” you of $6.50 to see another Reese Witherspoon movie?

Pretty much robbed? Like the way the local job market “pretty much robbed” you of the opportunity to work on a weekday morning rather than go see a movie?

Turns out the robbers fled in a vehicle, but none of the victims got a good look at it or the direction in which it turned once it left the parking lot which is totally understandable considering where this theater is.

They are most likely just looping back around to the front of CompUSA by now cursing themselves wondering why they didn’t just rob the theater off Greenback.

UPDATE: Leave it to News10.net to leave out important facts about this crime. Over at KCRA.com I learned that the crime “…happened about 12:45 a.m. as the last showing was letting out…” which makes more sense than an early morning crime (I’ve always considered midnight to 4am as “late last night” and 4:01am to 7:00am as “early this morning” but that’s just me).

So it turns out the gunman that injured two sheriff’s deputies at a Lake Tahoe casino on Saturday showed suicidal tendencies and bought firearms at a local dealer just hours before the shooting.

A 1993 gun control law known as the Brady Bill prohibits the sale of handguns to felons and requires a waiting period and licensing on their purchase. But the law does not apply to antiques.

I guess that proves the old saying: “Guns don’t kill people, antique guns purchased through loopholes in gun control laws kill people.”

I wanted to follow up on a few posts we’ve made here regarding the missing person cases of Christie Wilson & Geneva Brewer.

This morning’s homepage on News10.net (while second to Christie, again, and probably not even up for long) updates us on the Geneva Brewer case. Turns out that just being missing isn’t enough anymore to warrant a search party or even a search, like, at all.

Sacramento County Sheriff’s investigators said their initial investigation turned up no evidence of foul play and they do not consider Brewer an at-risk missing person. However, her family believes that her disapperance (sic – which should just be changed to “news10”) is enough evidence to show that something is very wrong.

So let me get this straight. The only difference between the disappearance of these two women is that one liked to gamble (security footage showing her leaving with the now murder suspect)? Because both families consider their loved one missing and are asking for help.
Continue reading “Weekend Update: Missing Persons”

CBS13 tells us that the California Correctional Peace Officers Association is suing the state of CA on behalf of Donald Cathey, who was ordered to remove his “Just say no to Arnold” shirt while on the job at a prison (doesn’t say which). I won’t get into the messy argument of free speech for public employees, I just want to point out that demanding that your employee not wear a shirt advocating disobedience of authorities kind of makes sense when you work at a prison.

Well tonight’s the night for walking around and asking for candy, and as we all know there are some major creeps out there. But don’t worry, Sacramento’s on the case. The article is short enough, I’m just going to post it in its entirety:

Law enforcement officials are hitting the streets to keep children safe from sex offenders on Halloween.

“Operation Boo” will put parole officers out among the trick-or-treaters, knocking on doors and checking up on high-risk registered sex offenders, who have been warned to turn off their lights and not answer the door on Halloween.

“We physically go to the home and knock on the door … to see if they are complying with that. If they answer the door we have a problem we have to deal with,” state parole administrator Rick Burrows said.

Some parents said it is comforting to hear that agents will be on the streets.

“So, if a sex offender were to open the door and try to get my child in the house, they wouldn’t be able to. The best measure is for parents to be active on Halloween with their children,” parent Tuesday Airola said.

Where to start? Since these offenders are definitely able to follow society’s rules, why not just make it up to them not to do something that is perfectly legal, like answering the door for any reason. Second, I’m not sure how paragraph three will work.
Continue reading “‘Operation Boo’ Targets Offenders”

Was it just my wife and me, or was the BASE jumper story last night the funniest local news piece in a while? I don’t think print reports do it justice; to really get the local flavor of this story of a daredevil yahoo jumping off a TV tower and getting stuck on his parachute about 200 feet up, you had to see Miguel Almaguer reporting live from the scene for the 10:00 news on WB58. (Was it a slow night for TV or what? We actually found ourselves watching “Joey” for like 5 minutes. We were eating May Flower at the time so our hands were occupied.)

Unfortunately the video clip on wb58tv.com does not contain video of Almaguer with his makeshift model of the tower and the guide wires that the jumper was caught on, which he used to demonstrate the different scenarios firefighters were considering for freeing the idiot. He did not, unfortunately, use a GI Joe figurine to stand in for the nimrod, who has titanium rods in his legs from a previous unsuccessful jump. Dumbass.
Continue reading “BASE Jumper Tragedy of ’05”

A day after this hit the headlines, KCRA reports about this in Elk Grove.

Under a plea agreement, the attempted murder charges were dropped, and Howard pleaded guilty to the child endangerment charges.

Does this rub you the wrong way at all? It shouldn’t because, you know, strangling and setting fire to your children isn’t really attempted murder.

It really doesn’t make any sense, but hey, thanks for getting to the bottom of that one, KCRA!

Again with the unhelpful suspect decriptions, Sacramento.

Victims described the men as 22 to 29 years old, 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall with thin builds. One was wearing a black beanie and another had his hair in braids, [Police spokeswoman Michelle] Lazark said.

Okay, so the first one is a Sailor and the second one is a Viking? As I’ve said before, fashion comments do not make for good suspect descriptions. After all, when I hear “beanie” I sometimes picture the multi-colored pinwheel hat (like the one Calvin gets hoping it will make him fly–by the way, thanks SacBee for rerunning Calvin).

I’ve been enjoying the Chico State online newspaper as of late. Mostly because they have a great blotter. Such as:

4:59 a.m. Mentally ill person reported on the 100 block of West 17th Street. “Reporting party is at a pay phone saying we need to send the government or someone may get hurt.”

2:34 p.m. Disturbance reported on the 500 block of Orange Street. “Male subject outside waving his hands in the middle of the street and talking about Jesus.”

Continue reading “New Crime Blotter”