Galveston: Today's mopes and dopes

[apostate]

Also "fat" is not politically correct. I think the acceptable term is "of size," as in "New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is a person of size."

ROUS?

[tbrown]

Also "fat" is not politically correct. I think the acceptable term is "of size," as in "New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is a person of size."

ROUS?

Republicans of Unusual Size!

[seamusTX]

Getting back on topic, in Galveston Wednesday three teenage criminal geniuses (probably bored after watching Beavis and Butt-Head reruns) allegedly went on a robbery spree near 30th and Broadway around 7:30 p.m. (shortly after dark but still when decent people expect to be able to go about their business). One of the victims knew the perpetrators. All were in the slammer by the next day.

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- Jim

[LongHairedRedneck]

Don't confront a shoplifter or you may get bitten....

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/282446

[LongHairedRedneck]

Another check for the nothing good happens after midnight category......

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/284078

[LongHairedRedneck]

Don't mess around on the North side of Broadway after dark...

He was shot in an extremity as the result of an aggravated robbery, Galveston police Capt. Jeff Heyse said.

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/288234

[seamusTX]

Don't mess around on the North side of Broadway after dark...

That is excellent advice.

The area between 25th and 45th north of Broadway is not a healthy place to roam around if you don't know what you are doing. That said, a lot of decent people live there. It's just a magnet for the criminal element for a lot of reasons.

- Jim

[seamusTX]

Around 10:30 p.m. Friday, police responded to a call in the 1400 block of 40th Street (near Avenue N).

A 51-year-old woman was accused of biting her "boyfriend" and charged with assault causing bodily injury to a family member.

This is TMI: “The bite marks were very distinct,” a police captain said. “There was a tooth missing (on the marks) and it matched [the suspect's] missing front tooth.”

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/289470" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The report does not say whether alcohol or drugs were involved.

This area is not a high-rent district.

- Jim

[WildBill]

“There was a tooth missing (on the marks) and it matched [the suspect's] missing front tooth.”

This quote is too good to pass up.

[seamusTX]

Thursday a 20-year-old Galveston man was arrested and charged with burglary.

A homeowner in the 3800 block of Avenue P 1/2 had hired the man to do some gardening, but dismissed him for doing "substandard" work.

The suspect allegedly returned at 3:45 a.m. Thursday and broke into the house. The homeowner confronted the intruder, who assaulted him. The suspect stole electronic equipment and the key to one of the homeowner's vehicles. The suspect then started the vehicle and drove it into another of the homeowner's vehicles.

The suspect abandoned the scene and was arrested nearby a short time later.

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I need to see if I have a gun I can sell this guy.

I used to pay these losers to do minor work around the house because I felt sorry for them. I never let them inside or allowed them to use my tools (which many wanted to do, along with washing my car). Only one did a decent job the first time, and he was a scam artist who showed his hand a few days later.

Many serious crimes have been perpetrated by men like this who do some work or make a delivery to a house and then come back to commit a crime. Frequently they are oblivious to the fact that the victim knows them and in some cases have left a paper trail.

- Jim

[speedsix]

...I had a fellow officer who's great-aunt used a boy in the neighborhood she'd known since his birth to do her yard work...one day, he mowed, and then she went to the store...and was found dead in her home later that day...investigation showed that he'd asked to use her bathroom, unlocked a window, came in to burglarize her after she left to go to the store...and killed her when she came home too soon...so that she wouldn't tell his Mama that he was a thief...the circle of those we can trust gets smaller and smaller...

[seamusTX]

Considering the number of first-degree relatives who victimize one another, you never know.

- Jim

[seamusTX]

Around 1 a.m. Friday police went to a bar at 25th and Postoffice in Galveston to serve warrants. When the lights came up, police found 47 packets of marijuana that patrons had disposed of.

One man was arrested on an aggravated robbery warrant (he bonded out within hours). A second was arrested on a misdemeanor marijuana warrant. Two other men, one of whom was a bar employee, were arrested on cocaine charges.

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/313858" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Oddly, no one was charged with illegal possession of weapons.

If I ever went to bars, I wouldn't go to this bar. For one thing, the sound volume is painful on the other side of the street. That includes both the motorcycles and the music.

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In unrelated news, a 53-year-old man pled guilty to threatening a judge who had ruled against him in a lawsuit. The man had earlier been found incompetent to stand trial and confined in a state hospital. Later he was declared competent.

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/313874" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

These are the kind of people who are sharing the streets with your wife and kids.

- Jim

[ELB]

...
A homeowner in the 3800 block of Avenue P 1/2 had hired the man to do some gardening, but dismissed him for doing "substandard" work.

...

Many serious crimes have been perpetrated by men like this ...

- Jim

The Diane Tilley murder in San Antonio was a variant of this. Joe Neal offered to do yardwork for Tilley, and Tilley to his 15 year old daughter, Pearl. Tilley told them they could have an old swing set but turned down the yardwork offer. Few days later Pearl showed up on Tilley's doorstep saying their car had broken down. When Tilley let Cruz in to use the phone, Cruz pulled a gun, took Tilley hostage, and let her dad in. Things rapidly got much worse - robbery, rape, murder.

(Neal was sentenced to death, and Pearl to 30 years after testified against him in exchange for being tried in a juvenile court instead of as an adult. Pearl later had a baby whose father was determined to also be her father. Pearl was released from TYC when she became 21 and is on parole in Austin. Neal committed suicide this past Feb while on death row.)

[WildBill]

Man is arrested on Kemah bridge for riding unicycle while naked. http://galvestondailynews.com/story/313446" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;