… and it was caught on video no less! From the Philly PD: On Friday, July 8th at about 4:30pm two suspects entered the Metro PCS store located at 4215 Ridge Avenue, confronted the employee, and announced a robbery. One…
Tag: Crime
Do Shot!
The story in today’s Philadelphia Daily News about weather presenter John Bolaris getting roofied and robbed not once, but twice is absolutely, positively marvelous. Unbeknown to Bolaris, federal authorities said, two Latvian women – Marina Turcina and Anna Kilimatova –…
WV man high on bath salts, and wearing bra and panties, kinks pygmy goat to death
It’s 5:17 a.m. so I can’t exactly wrap my head around this clip that Ryan Olah thought to send my way. Hell, I can’t even wrap my head around why he sent it to me. Ok, fine, that makes perfect…
The Murder of Ray Santiago
A wreck chaser who allegedly ran over a rival tow operator several times with his truck in what a prosecutor called a “brutal, clear showing of intent to kill” was held for trial on murder charges yesterday. Surveillance footage showed…
This is what a Philadelphia convenience-store armed robbery looks like…
Details from the Philadelphia Police Department… On 11/2/2010, at approximately 7:16pm, three black male suspects robbed the Shop Express store located on 6900 Old York Road at point of shotgun. #1 black male, 22-25, 5’8, 150lbs, black hoodie, blue jeans,…
If the T-shirt fits …
… you must blame your invisible brother for your DUI. Webster (Mass.) Police responded to a report of an accident where a motor vehicle had struck a house. A black Ford pickup truck was found resting on the front steps…
This Week’s Metro Column …
… can be found here. It’s a follow-up on a story about which I’ve written numerous times. I’d never met Kent, but he’s stuck with me to this day. … Despite police considering everything up to, and including, voodoo and…
Violence, in violence’s wake
Back in ’06, my work and non-work worlds collided when Robert Pierson, a 17-year-old from Fairmount (a neighborhood in Philly, for those out-of-towners) who used to hang out on my stoop from time to time, was gunned down a block…