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August 2007
Sometimes, crime barely pays
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Some items from the police blotter of late:
A man reported that he was selling jewelry from his apartment. He said he invited a woman and two men inside to look at the jewelry. He said during the meeting he felt uneasy so he went into the bedroom to get his gun (which I guess makes you feel easy again?).
When he came back out, he told the three people he felt uneasy, even with the gun, and asked them to leave. They did, and so did a $1,500 Rolex and a fake Rolex valued at $50 (that’s a stretch).
According to the victim, the three people then knocked on the door, trying to get back in. He would not let them in. He said that instead of remaining in the locked apartment, with a gun, and access to a telephone to call 911, he instead fled the apartment. He said the other people shot at him. Officers found that the ‘victim’s’ gun that was left inside the apartment (duh) had been discharged, again according to the victim, by the suspects.
This one doesn’t even pass the smell test does it?
Crime Barely Pays
A man on Glenridge Parkway reported that someone took his drive-out dealer tag from his car. Drives out tags don’t have serial numbers so we can’t trace them.
Someone swiped a tag decal from a company truck at Lowe’s on Roswell Road.
The Hammond Hills Swim and Tennis club reported someone forced entry into the building and snack machines looking for change.
El Toro’s Mexican Restaurant on Roswell Road was burglarized (no forced entry) and a cash box with $10 in it was taken.
Think Safety
It’s your stuff, but those theft reports generate paper and according to my calculations if we reduced thefts from cars as much as 30%, we’d save an average of 16 trees each month. This means that the greenhouse effect would be, uh, effected and Al Gore would have to make another movie because all the numbers would be skewed.
I think that you should make a checklist of only a few things, but important things. Check your deadbolts and make sure they’re sturdy—especially in the older homes. Check the window locks and if you have time, think about pining then together. (Drill a hole and pin them together where the two windows meet in the middle.) Use your alarm system. Check your outside lights to see if they work and think about motion detectors. When you make the hardware store run, go and check them out. They are easily installed.
Assault, With Mushrooms
A delivery driver said that he delivered an order to an address in the Foxcroft Condos. The occupant of the condo said they did not order anything. The driver then exited the stairs and was walking out of the front of the building when he was struck on the head with an object, possibly a bottle. He said a white male, about 17 years old, tall, wearing khaki shorts and a beige T-shirt ran back through the building and out the opposite door after he was hit.
A pizza delivery driver said that he delivered a call-in order to Silverwood Road around 11 p.m. When he got out of the car, he was approached by two men who took his money purse containing a small amount of cash as well as his phone and then ran behind a house. The suspects are white males, one wearing a ball cap.
Stolen Vehicles
1993 Jeep Cherokee, white
1993 Toyota Previa, grey
2001 Mitsubishi Montero, blue
2005 Acura TL, black
2003 Ford Focus, white
2007 Pontiac Grand Prix, silver
1996 Honda Accord, blue and green
1996 Honda Accord, green
1999 Dodge Durango, black
1997 Ford F-150, white
1997 Nissan Altima, black
Arrests
Newton DeMelo, 31, of Sandy Springs was arrested for Criminal Trespass, Felony Obstruction of a Police Officer and Aggravated Battery and Assault on a Police Officer following a domestic violence call. In an attempt to escape, the suspect got into a physical altercation with the officer. He was later found by officers and K-9 officers in the wooded area not far away.
Other Stuff
According to a translator, the victim left the his apartment in the Chastain Apartments around 7 p.m. to pick up his paycheck. He returned some time later and was injured. He was bleeding and had passed out shortly after arriving back. He was taken to Atlanta Medical Center where it was learned that he had a gunshot wound to his arm. Detectives later followed a blood trail to the outside area near a window, to another apartment. The glass to the window was broken. The investigation is still active.
A building at 5075 Roswell Road was vandalized when someone painted “I was here” and “we are out of paint” on it.
Thinning the Herd
A burglar was killed trying to sneak into the Maranatha Used Clothing store in Miami. Police said the man had crawled between the blades of a large, idle ventilation fan but that before getting all the way through, he accidentally tripped the “on” switch.
Back on the (gold) chain gang
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nicole Ritchie’s 82-minute jail sentence seems so short. I was thinking she would hit the 3-diget mark but when you’re the daughter of the King of Elevator Music you get a little leniency.
Records show the Chief Jailer considered an early release for Nicole, reportedly 44 minutes, but following the media frenzy over Paris Hilton’s early release, he decided to stand with the hard line on the sentence. Now, although 82 minutes may seem short to us, the time is utilized very efficiently. Here is a breakdown of the served sentence.
3:15 p.m. Nicole checks into the Lynwood Detention Facility. Taking a lesson from Paris’s mug shot, she poofs her lips out for the shot.
3:30 p.m. Nicole is given her prison garb and informed she won’t be placed with the “hard-timers” who are doing at least 120 minutes or more. She thanks the guards and poofs her lips out for inmate photos.
3:42 p.m. Although pregnant, Nicole says she wants no preferential treatment. As a result, she is given basic cable.
4:01- 4:18 p.m. Nichole requests to have the cast from “Miami Ink” flown in to tattoo “L-O-V-E” on her knuckles. After being told that there would not be time due to the length of the sentence, she remarks, “Prison life is a bummer” and poofs her lips out.
4:21 p.m. Nicole is taken to the detention factory to make license plates. Due the length of the sentence, she only makes the letter “Q.” She stops by the detention infirmary to have her lips treated for muscle spasms from poofing too much.
4:32 p.m. Nicole meets with the warden and is given a cheap suit, suitcase, and twenty bucks to start a new life after time in the joint. She informs the warden they’ll never take her back alive. She asks to meet with Judge Ito to have the charges dismissed. She is informed that having the charges dropped is something she should have done before serving time and Judge Ito was the judge in the O.J. Simpson case, not hers. She screams “Look what you people have done to me. You call this rehabilitation!!??”
4:37 p.m. Nicole leaves the Lynwood Detention Facility after a short press conference. She tells the media that she has changed and will now serve the world. She says the first thing she will do is seek guidance from the Dolly Mama.
Straight poop on pants that droop
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta City Councilman C.T. Martin has proposed a ban on sagging. Sagging pants give a provocative view of one’s boxers beneath —hopefully.
Legally, if there are no boxers underneath, they’re considered union plumbers.
This decision is not popular with most metro police departments. Since “sagging” became popular back in the late 80’s, the number of foot chases where the officer actually caught up with the sagging offender increased by 32.6%. You see, the officer has a built-in disadvantage. Radio, asp baton, gun, magazines, (we don’t call them clips), keys, handcuffs — sometimes two pairs depending on where you work, pocket change and so on make running a bit difficult, and a definite draw back as far as successfully catching the offender.
Thanks to the sagging phenomenon, most sagging offenders traveled only 20-30 feet before falling on their face. Life was good. The only problem for me was stopping. With all that equipment I sometimes overshot the sagger by 15 yards or more.
Sagging is a form of the verb to sag “to drop, to droop, to be moronic;” used as a substantiated adjective on Tuesdays only, it may mean: Sagging (fashion), a fashion trend for wearing pants below the waist to expose one’s awesome boxers, practiced by males who have issues.
How do you enforce it? Who’s going to put the tape measure there to measure the distance as to what violates the city ordinance? Just pull your pants up. It’s going to cost money to have all those “No Sagging” signs put up and the lawyers are going to get involved. And you’ll have after-hour clandestine sagging clubs and closet saggers and sagging-rights rallies …
The Case of the Fatal Error Message
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Monday was like every other Monday except that everything at work was different and a bunch of other things, but other than that it was the same. I left work, went home after a short hour-and-a-half drive, and got the mountain bike. I ride the mountain bike because everything about it is rugged—like me. I’m a rugged guy.
I was riding my rugged mountain bike without brakes. I don’t need brakes. Brakes are for sissy-boys. I was riding my rugged mountain bike, the one without brakes, down the rugged trails. I was sweating like most rugged guys do, as I rode the rugged trails. I left my phone behind because rugged guys don’t use cell phones on the trails. They use smoke signals or just yell really loud.
For the next hour I ruggedly rode the mountain bike down the trails, working up a good sweat—not glistening — as I watched the other riders pass me, at a high rate of speed, on my left of course. Rugged isn’t necessarily fast.
I rode the trails wearing my used hockey helmet. I don’t wear bike helmets. They sit up too high on the head and they curl up on the back end making one look like some sort of space-gnome in a low-budge science fiction movie. No, I wear a hockey helmet with a sign on the back that reads “Convicted Felon” just in case someone wants to pass me on the right.
Following my ride, I returned to my pickup truck, extended cab with full bed and toolbox, chrome, not plastic. Notice I did not say I returned to my minivan. I put my bike in the pickup bed, not on a sissy-rack, all the while wiping my sweaty brow on my Jethro Tull, — original Jethro Tull — concert shirt from the San Diego Sports Arena (circa 1972) as I opened the door to my rugged pickup truck.
As I always do, I checked my cell phone for important calls such as if my neighborhood had issued any bulletins from the Imperial Weed Commandant or if Jeff Dore had finally bought a new tie.
The screen read: Fatal Error 102-Reset. I yelled “Clear!!” and reset the button. I don’t know why I did that. I saw it on TV and I just got excited. I yelled for help. One of the other less rugged guys pulled out his cell phone and called what I thought was 911. I think he got confused and dialed something else.
A short time later some chick named Destiny showed up and told me I had been a bad boy and needed a spanking.
The fact is that we have become so dependent on cell phones that it actually takes away from our ruggedness. It’s ridiculous. Do you know where the nearest pay phone is? I think it’s in Erwin County. I don’t know.
It’s one thing to ride the rugged trails and not to take your cell phone with you. But at least you know you have one. Today I’ll ride the trails but probably not ruggedly. I’ll glisten, not sweat, and maybe I’ll go shopping afterwards. Very strange how these phones affect us.
Stop crime & save trees
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
As usual, there were a number of thefts from cars last week. I really wish people would just, if nothing else, hide their stuff. I don’t mean I actually want people to have to go to the trouble of taking something out of the car, eliminating the opportunity to steal it. No, I think that’s a bit much. I’m not saying people are lazy but…….well it’s your stuff but those theft reports generate paper and according to my calculations if we reduced thefts from cars as much as 30 percent, we’d save an average of 16 trees each month. This means that the greenhouse effect would be, uh, affected and Al Gore would have to make another movie because all the numbers would be skewed.
I think that you should make a checklist of only a few things, but important things. Check your deadbolts and make sure they’re sturdy—especially in the older homes. Check the window locks and if you have time, think about pinning then together. (Drill a hole and pin them together where the two windows meet in the middle.) Use the alarm. We caught someone last week after he tripped the alarm at a residence at about 5:30 a.m. How many of you went to bed and forgot to set the alarm?
Check your outside lights to see if they work and think about motion detectors. When you make the hardware store run, go and check them out. They are easily installed.
For those of you hitting the clubs, remember, if you haven’t got it done by midnight, go ahead and cut your losses, save money, and just head on out. Don’t get into that mode of the false sense of rationalization where you’ll just have a couple of more shooters and then cruise the bar one more time. Did you know that excessive drinking in the bar actually presents a harmful effect to the other patrons? It’s true. When you throw up on them, they could slip and fall causing physical injury to them and you; them by banging their head on the bar and you by a punch in the face. After that we have to come out and write a report. (See Al Gore-above.)
Some, but not all, incidents reported to the Sandy Springs Police over the past week:
A delivery driver said that he delivered an order to an address in the Foxcroft Condos. The occupant of the condo said they did not order anything. The driver then exited the stairs and was walking out of the front of the building when he was struck on the head with an object, possibly a bottle. He said a male, about 17 years old, tall, wearing khaki shorts and a beige t-shirt ran back through the building and out the opposite door after he was hit. He was treated for a cut on his head. A broken bottle was found nearby.
Two men robbed the Comfort Inn on Roswell Road around 8:30 p.m. They came into the lobby and walked around until no customers were present and then one man pulled a gun and demanded money. They left with a small amount of cash. (There isn’t much. It’s a credit card transacted business.) Suspects: Two males. One was wearing a white t-shirt, black pants, white baseball hat and dark sunglasses. The second guy had on long baggy jean shorts, white t-shirt, and a black baseball hat with a yellow “P” on it, similar to the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball hat. The description is similar to a number of other hotel clerk robberies in the metro area.
A man reported that he was selling jewelry from his apartment on August 12th. He said he invited a woman and two men inside to look at the jewelry. He said during the meeting he felt uneasy so he went into the bedroom to get his gun which I guess makes you feel easy again. When he went into the bedroom he left his stuff in the other room so when he came back out, he told the three people he felt uneasy, even with the gun, and asked them to leave. They did and so did a $1500 Rolex and a fake Rolex valued at $50 (that’s a stretch).
According to the victim, the three people then knocked on the door, trying to get back in. He would not let them in. He said that instead of remaining in the locked apartment, with a gun, and access to a telephone, and I am assuming knowing how to dial 911, he instead fled the apartment. He said the other people shot at him. Officer’s found that the ‘victim’s’ gun that was left inside the apartment (duh) had been discharged, again according to the victim, by the suspects.
This one doesn’t even pass the smell test does it?
Stop crime, stop whining
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
What would you guess to be the first rule of preventing crime is? Maybe “lock your doors” or “call the police when you see suspicious persons” or “act crazy all the time so people won’t come near you?”
Well, no, although the last one is good advice if you ask me. The first rule to good crime prevention is this: Shut up and quit whining about what is and what isn’t fair!
Yep. That’s it. That is the first step to getting on with it.
Guess what folks, crime is out there and it’s going to be a part of our lives as long as we’re out there too. So complaining isn’t going to help. Now don’t get me wrong. Getting mad is OK, especially after your $3500 laptop gets gone courtesy of a rock through the window of your car. I believe in adequate time for you to vent. You can vent to me. Everyone does. After adequate venting time, you need to realize that you contributed to that crime as much as the bottom-feeder who’s putting your laptop up for sale on eBay for a lousy three-hundred bucks. That scenario right there plays out here a dozen or more times a week.
“I don’t know why you guys can’t patrol my parking lot more often!!” We hear you. We wish we could but we can’t because it isn’t practical. We can’t be in all those places all the time. I wish I could say that we had enough officers for each parking lot but the ideal average is still around 2 cops per 1000 fine citizens so that still leaves 998 disgruntled folks.
Everyone has an opinion of how we could do better and believe it or not that is one of the things we really want to hear but some things aren’t practical. If you say “Just hire another 500 cops” then I have to politely wait on your plan to finance it.
The single most effective tool in crime prevention is you not being dumb. Leaving that laptop in the car overnight was dumb. Leaving that i-Pod in the car while you shop is dumb. Putting that wallet with eight-hundred bucks and a ten-thousand dollar Rolex in a gym locker is really dumb (actually that one is Hall of Fame Dumb)—but it happens all the time. That’s right.
All crime is based on opportunity. Removing the opportunity raises the risk right? Therefore, Risk vs. Opportunity. You control your fate here folks.
When I go home at night I have to unload my car of laptop, guns, day planners, notebooks, various anti-designated hitter pamphlets, various love letters to Jimmy Buffet that I confiscated from my wife’s desk at work, CDs and occasionally turtles that I rescued from the road. (Why do they get halfway across and then stop??!!)
I hate making two trips to unload everything every single evening but I would, however, rather make the two trips than to have that feeling the next morning, and some of you know exactly what I mean, while looking at your broken window and realizing that you’re not going to find in that car what you left there last night. First thought: I want a do-over. We don’t have those in grown-up land. You just have to take the hit.
Complaining is a reaction. Lashing out to me or your wife (but not us together because that would be really awkward) or whoever you see right after you find out your stuff is gone won’t change it. One of the first things I remember being taught in the police academy, back when we had call boxes and the most popular cop show starred Toody and Muldoon, was to use prior information.
I am telling you now — hence prior information — that if you will get into the habit, (meaning more than twice,) of removing your valuables, also known as the opportunity, from your cars whenever you can but especially at night, you will put yourself in a very small percent of potential victims. Thieves are lazy and will gravitate to the path of least resistance. That’s a fact.
Arrests: Dopes and easy collars
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
These are some, but not all, of the incidents reported to the Sandy Springs Police over the past week.
Why do you think they call it dope?
Officers were in the Victoria Commons Apartments checking the area due to recent burglary activity. They saw two men, and then saw a clear plastic bag fall and land at the feet of one of the men. They found a bag of residue believed to be marijuana, called the K-9 unit, and eventually arrested several people for possession of MDMA, also known as Ecstasy. Arrested were Marcus Jerome Bennett, 26, Santonia Lamonz Bennett, age 29, Adonus Lavar Levy, age 24, Jesse Bennett, age 23, and Cairo Howard, age 19. All are from Mississippi.
Oscar Diaz, 30, from Sandy Springs, was arrested for Disorderly Conduct / Possession of Drugs after officers found a bag of pot next to him in the bushes where the officer saw him throw it on him. Oscar opted not to invoke the “Somebody must have put it there because it sure ain’t mine” defense.
Two Marietta men were arrested because they were really drunk. Jacob Walters, 23, and Sven Robert Braun, were found on the side of the road and in the back seat of an abandoned car with right-side damage, probably from Mr. Curb. Both were so drunk that they were charged with Disorderly while Under the Influence.
An employee of Northside Hospital said someone removed her credit cards from her wallet which was located inside a cabinet over her desk. The thief attempted to use one of the cards in Chamblee and Buford, but they were declined. Another employee reported her cards taken on the same day.
A woman reported that as she left her office around 11 a.m. she noticed that her wallet was gone from her cubicle. She had just attended a meeting. She had the wallet before and upon return it was gone. No activity was reported on the cards.
Desks and file cabinets are not good places to put your purse, wallet, etc if you can’t lock them. Take your credit and debit cards, SSN and driver’s license, and slip them in your pocket so they are with you.
A man said that he placed $298 cash under his keyboard for a few minutes while he left the area. When he returned, the money was gone. That was just not too smart. Why not put the money in your pocket?
Easy collars from elsewhere
Nicholas Raber, 19, was arrested in Annapolis, Md., for punching a police officer and dashing up a flight of stairs after yelling, “You’ll never catch me.” The officers were aware that upstairs exits were locked and so waited patiently for Raber to come back down and be handcuffed.
Mitchell Sigman, 22, was arrested and charged with robbing the Village Pantry in Elkhart, Ind., after the clerk-victim identified him as a regular customer who had recently filled out an application to work there.
Cory Shapiro, 19, was arrested in January after he flagged down a police officer to complain that he had been overcharged for drinks at the Athens, Ga., bar Bourbon Street.
Other incidents
Two teenagers were walking on Sandy Springs Circle towards Hammond Drive when a grey VW Passat or Jetta pulled up and a Hispanic male, pulled a gun and demanded a necklace from the victim.
While he was gone overnight, a man’s apartment on Peachtree Dunwoody Road was entered, possibly with a stolen set of keys., and an old box of checks stolen. The victim suspects a homeless man he had befriended. You need to watch out whom you befriend. We have seen more than one of these scenarios.
Candice Williams, 26, from Sandy Springs was arrested for Disorderly While Under the Influence following a fight call. The officers were there earlier and tried to mediate the call under the condition that Williams leave. She returned, so on the second call she was arrested.
Tasers: Pros and cons
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I have not been able to spend any time writing the normal mindless dribble due to little distractions, such as the double homicide and our little problem with that warrant thing.
OK, here is a good topic: Tasers. Tasers are new enough that spell-check doesn’t recognize the word.
If you don’t want to write about something controversial, don’t write about Tasers. I have never been Tased, if that’s a word, but, most likely I will, because we are going to have them issued in the fall. This comes on the heels of some rather significant controversy.
On one side, Tasers represent a good alternative to deadly force. Deadly force means shot with the intent of shooting dead, thus deadly. I still get questions about guns and people learning to shoot them, telling me that they intend to learn to shoot the gun only to wound the perpetrator in the arm or leg. Good luck with that. Sounds good but not practical. Deadly force situations usually involved two people using it at the same time, therefore your bodily functions all function at once during this very short time. This accounts for the fact that in more cases than you would think, there are shootouts as close as seven feet apart, where there are more misses than hits.
Tasers are designed to represent an option between non-deadly and deadly force. There are many cases where someone’s violent behavior went beyond control by pepper spray and/or blows by an Asp baton. In a case like this, the Taser would be another option short of deadly force. It is on record that a lot of people who would have been shot were Tased instead and are alive and disgruntled today. That’s a fact.
The training on the taser takes eight hours. This includes, although not mandatory, taking the zap for a couple of seconds. Why? It actually gives the officer credibility when testifying about the use of the Taser.
Now the cons. People have died from complications after being tased. Some of you probably read the article in the paper this week where a man in custody at the Gwinnett County Jail died in July after being Tased once or twice after he began fighting deputies. The autopsy, at this point, doesn’t conclude the cause of death. In an earlier case, the medical examiner ruled that the Taser could have contributed to a victim’s death.
The fact is that it is possible. Could a person hit with the Taser die? Yes, possibly. Could a person shot with a .40 or 45 caliber bullet or multiple bullets die? Very likely. Where do the odds lie?
Most likely you’ll see policies with restrictions depending on the department. We were going to start the training this week but we want to complete more research on other department’s policies and track record with the Taser. We decided that we will continue researching for our policy but I fully expect the officers will be carrying Tasers in the fall.
Regardless where you stand on the subject, the fact that they represent an option to deadly force is a critical and to me, a valid point.
Double homicide update
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sandy Springs Police have released the names of the two men killed in yesterday’s shooting at the Azalea Park Apartments at 8805 Dunwoody Place.
Noe Morales, 23, and Enrique Rios, 36, were found dead at the scene when officers arrived.
Under arrest are Rafael Carmona-Rojas, 19, who lives in the complex, and Carlos Espartaco Morales-Mendez, 22, of Santa Fe Parkway in Sandy Springs. They are charged with one count each of:
• Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Distribute
• Carrying a Concealed Weapon
• Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of a Crime
• Altering the Identification of a Firearm
Further charges are expected. Motive has not yet been established.
Spot the Einsteins
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
No over-arching theme this week on the arrest report, just a number of Einsteins at work. See if you can spot them.
Burglary
Two men came to a home on North Hampton Drive, unsolicited, and talked to the homeowner, age 85, about doing some work on the home. One “repairman” asked the man and his wife to walk around the house while they talked, which left the other “repairman” unattended . The victim noted that the first “repairman” had a two-way radio and talked in code while they were walking. When they went back in the house, they saw the other “repairman” inside. The men then left. Lo and behold, later on the homeowners found that three guns and some jewelry were missing. We had a similar case to this about a month and a half ago.
Theft
Jared Michael Cain, age 23, from Atlanta was arrested for Entering Auto and Theft by Taking after officers were called to a fight. The complainant was Cain’s ex-girlfriend, who said that although he had not lived there in three months, he was going through her car. She said that he took items including her work ID and her security gate card, credit cards, and her license. The officer called Cain who came back to the location and returned the items.
Tiffany Shepard Smith, 34, from Doraville, and Richard Lewis Smith, 33, from Stone Mountain were arrested for Theft by Receiving Stolen Property (vehicle) after a patrol officer found them driving a stolen car in the parking lot of the Hilton Hotel. The car had been rented by Smith but was due back last March.
Felix Ramirez, age 22, from Sandy Springs was arrested after he was stopped by Kroger employees after placing several food items in a plastic bag and then attempting to leave without paying for the items. The officer asked Ramirez why he took the items, and he replied “Why not?”
Fraud
A woman desposited a check for more than $133,000 at a Wachovia Bank on Roswell Rod. It turned out to be a bad check. Police have a suspect under investigation.
A man said that he received a money order for $5,000 in the mail. He called the bank in question, First Western Bank of South Dakota, and learned the money order was fraudulent. The man was contacted on his business e-mail by someone from England, urging him to deposit the money order in his (the victim’s) bank account. This sounds like a variation of the con where the victim deposits the fake check into the account and immediately sends the bad guy a percentage of that amount before finding out the check was fake. Moral of the story: Always verify the check ASAP.
Arrests
Barbara Price Payne of Decatur was arrested for Possession of Cocaine after being stopped because the car tag on her Ford Focus was registered to a Dodge Ram truck. She said she put the tag on the car to conceal the expired tag on the Ford.
20-year old Montay D. Marshall of Roswell and 21-year old Brandon Cook, also from Roswell, were arrested for Disorderly Conduct-Loitering and Carrying a Concealed Weapon after a patrol officer found them loitering in front of a “No Loitering” sign in an area known for drug activity. The officers watched them for several minutes, then approached them and told them to stay where they were. One did, but the other one suddenly needed to go to the bathroom. He went into a nearby bathroom and discarded a BB gun.
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