April 21st, 2007 at 4:56 am
A strange thing happened in Fayetteville N.C. recently. A man charged with robbing a bank – his second bank robbery since 2005 – attempted to show the police his loot but wasn’t able to because he discovered that he’d been robbed.
Joseph Thomas Mulkerin was arrested at a Bragg Boulevard motel. He was charged with common law robbery of $2,179. He’d robbed the Wachovia branch on Green street.
He’d only just been released from prison on January 11th after serving his sentence for robbing the same bank in 2005. That time he’d robbed the bank of $1,098.
When he was captured he took the police to his motel room to show the officers the money but discovered that some was already missing. Police investigated and later charged the motel’s maintenance man David Mims with breaking and entering and stealing some of the already stolen cash.
I don’t know – sounds like we have two dumb criminals in this story. The thief who stupidly robbed the same bank with little success twice, and the motel maintenance man who only stole some of the cash. Come on man, if you’re going to steal it take it all.
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February 23rd, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Objects made of metal are being stolen by people looking to cash in on the increase in raw metal prices. Church roofs, statues, drain covers and even tweezers have been stolen in the city of Paris.
Thefts of copper, aluminum, zinc and nickel were up 144 percent in France last year.
“We are witnessing a real pillage of companies’ assets,” Colonel Philippe Schneider, who heads a police division that specializes in countering such crime, told reporters.
“Everything can be stolen, everything can be sold — cables, drain covers, sculptures,” Schneider said. “We even had 300 kilograms of tweezers stolen.”
Other targets included plane doors, phone booth floors, car wheel rims, cemetery gates and a church roof made of zinc.
Copper, widely used in construction and industry, became a big target for thieves last year as prices of the metal doubled to $8,800 a tonne at one point due to booming Asia demand.
Schneider said stealing cable from a building site or hijacking trucks loaded with scrap metal could pay more than robbing a cash machine or a bank and was far less risky.
“Stealing 10 tonnes of copper is simple,” he said.
“Alongside the traditional petty thefts are methods typical of organized crime, such as … armed robberies, often by international networks.”
However, the number of incidents reported had dropped around 40 percent since October, partly due to a fall in prices and partly because of police efforts to break up organized gangs, he said.
World copper prices have tumbled over the past few months but remain around 20 percent higher than at the same time last year.
Schneider said thieves often sold metal to recycling companies. However, of the 2,500 to 3,000 recycling firms in France, a maximum of 100 were involved in metals trafficking.
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January 21st, 2007 at 2:07 am
According to police in Corapolis Pa, and elderly woman gave a bank robber a lift, unbeknownst to her at the time of course. Juanita Bland, 75, had been stopped at a post office in Coraopolis just before noon, two weeks ago, when suddenly the sliding door of her minivan became stuck. Her van is equipped with an electric door and ramp for her wheelchair.
“I couldn’t get out of the van, so I waited a few moments hoping somebody would walk by who might be able to help,” said Bland. “Then I saw this fellow walking my way, so I beckoned him over and asked if he could please help with the door.”
According to the police the man that Juanita beckoned over had just robbed a PNC Bank. The man got into the passenger seat asking for a ride after he slid the stuck sliding door closed.
“He didn’t seem threatening or anything, so I said ‘OK’ and drove off,” she said. He exited a few blocks later, got into a white sedan and drove off.
One of Bland’s friends called her later that day wondering if she’d been abducted because another one of the ladies acquaintances had been listening to the police scanner and had heard that the suspect had gotten into her van.
“When I think back now of what could have happened, I feel blessed that I’m OK,” Bland said.
She sure is lucky. It’s probably a good thing that she didn’t suspect anything otherwise things might have turned out very differently.
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