Did the newspapers report these robberies BEFORE the ELECTION?
Maybe in the police report. I hadn't heard about them.
The Morning News
Local News for Northwest Arkansas
Four Plead Guilty In Series Of Thefts On Trail
By Ron Wood
THE MORNING NEWS
http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2008/12/17/news/121808fztrailrobbers.txt
FAYETTEVILLE -- Four people pleaded guilty Wednesday for their roles in a series of springtime muggings on a city-owned trail that put downtown Fayetteville residents on edge. A fifth person still faces charges.
The group would steal credit cards from pedestrians on the Frisco Trail then use them to buy merchandise at local stores, according to deputy prosecuting attorneys Dustin Roberts and Mark Booher. One victim, who was beaten and kicked, suffered significant facial injuries.
Surveillance tapes from local businesses helped identify the suspects, police said.
Darrell Green, 23, of Fordyce, along with Robert Finks, 21, Britany Moreton, 19, and Keith Matthews, 19, all of Fayetteville, pleaded guilty in Washington County Circuit Court to list of charges arising out of five robberies in a two-week period.
Finks and Matthews were involved in robbing a pedestrian at Center and Hill streets on May 31 and two robberies June 4, one at 2100 N. Leverett Ave. and one at Meadow and Center streets.
Moreton is accused of using credit cards stolen in the robberies.
Charges stemming from an attempted robbery were dropped as part of the plea deal.
Martez Butler, 18, of Fayetteville faces charges related to the robberies. His case was reset to Feb. 17. He remains in the Washington County Jail.
Green also robbed a pedestrian at Leverett Avenue and Maple Street on June 7, according to police and prosecutors.
Green pleaded guilty to one count of robbery, two counts of being an accomplice to robbery, two counts of being an accomplice to the fraudulent use of credit cards and one count of theft by receiving. He was sentenced to a total of 60 years at the Arkansas Department of Correction with 20 years suspended, leaving 40 years to serve.
Finks pleaded guilty to being an accomplice to robbery, fraudulent use of a credit card and theft by receiving. He also pleaded guilty to an unrelated charge, delivery of cocaine. Finks was sentenced to a total of 60 years at the Arkansas Department of Correction with 20 years suspended, leaving 40 years to serve.
Matthews pleaded guilty to being an accomplice to robbery and two counts of fraudulent use of a credit card. Matthews was sentenced to 30 years at the Arkansas Department of Correction with 15 years suspended, leaving 15 years to serve.
Moreton pleaded guilty to two counts of being an accomplice to the fraudulent use of a credit card. Moreton was sentenced to 120 days at a regional punishment center and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.
Sorry, Aubrey, but yes, these robberies were all over the news, both television and newspapers.
ReplyDeletePerhaps naming 6th Street MLK will prevent our young black males from turning to crime.
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Are you saying the perpetrators were black males? Is that why the sentences were so long?
ReplyDeleteNo, Aubrey, anyone who commits a financial crime against the banking industry gets a big sentence. Unless he is a big-time investment counselor or some such.
ReplyDeleteNo, the sentences were "so long" because they used deadly weapons and threatened their victims with violence and/or death.
ReplyDeleteLook at the charges against these guys. The list is long...
I suppose if we had an example of other-than-black-males stalking, assaulting and robbing people at gunpoint here in Fayetteville, we could compare.
Curiously, the stats for other groups engaging in such behavior are hard to find.
Stealing someone's credit card, or misleading someone about their investments, is a lot different than sticking a gun in someone's face and taking their possessions, and kicking their teeth in.
Discernment escapes you as a rule, so I hope you will find my explanation helpful.
No, the sentences were "so long" because they used deadly weapons and threatened their victims with violence and/or death.
ReplyDeleteLook at the charges against these guys. The list is long...
I suppose if we had an example of other-than-black-males stalking, assaulting and robbing people at gunpoint here in Fayetteville, we could compare.
Curiously, the stats for other groups engaging in such behavior are hard to find.
Stealing someone's credit card, or misleading someone about their investments, is a lot different than sticking a gun in someone's face and taking their possessions, and kicking their teeth in.
Discernment escapes you as a rule, so I hope you will find my explanation helpful.
If I had known this was going on, I might have walked that trail with my little-old 68-year-old-short-fat-and bald-self and found out whether anyone would have tried to rob me. Would you?
ReplyDeleteWhy would someone be carrying a credit card while walking a trail?
Same reason someone might be sending a lot of investment money to some con-man investment broker.
Lack of foresight.
I would prefer to fight three guys over my empty pocket on a trail than get fooled into sending my life's savings to an investment thug. Even if I lost the fight, I wouldn't be the only one in the hospital after a confrontation on the trail. But there is no recourse when taken in by a con man.
If someone sticks a gun in your face, you can easily take it away. Which military bootcamp did you flunk out of?
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ReplyDeleteHALF OF THIS CASE IS CRAP. THEY DON'T DESERVE AN OF THIS.PEOPLE ARE QUICK TO JUDGE SOMEBODY AND POINT A FINGER.THEY CLAIM TO KNOW THE REASON WHY THEY ACT LIKE THEY ACT.WE LOVE YOU GUYS TEZ, KEKE, YC, AND D.HOLD YOUR HEADS UP TO THE SKY AND KEEP FAITH.
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