On Tuesday night (April 20, 2010) at about 8 PM a black man in his late 20s to early 30s used a handgun to rob The Pita Pit in the Carlsbad Village Faire, according to a story in the North County Times (they called it The
The man brandished a gun and demanded money, police said. . . When the man fled, the shop owner followed the robber, who got away in a white Cadillac. The shop owner followed the vehicle southbound on Interstate 5 until the car exited the freeway at La Costa Avenue. . . The suspect was described as a black man, about 25 to 35 years old, wearing a black and blue hooded sweatshirt and had a goatee, police said.
The man got out of the car on La Costa Avenue near Vulcan and ran away, according to the story. Police were able to arrest a “A 39-year-old woman behind the wheel was arrested on suspicion of robbery, conspiracy and commercial burglary and was booked into Vista jail on $50,000 bail,” according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
[Link: North County Times and San Diego Union-Tribune]
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If the city gets their way with cutting police wages, this stuff will no longer be ‘news’ in the village, it’ll be another Tuesday.
First of all I’m glad at least someone was caught in connection with this armed robbery.
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Are you truly implying that the city of Carlsbad has the authority to silence the news because they want cut wages? If you are, you are mistaken. The police have many roles, but usually independent journalism isn’t part of their job description.
Reading and Comprehension is your friend, Shane. I’m not Nate, but I’m pretty sure he was saying that stop-and-robs like this will no longer be “newsworthy.” Instead, they’ll be so common (due to a decrease in the police force), that crimes like this will no longer merit even a mention in the news. Either that, or it’ll be a listing of all the places that got robbed this week.
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