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May 2010
Speeding Caddy with thousands in cash inside stopped on U.S. 35
The red 2010 Caddy was doing 70 mph westbound on U.S. 35 near Perry Street when Dayton officers pulled it over Thursday afternoon, May 27.
A quick records check found the 32-year-old driver had a suspended license, and he was arrested. In searching the driver, officers found “a large sum of money” in his pocket. When asked how much was there, the driver said he really didn’t know.
In searching the Cadillac prior to a towing it, officers found a black zip bag in the trunk. Opening the bag, they found even more money, bundled in rubber bands. When asked whose money was in the bag, the driver said it was his.
He explained to officers that he deals in stocks and given the volatility of the market, he had pulled his life savings from the bank. Asked why he kept the cash in the trunk, the driver responded, “It’s better than keeping it at the house.”
The driver was booked into the county lockup, and the money taken to Second District Headquarters. Before it was counted, it was secured in a bag in the roll call room, and a K-9 unit brought in to search the area. The narcotics-sniffing dog alerted to the bag of money.
Upon counting, it was determined the driver had $1,700 in his pocket and $22,800 in the bag. The money was seized and the driver given the phone number for detectives to set up a time to come in and prove that he was the rightful owner of the cash.
TweetTwo men severely beaten in Oregon District
Two intoxicated Fairborn men were severely beaten and robbed in the early morning hours Thursday, May 27, in Dayton’s Oregon District.
Police were called to the scene in the 300 block of East Fifth Street just after 2:45 a.m. and found the victims — a 22-year-old and a 24-year-old — sitting against a building, bleeding profusely. One was unconscious, the other semiconscious. Both were rushed to Miami Valley Hospital. Conditions were not immediately available.
While police were trying to sort out the scene, a young woman approached to say she was the girlfriend of one of the victims. She said her boyfriend and his roommate had gone drinking in the Oregon District and had called her around 2:30 to come pick them up.
There were no witnesses to the attack, but two men walking in the area said they found the victims laying half on the sidewalk, halfway into the street. The two men helped the victims out of the street and sat them down next to a building to await police.
Further investigation found that both victims were intoxicated. They told police they were robbed, but didn’t remember much about the incident.
TweetBoyfriend-girlfriend fight ends with 5-year-old losing finger
A 21-year-old man is in the county lockup after his actions caused a 5-year-old boy to lose a finger.
Nicholas McLaughlin was arrested just before 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 26, at the scene on Garfield Avenue in the Burkhardt neighborhood.
According to Detective Jerome Dix of the Special Victims Unit, McLaughlin and his girlfriend were having a heated argument. In what Dix called “a fit of rage”, McLaughlin picked up a ceramic bowl and hurled it at a doorway.
The 5-year-old — the girlfriend’s child — was in the doorway. McLaughlin apparently did not see the child. The child placed his hands on his head to protect himself. The bowl hit him in the back of the head, slicing off a finger and causing several head lacerations. The boy was taken to Children’s Medical Center of Dayton. His condition was not immediately known. Dix said the child’s finger was recovered and taken to the hospital for possible reattachment.
Prosecutors on Thursday approved felony child endangering charge against McLaughlin. “There are more charges pending that will be brought before a grand jury,” Dix said.
TweetOwner seeks charges in theft of a dime’s worth of water
An apartment house owner called police Tuesday, May 25, to her property on Elliott Avenue in the Hearthstone neighborhood on a theft complaint.
According to the owner, she was cleaning a vacant apartment when she discovered a woman from a neighboring apartment building had connected a hose to the owner’s outside water spigot. The officer reported it appeared the woman had filled a “very small baby pool.”
The owner had no idea how much water was taken. The officer estimated between 10 to 50 cents worth of water was used to fill the pool.
The owner insisted she wished to prosecute, but declined to give her Social Security number to the officer.
TweetBomb threat at VA ends up as nothing
Dayton police were called out just after 8:30 Tuesday morning, April 26, on a bomb threat at the VA Hospital complex.
A caller had told the VA customer service center representative there was a bomb in building 315. He did not leave his name. Police established the call came from a pay phone at a carryout on Germantown.
The building was evacuated and searched. The only thing found was a flat cardboard box atop a toilet in a men’s restroom. A check with the plumber established the box contained a new toilet seat about to be installed.
Otherwise nothing was found. Nor was anything uncovered at the carryout.
TweetDispute settled with a BB gun
A single traffic stop Tuesday, May 25, cleared nine misdemeanor warrants on a 21-year-old woman and may have added more charges for the young woman and her grandmother.
Just after 4 p.m., police answered a disturbance call from the 400 block of Gramont Avenue in the Westwood neighborhood. The caller said a neighbor had pulled a gun on her and fled in a older model Buick Regal.
Because a gun reportedly was involved, several crews descended on the area, identified the vehicle — driven by the 21-year-old with her grandmother as a passenger — and made a “high threat” traffic stop. The weapon turned out to be a Colt Defender BB gun, which looks identical to a semi-automatic pistol, according to police. Police said the grandmother was disorderly, cursing police.
Back at the scene, witnesses said the grandmother had started screaming at her neighbors who were gathered on their front porch. The grandmother, 59-year-old Shirley Johnson, came on the porch and threatened those gathered there. Johnson then staggered off the porch and stood in the front yard continuing her threats.
It was then that the granddaughter, 21-year-old Kylie McComb, showed up in the front yard with what appeared to be a gun in her hand. She held the group of women at bay on the porch, threatening to shoot them. When one started to call police on her cell phone, the grandmother and granddaughter fled in the Buick.
One of the women told police problems had been escalating between neighbors over three weeks. Apparently a cousin of one of the women had gotten into some kind of dispute with the grandmother and granddaughter.
Following her arrest, police discovered McComb had nine outstanding warrants for various traffic and criminal offenses.
Both McComb and Johnson were taken to the county lockup. McComb and Johnson were to appear Wednesday afternoon in Dayton Municipal Court on misdemeanor aggravating menancing and aggravated trespassing. Johnson also faces misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
TweetBooze-fueled mayhem in Twin Towers neighborhood
An angry man, apparently fueled by booze, went on a small rampage Monday evening, May 24, in the 1100 block of Demphle Avenue in the Twin Towers neighborhood.
Armed with a claw hammer and a knife, witnesses said the 46-year-old man broke out two windows of a house and cut two people. Neither victim was seriously injured.
When officers located the man in his nearby apartment, they reported he had “an odor of intoxicating beverage” on his breath and clothing, and he was “yelling and ranting about people stealing his money and how he wanted it back.”
One victim, a 42-year-old woman described by officers as “highly intoxicated”, told police she was drinking a beer outside her house around when the man approached, swinging a knife. She had cuts on the lip, shoulder and hand.
She said the man thought she had stolen his money.
The second victim said he heard the disturbance and came out of the house to be greeted by the man and his knife. That victim said he dodged just in time and the knife only grazed his chest. Meanwhile, the knife-wielder was yelling he was going to cut their throats. “Call the cops,” the victim reported the man said. “I’ll burn your house down with you in it when I get out.”
Police noted two windows of the house were broken out. A claw hammer was recovered at the man’s apartment. A knife, however, was not found. Police did find $70 tucked away in a sock drawer in the man’s apartment.
The man was taken to the county lockup.
TweetFather, son, knife and bat vs. a neighbor and his belt
When police arrived in the first block of Gerlaugh in the Burkhardt neighborhood, there were plenty of victims and witnesses to tell them what they saw.
A father. A son. A baseball bat. And a knife. All of those against a neighbor and his belt.
According to witnesses, the 23-year-old son showed up at the neighbor’s house armed with a knife. The young man was yelling, screaming, cursing, making threats and waving a knife. The neighbor took off his belt and gave the young man a wallop.
The young man left but returned a short time later with his father, toting a baseball bat the father used on the neighbor’s fence. While the father was beating up the fence, the son whacked another neighbor on the back of the head while the man’s back was turned. The young man then shoved a 19-year-old woman to the ground and threatened to rape her.
All the while, witnesses said, the father was yelling he was going to beat everyone.
Then the son told his father to shoot the neighbor.
When police finally settled things down, father and son were hauled off to the county lockup to face a plethora of potential charges.
As a side note, in 2004 the father pleaded no contest to three felony charges of ethnic intimidation and was sentenced to five years of community control. One year later that sentence was terminated.
Tweet1 shot, 1 hit with bat in East Side robbery
An armed robbery early Sunday morning, May 23, sent one man to the hospital with a bullet wound to the face and another with a wound to the head from a baseball bat.
Now Dayton police are looking for four young men seen in the East Dayton neighborhood between Springfield and First streets.
When police arrived around 1:30 a.m., they found Juan Carlos Cruz-Gomez, 21, on all fours in the front yard of 52 Burlington, bleeding from the face. Hector Trejo-Carilla, 38, told police Gomez had been shot, and he had been beaten in a robbery. Medics said Gomez had been shot in the lip with the bullet traveling along his jawbone, exiting near his left temple. Carilla had a laceration at the crown of his head.
According to witnesses, the two victims and a third man were in their adjoining front yards, drinking and talking over the fence. Two young men entered the yard, one armed with a baseball bat, the other with a small handgun. One ordered Carilla to hand over his wallet, and struck him with the bat after he tossed his wallet on the ground.
The second assailant then shot Gomez and took his wallet. They fled on foot with a third man, and a witness saw the three men run from the area and jump into a late-model, silver Chevrolet Impala on Springfield. The vehicle sped from the area.
Other witnesses said they saw the group of four walking back and forth through the neighborhood prior to the holdup.
The assailants took off with more than $400 in cash, according to the victims.
Neither of the victims had life-threatening injuries, according to the police report.
TweetDowntown gunman holds up four
Police are looking for a robber who held up four people at gunpoint early this morning, May 20, in two separate incidents downtown.
According police, they were called to the 100 block of East Third Street on an armed robbery call. En route, they got a second call for same thing one block away on East Fourth.
On Third Street, the victim told police he was standing at his car when a young black man in a dark colored hoodie and jeans walked up, pulled a gun and demand he empty his pockets. When the gunman discovered his victim had nothing in his pockets, he took off running through Hammerjack’s parking lot.
On Fourth Street, the three victims said they were walking to their cars when a young man matching the description pulled a gun, pointed it at the head of one of them, and demanded they hand over their valuables.
This time, the gunman got away with over $250 in cash and two cell phones. The victims said the gunman “appeared to be very nervous and shaking while pointing the gun,” according to police reports.
The three victims chased the robber down an alley, but lost sight of him. Witnesses said it appeared the gunman jumped into a waiting car.
“People need to be aware of their surroundings, and call police if they see anything suspicious,” said Lt. Larry Faulkner, commander of the Central Business District.
The gunman was described 18 to 20 years old, wearing a black hoodie with the hood up and blue jeans.
TweetEye-in-the-sky foils thief
A Dayton officer was dispatched to the 100 block of Philadelphia on a report of a stolen vehicle Tuesday, May 18. The report came from a satellite automobile-tracking device company.
The company indicated a client’s 2010 GMC pickup, reported stolen in Madison County, was in the alley or garage behind a house, according to its device.
When the officer pulled up in the alley, there was the truck parked in the back yard. A sheet of plywood was leaned against the rear of the vehicle to obscure the license plate, and the rearview mirror was ripped from the windshield, apparently in an attempt to disable the tracking device.
The homeowner said he knew nothing about a stolen vehicle in his back yard. He gave detectives the names of two people who might know something about the truck.
Hopefully the truck and its owner will soon be reunited.
TweetRelative of twins charged with robbery threatens victim, police say
A mechanic who said he was robbed by a pair of 53-year-old twin brothers May 1 reported to police the son of one and nephew of the other paid him a visit Saturday afternoon, May 15.
The mechanic said the young man and another threatened him, saying they would kill him if he pressed charges. The young man, who claimed to be the son and nephew, threatened to shoot up the man’s garage and kill everyone in it, according to the mechanic.
The dispute started when police were called May 1 to the 900 block of Harvard on a report of a robbery. Police arrested both men in the neighborhood. According to the police report, the mechanic said he’d done some auto repair work for Stanley Straight, taking $38 for the work. Straight later showed up at his house and demanded his money back because the car still was not running properly. The mechanic declined, and Straight said he was coming back with his brother.
A short time later, Stanley and his twin brother, Stanford, arrived. The mechanic said Stanley pointed a pistol at him and demanded his money. The mechanic said he handled over $750 and the brothers fled, only to return a few minutes later to return all but $100 of his money. Stanley said he was keeping the $100, the mechanic said.
Witnesses confirmed the mechanic’s statement.
Both Straight brothers have been charged by prosecutors with aggravated robbery.
TweetKnife and a note no match for bullet-proof glass
Just before 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning, May 13, a 46-year-old woman — armed with a knife and a note— walked into a gas station in the 3400 block of East Third Street.
She laid the note on the counter, which read, “Put the money in the bag and you won’t get hurt.”
The clerk, safely ensconced behind bullet-proof glass, did not seem perturbed. Using a remote control, he locked the gas station doors and called police. While the two waited for officers, the woman pleaded with the clerk as she tried to push the doors open: “Please. I’m sorry. I won’t do it again,” the clerk told police.
Police arrived. The clerk opened the doors remotely. The woman came out with her arms raised. Police disarmed and cuffed her.
“I made a mistake,” Jacqueline M. Wall told officers. She told officers all she wanted was $20.
Later when asked by officers what her mistake might have been, she responded “Coming to this store.”
She is being held in the county lockup on $20,000 bond.
TweetMan accused of trashing optometrist’s office
A Montgomery County grand jury has indicted a 28-year-old man on felony vandalism and breaking and entering for the April 8 ransacking of an optometrist office.
Cost of the damage was expected to be over $200,000, and Dr. William Martin’s office was closed for nearly three weeks to repair the damage.
When Dayton police entered an optometrist’s office in the 1200 block of South Patterson Boulevard, they found it completely ransacked with files, office furniture, eye glasses and equipment strewn throughout the office.
Debris littered the hallway and on the lawn outside a broken window of the Wright Health Building.
When officers arrived, Alexander Jackson, 28, was in handcuffs, being held by two private security guards. Jackson, wearing only a pair of jeans and white socks, was bleeding from a gash on his hand and another on the crown of his head. Jackson was unable to tell officers how or when he was injured.
Jackson is a Tier III registered sex offender, meaning he has been designated by the state as violent sexual predator.
The security guards said they discovered the broken window shortly after 6 a.m. and heard a fire alarm going off. They searched building, finding Jackson hiding in a fourth-floor women’s restroom.
Police searched the building, finding no one else. It appeared someone entered the building through the broken window into Martin’s office, which “had been ransacked almost completely,” according to the police report. In addition to the ransacking, someone had also flooded the doctor’s office, and blood was smeared on the walls.. On the unoccupied fourth floor, police found holes had been punched in the walls. They also found a pair of shoes, splattered with blood.
TweetTeen wanted for allegedly shooting at house
Dayton police are looking for John D. Elliott, a 19-year-old, who, according to police reports, turned the 2000 block of Picadilly into a shooting gallery.
According to witnesses, Elliott pulled up to the curb in his 1970s light blue Chevy Caprice around 4 p.m. Monday, May 10. His ride was noticeable, jacked up on 24-inch gold rims with a custom paint job.
He got out of his car, walked into the street and fired a .45 semi-automatic pistol anywhere from 5 to 8 rounds at two men across the street in front of 2000 Picadilly, hitting only a house, according to police.
Then he got back into his ride and drove away, according to witnesses.
Tuesday, police issued an arrest warrant for Elliott for felonious assault, according to Lt. Pat Welsh.
One witness said after Elliott fire, he said, “It ain’t over” and “I’m going to get my chopper and come back and shoot up the house.”
One of the two men told police that he thought Elliott was trying to rob him.
Tweet$2K mistakenly put in Taco Bell customer’s bag
A young woman in her 20s, driving a silver SUV, got more than burritos when she went through the drive through at the Taco Bell on Brown Street, near the University of Dayton campus and Miami Valley Hospital.
Instead of a bag containing her order, she got a bag containing the restaurant’s morning bank deposit — about $2,000.
Police were called to the restaurant around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 11. An employee said she was working the drive-through window and mistakenly gave the customer the bank deposit. The restaurant manager explained it was store policy to put the bank bag containing the deposit in a Taco Bell bag. The manager would then drive up to the drive-through window, and an employee would hand him the bag.
Security footage showed the transaction but not the license plate of the vehicle. Police contacted a regular customer who was in line behind the SUV. He said he could not remember the license plate on the SUV. He and the employee described the driver as a college-age woman with black or brown shoulder-length hair, wearing a white shirt with a red sweater, zip-up jacket or sweatshirt over it.
A search through the neighborhood for the vehicle was fruitless.
When last seen, the driver, vehicle and Taco Bell bag of money were heading south on Brown Street.
TweetMan shot three times in buttocks
Police are piecing together a Saturday night, May 8, shooting in the 3400 block of Otterbein that sent one man to the hospital and two to the county lockup.
The victim — shot three times in the butt and one in the wrist — claims he was ambushed by his girlfriend’s family and shot with a “Tec machine gun”, according to police reports. One of those taken to jail claims the victim opened fire first.
Dayton Sgt. Gary White said Monday police are re-interviewing witnesses and still looking for a weapon or weapons.
It all started when Good Samaritan Hospital called police to report two men in a 1997 Jaguar brought a gunshot victim to the hospital. The men told police their friend showed up wounded at their house and they brought him to the hospital.
While crews searched the neighborhood, officers interviewed the victim, 34-year-old Charles Martion, who ID’d the shooters. He claimed he went to the Otterbein address to try top make peace with his girlfriend’s family. Martin said there had been numerous fights between he and the family.
When he arrived Eric Wilcoxson, 40, threw him out the door, while James Wilcoxson, also 40, grabbed a weapon and opened fire as Martin fled.
Police tracked the two men to their mother’s nearby house. Both men were taken into custody. Eric Wilcoxson told police he and James were sitting on the front porch when the Martin arrived and opened fire. Eric Wilcoxson said he fled inside the house and heard more rounds fired, but could not say who might have shot the victim. When searched, police found 14 .40-caliber rounds in his pocket.
Upon seeing that, Eric Wilcoxson offered, “Yeah, but you don’t have the gun.”
A search of the Otterbein address uncovered four 10-round magazines, but no weapons.
Both men were booked into the county lockup on felonious assault.
TweetMom brings baseball bats to help settle argument between children
Riverside police answered numerous calls Thursday evening, May 6, on a fight in progress on Valencia Street with baseball bats involved.
When officers arrived they found two women in the front yard, screaming in each other’s face. One of the women had an aluminum baseball bat in each hand.
One party claimed she interceded when the other arrived with the bats and told two young boys that if they where going to fight, they were going to fight fair. The woman claimed the other party was about to hand each boy a bat.
The other party said her son had been out playing tag with neighborhood kids and had been hit several times by a ball. When her son came home and told her this, she said she went to find out why her son was being picked on. She admitted to bringing the bats. When asked, she also admitted her son had not been injured.
While police were questioning the pair, the women continued to yell at each other, despite police orders to knock it off. Each was placed in a separate squad car and cited with disorderly conduct.
TweetFour children removed from filthy house
Dayton police and Montgomery County Children’s Services removed four children — ranging in age from 6 months to 4 years — from their home Wednesday, May 5, because of neglect and lack of supervision.
Police were called to a house in the 200 block of Alton Avenue in the Old North Dayton neighborhood on reports of three small children wandering in the street. They found one of the children naked and the other two wearing only heavily soiled diapers. The three were covered with red nail polish and playing with sticks — they were hitting each other — in a neighbor’s yard.
The 4-year-old led the officer across the street to their home. She told the officer she and her two younger brothers had crawled out of a front window and crossed the street. After four or five minutes of pounding on the door, the children’s 21-year-old mother responded.
According to the police report, when the mother opened the door, officers could see the house was filthy, and they could smell a foul odor. The also found a 6-month-old baby inside. The mother told officers she had been up late the night before and was very tired. She said she was getting no help with the kids from their fathers and hadn’t been to the grocery store in a while.
When Children’s Services arrived, all four children were removed to the care of relatives. There was no evidence the children had been abused. The mother was charged with misdemeanor child endangering. Children Services said it would work with the mother.
TweetMan charged in East Side shooting
A shooting Saturday, May 1, sent one 23-year-old man to the hospital and now has a second 23-year-old man in jail on a felonious assault charge Thursday, May 6. According to the initial police report, each man’s current girlfriend has a child by the other man.
David Stringer in being held in the county lockup on $25,000 bond in the shooting of James Webb, according to Dayton Lt. Pat Welsh and jail records.
When police arrived in the 900 block of Linden Avenue in the Linden Heights neighborhood around 4 a.m. last Saturday, they found Webb laying in nearby Wilmington Avenue with a gunshot wound to the thigh. Webb gave officers a vague description of the shooter but refused to cooperate any further.
In talking to witnesses, including Webb’s 21-year-old brother, Jesse, police got a better description, including Stringer’s name.
According to witnesses, a shirtless Stringer arrived outside an apartment building and stood in the middle of Linden, yelling obscenities. The two Webb brothers and James’ girlfriend were standing in front of the apartment building. The girlfriend then went into the street and argued with Stringer. Police noted the girlfriend was the mother of Stringer’s baby and had broken up with him two months prior.
James Webb then walked out into the street to confront Stringer, who witnesses said pulled a pistol and shot James Webb in the leg. At that point, Jesse Webb told police he started chasing Stringer up Linden Avenue as Stringer fired several shots at him.
Stringer’s current girlfriend, who has a child by James Webb, told police she heard shots fired from two directions and saw two guns.
Lt. Welsh said Stringer was arrested Tuesday night, and James Webb at last came in to talk with detectives Wednesday morning.
“Stringer denied he had anything to do with the shooting,” Welsh said. Witnesses said otherwise, and the charges were approved Wednesday by prosecutors.
TweetDeputy’s cruiser involved in collision
A three-car collision Monday, May 3, that include a Montgomery County Sheriff’s cruiser sent three people hospitals with minor injuries.
According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the deputy was eastbound on Wagner Ford Road around 6:50 p.m. when a westbound 2005 Dodge Caravan turned in front of him. The deputy was unable to stop in time, but was able to steer enough to hit the vehicle in the rear quarter panel.
That collision sent the cruiser into the front of a second eastbound vehicle, a 1995 Jeep Cherokee.
The deputy, the driver of the Jeep and a child in the Dodge were all taken to area hospitals with minor injuries. The Dodge driver was cited for failure to yield.
TweetMan jumps from moving SUV on I-75
Around 3:20 Saturday morning, May 1, Dayton police were dispatched on a report of a person laying in the middle lane of northbound I-75 near the Main Street exit.
Once on the scene, they discovered a man on the southbound exit ramp behind an orange barrel. When approached the man was irate and combative. Witnesses said it appeared the man jumped out of a moving SUV.
He told officers they “would have to kill” him and if they did, he would be the last one to leave. Witnesses said the 27-year-old man had been with them at the Gentleman’s Club on North Dixie, gotten drunk and into a fight at the strip club. One witness said she was driving behind the SUV when she saw the man open the door and jump out. She understood that the man had been in a fight with the other occupants of the SUV, but left the moving vehicle on his own accord.
When medics showed up, the man refused to go to the hospital, though he had an obvious knot on his head. Police had to cuff the man and lift him onto the gurney. When he reached the hospital, he grappled with the medical staff before he was sedated and treated.
Police were called back to the hospital after doctors discovered a gunshot wound in the man’s back. Doctors told police the wound appeared several days old. Police called in Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies to see if the wound could be connected to any shootings in the area around the Harrison Twp. strip club.
The investigation is continuing.
TweetTwins rob man, give most of the money back, police say
Twin 53-year-old brothers are in the county lockup after allegedly robbing a man at gunpoint, attempting to get back the money paid for the faulty repair of a car.
Shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday, May 1, police were called to the 900 block of Harvard on a report of a robbery. When they arrived, they found the victim on the street saying the armed robbers took off in a white Olds that now was parked in a nearby alley. One officer blocked the alley with his car and the Olds took off in reverse, leading police on a chase through the neighborhood. During the chase, the passenger bailed from the vehicle.
Police finally stopped the Olds. The passenger was run to ground a couple blocks from the scene, and police began to piece together the incident.
The 55-year-old alleged victim, Luther Kelley, said he’d done some auto repair work for Stanley Straight, taking $38 for the work. Kelley said Straight showed up at his house Saturday and demanded his money back because the car still was not running properly. Kelley declined, and Straight said he was coming back with his brother.
A short time later, Stanley and his twin brother, Stanford, arrived. Kelley said Stanley pointed a pistol at him and demanded his money. Kelley said he handled over $750 and the brothers fled, only to return a few minutes later to return all but $100 of his money. Stanley said he was keeping the $100, Kelley said.
Witnesses confirmed Kelley’s statement.
When police stopped the Olds, Stanley was driving. When asked, he told the cops he fled because his brother told him to and because he didn’t have a driver’s license. He denied having a weapon.
When questioned, Stanford said he came along to get his brother’s money back because he didn’t want his brother to be outnumbered. He did say that Stanley was armed, but only for protection. He said Stanley threw the weapon out the window during the chase. Police were never able to locate the weapon, though witnesses confirmed Stanley was armed and pointed the pistol at Kelley.
When told what Stanford had said, Stanley admitted he was armed, but claimed it was only a toy pistol.
Stanford was booked into the lockup on aggravated robbery. Stanley was booked in on aggravated robbery, tampering with evidence, failure to comply and a host of driving violations for running stop signs and reckless driving during the chase.
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