Agency Assist

So a pretty slow week. REally not a whole lot went on. The big highlight of the week happened the night before last so I'll share a little bit of it with ya.

A neighboring city that borders us got a hangup call from a grocery store. Basically thats where someone dials 9-1-1 and then hangs up. Usually its nothing like kids playing with the phone or a misdial etc. I was close by so I told dispatch that I would be enroute to assist. Right before arrival dispatch says they got back on the line and apparently there was some kind of abduction....

I pull up front to the store and there is a couple of smashed watermelons on the ground, a women's shoe and a cell phone. Wow...looks like its some real police shit going on. Ok!

So apparently what happened was this... 3 or 4 guys come into the store, they mill around the front area and ask the clerk if they can stand there to "wait for some friends". They go back to the bathroom, get some sort of text or signal on there cell phone and go back up front....they then start to "warm up"...they start stretching out and pace back and forth....a couple of girls walk up to the front entrance outside and these guys attack them...they start wrestling them to the ground. Similtaneously a big truck pulls up and they force the girls inside and then speed off.

Sounds pretty crazy I know...so we start taping off the crime scene and photgraphing it...collect evidence etc. An hour or two goes by...I did an area check for the car...a big area check. I went all the way into the next county looking for this thing...I checked every hotel parking lot I could find.

Well about 2 hours goes by and one of the girls shows up at her hotel which happens to be right near the grocery store. They posted me on the hotel room and walah the other girl shows up scared and shaken about an hour after that. The primary suspect is then found a few blocks away in a different car.

I must tell you all that random crime is a pretty rare thing...usually things are all related somehow. OUr first indicator was that one of the girls boyfriends was there during the "kidnapping" and I dont know bout ya'll but if someone was trying to take my lady you would find me shooting and then jumping on the car like TJ Hooker as it sped off. This guy pretty much does nothing while it happens...while is girlfriend is abducted he decides to intervene by throwing a watermelon at the car. Then he proceeds to really not show any signs of emotional distress or concern at all and is very calm talking to us.....hmmmm suspicious. The hotel they were staying at is a hotbed for drug activity....and the girls??....have tons of local arrest and suspect records for burglary theft and drugs......all this is now kind of adding up........so its suspicious at best if not probably entirely orchestrated by the boyfriend who probably needs money etc........

I know that one guy was actually booked for felony kidnapping and unlawfull imprisonment but as for the motives etc I dont know as we didnt investigate it (it was the other city's investigation)...I just acted as an assistant really.

None the less it was a fun call and interesting for sure.

Thats it for now ya'll....till next time.