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Man uses firearm to scare off bandits (Trinidad/To
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Curepe man scares off bandits with gun
A CUREPE man used his licensed firearm against three bandits who tried to rob him on Saturday night.
Police say Ronald Samlal was driving along May Fair Gardens, Santa Cruz, around 8.30 p.m. when three men in a white car pulled in front of him and stopped.
Two of the men came out and attempted to hold up Samlal.
Police say Samlal pulled out his 9 mm pistol and fired three shots. The bandits hurriedly got back into the car and drove off.
Samlal reported the incident to the Santa Cruz police.
About one hour later, the police set up a roadblock and held the three men who fit the description given by Samlal.
Reports are that when the men saw the roadblock they turned the car around and sped away. But, after a short chase, police intercepted the car.
The three are to be placed on ID parades today.
-Darryl Heeralal
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
A CUREPE man used his licensed firearm against three bandits who tried to rob him on Saturday night.
Police say Ronald Samlal was driving along May Fair Gardens, Santa Cruz, around 8.30 p.m. when three men in a white car pulled in front of him and stopped.
Two of the men came out and attempted to hold up Samlal.
Police say Samlal pulled out his 9 mm pistol and fired three shots. The bandits hurriedly got back into the car and drove off.
Samlal reported the incident to the Santa Cruz police.
About one hour later, the police set up a roadblock and held the three men who fit the description given by Samlal.
Reports are that when the men saw the roadblock they turned the car around and sped away. But, after a short chase, police intercepted the car.
The three are to be placed on ID parades today.
-Darryl Heeralal
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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Following is a list of arrests and crimes reported by area police departments.
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The owner of J&T Discount Beverage, 1257 Mayport Road, told police Aug. 8 that a burglar fled from his store after the owner pulled a .25-caliber semi-automatic pistol on the intruder.
The store owner, who has been burglarized twice in the past few months, said he heard something hit the front glass door. He hit the alarm and grabbed the pistol. He saw a man trying to go through the broken glass door and he pointed his firearm at the man and told him to stop. The man saw him and fled.
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/081702/nes_10195031.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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Aug. 19 - It has to be every person's worst nightmare - waking up from a deep sleep to find a stranger standing over you.
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But it really happened to an Albuquerque woman who overpowered and killed a convicted rapist after he broke into her home, climbed into her bed and held a gun to her chest.
The woman, who wishes to be identified only as "Mira," is a single mom and bookkeeper in her early 30s who said she acted only on instinct, and was driven by the desire to survive.
She told Good Morning America that she was home alone and was asleep in her bedroom about 1:30 a.m. on July 20 when she woke to find a flashlight pointed toward her face and a masked man straddling her in bed.
"After going to sleep, I was in the dead of sleep, I woke up with a man on top of me," Mira said on GMA. I immediately just had the reaction to get him off of me at that point he told me he had a gun and I felt it against my left chest. He was restraining me with both of his hands and the gun was across my chest and I just took my left hand and I started just pushing it away from me."
Mira started trying to push him off with her hands and feet, using some martial arts and self-defense techniques that she had learned years before.
"Do you want to die?" he asked.
At that point, something snapped and she sprung into action, Mira said. In what she described as something like "a dream state," she wrestled the .38-caliber revolver away from her 170-pound attacker and and rolled him onto the floor. She fired three shots at the man, striking him twice in the upper torso.
Convicted Sex Offender
The woman and police learned later that the man was 51-year-old Michael Magirl of Albuquerque, a convicted sex offender. Almost 20 years ago he was convicted of 33 burglaries in Clovis, N.M., where he raped a female Air Force captain while her children slept in an adjacent room. He only served half of a 31-year sentence.
Police say Magirl's car was parked about two blocks from the woman's home, and he had "rapist tools" with him, including a flashlight, gloves, and duct tape. Officers seized a backpack, a pillowcase and binoculars from the car.
Mira had just bought a home in Albuquerque, and was in the process of moving on the night it happened.
There had been a lot of workers in and out of the one-story house earlier that day, as she was in the process of moving in. She climbed into bed around 11:30 p.m. that night, after checking each door and window to make sure that they were locked. Police say that Magirl appeared to have forced his way into Mira's home through a sliding glass door, where pry marks were found.
After Mira fired the gun, she thought she had only injured Magirl. She pulled off his pantyhose mask, so she would be able to identify him, before running to a neighbor's house to call police.
Magirl died at the scene, and police have classified his death as a justifiable homicide. Police are now investigating Magirl in connection with other unsolved attacks in Albuquerque.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/GoodMorningAmerica/GMA020819Self_defense_woman.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Las Vegas, Nevada, Aug. 19 - Metro Police say a man, fearing for his and his young daughter's safety, whacked off the hand of an intruder with a machete a little after nine Sunday night. The resident of the home on Daisy Field Drive, near Decatur & Gowan, claims a suspicious white adult male, later identified as 46-year-old Mark Tunney, was knocking on doors and turning knobs on Daisy Field Drive, when he happened upon the wrong house.
The resident of the home claims he told the suspect to leave his property when the suspect lunged at him and lost his hand. The homeowner, who happens to be a gardener, in an attempt to protect his young daughter, himself and his property, grabbed a machete and whacked the suspects hand completely off. The suspect's hand was on one side of the street, the rest of the suspect was later found hiding in the bushes on the other side of the street.
The suspect was not known to police for anything other than traffic warrents in the past. No charges will be filed against the homeowner, as he was protecting his family and property and his actions are considered to be self-defense. There will be charges, however, against the suspect, including assault. Other charges may be pending.
http://www.msnbc.com/local/KVBC/M216899.asp?0na=x22243L2-&cp1=1
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By J. Eric Eckard, Rocky Mount Telegram
NASHVILLE - While one suspected killer was in court Friday morning, authorities were moving in on his alleged accomplice.
Wilson authorities arrested the third suspect Friday in connection with the home invasion death of 73-year-old Mattie Keen, who was shot and killed when a man broke into her home Tuesday on Old Bailey Highway, near the Wilson County line.
Cedric Earl Ellis, 26, of Statonsburg, was charged Friday in Nash County with first-degree murder, first-degree burglary, attempted first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery.
Two other suspects, Orlando Fonta Faison, 25, also of Statonsburg, and Terro Deshon Ward, 17, of Wilson, were arrested shortly after the shooting.
Ward on Friday was in N.C. District Court in Nashville for his arraignment. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, and the court is expected to appoint an attorney for his case.
Faison remains under guard in fair condition at Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville, recuperating from a shotgun blast to his back, a hospital spokeswoman said. Faison will be moved to the Nash County jail or Central Prison in Raleigh once he is well enough to travel.
Keen's 56-year-old son, who was wounded in the arm during the break-in, was able to retrieve a shotgun from another room in his residence and wound Faison as he was diving out of Mattie Keen's bedroom window, investigators said. Kenneth Keen was released from the Greenville hospital on Thursday.
In addition to the Nash County burglary and murder, Greene County authorities also have charged the trio with breaking into a house north of Snow Hill and attacking two elderly brothers.
Johnny West, 67, and his 70-year-old brother Clarence West, who is mentally handicapped, were beaten and robbed by three attackers about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in their home, said Greene County Sheriff Lemmie Smith.
A man knocked on the Wests' door and asked for water, and when Johnny West said he couldn't help him, the man stormed into the house and attacked the man, Smith said.
Two more suspects broke in, and while one held Johnny West down, the other two attackers searched the house for valuables, he added.
Clarence West was in a back bedroom, and he was beaten severely in the face. The suspects broke his jaw and opened a large * on his head, Smith said.
The robbers took the men's wallets and two handguns, he added.
The brothers were taken to Wilson Memorial Hospital, and Johnny West was treated and released. Clarence West was taken to the Pitt County hospital, where he remains in good condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Faison, Ward and Ellis were charged with breaking and entering, assault, inflicting serious injury and larceny of a firearm. Faison also was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting serious injury with the intent to kill in connection with the beating of Clarence West.
Smith said that investigators are looking into the possibility that the gun used in Keen's shooting might have come from the West break-in.
Following the West burglary, Greene County authorities received information that Nash County deputies were investigating the Keen murder, which occurred about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
The crimes were similar, including the ploy about asking for water.
In the Keen case, Kenneth Keen, Mattie's son, went outside to help the man asking for water. Once outside, the suspect pulled a gun and shot Kenneth Keen in the arm.
Keen ran back inside, while the shooter ran to the back of the house, shot through the glass door to gain entry. The suspect ran to Mattie Keen's bedroom, where he shot her once in the chest. By this time, Kenneth Keen entered his mother's bedroom with a double-barrel shotgun.
He fired once at the suspect as the man dived through the bedroom window. Mattie Keen, who recently overcame bone cancer, died at the scene.
Officials at Wilson Memorial Hospital notified authorities about 30 minutes later that a man was seeking treatment for a shotgun wound. Investigators moved in and arrested Faison at the hospital.
A video surveillance camera at the hospital revealed that there were three people in the car that dropped off Faison. A few hours later, Ward was picked up in Wilson and arrested.
Then, authorities found Ellis on Friday in Wilson.
Ellis was released from prison in February after spending six months behind bars for a Wilson County conviction of breaking and entering. This was his third stay behind bars.
Ellis also served 61/2 months in prison for another breaking and entering conviction in 2000. He also spent 26 months in prison for convictions of breaking and entering vehicles and two counts of breaking and entering until he was released in October 1996.
In 1993, Ellis was convicted of two counts of breaking and entering and received probation for both violations.
Ward was released from prison five months ago after serving about three months behind bars for a Wilson County conviction of breaking and entering.
Faison has been to prison for safecracking, larceny and possession with the intent to sell and deliver a controlled substance. After serving three months in prison, he was released in June 1997. Four months later, he was back behind bars, serving six months in prison.
Faison also has been convicted of resisting arrest, possession of a controlled substance, driving while license revoked, selling a controlled substance and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. He received probation for these convictions.
Faison also faces numerous traffic violations in Wilson County.
http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/newsfd/auto/feed/news/2002/08/16/1029555912.24670.6043.1590.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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Los Angeles-AP -- A suspect picked the wrong vehicle to carjack in Hollywood yesterday.
Los Angeles police say the suspect took one car, then pulled into a gas station, ditched the vehicle and tried to take a minivan.
Big mistake.
The minivan was full of judo wrestlers from Florida International University, who were in town to teach a self-defense class.
The wrestlers punched the man in the face and hit him from behind, then held him until police arrived.
The nozzle of a nearby fuel pump broke off during the scuffle, dousing everyone with gasoline.
The suspect is jailed on felony charges.
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878