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ELB wrote:You have to deal [drugs] where the customers are...

I think there was a song about that:

Simon & Garfunkel wrote:I'm one step ahead of the shoe shine
Two steps away from the county line
Just trying to keep my customers satisfied/Satisfied.
Deputy Sheriff said to me...
You're in trouble boy,
And you're heading into more.

But, two of the most clever drug-distribution schemes I have heard of are drug dealers using pizza delivery or exterminator vehicles. I recall one of them being busted when an observant neighbor thought it was odd that the exterminator was there 20 times a month.

I would have thought someone was "carrying on," as we used to call it in more discreet times, but it was drug deliveries.

- Jim

texanjoker wrote:The moral of the story is that crime occurs everywhere, including what we think are "safe" neighborhoods.

I've seen this all my adult life. Decent people move from decaying urban neighborhoods to pristine suburbs, and their own children turn into the problems that they fled.

Meanwhile, the inner cities become gentrified and better than the fringe suburbs where all the scummy apartments are. For those in Houston, look at 1960 or along Bellfort west of Fondren.

- Jim

Continuing the good clean fun, two teenagers, age 17 and 18, were stabbed in a fight behind Wedgewood Elementary School. Police said it was a "drug deal gone bad."

Everyone involved, including the stabbing victims, fled the scene. The victims were later hospitalized. Two suspects are at large.

http://www.galvestondailynews.com/commu ... 0f31a.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Now, most criminals are morons, but I have trouble thinking of a more stupid thing to do than a drug deal and aggravated assault on school grounds, with enhanced sentences and possible federal prosecution for that sort of crime. Do it behind a strip mall or abandoned building.

- Jim

In unrelated news, according to copyrighted stories in Tuesday's Galveston County Daily News, police found a Hummer overturned in a ditch in the 2500 block of S. Friendswood Drive around 1:45 a.m. Saturday. The airbags had deployed and blood was found in the passenger compartment.

A caller told police "a man was carrying a woman door-to-door in the 2300 block of Opal Springs Lane." Police investigated and found an injured 17-year-old girl in the attic of an unoccupied house. The girl had a broken pelvis and was taken to the hospital.

The Friendswood police chief said that the driver of the vehicle, a 20-year-old man, and other passengers face possible charges of failure to stop and render aid and leaving the scene of an accident.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?secti ... id=9339095" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Nice people. Police did not speculate whether or not drugs or alcohol were involved.

- Jim

old farmer wrote:The 7 line machines need alot cash for pay off.

The 8-liners do also. And some of these convenience stores are dealing everything from pot to crack. But we're talking mainly about fast-food restaurants.

- Jim

rp_photo wrote:I would figure that enough people pay by credit or debit card these days to reduce the cash on hand.

Probably a lot of customers use plastic; but many don't. Also robbers are slow learners.

- Jim

In Friendswood yesterday, according to a report in the Galveston County Daily News, a 51-year-old man threw hammers at construction workers working in the 400 block of Oak Vista. Two workers were struck by hammers but not injured. The suspect also reportedly brandished a knife.

The man barricaded himself in a shed, and the cops had to gas and zap him. The misunderstood gentleman was arrested and charged with multiple felonies.

Updated to add, here is a public link to a story about this incident:
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/friendsw ... 4cb67.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The suspect reportedly had a history of encounters with the police dating back several years.

In unrelated news, an alleged burglar reportedly broke into a house in the 16100 block of Bougainvilla around 10:40 a.m. Tuesday and assaulted a 15-year-old girl who was taking a shower. The girl fought off the man, who has not been apprehended.

The suspect is described as a 19- to 20-year-old black male between 5 feet 11 inches and 6 feet tall.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?secti ... Vk5UP.dpuf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.khou.com/news/local/Friendsw ... 46281.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Pretty precise on the age, if you ask me. I can't tell if people are 16 or 29 years old.

- Jim

I know nothing about this specific restaurant location, but the owners of fast-food franchises typically do not work in the restaurant. In many cases they own a string of restaurants. They adopt a plain-vanilla policy manual that prohibits employees from having weapons or defending themselves and generally calls for employees to kneel down and beg if they are the target of a crime. They usually fire employees who fight back.

Apparently that business plan works, because I don't see them going bankrupt.

- Jim

n5wd wrote:Because that costs money they'd rather not spend.

One employee shot or otherwise injured on the job will cost them somewhere between five figures and their net worth. This would be workers comp, legal fees, or actual damages.

If the insurance company can prove that the employee was doing something outside the scope of the job (such as taking money to the bank), it will cost the business owner out of his pocket.

But what do I know?

- Jim

I can't understand why these businesses don't use an armored-car service. Every convenience store does. Robbers know that they can't get more than $50 cash from a convenience store. That's why they steal cigarettes and lottery tickets.

Expecting a minimum-wage employee who is disarmed by store policy to "stop by the bank" at 2 a.m. is, um, not exactly the best idea.

I've seen literally hundreds of news reports of business owners being robbed as they leave the store or go home, probably most by fired employees or other people who know them.

- Jim

In completely unrelated news, police busted a suspected "pill mill" in the 16718 block of Blackhawk Boulevard in Friendswood.

A toddler in the residence was released to a relative.

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/354838" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Watch out for edgy cut-off junkies in Friendswood today, especially if you go to a pharmacy.

- Jim

According to a report in the Galveston County Daily News, two white men wearing ski masks robbed an employee of Papa John's Pizza at 201 E. Parkwood Ave at 12:21 a.m. Sunday. The employee was assaulted and robbed as he left the store with a bag of money.

The previous night at closing time a man wearing a “Friday the 13th mask” ran toward the restaurant at closing time, but the workers locked the front door and called police.

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/354886" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This crime has indications of a robbery by a former employee or an acquaintance of an employee who knew routines.

Not to blame the victim or anything, but some of these businesses have cash management policies that are golden opportunities for robbers.

- Jim