At 9:54 AM today, a 65 year-old female was confronted by a black male with a handgun in the parking lot of the Charter School, 1227 Dabney Drive, Henderson. The male demanded the female for her purse and keys. The black male then took the female’s vehicle a drove in the direction of Hardees on Dabney Drive. The area was searched, but the suspect was unable to be located. The vehicle stolen is a white in color 2010 Toyota Camry with North Carolina registration ZTA-4269. Suspect is described as 507 in height, wearing a green t-shirt and a black dorag over his head. He should be considered armed and dangerous. If located contact your local law enforcement agency. Crime Stoppers may offer a reward up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest in this case.
The school was placed on temporary lockdown during the investigation.
Photo attached is a similar depiction of the vehicle stolen.
Is it just my observation –or are Henderson Vance criminals extremely bold and dangerous?
Prudence…and why wouldn’t they be? The courts sure aren’t doing anything to them. It’s time to start putting the pressure on the courts and not accepting the excuses that they spew.
This is awful. Plain and simple.
Betterworld, the problem is not the court system or law enforcement. The problem is the voters’ lack of involvement. It is the legislators who write the sentencing guidelines the judges must follow. The legislator are elected by a majority of the few who vote based on their acceptance of big money’s negative ads that are designed and intended to strike fear and terror into the minds of the majority of the few who vote. Until the majority of the voters are acting on knowledge instead of fear the judges will be hamstrung sentencing guidelines written by weak legislators.
OLIF, it took me some time to talk with a newly minted attorney I know. According to him the assistant DA was following the rules and nothing more. Also OLIF, never rely on the news media to publish the whole story. The news media must peddle fear and loathing exciting readers and watchers so advertisers will think they are getting their money’s worth.
Mr. Bobbitt, it is indeed the courts fault. Maybe you should sit in there for a year each day and see what is going on. Law enforcement does their job, but the courts do not. Cases are continued month after month so the attorney gets paid on our tax dollars … but if you are paying your own lawyer, expect to have a speedy trial because they know that dollars are limited. See the criminals high five each other. I think some judges, not all, are trying too hard to be friendly with the criminals and deliver the true justice that needs to be delivered.
MB, Ever sat in Vance Co court and watched the continuances one after another, public defenders racking up $$$, sat as an observer for 2 hours and never saw a case heard. And mighty dim view of voters you have, just a pack of pidgeons swayed by big money’s ads, motivated by fear and not knowledge, and pumped up by media advertisers. Ah, the intellectual superiority of liberals….Some mighty smart voters in Wisconsin yesterday.
Dangy,
Yes I have observed court as recently as a month ago. I have also spoken with the District Attorney, two of the assistant DAs, three judges, the sheriff and the police chief. If the negative advertising and hyped fear did not work then big money would not use the tactic.
Thanks for the response.
I just looked at the clock and wondered if by this hour on 6 June 1944, the men who landed on Dog Green Sector of Omaha Beach had taken the artillery battery atop the beach head.
Oh sure…drink the kool aid provided by people who are taught to lie in school as a career.
Betterworld, what are you trying to say?
Who drank the kool aid Dangy or me?
Do you care to what you tried to say?
I think you mean well, Mr. Bobbitt, but I think you are drinking the Kool Aid provided to you by lawyers–who are, in my opinion, taught to be dishonest for a living at the very most, and at the very least, are extremely manipulative.
I know MB has a far superior intellect to little old me so I need to be sure I understand his premise about the problem with our court system: the problem is stupid voters electing legislaters that want the criminals out on the street so the legislaters pass sentencing guidelines that are low. So the judges, prosecuters and defense attorneys can not be held accountable for any of the problems, because he has spoken to them, they are all just victims of “big money” = corporations and those people employed by them that create all the tax revenue that fund our society. That guy is a genius! It is the businesses that are responsable for the crime, I knew it!
And bless my soul……… I thought it was Bush’s fault. Silly me.
While I know our bonds are ridiculously low, and sometimes non-existent, what I want to know from the liberals is this: if these criminals are so in need of money, and so down and out that they have to steal, how do they always bond out so quickly? It’s all a load of BS. We have created a community in which crime does pay, and because there is no penalty for criminal behavior, it flourishes and grows. It is my opinion that all judges, and really all lawyers, should be required to spend one year living in a ‘hood,’ without the benefit of firearms to protect themselves. Maybe their parents and grandparents should live there too and see what happens to seniors who cannot protect themselves.
Is it true that there has been an arrest made concerning the recent string of armed robberies in town? I certainly hope so.
Betterworld,
I do not think all judges and all lawyers need to spend time in the rough neighborhoods. I would say some of the more less-than-desirable criminal defense attorneys might benefit from being exposed to the blight they help create. We have to drive the element out of Vance County and it certainly does not help that when you have folks who work within the confines of the justice system that are more crooked than the majority of the people they represent.
Can someone explain to me how VC Schools is ranked 97th in the state but we have two high schools that are top 25?
If there has, I surely hope we actually get some ‘justice’ for once.
Mojo, #15…
We can answer your question. Why are the high schools rated so wonderfully? Because of statistics. Remember… real results do NOT matter as long as the NUMBERS look GOOD!
Did you see the MIRACLE Class of 2012 graduate Saturday?
There were several kids that were NOT supposed to graduate. They didn’t have the credits and such. And for all we know, they didn’t actually get a diploma.
But the school system has been known to do some shady things. They’ll go back and change F’s during the Freshman year (3 years prior) to D’s so that seniors can graduate, because the schools are rated on percentages of graduating.
A high graduation rate does NOT mean the students are achieving. Actually, you should ask yourself, WHY is it so HIGH?
Falling standards. That’s why.
But the numbers look good, don’t they?
Dangy, (post 11)
This is in response last week’s posting. I’ve been away from the net for almost a week)
I am not worthy of such high praise.
You are partially correct in what I am saying. It is the other part that I want to answer. First, I do not think voters, legislators, judges, the district attorney, the police chief, the sheriff or the defense attorneys want criminals to go unpunished.
If everyone is doing their job correctly law enforcement arrests only those who probably committed the crime. The prosecutor and the defense attorney proved to the jury or judge that the one arrested did in fact commit the crime and is guilty. For sentencing the judge refers to the legislated sentencing guidelines to pronounce a sentence on the guilty. Judges are prohibited from giving a sentence greater or less than allowed by the legislature approved sentencing guidelines.
The voters elect the women and men in the legislature. Big money sells negative political advertising promoting the fear and loathing of great calamities unless this or that person is elected to the legislature. People are influenced by negative political advertising. People will vote for a legislator whose fear mongering they are most aligned.
Big money is selling fear of governmental collapse unless budgets are cut. One way to fend off the supposed collapse is to cut government spending by imposing sentencing guidelines based in part on the cost of incarceration. The irony to me is the railing against judges for using the legislated mandated sentencing guidelines.
MB, Thanks for the response by restating your position that business/big money is responsible for the problems with the court system and voters are ignorant sheep that have also been brain washed by the same big money/business. And darlin’, if you don’t understand that we are facing govt collapse because we are obscenely spending way more than we are collecting, check the deficit numbers, that is fact and not a big money sell. How sentencing guidelines could have a drastic effect on the deficit numbers is not clear to me. Running defendants endlessly thru the court system by continuing cases, before they ever get to the sentencing phase, is a waste of time, money and efficiency and I do wonder why the judges allow it.
Well said Dagny.