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A self serve car wash got national
attention (not the type we want
mind you), after it was featured on
America’s Most Wanted.
Also, as a side note, this is what scares me
about those haunted car washes, because something
like this could happen and I wouldn’t
know what to do. Also, for the record, I do
think a haunted self serve car wash is a very,
very, very, very, very bad idea. In Littleton, Colorado,
a man is now in jail after he targeted a
woman who was washing her van back in January.
According to 4 cbs Denver, the woman
had pulled into the car wash when he walked
in, opened the driver’s side door and pulled
her out. “Video shows the woman parked at
the Atlantis Car Wash... She tried to fight off
the man but he ultimately grabbed her neck
and bit her before pulling her to the ground
and getting inside the van.”
Thankfully, the woman was not seriously injured.
Police in Littleton arrested the man, 51-yearold
Phillip Michael Dent, on March 16, after
the story was featured on America’s Most
Wanted. According to the highly reputable
magazine, Variety, it had only been a week
since “America’s Most Wanted” returned to the
air and already a viewer tip led to a new capture,
marking the 1,187th one for the series,
which originated in 1988.
“And after seeing the ‘crime alert’ case on
the show, that’s exactly what a local resident
in Denver did. Contacting the Littleton Police
Department with information that proved to
be accurate and helpful, Dent was arrested,”
according to the story. More details of Dent’s
arrest were explored on the next new episode
of “America’s Most Wanted,” which aired on
Monday, March 29 on Fox.
Dent is being held on charges of robbery, assault,
motor vehicle theft, arson, second-degree
burglary, theft and criminal trespass.
I’m confused by this one. Does the car crashing
into the car wash have anything to do with the
driver bumping a woman’s car?
If not, was he trying to get help? If yes, then why
did he brandish a long gun? What constitutes a long
gun? All I can think of is this:
Or this:
And, may I just take a moment to say, in no other
publication will you ever see Elmer J. Fudd share a
page with Nathaniel “Hawkeye” Poe.
In Hinesville, Georgia, authorities say at 11 p.m. on
March 31 was driving down a busy street when a vehicle
behind her tapped her bumper. When she got to
a redlight, the driver allegedly came out of his vehicle
with a long gun.
According to WJCL, police said she sped away,
closely followed her before he lost control, hit a fire
hydrant and ended up at a car wash.
His vehicle burst into flames after he ran away, the
story said.
Thankfully, an arrest was made on April 6, according
to WTOC 11, Christopher Sumlin was arrested
on charges of aggravated assault and stalking.
If you’re going to steal a
bunch of money, you gotta
go big and take it to a
gambling paradise in Nevada.
No, not, Las Vegas, and no, not Reno, but
Mesquite, Nevada! Who doesn’t want to celebrate
a successful robbery in good ‘ol Mesquite?
These three criminals sure did. But, unfortunately,
their wild ride has been upended
as two of the men are now in jail.
According to St. George News, police arrested
two men, including Michael Gordon
Sprague, 55, and Dylan Soracco, 28, who allegedly
stole a change machine containing approximately
$10,000 from a car wash in Cedar
City, Utah, back on December 29.
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Police stated that Sprague and Soracco, along
with a third accomplice who has not been identified,
broke into a room at the car wash at approximately
2:30 a.m. and removed the change
machine weighing 500 pounds and loaded it into
a Volkswagen Jetta.
According to the story, the incident was recorded
by the car wash’s surveillance cameras.
“After taking the stolen machine to a storage unit
in town, the men allegedly retrieved the money
that was inside and traveled to a casino in Mesquite,
Nevada, to cash in the change. They reportedly
gambled with some of the money, according
to a probable cause statement filed in support of
Sprague’s arrest.”
The story said that probable cause affidavits filed
in 5th District Court allege that Soracco attempted
to buy liquor with a counterfeit $100 bill at the
state liquor store on Dec. 28. An allegedly, police
also found another counterfeit $100 bill with the
same serial number in Soracco’s possession during
a Dec. 31 traffic stop in a grocery store parking lot,
along with drugs and paraphernalia.
And, back on November 15, Soracco was arrested
after allegedly running a red light, after which
police reportedly found heroin and a .38 caliber
pistol inside his vehicle. When he was arrested in
January, as officers conducted a traffic stop, they
caught Soracco and allegedly found him to be in
possession of heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine
and oxycodone.