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And, from carwashforum.com,
we have forum user Toms
PTcarwash, of Landisville,
Pennsylvania, who was able to turn a
“grass-clip-leaving-bandit” (that name
doesn’t roll off the tongue) thanks to his
security cameras. Here is his post: Bad pic,
but his guy was dropping huge bags of grass
clippings in the middle of the bay for a couple
weeks. I was able to get his plate on this drop
and had the police return his clippings!
Back that thing up, but not like
that! A driver in Cleveland, Ohio,
is wanted after he backed out of a car wash bay and
into a vacuum station. According to the WOIO
story, the driver then drove off. The car wash’s surveillance
footage captured the incident on January
8 and the images have been released to the public.
Another evil person is locked up, thanks to a
car wash’s security footage, according to KSAT.
In San Antonio, Texas, a 19-year-old man was arrested
after being accused of kidnapping a woman
from a car wash and sexually assaulting her.
Francisco Javier Juarez Gonzalez was charged on
December 2, 2021, with aggravated kidnapping,
aggravated sexual assault and evading arrest.
An arrest warrant affidavit stated the 58-yearold
victim called the police and reported that she
was abducted at a car wash. She said the man displayed
a gun and demanded her to get inside her
vehicle on the passenger’s side.
He then drove her to an unknown location
where the assault took place. He then returned to
the car wash to get back into his own vehicle.
But, his getaway was short-lived as surveillance
footage from the car wash captured the suspect’s
description and the suspect’s vehicle.
The story said that the police caught up with
the suspect’s vehicle and attempted to pull it over,
but Gonzales along with another man fled on foot.
However, both men were eventually apprehended.
This is a story in which that lovely trash, containing
personal information, that is so often dumped
at self serve washes, has actually done some good.
Two men have been arrested in East Baton Rouge
Parish, Louisiana, after a string of at least 15 burglaries,
a January 11 WBRZ story said.
According to the story, three suspects were
caught on a doorbell camera pulling on a car’s
door handles and then driving off in a black Hyundai
Sonata.
When deputies investigated the incident, they
learned that three different police departments
were working on various burglaries between January
8 and 9 involving the same vehicle.
In one incident police responded to Benny’s Car
Wash after two men were caught on camera throwing
away items that were in new or good condition.
Police also found a black duffel bag, backpack and
Gucci wallet that contained a checkbook with a
name, at the car wash. Then cameras showed they
were driving the black Hyundai Sonata. A ha! Go
get ‘em, Columbo.
Law enforcement agents were able to trace the
car back to an AVIS rental car service and eventually
caught up with 19-year-old Bobby Duncan and
18-year-old Daniel Buffington, and a female. All
three were detained and taken in for questioning.
Offering up even more incriminating evidence,
officers logged into the female’s cell phone location
records and deputies were able to link Duncan
and Buffington Deputies to many of the 15
burglaries.
I would like to know what the firefighter said
after he climbed up the ladder in this next story.
“Hey, man…like the jig is up, there’s literally no
where to go unless you’re Spiderman.” Or maybe
the guy was waiting for a helicopter to drop a rope
ladder and whisk him away? Who knows…..
A man in Texarkana, Texas, has been arrested
for allegedly breaking into a car wash by entering
through a hole in the roof, according to a January
24 Texarkana Gazette story.
This all took place around 4:15 a.m. at the
Baywash Car Wash. Police were called to check
the property after an alarm went off. They heard
movement up on the roof and discovered 37-yearold
Wayde Land. Land refused to come down.
“When the suspect refused to come down off the
roof after police arrived, the Texarkana Texas Fire
Department responded with a ladder truck to get
him down,” the story said.
“Before his arrest Land had allegedly used a
grinder saw to cut a hole in the roof that was just
big enough for him to slip through and get inside
the building. Once he got in, he allegedly loaded up
several tools he found and also broke into one of the
vending machines on the wall too,” the story said.
It wasn’t such a quick trip
for the driver of a truck
in New Ulm, Minnesota, according to a January 27
Gazette report. Wait… can we talk about the name
“New Ulm,” for a minute. New Ulm…..just doesn’t
roll off the tongue. No offense, as I live in a county
called Schenectady (Skin-neck-tid-ee) for crying
out loud. Anyway, the truck was parked at the Kwik
Trip North car wash entrance for 30 to 40 minutes
in the early morning hours of January 25, causing
police officer Tara Martin to take notice.
“Martin reported she noticed the truck due to
the -9 degree temperature and -27 degree wind
chill, but the truck’s driver’s side window was
down and it had not moved for 30 to 40 minutes,
despite no vehicles in the car wash,” the story said.
Police approached the truck and saw the driver
drop a large amount of $100 bills onto the
floor from his hand. Police said they also noted an
overwhelming odor of masking scents despite the
truck window being down for a long time for at
least 40 minutes.
When questioned, the driver was identified as
Robert Olson, who said he believed he was in New
Auburn and said he lived in Brownton. However
his driver’s license showed he did not live there.
After searching his vehicle, police found a vape
device with what was recognized as THC concentrate,
a baggie that tested positive for methamphetamines,
28.9 grams of marijuana, .5 grams of
THC concentrate and 1 gram of cocaine.
Olson was arrested and charges include two
felony counts of 2nd-degree narcotic drug possession
near a park, three counts of felony 3rd-degree
drugs, two counts of 4th-degree and 5th-degree
drugs and possession of more than 1.4 grams marijuana
in a motor vehicle.
Olson should count himself lucky that this
didn’t take place in Northampton, England, because
he could have also received a fine for spending
too much time at the car wash (And for those
of you who have no idea what I’m talking about,
turn to the Extra Extra section of this magazine
and look for the “Man fined for spending too much
time washing car” story).
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