[PilotDave]

From a follow up story this morning... Possible links to an earlier robbery.

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/mar/02/deputies-explore-possible-case-link/

The crime immediately caught the attention of sheriff's deputies probing a break-in that happened Feb. 24 on Woodland Shores, Clark said. In that incident, two "fit" men with ski masks, gloves and a silver revolver surprised 21-year-old Herbert Joseph Butler III and a woman while he was cooking steaks in the back yard, a police report states.

Butler's female visitor told deputies she answered a knock on the door at 10 p.m. and found a woman standing outside. The stranger asked to use the phone, explaining that her car had broken down. When Butler's friend turned around, the woman and two masked men forced their way inside and shoved her to the ground, a police report states.

The intruders bound Butler and the woman with duct tape and demanded to know where the money was, a police report states. They smacked him in the face and ripped through his home, stealing a flat-screen television, a DVD player and several DVDs. One of the men also forced the female victim to perform a sex act at gunpoint, a police report states.

The victims didn't call deputies until the next morning. The woman told deputies she was scared because the robbers had threatened her and she worried they still were watching her movements. Butler, who told deputies he thought he heard a third robber during the break-in as well, said he didn't call for help earlier because he didn't have a phone and desperately needed to sleep, a police report states.

[mbarker12474]

The victims didn't call deputies until the next morning. The woman told deputies she was scared because the robbers had threatened her and she worried they still were watching her movements. Butler, who told deputies he thought he heard a third robber during the break-in as well, said he didn't call for help earlier because he didn't have a phone and desperately needed to sleep, a police report states.

Sniff. Sniff. Sniff. Fails.

[Bulldawg Fan]

Huh? She was afraid and he needed to sleep? What’s wrong with this picture?

[oust the louse]

“Butler, who told deputies he thought he heard a third robber during the break-in as well, said he didn’t call for help earlier because he didn’t have a phone and desperately needed to sleep, a police report states.”

I don’t know about you but if I was just bound and gagged how would I call police?...this makes no sense whatsoever. Still they seem to be a bunch of dirtbag thugs who deserve some huge inmates when imprisoned....

[Travis McGee]

[dblshot]

A Citadel official said Sunday that Starks remains enrolled in the Corps of Cadets.
During the hearing, Miguel Starks told Baldwin that he lives in an off-campus apartment in West Ashley
That doesn't add up. If you are in the Corps, especially as a sophomore, you live in the barracks, elite athelet or not. Have things changed that much since I graduated from The Citadel?

[isom35]

future Bengal.

[conservativeharleyguy]

Well, since Jamarcus Russell hasn’t exactly worked out too well in Oakland, I wonder if Mr. Davis knows about this young man..... (full disclosure: sadly, I am a Raiders fan)

We so need a good QB, and since now he won’t be finishing college anyway.... knowI’msayin’?

[Isabel C.]

How does that saying go?

You can take the man out of the ______ but you can't take the ______ out of the man.

[BluH2o]

This is absolutely senseless ... how utterly stupid can this individual be? To have a bright future mapped out and then to pull a stunt like this ... unbelievable.
Reminds me of a similar incident a number of years back involving senior HS football players in a suburb of Dallas. They had won the Texas state championship the previous season, with several having college football scholarships lined up after graduation. As I recall 4 or 5 of them were arrested as part of robbery ring, holding up convenience stores, etc., at gunpoint. All of them went to prison.