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Phoenix, kidnap-for-ransom capital
Los Angeles Times ^
| 2/12/09
| Sam Quinones
Posted on 02/12/2009 11:54:46 AM PST by FeliciaCat
Reporting from Phoenix -- In broad daylight one January afternoon, on a street of ranch-style houses with kidney-shaped swimming pools, Juan Francisco Perez-Torres was kidnapped in front of his wife, daughter and three neighbors.
Two men with a gun grabbed the 34-year-old from his van and dragged him 50 yards to a waiting SUV. His wife threw rocks at the car, then gave chase in her own SUV. Neighbors in northwest Phoenix called police. Yet when police found her later, she at first denied there was a problem.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: illegals; kidnapping; ransom; thugs
To: FeliciaCat
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you, courtesy of our immigration policies...
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posted on
02/12/2009 11:56:26 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Obamanation: an imploding administration headed by a clueless schmuck, with McCain as his Kowakian)
To: COBOL2Java
Not where I’m at. This is happing in large urban areas, almost exclusively.
Out here, in redneck heaven? No chance. Even the ‘neck that hates you will open fire on your behalf.
Of course, it’ll cost ya a case of Bud, and half a pig afterwards...(chuckle)
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posted on
02/12/2009 12:01:22 PM PST
by
Badeye
(There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
To: COBOL2Java
Yeah, but our kidnappings will be to come up with enough money to pay the confiscatory taxes Obama has planned for us.
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posted on
02/12/2009 12:02:01 PM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
To: Badeye
God I love Ohioans! Your FReep page reads like your a cousin of the Motor City Madman!!
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posted on
02/12/2009 12:08:47 PM PST
by
poobear
(a 2-iron is best for killing Cottonmouths, Copperheads, and Water Moccasins...)
To: FeliciaCat
One should not take rocks to a gun fight.
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posted on
02/12/2009 12:12:56 PM PST
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
To: Badeye
And six chickens and 20 lbs. of good hamburger meat (or venison)
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posted on
02/12/2009 12:23:27 PM PST
by
geezerwheezer
(get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
To: FeliciaCat
Indeed, most every other crime here is down. But police received 366 kidnapping-for-ransom reports last year, and 359 in 2007. Police estimate twice that number go unreported. In September, police spun off a separate detective unit to handle only these smuggling-related kidnappings and home-invasion robberies.
Kidnapping and home invasion. But "every other crime is down." I guess there's a lot less shoplifting in Phoenix than there used to be.
To: tvdog12345
They’ve certainly moved on to the ones that “pay.”
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posted on
02/12/2009 12:36:36 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: COBOL2Java
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you, courtesy of our Drug and immigration policies... With out the illegal drug trade there would be no incentive to kidnap these people.
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posted on
02/12/2009 12:36:54 PM PST
by
Pontiac
(Your message here.)
To: poobear
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posted on
02/12/2009 12:44:28 PM PST
by
Badeye
(There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
To: Badeye
Quite welcome.
I sold retirement homes in Central Florida during the 80’s and I loved when the folks from Ohio came down. Really put a damper in those obnoxious folks from the northeast!
Carry on!
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posted on
02/12/2009 12:48:07 PM PST
by
poobear
(a 2-iron is best for killing Cottonmouths, Copperheads, and Water Moccasins...)
To: poobear
We’re a tad messy, but fun at parties...(chuckle)
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posted on
02/12/2009 12:49:09 PM PST
by
Badeye
(There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
To: Badeye
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posted on
02/12/2009 2:14:05 PM PST
by
poobear
(a 2-iron is best for killing Cottonmouths, Copperheads, and Water Moccasins...)
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