Lamonte Brown (top left), Jason Holmes (top center), Khatira Hunt-Rogers (top right), Eric Buckner (bottom left) and Phillip Devine are among suspects in a car break-in ring.
Posted on 05/17/2018 5:08:27 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
ST. LOUIS • Alderman Jack Coatar says Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s office didn’t do its job after a band of car break-in thieves was released on bail.
Police believe six suspects committed more than 100 car break-ins mostly in downtown neighborhoods since at least 2014. Initially, their bail was set at $150,000.
But Judge Nicole Colbert-Botchway reduced bail for three of them to $50,000 on April 27. They were allowed to post 10 percent of it, which they did, and were released. Two of those suspects, Lamonte Brown, 34, and Jason Holmes, 38, were charged with three counts each of property crime and stealing.
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One good night and they can make back their bail.
Car break-ins are on the rise here outside of Columbia.
One of my higher ups lives a few,hundred yards away on another street. Nice neighborhood with plenty of people and cameras.
Her wheels got ransacked, the mister’s ride was stolen and recovered wrecked a few days later.
Aptly-named judge ….
Judge Nicole Botchway lives up to her name!
That decision to reduce bail was seriously botched.
Lamonte Brown (top left), Jason Holmes (top center), Khatira Hunt-Rogers (top right), Eric Buckner (bottom left) and Phillip Devine are among suspects in a car break-in ring.
I suppose it’s racial profiling if I notice that they’re all Black, eh?
I suppose it’s racial profiling if I notice that they’re all Black, eh?
Wow. Two guys, three counts of (essentially) vandalism.
100 cars broken into. I’m going to guess $200 per window. That’s $20k of damage so far.
Let’s ignore any guns and drugs that they collected in those cars and focus on stereos and random phones. I’ll lowball that at $200 per car. Another $20k.
Cost to owners? At least 40k. Probably over 100k.
Court? 5k, a free lawyer, and if you go to jail you’ll walk inside of thirty days.
Profit? Looks like 20k to me. Or 80-ish.
Punishment? None. Priceless.
I’m confident that these gentlemen have been inside before and their cost/risk analysis is pretty positive for them.
Crikey! I should have been a super-villain! Nah. I don’t want to be a democrat.
Kit
Thieves should be summarily executed. Vandals should lose a limb per incident.
At first the bail didn’t sound that far off until I remembered the huge number of crimes. Obviously a professional criminal operation.
I noticed that Allison Mack was released on $5,000,000.00 bond. That actually sounds too high to me.
We have somebody who makes the rounds in my neighborhood. I find it is just easier to leave the doors unlocked and nothing of value in the vehicle except maybe some change. Unlike the rest of the street, my windows and mirrors are never broken.
In California you can steal anything worth less then $1,000 or so and not end up in court. Plus the democrats released 40,000 and counting crooks out of jail.
Plus I wired a little logic box into my ignition, so the vehicle is pretty much impossible to Hotwire. Better living through clever electronics
Around 30 years ago my Brother had the battery stolen out of his car while it was parked in his driveway.
A couple of days later he noticed some boys tinkering with an old car about a block away. He walked over and began talking to them. He then looked at the car and sure enough, recognized his battery.
I don’t recall the exact sentences but the judge literally threw the book at them. Several years in prison.
I will need to come up with something for my old vehicles as I get them roadworthy.
Some are manuals so that’s a little anti theft.
Mine is a 1966 toyota landcriser, I just rebuilt it from the frame up
Nicole has been in the workforce since she was 13 years old – beginning at a Baskin-Robbins. Since then, she’s worked at several banks, for United Parcel Service, in the Mickey Mouse store at Union Station, The Gap and other retailers in management capacities. Each one added to her real-world, life experiences.
In her early teens, she discovered the Upward Bound Summer Program at Saint Louis University, which helps inner-city youth. There she was exposed to possibilities that changed her life when a female African-American lawyer spoke to the group.
With her son, Ismail, having some fun with hats at the Missouri History Museum.
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