It’s not every weekend you get a bunch of crime news. It’s also not every weekend where you read a Daily Progress article that explains crime is down 7% in Charlottesville and 3% in Albemarle County. I guess the irony is appropriate. I could not find the statistics the Daily Progress was using, but if anyone knows, please point me in that direction. The only report I could find was a “Crime in Virginia” article, but it didn’t include any historical data.
First, we started off Friday afternoon with a robbery of Greenberry’s.
Friday night, a 13 year old girl and a 29 year old man go missing. It is suspected that he has kidnapped her and that they are in some sort of relationship.
Garcia was described as 5-feet-5-inches tall and 165 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. His vehicle is a white 2002 GMC Yukon with a license plate that reads “GERYLE.”
Garcia is also known as Eleno Garcia Jacinto [picture below]
The 13-year-old girl — whose name has not been released — was described as 5-feet-3-inches tall and 116 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
If you have any information, please contact the Charlottesville police.
9:30 AM Saturday, over the hill, a man robs the Tractor Supply store and is caught.
At 2AM on Sunday, there was a shooting of a 20-year old man off of Ridge Street. His injuries were not life threatening.
Related posts:
- Missed Connections – Wachovia Bank
- Another Shooting Last Night – Drive By?
- 2008 Charlottesville Crime Statistics
Were there really shots fired at Barracks on Friday? I haven’t seen/heard anything about this other than that comment.
yes, twenty feet in front of my door. and honestly, I’m surprised I can’t find anything about it either. isn’t there any kind of police log? I mean if they can’t confirm what happened (since both parties involved took off) and the witnesses like me were busy hiding in a dark place, do they just not report it to the public?
WTF? We want the MF’in news! Even Waldo’s got nothin’…
There are police logs, but they are PDF published and not indexed. I heard on Jim’s twitter that there was something in the works to fix that.
Since these crimes are really pretty boring, and are not accompanied by myspace pages, can we instead fight about what constitutes irony? Because I maintain that this post contains none.
/like rayiain on your wedding day.
Irony (from Stanley’s wikipedia)…
def: “Having a personal experience with a bull riding machine.” From latin est. 100AD, e ronius.
The “San Francisco Treat” that can’t be grown anywhere near san francisco?
Rice Irony.
Irony (from Stanley’s wikipedia)
Hey, I resemble that remark!
Now I have Alanis Morrisette’s most annoying song ever stuck in my head. Thanks B-Yo.
No problem shen, consider it a free ride, since you’ve already paid.
You suck.
Almost as bad as a black fly in your chardonnay?
MMMBOP
BOP BOP
DOO WOP
NUMMA NUM NUM
DOO WOP
BOP BOP DOOOOO
YEAHY YEAHHHH
I would give you some goooood advice, but you just wouldn’t take it.
/who would have thought, it figures.
DOO WOP BA BA DOOOO
I tried to get that information in 2005 when I was looking to buy a house
Sheesh, you act like its your tax dollars financing those statistics… oh, wait.
My mom forwarded this to me. Hopefully it’s OK to post since it was emailed to a large list. If not I’ll retract it:
Dear Momma yo,
I am the head of Accounts and Audit Department of Bank of Africa,
Ouagadougou . I decided to contact you after a careful thought that you may be capable of handling this business transaction which i explained below;
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m US dollars (Ten million, five hundred thousand US dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in 2000 in a plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of kin(his son and wife) died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim .
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin (We want to present you as his busines asociate )to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained Unclaimed after seven years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner .
We agree that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your account as arranged,you must apply first to the bank as next of kin of the deceased customer. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
I expect that you contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Hoping to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
DR .SANOU BELLO
Accounts & Audit Department ,
Bank of Africa
Nb.also give me your telephone and fax numbers for easy comunication with you.
Oh hey, Tuffy, that Garcia guy lives across the street from you, BTW. Your new place.
B’YO, are you trying to extort money from our readers?
B’YO, are you trying to extort money from our readers?
If so, Thor wants a cut.
@ 21 B’YO, are you trying to extort money from our readers?
Hey, what choice do I have… you are the one that determined the Belmont Dilapidated Porch Foundation wasn’t a real charity. I’m desparate! I swear I will come home from work one day to see a disgruntled and bruised postal worker staring up at me from a hole.
And postal workers? You wouldn’t like them when they’re disgruntled.
I know someone on 2nd NE who lives down the street from the woman who wrote that letter. Pretty scary stuff for a little cul de sac that has kids and elderly folks on it.
@20: the code???
@26: Yeah, what about it?
if/when you find out where I live, please don’t tell the internet. thanks, dude.
me either, please. or anything else that might be considered ‘personal’ that comes from the meat world.
/when in doubt, don’t.
I’m still trying to figure out which Alanis Morissette song isn’t annoying. Ironic. I also found out today that someone in Nigeria wants to send me money and I’ve got into who’s who on “Princeton Review” if only I send them 795 bucks. I’m very special obviously.
You Oughta Know that I’m a Bitch that has One Hand in My Pocket holding a Jagged Little Pill.
/Head Over Feet is by far the most annoying Alanis Morisette song.
Okay, I’m understanding the Alanis hate, but people, PEOPLE! She’s atoned for her sins, and we can forgive her now.
the lost city of atlantis/ the lost cd of alanis…?
/?
A friend of mine witnessed the robbery at Greenberry’s. He swears up and down that the guy caught at Harrisonburg is the same guy who robbed Greenberry’s. Which begs the question: who tries to hold up a tractor store full of good ol’ boys?
@28: Yeah, don’t think I said anything about where he lived. Whoa nelly.
@34, this guy?
more info here:
http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080624/NEWS01/806240321/1002
This meat world?
@37: Yeah, it didn’t make sense to me either.
the world of flesh and bones. REAL LIFE. not the tubes.
But I’m a vegetarian. So do I live in a fake world?
um… people? have flesh? and bones??
I loved that street, thanks!
@ 38 Its ’spell it out’ time? For this? Alll righty then, but it ant rocket science.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meat+world
I have always felt that anything anyone puts out on the tubes (here for instance) is fair game, but anything that exists, or happened or whatever only in the “real” (or meat) world is not.
For instance, if someone had too much to drink at the cafe on a gig night, and ended up making out with someone’s pet lemur while singing WWII songs about prostitution, and that person was a member of this community, I would never ever EVER initiate that discussion on these boards. If I was in doubt as to whether or not they’d be embarrassed, I bite my tongue (or keyboard as it were) If that individual brought it up, then perhaps. But that is their business and their choice, and I would never breach that trust preemptively just to “have the scoop”.
I aint tryin to make the rules or anything, Im just doing unto others as I would have done unto me. I understand not everyone shares this belief, so I keep a lot of shit to myself and am very careful who I tell what. Sure limits being able to cut loose, but the alternative can really suck. Trust me on that one.
This is just my opinion though, and Im sure its fairly meaningless outside my skull.
@41: Maybe you are. I am made out of sour neon gummy crawlers. Uh derr.
@42: So it’s a gossip site but we shouldn’t gossip? Huh. And it’s ok with me if you tell everyone I made out with that lemur.
shen made out wwith a lemur.
He was enchanted and polyrhythmic so it was okay.
it’s ok with me if you tell everyone I made out with that lemur.
The lemur, on the other hand, appears to have wanted to keep it a secret. Way to go, shen.
He was enchanted and polyrhythmic so it was okay.
I wasn’t even sure it was male, but at least you got to know him before you 2 made out.
Heh. The secret message in my above missive is that naked lemur dancing is ok at the cafeteria. I won’t tell.
And it’s ok with me
Im pretty sure every one knows this already, and thats beautiful. But not everyone feels that way. Or perhaps I am just a lunatic. Pretty much a toss up.
/money’s on lunatic.
We’ve all done things we would rather not have on the internet, but I can’t think of anything I’ve done that would really upset me to read on here.
/I’m going to regret saying that.
Shen, and for temporary moments in time, you are also made of mexican shrimp cocktail and cilantro.
And I’m not saying it’s not cool to gossip. But the code protects us. From time to time, it’s easy to forget that even though we’re just 20 people blogging together, there are tons of lurkers. I use a screenname for a reason. Even though a lot of people know who I am, I don’t want my address or the fact that I hooked up with someone broadcast here. Chose to be out, chose to meet up, chose to say whatever, but I consider you guys friends and hope we will treat each other’s privacy with some respect.
/naive
On mc’s behalf, I’d like to preemtively refute all claims that she made out with a lemur.
^p
thanks, cutey.
Why are you and b-yo on this kick anyways? I understand your points but you’re acting like I did something wrong and as far as I know I didn’t and your preaching is just getting on my nerves.
It is also imperative that mc’s address never be disclosed on the internets because she has a tendencey fall asleep with her front door open.
@55: shen, that’s just the withdrawal talking. A couple days of sobriety and you’ll be back to your usual chipper self.
@56: EXACTLY! I’m putting myself in danger enough as it is!!
shen, check your email. It’s cool, man, just hear me out.
I JUST DRANK 17oz OF RED BULL AND I WILL GET YOU
If accused of making out with a lemur, I would say, “Lemur? I don’t even know ‘er!” And it would be meant as serious but misinterpreted as a bad joke. Yep. That’s exactly how it would go down, I think.
If you weren’t in Crozet I would be terrified right now. By the time you get off work, you’ll have a serious caffeine-crash.
@58: You’re lucky my gmail’s not working. Basically, I didn’t breaking the code by saying something about a story that mentions a street. And B-yo, sorry you’ve been burned in the past by stuff that was put on the internets. But you both need to take a chill pill. If I had said something worng, I’m sure Thor or parlie would have said something.
P.S. I live next to Market Street wineshop! Come get me!
@61: NOT IF I NEVER STOP DRINKING RED BULL
@58, 62: If ther’s a chick-fight going on, it needs to happen in meat world. Let me know when and where.
Why are you and b-yo on this kick anyways? I understand your points but you’re acting like I did something wrong and as far as I know I didn’t and your preaching is just getting on my nerves.
I meant none of that as accusatory, nor did I intend it as preachy. Just tossing in my two cents as mc had opened the door. You said you didn’t understand, so I explained.
But you both need to take a chill pill.
Perhaps. Or I can just quietly adjust my behavior if I would like to participate in this community, knowing full well its pitfalls.
I’m sure Thor or parlie would have said something.
Now that’s just crazy talk. You seriously believe that? No offense, but good luck using that as your ethical barometer. Heh.
@63: If you never stop drinking Red Bull, you will be so jittery you won’t be able to work on your dioramas.
@65: Gotcha. Gud point on that last one.
@66: Don’t the jitters stop eventually?
@67: After about 2.5 beers.
or rigor mortis, whichever comes first
/I can haz South Street yet?
‘nanigans, how was your luck with setting up the wireless network? Did the jitters ever go away?
@70: No luck. But my quiches are delicious, my bedding is nice and clean, and I came up for a BRILLIANT idea for a Cvillain side club.
@71: Side club? Do tell…
Not yet.
echo, the first rule of side club is that you do not talk about side club.
I’ve got sides! Can I be in the club?
Speaking of side clubs, where is the drinking club tonight?
Michaels’ Bistro. $2 Cider draft, $3 Rails. Bit of a hike, eh?
Yeah that is a hike. Hmm…could take the free trolley there, but getting back will be a little more challenging.
@77/78 Yeah and don’t forget your passports… oh and I think the Corner is an hour ahead of Downtown time.
I forgot about the time change. Thanks for the reminder Flooze
Anytime E… it’s cool because you get an extra hour of drinking. Call me if you need the helicopter for a ride home. I can use the Pegasus pad when nobody is looking. Can you make it across West Main or should I book an Ambassador Limo to get you the 200yards to the pad?
I could probably make it, but since I’ll be drunk, you better go ahead and book the limo.
@77 you forgot the $2 bud/bud light wooooooooooooooooooooo
/drinks light beer
It’s not a bad walk at all. My SO and I recently just missed the trolley when leaving the Bistro. It was a nice night, so we decided to hoof it. Amusingly, right as we reached the downtown mall, we were passed by what was obviously the next trolley. So if we’d waited, it would’ve been exactly the same amount of time.
that’s stanley’s special theory of relativity. he’s a special guy.
oh, and also, guess what? @65’s “ethical barometer” is the next “free breathalyzer” t-shirt. you know? it has an arrow pointing at my johnson?
it’s a blowjob joke, you guys.
@85: Bill Clinton just called. He wants his T-shirt idea back.
Only girls wearing one flipflop and a 7″ stiletto can blow Bill.
/if you get that one, I want to hear from you.