Seriously.  And no, we are not talking about the wannabe gangsters who were recently served a 4 yr jail sentence.  WCAV reports a couple UVa students were arrested for allegedly kidnapping and robbing a fellow UVa student last April.

• Gabriel Rust-Tierney
• Chase Wager Whitlow

• Joseph Uzcategui
• Jordan Vinsant Davis

I just don’t get it.  Has teenage life become so dull that one has to turn to kidnapping?  In my day an evening with Blockbuster and a couple beers was considered a cheap thrill.

[chase whitlow pic from facebook]

[pic from sindesign on Flickr]

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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.

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Guan Yu Lu:

Bai Chuan Shu:

Perhaps you remember when the UVA engineering students got busted for kidnapping someone in Northern Virginia.

According to the Washington Post, these former students will receive 4 years in the slammer. One of the kidnappers, Shu, said:

I’d like to apologize for my actions. It was outrageous, immature, irresponsible. I never intended to hurt Paul. I thought if I didn’t hurt him physically, I wouldn’t hurt him at all. I was wrong, so wrong.

It’s not fun kidnapping people when you get caught! Do you think they will spend time in US jail, or will they be sent back to China? Still, the question remains.. is this an Honor Code violation?

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