Tuesday morning feel good stories
Like many of our stories, this one happened in Phoenix, Arizona, where a homeowner was awakened by noises coming from his garage. He confronted a transient fellow who charged at him and the homeowner busted a cap in his leg. When the police arrived on the scene, they found prison paperwork in the injured fellow’s pocket. That didn’t last long, did it?
In Jacksonville, Florida, an armed citizen stopped a bank robber who ran out of the bank and collapsed in the parking lot in front of the police, so the citizen saved the local government some money on ammunition. There’s nothing about the condition of Mr Bank Robber.
In Macon, Georgia, three teens were unloading autoparts from a truck into a store when two men approached them and demanded money. Since teenagers have no money, the thugs kidnapped them and took the teens to an ATM, which yielded no booty. The kidnappers then told them to call their boss and have him bring some money. Brian Hinkle came to check on his employees. One of the thugs began shooting at Hinkle, so Hinkle returned fire hitting the gunman three times and he was declared DOT (dead over there) at the hospital. The dead criminal was on two years probation at the time. His partner is in the wind.
In Louisville, Kentucky, a man attempting to invade a home was shot by the resident. The criminal was captured by police when he showed up at the hospital.
The Lake Elsinore, California police received a call from a homeowner that someone was trying to force their way into his home. The homeowner warned the man that he was about to be shot. Before police could get there, the homeowner ventilated the fellow. They sent him to the hospital, but the criminal was DOT (dead over there).
An update on North Carolina Guardsman Semantha Bunce who was injured last week when she defended her newborn child from home invaders with her hand gun. She appears to be recovering nicely. 23-year-old Reco Latur Dawkins Jr turned himself in for his seventh arrest, but this may be the one that sticks – he’s been charged with attempted murder, felony breaking and entering and conspiracy.
Category: Feel Good Stories
“prison paperwork” on one, “two years probation” on another, and a third with a “7th arrest”.
Pretty well illustrates that the courts and prison system does not stop these guys nearly as well as a cranial exit wound.
As the saying goes; “statistics show that criminals commit less crime after they’ve been shot”.
That’s a lot of good news today!
Bleeding heart liberals bawl about too many people being incarcerated these days, but the revolving doors in jails and prisons produce a cornucopia of repeat offenders. Remember their crusades on mental health incarceration in the sixties and seventies, now we have multitudes of the mentally ill on our streets, now they want to do the same with criminals! The Gun Control Laws they screech and bawl for will just create more unarmed victims for the criminals, IMHO every State and municipality needs to have laws just like that of Kennessaw GA.
Reco L. Dawkins has been a busy little beaver. According to jail records, he was arrested last December and charged with possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of a stolen firearm, and possession of marijuana. His bail was set at 25K, 5K, and 1K, respectively. In August 2014, he was charged felony B/E and possession of marijuana. Bail was set at 7.5K for the felony and $500 for the dope. The previous month, he was arrested on warrants charging him with two felony B/Es and two felony larceny after B/E. Bail was set at 15K each for the larceny after B/E and 10K for each of the B/Es. The month before those arrests, he was arrested for felony attempted B/E and bail was set at 3K. Six months earlier (Dec 2013) he was arrested and charged with two counts of possessing marijuana, with bail at 1K each.
That’s all I have from records but I read that there is more, that he has arrests dating back to 2009 and 2011, according to media. Jonn says maybe this is the arrest that will do it, see him behind bars for a lengthy stint. Looking at his history of arrests (I cannot determine which charges, if any, resulted in conviction or are pending but the poss of a firearm by a felon tells me he has at least one felony conviction) I’d say Dawkins has the keys to the jailhouse. I hope the judge or judges in Mecklenberg county, NC who have had this guy time and again are real proud of themselves.
IMHO, “Let ’em loose Bruce” Judges and lazy prosecutors are also responsible for repeat offenses by criminals. They get little time for their crimes, thus they have no quips or qualms about doing it again. Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is already a crime, so why shackle law-abiding people even further, how’s about enforcing the laws that already exist? Wait, that makes too much sense for politicians, and it interferes with their screeching for votes!
Yeah, my ongoing beef is that most of what goes on in prosecutors’ offices and in courthouses may as well be done secretly. Newspapers rarely name judges who let these SOBs off time and again with wrist slaps and stern warnings. It doesn’t take a crystal ball in cases like Dawkins’ to see that he–and others like him–need to be locked away from society. And the prosecutors who are subject to re-election? Deals are necessary to keep the machine chugging but the fact is that a conviction (e.g., downgrade a rape to assault and a burglary to trespass) is what the prosecutors want. That’s their record’s bread and butter come election season. I would love to see the judges identified when sentences are doled out and I would love to have the plea bargains listed every week in local newspapers. I won’t get either, I know.
The only reason that I say that this one might do it for him is because of the national attention that this one has garnered. There has been an outpouring of support for the Guardsman from the community – for that reason alone, the prosecutor and the judge might be motivated to toss young Dawkins’ keys away. As you said, it’s about staying in office, not about justice
We need more gun laws. The ones on the books obviously don’t work…or are not being used
Must have been a busy weekend.
Holding up teenagers? Kidnapping them? Oh, that’s just vile!
Glad to see the good guys winning.