Thursday FGS
Smith & Wesson Model 36, Chief’s Special American Rifleman
‘Sometimes when you play with fire, you get burned’: Pair sentenced in fatal, botched robbery of Allentown man who opened fire
By Laurie Mason Schroeder
Two would-be robbers who attacked an Allentown man, who turned his registered and permitted handgun on them and killed a third robber, were sentenced Tuesday to state prison.Noting that the robbery target who fired the fatal shot was “an innocent victim,” Lehigh County Judge Robert L. Steinberg told Andrew Eberts and Kaitlyn Acierno that they were fortunate they were not also killed.
“Sometimes when you play with fire, you get burned,” Steinberg said.
Two would-be robbers who attacked an Allentown man, who turned his registered and permitted handgun on them and killed a third robber, were sentenced Tuesday to state prison.Noting that the robbery target who fired the fatal shot was “an innocent victim,” Lehigh County Judge Robert L. Steinberg told Andrew Eberts and Kaitlyn Acierno that they were fortunate they were not also killed.
“Sometimes when you play with fire, you get burned,” Steinberg said.
The judge sentenced Acierno, 29, of Dublin, Bucks County, to three to 10 years behind bars. Eberts, 32, of Allentown, who had a lengthier prior record than his co-defendant, received a seven- to 15-year sentence.
The robbery occurred Feb. 16 in an alley off the 1000 block of Turner Street. Using the website “Skip the Games,” Acierno attempted to lure men into the alley around 2 a.m., where her boyfriend, Shane Gesnaker, and Eberts, a friend, were waiting to rob them.
When Antonio Santiago pulled his car into the alley, the trio wrongly assumed he had answered
Acierno’s ad. He was coming home from work.
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Masked robber scared off by gunfire after he beat Cleveland store employee, police say
By Adam Ferrise
CLEVELAND, Ohio— A masked robber jumped the counter of a grocery store and pummeled an employee before the employee fired a gun and scared him away, police say.James Stuart Jr., 19, is charged with aggravated robbery. He was arrested by police after officers saw him run from the store. He is expected to make his first court appearance on Wednesday.
The incident happened about noon Monday at the Food Plus store on East 123rd Street and Dove Avenue in the city’s Union-Miles neighborhood. Stuart strolled into the store wearing a brown mask and jumped over the counter, according to police reports and court records. He punched the 38-year-old employee at least six times leaving him bloodied and on the ground, according to police.
The two fought over the employee’s gun. The employee wrested the gun away and fired a single shot, which scared Stuart, police reports say. Stuart ran out of the building as officers arrived.
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Police: Wichita homeowner shoots woman, possible squatter during burglary
The Wichita Police Department released more details about a shooting that occurred during a burglary on Tuesday.
It happened around 4 p.m. at a home in the 400 block of S. Garst.
Officers say the property owner went to check on the home because it had been burglarized several times over the last couple of months.
He entered the residence and found a woman and three men inside. The four ran out the front door, and the homeowner fired one shot from his handgun, striking a 50-year-old woman.
Police say the woman left in a 2012 white Ford Focus, and the men ran away.
Police believe at some point the men got back into Ford Focus with the woman then fled in the 900 block of South Seneca location. That’s where officers located the woman. She was taken to hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries and remains hospitalized.
Investigators have not gotten the chance to interview the woman because of her injuries. They say they’re still looking for the three men, and the property owner in cooperating with the investigation. He is the one who called 911.
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Today, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes, one achieving ambient temperature, four inconvenienced, and another three in the wind. Wonder if they know any Armenians.
“You seem … to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all contitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy… The Contitution has erected no such single tribunal.” –Thomas Jefferson, 1820
Category: Feel Good Stories
Allentown; FTA “…suffering from untreated mental illness…want to turn my life around…” Prison will help you with that girlfriend.
Cleveland; don’t pull and point your weapon, pull and shoot the weapon. Burying a thug cost the taxpayer a whole lot less than treating his wounds and locking him up. just saying!
Wichita; FTA “…shot inside our outside the home.” Other glaring errors in other journalistic reports. Not real sure if the Wichita shoot was a good one. No indication of a weapon and the perps were leaving. Was the woman doing a number 1 or a #2 as she was squatting?
Ahhh… The Classic Beauty of and the Form, Fit, and Function of the S&W .38 Detective Special. What Red Blooded American doesn’t want to have one tucked away, you know…just because.
Son #2 has the 5-round “Airweight” titanium version in .38 Special +P. I asked him if I could put some ‘real’ walnut grips on it. Got the “why would you want to do that” look for my trouble.
Sometimes our beloved children can cause us disappointment or question our upbringing of them…or who is actually the baby daddy.
“When I get home I’m gonna punch yo Mama in the mouth!” HT to Sheriff Buford T. Justice
Minor correction:
The 5-shot small “J-Frame” S&W snubby is known as a “Chiefs Special”.
The slightly larger 6-shot Colt small-frame snubby is the “Detective Special”.
I carried a Chief’s Special for 3.5 years, total. I can proudly say that I could put rounds on the paper, that’s about it. I did get to watch our chief knock two tiles out of the range ceiling, and to bounce a round off the cement in front of the target on the outdoor range.
Had to read parts of the first article twice.
da-bump-bump.