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Drug related crimes make for the most interesting reports, what with all the lying by witnesses and such. Here's one of my favorites from earlier this month, as appeared in the Dallas Morning News.



Man sought in woman's abduction near freeway

09:49 PM CST on Wednesday, December 12, 2007
From Staff Reports

Dallas police are hoping the public can help them find a man suspected of kidnapping a woman at gunpoint about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday along the 12300 block of Greenville Avenue near LBJ Freeway.

A witness told police the woman was driving a black two-door car when the man approached, put a pistol to her head, pushed her into the passenger's seat and drove away. The witness was inside the car but escaped.

Police named 36-year-old Warner Alonzo Riverson as the suspect. Investigators say the abduction may have been drug-related and that the victim, whose identity was uncertain Wednesday afternoon, may have known the suspect. A second suspect also was being sought.

Anyone with information is asked to call Dallas police at 214-671-3584 or call 911.

Steve Thompson


Gotta love this one. The "witness" was in the vehicle with the "victim" when the "victim" was adbucted. The "witness" was able to provide police with the identity of the "suspect". However the "witness" was unable to identify the "victim".

So a woman is in a car being driven by someone she doesn't know and then someone she does know comes along and abducts the person driving the car. They all sound "suspect" to me.

Between the baby-mama-drama calls and the drug related calls the police are kept busy taking reports and investigating "crimes" that are often nothing more than relationships and drug deals gone bad. Often times "stolen vehicle" calls are actually "I traded my car for some crack and now I want my car back" deals. This is the reason that earlier this year DPD began requiring people reporting a stolen vehicle to swear in writing in an affadavit that their report is true (with the implied threat that if they are lying they can be charged with filing a false report, although DA Watkins probably won't be taking many of those cases).