Bulglary spree brought to an end? Bonus pending.

[ELB]

News from my neck of the woods: http://seguingazette.com/news/article_f ... 770b9.html

Since that's behind a paywall... This morning near Lake Dunlap about 0500 a homeowner awoke to some noise. The homeowner went to investigate, discovered someone wearing a red head lamp forcing entry through the homeowner's sliding glass back door, and subsequently shot the intruder once in the groin (altho there may have been more shots fired -- hard to tell from article). The cops are quoted as saying, “The gunshots ceased the pending unlawful entry into the homeowner’s home.”

Responding deputies found the wounded but not dead intruder, some gloves on his person, and nearby a red headlamp and a crowbar. The intruder got a ride to San Antonio Military Medical Center, which is probably the numero uno trauma center hereabouts.

His M.O. (except for the getting shot part) matches that of a string of burglaries in that area. There are lot of vacation homes there, and several of them, as well as some full-time residences, have been burgled, often by someone entering a back or sliding glass door. Three of the homes were set afire as well. There is a $10K reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of the person(s) responsible, so this homeowner may have won a shooting prize.

[RoyGBiv]

Win-Win-Win.

Only down side is that taxpayers will have to pay for BG's medical and incarceration.

[Pawpaw]

“The homeowner was awakened inside his home by another person trying to enter his home through the back sliding-glass door,” he said. “The homeowner reported that this was without his consent.”

“The homeowner confronted the suspicious person, resulting in the homeowner using a firearm to shoot the suspicious person,” he said. “The gunshots ceased the pending unlawful entry into the homeowner’s home.”

“In the geographic area where this incident occurred, there have been reports of over a dozen burglaries of homes within the last few months,” he said. “All of those burglaries are suspected to have happened in the early morning hours via a back door and some sliding-glass doors. This was the same time of day and the same point of entry that Philip Owens was attempting to do in this case.”

Parts of that article sound like they were written by Sgt Joe Friday.

Of course, that means it is a vast improvement over the normal "news" article.

[mcscanner]

"... subsequently shot the intruder once in the groin..."

"Bonus pending"

Are we looking at the end of that branch of the family tree?

[ELB]

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Parts of that article sound like they were written by Sgt Joe Friday.
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Heh, yes they do. Copied straight out of the police report no doubt.

[ELB]

Guadalupe County has been on a roll lately. The newspaper front page headline a couple days ago was:
Alleged Guadalupe County beer bandit apprehended

“When one of the responding deputies was en route to the store, he saw a male running west carrying two 18-packs of Bud Light,” he said.

The rocket surgeons in this case boosted their charges from theft to robbery when "..they forced the clerk out of the way and caused bodily injury,...". The Budlight bandit is in the clink, police are still looking for the other one.

I'm pleased that crime in Guadalupe County is such that there aren't enough really bad ones to squeeze out headlines like the one above.