For the "War on Domestic Terror" file. Edited for brevity.
It’s the stuff most citizens see only on television or film -- two cops kicking in a door, entering a dark room filled with bad guys carrying guns. It’s what Seattle police Officers Darryl D’Ambrosia and John Davidge did early yesterday morning, and investigators believe their bravery may have ended a recent spree of home-invasion robberies. "It’s the most frightening kind of crime that citizens can contemplate," Deputy Chief Clark Kimmerer said yesterday of the six cases believed to be connected to the four men arrested yesterday. On Sept. 4, 7 and 15, at least four families in Seattle, Burien and Skyway were robbed in their own homes. The pattern was similar -- a group of robbers would burst into the home, tie up the residents and demand cash and jewelry. In one case, the robbers entered using a garage-door opener left in the family car outside. In another case, one fired off a single shot before leaving. And in yet another robbery, the thieves tied up a 5-year-old boy, threatening to kill both him and his father. Police and King County sheriff’s detectives had been comparing notes almost from the start. Yesterday, that collaboration appeared to pay off.
Not exactly WoT-related, but the savagery of these crimes and their increasing popuarity (hitting us in Western PA, too) have got me incensed. I’d like to see all home invaders get a face full of 00 buckshot. |