Recently in Burglary Category

I was reading this news story and found it rather comical. There was a man who was trying to burglarize a woman at 2am. He tried to unlock the door with keys, but when that didn't work he just kicked the door down. Turns out the champ of a woman was prepared. She was waiting by the door with a knife. She stabbed the man in the shoulder, and then the man took off running. The victim chased after the man (suspect) with the knife. The cops then said that they had to 'save the suspect from the victim'. I bet the thief didn't know what he had in store for him that night!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/theblotter/2010100041_burglar_rescued_by_police_afte.html

One woman heard a loud noise and went outside her bathroom to stand face to face with a man. He took off and sprinted out of the house. About five months later this man along with his wife and another man were arrested and charged with burglarizing Fairfax and Loudoun homes owned by South Asians. The two men and woman were breaking into homes looking for gold because Asian families usually have 22-karat gold items in their homes being passed down generation after generation. The Asian families worked together and now keep their priceless belongings in the bank.

The burglars had 10 counts thrown out because the police had not conclusively linked them to incriminating evidence found in their rental car and hotel room. After that more charges were dropped and only a few remained on the three. More on the story can be found at the link below.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/24/AR2010022405137.html

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/14/ny.hate.crime/index.html

While looking up hate crimes, I found this article about a gay man who was beaten nearly to death by two men who were against homosexuals. I have not found out if these men were convicted of their crime, but it sure looked like they were going to be in prison for about 25 years.

What really shocked me was that this man had done nothing wrong to these two men. All he did was go to a store to buy cigarettes and when he was leaving, they yelled profanities at him, called him vicious names, robbed him, and severely beat him. Another fact that I couldn't believe was that this man was almost 50 years old. The two men who beat him were in their 20s. Why would someone want to beat up a middle aged man that did nothing wrong? That really upsets me, because young people are always supposed to look up to the people that are older than us. I hope these young men do go to prison just so they can see and feel the torture that they did to an innocent man.

I also found a statement that was made from the victim himself. It tells about what he remembers and how he felt now that he has become a victim of a hate crime.

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/10/reminder-vigil-today-for-nyc-hate-crime-victim.html