wanna get robbed? open up a business in portland.
There were 4 armed robberies last night, and one tonight.
As I was flipping through the news stations tonight at 11, i noticed the dunk'n donuts down the street from me at woodfords/forest corner had been robbed. I live like three blocks from there. the place was totally shut down and it was swarming with cops, one of them was even holding a machine gun or automatic rifle or something huge. There is a huge difference in crime rates between my deering neighborhood and that section of town (outer forest ave). the tripple deckers start to increase around the railroad tracks, the diversity picks up tremendously, with indians, somalians, etc, i had my ass kicked there when i was 12, there was a motorcycle gang shooting there last summer, and now this. Also, there were additional robberies in the city this week where vandals went into first floor windows and unlocked doors and stole things from people's houses when they were asleep. the only thing that would be stolen if someone broke into my house would be their good looks as i pounded their pretty face, eh gritty's?....HAS beatdown, g-g-g-G-Unnniiiiit! haha.
Robber sought in four holdups
Police in Portland and Westbrook are looking for a man who held up three convenience-store clerks at knifepoint early Thursday.
A man closely matching the description robbed the Rite Aid at 290 Congress St. in Portland Thursday night. Police are not sure it was the same person.
A man wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt and baseball hat threatened an employee at the Cumberland Farms on Pine Street at 1:10 a.m., said Portland Police Lt. Vernon Malloch. He was carrying a box-cutter knife and got into a vehicle on Dow Street after taking a small amount of cash, Malloch said.
A second robbery attempt was reported at the Cumberland Farms on Woodford Street at 3 a.m. A suspect in similar clothing threatened the clerk with a box-cutter. The clerk, a 73-year-old woman, refused to turn over any money and the man left.
A third robbery - at the Exit 48 Mobil in Westbrook - was reported at 3:30 a.m. In that case, the suspect and clerk struggled and the man left the box-cutter behind, getting away with less than $200, police said.
The suspect is described as a brown-haired man between 18 and 22 years old.
In the Thursday night robbery, a man with a knife threatened the clerk and ran off with a small amount of cash, Lt. Gary Rogers said. The man was described as white, thin, in his 20s, with blonde hair and wearing a blue baseball cap, blue Addidas sweatshirt and blue jeans, Rogers said.
haha it is funny that the guy threatened an old woman who showed that she had more balls than him. it is also funny that the robber struggled with the guy in westbrook, because it reminds me of the time the cumbies on outer forest was robbed and the cashier beat the guy or chased him or something with a crow bar. dont be fooled, late nigth cashiers in portland are NFW--not to be fucked with.
the cumbies in the story above is like a foot from my house, even closer than the dunks, i bet i know who did it...once they catch the guy i bet id recognize him, that is.
Papa?s Place owner fights back after robbery
PORTLAND ? Riverton residents have been patronizing Papa?s Place for generations.
Patty and George DiPaolo have owned the corner business at 1700 Forest Ave. for 35 years. The cozy store could pass for the couple?s kitchen, and the DiPaolo?s live upstairs with their two dogs.
So when a young man walked into the store the afternoon of May 3, approached the beer cooler and then turned around to announce he had forgotten his wallet, Patty DiPaolo thought nothing of it and continued to help another customer buy lottery tickets.
About 10 minutes later, the young man re-entered the now empty store and again approached the cooler.
?Then he walked toward the counter and said he had a gun,? DiPaolo, a petite woman in her 50s, recalled. She called his bluff, but the man did not give up.
?He said ?look lady, I?m here to rob you?,? DiPaolo said. Then the man went behind the counter, grabbed her and started shoving her around trying to get her to open the register. DiPaolo said she fought back, and escaped his hold once.
?He got me, dragged me back over and started choking me at the register,? DiPaolo said last week. ?Some of it I don?t remember.?
Her husband was upstairs at the time. But he has diabetes and has had a leg amputated.
The robber eventually gave up on the cash register and took off with a tip jar. When he hopped into a truck he had parked out front, DiPaolo ran out after him and wrote down the plate number.
Back in the store, she attempted to call 911, but she was shaking and lost her glasses during the assault. Fortunately, a mail carrier had seen her run out after the truck and, sensing something was wrong, entered the store and helped DiPaolo dial the police.
Police arrested a 33-year-old Windham man, Brian Keegan, the morning of May 6 after they tracked the license plate and description of a truck belonging to his girlfriend. He was charged him with Class A robbery, and made bail.
DiPaolo ? who was still shaken from the robbery last Thursday, with bruises visible on her neck ? said she would like as many people as possible, and particularly women, to know about the experience because it could happen to them.
?We?ve owned this place since 1972 and have never had anything like this,? she said. She said police told her Keegan was remorseful, but she isn?t ready to forgive him.
?That man scares me,? she said. ?He had five to 10 minutes to think about what he was doing. He should have just left.?
The robbery at Papa?s is the latest in what has become a frequent occurrence in Portland. Convenient stores are now routinely robbed by young men and police believe the increase in robberies and burglaries is directly related to drug use.
?It definitely drives a lot of the stuff we are seeing,? Lt. Vern Malloch of the Portland Police Department said recently. ?We are seeing more and more of this type of crime.?
DiPaolo has met with an advocate from the Police Department since the incident and police have been checking in on her regularly. She said she plans to take out a restraining order against Keegan, because she is scared he may come back. The mace she used to keep under the counter she is now carrying around with her.
?We can?t let them get away with this,? she said. ?This drug problem is getting so bad.?
DiPaolo also said that although police advised her that in the event of a robbery she should comply with the robber?s demands, she has a hard time agreeing.
?Don?t you think you should at least try and save yourself?? she said. ?You should just hand over the money??