Let’s go, dog!
I’m not condoning robberies, but this guy was up to no good. He’s from the Heights, yet was at the intersection of Jefferson & Spring St at 4a.m. on a Friday morning. That in and of itself is not unreasonable, but to be driving through a “seen better days” area of town at 4a.m. with $460 in cash is.
A Peoria Heights man was robbed at gunpoint about 4 a.m. Friday when his car was stopped at a traffic light at Northeast Jefferson Avenue and Spring Street.
The robber displayed a handgun and ordered the 33-year-old driver to open his door. Police said the driver gave the robber $460 in cash and a cell phone valued at $250.
Police said the gunman fled after an accomplice yelled, “Let’s go, dog.”
Coming from a guy who rarely has more than $20 in his wallet, I have to wonder why would someone carry around nearly $500 in cash? I thought the answer was obvious – he was looking to score some drugs… but not so fast… a Journal Star commenter suggests he was never robbed in the first place.
This man was not robbed at a stoplight, this man went to the ‘hood and smoked up his pay check last night. And to spare himself a litle embarrassment and shame of having to go home and tell his wife, ‘honey, I smoke crack’ he decided to say that a couple of black men robbed him, when indeed they were the ones who sold him the drugs.
I can wrap my brain around the story of a man who gets robbed or beaten in the middle of the night while driving in a bad neighborhood looking for drugs and/or hookers. It’s sad state of affairs, but it seems to happen all the time. Go looking for trouble and you will inevitably find it, but to blow your wad and file a police report to cover your ass is a sorry world of which I am not familiar.
February 21st, 2009 at 4:28 pm
First, I had to pick up my wife’s co-worker and have them at work by 4:30 am which puts me right in that area around AM. Does that make me looking for drugs. It is America and I can be anywhere I want to be and shouldn’t expect to be robbed. Unfortunately, there are robbers and bad neighborhoods and I take all commenter’s on the PJS site with a grain of salt. You may not know their motives for such a post. The fact remains, why are these traffic lights not set to respond to traffic and stay green for the main through fair instead of stopping you for nothing other than because the light is on an egg timer. The city should fix this (if anyone there knows how) so people don’t have to sit at a red light where no cross traffic is present at 4 am. I have to every other morning at Bryant and Jefferson and NEVER seen a car cross, just sit and wait to be robbed.
February 21st, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Should say 4AM (sorry)
February 21st, 2009 at 5:35 pm
There are a host of legitimate reasons to be driving around town at 4am, but with $460 in cash? Maybe the guy runs a bar or a gas station and was bringing his cash receipts home – the blurb doesn’t say. It’s certainly possible… but not likely.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
There should be a police cameras at all the intersections that have traffic lights in the older high crime neighborhoods.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
If I saw someone — anyone — even Emtronics — walking toward my car at 4 a.m. at the intersection of Jefferson and Spring, I would fly through that red light in a heartbeat.
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:42 pm
er…Ditto
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:43 am