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The Doting Boyfriend Who Robbed Armored Cars
Texas Monthly ^ | April 18, 2018 | Skip Hollandsworth

Posted on 09/20/2019 10:09:46 PM PDT by Zhang Fei

In September 2016, when FBI agents first started tailing Redrick “Red” Batiste, he seemed to be an ordinary young man leading an ordinary life. Batiste was 36 years old, tall and slim, with dark eyes and an easy smile. He lived with his two bulldogs in a two bedroom, 956-square-foot house in Acres Homes, a modest neighborhood twelve miles north of the skyscrapers of downtown Houston.

By most indications, he was exceedingly straitlaced. He dressed well, usually wearing pullover polo shirts and tightly belted cargo pants. Once a week, he went to a barbershop to get a haircut and a manicure. He was so meticulous about keeping his house clean that he asked visitors to take off their shoes before coming inside so they wouldn’t track dirt across the carpet. “Red even had the toilet paper coming out over the top of the roll,” said Tommie Albert, an older man in the neighborhood who’d known Batiste since he was a boy. “He said it looked better than toilet paper coming out from behind the roll.”

Batiste regularly visited his aging parents to check on them. A few times a week, he went to see his girlfriend, Buchi Okoh, their eighteen-month-old daughter, and Okoh’s five-year-old son from a previous relationship. Okoh, a striking, gregarious woman in her early thirties, worked in sales at a Cadillac dealership. On occasion, Batiste would take her to a nice restaurant, but most of the time they stayed home and played with the children. Okoh told friends that her boyfriend was a budding real estate developer, buying and renovating small homes. He was a good man, she said, intelligent and ambitious. He read self-improvement books like Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success, by the hip-hop mogul

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: blm; obama; texas
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To: South Dakota

I see you are from Hot Springs. We’ve been there a few times, that nearby dig is interesting. We prefer the west center Black Hills where the tourists seldom go where we do primitive camping.


41 posted on 09/21/2019 8:13:43 AM PDT by redfreedom
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To: jmacusa

And for me at 70, you’re a ‘youngster’.


42 posted on 09/21/2019 8:26:14 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: chaosagent

LOL!


43 posted on 09/21/2019 10:41:14 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: Beagle8U

“Toilet paper coming out from behind the roll is a sign of mental retardation.”

Toilet paper coming out over the top of the roll is a sign you’re an armored car robber and a killer.


44 posted on 09/21/2019 11:07:03 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: IndispensableDestiny

So tell us, what was Abraham Lincoln really like? ;-)


45 posted on 09/21/2019 11:08:30 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

You might have a point there./sarc


46 posted on 09/21/2019 11:09:43 AM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: redfreedom

I spent 5 winters in Nd.

I hauled water near Crosby.
Hauled garbage to Noonan
Hauled rubble from columbus to fortuna.

Im pretty familiar with the area you live in.

I twould like to spend a summer camping at the lake north of columbus.

Best wishes


47 posted on 09/21/2019 12:01:14 PM PDT by South Dakota
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To: Zhang Fei

I read the entire article yesterday, and yes I know that is not the FR way. One must never read before commenting.

My biggest take on the whole article was the excuses everyone, including his parents and girlfriend, gave to absolve him from his crimes. Just another “he was getting his life together, loving boy from a good home, never did anything wrong” bullcrap we see every time one of criminals pays the ultimate price for their crimes. These excusers/enablers really do believe that the criminal was justified in his actions. To hell with the fact that innocent people lost their lives just doing their jobs. This culture believes that they are owed and it doesn’t matter who dies in the process as long as they get theirs.

Please don’t think that I mean a certain race or ethnicity by culture. This culture does show up in certain minority groups, but it is also quite prevalent in the white community too. Biden and Hilary are just two examples. The ends justify the means, and it doesn’t matter how horrific the means might be.


48 posted on 09/21/2019 1:32:08 PM PDT by mom aka the evil dictator
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To: Zhang Fei

it was a well written story up until they pulled out the race card to explain this apparently pampered and cherished only child and why he murdered innocents...


49 posted on 09/21/2019 1:50:24 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

[it was a well written story up until they pulled out the race card to explain this apparently pampered and cherished only child and why he murdered innocents...]


To publish a story involving black perps without being accused of racism, Texas Month needs to really lay it on thick about these people being victims themselves. That’s the reality of a publication that caters to readers who run the gamut from left-wing all the way to Stalinist.


50 posted on 09/21/2019 3:24:22 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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