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Suspects in Metairie clothing store robbery named, including man who fell to death($500shirts)
http://www.nola.com/crime ^ | 4/8/18 | Laura McKnight

Posted on 03/09/2018 2:35:17 PM PST by BBell

A LaPlace man has been charged with armed robbery in the holdup at a high-end Metairie clothing store that led to a police pursuit Wednesday night that left one man dead and two others in custody.

George Simon, 36, faces more charges in the case, said Joseph Lopinto, Jefferson Parish interim sheriff, at a news conference Thursday (March 8). According to officials, Simon confessed to the robbery and named his accomplice as Ron Walker, 53, who died after he jumped from an Interstate 10 overpass during Wednesday's police chase.

A third man in the car, Simon's stepson, 20-year-old Tahj Boatman, was not involved in the robbery, Lopinto said, but faces less serious charges in connection with the police chase.

Both Simon and his stepson were injured in the chase, with Simon suffering a dislocated hip, officials said. Simon received treatment at a local hospital before he was booked into the St. John the Baptist Parish jail.

The two robbery suspects entered Jeff's Haberdashery in Metairie, at 3321 Severn Ave., just after it opened around 10 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said.

The robbers ordered two staffers and a customer to the ground as they grabbed armfuls of expensive merchandise, including shirts that retail at $400 to $500, an employee said.

The stolen merchandise is valued at roughly $60,000, officials said Thursday, as they displayed some of the recovered clothing, along with an assault-style rifle used in the robbery.

Store employees told investigators that they recognized Simon from visits to the haberdashery during the past few years, Lopinto said.

Simon has a criminal history that includes thefts targeting high-end retail stores. Many of his prior arrests have been on drug and battery charges, but he was also booked in the 1990s with an attempted first-degree murder, Lopinto said.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: clothingstore; metairie; robbery
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These are the $400 and $500 dollar shirts. They look like something a New Orleans pimp would wear to go with his pearl handle revolvers.

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office showed these shirts at a news conference as examples of high-end merchandise stolen during an armed robbery at Jeff's Haberdashery on Wednesday.(Laura McKnight, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)

1 posted on 03/09/2018 2:35:17 PM PST by BBell
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High end? Looks like stuff from the thrift store.


2 posted on 03/09/2018 2:39:15 PM PST by GunsareOK
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To: BBell

Here’s the problem, no one plans a robbery anymore.


3 posted on 03/09/2018 2:46:37 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: GunsareOK

I think the clientele is made up of NFL and NBA players and drug dealers.


4 posted on 03/09/2018 2:46:58 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: BBell

$60000.00 a little insurance inflation.


5 posted on 03/09/2018 3:00:18 PM PST by boomop1 (Term limits is the only way to change this failed government.)
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To: BBell
They look like something that Michelle Obama would wear. No one I know dresses like that, and I know people who almost exclusively wear bespoke custom-tailored everything.

Someone must be screaming for eye bleach after that. I'm
certain at least one person has that reaction because it's me:


6 posted on 03/09/2018 3:04:37 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: BBell

Live fast, die young... and leave a well-dressed corpse.


7 posted on 03/09/2018 3:09:35 PM PST by Fido969
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To: Pollster1

As ugly, loud and tasteless as that stuff Michelle is wearing, any of it is about 100x better than Hillary’s usual wardrobe (and, no, that’s not a call for photos! LOL).


8 posted on 03/09/2018 3:10:39 PM PST by Pravious
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To: GunsareOK
Don’t you know about the new fashions, honey?
You can’t dress trashy ‘til you spend a lot of money
      — Billy Joel
9 posted on 03/09/2018 3:13:53 PM PST by Rastus
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To: BBell

Notice that the weapon in the photo is not an AR-15. It looks like some kind of custom built AK variant.


10 posted on 03/09/2018 3:29:58 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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That reminds me of seeing a sale on suits back in the 80’s. I purchased one and the sales reps started showing me $30 ties. I said, I’d never pay more for a tie than I’d pay for a shirt.

Without hesitation he showed me a $70 shirt.

I bought the suit and no accessories.


11 posted on 03/09/2018 3:39:09 PM PST by DannyTN
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That would explain the bizarre description “assault-style” rifle in the article.
The jorno-gandist didn’t know what it was but, hey, scary!


12 posted on 03/09/2018 3:42:47 PM PST by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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To: BBell

He was studying to go to medical school.


13 posted on 03/09/2018 3:46:55 PM PST by kaehurowing
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Yeah, this business wasn’t selling jack.

Probably a mob money laundering front like that Italian suit place on Tchoupitoulas and Julia.


14 posted on 03/09/2018 3:47:25 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Pollster1

Thank you


15 posted on 03/09/2018 3:48:07 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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You’re welcome.


16 posted on 03/09/2018 3:50:33 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: BBell; raygunfan; Gamecock; Larry Lucido; KC_Lion; FredZarguna; PROCON
[They look like something a New Orleans pimp would wear]


17 posted on 03/09/2018 3:51:55 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: familyop
Notice that the weapon in the photo is not an AR-15. It looks like some kind of custom built AK variant.

Century Arms Zastava PAP Pistol (.223 Rem)


18 posted on 03/09/2018 3:54:25 PM PST by Drew68
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Gravity...one law that Ron Walker couldn’t break.


19 posted on 03/09/2018 4:05:49 PM PST by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: Pollster1

A woman who is built like a horse should never wear such ‘busy’ clothing.


20 posted on 03/09/2018 4:10:56 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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