Looters' caches popping up in New Orleans

AP ^ | 9/19/5 | BRETT MARTEL

[Hatteras]

Arrrr... If me mateys in the French Quarter be lootin' an pillagin' then they'll be in fer a keel haulin'!

[sandydipper]

Giving the seized/recovered property to the NOPD is like putting chickens in a fox den. If the city attny intends to prosecute the looters some of the men in blue will have to be included.

[SmithL]

SO it be.
Mad Harry Kidd.

[Zacs Mom]

Ping to Celine Dion and her ilk ~ please reply to this thread at FR

[Sometimes A River]

"So police can check it"

LOL, you mean "So the police can loot the loot."

[billnaz]

"bags of ammunition still packaged in 500-round bundles"

"Hey!!! I resemble that."

Me, too. The smallest amount I buy at a time is 300 rounds. If I find a good price, I go for the 1,000-round case lots.

[RexBeach]

Oh sure. I can do that. These folks are looting because they are oppressed. They're merely fighting back against President Bush's secret plan to get rid of all black people. How's that?

[jigsaw]

But the man told the soldiers he had no idea where the goods
came from and that someone else must have broken into his home
and stashed them there after he evacuated.

Aha!   No wonder Pres. Bush kept showing up in New Orleans!  He was stash'n goods!  It's his fault!

[sandydipper]

The guardsmen "thought" they had a looter when he arrived with a moving van to load his stolen stuff. But the man told the guardsmen he was just there to check on his parakeet.

The moving van?? for bird seed of course!

[Lizavetta]

They're NOT looters.

They're undocumented removers.

[billnaz]

I understand that the racks of country and western CD's in Wal-Mart were the safest place to be during the looting. Nobody came near them!

[rdb3]

Huh?

You need no finger print evidence when stolen good are found inside your own home.

"Huh" hell.

You would need fingerprints to charge and prosecute the ones who actually did the taking.

If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!

[beckysueb]

New Orleans police are storing seized loot in a makeshift warehouse near the city's train station, Defillo said.

Nice of AP to let the thieves know where their stash is being stored.

[Black Tooth]

I hope that there is still some fingerprint evidence. If those prints are in the system, then I hope the culprits are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Huh?

You need no finger print evidence when stolen goods are found inside your own home.

"Huh" hell.

That's what they'd tell you when they hooked you up.

You would need fingerprints to charge and prosecute the ones who actually did the taking.

LOL. Where did you get that one?

Maybe that's what all the meth heads should say when their homes are raided. "But officer, my finger prints aren't on those items, I have no idea how it got in my home". HA!

You really haven't a clue. Let me tell you, if they find a whole house full of stolen good in your house, and you live in that house, your going to get convicted and be jailed regardless if your finger prints are on the goods or not.

[Arizona Carolyn]

MSNBC has a special last night with a Rabbi, Priest and a black woman who's title I don't know -- all making excuses for looters because they are poor.

This really upsets me making excuses for people stealing other than food and water... it goes to the very fabric of civilized society and if nothing it shows how badly a Socialist, welfare, society will break down -- given an opportunity, people who have never had to work for anything think it's okay to just take what you want because it's owed to them since they are poor -- yet (IMHO) they are poor because they didn't bother to get the free education we give everyone in this country and they can't -- or won't -- get a decent job.

[NonValueAdded]

Actually, under a mandatory evac order with periods of no law enforcement control, yes you do need evidence beyond the presence of stolen goods in order to gain a conviction. You could just as easily return from your temporary exile to find squatters in your home or evidence that some had been there. It is not unreasonable to think that the squatters also stashed their loot in your house during their occupation. Unlikely? Far fetched? Perhaps, but all it takes is reasonable doubt and I am sure there will be documented cases to which a new defendant can point. It will take additional corroborating evidence if the defense attorney is even marginally competent.

[Ranxerox]

Now that the city is mostly empty of civilians, military patrols making house-to-house checks for remaining residents or the dead are finding some of the hiding places for the stolen goods.

More than likely, none of the recovered loot will be admissable in court as evidence. It will be interesting to see how it plays out as to whether or not the N.G. or NOPD had legal cause to enter the house(s).

[rdb3]

You really haven't a clue.

Whatever you say, Tooth.

If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!

[Black Tooth]

Actually, under a mandatory evac order with periods of no law enforcement control, yes you do need evidence beyond the presence of stolen goods in order to gain a conviction.

BS.

And were not talking about squatters. LOL.

Again, if they find *your* home full of stolen goods, full of drugs, whatever, your going to jail. Period.

[js1138]

I was wondering how thy were going to get away with it.