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TX: Police arrest two suspects in attempted gun shop robbery (employee held one at gunpoint)
Odessa American Online ^ | October 20, 2005 | Jennifer Edwards

Posted on 10/29/2005 4:16:18 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo

Police have arrested two suspects in Tuesday’s failed robbery attempt at Gun Sport Ltd.

According to an OPD news release, two men entered the store Tuesday afternoon, and one pepper sprayed an employee.

The employee, whose name was being withheld, managed to keep one of the men from leaving the store by holding a gun on him, according to Sgt. Bob Forbus.

The other man reportedly fled on foot.

On Tuesday, police arrested Jameyl Loud Webb, 19, 2617 San Andres Drive, inside the store and charged him with robbery.

The owner of Gun Sport Ltd., Jon Thomas, said he was surprised and pleased at how quickly police arrested suspects in the robbery, but that he felt sorry for them.

“Here’s a young guy, doesn’t look stupid, but he may spend the next 10 years making little rocks out of big ones,” he said.

Thomas said the robbery was the first time in 30 years of owning gun shops that one of his was held up.

“Gun shops, by and large, aren’t targets because we have guns,” he said. “It’s like someone trying to rob a snake farm.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Texas
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"but he may spend the next 10 years making little rocks out of big ones" Hardly. that would be the case if he wound up in Joe Arpayo's jail summer-camp in Pheonix AZ....well the little rocks from bigguns part, not necessarily the # of years.
21 posted on 10/30/2005 5:00:40 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" R. A. Heinlein)
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