Posted on 07/10/2024 4:27:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The alleged leader of an armed robbery crew charged with killing a New Zealand tourist last week outside Newport Beach’s Fashion Island mall had been placed on probation for stealing a Rolex at gunpoint in Santa Monica.
He avoided prison time in that case after Los Angeles County prosecutors agreed to a three-year suspended sentence, according to interviews and records reviewed by The Times.
Leroy Ernest McCrary, 26, now faces a special circumstances murder charge that could carry the death penalty after authorities allege he ran over Patricia “Trish” McKay, 68, during a July 2 robbery attempt.
Orange County prosecutors say McCrary and two other men targeted McKay’s husband, former chair of the Bank of New Zealand Douglas McKay, for his high-end watch.
McCrary and the other defendants have not yet entered pleas, and their attorneys could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Fashion Island slaying is renewing interest in the 2022 Rolex theft.
Santa Monica Police Lt. Erika Aklufi said surveillance video in that case showed McCrary putting a handgun to the head of a man on Broadway. He and an accomplice demanded the man’s watch, she said.
McCrary’s DNA also was recovered from the victim’s shirt, which he’d grabbed during the robbery, police said.
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Bet the murdered man’s family is real happy about our progressive criminal justice system.
As I was walking down the street one day
A man came up to me and asked me
What the time was that was on my watch
Yeah, and I said
does anybody really know what time it is?
It’s time to leave California.
Californians had a chance to get rid of Newsom and Gascon and chose not to. No sympathy for them.
When is the last time anyone in California was put to death?
“When is the last time anyone in California was put to death?”
You mean aside from the innocent victims of subhuman criminals like this baboon?
The answer is 2006.
Don’t wear flashy target Jewelry in the LA area. Avoid limos and high end vehicles as well.
Robbery at GUNPOINT?? Probabtion???
Wow....Looken sharp California... Wait until the victim's husband sees this...
The system works!
Robbery at GUNPOINT?? Probabtion???
Vigilante justice is becoming a necessity.
“Leroy Ernest McCrary, 26, now faces a special circumstances murder charge that could carry the DEATH PENALTY...”
LOL, why say “Death Penalty” when talking about California?
I think it has to do with trying to prop up the Dems, after this total f-up.
Nope, the lawyers and prosecutors will parade them around the courts for years...Enables them to get their names in the papers and media...Write a book, do TV interviews then they can run for higher office...
Cultural Enrichment?
Murder? He might have to spend a weekend in jail for this one.
Nah, he murdered a tourist. A real tourist, not a Biden "just visiting from Venezuela" tourist. This story is front page news in New Zealand and Australia.
Now, if it were just a lowly American citizen that he murdered, then we'd be talking a slap on the wrist.
Someone please explain...he was out on parole on a suspended sentence...he then comitted another felony, and was given another suspended sentence to run concurrently with the first one. What’s the purpose of a suspended sentence if the perp commits yet more crime and is not imprisoned for violation of the first suspended sentence???
Old Leroy doesn’t look a day under 40, yet supposedly he is 26? Did they arrest the wrong scumbag?
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