Posted on 03/05/2018 7:14:16 PM PST by Right Wing Assault
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Two men and a woman are accused of chasing down two 14-year-old suspected car thieves, forcing them into the trunk of their car at gunpoint and driving them to the Cleveland Police Fourth District headquarters, according to police.
Kenyatta Ware II, 21, George Barnes, 29, and Shelia Beale, 49, are all charged with felonious assault and kidnapping. All three have been arrested and are awaiting their first court appearance.
It is unknown if the two 14-year-old boys have been formally charged, but they were arrested on suspicion of grand theft of a motor vehicle, according to police reports.
The incident began when the two teens stole a 2013 Chrysler 200 from Garfield Heights, according to police. The car belonged to the mother of one of the men who got arrested.
The trio tracked the car though a GPS locator inside the car, according to police. They caught up with the stolen car about 5 p.m. on Anita Kennedy Avenue and East 70th Street, police said.
The men got out of cars, pulled out guns and told the teens: "You stole the wrong car...," according to police reports. Barnes then fired several gunshots into the car, police reports and court records say.
The teens sped off with the trio following in their cars, according to police. The teens hit several utility poles during the chase.
The teens jumped a curb on East 80th Street and Bessemer Avenue and crashed into a townhouse, causing extensive damage to both the home and the car, according to police reports. No one was inside the home at the time of the crash, police said.
Barnes and Ware then ordered the teens out of the car at gunpoint, according to police. They punched the two teens, knocking them to the ground, then stomped on them, according to police.
They ordered the teens at gunpoint to get in the trunk of one of the cars, police said. The teens complied and Ware and Beale drove the teens to the Fourth District headquarters, police said.
Ware and Beale were arrested at the police station. Barnes drove off and was later arrested near the scene of the crash, according to police.
Ware admitted to attacking the teens and Beale admitted to forcing them inside the trunk, according to police reports.
The teens were taken to University Hospital for treatment.
a car cost $2900 in 70
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Depends on what car...
I bought a ‘64 Impala convertible NEW for $3600.
For comparison, my parents bought a new house on a half acre for $3700 in 1943.
>>The judge will look at this as the owners
had the means to notify the authorities
as to the whereabouts of their property,
and that the owners excessive force was
unwarranted.
People have tracked down their stolen cellphones before (worth upwards of a thousand dollars these days) and found police unwilling to confront the thieves.
Response may depend on the community. I know someone who used to work for Lo-jack (is that how it is spelled?) which dating back to the 80s or 90s would install a transmitter in your car for recovery in case you car is ever stolen. And I think Lo-jack would relay the whereabouts to the authorities of law enforcement to act on it (think of a mobile intruder alarm system).
I don’t support vigilante action. And I agree with your closing remark.
Gold was fixed at $35/oz at that point.
600/35=17.14 oz.
Current price, $1337. About $23,000.
In 1945, minimum wage was $0.40, which means it would take the average teen a LONG time to pay $600 back.
https://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/chart.htm
Put me on the jury. Not guilty.
True, but monetary gold was illegal for Americans to own at the time. It was only pegged at $35 to foreign central banks.
Point being $600 denominated in US gold coin are worth about $40,000 in terms of their gold content today’s currency, without regard to any special collector value. That is remarkable. If we used silver dollars, $600 then would be around $10,000 in today’s currency.
It is clear though that those boys did a number on that new house. Modern drywall can’t be compared to plaster walls. I can easily see a crew of teenage vandals today knocking out $20k or $30k in damage to a new house without breaking a sweat. As mentioned it is difficult to make direct price comparisons over time for several reasons, but it is obvious the so-called inflation calculators are grossly innaccurate.
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