Crime

Attempted Burglary at Jim Bass Ford Saturday Night Caps Week of Car Dealership Break-Ins

By Joe Hyde, Jul 6, 2014
 

San Angelo police responded to a tripped motion detector in the service area of Jim Bass Ford, 4000 block of Houston-Harte Expressway, at 11:37 p.m. Saturday night that developed into a manhunt for the suspects.

Upon arrival, police could be seen shining flashlights as they cased out the perimeter of the large metal service shop behind the dealership. The front, sides, and back parking lots are already very well lit.

As the customary walk-around was proceeding, the suspect tripped a second motion sensor, police said. The customary walk-around immediately escalated into a manhunt. Police backup was called and at least eight more units arrived as police set up a perimeter around the dealership.

Police blocked a lane of the Houston-Harte frontage road as the southeastern boundary, Arden Road was the northern boundary, Northwest Drive was the northwestern boundary and Family Power Sports was the southwest boundary.

An intensive search for someone lying in the field behind the dealership was conducted, as well as across the street on the grassy incline to the Houston-Harte. Inside the brightly lit dealership lot, police were seen looking inside and underneath every vehicle.

Just after 12:30 a.m., a police officer shouted, “Get on the ground now!” and there was a flurry of police activity on the Arden Road side of the dealership inside the car lot.

An ambulance was dispatched to the scene. The manhunt intensified after the ambulance was called, looking for additional suspects.

By 1:30 a.m. the police took down the perimeter.

The attempted burglary of Jim Bass Ford comes on the heels of a number of burglaries of car dealerships in San Angelo.

Mitchell Toyota on Knickerbocker Road, Lithia’s All American Chevrolet at 203 North Bryant Blvd, and Lithia’s Honda of San Angelo at 4334 Sherwood Way were all burglarized or vandalized within the past week.

Detective Sgt. Williams said that one male suspect was caught after a short foot chase and taken into custody during this incident. He was taken away from the scene via ambulance. He said that in the investigation of Saturday night’s Jim Bass Ford attempted burglary, it is too early to tell if this is related to the incidents at the other car dealerships in San Angelo.

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@ "one male suspect was caught after a short foot chase and taken into custody during this incident. He was taken away from the scene via ambulance" -- There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it and it is certain that imagining "punishment" and "being supposed to punish" hurts it, arouses fear in it. - Friedrich Nietzsche --
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Lares, this quote supports the belief one truly controls himself and is subjected to what he allows. Sometimes society has pity on the criminal element and we even will make excuses for them. We shouldn't! “Punishment is the right of the criminal. It is an act of his own will. The violation of right has been proclaimed by the criminal as his own right. His crime is the negation of right. Punishment is the negation of this negation, and consequently an affirmation of right, solicited and forced upon the criminal by himself.” [Hegel, Philosophy of Right]
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In a conversation with my daughter this morning, we were discussing today's youth and their proclivity to be lazy or to be the criminal element. I told her that we all eventually have to grow up, but she disagreed and said not everybody grows up. I thought about it further, can it be possible a person never grows up? I guess it's a debate between free will or destiny.
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Favian, whether or not one "grows up" or feels the obligation to do so depends on the standard his/her community holds them to. We could agree that hard justice is in order here, however short of being convicted of murder, few receive anything close to it. Many of the nations which most consider to be below us, due to their "barbaric" approach to punishment would be great examples of societies where people do in fact "grow up", or literally face the possibility of losing life or limb. Here in the U.S. the criminal is afforded the benefit of the doubt, first and foremost. Though they're often times caught red handed, knowingly committing crimes without regard to those they harm, they're afforded the luxury of excusing away their actions -- which almost always entails blaming the very community they've violated: I'm too uneducated, too disadvantaged, too poor, too young or too strung out on substances to know any better. The very premise of the criminal's philosophy is that society owes them SOMETHING. When and if they're caught, of course the blame lies elsewhere -- and certainly if their victims can find it in their hearts to forgive them, they'll do better. In regards to crime, no one really has to take responsibility for much of anything. The criminal element is well acclimated to this lax climate of second chances and the naive and docile public who consider their crimes "mistakes". In a society where one's very life and well being hinges upon "growing up", very few mistakenly burglarize car dealerships.
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