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Burglars strike again ... ineptly |
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January 27, 2012 |
Local schools seem good at sending motivated and
studious kids to college and careers, but
they're obviously falling short in teaching
those students who choose to stray off the
beaten path the education they need to
successfully pursue a life of crime ...
There are kids who are obviously not learning the skills
needed for that high-risk career choice, and it appears
likely that if they were offered a course, they wouldn't
pay attention.
Police worry that they're learning the system,
though, and how to successfully beg the judge
for leniency. But they keep coming back, much to
the chagrin of victims ... and obviously they
aren't well adapted to learning from their
mistakes.
Two separate burglaries were reported in Bonners
Ferry today; in one of them, a culprit yet to be
captured made off with an empty cash till ...
in the other, two alleged culprits dropped
the loot when the lady they stole it from told
them they'd better, and who ran, each blaming
the other after the were nabbed by police.
Both are now sitting in the Boundary County
jail.
Burglary 1 ... as yet unsolved.
Sometime after 10:15 p.m. last night, when the
last employee closed shop and went home, someone
drove up to the drive thru window at Zips,
smashed it out, and crawled inside, according to
local police.
Once inside, the culprit ripped open the cash
register in the drive thru booth, withdrew an
empty cash drawer and apparently panicked,
according to police, as nothing else in the
business appeared to have been disturbed.
While the cash register was worse for the wear,
the only thing missing, store staff said, was
the cash drawer, which had been emptied as a
matter of routine before Zips closed down for
the night.
"We're seeking information from anyone who may
have seen anything," said assistant Bonners
Ferry Police Chief Joel Minor, who noted that
there may have been many witnesses, as kids seem
to be hanging outside AJs Lanes, right next
door.
Whoever it may have been, Minor said, they
apparently got scared and beat a hasty exit back
out the broken window; it doesn't appear, he
said, that the culprit ever left the drive-thru
booth.
While that burglar may have been inept, another
burglary was taking place downtown, and the two
alleged to be involved proved even more inept
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Burglary II
According to Minor, a short time after Papa
Byrd's Bistro closed last night, a man snuck in
and snatched a purse. That purse, Minor said,
belonged to an employee still in the store, and
as the culprit was fleeing, she ran out the door
behind him, and yelled, "Danny Gondek, you'd
better drop that purse!"
He did.
He was captured by police a short time later, along
with alleged accomplice Daniel Nicholas, 19,
nabbed while making a call from the pay phone at
Panhandle Restaurant.
It's no surprise that each is blaming the other.
Gondek, 20, whose name has appeared several
times in the last year in the court disposition
records on this site and who was on probation,
and his friend, Nicholas, who insisted to police
that he was only there as a lookout, are both
guests in the county jail facing felony charges
of burglary; Gondek in lieu of $50,000 bond,
Nicholas in lieu of $10,000.
Local cops say they're tired of arresting the
same dumb kids for the same dumb crimes. For
Gondek and Nicholas, it might be different this
time ... they're both now adults. |
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