Shotgun-wielding female trio charged in Birmingham home invasion

[Fred Fuller]

This from the don't take anything for granted department. Criminals are criminals no matter what else they are.

I'd say this bunch got a bad tip from someone about their target house, but I don't know. It happened to the Clutter family decades agowith a lot more tragic results (Capote's In Cold Blood) or see http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/social/pathology/criminology/crimes/clutter.htm). Criminals do talk to other criminals, so quietly encourage your family to keep mum about potentially tempting targets in your home that might eventually get around to criminal ears.

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Shotgun-wielding female trio charged in Birmingham home invasion

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Our Nation grows worse every day. :banghead::banghead:

 

[taliv]

Court records show she was arrested last year on a resisting arrest charge.

yeah? how does that work, exactly?

 

[Jeff White]

It's quite common for a minor violation (traffic etc) to escalate to a resisting arrest when the suspect does something like tear up the citation, refuse to take the citation, push or shove the officer (although around here that would be aggravated battery) or walk away.

One of the women was armed with a double-barrel shotgun, and all of the suspects' faces were covered. They kept asking, "Where's the money? JJ said the money was here,'' said Birmingham police spokesman Lt. Sean Edwards.

I'm curious about how much money they expected to find in the house. Not enough information in the article to tell what the real motive was. I am guessing someone had cash from a drug sale or to make a drug purchase and word got out on the street. Guess we'd have to talk to "JJ" to tell for sure.

The one home invasion I worked that wasn't a domestic type situation or drug related was an older couple who ran a bait shop/ convenience store. They were rumored to have kept a large amount of cash in a safe in their home. One night someone kicked their door in, duct taped them to chairs and threatened them with death unless they gave up to combination to the safe. They opened the safe, took the cash and fled. Were were there within two minutes of the 911 call coming in, but the suspects were long gone. They were never caught and the detectives looked long and hard at everyone who had knowledge of the safe and the cash.

Don't post pictures or descriptions of your valuables on social media. It's hard to convince your children that they shouldn't tell their friends about your gun collection, jewelry or if there is cash in the house. But try.

 

[lemaymiami]

Don't know why I missed this thread... In my experience hard core female actors are usually working girls (or former working girls) with serious attitudes. One of the last murder scenes I was on was a close quarters shotgun killing at a really run down motel. It was a very bad, messy scene, and the shooters were in the wind..... It wasn't until a few years later that the investigators still holding the unsolved case found out that the shooters were females (former prostitutes) that would lure a target into an isolated situation for a robbery (or murder if it came to that.....). The case was only solved after one of the folks present used the info to get out of jail in a later case.....

Some of the baddest folks I ever encountered were either former prostitutes (with serious attitude problems) or transvestites with serious emotional problems and a tendency towards ultra-violent street stuff or home invasions.... Just thinking about angry females (or TV types) with guns is enough to give me the cold sweats since they're usually operating on a mix of anger, intoxicants, and little thought of any consequences at all...

When I got into police work I never knew a thing about that world -and wish I still didn't .