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Dunkin’ Robber Sought

by Thomas MacMillan | Jan 11, 2013 5:02 pm

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Police are looking for a man (pictured) who allegedly robbed a Dunkin’ Donuts on Ferry Street on Friday morning.

“The robber waited in line for the customers to leave. Once he was the only one left, he pulled out a knife and held up the clerk. An undetermined amount of cash was taken,” said police spokesman Officer Dave Hartman.

In other police news, according to Hartman:

At 7:38 p.m. on Thursday, Officer Roy Davis (pictured) was on patrol near Smith Avenue and Palmieri Drive in Quinnipiac Meadows, an area of occasional drug transactions. Davis spotted two running cars parked side by side. A man got out of one and into the other, a gray Toyota. When the Toyota pulled away and headed toward Assumption Street, the driver never turned the headlights on. Nor did he signal before turning. Officer Davis pulled the car over on Kenny Drive.

The driver, a 26-year-old, told Davis the car was rented by his girlfriend and that his license had been stolen.

Davis noted that a man in the back seat had white powder visible on his upper lip and mustache, as well as on the back of his hand and front of his jacket. The 20-year-old told Davis that he has “a habit.”

“When asked if he had any more drugs on him, he answered no, only the ‘twenty’ he’d had earlier in the other car (‘twenty’ refers to a $20.00 bag of cocaine),” Hartman said. “He was handcuffed.”

The third man in the car had Oxycodone in his wallet and five bags of marijuana in his underwear. Davis handcuffed him, too.

Davis asked the driver to get out of the car.  “When asked if there was anything in it such as drugs or weapons, [the driver] replied there’d be nothing of his inside, but that he couldn’t be certain one of his passengers hadn’t hidden something. Officer Davis looked inside. He recovered a camouflage ski mask and a 38 caliber revolver under the driver’s seat,” Hartman said.

Davis handcuffed the driver.

“All three said the gun didn’t belong to them. All three were arrested and charged with having a pistol without a permit, altering a firearm and having a weapon in a motor vehicle,” Hartman said. The driver was also charged with two motor vehicle violations. The man in the backseat had an outstanding warrant for assault with a firearm. The passenger was charged with two drug crimes.

In other police news, according to Hartman:

Man Shot During Home Invasion: At noon on Friday, police responded to a home on Eastern Street on a report of a shooting. They found a 23-year-old man who’d been shot in the calf. The man told cops he’d heard a knock at the door and a man walked in.

“Give me the money,” the man said, then shot the 23-year-old in the calf and struck him on the forehead with the gun. The victim was taken to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening wounds.

For block-by-block year-to-date crime info, check the Independent’s Crime Log.

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