Re: [BigBrother_Survivor] More than 50 arrested for looting in Miami during Irma: police

 

I saw that on the news, just horrible!!
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On Wed, 9/13/17, C G ceegee2006@yahoo.com [BigBrother_Survivor] <BigBrother_Survivor@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Subject: [BigBrother_Survivor] More than 50 arrested for looting in Miami during Irma: police
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Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2017, 1:57 PM























 
Good ,glad they are catching them . I hope they get more
then a slap on the wrists. More than 50 arrested for looting in Miami during
Irma: police
By
Zach Fagenson,Reuters
8 hours ago

More than 50 arrested for
looting in Miami during Irma: police

By
Zach Fagenson,Reuters
8 hours ago


                
By
Zach Fagenson
MIAMI (Reuters) - Miami area police arrested more than 50
suspected looters during Hurricane Irma, including 26 people
who were accused of breaking into a single Wal-Mart
(WMT.N> store, authorities said on Tuesday. City
officials on Tuesday lifted a local 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew
that had been in place since Sunday. As normality began to
return, police commanders said officers will work 12-hour
shifts, 24 hours a day, to discourage any more
criminality.
"I said we would not tolerate criminal activity or
looting or anybody who takes advantage of our
residents," Deputy Chief of Police Luis Cabrera said at
a news conference. "I was not joking." The
Wal-Mart incident took place on Saturday night at a store on
the north side of the City of Miami, said Miami-Dade Police
Department spokesman Alvaro Zabaleta.
Among others suspected of looting were six men arrested on
Monday and accused of breaking into stores at the Midtown
Miami shopping complex, near the fashionable Wynwood
district, before making off with merchandise that included
shoes, bags and laptops. The
looting attempts spanned the city, said Miami Mayor Tomas
Regalado, from the well-heeled Brickell and downtown
neighborhoods to the low-income Liberty City and Little
Haiti areas. He said police will stay vigilant as the
cleanup goes on.
Officers have also been busy trawling roads that can be
perilous for motorists because power cuts shut off traffic
lights at intersections and streets have accumulated
shredded vegetation spread by the storm's powerful
winds.
"We have never experienced, not even with Hurricane
Andrew, the amount of trees that are downed in the
city," Regalado told the news
conference. Hurricane Andrew hit Florida in 1992.

Since Irma began bearing down on the state late last week,
authorities have been warning any would-be looters against
taking advantage of the situation. Rick
Maglione, the police chief of Fort Lauderdale, about 30
miles (48 km) north of Miami, told residents to stay home
during the storm and look after their loved ones.
"Going to prison over a pair of sneakers is a fairly
bad life choice," Maglione said in a
statement.
Miami police posted a photo on Facebook of several accused
looters sitting in a jail cell under the caption:
"Thinking about looting? Ask these guys how that turned
out. #stayindoors."
(Reporting by Zach Fagenson; Editing by Daniel Wallis and
Dan Grebler)




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