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  • Re: Knife-wielding thief busted after storeowner traps him in shutters

    From Nailed him@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 19 08:51:36 2023
    XPost: alt.business, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.guns
    XPost: uk.politics.misc

    On 03 Oct 2021, Watchlist <Watchlist6@gmail.com> posted some news:sjcf96$rfi$1@dont-email.me:

    Bob Duncan wrote

    Good work! Missed your chance to beat his skull in with a bat.

    A robber in England was sentenced to three years in jail this week for attempted robbery, but it was only thanks to the quick thinking of his
    victim that he ended up in police custody in the first place.

    “It wasn’t the most difficult arrest we have ever made. To be honest, it
    was an open and shut case,” Detective Sergeant Paul Mawson of Durham Constabulary told The Northern Echo.

    Martin Trimble, 30, walked into a convenience store last month in Durham
    City with a knife.

    He picked up a four-pack of beer and used his knife to threaten the store owner.

    Rather than let Trimble walk away, the store owner ran outside and closed
    the door, holding it tight and trapping his thief inside.

    The shop owner, who remained unnamed, then lowered the storefront shutter
    in an effort to make sure Trimble couldn’t escape.


    Trimble tried to avoid capture again by breaking the door free of the shop owner’s grip and trying to slip out before the shutter had fully
    descended.

    But the shutter was too low and Trimble found himself pinned to the ground
    – his torso outside and open to the streets.

    Thief enters store.
    Martin Trimble, 30, walked into a convenience store last month with a
    knife.
    Twitter/@DurhamPolice
    Thief at counter.
    Trimble was sentenced to three years in jail.
    Twitter/@DurhamPolice
    Thief at counter.
    Trimble picked up a four-pack of beer and used his knife to threaten the
    store owner.
    Twitter/@DurhamPolice
    Thief in door.
    Trimble got lodged under the door shutter and cracked open one of the
    beers.
    Twitter/@DurhamPolice

    Realizing he was beaten, Trimble cracked open one of the beers he tried to steal and drank it while he waited for the police to take him away.

    Officers arrived within three minutes of receiving the call and arrested Trimble.

    He pled guilty to charge of attempted robbery and possession of a knife
    and sentenced on June 16 to prison.

    https://nypost.com/2023/06/18/storeowner-traps-knife-wielding-thief- inside-door-shutters/

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