TAMPA, FLA:
The city of Tampa, Florida is in a state of fear, tinged with amusement, and accented by excitement due to an epidemic of brazen car-jackings. The last time I checked, the car jackers are two for six, but they seem to be some persistent buggers. The first car-jacking attempt, on April 27th, was met with a good deal of resistence ("Hey buddy, let me get your keys" "Screw you, get out of here") and the car jacker ultimately bolted after seeing a baby in the car. A couple of minutes later the guy managed to "jack" a woman's car, driving off in the woman's gold Dodge Caravan, leaving the car he was driving previously behind. Police looked at some surveillance video and arrested the guy on May 5th. The guy's name is Akeem Charles Carr, and he is a 25 year old St. Petersburg resident who has been arrested on various charges about ten gazillion times during his short stint as an "adult". (We are talking legal jargon here.)
Before Kareem was arrested another car-jack attempt happened. The guy pointed a gun at a woman and demanded her car. The woman screamed, and the guy ran off. (Now you think a car-jacker would be mentally prepared for a scream, but nonetheless the screaming tactic scared the guy away.) This happened on April 29th, about 10 minutes before midnight.
Next was May 5th, ironically the day that Akeem the original car jacker was arrested. This was a pretty bad scene, the victim was a 22 year old International Mall employee. First the guy pushed her over to the passenger seat and drove off. Then the bad guy pistol whipped the young woman and dumped her from the car as it was moving. The 22 year old USF student/mall employee broke her wrist and lost her car. The victim may be a sorority member, making the crime all the more henious. (that means "extra bad").
On May 11th the carjackers struck again, this time in broad daylight - right around lunchtime. The victim, a fifty-something woman, screamed, so the car-jacker ran off. This time the bad guy got the woman's purse.
That brings us to Adrianna Sauceda, who was confronted by a bad guy about an hour later. Adrianna was doing a little makeup touchup when the guy opened her unlocked door and shoved a gun into her stomach. "Get the f*ck out", says the bad guy. 31 year old Adrianna, who moved to Tampa about three weeks ago from California, grabbed her own gun and cracked the guy in the head with it. (That's what they call "pistol-whipping".) Then she stuck the gun's barrel against the bad guy's face, right between the eyes.
This time the car-jacker screamed and ran off. Ms. Sauceda got to keep her car, and she is being considered for a part in an upcoming reality TV show. I made up the reality TV show part, but it'll happen. Just watch and see.
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