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A man committed robberies of businesses, including Burger King and Next Door Foods along with Amoco, Shell and Speedway Gas Stations. The suspect, most likely stealing because of a crack addiction, implied he had a gun. Thanks to a tip to Silent Observer, that man was arrested before he could frighten more service people. We received another tip on a man who actually showed his weapons and robbed five businesses-Little Caesars, 7-Eleven, Ziggy's Party Store and two Shell Stations. He was another good one to get off our streets.
After stepping off a bus, a man was attacked by two suspects who beat him then stole his laptop computer, a computer case and his Bible. The suspects wanted some quick cash and thought the laptop would be just the ticket. A tip came into Silent Observer identifying the suspects. Now that's Divine Justice!
We love it when we get tips on fugitives wanted by the US Marshal Service or the FBI Fugitive Team. We receive four tips this past year which led these federal agencies to some of the worst of the worst. These suspects had warrants for Assault with Intent to Do Great Bodily Harm, Criminal Sexual Conduct with a minor, drugs, and felony firearm.
We received another tip on a man in possession of child pornography. He had a substantial amount of child porn on his computer and it turned out that he had two prior Criminal Sexual Conduct convictions in the 1990's involving 9 year old girls.
Back in 2006, Linzey Reeves was murdered. Early on in the investigation we received a Silent Observer tip that identified the shooter. Police just recently were able to to arrest the suspect.
Car Larcenies occur all over the city and wreak havoc on the neighborhoods that are targeted. Thanks to a tip to Silent Observer, police were able to arrest one person for breaking into up to 20 cars stealing anything of value.
One very observant tipster called to report some suspicious people in the the neighborhood. The tipsters provided descriptions of the suspects, their license plate number and described the items the thieves were putting in their car after being in the neighborhood a while. It turns out this tip led to three suspects involved in home burglaries and one of the suspects was even involved in an armed robbery of a Subway Restaurant.
Surveillance Pictures...you gotta love them. An unidentified woman stole a credit card and a drivers license then went to a Chase Bank located in a Meijer Store and withdrew more than $9,000 from the victim's checking account. Thankfully, there were surveillance cameras and caught this thief in the act. A citizen saw the picture and called Silent Observer, which led to her arrest.
All of these cases are significant because these people made us fearful and made life difficult for the ones they victimized. I am thankful that the tipsters called the Silent Observer tip line so these suspects can no longer rob our businesses and cause trouble in our neighborhoods.
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Funding Update
In December of 2008, Silent Observer launched its first public appeal for donations. Hoping the community would help by donating $36, $1 for every year we have been in existence, Silent Observer received 35 donations ranging from $20 - $300. We are very appreciative of the generous support we have received from many new friends as well as long-time contributors.
But, we still need to reach our goal of $36,000 with this email campaign. You can help by clicking on the Forward to a Friend link at the bottom of this newsletter to send this to your friends and people in your business network who may be interested in our mission and our work. This kind of financial support is vital to the health of our program and allows us to maintain programs like Fast 50, Text A Tip, our web site, and rewards.
Check out membership information at:
http://www.silentobserver.org/donation.asp.
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