So lately the new craze are these little movable balance boards that you can stand on and just move around with. They have a whole bunch of different names: hoverboard, skywalkers, etc. They're such a new craze that people are robbing folks for them and over them.
I met with two friends, both around 19, who were in the mall on my beat and saw a guy riding around on one of these hoverboards. They went up to ask him where he got his and he told them he actually sold them. They exchanged numbers and he told them to hang around the mall and he'd call when he came back with a board. They agreed on a price of $200 (they normally sell for $499). The guy called them about 20 minutes later and said he was outside. It was pouring rain so the pair ran up to the jeep where the guy was in the backseat.
The victim started to count out his money when the guy said "you're good". The victim looked up and the guy had a gun pointed right at him. The guy snatched the money and the driver took off. What the dumb perp didn't know was that he was caught on camera in plain view multiple times throughout the mall and the robbery himself. Hopefully we'll get him identified soon.
Later on in the day I responded to a dispute with a weapon involving pepper spray and roommates. Apparently the girl who rents the apartment took in a friend who was down on her luck. The friend is in a lesbian relationship and brings her girlfriend over quite a bit. The main renter was upset that her friend kept bringing people over, however the lesbian friend had been staying with her for about four months and was paying rent and essentially living there as well. I told her there was nothing I could do. The renter was furious but that's how it goes. The renter was the one who actually threatened the lesbian's friend and the friend said not to threaten her because she had pepper spray. It's amazing how things get twisted between what actually happens and what we get on the 911 call.
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