The first incident was last week in Cornelius as the Cornelius Police Department sent an alert to be on the lookout for a bandit who snatched a previous customer’s wallet from the counter at the Cashion’’s just off I-77 after the unlucky patron left it there before returning to his car and driving away. The Cornelius police are hoping somebody out there can identify the crook from a surveillance photo that accompanied the release. That photo is on this page.
It should be fairly easy as the apparently inexperienced, sticky-fingered thief pretty much struck a pose for his photo, looking directly into the camera mounted above the counter. He is a black male wearing a red shirt and dark pants who left the scene, ill-gotten gain in tow, with two other black males in a newer model, dark-colored Chevy Tahoe.
And then on Monday, a bold outlaw entered the Wachovia branch off Gilead Road in Market Square in Huntersville and allegedly handed the teller a note that explained that, if he or she didn’t want to get hurt, then hand over the loot. The brave, or perhaps just observant, teller refused, then asked to see the would-be robber’s I.D.
That verbal exchange was apparently enough to scare off the suspect, who was described as a tall black male wearing a tan hat and some cool shades. His photo is on this page, too. He was last seen scurrying toward the Bi-Lo grocery store and may have sped off in a silver or gray Honda Civic.
North Mecklenburg CrimeStoppers has decided it’s important to remove these two hoodlums from the streets, and asks that anyone who recognizes these two, or who has any information in either incident, to give them a call at 704-896-7687. That is, if it’s not too late. Talkers imagine these two could have been picked up by now.
And finally, last Friday 19-year-old Garrett Wayne Shipman of Harrisburg broke into his exgirlfriend’s family’s home in the Antiquity neighborhood of Cornelius while they were out of town on vacation. When he was interrupted by a cleaning service, he told them he wanted to get a T-shirt, presumably one his girlfriend still had.
Or maybe there was no T-shirt at all. The suspicious cleaners first called the family, then the police. The man tried to escape through a second-story window and onto the roof of the attached garage, A height of about 10 feet from which he was apparently too afraid to jump. After he was helped down by Cornelius-Lemley Fire and Rescue, Shipman was arrested and held in Mecklenburg County Jail on $4,500 bond.
