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Irregular News for 07.27.06

Bellevue, WA -- Police in a Seattle suburb didn't have to go far to arrest a man for investigation of car burglary — he was found sleeping in a special weapons and tactics van.

Officer Greg Grannis said a municipal worker reported someone breaking into cars, including his own, shortly before midnight Monday.

Officers quickly found burglarized cars, but couldn't determine who might be responsible — until about 4:50 a.m., when two SWAT team members came to the police vehicle maintenance yard to get their van and found a 25-year-old transient asleep in the back, Grannis said.

The man, whose his last known home address was in Louisiana, was booked into the King County jail for investigation of burglary.

No damage or loss estimate was released, but Grannis said none of the burglarized police vehicles had weapons in them.

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Give the guy a break. AR why don't you take his case and say that he was showing people why they should upgrade their security.
I was thinking more along the line of suing the Police Department for maintaining an attractive nuisance. But for leaving the doors to the van unlocked, my client would never have been arrested and thus deprived of his constitutionally-guaranteed right to liberty.

Yeah - that should allow me to pump up the judgment to the multi-million range...

 
You could look at it as doing them a big favor, by getting a homeless man/transient off of their streets and into one of their fine hotels.

 
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