Torrance Starbucks take-over robbery and other crimes
The final tally for Preston Sawyer and Kareem Douglas goes like this:
- Six armed robberies
- Sawyer and Douglas each accused of participating in four
- Sixteen victims, which equals 16 robbery counts total
- Eight officers testified
It was a long, but very stream-lined and organized preliminary hearing yesterday for the two Hawthorne men. They are only a fraction of what police believe is a "crew" who work together to pull off similiar heists.
Douglas' mother was in court yesterday, and she told me that her son is a good boy who got hood-winked by his friends and the police. She wanted to tell me more before her son's attorney told her that talking to me will do nothing good for him. (As an aside, that attorney and I have some history and I'm pretty sure she ranks me right up there with pond scum.)
About the Blogger
Larry Altman has covered crime in the South Bay since 1990. He's seen it all - the missing model who turned up dead in the desert, the wives found dead in trunks, the high-school coaches who get a little too close to their players. He drives his young colleagues nuts with his "I remember when" stories. He welcomes your tips and observations about the present, and you can mix in a little Lakers basketball talk if you like.
E-mail Larry at larry.altman@dailybreeze.com.
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Denise Nix knew as young as grade school, when she spent every summer working on the camp newspaper, that she wanted to be a journalist. Denise has spent most of the last 12 years of her career in the courtroom. She joined the Daily Breeze in 2001, where she tracks and reports on hundreds of cases at every level of the justice system. And she's never, ever, seen a judge use a gavel.
E-mail Denise at denise.nix@dailybreeze.com.
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