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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Friday night's all right for cockfighting

Join me for a few minutes as we review (mostly) all that was in crime on Friday.

Cops had their hands full in East Frankford, where a 23-year-old man was shot several times on Granite Street near Frankford Avenue shortly before 3 p.m. and then decided to try and carjack an 80-year-old man. The carjacking attempt was short-lived. Police said the elderly driver got tangled in a seat belt and was dragged for about a block, until the gunshot victim crashed into another car. The gunshot victim, whose name was not released, was listed in critical condition at Frankford-Torresdale Hospital. The elderly driver was taken to Temple University Hospital, but his condition was not known.

 

An hour earlier, Schuylkill Township police arrested a New York man who stole a cash-filled jar from a Phoenixville gas station. A tip led investigators to Pedro Martinez, 29, who was hiding out in a Phoenixville apartment.  Police said Martinez stole a jar that contained about $50 on Jan. 4 from Rimbaugh’s Exxon gas station on Route 23 near White Horse Road. Martinez was charged with theft and related offenses. The money was intended for Rides for Kids, which raises funds for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. The jar was left in the station by Daily News photographer Steve Falk, who raises money the charity every year. “I’m elated they caught this guy,” Falk said. “Anyone who steals from sick children belongs in jail.”

And then, of course, a “big time” cockfighting ring was busted in Feltonville. Philadelphia police and Pennsylvania SPCA workers raided a home on Louden Street near 2nd shortly before 10 p.m. and found at least 50 roosters and plenty of cash, said PSPCA investigator George Bengal. Between 13 and 18 people were arrested in the raid, which was prompted by a neighborhood tip, Bengal said.  

 

 

 

Posted by David Gambacorta @ 12:40 AM  Permalink | 1 comment
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:55 AM, 01/26/2009
    bet that crumb that stole the 50 bucks serves more time than bernie madoff.
    — scorpio27


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About The PhillyConfidential team

Dana DiFilippo has covered murder, mayhem and miscellany at the Daily News since 2000. She grew up in Delaware County and studied journalism and photography at Penn State University. E-mail tips to difilid@phillynews.com.

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Stephanie Farr has been reporting for the Daily News since 2007, covering everything from gay porn stars who entered the burglary business to moon trees, skinheads, murders and naked bike rides. She covers crime, both in the city and suburbs, and keeps clippings of bizarre Associated Press articles. Her favorite this year was the story about the drunk in Punxsutawney who gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dead opossum. E-mail tips to farrs@phillynews.com.

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Phillip Lucas joined the Daily News crime team in 2011. He grew up on the mean streets of Seattle and studied journalism and psychology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Before landing in the City of Brotherly Love, Phillip was a reporter for The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. Email tips to lucasp@phillynews.com.

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Morgan Zalot is the newest crime reporter at the Daily News, starting in 2011 after interning at the paper twice as a Temple University journalism student. In her past stints at the DN, she covered just about everything, from drunken Phillies fans to a barber shop in a high school to a grisly murder-suicide. She’s a born-and-raised Philly girl who grew up in the Northeast. E-mail tips to zalotm@philly.com.

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