"THE GLASS PRISON" <theglassprison@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Feb 22, 4:43 pm, "Millhaven" <millha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
http://news.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.as...
>>
>> Man links his crack addiction to crimes
>> 2/22/2007 8:21:49 AM
>>
>> By Janice Gregorson
>>
>> The Post-Bulletin
>>
>> "I got to have crack, man. I gotta have it,'' police say a young
>> Rochester man told them in confessing to a string of recent break-ins
>> at businesses, including one convenience store that was hit several
>> times.
>>
>> Jason Earl Mahle, 28, is now charged with five more burglaries. He was
>> in court on three new complaints Tuesday and again Wednesday on two
>> additional complaints. Mahle is now charged with five new counts of
>> third-degree burglary.
>>
>> Earlier this month, he was charged with other burglaries and bail was
>> set at $70,000 without conditions or $35,000 with conditions attached.
>> The judge continued that bail to run concurrent on all cases.
>>
>> In the complaints filed Tuesday, Mahle is charged with two break-ins
>> at the Conoco Pump-n-Munch, 82 36th Ave. N.W., that occurred on Jan.
>> 25 and Jan. 31. He also was charged in connection with a break-in at
>> JD Coins in the Miracle Mile Shopping Center.
>>
>> After his arrest in connection with two residential burglaries, he
>> told officers of his cocaine habit, claiming it costs him $1,000 to
>> $2,000 a day to feed.
>>
>> In one of the Pump and Munch break-in complaints, he is quoted as
>> telling investigators that he will do whatever it takes to get the
>> crack.
>>
>> "I got to stop. I have lost a lot here; I have lost my family and my
>> job," he is quoted as telling investigators.
>>
>> The Pump and Munch was actually broken into four times in a period of
>> weeks. Twice the thief tried to remove a safe. He succeeded one time.
>>
>> Mahle admits he took that safe, according to the complaint.
>> Surveillance video at the store shows a person throwing a brick
>> through the front window early the morning of Jan. 31, then climbing
>> through the window into the store. The suspect goes behind the counter
>> and drags the safe out the front door. Once outside, he hides inside
>> his pickup truck when a car drives north on 36th Avenue. Then, it
>> appears he puts the safe in the back of the pickup truck and drives
>> away. The manager told police the safe contained $1,800 in cash, $504
>> in checks, cashed lottery tickets and the store's financial
>> paperwork.
>>
>> Mahle told police he is the man on the video, the complaint said. He
>> said he cut up the safe and burned the checks and spent the cash. Then
>> he asked officers to take him for a ride so he could show them where
>> he dumped the safe. He directed officers to an area near a park in the
>> 2800 block of West River Parkway. Mahle said he pulled into the park
>> and dumped the safe over the river enbankment. Officers found the safe
>> laying at the edge of the water. Inside were checks and lottery
>> tickets. The Pump and Munch manager said all the checks and lottery
>> tickets have been recovered and accounted for.
>
>BULL**** STORY!
Yeah, what gave it away for me was the bit about spending $1000-2000 a
DAY to feed his habit. WTF! Even if he was buying those rocks at
retail ($20 each) do you really believe he'd go through 50-100 of them
a day?
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