A victim in Oakland, CA, got off lucky, unlike a victim in Chicago, IL who was shot execution-style this week. Gabriel Ortiz, the owner of La Perla Puerto Rican Cuisine in Oakland, California, was talking to two friends outside his restaurant Wednesday evening when three armed robbers jumped out of a car and ran up. Ortiz sees the first gunman,…
A shootout broke out shortly after 7 PM this past Tuesday between a Compton, CA smoke shop employee and four armed robbers. Amazingly, the employee was wounded but survived. I can’t say as much for one of the armed robbers. There are two angles of this incent caught on surveillance footage. Two men can be seen walking into the smoke…
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA — On today’s episode of Useless Pieces Of Garbage, we’re introduced to Smiley Martin, a suspect in the recent mass shooting that took the lives of 6 people and injured 10 others. Martin was released early from prison just a month prior, after serving less than half of a 10-year sentence for domestic violence and assault with great…
How would you feel if your kid’s school required you to tell them how many guns you owned and where and how they were stored? It sounds like an invasion of privacy, right? Well, that’s what one California lawmaker proposed in a bill that thankfully just failed. Sen. Anthony Portantino introduced Senate Bill 906 would have required just that. Parents…
It seems like California jewelry stores are getting hit left and right. I’ve already covered two other incidents where smash-and-grab robberies were foiled by the owner with a gun. This one happened earlier this week on Monday. Shortly before 5 PM this past Monday, three masked armed robbers pulled up to a jewelry store in Menlo Park, CA. They can…
A San Bruno, CA, jewelry store owner witnessed a smash-and-grab unfold right in front of him as he was standing right outside his store. Rather than watch the thieves steal potentially thousands of dollars worth of jewelry, he sprung unto action. When I first read this story, I thought it was footage from a similar incident in California we covered…
Don’t bring bear spray to a gunfight? Well, five suspects were hoping to make one more score in 2021 by hitting an Upland, CA jewelry store, but the owner thwarted the robbery by pulling his legally owned firearm. Police believe that four individuals were arrested for this robbery and linked to another jewelry store robbery earlier in the month and…