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01-09-2005, 10:25 PM | #1 |
YT 6000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Seattle, WA
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| [News] Yorkie Dognappers Caught A man wanted in connection with the robbery of 10 Yorkshire terrier puppies from an 80-year-old Fontana woman surrendered early Saturday morning to avoid a police dog whose bite promised to be as big as his bark. Santiago Nunez, identified by authorities as the suspected gunman in the Dec. 26 dog-napping home-invasion robbery, dubbed the Cruella DeVil case, was arrested in Los Angeles by San Bernardino County sheriff's detectives from the Fontana station. Nunez joined Jose Isabel Suarez, Jorge Dominguez and Victorino Arzate in West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga. Suarez, 23, Dominguez, 36, and Arzate, 36, were arrested Dec. 30 after allegedly calling dog-breeder Eileen Sparks, from whom they are suspected of stealing the puppies and demanding ransom money. Sheriff's detectives traced the call to a Los Angeles number and arrested Suarez, Dominguez and Arzate, whom they say posed as potential buyers to case Sparks' house for robbery. While Sparks was showing the puppies to three men, another man burst into the Lombardy Drive house with his gun drawn. The gunman forced Sparks to the kitchen floor, put a gun to her head and told her to keep still, she said. Nine puppies were returned to a grateful Sparks on Dec. 30. One died in captivity. San Bernardino County sheriff's Detective Joe Silva and Deputy Mike Martinez went to Los Angeles on Friday night to find Nunez, considered the most dangerous in a Los Angeles ring of con men. The men are suspected in a handful of similar cases in Riverside, Los Angeles and Orange counties, Silva said. "He was the last suspect in this gang of thugs that go around and prey on the elderly,' Silva said. Teamed with officers from the Los Angeles Police Department, they found Nunez at a house in the 2600 block of First Street, but he refused to come out. Law-enforcement officials learned that Nunez, considered armed and dangerous, was hiding in the attic and called in a SWAT team to get him out. Just as the snarling LAPD dog threatened to go in and sniff Nunez out, the 23-year-old came out of the attic. "Once he heard the dog, he gave himself up,' Martinez said. Silva added, "He came down on his own before he got bit.' Sparks said Saturday that she was relieved the final suspect was behind bars. "Well I'll be darned,' she said. "That is really good because that is the one I was scared was going to come back. You wouldn't think he would be dumb enough to hold police at bay like that.' The men, who were being held in lieu of $100,000 bail, face charges from multiple cases, Silva said. In each case, those who were vulnerable, such as the elderly, were targeted. Sparks said she acceded to all the robbers' demands, fearful for her safety. "These guys are cowards,' Silva said. "They will not go up against people who look like they will put up any resistance.' http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,...643040,00.html |
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01-09-2005, 10:39 PM | #2 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: California
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| iI'm so glad they were caught! ..... i think the police dog shoulda bitten him though, to get him back for all the doggies that were put through trauma |
01-10-2005, 09:19 AM | #3 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Georgia
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| I am also glad they cought those men. That is just terriable that they would pray on older people. I think people like that are just sick and evil. |
01-11-2005, 05:33 PM | #4 |
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| I'm glad the poor woman didnt have a heart attack while he held a gun on her. My My. Yes the police dog should of gotten to nip him once.
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01-12-2005, 06:18 AM | #5 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Florida
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| I agree....the police dog should have bitten him right in the.........oh.....I can't say that here........ |
01-17-2005, 09:04 AM | #6 | |
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| cowboy`s mom i know ilean and she did almost had a heart attack ,this is something that has happend to her 3 outher times yorkies are the #1 dog stolen in usa . Quote:
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