3 men attack, rob 4th of cash.Byline: Rebecca Nolan The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - A Springfield man who has a habit of carrying several thousand dollars in cash was beaten and robbed early Wednesday by three masked A state of being disabled or cut off. assailants who crashed their getaway car getaway car n the thieves' getaway car → el coche en que huyeron los ladrones getaway car n → voiture prévue pour prendre la fuite as they tried to flee. The baffling baf·fle tr.v. baf·fled, baf·fling, baf·fles 1. To frustrate or check (a person) as by confusing or perplexing; stymie. 2. To impede the force or movement of. n. 1. story began about midnight when the 35-year-old victim and a female acquaintance were cleaning out one of several rental properties he owns, Springfield police said. The three men pulled up to the house in the 600 block of 33rd Street in a Toyota Tercel The Tercel was Toyota's entry-level vehicle in North America during the 1980s and 1990s. The Tercel was slotted between the Corolla and the Starlet, and was meant to offer basic affordable transportation while introducing young buyers to the Toyota brand. , Springfield police said. The men wore knit caps over their faces, with eyeholes cut out of the fabric, police said. One man had a piece of wood, possibly a bat, and another had a BB gun. There was a confrontation, and the men beat the victim in the head with the stick and took his money, which may have been as much as $20,000, police said. The victim told officers that he carried the cash in case he ever got arrested and needed to post bail, Sgt. Rick Putnam said. The man had a gash on his head that was bleeding profusely pro·fuse adj. 1. Plentiful; copious. 2. Giving or given freely and abundantly; extravagant: were profuse in their compliments. but was conscious and able to walk around, police said. The attackers piled into the Toyota and took off down the street. But the driver soon lost control and crashed into a roadside ditch ditch (ditching), n the undesirable loss of tooth substance in the region of a restoration margin (usually gingival). , police said. The men abandoned the car and ran east toward Tyson Park. Officers found about $7,000 in cash in the car, along with some papers that appeared to identify at least one of the suspects, Putnam said. The victim told police that he had never met his assailants. He refused medical treatment for his injuries. Later Thursday, police were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. Leroy Doe, 42, of Eugene, who they suspect was involved in the crime. They also are looking for the victim's female friend, Amy Short, 20, of Springfield, who police said was not a suspect but a "person of interest" whom they'd like to question. Short disappeared when the suspects fled the scene, Putnam said. |
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