And not a shot was fired.Syracuse, New York
Syracuse (IPA: , resident Richard Resch hopes to become a police officer some day. Presently, he is a licensed security guard. At about 5 a.m. on July 4th, Resch was about to dress for work when he made a routine visual safety check of his property from the window of a spare second-floor bedroom. He noticed that a man in the driveway was carrying a speaker from a public address system stored in Resch's garage. He also saw a second man lifting another speaker over a back fence. Resch grabbed a .22-caliber rifle from among the guns he keeps locked up in the bedroom, pointed it out the window, and ordered the thief on the driveway not to move. The man complied while Resch ran downstairs. Resch then held the thief, 16-year-old Kenneth Williams, at gunpoint until police arrived. Williams identified his accomplice accomplice: see accessory. , who had dropped the speaker he was carrying and fled into the trees that border Resch's property. Within the hour police found the 15-year-old youth, whose name was not released due to his age, at the home of some relatives. Both youngsters were charged with felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. counts of burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. and petit larceny A form of larceny—the stealing of another's personal property—in which the value of the property taken is generally less than $50. At Common Law, the penalty for the offense was whipping or some other Corporal Punishment. . No charges were filed against Resch. |
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