Tag: Crime

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PPD Crime Map

I guess we could take credit for it but that isn’t true so I won’t even try.  (We have been mapping cirme for 2 months now)  The PPD crime map application now available online is a vast improvement over previous sources of information.  It has its limitations but compared to the access to new data, they are minor. 

One complaint we had with the information released to the Northeast Times in the past was that it did not include murder or rape for some reason.  That is vital information to all of us.  it is now available. 

Take a look at it here.

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Who’s got the Hummer?

Well, according to Philly.com, it’s not Gary Jackson.  They say he lives in Frankford but since they did not give his address, we’ll leave that alone.  The real question is – why is this news.  It should be standard practice.

The city-state Gun Violence Task Force announced yesterday that it has seized a 2003 Hummer in connection with a straw purchase of a handgun and intends to seek forfeiture of the vehicle.

“We intend to make straw purchasing as costly as possible to deter those who would otherwise involve themselves in this type of scheme,” District Attorney Lynne Abraham said.

The Hummer is owned by Gary Jackson, 41, of Frankford, a convicted felon who is alleged to have driven it to a gun store outside the city with Ronald McBeth, 41, who allegedly bought a handgun for Jackson.

Read the entire story here.

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Carjacking and Murder

6abc.com reports:

Police are looking for several suspects wanted for a carjacking, kidnapping and rape.

It started just after midnight on Sunday in the 4500 block of Castor Avenue in front of Jalpeno Joes. A man and woman were carjacked, then taken up to the on ramp on Route 1 at Street Road in Bensalem. That’s where the man was shot in the back of the head and killed.

Read the entire story here.

Followup story from the Bucks County Courier Tiimes gives a little more detail.  Why no description of the killer?

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Another shooting not in Frankford

From the iInquirer on April 28th:

At 5:49 p.m., police dispatchers sent officers to Frankford to investigate a report of a shooting. Police found Kalis Leslie, 15, of Southwest Philadelphia unresponsive near the intersection of Cambria and Amber Streets. Leslie was rushed to Temple University Hospital where he died of a single gun shot wound to the chest.

Police found a second victim at the scene, an 18-year-old man, and took him to Temple where he was in critical condition this morning with gunshot wounds to his chest and shoulder.

Maybe these new folks at the Inky need to invest in a map.  Cambria and Amber Streets IS NOT IN FRANKFORD.