Crime chills out

Staying inside: The frigid temperatures during last week kept things so tame that the only incidents reported were one a week ago Sunday (1.30.11) when 2 hookers stabbed a guy at the LaQuinta Inn on Camp Street and another this past Saturday (2.5.11) at La Pavillion Hotel on Poydras when 2 employees got into it and one let the other have it with a boxcutter.

Even the usual thefts, auto thefts and car break-ins were down.

Crimes solved: 8th District cops did manage to make a couple of collars to solve crimes from the week before:

• Taft Williams, 18, was arrested last Friday (2.4.11) and charged with simple robbery for allegedly swiping the iPhone of a 31-year-old woman who was taking pictures near Bourbon and St. Peter streets on 1.25.11 around 11:30 p.m.

Williams is in OPP on $15,000 bond. He was on probation--thanks to Judge Keva Landrum-Johnson--for possession of cocaine until 2015 and had prior arrests for possession of narcotics last year and curfew violation in 2007 when he was 15.

• Bodhi McGowan, 18, was arrested last Wednesday (2.2.11) and charged with aggravated assault after he allegedly pulled a pistol on a buddy 1.25.11 in the 600 block of Chartres Street.

He is in OPP on $5,000 bond.

Too late, boys: First District cops don't screw around with young boys running the streets--and it often leads to arrests for more than curfew violations.

A couple of weeks ago, officers stopped 3 young black boys--13, 14, and 16--for a traffic violation while riding their bikes around 9:30 p.m. in the 1700 block of Kerlerec Street in Treme.

They found the 16-year-old had 2 automobile GPS units concealed under his jacket. He tried to tell the cops they belonged to his mother; the police weren't buying it. First District detectives working 2 auto burglaries in the neighborhood brought one of the victims to the scene and she identified the GPS device as hers.

All 3 scofflaws were charged with curfew violations and the 16-year-old was additionally charged with possession of stolen property.

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Crimes last week in the 8th District
(Click on the crime map to enlarge it)

Sunday (1.30.11)

Aggravated Battery, 301 Camp, 6:22 a.m.
Auto Burglary, 1000 St Charles, 10:10 a.m.
Auto Theft, 100 Royal, 2:53 p.m.

Monday (1.31.11)

Auto Theft, 600 Tchoupitoulas, 11:30 a.m.
Shoplifting, 134 Royal, 1:54 p.m.
Bicycle Theft, 8 Canal, 11:49 p.m.

Tuesday (2.1.11)

Theft, 701 Bourbon, 1:15 a.m.
Auto Theft, 200 Bourbon, 9:46 a.m.
Theft, 1535 Tulane, 10:59 a.m.
Theft, Elysian Fields & Royal, 11:11 a.m.
Auto Burglary, 2111 Dauphine, 12:44 p.m.
Theft, 148 Carondelet, 5:43 p.m.
Theft, Orleans & N Rampart, 8:57 p.m.
Theft, 401 Bourbon, 11:56 p.m.

Wednesday (2.2.11)

Theft, 316 Chartres, 1:21 p.m.
Theft, 400 Girod, 3:38 p.m.
Theft, 124 Royal, 4:27 p.m.

Thursday (2.3.11)

Auto Burglary, 1431 Dauphine, 9:37 a.m.
Auto Theft, 1107 S Peters, 5:33 p.m.

Friday (2.4.11)

None

Saturday (2.5.11)

Theft, 228 Poydras, 10:06 a.m.
Aggravated Assault, 833 Poydras, 10:38 a.m.
Theft, 100 Iberville, 5:42 p.m.

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Thom Kahler