HPD: Lower Westheimer is a criminal "honey hole"
KHOU-11's Jeff McShan reports on armed robbers who have seemingly taken over lower Westheimer:
Police are trying to catch a couple of restaurant robbers who have been terrorizing customers in the Lower Westheimer area.
Vera Wolf and at least a dozen others have been robbed at gunpoint since early December.
The suspect demands purses, wallets, cash and cell phones.
"I was concentrating on that gun and what I could do not to get shot," said Wolf.
Wolf and a friend had just left a restaurant in the 400 block of Westheimer.
"We were approached by a man on the sidewalk," remembered Wolf.
The gunman ordered Wolf to hand over her purse.
[snip]
"They think they're going to go out and make some fast cash," said HPD Sgt. Rich Nieto, with HPD's robbery division. "And they've been using the Lower Westheimer area as kind of a honey hole anytime they need some money."
We would note that there is a police storefront nearby, in the 800 block of Westheimer. Of course, it's the same storefront that was blitzed by taggers just over a year ago, so it seems not to be much of a crime deterrent.
Apparently, we can add "Dining on lower Westheimer, just blocks away from a police storefront" to Chief Hurtt's list of dangerous time/place/behavior situations.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/18/08 10:27 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (20)
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