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Man arrested in Roseville kidnapping
Sheriff’s detectives have arrested the suspect in Thursday’s harrowing kidnapping of a 35-year-old Roseville woman and are looking for an accomplice. Late Thursday, detectives arrested Rick Anthony Cooley, 31, of North Highlands in connection to the brazen attack, in which the victim was kidnapped for several hours while her attacker drove around Placer and Sacramento counties On Friday, Lt. Jeff Ausnow said deputies are looking into the possibility that Cooley wasn’t acting alone. “We’re certainly looking into that and investeing that,” he said. “But we have no description of the second person.” The ordeal began at 7 a.m., when Cooley and the woman apparently got into a minor car accident on Vineyard Road near Crowder Road on the outskirts of Roseville, officials said. The two got out of their vehicles to exchange information. That’s when Cooley hit her, then pushed her into her car, Ausnow said. For the next three hours, the man drove the woman around Sacramento and Placer counties until he dropped her at Duffy Lane and PFE Road – a rural pocket about 2.5 miles from the site of the original altercation. The victim went to a local resident’s house and called for help. Meanwhile, the suspect then fled in the victim’s 2000 Mitsubishi Montero. An investigation led detectives to Elkhorn Boulevard, where they arrested Cooley at 8:30 p.m., Ausnow said. Deborah Labinger was at home Thursday morning when the victim, covered in blood, walked up to her house asking for help. Labinger applied compression to help stanch the bleeding as the victim began telling her harrowing story. “It seeed like she was not aware of how much time had passed,” Labinger said. “I realy felt like she was so mentally traumatized when she came to me, it was like the injury had ust happened.” Labinger, a chiropractor with an office in North Highlands, said the man “just drove and drove and drove. “It’s my understanding that when she tried to poke her head up he said, ‘get down.’” At one point, another man got into the car, Labinger said, according to the victim. The victim told Labinger she begged her assailant for her life repeatedly. “She told him, ‘Please don’t kill me.’ I can only think tha because she was persistent and so earnest tha he finally relented.” Ausnow said sheriff’s investigators don’t know what the motive was, and that the Cooley wasn’t known to her. But Cooley is well known to law enforcement. Sacramento Superior Court records show Cooley has been charged with felonies going back to 1998, and was paroled in September. The offenses include cars thefts, receiving or selling stolen property, and felony robbery, records show. On Thursday, sheriff’s added six more: kidnapping, carjacking, false imprisonment, assault, robbery and battery. Ausnow said bail would be set at $200,000. He said the victim received facial lacerations which required sutures. She was treated for her injuries and released.
* Accident safety * According to the National Crime Prevention Council, accidents are often used by criminals to draw victims out of their cars. It’s called the “bump and rob” technique, and can lead to assault, robbery, or both. The group advises motorists involved in a minor accident to: * Look around before getting out * Make sure there are other cars around, then check the other car and see who’s in it. * If the situation makes you uneasy, stay in the car and insist on moving to a police station or a busier, well-lit area to exchange information.
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Why is this scumbag walking the streets?
It doesn't say in the story, but will he be eligible for Three Strikes sentecning, if convicted? He had previous felonies, so I imagine he would. As for car accident safety, which sounds like an oxymoron, it would be difficult to try and convince the other motorist involved to drive somewhere else before exchanging information. I wouldn't do it, especially if the other person was at fault. And I'd be hesitant to suggest it, lest the other person thought I was trying to leave the scene of an accident, and could possible make an issue of it later to police or the insurance company.
Why is he walking the streets? Because bleeding heart types think it's bad to lock up such a nice scumbag just because he's misunderstood. As to safety... everyone has a cell phone now-a-days... You get hit, pull that puppy out immediately and dial someone that is an adult... ANYONE! If an altercation happens, the other party had better have the intelligence to call the cops and report a possible problem. If you break down, same scenario... if you get stopped by a cop, same scenario... the object is to let someone know that there is a problem and IF it escalates, there is a someone there to help on the other end of the line. Or just stay in the car, flash your lights, honk your horn... Do anything you can to attract attention.
It's too bad the victim wasn't armed. She could have shot this piece of filth and saved the taxpayers the cost of his public defender.
This is exactly why every law abiding citizen should be armed.
This guy wants to be the poster child for the 3-strikes law. I say give him the job.
Oh heck folks, he probably is just mis-understood. Give him a fourth chance.......the system will
Hey auburnnite. No comment? You usually have some smart remark about how law enforcement sucks. Maybe you are staying away from this one because the deputies did a great job of getting this criminal off the streets. Oh well, enjoy your government check that I PAY for with MY taxes. By the way, they are doing seasonal hiring everywhere for the holidays. Please apply and a least try to contribute to society. I'm tires of you collecting checks on my back. Good luck.
The Cops For Peace are holding a rally next week to protest the use of police in law enforcement actions.
We should have a world where no crime exists and keeping cops on the payroll only provides incentive for criminals to commit crimes.
Think of how much money is spent on law enforcement that could be spent on welfare, free health-care and other such government social programs!
At the next Law Enforcement activity, they will be protesting the use of guns, tasers, and batons on criminals who, if those weapons were not available, would immediately walk backwards with their hands behind them asking to be locked up.
Now, who can argue with the Cops For Peace on this? After all, don't we all want peace?
/sarc
To answer your question, this uy is walking the street because the judges that you elect do not live in the neighborhoods that you and I do. All judges live in gated communities or large ranches, away from the common crminal. If they have a problem, they call the Sheriff or Chief of police directly and all fo the resources of that department are unleashed!. When a common person cals 911, you get a rude dispatcher and maybe an officer.
Never get out of your car, sit tight, call the police and keep the windows up with just a opening to talk to the person. Wait for the police to arrive. Always carry a phone whether you have the money or not, prepaid phones are very inexpensive and can be used just for emergencies. This person may have caused the accident just to do her harm or steal her car. I wouldn't work in law enforcement but I sure appreciate what they do for us, and I have never spoken to a rude person on 911.
Yosemite_Sam stated:
"We should have a world where no crime exists and keeping cops on the payroll only provides incentive for criminals to commit crimes. "
I sure wouldn't want to live in a world where the police were not working for the good of the community and on payroll. Try living in IRAQ for a while..
"Cops for Peace", --YS, I love it.
With the current state of the judicial system in CA these encounters with career criminals will remain out of control. Our prisons have been "forced" to release large numbers of felons back out on the street. Overcrowding and a bankrupt system means a a good time to be a criminal in CA. Early releases are common place, plea bargaining to lesser offenses is out of control, and I would imagine it's harder to get hooked up and arrested in the first place.
CA needs twice as many prisons and jails as it has online today. We are a decade late in even breaking ground on these projects. Slapping criminals on the hand is grossly negligent and sets up the next victims that are bound to cross paths with these scum. I feel sorry for the cops out there who have to deal with this revolving door and day in and out having to see the victims of this travesty. Citizens of this bankrupt State need to wake up and refuse to become victims. And the next time some politician starts singing for insane gun control legislation you might want to think twice about supporting such policies that limit gun ownership to criminals only.
MikeGruber: Wait a minute now. Didn't we send a bunch of criminals off to other states where the cost of imprisonment was lower and thereby saved millions in tax dollars? Oh no..wait, that's right. The prison guard union sued and the courts ordered the inmates to be released in California rather than moved to another state.
I kind of forgot what prisons were for. For a moment, I was thinking they were to punish criminals, but now I remember they are about jobs for union members, union dues for campaign funds, and liberal Democrat legislators for higher taxes.
I could save the tax payers loads of money.....
I'd just move the top 30% of violent repeat offenders out of our prisons and into the ground.
I'd have a cage and a chain gang for every criminal willing to occupy it spot.
Realeasing the lower 30% back into society is just asking for it and sending the wrong message to criminals.
I know Stalin was a jerk, but let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.
CA has become a criminals Disneyland.
YS, that was funny!
Seriously though, great job by our sheriff's deputies in getting this criminal off the streets!!!
Prisons for punishment...that is a novel idea. Prisons are just the islands where we warehouse predators like Cooley. He is another good reason why I believe some people shouldn't be allowed to breed. I wonder how many kids Cooley has spawned while loose on the streets. While we contribute taxes to warehouse Cooley (money well spent, I should add), we will also be paying money to raise his kids. No doubt, we will someday be warehousing his children somewhere.
...and I agree with Mrex...another good reason to allow law abiding citizens to carry concealed.
I can see it now, every person with a gun, every accident with a gun fight. Some of the comments in this thread deserve less than the effort required for a direct response
as an attractive single senior, I just can not feel safe with men like this walking around - i moved here because it was supposed to be a safe neighborhood.
Jab, you are a coward. This wasn't an 'accident', it was a g*dd*mn CRIME. The woman was kidnapped and begged for her life. Would you have been happier if the woman was raped, or killed? Read this carefully because I truly mean it. I hope that you, or someone you love is victimized in the same way so you can feel the terror and helplessness this victim did...all the while knowing that leftist cowards such as yourself decry and criticize the basic right people have to defend themselves.
Mrex, you are a butt. I didn't say it wasn't a GODDAMNCRIME, and further more, UP YOURS. Rage on dude, it's just you who will pay the price.
Mrex...my first inclination was to flag your response, my second inclination was to join the rage, which I guess I did, at least to a point. Calm down, please, I really don't care about your gun laws, excepting autoweapons of mass destruction. What I'm concerned about is, in reading some of the posts in this thread, that some people shouldn't be loose on the street with weapons of any kind, ...including pitbulls. My post was to simply point that out. I wasn't defending the creep or calling it less than a crime. And most certainly, I didn't mean to bring any kind of discomfort to the lady involved. To her I apologize, and hopefully she is recovering and happy knowing the....(I could get flagged for the phrases I'm thinking)... is off the street.
Lets have a beer, Mrex or Trex, or whatever your name is, just kidding about the name dude.
You'll excuse me if I say thanks, but no thanks.
MRex21,
....well done.
Mikey, how about you, beer?
MRex21 and Mike Gruber: Seriously, I 'm striving for the high road, the centrist point of view. That's a commendable goal for us all. And currently, we're all off target by quite a long way. I made a point in another thread that a right winged bird flys in circles at best, and so too, a left winged bird. It takes both wings for directional movement. If I may, the point of my first post was to simply say that guns are not the answer to the problems we all encounter. To the contrary, I believe several posts in this thread would have you believe that. I absolutely did not intend to diminsh the severity of the incident in question, I could have done a better job of expressing my concerns. Personally, I believe the tone of many AJ threads has risen to an unacceptable level of rage and hostility, not just this particular thread. And also, seriously, I don't think a beer on the White House lawn is needed to resolve our issues,....not that I'm against a beer or two or ten....at a place of your choice, but just not as a peace offering. Cheers, .....and check your guns at the door.