“A group of people in black ski masks and armed with a rifle carjacked a man and took off in his Lexus during Tuesday night’s rainstorm, police said. Authorities are searching for the group of suspects,” according to the O.C. Register.
What the Register did not report is that the carjacking took place nearby two public parks, just north of the vaunted Sandpointe Neighborhood! (See the graphics above and below).
So much for Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido’s “safe” Santa Ana. By the way, there were 7 carjackers. Their ages ranged from the late teens to the early 20s.
I hope all you people who voted for Pulido and his “Team” on Nov. 4 are proud of yourselves! Either you believed the lies propagated by Team Pulido, about Santa Ana being one of the “safest cities in Orange County,” or you simply did not do your homework. In either case, the threat of carjackings is now infiltrating good neighborhoods in Santa Ana.
Perhaps Pulido needs to outsource our policing to Blackwater? Or maybe the Sandpointe neighbors can have a bake sale so they can hire a security guard to keep watch over their cars?
Have a Happy Thanksgiving fellow Santa Ana residents…and be sure to lock your doors and let loose the dogs. And by all means, please remember this crime wave in two years when Papi Pulido runs for re-election. Those that forget their history are doomed to repeat their mistakes…
Art,
Pudrido has no control over crime. The best thing we can do is educate our residents to be more visual and have more police on the streets. //HAPPY TURKY DAY //
7 guys, ski masks and a rifle? Something worse must have happened a half hour later. These guys were up to something and wanted a get-away car not traceable to any of them. You know what that something worse was, Art?
SAHS Teacher,
Good question. My guess is that the Lexus is now either at a chop shop or headed to another country, likely the one just south of us.
But who knows? That was a small army indeed…
HEY HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE WORD RETALIATE.
SANTA ANA RESIDENTS FEAR THAT WORD THATS WHY THEY DONT REPORT CRIME AT ALL ,THEY JUST LET IT GO …
WHATS THE POINT OF EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IF THEY DONT WANT TO BE PART OF IT.. IS THE SAME THING
WITH GRAFFITI THEY SPEND A LOT OF MONEY IN EDUCATING THE PUBLIC AND GETS EVEN WORST ..
ANOTHER WORDS ARE CITY IS NOT UNITED….
THE VOTERS HAD THEIR CHANCE AND THEY BLEW IT !!
YOU VOTED FOR THESE PEOPLE ,NOW YOU GET TO PAY THE PRICE !
WHEN UR KID GET SHOT , REMEBER WHO YOU VOTE FOR !
DONT COMPLAINT SUCK IT UP ….
Contrary to popular belief, while not the barrio, the area shown on the map on Birch is more of a stones throw from Lilly King park rather than what I would call next to Sandpointe. All of those Cul-de-sac streets off Birch provide access right into Lilly King Park and then either into McArthur Int. School or directly North into the Bradford complex, well known for ongoing problems.
That area of Birch street is well traveled all night with both vehicle and foot traffic. I’m surprised something like this hasn’t happened sooner. You get what you pay for..or perhaps not.
#6,
Have a look at the new graphic I loaded above. Apparently the Sandpointe Neighborhood does indeed lie just below the area where this latest carjacking occurred.
Art,
The second graphic is really not to scale. Sandpointe Park is due south by about 1-2 blocks. W. Columbine is at least a full block north. The line of demarcation really is McArthur. Tactically if the cops rolled into this incident the bad boys would have run to Lilly King so they could scatter. Your point is well taken that it is close to Sandpointe, but it’s a lot closer to Lilly King.
Rookie-
A great number of us that comment on this very blog did not vote for the men and women currently in office. We should be very concerned and be able to say so without getting the basic you suck you voted for them response. I for one voted for Art Pedroza, Jim Walker and George Collins among others that did not end up elected in the end. Suck it up my a**!
Numbers 4,5,and 6, all you are right!. But does not mean that we have to suck it up!. Lets keep up the resistence and try again for a change!2010 is not to far.All dictatorships sooner or later fall(Chile,Nicaragua,Panama,Argentina,Mexico, etc…prove that).
Podrido and his team must go!!!!!!!!
it’s Anacrime, not Ana crime. That moniker is reserved and owned by Anaheim Art ;).
MARY
I TRUTHLY AGREE WITH MARY..
santa ana is shit full of buggered up things.
if hell puked,this is what would come out
Former resident of 14 years,sick of racist latinos
that’s what they are(oh,and rapists)
ps,thats a nice area,and all the kids are blunt smokin thugs with no supervision