[kictanet] New Twist in Carjacking - with ICT this criminal could be behind bars

[Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau]

Thanks Evans for this timely info. I've already posted it on Facebook.

On 13/09/2012, Edwin Onchari <eonchari at lynxbits.com> wrote:
> Listers,
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> I thought I should share this to highlight the urgency of entrenching and
> investing in ICT in our law enforcement agencies. It would have been so
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> to dust for prints and run against a criminal database/register of
> persons..wonder how many have fallen victim
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> Edwin
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> Please sample this, and watch out:
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> This is very scary and could happen to any of us. Seems like every nice
> thing people do for one another can be perverted.  A new twist on
> kidnapping
> from a very smart survivor:
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> About a week ago there was a woman standing by the Sarit Centre entrance in
> Westlands, this woman had finished shopping, went out to her car and
> discovered that she had a flat tyre.
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> She got the jack out of the trunk and began to change the flat tyre.  A
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> man dressed in a business suit and carrying a briefcase walked up to her
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> said, "I noticed you're changing a flat tyre.
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> Would you like me to take care of it for you?"  The woman was grateful for
> his offer and accepted his help.
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> They chatted amiably while the man changed the tyre, and then put the flat
> tyre and the jack in the boot, shut it and dusted his hands off.
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> The woman thanked him profusely, and as she was about to get in her car,
> the
> man told her that he left his car around at The Mall, and asked if she
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> mind giving him a lift to his car.
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> She was a little surprised and she asked him why his car was at The Mall.
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> He said that he left his car because of a traffic Jam, and now he was
> running late.  The woman hated to tell him "no" because he had just rescued
> her from having to change her flat tire all by herself, but she felt
> uneasy.
> (Trust that gut feeling!)
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> Then she remembered seeing the man put his briefcase in her boot before
> shutting it and before he asked her for a ride to his car.
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> She told him that she'd be happy to drive him around to his car, but she
> just remembered one last thing she needed to buy. (Smart woman!!)
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> She said she would only be a few minutes; he could sit down in her car and
> wait for her; she would be as quick as she could be.
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> She hurried into the mall, and told a security guard! what had happened,
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> guard came out to her car with her, but the man had left.  They opened the
> trunk, took out his locked briefcase and took it down to the police
> station.
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> The police opened it (ostensibly to look for ID so they could return it to
> the man).  What they found was rope, duct tape, and knives.  When the
> police
> checked her "flat" tire, there was nothing wrong with it; the air had
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> been let out.  It was obvious what the man's intention was, and obvious
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> he had carefully thought it out in advance.  The woman was blessed to have
> escaped harm.
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> How much worse it would have been if she had children with her and had them
> wait in the car while the man fixed the tire, or if she had a baby strapped
> into a car seat?  Or if she'd gone against her judgment and given him a
> lift?
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> I'd like you to forward this to all those you know that may need to be
> reminded that the world we live in has a lot of deviants in it. It may save
> a life.   Better to be safe than sorry.
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> A candle is not dimmed by lighting another candle.
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> If you love your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, etc., you may want to
> pass it on to them, as well.
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> Mr. Leonard Maina Mugambi
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> +254 720 248 873
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