ATTN those who live in Cities Housing Evacuees...

[SJRTX]

This may not need to be said to some, but keep your weapon handy if you live in a city housing Katrina Evacuees. A lot of the main stream media isnt reporting the whole story, but people are reporting rapes, murders, beatings, stabbings, and ive heard reports of rapes of small children 7, 13 and maybe a 10 year old all happened in the Superdome. It had been reported on both Fox and MSNBC that the local jail was forced to free around 3,000 prisoners who are also part of the evacuees heading to various places in Texas. A person on a car forum I visit, who lives here in Houston, reported a friend being involved in an attempted car jacking, which was thwarted with his weapon, and the person later being arrested. The car jacker was from NOLA(imagine that).

Another thing to consider, there are lots of drug addicts(coke heads, meth addicts, crack smokers etc etc) along with alcoholics who havent had their fix in sometime, and are probably willing to do whatever necessary to get it.

No doubt that the majority of the people we invited in are well behaved and sincerely in need of help. However, with the good there will always be the bad, and these bad types have NOTHING to lose right now, and EVERYTHING to gain. So these criminals are even more dangerous now than ever before.

One Police officer that happens to live close to me, posted on a gun forum that frequent, in regards to the Astrodome:

"I was scheduled to work 3 shifts at the dome.
Luckily I was cancelled. I have heard a few things from other Officers that make me glad I won't be working that hole.'

[HankB]

Yesterday I overheard part of a conversation between an Austin cop and a clerk at a car dealer's service counter. I didn't hear everything, but I gather he's been working 10 hour days at Austin's Convention Center (housing for NOLA refugees) and APD has had a LOT more problems with the refugees than what you see on TV - assaults, drugs, robbery, etc.

He didn't seem to be enjoying that duty.

[stevie_d_64]

I have noticed an increase in the Houston area of assaults and other serious crimes being committed...

And they are being reluctantly reported being performed by "small groups" of 3-4 "armed" black men...

I remember last week an assault and murder of an individual, where it took 3 news segments to finally get the reporterette to give us the usual vague description of the attackers...

"3-4 armed black males"...

Now does this mean they are evacuees from N.O. looking for easy pickings??? Who can really say...

The news media, wants to always report the previous evenings homicides...Thats been going on since I can remember...Whats new is that they are being overly vague and blatantly reluctant to give descriptions from witnesses, where they used to trip over themselves to do so in recent history...

But, I figure most of us are smart enough to figure some things out, and react accordingly...

[Trainman]

From the 9/14/05 FW Star-Telegram:
"Glenn E. Holloway, 28, an evacuee from New Orleans, was in the Mansfield Jail on Tuesday night on suspicion of unlawful restraint of a person younger than 17. Bail was set at $2,500."
(He was chasing a girl after she got off a school bus. Smart girl - called 911 and ran & hid. Cops caught him while he was still looking for her.)
"Lt. Dean Sullivan, a Fort Worth police spokesman said officers learned that Holloway had fled Hurricane Katrina with his mother and had arrived at a shelter in Fort Worth. From there, they were placed in temporary housing in the 7700 block of Bermejo Road, two blocks west of the apartment complex."
"Pam Laborde, a spokeswoman for the Louisiana Department of Corrections, said Tuesday that Holloway was paroled from the Orleans Parish Prison in February after serving nearly five years on a narcotics charge and that he remained under supervision until June 21. His name does not appear on lists of sex offenders supervised by Louisiana."

Holloway's arrest is the first notable incident police have had with an evacuee, Sullivan said.

"Police aren't keeping a tally of evacuees who have been arrested."