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Wawa robbery charges advance
Charges advance in botched holdup
Date published: 11/7/2008
BY KEITH EPPS Charges against a man who got a face full of hot coffee during a botched robbery in North Stafford last month were sent to a county grand jury yesterday. Scott Michael Bleutge, 44, of Stafford is charged with robbery, malicious wounding and wearing a mask in public. He is accused of robbing the Wawa at 105 Garrisonville Road early Oct. 16. The robbery was partially thwarted when an off-duty Secret Service agent, Michael McCrane, tossed coffee into the suspect's face as he was trying to leave. The suspect got away briefly with about $79, police said. Some $387 was dropped and left behind during the struggle involving McCrane. During a preliminary hearing yesterday in Stafford General District Court, Wawa manager Douglas Preidis said he saw a masked suspect hanging around the office that morning, so he asked if he could help him. The suspect pulled out a knife and ordered Preidis to open the safe, Preidis said. When the manager told him he didn't have the key, the suspect walked him to the cash registers. Preidis yesterday identified Bleutge as the suspect. He said he could see most of his face because of the way the mask was positioned. Preidis said the suspect got cash from two registers and was about to leave when he was confronted by a customer. The customer, McCrane, threw coffee into the suspect's face and struggled with him. During the struggle, most of the stolen money fell to the floor and McCrane suffered a slight cut to his chin. The suspect fled from the store and got into a red Chevrolet Cavalier. Another customer saw the suspect toss the ski mask into a trash can and got the fleeing suspect's license number, according to the evidence presented by prosecutor Tara Mooney. Deputy Daniel Purcell testified that Bleutge reeked of alcohol and was wet with coffee when the vehicle was stopped a few minutes later on southbound Interstate 95. Purcell said Bleutge insisted that he had not been at the Wawa, but a 5-inch hunting knife and money believed to have been taken in the robbery were recovered from his car. Bleutge had just been released from jail the previous day. He had been arrested for stealing a 12-pack of beer from a delivery truck outside the same Wawa. As is customary in preliminary hearings, defense attorney Terence Patton put on no evidence. But Patton indicated that he will especially fight the malicious wounding charge, saying that any use of the knife was more of a reaction to the hot coffee than an actual attack. Keith Epps: 540/374-5404
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this was the best turnout
(posted by
lugrad
, Nov. 7, 2008 11:28 am)
1thatknows... if you had read the original story the day after this happened the person who wrote down the license number was not loitering, they where filing their car up with gas and happened to notice what was going on. If anything they should be given an award for doing their civil duty and not just turning a head. Do I think that anyone else who is in McCrane's positions should take the same action, NO. He is apart of the SS and has gone through some training. This guy who robber was and idiot!
1thatknows yeah right
(posted by
returninghome
, Nov. 7, 2008 10:14 am)
lmao you mean if you saw some one being robbed and your a Secret Service agent ( or even a non chicken human being you wouldnt try something?) I know i would of at least think of something and you wouldnt write down the license plate? so you'd turn your head and head on home and smile and say i did a good thing and not care ?I just dont get it but then again ... (shakes head ) some people
usual dumb comments
(posted by
2LongInStafford
, Nov. 7, 2008 8:56 am)
Ummm, for 1thatknowsNOTHING... don't you get what the job of a defense attorney is? Quite simply it is to get his client off the charges or get as many of them dismissed as possible. Mr. Patton is just doing his job. If if was the prosecution suggesting this you could howl about it, but the defense? No. You had better hope that if you ever need the services of a defense attorney he does the same job for you.
Wilderness & Ithatknows
(posted by
jameyboat
, Nov. 7, 2008 8:35 am)
You both express my thoughts exactly!
No laughing matter
(posted by
Wilderness
, Nov. 7, 2008 7:49 am)
1ThatKnoows - Unfortunately that might be the direction that we are headed in. Victims being charged for defending themselves or stopping some thug from victimizing someone else.
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