Alleged Robber Calls Victim For A Date

Sunday, March 11, 2012

A 26-year-old man from Carrick was ordered held for trial today on a robbery charge.

The suspect, John Jardini, is in the Allegheny County Jail.

Police say it’s one of the strangest robberies they’ve investigated. Jardini allegedly took $60 from a girl he confronted on Brownsville Road and Nobles Lane.

She had just gotten off a bus and was waiting for her mother.

After the robbery, Jardini called the woman on his cell phone twice, asking her if she had a boyfriend and if she wanted to go out with him.

Police got a search warrant for Jardini’s phone records and were on the verge of tracking him down, but then Jardini reportedly assaulted the same girl and her mother outside Zack’s Market on Brownville Road.

He was arrested on the spot and positively identified as the guy who earlier robbed the girl.

Reaction to the unusual robbery in Carrick was one of shock.

“How could you be that damn stupid, that dumb?” Mary Lou Parker told KDKA-TV.

Dorian Johnson called Jardini an airhead.

“It was both stupid and dumb, definitely,” he said.

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Broken Heart Leads to Knife Fight in the Haight

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

We all know that broken hearts will make people do crazy things -- sometimes crazy enough to make it on the local police blotter.

For example, police recently had to break up a knife fight in the Lower Haight after a woman and her two brawling men crossed paths. According to San Francisco police, the woman and her live-in boyfriend had recently broken up -- and let's just say there were definitely some hard feelings.

Those feelings got even harder when the ex showed up at their old apartment on Oak Street with a friend to move his stuff out, and found her with her new boyfriend.

The woman's new man had already gotten a restraining order against the ex -- and so the bickering began. As the two were arguing, the new boyfriend pulled out a knife, which never leads to a healthy resolution. The ex-boyfriend's buddy wasn't going to let his friend down, and responded by pulling out his own knife.

Unfortunately, police could not confirm whose knife was bigger -- important details in a love war.

The two men got into a knife fight, which resulted in just a small cut to the nose. And of course, that pain is nothing compared to a broken heart.

As Police Captain Denis O'Leary so eloquently stated: "Isn't love a splendid thing to behold?"

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