Pretty bold to rob the DA's investigator of his gun, badge and car. Duh.

That had to have been a hair raising event for the investigator....

Clipped him good, they did.

I wonder if they also stole all the Bazooka Joe bubble gum from the shop? That fetches a high price on the street with the gang members I hear.

If California were a "Shall Issue" state, stupid things like that wouldn't happen because there'd have been a few others in that shop packing heat.

Places like Barber Shops wouldn't get robbed because there wouldn't be enough to be gained for the risk of being killed in the act. Even Gang Bangers worry about getting capped by an old man or woman with a 357 magnum in their pocket. It makes them think twice about trying to sheer sheep.

All the tight gun laws in the world won't disarm Gangs. They only disarm "Joe Citizen" and make them a MUCH EASIER target for the armed Gang members.

Most businesses carry  insurance for this very reason. A decent employer would never suggest you try to stop a armed gunman just for some cash,or a car.

These idiots will be found.

Robbing a barber shop...what WILL they think of next?   Considering everyone uses plastic these days, how much cash could that have netted?  Enough to justify the prison time for robbery with a deadly weapon?

Does this fall in the "They Walk Among Us" category?

No Sage, most businesses don't. A few businesses do. A Barber Shop wouldn't be considered to be a high risk business. Very little cash and nothing of real value to steal. And, since it's in California, no danger of being killed trying to do it. They didn't rob the shop. They went in there to rob the customers because they knew it'd be an easy job. The odds of someone being in there and armed was slim to none. Besides, if a business has Insurance, in your opinion does it all of a sudden make it OK for someone to come in with a gun and rob them?

Liquor stores, Convenience stores, Banks, etc. tend to be high risk for different reasons. A lot (but not all) of those places carry Insurance if they can get it.

Robbing a Barber Shop is like robbing a Tanning and Nail Salon. Not much cash and nothing of real value to steal.

Before you try and rationalize around this crime, you might should try living someplace where "Joe Citizen" is allowed to go armed. in public you never see the guns people carry. It's really easy for law abiding citizens to forget that 1 person in 10 is carrying a gun in their pocket. The bad guys never forget those numbers though. Every time they decide to commit a crime, they weigh the odds of being killed by a little old lady in the process. It really does make them think twice.

ya gots to be kidding me! so...was the DA investigator sleeping, or what? most copper's wait a lifetime for that set up. OK, here's my gun, and badge, and car, and respect....sheesh.

Ouch that must of hurt.

Doggone, you are way out of line. I personally know the DA investigator who was robbed. He was an athlete at BC in the mid-70's as a record setting hurdler. He worked for the KCSO his entire adult career, and spent many years in the narcotics unit.

So let me ask you this....

You are in a barber shop getting your hair cut. You have a pistol on your ankle or under your shirt. Two gang members rush inside and point guns at you before you can react. They order no one to move. There are innocent people in the shop too.  

Would you try to go for your gun and face a gun battle? Maybe you would get shot before you could even pull it. What  about the others in the shop?

Oh wait, I know. You would pull your gun and shoot the guns out of the robbers hands.

You watch to many cop shows on TV.

Dang Ward, you beat me to it and took the words right out of my mouth...or fingers

I find that hard to believe.

What is it that you find hard to believe Lana?

If those boys came to rob the barber shop I go to they'd be beat, robbed and gang raped.  They're lucky  to have found such docile barbers and customers.

I'm glad the District Attorney investigator did not act like Jack Bauer on 24. As Jack Bauer would say "Damn it."

I don't think it was the barber shop they were after.  It was the DA, his car and the gun.  Retaliation?  Maybe.  Why would they rob the shop on E Brundage and just so happen to take the unmarked car?  They left it 1/4 a mile from the scene.  Wasn't the car they were after either. 

Maybe a gang challange.

Could be Nancy.  The other night, Saturday?, I was listening to the scanner and there was a shooting.  After that there were several more "shots fired" and vehicles fleeing, houses being surrounded and searched for the suspects.  None of this made the paper and I suspected that it was in retaliation of the original shooting.  One of them was a house known by the neighbors as being a drug house with children living there.  The situation was so out of control that the PD called for a code 8 which is all officers remain on duty.   There is so much going on out there that it is scary.  When they do make a drug bust it seems as if tit is poo pooed by some of the bloggers.  I don't think they realize the scope of the situation.  ANY drugs off the streets is a good thing.  We pay the police for being on the streets so why not do the most of it.  Shots heard on the scanner as I am writing this. 

I agree Vwilroy. 

As for the county guy.  County cars are never unmarked unless they're undercover.  White, exempt plates, and most have numbers somewhere on the body.  No particular make, not all American made.  To get an idea drive by the county building on North Chester or by the parking lot behind the courthouse.

Gangsters and thugs know the cars well.

Speaking of stupid criminals....

I got this from the Santa Maria Times.  The only question I have is why was this in the Santa Maria Times and not in The Californian?

http://www.santamariatimes....

FRESNO, Calif. - A man accused of killing his girlfriend was shot to death in a Stockton courtroom Wednesday after he attacked the judge presiding over his murder trial, officials said.

David Paradiso, 28, was shot by a police detective after he left the witness stand and began attacking San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Cinda Fox during a break in proceedings, said Dave Konecny, a spokesman for the sheriff's department.

Paradiso had been testifying around 2 p.m. when his mother, in the audience, left the courtroom upset. Fox called a recess, and as jurors filed out, Paradiso left the stand and approached the judge from behind "with an unknown cutting instrument," Konecny said.

Karen McConnell, a county spokeswoman, said witnesses reported seeing Paradiso lift the judge and begin punching and possibly stabbing her when bailiffs ran to her aid and shots rang out. Lodi Police Det. Eric Bradley has been placed on administrative leave while the shooting is being investigated, city spokesman Jeff Hood said.

Fox, who had a bandage on her left arm as she was carried out of the courthouse on a stretcher, told reporters, "I'm OK," before being taken to a hospital. Calls to her home were not immediately returned.

The courthouse immediately went on lockdown, although people were allowed to leave after the building was secured, McConnell said.

Konecny said he did not know how Paradiso obtained a weapon. He said at least two bailiffs were on duty in the courtroom at the time of the attack.

Paradiso was on trial for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend, Eileen Pelt, in the neck as his mother drove them in her car. Debra Paradiso told police her son forced her to drive to Amador County, where he dumped the body.

Paradiso's attorney, Charles Pacheco, said in opening arguments last week that his client was high on methamphetamine at the time. Pacheco did not immediately return a call Wednesday seeking comment.

Aaron Paradiso, the suspect's brother, told KCRA-TV of Sacramento that his brother was "crazy" and said he had told authorities and attorneys that he shouldn't be put on the stand. He said his mother had warned deputies that the family believed Paradiso had a cutting weapon from some sort of clipper or scissors.

Concerns about courthouse security have grown since 2005, when an unshackled defendant being escorted into an Atlanta court for a rape trial stole a deputy's gun and went on a shooting rampage. A jury found Brian Nichols, 37, guilty in November of murdering the deputy, a judge and two others.

(This version CORRECTS spelling of spokesman's man to Konecny.)

Oh great...now there's some ghetto trash running around out there with a badge and a cops weapon...as if things weren't bad enough...

Tonyh~"Besides, if a business has Insurance, in your opinion does it all of a sudden make it OK for someone to come in with a gun and rob them? "

Um,no. But my life is worth much more than a few bucks or your rolex.Sorry.Every business I have ever worked for,small or large has said "Just give them the money". I believe even the police discourage vigilante action.

Out of line Ward? Hardly. If TBC printed his name, I would probably know him also. Most of the DA investigators are coppers who go there to retire. Why was he getting his hair cut while on the clock? Because it grows on County time?

It's hard to predict how we'll respond when someone points a gun at us. I just decided to shoot the fool who did it to me. And I believe 90% of coppers would do the same.

I can kind of see everyone's points here, but from my point of view, I'm glad the DA Investigator did what he did.  If this were my husband, and he came home with a story about how he had been robbed at the barbershop, I would be worried and upset, but thankful no one got hurt.  If he came home with a story about a shootout at the barbershop, where bullets flew and people got hurt or killed, I would be panicky and frantic (and probably have nightmares about it for a while.)

You can, with time, learn to laugh about the first scenario.  The second scenario would never be anything other than upsetting and depressing.

[And I sincerely hope they find these little losers.]

We don't need a Dirty Harry wannabee.  This was a robbery and not a threat  to life and limb.  Two guys walk in with guns out and someone thinks the investigator should pull out a 45 hogleg and blow them away?  How far do you think he would get before being shot, along with the others?

DogGone, this story could have easily been played out here yesterday.

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I expect no one other than sworn police officers, of which the DA investigators are a part of, to protect society from criminals. Me remembers that in fact, that all sworn personnel actually take an oath, or swear to protect the citizens from thugs like the one Ward points out in his post, and the jack rods who robbed the barber shop. The fact that these probably gang banging punks here got away, and will no doubt in any coppers mind, rob again, proves that he didn't uphold his oath.

Worst case scenario, somebody dies. Guaron tee you that no one will rob that place again. Just because someone gets shot, does not mean you will die. Far more peoples get shot and live, than die. Now, I don't recommend you take a bullet to prove the facts. Without adding them up, I personally know 10 coppers  who've been shot and lived, 1 who died  in Oakland, and many more who've been in shootings and not been shot.

Be a man, protect society, get your hair cut on your own time!

"what did you do to get to sleep in a bed, and have 3-4 meals a day, healthcare and the ability to work out?"

I robbed some people

2:30 in the afternoon on a Wednesday.  Robbed getting a haircut.  County time or personal time? Or, maybe doing follow up on a crime being investigated?  Or maybe on furlough?

OK, talked to few folks in the know. I'll give him a pass. 

I'll bet that relieves his mind.

ROFLOL~ I know it did mine.

Wow, doggone, you mean you posted all your brilliant comments and THEN you found out the truth? Why am I not surprised?

Wow, that was a close shave.  I'm glad no one got hurt.

To sagefever- you need to change your picture to that of a lamb. Nancy , to say a robbery is "not a threat to life or limb" defies logic. Simply put, if you are a cop and give up your gun, you are at the mercy of potential killers. The Investigator should be fired.

rafterb~ I certainly will not take that into consideration~ but thanks for the idea, I like Trinity just fine.

Who are you people? This is the law abiding town of Bako. These young punks don't give a crap about you and me. Screw them! Thinking about buying Ol Blue a laptop with a new IP adderess so I'll get a little love here. Just cuz i went easy on Ol' Mack doesn't mean i would not have put Mr. Bad A$$ (Barber shop bandit) in a a grave. Just gave  Moze a pass. sheesh,,,

A week doesn't go by that I don't think abou tthe P.O.S. fools I shot while working to protect  OUR community. The biggest critics of the Poe Leece are the police. I stand by my belief that 90% of the working cops would have plugged him. It's easy sitting on the sidelines. wiyh love :)

No one here is sticking up for these criminals~ just saying that the investigator for the D.A. was the one actually there,he knew what was up and made his call. I can not second guess that~ and thanks for policing the community.

Was the firearm and badge "on" the victim DA Investigator, or located in his car outside?  Wouldn't that little tidbit make a whole lot of difference in the comments being posted?

SOME OF YOU PEOPLE NEED TO READ THE MONTHLY ACCOUNTS IN NRA'S, AMERICAN RIFLEMAN THAT DETAIL THE SITUATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHERE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TAKEN THE TRAINING, EITHER DISARM, SERIOUSLY WOUND OR KILL BAD GUYS WITH THEIR "2ND AMENDMENT RIGHTS ."

Rafter, you're right, I put that badly.  Of course two men waving guns around are a threat to life and limb which is exactly why the investigator was right not to try out draw them.  It isn't the old west, high noon, main street with a look signaling time to draw.  There was ALREADY a gun drawn and it wasn't the investigators.

Old West? Get real. putting some lead in a POS masked robber is not thr Old West. It's modern law enforcement. note force.

Policing the community? Lying on the floor is not Policing the community.

The gun , badge and keys were on him. the bad guys had all the folks lay on the floor. when the cop took his wallet out of his pocket, they saw his gun. he was lucky they didn't cap his a$$ then.

me, I would have started flying lead prior to  getting prone.

those who  can, do.

those who can't teach.

Yes we can and do second guess citizens and coppers all day long.

ask Officer Eddy how he would have reacted. Me thinks he'd of put about 6 pieces o' lead in each of them.

With a gun pointed at you, you would have unsnapped your holster, pulled your gun out and fired.  Is that what you're saying?

What do you suppose the other guy is doing all that time?

No one was injured the way it was handled..your way could have gotten a civilian killed.

I was thanking you doggone~ but now I changed my mind. You may well be a danger to the community.

Too many Clint Eastwood movies.

By the way doggone, Eddy's case was hot pursuit.  This was in a very small enclosed building.

Sage, it sounds like DogGone is either a "former" member of a law enforcement agency or a wanna be. Or he couldn't cut it and had to find another line of work. I wouldn't be surprised if he works at 2nd Amendment Sports and reads Soldier of Fortune magazine.

LOL Ward!

Here's a little bit of trivia for you, Dog.  You know what a cop's #1 shift priority is?  No--it's not catching bad guys, although that's always a good thing. 

It's coming HOME at the end of the shift.  Cops have seen it all--believe me.  I have no doubt that this DA Investigator's blood pressure was the lowest in the barbershop and his head was the clearest. 

Having said that, I do not doubt for a second that he made the right choice.  HE MADE IT HOME, DIDN'T HE?

Nancy,ward and Cat~ well said.I wanted to say something...but you all mamaged to do it for me while be much more polite and on point than I was leaning.Thanks.

again, on my 2nd shooting, yes i did unsnap my holster, pulled my gun, and shot the punk a$$ 3 times. missed 7 times though. Investigating Lt. asked why I fired 10 times. told her because I ran out of bullets!.

Danger to the community? Our community needs more people like me. After the first punk I shot 6 months earlier, guy came over and gave me $ to go out to dinner. Said the guy I killed had killed a friend of his. On the 2nd shooting, Coroner inv said I did a good job.

What have you guys done to keep the streets of Bakersfield safe?

Hey, I'm on your (our) side.