In a release Thursday, Sanford police said they were dispatched to a "complaint/medical emergency" in the area of Twombley Road and Holly Street around 3 a.m.
Detective says there have been more than a dozen such thefts in Sanford alone.
By WGME
SANFORD Thieves are stealing catalytic converters from vehicles throughout New England.
“I got a call from my wife,” Jared Kenney, who says the catalytic converter was stolen from his wife’s company car, said. “She said, ‘Hey, my car’s running really weird, making a lot of weird sounds.’”
Kenney says it is his wife’s company van, so he went to see what was wrong with it.
“As soon as I started it up, I just knew for a fact there was something wrong with it,” Kenney said. “It was just a telltale sign on that one, and I checked under the car, and lo and behold, it was the catalytic converter. It was cut right off of it.”
of a mini 14, which is like an assault rifle. dr. everett allen, the surgeon at pelican bay, watches the mayhem unfold just steps away from his clinic. you see these little combat scenes going on all over the yard as far as you can see. you see smoke all over the yard, and you know that this is a pretty massive event. the sheer number of the people involved in the riot is overwhelming, 200 inmates, 100 officers. it was well choreographed. it was extremely well executed. the hispanics outnumbered the blacks two to one. they knew exactly what time they were going to do this, and they had their targets already picked out. you could see inmates working in pairs. it was teamwork. they set up little defensive perimeters. they set up assault teams. the senior deputy district attorney assigned to pelican bay says the inmates spent months preparing by making weapons in their cells.
just 20 feet from the watch tower, inmate miguel sanchez repeatedly stabs another inmate. he defiantly looks up at the officer with a rifle trained on him, but sanchez doesn t stop. he was shot and he was hit in the back of the skull. and when he went down, he immediately exsanguinated, he immediately bled out his entire blood volume in about 15 seconds. i ve seen a lot of trauma in my days, but i ve never seen anybody bleed out that fast ever before. the two warring factions fight over sanchez s body. the gangs are so determined that even a brutal death of one of their own inches away doesn t stop them. medics finally drag the body out to the clinic to dr. allen. he was not moving. he had a pasty, dusty look about him. when i grabbed his head, the back of his head was bleeding. after an intense and bloody 30 minutes, heavy reinforcements
gives somebody a cue, and it s people chasing other people with knives. a full-scale attack. the southern hispanics ambushed the black guerilla family. within seconds b yard becomes a war zone. there was a lot of confusion and a lot of chaos. the level of violence on this one yard at that one day, that one moment, was as large as i had ever seen in my life. nursing director jim anderson is at the shoe gate when he hears the explosion of a tear gas canister. i looked up and i saw the white smoke billowing out of b yard and then i heard the crack of a mini 14, which is like an assault rifle. dr. everett allen, the surgeon at pelican bay, watches the mayhem unfold just steps away from his clinic. you see these little combat scenes going on all over the yard as far as you can see. you see smoke all over the yard, and you know that this is a