Frankford Crime Map

Thanks to the Northeast Times, who is publishing the crime log every other week, we have been able to update the map and now have data for the past 6 weeks. This is a link to the map. It is interesting, to say the least. Better to be informed and know what we are up against. The police will say that statistics show a decline in most crime and that may be the case. To me it seems to be spreading to areas that we did not previously find it. No corner of Frankford is immune. We are all in this together and solutions are needed now.

Another day in the city

From CBS3 today:

A suspect is in police custody after a brief standoff following a bomb scare in the Frankford section of the city Thursday.

Philadelphia Police were called to the 5200 block of Marlow Street after reports of man constructing bombs in his home.

The suspect's girlfriend told authorities she smelled some type of accelerant and that there were bomb making materials in the home.

The Bomb Squad was called to the home as a precaution.

Read the entire story here.

Frankford residents arrested

From the News Gleaner:

Around 4 p.m. Sunday, police were flagged down on the 2300 block of Cottman Avenue and were told three men in a white minivan had just broken into a red Saturn in the Roosevelt Mall vehicle. Police saw the van exit the mall and gave chase up Bustleton Avenue. Several officers joined the pursuit, which only ended after the van crashed into a car on the 6000 block of Alma Street, police said.

Police said the men punched and kicked at officers. Arrested were Angel Guzman, 19, of the 3500 block of North 8th Street; Jonathan NegronVelez, 21, of the 4600 block of Horrocks Street; and Ramon Seijo, 28, also of the 4600 block of Horrocks Street.

Read the entire story here.

Clues sought in killing of Frankford man

From Philly.com:

Nearly a year ago, the body of a Frankford man washed up on the South Jersey side of the Delaware River.

The Burlington County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the death of Lamont Palmer, 39, of the 4100 block of Orchard Street, a homicide. But little else is known about the death of a man who police said rarely, if ever, left his Philadelphia neighborhood.

Read the entire here.

The crime log

Well you have to credit the Northeast Times for getting this information out. And the police for deciding to let it get out. It's our right to know and it should be available on the city web site every week. Now can somebody please tell me why the will not report sexual assaults. it might actually help prevent future assaults if potential victims knew when and where predators are lurking.

This is a link to the entire article in the Northeast Times.

This is our value added to the information. Follow this link to the Frankford Gazette crime map.

Crime - not in Frankford

nbc10.com reported on their web site that a shooting in the 5900 block of Horrocks was in Frankford. Wherever you might call it, it's not Frankford.

This is the original report, I asked them to make the correction. We'll see how that goes.

ex-offenders

“We either have to get comfortable with ex-offenders in the workplace, or you'll meet some of these folks in an alley, somewhere. You decide.”

You have to love that quote but there is truth to it. It has nothing to do with being a bleeding heart and everything to do with cold, hard reality.

The point is that we don't want Frankford to be a dumping ground for repeat criminals or the permanent home of chronically indigent drug users. Thanks but we'll pass on that.

But we do support helping those folks who get out of jail and want to go straight, to get jobs and keep out of trouble. It just makes so much sense.

Read the rest of the story at kyw1060.com by following this link.

Emine Hajredinaj

Emine Hajredinaj was murdered on Griscom Street on January 31st.

The man accused of killing a pregnant woman whose baby survived the shooting last month has been arrested, police announced yesterday.

Tyree Bass, 23, of the 1500 block of Adams Avenue, turned himself over to officers Wednesday. He was accompanied by his attorney.

Her alleged killer turned himself in and this is a link to the entire story in the Inquirer.

Emine Hajredinaj and her family came to Lansdale from war-torn Kosovo in 1999

While following up on this story I stumbled over this other nice story in TheReporteronline.com about who Emine Hajredinaj was and how she found her way to Frankford. Read it here.

Crime in Frankford

From the Inquirer about the murder on Wednesday night. This seems to have been a domestic situation although it was at Frankford and Fouldrod which is our neighborhood hot spot.

Another three hours later, police found Michelle Hicks, 36, of Frankford, stabbed multiple times in her home on Frankford Avenue near Foulkrod Street, O'Brien said.

She was declared dead just before 9 p.m. at Frankford Hospital, O'Brien said. Police charged Richard Smith, 26, of the same address, in her death. It wasn't clear what his relationship hadbeen to Hicks.

This was the fourth murder in Frankford this year.


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150 weasels captured

Not.

Well maybe they were. Then maybe they were not. How would we know?

Fact is, the city government does a pretty good job of keeping us in the dark. Remember the good old days when you could read the crime report in your local neighborhood newspaper? Well those days seems to have slipped by.

Now, the only way you will find out how the newest anti crime program is going, is when the next innocent child gets caught in the crossfire or attacked by some maniac who is walking the streets on unsupervised probation.

At the very least, we deserve to know the truth. While the commissioner is devising those new information systems, one of them should start providing information to the public.

They work for us. We pay the salaries. We're entitled.

Weasels Wanted

I spent my spare time over the last few days reading the crime plan put together by Commissioner Ramsey. The headlines you have probably heard already. Put more cops where they are needed. (If you ever need a cop now go to the 1600 block of Foulkrod, any time day or night.) Better use of technology to schedule the police when and where they are needed. Lots of common sense stuff.

One of the shocking things to me is that at the time of the report, there were 2,810 outstanding warrants in the city. Those are arrest warrants that must mean something or else they would not have been issued. 2,810 wanted people. It must have impressed Ramsey too since he has since publicized, for the first time, a list of the top 150 wanted weasels in Philadelphia. This is in book form so that the cops know who they are looking for and now the public will too.

We gave it a run through and have identified those weasels who gave an address in Frankford and plotted them out on a map that you can see below. There are eight in total. Since they may still be lurking around their old stomping grounds, take a look at the complete list and see what the look like. You Don't need these folks as neighbors. If you recognize anybody, call 911.


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Crime in Frankford

From Philly.com:

...investigators last night (January 30th) were still searching for the man who killed Robert Overton, 21, outside a Kmart (Google map)in Northeast Philadelphia about 8:40 p.m. Wednesday.

Overton, of Ditman Street near Wakeling (Google map), was shot multiple times over an apparent ongoing neighborhood argument, a police source said.

Witnesses told detectives that the gunman fled in a light-colored sedan. Overton had a history of arrests on charges that included drug possession and carjacking, court records show.

Crime in Frankford

Thanks to a tip on Phillyblog from B-REAL we found this on 6abc.com:

FRANKFORD - February 3, 2008 -- The manager of a nightclub has been shot in the back while trying to break-up a fight.

The gunfire erupted outside Platinum nightclub just after 2 a.m Sunday in the 4100 block of Torresdale Avenue (Google map).

The manager apparently asked several men who were fighting inside the club to leave. As the manager tried to escort them out of the club, they all began to argue.

That's when one of the men pulled out handgun and started shooting.

The manager was struck once in the back. He was taken to Frankford Torresdale Hospital in stable condition.

No arrest have been made.

See the video report and read the entire story here.

Crime in Frankford

From kyw1060.com:

Police have released details and a composite sketch of a suspect wanted for a sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl in the Frankford section.

The girl said she was walking on the 4400 block of Wingohocking Street in Frankford, when a man grabbed her by the neck, dragged her into an alley, held a knife to her throat and sexually assaulted her.

The attack happened around 9:15 pm on January 25th. Police were searching for a man believed to be about 6-feet tall with a thin build, 16-17 years old, with scars on his face. He was wearing a dark green jacket with fur around the hood.

Crime in Frankford

Another tragic incident reported on Philly.com:

A pregnant woman was shot dead in the city's Frankford section overnight, police said, but doctors at Temple University Hospital were able to save her child.

The expectant young mother was killed by a single shotgun blast to her back shortly after 1 a.m. on the 4600 block of Griscom Street (Google map), police said.

Read the entire story here.

Crime in Frankford

Reported today on Philly.com

NE woman robbed, burned

A 45-year-old woman was treated for burns she received when three robbers bound her with duct tape in the basement of her home, at Granite and Jackson streets (Google map), in the Northeast, yesterday, and burned her repeatedly with a heated spoon.

At least one of the robbers had a gun, police said. The thieves stole $200 cash and a laptop computer. The unidentified victim called police and was taken to Frankford Hospital-Frankford where she was treated for burns of the left calf and ankle.

Read the story here.

And from the Daily News:

A domestic argument turned deadly yesterday in Frankford when a man allegedly shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend before turning the gun on himself.

Police said that the 26-year-old woman was in critical condition at Temple University Hospital. The ex-boyfriend, also 26, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Cops said the woman was walking from Horrocks Street to Haworth Street Google map), near Oxford Avenue, about 10 a.m., when the man came up behind her and shot her three or four times.

Read the entire story here.

Crime in Frankford

A 19-year-old man was hospitalized in critical condition yesterday after
being struck in the back by an apparent stray bullet in Northeast Philadelphia.
Police said the man, whose name was not disclosed, was wounded as he stood
talking to his father about 12:20 p.m. in the 1700 block of Brill Street(Google maps).

Another stupid incident involving criminals too stupid to be out on the street. Read about it here and here.

Crime in Frankford

From Philly.com today:

A 39-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy were shot in the legs yesterday at about 3:30 p.m. on Frankford Avenue near Foulkrod Street in the Northeast. The man was admitted to Frankford Hospital-Torresdale and the teenager to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. Police did not identify the victims.

No other details available at this time.

Crime in Frankford

From the Inquirer today:

A 16-year-old girl told police that she was repeatedly raped Thursday after being abducted on her way to school, police said yesterday.

Police last night said they were questioning a suspect, a man in his 30s, and expected to charge him overnight.

The girl, a sophomore at Simon Gratz High School, was walking through a park area in the 1300 block of Orthodox Street on her way to catch the Market-Frankford El around 7 a.m. when she allegedly was confronted by a man with a gun, said Capt. John Darby, commander of the Special Victims Unit.

Read the entire story here and an update here and the Northeast Times.

Frankford men charged in robberies

Three of our local citizens have been arrested in a series of armed robberies. Read the entire story about this lowlife trio here in the Northeast Times article