Standoff At Ohio GameStop Ends In Three Arrests

Keane Ng

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Standoff At Ohio GameStop Ends In Three Arrests



A standoff at a GameStop store in Solon, Ohio last weekend ended in the arrests of three men.


Lots of crazy stuff goes down under the roof of a GameStop store. unintentional piracy [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/88978-GameStop-Offends-Fatties-With-Wii-Fit-Promotion], people buying PS3s (kidding). What happened last weekend at a GameStop in Solon, Ohio, surely takes the cake, however: two men, allegedly armed, walked in and try to rob the store. Two hours, six police cars, one SWAT team and a botched escape later, the jig was up and the suspects were in bracelets.

Just before 8 PM on Saturday, Solon police got a call from the manager of a GameStop in Macedonia, Ohio that two men were holding up the Solon branch, wearing ski masks and hoodies and supposedly armed and dangerous, Cleveland news channel WKYC [http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=106317&catid=3] reported. Thankfully, the manager of the Solon branch had been on the phone with the manager of the Macedonia store when the two men walked in, which led to the Macedonia manager making the 911 call. Minutes later, six police cars were surrounding the store and blocking off the road leading to it. Shortly after that, the Solon SWAT team arrived on the scene. By then, only one of the suspects was still in the store - the other was allegedly trying to escape by climbing into the ceiling so he could drop down into the Mitchell's Ice Cream shop next door and foot it from there.

At 8:50, both men (ice cream shop escape plan didn't work, apparently) were ready to give themselves up. London McArthur and Javon Greer, both 19, have been charged with one count of aggravated robbery and one count of kidnapping. Christopher Roberts, also 19, who drove their getaway car and was posing as a customer in the store, was charged with one count of complicity to aggravated robbery. No shots were fired and nobody was injured. Solon police report that the suspects were armed with a pistol and BB gun.

The Solon GameStop seems to be unable to catch a break. Last weekend's incident is apparently the second or third time the store has been robbed in the last year, according to an employee at the Borders across the street. On December 29 last year, an employee called police saying that two men had forced the employee and two customers into a back room and bound them in duct tape, according [http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/01/stand_off_at_gamestop_store_in.html] to The Cleveland Plain Dealer.

[Via Kotaku [http://kotaku.com/5143960/one+hour-standoff-in-ohio-gamestop-ends-peacefully]]

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Combined

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And this is exactly why you need Combine security officers. You wouldn't need to call the police then. Just the clean up crew.
 

Jumplion

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If I'm not mistaken, there have been robberies at Gamestop before havn't there? I also recall that one of the robberies had one of the robbers tape over the managers mouth and nose so he died of suffocation.

But that's the risk of working in any retail store, those damn crazy kids, what will the think of next?
 

GonzoGamer

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Gamestop GETTING robbed?

What is this, backwards day?

Too bad they didn't get away with it; I don't usually condone violent crime but in the case of Gamestop, I'll make an exception.
 

mattttherman3

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Well games are expensive, I wouldn't steal them at gunpoint, I'd pirate them first, less likely to get caught.
 

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stormcaller said:
bkd69 said:
Now *that's* piracy!
This, let's see EA make a DRM for this kinda shit.
Wouldn't be THAT hard for EA to do it, they'd just encase each EA Game in a steel safe which needs three keys on seperate sides of the world located in underground Vaults, to open, for each and every game.

Now that would be an awesome DRM policy!
 

meatloaf231

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Indigo_Dingo said:
Its clear to see the men are not gamers. If they were, they would awaited until the day after a major release to rob it. So no losses.
Can you imagine if they'd had better timing and made away with the entire shipment of a major release?

Ooooh, the rage would be a-burning.
 

meatloaf231

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Indigo_Dingo said:
meatloaf231 said:
Indigo_Dingo said:
Its clear to see the men are not gamers. If they were, they would awaited until the day after a major release to rob it. So no losses.
Can you imagine if they'd had better timing and made away with the entire shipment of a major release?

Ooooh, the rage would be a-burning.
Yes, an entire town might have to get the same game from EB or David Jones.
That would be assuming that people are reasonable and can understand that the GameStop doesn't have that specific game in stock, and that they will have to go somewhere else.
 

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Hyper-space said:
Jumplion said:
..............why?
Mistaped? Most likely a complete accident, I'm sure the burglar didn't intend to suffocate the manager, but those things happened.

And they stole his car, so that must have been a *****.
 

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Indigo_Dingo said:
meatloaf231 said:
Indigo_Dingo said:
Its clear to see the men are not gamers. If they were, they would awaited until the day after a major release to rob it. So no losses.
Can you imagine if they'd had better timing and made away with the entire shipment of a major release?

Ooooh, the rage would be a-burning.
Yes, an entire town might have to get the same game from EB or David Jones.
Or Walmart or Target or anywhere....

Good to see noone was hurt though.