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Father Takes Daughter on Convenience Store Robbery

By Steven Rodriguez

It’s a sad comment on our distressing times. A California man pulled a gun out of his pocket and robbed a Washington convenience store. Videotape of the robbery shows the troubled man, Robert Webb, 42, talking to the frightened clerk, trying to explain. Tears in his eyes, Webb tells the cashier that he’s just been fired from his job, that he has to provide for his daughter, that his daughter needs medicine, and that he just couldn’t think of anything else to do. While Webb rambles on, his 9-year-old daughter, Meadow, stands miserably at his side, a little girl in a pink jacket forlornly watching her father commit a crime. “His eyes were tearing up. This guy’s hurting inside,” convenience store clerk  Eric Owners told KING-TV...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on April 03, 2009 (boomark / email).