There are quite a few people in Tamms who came in with smaller crimes, robbery or whatever, in which they were serving ten years or less, and then, while in the prison system, they ended up getting assault charges.
If police investigating a robbery fail, for whatever reason - incompetence, negligence or stupidity - to look for fingerprints on the car next to the stolen car, but find them later, why should those fingerprints never be used?
"When you have someone who's extremely motivated to stay out of custody, they'll take to robbery or home invasions or whatever it takes to stay out".
Over a 16-month period between 2009 and 2010, there was a robbery almost each fortnight – rowdy and simplistic, literally just smashing into shops, grabbing whatever sparkled and making off on stolen motorbikes.
Instead of catching whatever case came their way at a station house, detectives were assigned to a specialty — perhaps homicides or robberies — while officers on patrol were permitted to investigate some crimes for the first time.
Whatever George was doing, Rose didn't ask, until he was arrested in May 1974 for an armed robbery in Ilford.He was convicted on the basis of police identifications and sent down for 20 years.
Robbery is not considered a motive, though the authorities say the teenager apparently robbed several of his victims, taking money and whatever else might have been in their pockets, including a pack of cigarettes.
Whatever the fugitives' ultimate intentions, officials attribute their cohesiveness to George Rivas, 30, a heavy-set, brown-eyed former auto parts store employee who had been serving a life sentence for aggravated robbery and kidnapping.
