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  • Ex-convict threatens repoman with shotgun, 2 go to jail for multiple crimes

    http://www.mountain-news.com/news/cr...cc4c002e0.html

    Two ex-convicts were arrested Tuesday at a mobile home in Yucaipa after sheriff's deputies found a loaded shotgun and a large quantity of items believed stolen when lock boxes were broken into at homes for sale in Lake Arrowhead.
    Booked at Central Detention Center were Ashley Nicole Brown, 28, and Rickie Alvin Purdie, 42, both of Yucaipa. Brown was arrested for possession of stolen property and being a felon in possession of a firearm, while Purdie was booked on those same charges as well as on a parole hold.
    Twin Peaks Sheriff's Detective Craig Harris said the events leading to the arrest of the two-whom he described as "boyfriend and girlfriend"-began around 1 a.m. Tuesday when an auto repossession man arrived at Purdie's mobile home to collect his pickup truck.
    Purdie came out with a shotgun, Harris said, and threatened the repo man, who left empty handed and called authorities. Sheriff's deputies came to the site shortly thereafter, but the couple could not be located.
    A press release issued by the Twin Peaks sheriff's station Tuesday morning carries the story forward.
    SECOND VISIT
    At 9:55 a.m., the release said, deputies from the Yucaipa station, accompanied by state parole agents doing a parole compliance check, paid a follow-up visit to Purdie's residence.
    Purdie didn't answer the officers' orders to open his door, the release said, so they forced it open and entered. Inside they found Purdie and Brown, along with a loaded Remington 870 shotgun reportedly taken in a Redlands burglary. It was apparently the weapon, Harris said, that Purdie used to threaten the repossession agent.
    Inside, deputies also reportedly found "a large amount of electronics equipment and other property." The loot included an Apple computer identified as having been stolen in a Lake Arrowhead burglary.
    Harris said he learned of the events in Yucaipa when checking a sheriff's department notification on events at other stations. He and Detective Gregg Carpenter drove to the Yucaipa station, Harris said, and confirmed, through the comparison of serial numbers on some of the recovered items, that they'd been stolen in Lake Arrowhead.
    As they investigated further, the release said, detectives learned Purdie and Brown had come to Lake Arrowhead at an undisclosed prior time and toured homes listed for sale.
    PROPERTY LISTS
    Harris said they apparently visited open houses, where they compiled lists of property inside those homes. Lists of homes and property were also recovered from Purdie's home, the release said.
    Harris said detectives found a brochure, published by a mountain realty, at Purdie's home. Inside were notations on photos of several local homes for sale. Detectives are checking to see whether those homes have been burglarized, Harris added.
    After visiting the Lake Arrowhead homes, Harris said, detectives believe the pair later returned to the mountains, driving a 2002 GMC Sierra pickup truck, and removed from the doors of those homes lock boxes that real estate companies had placed there. They obtained house keys from the boxes, the release states.
    "They really thrashed on it," Harris said, referring to one of the lock boxes that he said had been beaten and pried open to get to the key inside. He said he believes the couple hauled away loot in the same pickup truck that was nearly repossessed.
    Harris said items recovered and believed linked to Lake Arrowhead burglaries include television sets, tools and electronics.
    Some have already been released to a victim, he said. They included an iMac computer, household items and a briefcase filled with personal papers.
    Harris said the recovered items also included computer thumb drives. Reading one of the drives, Detective Steve Boydston identified a real estate man in Redlands from whose home the shotgun found in Purdie's residence was reported stolen, Harris said.
    CASES CLEARED
    Detectives have already cleared at least two Lake Arrowhead burglaries, Harris said, including one in the 500 block of Pioneer Road and another in the 600 block of Golf Course Road. Both were reported on Oct. 28, he said, but occurred the week before.
    A third cleared case involves a burglary in the 1700 block of Wilderness Road in Running Springs, he said.
    "I'm guessing we'll be able to clear one to two dozen cases either by direct evidence or M.O. (method of operation)," Harris said.
    According to jail records, Brown remained in custody Tuesday on $50,000 bail. She was due in San Bernardino Superior Court today for arraignment. Court records show Brown pleaded guilty on May 1, 2008, to one count of burglary and was sentenced to two years in state prison.
    Court records say Purdie was sentenced to three years in prison in 2003 for passing a false financial instrument. No information was available at deadline time on his bail amount or scheduled court date.

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    Rickie Purdie



    Ashley Brown

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    • #3
      Real winners there.

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      • #4
        Recovery agent: 1

        Deadbeat debtor: 0
        Kel

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        • #5
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          • #6
            Looks like

            Originally posted by anonymous View Post


            Rickie Purdie





            Ashley Brown
            Looks like Mr Purddy bumped his head on the cruiser while he was getting in .

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            • #7
              ^ I was going to say it looks like he has had another "scrape with the law".
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              • #8
                Both of them look tore up.

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                • #9
                  SHe's 28??

                  Shes' 28, what, in dog years? Yikes, that settles it, no crack for me.

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