Gunman Threatens Newspaper Carrier Over Non-Delivery (Florida)

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A Jacksonville newspaper carrier found himself staring down the barrel of a Beretta when a man claimed the carrierhe forgot to deliver his paper, police said.

At gunpoint, the 56-year-old carrier handed him an edition of the Times-Union, worth 50 cents.

Police said Christopher M. Cooper, 26, of the 4100 block of McGirts Boulevard was arrested on armed robbery and misdemeanor drug charges. He was in jail Thursday in lieu of $25,000 bail.

The robbery happened shortly before 6 a.m. Wednesday at Ionic Avenue and McGirts. Two men walked up to the carrier's car window, with one telling him: "You didn't deliver me a paper this morning," a police report said.

When the carrier asked the man's address, the assailant pulled out a gun, pointing it in the carrier's face, while demanding "Give me a paper," according to police.

Cooper was arrested after police found him hiding in the cooler at the Westside gas station where he works as a cashier. They said they found the loaded Beretta in his car and a couple of grams of marijuana in his pocket.

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/100705/met_19971687.shtml

[strategery blunder]

1. Watch the robber claim self-defense

This was in Florida, right?:popcorn: