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What's going this past week is some of the worst violent crime I've seen in the past 20 months.
The Sun-Sentinel newspaper reported that a 79-year-old woman was raped in her Lake Court home on Sunday. Lake Court is located in the Del-Ida Park Historic District just southeast of the North Swinton Avenue and George Bush Boulevard intersection. In my opinion this is a very affluent older area of the city just blocks from Banker's Row and Pineapple Grove.
According to the report the woman was robbed and raped. Again, she is 79. The person who committed this crime is still on the loose and the Sun-Sentinel article by crime reporter Jerome Burdi, says Delray Beach Police Public Information Officer, Jeff Messer, reports the suspect is black and in his mid 40's. The victim's car was found in the Achievement Center's parking lot at lake Ida Road and Northwest Fifth Street.
Crime is on the rise in Delray Beach. On April 2, I pulled the police report to learn about a strong arm robbery on Southeast First Avenue. On April 3, there was another strong arm robbery on West Linton Boulevard and another strong arm robbery on April 3, on Gleason Street.
If you map the rape/robbery, and the three strong arm robberies, the geometric shape that will appear is a triangle. That triangle of crime is in a five mile radius.
All three of the strong arm robberies crimes took place between 10p.m. and 10:40p.m.
Burdi's article states the neighbors heard the rape victims car alarm at 4a.m. so that happened a little later. But, that was a more brazen crime.
Tomorrow I plan to ask Jeff Messer if these crimes are related.
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