The RTD is reporting that Richmond Police “are investigating a shooting on Selden Street in Fairfield Court in Richmond’s East End.”

Lt.Martin Harrison’s Sector 113 June report (PDF) for all points north of Carrington and Nine Mile is now available and includes both year-to-date comparisons for 2009-10 and August 2010 info:

WEAPON RECOVERY- 1400 Block of Coalter St, at 2130 hrs: Officers Jinks and Robinson responded to a narcotics call. Upon the officers’ arrival, juveniles began to scatter and two attempted to goad Officer Jinks into chasing them. The officers searched the area and found a .357 revolver lying in the road where the group was standing and a .25 semi auto handgun was found concealed in an empty potato chip bag on the grass where the group had been standing.

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This morning’s Daily Crime Report from the RPD carried the following:

AGGRAVATED ASSAULT (SHOOTING) 8/31/10 12:55 p.m. – 700 block of Mosby Street – A male reported he was shot by a known male. His injuries are not life-threatening.

THEFT OF MOTOR VEHICLE 8/30/10–8/31/10 5:00 p.m. – 4:30 a.m. – 2100 block of Fairmount Avenue – An unknown person(s) entered the unlocked vehicle and stole two child booster seats.

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A message, if perhaps the bicycle thief is both decent and reading Craigslist:

I just got my red and black schwinn road bike stolen from me in the Church Hill area. If you’re the one that did this, I’d appreciate it if you had the decency to bring it back.

Richmond bottomed out in 1994: one city councilman went off to rehab for his heroin problem and another was in hot water for not paying utilities and renting out condemned property, enrollment at VCU dropped, the city recorded the nation’s 19th largest population decline since 1980, Richmond made the wrong end of Money Magazine’s Best Places to Live list, and by the end of the year had tallied a record 161 homicides. With recent years showing the lowest body counts since 1961, the city’s population back up over 200,000, and VCU having greatly expanded, it is somewhat difficult to imagine that mid-1990s Richmond was ever real.

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Still going strong after more than 20 years, the Church Hill Crime Watch has recently put out door hangers as part of a campaign to update their contact list. Want to get a call or email when something of note occurs in the Church Hill area? Call (804)648-2710 or drop a line to CHCW1986@aol.com to get on the list.

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There was a non-fatal shooting this morning in Mosby Court:

A man said he was shot about 1:55 a.m. in the 1900 block of Redd Street by someone who got out of a dark-colored vehicle.

Deano Jones was sentenced today to 3 years in prison:

Authorities seized 21 pit bulls from Jones’ home in the 1700 block of North 23rd Street. Seventeen of the animals had to be euthanized, according to testimony in court today. Authorities also recovered a treadmill, steroids and other materials associated with dogfighting.

Word that 2 more scooters have been stolen in the area:

The olive Buddy 50 stolen from 25th Street a couple of weeks ago was stolen AGAIN last night. this time the thieves didn’t bother to cut the lock. They cut through the frame of the scooter, and left the entire lock and piece of the frame on the sidewalk.

At some point in the last 48 hours, a black Genuine Roughhouse was stolen from a parking garage at 2200 E Cary St. not sure if they cut through the lock or through the fence that the scooter was locked to. Scooter had a white 3/4 helmet under the seat of the scoot (although there is probably only a 50% chance of the thieves wearing the helmet that was under there–the suspicious folks that I have seen lately have been wearing full face helmets, black, with the face shield totally missing). Owner is checking into the possibility of the garage having a security camera.

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Lieutenant Laino’s Sector 111 report for July (PDF) is available. Sector 111 encompasses Church Hill, Chimborazo, Church Hill North, Fulton, Oakwood, and Union Hill:

During July, the Sector experienced a 9% decrease in Major Crime; there was no change in violent crime (10 incidents reported in 2009 compared to 10 in 2010) and a 10% decrease in property crime (79 incidents reported in 2009 compared to 71 in 2010). The 10 violent crimes reported included: 2 Homicides, 2 Aggravated Assaults, 4 Domestic related Aggravated Assaults and 2 Robberies. Of the 10 violent incidents reported 9 have been cleared by arrest and the remaining incident is still being investigated by detectives. The current trends in Property Crime are thefts related to motor vehicles, thefts of mopeds / bicycles and other items left unsecured.

nbc12 is reporting that slumlord Donald Lacey “was sentenced in the Federal Courthouse in Richmond to 121 months on Count 1 and 120 months on Count 2. The sentenced will be served out concurrently.” Lacey’s companies bought vacant houses (almost 100 in the Church Hill area) and were to “renovated [the] fixer-uppers using investors’ money” but instead apparently burned through millions of dollars of investor money on vacation homes, boats, and expensive cars.

Jim has found a problem seeking a solution:

Since noon today, the empty house at 511 North 28th Street, has had an alarm blaring away. Calls to the police have brought no solution. The police say there is nothing they can do, because they don”t know who owns the property (even though this is a matter of public record). Not only is this annoying, and keeping kids awake, it is obviously a violation of the city’s noise ordinance. Can someone tell why there is no city entity that can fix this problem?

The RTD is reporting a non-fatal shooting last night on Venable Street:

Richmond police said an adult male was shot in the hand around 7:48 p.m. in the 2200 block of Venable Street. Police said the shooting stemmed from an argument. The victim was transported to VCU Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries and the suspect was arrested on the scene.

nbc12 has word on a shooting, but little info:

Police have charged a 58-year-old woman with aggravated assault for allegedly shooting her [adult] son. Police say Gilda Anderson shot her son Friday morning at their home in the 1000 block of Chimborazo Blvd.

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