{"id":2401,"date":"2008-07-29T15:06:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T20:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2008-07-29T15:06:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T20:06:53","slug":"parking-scammer-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/parking-scammer-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking scammer arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Marshall, 39, was arrested today at the Central Parking lot at Main and Peabody Place, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myeyewitnessnews.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?content_id=73a4f66d-582d-4748-ae05-9a1efb973711\">this My Eyewitness News story<\/a>.\u00a0 A couple told police that after they had parked at the lot, Marshall walked up and told them the machine that takes parking fees was broken, but that he&#8217;d take their $7.\u00a0 After giving it to him, the couple called police, believing that they had been scammed.\u00a0 MPD verified that Marshall did not work for Central Parking, and hauled him off to jail.<\/p>\n<p>I did a search for Marshall on <a href=\"http:\/\/jssi.co.shelby.tn.us\/\">jssi.co.shelby.tn.us<\/a>, and was not surprised by his arrest record, which includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6 counts of criminal trespass<\/li>\n<li>6 counts of criminal impersonation<\/li>\n<li>4 counts of possession of drug paraphernalia<\/li>\n<li>4 counts of theft of property less than $500<\/li>\n<li>3 counts of disorderly conduct<\/li>\n<li>2 counts of burglary &#8211; motor vehicle<\/li>\n<li>2 counts of obstructing a highway or passageway<\/li>\n<li>1 count of panhandling<\/li>\n<li>1 count of failure to appear<\/li>\n<li>1 count of domestic assault &#8211; bodily harm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is pretty typical of the arrest records of the panhandlers and scammers who beg as a profession in Downtown Memphis.\u00a0 In fact, I hate to say it, but Marshall&#8217;s record is shorter than others I have seen.<\/p>\n<p>Just think&#8230; the next time you park a car Downtown and someone approaches you for money, this could very well be the type of person you&#8217;re giving it to.\u00a0 JUST SAY NO!\u00a0 Give to organizations that support the homeless if you want to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Marshall, 39, was arrested today at the Central Parking lot at Main and Peabody Place, according to this My Eyewitness News story.\u00a0 A couple told police that after they had parked at the lot, Marshall walked up and told them the machine that takes parking fees was broken, but that he&#8217;d take their $7.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/parking-scammer-arrested\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Parking scammer arrested&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->