The other day Willie Williams was arrested after a series of armed robberies. Willie did it for the money, of course. The how he did was interesting. Willie had a car but didn't know where it was. He couldn't remember where he had parked it. He walked around his neighborhood without spotting it. He thought that , maybe, someone had stolen it. Then he decided he wasn't real sure he remembered what it looked like. Willie Williams had more than a few problems in life. This day he was going to add a few more.

First he decided he had to have transportation. You don't walk all over West Ashley holding up people. You don’t use a bus either. Without a car, Willie was low on options as well as brains. Willie called Yellow Cab.

"I need a cab. I got me some errands ta run."

You would think that after the first robbery or at least after the second one the cabbie would have figured out what was happening. He claims otherwise. That makes him too stupid to be a cabbie or an accomplice. That part hasn’t been sorted out yet but the DA is going with the accomplice for now.

Willie’s last robbery was a Verizon store. There was a candy shop next door and a drycleaner on the other side. Both might logically have cash. The Verizon would likely not have any. Willie knew better. He knew that the two employees had wallets and any customers would too. Willie wasn’t into thinking big.

The Verizon employee hit the alarm button when Willie pulled out his knife and demanded money. The cops were across the street at Willie’s last robbery. They made it to the Verizon store before the cabbie even got his cab started. The fed-Ex guy, one of the victims, told the cops not to let the cab leave since the robber was the passenger. Yep, Willie was sitting there in the back calmly rifling through the wallets and holding the computer he’d stolen. One of the cops told him to get out of the cab.

"No", Willie responded.

Cops don’t like to be told no. They usually only ask once too. Two cops grabbed Willie and dragged him out of the cab. Each cop had a hold of one of Willie’s arms. They had the situation under control. Then Willie made some sort of move and the cops were holding his jacket. They looked stultified. The other twenty cops slammed Willie to the ground. Hard, real hard. Willie took offense and the fighting started. Willie lost of course. 20-1, he wasn’t going to win this one. he did, however put up a good battle until one of the cops stuck his gun in Willie’s mouth and told him the fight was over.

Yep, Willie took a cab to a robbery.