Closure with Truth

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Judy Sacco August 1, 2015 at 5:27am

Please change the title of this post, since it isn't true and is alarming.
Jim Tosch July 31, 2015 at 3:55pm

Why would you expect them to be truthful?
- Bill > Jim Tosch July 31, 2015 at 4:41pm
  
  I think Walter is perfectly suited to the South of France. I suggest that he find a Ning site there as soon as possible. Bon voyage Walter. But, I digressed from the topic and flow of discussion.
  
  Boquete has had a spate of ugly happenings recently. We don't really know if this is a blip on the radar screen or if it's a real indication that criminal activity is growing in Panama. But, I remember the flood of expats who came here from Costa Rica a few years back because of an increase in crime there, and this feels a lot like that.
  
  I don't know if civic officials in Boquete or government officials in Panama City read Ning, and I don't even want to think about Tweeting as a way to get my message out, but I can tell you that if this shit keeps happening, we and the $$$ we put into the local economy and charitable causes are headed somewhere else.
Bonnie Williams July 31, 2015 at 3:49pm

A neighbor of the victims, who spoke with them, wrote this:

When Mingo and his wife, Yani, [owners of The Fish House] drove up and parked in his usual spot [at their house] at 10:30 P.M. three men accosted them when they got out of the car. A gun was put to his head and Mingo was kicked in the knee. The thieves took the money (night proceeds from the restaurant.) Then lights starting going on in the neighborhood and dogs started barking. The thieves panicked and fired two shots, one into the hood of Mingo's vehicle. We saw the bullet hole this morning. No one was shot. Earlier, someone in the little store on the corner did see three men, with heads down, waiting in the bus stop across from the tower. They called the police to report this but no one came. I only have speculation beyond this. If the men in the bus stop were the men, then when Mingo left the restaurant downtown, these men were tipped off. This certainly follows the pattern of hitting on people when they leave their cars.
- Keith Woolford > Bonnie Williams July 31, 2015 at 4:36pm
  
  I spoke with Mingo this afternoon who told me the assailants were definitely waiting for Yanellis and he when they pulled in, which indicates to me that their routine has been being observed. Their vehicles are quite identifiable and I suspect someone put the connection together between the restaurant busine$$ and their home.
Keith Woolford July 31, 2015 at 3:49pm

Since no armed restaurant robbery occurred, maybe you could edit the Title of the discussion.
Th✡mas B✡nham July 31, 2015 at 3:16pm

You mean like International Lying Living?
- Joanne > Th✡mas B✡nham July 31, 2015 at 3:24pm
  
  Yup!
Linda Blake July 31, 2015 at 3:06pm

I heard they robbed the customers then shot someone in the leg. Is this true?
Penny Ripple July 31, 2015 at 3:05pm

Ok. No no no
The Fish House was NOT robbed. The owners were robbed at their house when they got home. No one was shot.

However, the Terpel gas station was robbed last night...the one at the bottom of the hill.

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