Man denies robbing Circle K, says he was busy selling drugs

[Tony_FLADEM]

LECANTO --
The man arrested and charged with a Circle K armed robbery insists he was busy selling drugs at the time and could not have committed the crime.

Robert Lee Cason, 20, of Dunnellon, was arrested Friday and is being held at the Citrus County Detention Facility on $50,000 bond on armed robbery charges.

The Citrus County Sheriff's Office said tips that came into Crimestoppers identified Cason as the man shown in surveillance video from the Tuesday night robbery. Deputies responded to Cason's girlfriend's house in Homosassa, and Cason was arrested after a deputy spotted a man matching the suspect description run through the residence naked.

Detectives said Cason denied committing the robbery and said he could produce witnesses who would establish that he was selling "roxies" at the time of the crime.


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[louis-t]

1. Expect to see him soon on 'World's Dumbest Criminals'

or whatever that show is.

[JohnnyRingo]

2. I bet his friends can't wait for that subpeona.

They'd have to take the fifth on the stand anyway so as not to incriminate themselves though.

For some reason I believe this guy though. It seems exactly what a desparate and wrongly accused person might say. Seriously. It's like: "I couldn't have been beating my wife, I was at my sister's house slapping her black ass around at that time". "Now why would I tell you that shit unless it was true?"

I hope they have some good video to back up their claims because let's face it, in a way, black people do share certain identifying qualities. They almost always have black curly hair and brown eyes. If the police have a blurry digitized image of someone like that it's possible they just decided it's the guy who stands on the street corner a block away and sells drugs, case closed, nice work, let's go arrest him. When the white clerk sees the suspect later, she says "I think that's him", which becomes: "I'm sure that's him". In reality, she never took her scared shitless eyes off the big hole at the end of that gun the whole time, which is exactly what everyone else would be doing if someone put one in our face.

People assume the video shows the robber's face in Channel 33 Hometown News digital quality, but that's not always the case. A jury can watch a really crappy clip that shows a black man committing a crime and assume that the guy in the courtroom, now in an orange jail jumpsuit that the prosecutor says is the same man, is guilty. After all, why would the police arrest an innocent man who already admits he sells drugs near the Circle K? Prison is sadly full of mistaken identities from the African American community.

It reminds me of a black comedian I saw who says he demands a reciept for every little thing he buys because he never knows when he'll have to prove where he was at the time.

[benld74]

3. Oh,,,well.,.,.,.,. ok then,,,,,,,