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Speaker 1: Hobby shop. This is a story, and there's been a

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Speaker 1: couple of these cases in the last few days, so

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Speaker 1: I wanted to highlight one of them with you this afternoon.

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Speaker 1: This is particularly egregious. A hobby shop worker recovering in

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Speaker 1: hospital today after a violent run in with some suspected

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Speaker 1: teenage shoplifters. Three teens accused of taking some Pokemon cards. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's all they wanted. This is a New Market yesterday evening. Now,

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Speaker 1: worker in the shop gives chase. One of them turns around,

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Speaker 1: allegedly turns round stabs him with a pocket knife. Thomas

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Speaker 1: James saw the whole thing happen. He's with me now.

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Thomas Ryan, how are you very well? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: So tell us what you saw.

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Speaker 2: Right. So, I'm grabbing some late lunch in New Market

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Speaker 2: yesterday afternoon and observerbley I thought was a scuttle between

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Speaker 2: two young guys, so went over and attempted to break

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Speaker 2: it up. One of the gentlemen told me that he

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Speaker 2: worked at a store and the guy was a shoplifter,

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Speaker 2: So I told him he's going to have to wait there.

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Speaker 2: At that point, the shop keeper pulled a shirt up

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Speaker 2: and realized that he'd been stabbed, and I saw the

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Speaker 2: alleged defender with a knife in his hands, so I

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Speaker 2: took him to the ground pretty quickly and held him

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Speaker 2: there for the police to arrive.

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Speaker 1: So you took him to the ground, like what tackled

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Speaker 1: him even though they had a pocket knife?

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Speaker 2: No? No, I was holding him with two hands and

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Speaker 2: I kind of just took him to the ground with

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Speaker 2: both my hands.

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Speaker 1: Right, And what was everyone else doing when all this

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Speaker 1: was going down?

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Speaker 2: I wasn't playing too much at teaching to everyone else, obviously,

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Speaker 2: once I saw a knife from this guy's hands. But

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Speaker 2: there are a few people standing around watching, And once

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Speaker 2: I'd taken him to the ground, I asked someone that

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Speaker 2: was watching to call the police because I couldn't get

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Speaker 2: to my phone myself.

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Speaker 1: Were you surprised, Like, what was your reaction? Were you surprised?

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Speaker 1: Were you shocked?

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Speaker 2: I was, to be honest, when that situation occurred, I

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Speaker 2: kind of just it was interstinct that I took the

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Speaker 2: guy to the ground. But it's almost sadly not surprising

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Speaker 2: to see that he had a knife on him. And

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Speaker 2: the reason that he had gone to stab this or

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Speaker 2: had stabbed the person is because he was in a

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Speaker 2: fistfight with him and couldn't get away. So his response

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Speaker 2: to being caught for stealing coop boxes from a store

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Speaker 2: and not being able to escape was to pull a

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Speaker 2: knife and stab him. But obviously he made a decision

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Speaker 2: when he left the house that morning or wherever he left,

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Speaker 2: to carry a knife on him. And you only carry

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Speaker 2: a knife if you're prepared to use.

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Speaker 1: It, exactly. You're a private investigator, which is and I

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Speaker 1: suppose it was a good thing. You were kind of

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Speaker 1: right place, right time. Did Do you think that we

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Speaker 1: have a bit of a problem here? I mean when

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Speaker 1: I read the news and you see what happens at

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Speaker 1: the bus stops, you see what happens at the train stations,

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Speaker 1: and I know they say crimes coming down, blah blah blah,

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Speaker 1: but we have a problem with young people who are

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Speaker 1: increasingly violent. Do you agree?

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Speaker 2: Well, my position of the problem invest get a red

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Speaker 2: biased because not myself personally, but a lot of my

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Speaker 2: team do deal with defense work, and we do see

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Speaker 2: a lot of it, this lower level type of crime,

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Speaker 2: not usually involving knives obviously, like shoplifting, I do see

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Speaker 2: quite often when I'm out and about Newmarket in particular

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Speaker 2: has been quite bad because all the shops are closed down.

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Speaker 2: But it doesn't seem to be getting any better at

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Speaker 2: all in my opinion.

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Speaker 1: And what about the I understand the store that sold

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Speaker 1: the Pokemon cards, the hobby store. Hobby lords have reached.

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Speaker 2: Out to you, have they They have, Yes, So a

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Speaker 2: post was got up on Facebook by the owner of

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Speaker 2: the store and I was tagged in it, and they've

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Speaker 2: reached out and expressed their gratitude for my assistance. But

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Speaker 2: it's just something that I would do if I was

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Speaker 2: walking down the street and I saw it.

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Speaker 1: Really Yeah, Hey, Thomas, really appreciate your time and thank

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Speaker 1: you on behalf of the public. And I mean, I

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Speaker 1: can't speak on behalf of this person, but I'm sure

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Speaker 1: they'll be thanking you as well for getting involved.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely, Yeah, definitely. The I've got to give

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Speaker 2: it to the guy, the shopkeeper, he was giving him

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Speaker 2: a good run for his money. But when someone brings

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Speaker 2: a knife out, that really changes things, doesn't It certainly does.

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Speaker 1: That's Thomas James, who was there are Secure Collections and

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Speaker 1: Investigations who happened to be there and witnessed the whole

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Speaker 1: thing going down in New Market yesterday afternoon. For more

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