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reseHun-wereitainsTHE TRIBUNE-DEMOCRATPolice investigate the scene where Dana L. Gates was allegedly murdered near Queen, Bedford County.Bedford crime numberslipsoar past big-city ratesBy KATHY MELLOTTTRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT BEDFORD BUREAUBEDFORD Rural Bedford County is busy combating big-city crime: Murder and armed robbery.The crime wave that has swept through this rural county began on New Year’s Day, when a Cumberland, Md., man shot and killed an acquaintance.With three murders already on the books and 15 days until 2002, law enforcement and the district attorney’s office are hoping the crime spree has crested.“When you calculate it out, we have a murder rate as high as Los Angeles - when you compare the number of murders we have had in relation to the population,” saida frustrated Sgt, Daniel Krauss of the state police.He heads the eight-man investigative team that is dealing not only with the murders but the nearly dozen and a half armed robberies, nine in Breezewood alone, during the past eleven months.The county in 2001 has also had six homicides by vehi-cle and hundreds of lesser crimes that are straining police and the judicial system, District Attorney DwightDiehl said.“We used to have a murder once every 10 years,” Diehl said in an interview at the courthouse. “It’s bad rightPlease see BEDFORD, A4
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Johnstown Tribune Democrat
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Dec 17, 2001
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