Violent Crimes in the Hickory area since 11/24/2008

Do you think this is a problem, to have this many violent crimes in the last 77 days, or do you think it is normal? I want to know.

Violent Crimes
1) http://www.hickorygov.com/egov/docs/1229704478689.htm - Hickory 11/24/2008 - Hickory police are asking for information in the robbery of a bank Monday. At about 12:45 p.m., a man and a woman walked into the BB&T branch on 12th Avenue N.E. and demanded money.

2) http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/11/30/3821968.htm - This happened around 11/29/2008 - Jonathan Christopher Cooke, a Newton resident, was taken into custody Saturday. He is charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon. His first court appearance is Monday.Cooke was in the Catawba County Detention Center on Saturday under a $50,000 bond.Newton police said the investigation of the bank robbery is ongoing.It was the second bank robbery in less than a week in Catawba County.Newton police responded to an alarm at the branch bank at 2619 N. Main Ave. at approximately 2:36 p.m. Friday.

3) http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2008/dec/04/restaurant-robbed-gunpoint/ - Robbery at a Waffle shop on 12/4/2008 in which 2 waitresses were pistol whipped.

4) http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2008/dec/06/shopkeeper-shoots-suspected-thieves/ - 12/5/2008 - With bushel baskets filled with ripe tomatoes and fresh pecans beside its prominent holiday fruitcake display, the Randy Willis Grocery in Vale shows little evidence of the violent struggle that left one man dead during a botched robbery attempt early Saturday.

5) http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2008/dec/06/rash-robberies/news/ - Six Catawba County businesses - reported on 12/6/2008 - two banks, two grocery stores and two restaurants, have been robbed at gunpoint over the past two weeks. Vehicle break-ins and residential burglaries seem to have become commonplace. Thefts are on the rise.

6) http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2008/dec/10/grocery-store-employee-shot-lenoir-robbery/news-local/ - 12/8/2008 - An employee at the Fairvalue Supermarket was shot during a robbery at around 11 p.m. Tuesday.

7) http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2008/dec/20/customer-foils-robbery/ - happened on 12/16/2008 - masked suspects ran in and demanded money at gunpoint. Police say the same suspects first tried to rob the Market Basket convenience store on 14th Avenue, NE.

8) http://www.whky.com/news.asp?mode=detail&articleID=5518 - Happened I believe on 12/21/2008 - Two Catawba County women are among three suspects charged in connection with a robbery at a Hickory McDonalds. The third suspect is charged in two different robbery cases.

9) http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2008/dec/31/hickory-man-charged-murder/news-local/ - Gary Joshua Wilfong, 20, of 145 10th Ave. SE, Hickory, is charged with the murder of Denny Michael Abernathy, 45, of 823 2nd St. SE, Hickory on 12/23/2008.

10) http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2008/dec/31/knife-wielding-robber-gets-pepper-spray-instead-go/news-local/ - 12/29/2008 - A masked man with a knife tried to rob a gas station Monday night, but when the clerks fought back, the would-be robber ran.

11) http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2009/jan/08/police-woman-abducted-mall-sexually-assaulted/news-local/ - Hickory - 12/30/2008 - Two men robbed and sexually assaulted a woman after they abducted her from Valley Hills Mall last week

12) http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2009/jan/02/masked-man-robs-hickory-smoke-shop/news-local/ - 12/31/2008 - A masked man wielding a black sawed-off shotgun robbed the Smoker Friendly tobacco shop at 1417 29th Ave. Drive, NE, on Wednesday, according to police reports.

13) http://www.hildebrannews.com/news/jan09/304.html#- Hickory- reported on 1/9/2009. Police believe that they have arrested the two men responsible for two robberies in Hickory.

14) http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2009/jan/24/n-eagle-eyed-gds-workers-alert-authorities-arrest-/ - Alexander County - 1/23/2009 - GDS collection workers suspected something was wrong when they noticed there were jewelry boxes mixed in with the trash they were dumping in the back of their garbage truck day after day. So they brought one of the boxes back to their supervisor, said GDS Operations Manager John Isenhour.

15) http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2009/jan/27/alexander-county-bank-robbed-morning/ - Bethlehem - 1/27/2008 - At 10:45 a.m. a man entered the bank, flashed a silver handgun and demanded money, according to police. Authorities did not disclose the amount of money taken in the robbery.

16) http://www.wsoctv.com/news/18595631/detail.html - HICKORY, N.C. - 2/5/2008 -- Hickory police hope surveillance video will help them catch a pair of robbers who ambushed a convenience store clerk, beat him and dragged him across the floor early Thursday.

17) http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2009/feb/06/masked-men-invade-home-steal-items/ - Hickory Springs Road Area though it says Newton - 2/6/2008 - One of the intruders pointed a pistol at the homeowner's head, ordered him to the floor, demanded to know who else was in the home and warned the victim that if he didn't comply he would kill him, said Coy Reid, Catawba County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy.

18) http://www.whky.com/news.asp?mode=detail&articleID=6001 - Hickory - Arrest made in weekend armed robbery at Hickory restaurant 2/7/2009 - A Hickory man is charged in connection with an armed robbery that occurred over the weekend at a restaurant in the city. 20 year old Jonathan Credle was arrested yesterday and charged with robbery with a firearm in connection with an armed robbery at Subway at 2157 North Center Street.