Queen City crime & mayhem continues (10-24-2025--Hour3)

What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for your support. So I just heard during the top of the hour newscast and got the information as well from Charlotte Mecklenberg Police that they have now identified a victim in a shooting that occurred yesterday afternoon, as well as they have identified the suspect in that shooting, who is also now deceased because cops shot him. So the story is as such from the Charlotte as well as WBTV and WSOC, So I'm pulling information from all of these different sources. So officers responded yesterday afternoon to a call about a shooting near the intersection of Hoskins Road and Black Avenue. This is northwest Charlotte near Brookshire Boulevard. Okay, one person was found dead at the scene and according to unclear if there were two victims here that have died. They have identified one victim and that is thirty eight year old justin Westbrook Carlton. There was another victim, another shooting victim who was taken to the hospital. But I don't know if that person, if that second person has I don't see an identification of that second person or whether or not they survived. I see conflicting reports. But these were from earlier this morning. So that's the first call that goes out that there is a shooting near Brookshire Boulevard. Police respond to that scene, find one person dead at the scene. Shortly thereafter, according to Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings, police get another call in the same general area where the first shooting occurred, and this call is about a home invasion and kidnapping and that the suspect was driving a stolen vehicle so from that woman's home. So apparently the suspect, who has now been identified as twenty eight year old Joseph Andrade a and Drade and Raid Andrade and Dre andreid whatever uh, he is dead now. Also, he is apparently the one he went to this woman's home. He uh, I guess, you know, forced his way into her home, kidnapped her h and you know, put her into her vehicle. He then, you know, with him driving, steals her vehicle as well, so they get this report. Don't know who called it in of a kidnapping and home invasion. Officers then spot the vehicle with the suspect driving and the kidnapped woman in the passenger seat. By the way, I'm reminded, in these types of situations, you can't outrun a radio. Okay, just cannot run a radio. Officers chase the vehicle while the suspect starts then firing at cars at their police cars. The suspect then crashes his vehicle right outside of our studios, right like a block away if you know where Freedom and More head that intersection where Pinky's restaurant is. That's like at the bottom of the hill there. It's like, I mean, I can see it from out the window. This happened yesterday at about four o'clock. You know, like I just I just was out there two weeks ago, not even two weeks ago, after I got off Arrow was over there at one of the restaurants across the street from from Pinkies, there's Town Brewing that's over there, Rhino Market and Delhi Broad Daylight. The guy crashes the at that intersection. He gets out and he starts running away. Police pursue him on foot, and according to the police chief, as they are running, the suspect continued to fire rounds at officers, so as he's running away, he's just shooting at the police. Again. Like that corner there, like there's a dunkin Donuts on one corner. There's Pinky's restaurant that believe they've got outdoor seating as well on that corner lot I think they do. Across the street with the other corner, you've got a little Town Brewing and they've got outdoor seating, and the Rhino Deli they've got outdoor seating. There's the other restaurant I'm drawing a blank on the name they've got outdoor seating. And then across the street from there, so all four of the corners, the other corner has well, it used to be a Wakovia bank, but that's closed now, so there's nothing on the other corner. But this is a populated area, right broad Daylight start a rush hour, you know, people leaving from work, people hanging out, walking their dogs and stuff all over the place. And this guy's shooting out the car and then running through the street, just shooting at cops. And like, this is what do they call this Freemore West? I think it's what they're calling this area Freedom Drive Morehead And I don't know what the west is, maybe just Westside, but they're calling it Freemore or Freemore West because they you know, they label all of the different areas now. And I got to tell you, somebody who has worked in this building for I guess it would be like seventeen of the last twenty five years I have worked in this building. I remember what this area was like twenty five years ago, and that kind of stuff was pretty prevalent twenty five years ago in this part of town. We're on the west side and you go up Freedom Drive. There was a lot of violence, a lot of crime occurring on Freedom Drive up Moriedge Street. There was a place like right across the street from US I believe it was called the Toll House, and they were constantly getting raided for like prostitution and stuff. All of the property around the radio station here was undeveloped, and the joke in the building was always that that's where you know, they threw all of the bodies. There was, you know, prostitution all up and down the road here. And then you go up to the end of Morehead and you're on Wilkinson Boulevard and or Highway seventy four, which you know goes all the way to the mountains, all the way to the coast, but through that little stretch to the airport also a lot of crime and a lot of violence. And over the years, when I came back to Charlotte, I was astounded at how much development had occurred in this little area, and it has taken twenty years for that to happen. And this is why I keep focusing on this crime issue in Charlotte, because if people do not feel safe, they are not going to live here. They are not going to invest in a project here. They're not going to build new homes or apartment buildings or new commercial and retail space. Restaurants will not be able to serve anybody because nobody wants to come if they're going to get shot in the middle of the day at an outdoor dining area. This is why this stuff matters, and it's not just a person reception of crime. And by the way, anybody want to place some bets and not like not like the Chauncy Billups and Terry Roser types of bets. I'm talking like bets, legitimate, not rigged bets. Anybody want to place bets on whether or not this twenty eight year old Joseph Vondrotti. Anybody want to take bets on whether he's got a rap sheet or do you think this was the very first time he has engaged in criminal activity? Murdering two people in the street, kicking in a door, kidnapping a woman, stealing her car, firing at cops and then being gunned down in the street. What do you think first time with an interaction with law enforcement? I would bet no. I would bet he has had some run ins. See, this is why this stuff matters. You will lose the city. You know. 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They are your life told through the eyes of everyone around you and all who came before you, and they will tell others to come. Who you are. Visit creative video dot com. All right, let me go over here and get ed on the program. Hello, Ed, welcome to the show. Thank you, prey, enjoy the show, Thanks sir, Yes, you are as Ed McMahon would say, you are correct, set, I'm correct. There is a bit there's a bit of a presence in the online database in the North Carolina Administrative Offices of the Courts with said, gentlemen. So oh really so so my bet would have paid off, probably not very well. Should have you know that heavy? Yeah? So Joseph Androtti, did you happen to you already pulled it up? Do you did you see like, like how long of a rap sheet? This guy happens? Good? There was a good scattering about civil and criminal things. Uh, he had not gone into the probation system, so maybe he's been dismissed like all these other people have. You know, it's amazing some of these people. You google them and you look on the court site which is now all online. Yes, the lawyers and our judges are not telling us about that. Yeah, so we I think we are. We became like the first state, I think the first state to have gone completely to courts the e court system. And it's been bumpy and it's over. I mean, we've spent more than expected. But my wife works in as a paralegal and so like I listened to like some of the stories she was telling when they were rolling this out in Mecklinberg County. But I think Gaston County they just went to it as well. But yeah, the whole point is so everybody can have access and they can file stuff and it streamlines all of the court filings throughout all of the counties which had this sort of mishmash hodgepodge approach. So yeah, so you can get this stuff now. And I was told also, I think last week, that our Mecklinberg County Sheriff's office database, the inmate inquiry system, does not keep anything past about two or three years prior, so you can't go to our Mecklinberg County sheriff website to get that info anymore. So you got to go through what the state court system. Well, the Sheriff's Unfortunately I had to, I had to you utilize that and it was very the was very inconsistent. Yes, and like unfortunately in my neighborhood it didn't get covered by the media, but we had a Friday afternoon at three o'clock about three weeks four or maybe a month ago, a guy you know started shooting and they did get him. But I think he's now on a ankle bracelet. Oh that that should make you feel very safe because you can't fire him time. Ray, I just uh ay to call and see if they're gonna geofence them and get him out. Of my uh my neighborhood. I doubt that. I doubt they'll do that. But yeah, so, I mean because I think once you have the ankle monitor on, then you cannot then you cannot like fire a gun. I think that's how that works. Well that's interesting, right, Well, thank you so much. No, thank you, Joe, all right, but I appreciate it. No, I'm just kidding. Obviously, an ankle monitor does not prevent somebody from engaging in further criminal activity. It just alerts law enforcement in the court system that you know, somebody has either cut the ankle bracelet off, or they've gone someplace they're not supposed to go, or they have let the monitor run out of battery juice. That's about it, right. It doesn't prevent any crime. It just monitors and then after the fact, if they violate the terms of the probation in some way with the abuse of the monitor, then you can throw another charge or so at them, which will also then get dropped. Okay, just over clear on the efficacy of the ankle monitoring. Alan says, yes, these crime stories matter to the people of Charlotte. They also matter for people like me who live forty miles northwest of the city, who might decide not to shop and dine there. Y, yes, And can you imagine what would happen if people from the surrounding areas no longer want to come to Charlotte or Mecklenburg County and spend their disposable discretionary income or funding. They don't want to spend their money in Mecklinberg County, And imagine the impact that would have on Let's say, a sales tax that is being promoted to fund trained Actually, no, I take that back. It's not being promoted to fund the trains. It's being promoted to fund the roads. So yeah, Charlotte leaders are trying to get voters to approve a one cent sales tax increase to fund quote unquote transportation. And none of the mailing material that I have received, I've gotten about I don't know. If you're like me, you've probably pulled in about seven or eight of these mailers by now, and none of them mentioned trains. It's all about the roads. That's the pitch they want to tell everybody, vote for this sales tax increase you can, so we can fund all of the roads. But that's only forty percent of the of the plan, roads only make up forty percent. Another forty percent is for the train. Oh and the road component. Yeah, that actually has bike lanes, sidewalks, traffic lights, signalization, intersection improvements, that kind of stuff too. Yeah, so it's kind of for roads. Yeah. Yeah, this is going to be tough. It's going to be a tough sell. I mean, maybe voters will pull it off. Maybe they'll vote for their own tax increase. Yeah, that's possible. We'll see what happens. Early voting is underway right now. But if people that live outside of Charlotte don't want to come in spend their money here. And by the way, as the areas around Charlotte get developed, when people move away from Charlotte and they move into these other areas, and those areas build more housing, and then they build more retail, people don't need to come here anymore for that stuff. As the surrounding area improves and gets developed, people are less likely to come in. See and if you allow criminals to run wild through the streets, you've just created yet another incentive, a life or death one that will convince people not to come in. All right, if you're listening to this, show. You know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too. And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app, and it's a website, and it combines news from around the world in one place, so you can compare coverage and verify information. 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I used to work second ship on a Tondo Avenue and that's in Charlotte, and we used to play a game at night called fireworks or gunshots. Yes, uh, I believe we probably played something like that as well here back in the day. Do uh oh, there was a message here also regarding the uh, the event yesterday in Charlotte, in West Charlotte that culminated in the police shooting the murderer, kidnapper, carjacker home invader just a block from the studio here, John says, the biggest part of the story you just read about the shooting and kidnapping yesterday, police Chief Johnny Jennings actually made an appearance. Apparently. I was certain that he just went ahead and moved on to wherever he was going to sit around and count as hurt feelings bonus money from the mayor. Yeah. Yeah, he did put out of he did put out a video, so Daniel Horowitz says, and this is at the Blaze dot com when victim's advocates push for mandatory minimum sentences, the leniency lobby instantly howls about judicial discretion. In theory, that's right. In a just society, judges should have the freedom to weigh every case, tailoring sentences to fit the crimes. Right, And this is what I was talking about. I guess it was yesterday or day before that there needs to be some guidelines now constructed for magistrates and judges to take this out of their hands. And what I struggle with is that, I, well, all things being equal, right, absent any kind of just wacky ideology, right that I would want judges to have that discretion. But as a resident of Realville, I know that a lot of these judges and magistrates are employing a MacArthur Foundation funded type of ideology that is reflected in cashless bail or, as Horowitz calls it, the leniency lobby, you know, And I don't know what to do about that. I would prefer that judges have this discretion, but I don't trust you anymore. I don't trust your judgment, which is a pretty crappy way to view a judge. You know, it's literally your job to judge, and I don't trust your judgment. I don't believe that the things that you are doing, and how you're behaving, and the rulings you're issuing, or the pre trial terms of probation, whether the whole somebody or not. I don't trust your judgment. Your judgment has been found to be crap. So I guess this is what we have to do. He says, America does not live in that society. He says, in a just society, judges should have the freedom to weigh every case and tailor the sentences to fit the crimes. But we don't live in that society anymore. We live in an era when violent crime floods major cities and leftist judges treat predators like misunderstood poets. As a great line, this is like the how have we failed this person? Line of thinking in this environment, he says, mandatory minimums are not cruel. They are the only remaining safeguard for victims and the public. And I think this is where I'm at now too. He says it's not enough to share viral videos of street mayhem. Lawmakers must change laws. And then he goes about listing a number of examples, and in six out of the six examples he lists, Charlotte is three of them. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big old reunion. 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As we do every Friday at this time, the host of the Brett Winterboll Show joins us every Friday for a little thing we like to call pregaming with Brett. And his name coincidentally is Brett Winterble. Brett, how are you today? So? I got two teas? I'm good. You got two teas. I got two te's. I see one and a sweater. Well there you go, one T one sweater. Very nice. There is a tea in sweater, there is and a T under your Look at that. That's how it goes the magic of life. So have you you got any big plans for mugshot Monday? Mugshot Monday? I don't. I wish I did. No. I think I'm gonna maybe think about it over the weekend. I might do something very special. But you are on a first name basis with Michael Wattley. I am and he is the purveyor of the mugshot Monday events. So you could get him on your show in celebration of Mugshot Monday. I could do that, Yeah, I could. I'm just throwing it out there. I will, I will take it, no pressure, I'm taking under advisement. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Yeah, so this is uh. I think this is actually a very good idea very savvy campaign move by the Wattley campaign. Ya Wattley running for US Senate Republican primary and the Wattley war Room say that five times fast. That's hard to do. Wattley war Room, Wattley war war Room, you got to think about it. Well done. Yeah, Chield trip up. Yes, you'll end up sounding like Elmer Fudd. But Wattley war Room, their Twitter account formerly known as x doing the Mugshot Monday a digital series campaign. Yep. They first shared it not with us for some reason, right, but with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Well, in the DCNF. They're pretty good. I like them. I'm with you, and it's going to highlight the repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat offenders who get released from detention and then go on to commit new crimes in North Carolina. Yes, and this is obviously a slam on Roy Cooper, my good friend Ray, Ray Cooper. Yeah, huh with a revolving door. And people sometimes ask Pete his name isn't Ray, why do you call him Ray? Explain so well to his good friends, he is Ray Cooper. That's what I've been told by Hillary Clinton. That's what she How did you get close enough with Hillary Clinton to find out that. She was on TV at a Roy Cooper campaign event? This would have been way back in what twenty sixteen, I guess it was when he ran against Pat McCrory and she introduced him at one of her rallies. Cooper, my good friend, Ray Cooper. It's fantastic. I mean, it's really fantastic. So I just assume that that's what he goes by with his good friends. Well, you have to you have to respect your elders. True, I mean, that's it'd straight up. God, it's in a commandment, I think, I really it sure is right, absolutely right? Right. So the mugshot Monday and the first one he already had a mug shot Monday this week, and the first one mentioned highlighted was Sanchez Nicholson. Oh, by the way, they've ideed the the purp in yesterday's thing that apparently impacted you. You couldn't leave, you know, I got right out. I hit the seam perfectly. Actually, you just showed them like I'm Brett Winterable, don't you know who I am? And they're like, let this guy through. No, I went down. I went down. I went and then I went all the. Way down to uh to Donald Ross Road, nice, and then cut straight down onto the seventies. There you go south surprised to learn that the guy from yesterday, yeah has a rap sheet? Does he really? Not? A first time or not a. First time, which would be pretty impressive if you take like a murder and attempted murder, a kidnapping, a home invasion, a carjacking, and then firing at police officers fleeing the scene car accident well as a first defense, like your very first interaction with law enforcement. Look, let's and let's salute law enforcement for having the diligency of a square round right, just like you didn't. Nobody else got hurt, nobody, I mean, forget about it. It was that was really that was really a horrible thing. And bonus, I don't have to pay Yeah, absolutely, the bonus here we don't have to pay to try this guy who. Would have just been released on his own recognaissance with no bail. But maybe an ankle monitor. Doubtful without that doesn't work, Yeah, it's just gonna be like a fake one. All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.