Robert Daniel Webb is desperate

[Jaded]

ELLENSBURG, Wash. - Kittitas County sheriff's detectives have identified a suspect they believe robbed an Ellensburg-area AM/PM Mini Mart Tuesday with his daughter in tow.

Phone tips from the public led police to the Yakima area and Robert "Daniel" Webb, last seen around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Police say 42-year-old Webb of Everett is still at large with his 9-year-old daughter.

The robbery happened around 3 a.m. Tuesday at the AM/PM off I-90 at Exit 101 west of Ellensburg. The suspect approached the counter, drew out a handgun and demanded money from the register.

The clerk complied and the man and child left without incident.

Eric Owens, the AM/PM clerk, said he could see the girl looking confused and frightened. He said Webb initially spoke in a threatening manner, but he had sad desperation in his eyes.

"His eyes were tearing up. This guy's hurting inside," he said. "He started telling me he worked in a palce like this for years. He was fired off his job and his daughter needed medical care."

Owens didn't see which way the suspect went, but police say he was spotted in Yakima around 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Webb is described as 6-foot-2, 245 pounds, brown eye and brown hair. He was driving a 2008 Silver Toyota Corolla license plate 602-XQG.

"I understand that the man feels that he's in a very desperate situation and right now and our concern is how he is going to deal with this," said Undersheriff Clayton Myers, Kittitas County Sheriff.

Surveillance photos of the robbery show the suspect having dark hair and a neatly trimmed beard and mustache. He wore eye glasses, a dark color pea coat, blue jeans and white athletic shoes.

The girl has dark collar-length hair and possibly had the first name of "Meadow." She was wearing a pink coat.

Owens says his empathy only goes so far. "I've been homeless. My son and I have lived on the streets in Seattle. I know what hard is, but resorting to crime is not the solution," said Owens.

If you have any information concerning Webb or the robbery, please call the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office at 509-925-8534.

http://www.nwcn.com/topstories/stori....91606913.html



I put him up front too...

http://www.dreamindemon.com/2009/04/...-is-desperate/

[Insomniac]

What a fucking douche. What kind of example did he think he was setting in his daughters eyes?

[sanityslipping]

No previous rap sheet, makes me inclined to believe that this man is one of the many that are now turning to crime as a cop out to downturn of the economy.

I've heard of grandmothers robbing banks, once successful business men are also committing armed robbery, in an attempt to regain what they once had, or postpone losing it all.

They need to learn that crime is not the way, and there are other ways to get by. Yeah, you might have to let go of a few luxuries, and maybe put off paying your credit cards, or whatever, there's other ways to cut back and other ways to survive. Dragging your daughter out in the middle of a night to rob a gas station is not the answer.

It's alarming to see what our country is coming too these days.

[TheMorningStar]

Authorities say Webb apparently fled to California where he left his daughter in the care someone who he knew, who happened to be the father of a Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputy, according to a news release from the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office.

Later that evening, the man learned Webb was wanted by the police in Fortuna, Calif., on drunk driving charges and possibly the Ellensburg robbery, according to the release.

The child was taken into protective custody pending the arrival of her mother, authorities said.

Webb, however, eluded police after a high-speed chase, according to the release. No further details on the chase were immediately available.

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories...ective-custody

[Wicked Doll]

A father wanted for allegedly holding up a convenience store near Ellensburg with his 9-year-old daughter is in police custody.

Yakima police say he surrendered at about 2:40 p.m. Saturday. An image widely circulated earlier this week showed Webb and his young daughter during a robbery.

His friend, Ryan Jolly, said Webb called him yesterday desperately seeking help, and he was able to convince Webb to drive to come stay with him.

Jolly says when Webb came over, he called police, blocked Webb's car in the driveway, and tried to convince him that giving up was the best thing for everyone.

"He kind've wanted to run, he didn't really run," said Jolly, "I told him it's pretty much over, just sit down and have a cigarette, its pretty much over, and maybe now you can start over."

Webb is now in the custody of the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office, but still in Yakima. He is scheduled to be returned to Kittitas County next week.

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http://www.q13fox.com/pages/news_sto...040&feedID=144

[Tazzzz]

Poor little girl, had to watch daddy rob a damn store and threaten to kill a man. That was very cool what his friend did, making him come over , then calling the Po Po and blocking his car in. Best thing he ever did for him.

Police describe Webb, 42, as a man who cared for his daughter but had problems with alcohol and trouble holding a job; at one point his wife had a restraining order against him. He had recently lost his job in the eyeglass industry.

The robber on Tuesday threatened to kill the graveyard shift clerk at an AM/PM convenience store near Ellensburg if he called police, but he also tried to explain himself.

"I'm out of work. My daughter's got to survive," he said on the video

The girl's mother was headed for Fortuna, police said.

"She was surprised that her husband would actually commit a robbery, but once that sunk in, that he had put their daughter in that position, she became very concerned and upset," Myers said.

In 2007, Webb's wife won a restraining order against him, saying he drank heavily, tried to choke her and threatened her with a bow and arrow. The order was lifted a few months later.

Webb had most recently lived in Everett, Wash., some 120 miles northwest of Ellensburg, police said. But public records show he had lived in eastern Washington in the past, as well as in Humboldt County, Calif.

His stepmother, Lola Webb, answered the door at her home in Sunnyside, near Yakima, but refused to speak with a reporter from The Associated Press except to confirm that the little girl was safe.

"Yes, thank God for that," she said.

http://www.wsbt.com/news/national/42327682.html

[Sister Iroz]

Robert Daniel Webb's 1,200-mile-plus odyssey ended quietly in the driveway of a north Yakima home Saturday afternoon.

Webb, whose image was beamed around the world holding a gun on a store clerk while his 9-year-old daughter stood beside him, reluctantly surrendered to police.

"He didn't have anywhere to go," said Ryan Jolly, one of several Yakima residents whom Webb had called while on the run and who tried to persuade him to surrender.

"All his friends had turned against him. They all called the cops on him. 'I told him, why don't you come back up to Yakima?' "

The subject of a nationwide search, Webb had last been seen Wednesday in Northern California, where he left his daughter safely in the hands of an acquaintance before narrowly eluding police there. The 42-year-old former Yakima resident had been sought by police since Tuesday when the AM/PM minimart in Thorp, outside Ellensburg, was robbed.

Video from the store shows Webb pointing a handgun at the store clerk while his young daughter stood at his side. On the video the man threatens to kill the clerk if he called police, but he also tried to explain himself.

"I'm out of work. My daughter's got to survive," he said on the video.

The images and story circulated worldwide.

Jolly said the night after the robbery he called Webb on his cellphone to try to persuade him to turn himself in. Jolly said he had known Webb for several years through Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in Yakima and that he had baby-sat Webb's daughter last summer.

The call only lasted a minute before Webb hung up, according to Jolly, who said he considers Webb "somewhere between an acquaintance and a friend." Then around 2 p.m. Friday, Webb called from California and sounded desperate, Jolly said. That's when Jolly said he asked him to return to Yakima: "He was suicidal. I just wanted him to be able to stop before he hurt himself or hurt anybody else again. He traumatized his daughter."

Shortly before 1 p.m. Saturday, Webb pulled into Jolly's driveway in the 100 block of North Third Avenue. He seemed drunk, Jolly said.

Jolly said he invited Webb in, fixed him a sandwich and tried to talk him into turning himself in.

When Webb stepped outside to smoke a cigarette he looked anxious and was pulling his keys out, Jolly said.

"He thought I was going to let him go. I told him, 'You either turn yourself in and I'll go in with you, or the cops are going to take you. Enough is enough.' "

Jolly said he then blocked Webb's car with his own to prevent his escape and threatened to chase him on foot if he ran. He then called police as Webb watched, he said. Police arrested Webb a few minutes later.

He wasn't really ready to turn himself in, he was mad, Jolly said.

"Everyone in the world knew who he was. He was going to [get] caught," said Yakima police Lt. Tom Foley. "His friend did him a favor."

Webb was first taken to the Yakima police station and later transferred to the Yakima County jail.

Webb was rather quiet. He knows he's looking at jail time, Foley said, adding that he seemed "kind of relieved it was over."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...eryman05m.html

[Sister Iroz]

SEA-TAC AIRPORT, Wash. -- A 9-year-old girl who stood by her father's side as he allegedly robbed a convenience store at gunpoint returned home Friday.

Meadow Webb was holding her mother's hand as she walked through Sea-Tac Airport and said the first thing she wanted to do when she gets home is nap.

http://www.komonews.com/news/42453282.html

[lucky]

It's weird... one would think that if you had a restraining order against someone that you wouldn't let your child be in the care of that person.

Anyway, thank god no one was hurt and hopefully this asshat gets some help while he's locked up.