Living in Las Vegas

Las Vegas Metro Police Department has hopped on the Twitter bandwagon.  Check is out at http://twitter.com/LVMPD.  They are posting tweets such as, “3:30 this morning this guy robbed a convenience store near Rainbow & Westcliff. Recognize him? Call Crime Stoppers.” or  ”officers are heading to local elementary schools over the next few days to read to students in honor of Nevada Reading Week.”After reading over a lot of the the tweets, it looks like it’s a pretty good mix of live updates and promotional or informative type messages about Las Vegas Metro. 

Richelle Leaverton, who monitors activity on Metro’s Twitter page says, “This will give the public real-time information about what is happening.  If there is police activity in a certain part of town and streets are closed, the public will know immediately and can change their routes accordingly.”

Twitter is becoming bigger than I ever expected. I mean they were just talking about twittering during the basketball game. I have had an account for ages, but haven’t really used it.  I am thinking maybe I will head on over to it and see if I can remember the password.

I actually first received news of this Amber Alert via email at work. The situation is very real and very serious.  A few minutes later I heard about it on the radio and then I heard it was on MySpace.  So kudos to getting the news out there, the sooner this boy is found the better!

Ok, the details.

Name: Cole Puffinburger                    Age:  6 years                          Gender: Male

Hair:  Blond                                           Eyes: Blue                               Skin: White       

Height: 3 feet 8 inches                        Weight: 48 pounds

Kidnapped From:  His home at 6800 Cherry Grove Avenue near Hollywood and Lake Mead.

Wearing:  Black John Cena WWE wrestling shirt, dark jeans, a belt, black Vans shoes, white socks and a black, zip-up hooded sweat shirt with white, black and blue stars all over it.

Details:  The suspects are two Hispanic males.  They posed as police officers and held Cole and his mother at gunpoint while robbing their home. Then they took Cole.

Las Vegas Metro Police Department: 702-828-3111

Crime Stoppers: 702-385-5555