April 23, 2012

SandBoxBlogs: Coloradoan "Arrest provides Fort Collins man catalyst for leaving gang life"

Robert Allen:
"By age 9, Anthony DiBenedetto was wearing blue and running with Sureño gang members.

At age 22, he was harboring a first-degree murder fugitive when the Fort Collins SWAT team arrived at the third-floor apartment he shared with his six-months-pregnant wife on West Elizabeth Street.

He hung up on the negotiator about 3 a.m. Then there was a flashbang. Then tear gas.

"It was like a war zone," DiBenedetto said of the January 2008 incident. "Glass was breaking everywhere."

Having nowhere to go, everyone surrendered, walking downstairs into an array of riot gear with red, gun-mounted lasers pointing at them.

"I was screaming and yelling, 'My wife's pregnant! My wife's pregnant!' and I heard back, somebody said, 'Well you should have thought about that,'" said DiBenedetto, now 27....." (Read more?  Click title)

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