By: Eric Hertha
Hospitality Business News - Bahamas Desk
August 21, 2010
While looking for stories over the past few months one thing that has jumped out at me is the number of reported robberies, both at hotels and at restaurants. In one recent incident a Florida thief (of course) called back to the restaurant to complain that they did not have enough money when he robbed them and that there better be more the next time. In another outlandish event, thieves stole an ATM out of a Hotel Lobby (http://www.hospitalitybusinessnews.com/2010/04/thieves-wheel-atm-out-of-hotel-lobby.html ) back in April. A search for hotel and restaurant robberies brings up more than 250 stories.
I think an article that sums up the outbreak is one from Joscelyn Moes at 69 News in Pennsylvania http://www.wfmz.com/lehighvalleynews/24700404/detail.html , at least 6 hotels have been robbed in the past three months. According to the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission the estimated population of the area in 2010 is 644,000. Not a huge place.
The latest hold-up happened early Friday at the Homewood Suites in Hanover Township, Lehigh County. Population – under 2,000 residents.
According to the article by Moes, since the end of May or early June, police said that there have been numerous hotel robberies around the Lehigh Valley, including two at the Best Western on Tilghman Street, two at the Holiday Inn Express across from Dorney Park, one at the Holiday Inn in downtown Allentown, and one at the Econo Lodge in Allentown.
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