Most of the time, it is an honor to have your photo in the paper — unless that paper happens to be the Crime Times.
That is the name of a new publication selling in Charlottesville that is chock full of arrest photos from the area.
The Hook reports that the paper, published by truck driver Wade McMurray, is flying off shelves:
“We asked for 10 the first week,” says Mike Brown, owner of Brown’s convenience store on Avon Street (formerly Stoney’s Grocery). Now, Brown says, he sells 100 copies within days of delivery and calls it “our best-selling publication.”
Over on Market Street, it’s the same story at the Lucky 7. “We get a big stack of them, and they’re gone by the end of the week,” says employee Tony Lechmanski.
McMurray told the Hook he is publishing 16,000 copies a week, which sell for a dollar each.
Just over a year ago, a division of the Richmond Times-Dispatch began publishing a weekly mugshot digest called Gotcha!
Those who have the misfortune of having their photo published and are not proven guilty of any crimes often complain that it is unfair to publicize their arrests.
As a testament to the popularity of such publications, our March 2010 story on Gotcha! is Richmond BizSense’s fourth-most-read story of all time.
Most of the time, it is an honor to have your photo in the paper — unless that paper happens to be the Crime Times.
That is the name of a new publication selling in Charlottesville that is chock full of arrest photos from the area.
The Hook reports that the paper, published by truck driver Wade McMurray, is flying off shelves:
“We asked for 10 the first week,” says Mike Brown, owner of Brown’s convenience store on Avon Street (formerly Stoney’s Grocery). Now, Brown says, he sells 100 copies within days of delivery and calls it “our best-selling publication.”
Over on Market Street, it’s the same story at the Lucky 7. “We get a big stack of them, and they’re gone by the end of the week,” says employee Tony Lechmanski.
McMurray told the Hook he is publishing 16,000 copies a week, which sell for a dollar each.
Just over a year ago, a division of the Richmond Times-Dispatch began publishing a weekly mugshot digest called Gotcha!
Those who have the misfortune of having their photo published and are not proven guilty of any crimes often complain that it is unfair to publicize their arrests.
As a testament to the popularity of such publications, our March 2010 story on Gotcha! is Richmond BizSense’s fourth-most-read story of all time.
What are the top three RBS stories to date? Just curious.
The stories about Justin French, I would guess.