Either Vince Logan has a recognizable face or a lot of people are willing to turn him in, because he has been turned in to Crime Stoppers twice now.
With the Crime Stoppers program, if you’re the first to call in with the tip that leads to the arrest then you make $1,000. Great for the community, but frustrating for detectives when they see repeat offenders.
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“Now we’ve paid out a couple thousand dollars to put the same guy in jail twice. We hope when he goes to jail this time, they’ll keep him,” said Detective Mark Thomas with the Lexington Police Department.
Tips from LEX 18 viewers have helped identify Logan as the man seen in security footage stealing cigarettes in a Shell Station robbery in January.
A few hours after we aired Tuesday’s Crime Stoppers about a similar theft at the Speedway on North Broadway that ended in a cop injured by a getaway car, tipsters called in and pointed detectives toward Logan.
“It seems every encounter he’s had with police, he’s ran. So not only is he a convicted thief, but he’s also a coward,” said Thomas. “And there’s nothing we hate more than a thief and coward so we’re gonna have to find him again.”
Thomas told LEX 18 that Logan is known to try and sweet talk judges into second chances. He wrote a letter in June to a judge saying he wanted to change his life and be a better man for his daughter.
Thomas said he has a long way to go to do that.
Logan spent six months in jail on the robbery charge, officials say he was then released but violated his probation a month later.
