One property recently surveyed by the property assessment crew. Credit: SAM ALLARD / SCENE
This morning, a worker involved with the Thriving Communities Institute’s citywide property assessment survey was robbed at gunpoint.

Jim Rokakis, the TCI’s director, confirmed that “an iPad and some cash” had been stolen while a group of surveyors was working in the Mount Pleasant area. The survey crews are using iPads to input property data gathered at some 159,000 parcels of land in Cleveland. 

Police are now investigating.

“The good news is nobody was hurt. Not much more to say,” Rokakis told Scene. “We’ve been doing these [types of property surveys] for a couple years. This is the first time it’s happened.

“I mean, we’re not happy about it. But the good news is that it was just an iPad and no one was hurt. You put it all into perspective; you can replace an iPad.”

This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2015.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.

2 replies on “Property Assessment Survey Worker Robbed at Gunpoint While Working”

  1. Now that Doug Brown has left to go out west and find himself, are you going to hire yet another white male staff writer to take his place? That’s what Scene really needs. Make it happen.

  2. After writing the above comment, Daniel Carver stared at the screen, furiously pleasuring him(?)self again and again until collapsing from exhaustion.

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