This text, more than the others in the collection, is written in journalese. The result is a proliferation of cliched metaphors, circumlocutions, and irrelevant color factoids, which make it difficult to separate the inferences involved. See particularly inference 5, 8, and 12 below.
Eight of the twenty-five inferences have to do with the incident of Skyler tacking the mugger, which is of only minor importance in this story. I do not have a general explanation for this, but it is noteworthy.