Change machine trick gone bad

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Two would-be thieves who failed to trick a carwash change machine with a $10 bill on a string were busted when they asked the manager to retrieve their stuck bill, according to Winona police.

A 21-year-old Winona woman and 25-year-old man from Buffalo City, Wis., went to E-Z Carwash at Ronald Avenue and West King Street on the evening of Oct. 18. With a security video camera rolling, they smoothed out a bill, attached a string and fed it into the slot. The machine ate the bill, and the string broke off, according to police.

The woman kicked the machine, and they left, police said.

The next day they called the manager and asked for a refund. The manager found the bill, complete with tape and holes in it for the string.

When the woman showed up, the manager took down her license plate number, showed her the videotape and contacted police.

Police said Friday that prosecutors likely would charge the couple with possessing a theft tool.

This article was found on LacrosseTribune.com

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Drunk man urinates outside in front of cop

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

Sunday was certainly not a day of rest for some local law offenders. Fort Payne Police arrested two people on Sunday for a few crimes of unusual circumstance.

Walter E. Moore, 48 of Lookout Mountain, Ga., was arrested on Sunday around 2 a.m. in the parking lot of J.T.’s Fish Market. He was charged with public lewdness and public intoxication.

According to Fort Payne Assistant Police Chief Michael Grant, Moore had come out of the restaurant to relieve himself. Apparently, Moore remembered to face away from the restaurant so other guests would not see his private parts but forgot to protect himself from the eyes of the people sitting at the intersection directly in front of him.

“The area was well lit and a cop just happened to be sitting at the intersection,” Grant said. “He saw the whole thing.”

Haha.. Poor guy.

This article was found on Times-Journal.com

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Man visits probation officer in bank robbery clothes

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

A robber with a note hit a bank on U.S. 19 N Monday afternoon and got away before officers arrived. But Wednesday, Clearwater police officers were waiting for Anthony J. Russo when the 40-year-old man checked in with his probation officer not far from the police station, officials said.

“When he went to see his probation officer, he was wearing the same clothes (as) when he robbed the bank,” said Clearwater police spokesman Wayne Shelor.

Russo lives at 40 Bay Esplanade, Apt. 3, in Clearwater Beach. About 2:30 p.m. Monday, Shelor said, Russo went into a Wachovia Bank in the 25700 block of U.S. 19 N and handed a note to a teller demanding money.

Russo escaped, Shelor said, but he left behind fingerprints that officers used together with video surveillance to identify him.

The police officers learned that Russo was scheduled to visit his probation officer two days later. Around noon Wednesday, Russo checked in with the officer at a building at Lake Avenue and Park Street - about two blocks from the Clearwater police station.

Russo was charged with bank robbery and was being held at the Pinellas County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bail.

This article was found on SPTimes.com

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Drunk man let his 7 year old son drive

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Meet Alfredo Martinez. While the Nevada man should be saluted for knowing that he was too drunk to get behind the wheel last night, he probably should not have tabbed his seven-year-old son as his designated driver.

Martinez, 37, was arrested after Reno cops spotted his car weaving across lanes and stopping suddenly.

When officers pulled over the vehicle before it could enter a highway, they found a plastered Martinez in the passenger seat and his son behind the wheel.

Martinez, pictured above in a mug shot snapped at the Washoe County lockup, directed the boy to drive him home because he was too drunk to do it himself, cops said. Martinez is facing a felony child endangerment rap.

This article was found on TheSmokingGun.com

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