Archive for the 'Stupid Criminals' Category
Feb8th
Thursday, February 8th, 2007
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Banks are great places to leave valuables, like jewelry, birth certificates, cash — and pot.
Adrian Hilton, 26, was accused of depositing a marijuana stash in a Pizza Pit deposit bag and slipping the bundle into a night deposit box at American Bank and Trust last fall.
According to a criminal complaint, Hilton, a delivery driver for Pizza Pit, admitted the marijuana was his and that he had inadvertently deposit it.
Hilton was charged with possession of marijuana, but Assistant Johnson County Attorney David Tiffany said he would ask a judge to dismiss the charge since a bank teller gave the marijuana back to Hilton when he returned to the bank the next day.
“The bank teller gave the marijuana back to him so we didn’t have any evidence,” Tiffany said. “She was smart enough to call police, but then she gave it back to him.”
Tiffany said no charges would be filed against the teller.
Haha.. Thats just good stuff.
This article was found on Chron.com
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Jan30th
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Clenzo Thompson really should get a new career. The bird-brained bandit was busted for sticking up the same Brooklyn bank twice in three days - and having a dye pack explode in his face both times, cops said.
And this is three years after he robbed another bank but dropped his state ID card while pocketing the cash, sources said.
On Jan. 12, Thompson, 45, slipped a holdup note to a teller in Commerce Bank’s Park Slope branch, on Fifth Avenue near Garfield Place, cops said. He got back $2,340 stacked to conceal the soon-to-explode dye pack.
Yet, just two days later, Thompson allegedly took a livery cab to the same bank, told the driver to wait, went in and handed a note to a different teller - who handed him $1,740 and another dye pack.
This one burst inside the cab, prompting the driver to jump out and the never-say-dye Thompson to take the wheel, speed off and abandon the car a few blocks away, authorities said.
But cops found fingerprints in the bank. This time, he was arrested on Jan. 25 at a pal’s place in Boonton, N.J.
This article was found on NYPost.com
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Jan14th
Sunday, January 14th, 2007
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. - An alleged burglar is under arrest after he accidentally provided police with a key clue.
CBS 2 Northwest Indiana Bureau Chief Pamela Jones reports on the evidence that helped crack the case.
Saws, car stereos, even sets of golf clubs were all recovered from a string of burglaries in Northwest Indiana, and police think one man is responsible.
“The world’s dumbest criminal, maybe,” is how burglary victim Chris Brock described the alleged criminal.
Brock says he found a paper trail Phillip Miley allegedly left while breaking into his home, including a receipt from when he bonded out of jail on another burglary charge.
“He left his Social Security card, and a couple of check stubs,” Brock said.
Police believe the suspect hit a home in Lake County and up to four in Porter County.
Lake County Deputy Commander Shaw Spurlock invited Miley in to talk, and that’s when police say he revealed how he allegedly bagged the items.
“As far as we know, these crimes occurred on one single night. He was busy the entire night,” said Detective Jeff Biggs of the Porter County Sheriff’s Department.
“I’ve lived here for seven years and never had an incident. And then, all of a sudden in a week I’ve had three incidents,” Brock said.
He says the Dec. 28 burglary seems to have touched off more vandalism at his home.
He says he still has injuries from when someone stole his dump truck, then ran into him and just Tuesday morning, an explosion in his front yard.
Police are investigating to see whether the cases are connected.
In the meantime Brock and other victims wait to have their belongings returned to them.
This article was found on CBS2Chicago.com
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Jan9th
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A would-be customer, shopping on eBay for a new GPS for his car, found one that fit the bill a little too perfectly: It’s the one that was stolen from him.
Danial Rangkar, 25, of Great Neck, was awaiting arraignment Monday on a charge of criminal possession of stolen property after allegedly trying to sell not only the victim’s stolen GPS device, but dozens of other electronic items including laptop computers, digital cameras, iPods, cellphones and other hand-held communications devices.
The name of his attorney was not immediately available.
The victim, who was not identified, said his particular GPS had a unique power cord and when he found it being offered for sale on the Internet about 10 days after it was stolen, he checked the serial number and it matched the one he had owned, police said Monday.
“Unbelievable as it seems, he was in the bidding to buy his own stolen GPS,” Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said.
The police investigation led to Rangkar, who owns a “second hand” store in the borough of Queens. A search of his home and business uncovered several dozen items that police suspect had been stolen out of automobiles in the New York metropolitan area.
Police and prosecutors were hesitant to provide details of how they determined all the devices had been stolen, but at least two of the laptops were stamped “Property of St. John’s University.” Detective Ray Cote noted that the GPS devices specifically had the addresses of the legitimate owners programmed in and police were now contacting those victims to eventually return the items.
Catherine England, a spokeswoman for the San Jose, Calif.-based eBay, said her company has a 2,000 employee “trust and safety” unit that constantly monitors the site for illegal activity. She said the unit includes a liaison with law enforcement and that anyone suspected of illegal activity immediately has their account canceled.
Early Monday morning, Rangkar was still offering a number of items for sale on the site; it was not immediately clear whether the items were suspected of being stolen. Rangkar, who worked under the name “nydannysjewelry,” was identified as a “power seller” on the eBay site and buyers as recently as Sunday were raving about him.
“Fast delivery. Excellent product. Will do business again,” read one comment.
England said it was possible police had yet to notify her company about the arrest.
This article was found on 1010Wins.com
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Jan2nd
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
Two men wanted in connection to a botched attempt to shoot open a safe stolen from a Gulf Breeze car lot have been arrested.
Robert Salter Jr., 20, of Pensacola turned himself in to Escambia County sheriff’s deputies Thursday. Paul Dean, also 20 and from Pensacola, was picked up by Escambia deputies Thursday, as well.
Salter originally told investigators he was driving by OBO Auto Sales, 3222 Fordham Parkway in Gulf Breeze, on Jan. 6, when he saw lights inside. When he went into the office to check, a burglar shot him in the leg, he claimed.
It turns out that Salter’s injury occurred after he and Dean burglarized the business, and Dean attempted to open the safe in a wooded area by shooting it with a .45-caliber pistol, law enforcement officers said. The shot ricocheted off the safe and struck Salter in the thigh.
Both men were transferred to Santa Rosa County Jail, where they were being held on $100,000 bond each.
This article was found on PensacolaNewsJournal.comÂ
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Dec8th
Friday, December 8th, 2006
A thief was arrested after he repeatedly stopped during a police pursuit to smoke crack.
Police say the man, 45, from Stratford, Connecticut, had been driving a stolen car in Bridgeport.
The chase began after he attempted to pay for petrol with cards belonging to the car owner.
With police on their way, he abandoned the car and ran off on foot, reports the Connecticut Post.
After climbing over a fence, he stopped to smoke crack before running off again, officers say.
He headed off through the local seaport, and went to stand on a boat - where he had another crack break.
The man was still on the boat smoking crack when officers apprehended him.
Unbelievable. What more can you say about this?
This article was found on Ananova.com
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Dec7th
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
An overheated armed robbery suspect has been caught lifting his balaclava (mask) in front of a surveillance camera.
Police have distributed a photograph of the man, believed to be the main offender in a group which held eight patrons and a barmaid hostage at gunpoint in Rotorua’s Ruck’n Maul bar on Sunday night.
Police believe the man was hot and pulled up his balaclava in a place where he thought he was not observed.
Five people are being sought for the hold-up.
Two patrons were bashed in the robbery, which lasted 10 minutes and ended when the raiders fled with an unknown amount of cash.
Two of the robbers carried guns and ordered barmaid Stevie Mitchell to open 16 poker machines as patrons cowered on the floor.
Ms Mitchell was also forced to hand over the keys to her Nissan Primera.
Detective Sergeant Garry Hawkins said the victims had been through an ordeal which had “the potential for homicide”.
Mr Hawkins said the robbers were unlikely to have taken unloaded weapons when entering a bar where patrons were drinking.
Police are also looking for a maroon Subaru Legacy stationwagon seen at Kuirau Park in the central city before the 8.30pm robbery.
The robbers dumped Ms Mitchell’s car at the park and police believe the Subaru was driven by accomplices waiting to pick them up.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Rotorua police on (0800) Tip Off or (07) 348-0099.
Haha..Wow. Unbelievable.
This article was found on NZHerald.co.nz
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Nov13th
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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Pittsburgh - A Clarion County woman who apparently used a stolen car to get to a state police barracks to be fingerprinted for a civilian job was arrested yesterday on an outstanding warrant from Georgia.
