What were they thinking?.....Dumb criminals.......add your dumb criminal story

[PMedMoe]

Man dressed as Gumby tries to rob store

The costumed man announced he was robbing the store, but the clerk thought it was a joke, police said.

"Gumby said, 'You don't think it's a robbery? Let me show you my gun,'" Hassen said.

The suspect then tried to reach into his Gumby outfit but experienced a "costume malfunction" and could not fit his hand in a pocket, he said.

Instead of a gun, the costumed suspect pulled out 26 cents in change which he dropped on the floor, police said.

The accomplice, who had left the store and gotten into a minivan, honked at the man dressed as Gumby. He, too, walked out of the store without managing to take any money, police said. Both men left in the minivan.

So how come the accomplice wasn't dressed as Pokey?    ;D

 

[Pusser]

Man dressed as Gumby tries to rob store

So how come the accomplice wasn't dressed as Pokey?    ;D

Didn't have enough horse sense?  ;D

 

[PMedMoe]

Tee hee hee.  ;D

Cops lure fugitives with free TV offer

Instead of going home with $75 and a plasma TV, fugitives in Chicago were locked up.

In Operation C.W. Marketing, the Cook County Sheriff's Office sent 10,000 offenders wanted for a variety of reasons -- from unpaid child support, traffic offenses and violent felonies -- invitations to take part in electronics testing. The invites said that in exchange for their feedback, they would get $75 and could keep the electronic device they tested.

The invitations went to the most recent address for those on the wanted list, and while thousands were returned as undeliverable, more than 50 fugitives made appointments to take part.

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Police said the ruse resulted in 102 arrests, with 106 warrants cleared -- 15 felonies, 72 misdemeanours and 15 from civil courts. The county also collected more than $5,000 in fees from towing vehicles as part of the operation.

More at link

That's great!  :nod:

 

[FlyingDutchman]

That just shows that if its to good to be true, it probably is.

 

[PMedMoe]

That just shows that if its to good to be true, it probably is.

What would be even more ironic, would be if some of these crooks were scammers.    >

 

[FlyingDutchman]

Here is my personal dumb criminal story.  A man came in, drunk as a skunk soaked in vodka, and demanded all my coffee.  I, not wanting to be confontational with a drunk man, said "Okay" as most just leave after they get what they get what they want.  He then said "I'm gonna be back in a minute to rob you!"  He walked out the door and then passed out across of the carwash entrance.  I checked his pulse, turned him onto his side, and called the police.  After informing them of what happened, about half an hour later they came to pick him up (he wasn't going anywhere.)

 

[PMedMoe]

Speeder caught by his own cellphone

A Swiss motorist used his mobile phone to record himself driving on an autoroute near Geneva at 320 km an hour, nearly three times the speed limit, police said on Wednesday.

But the offence was only uncovered six months later when the 28-year-old was questioned in another case and investigators found the images still on the phone.

:facepalm:

 

[cupper]

Good thing we don't have a three strikes law in Canada, cause his count is 2-0.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/10/05/ns-drunk-driver-arrested-twice.html

Double trouble for suspected drunk driver

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/10/05/ns-drunk-driver-arrested-twice.html

 

[Nfld Sapper]

Corvette traps would-be thief in B.C.
The Canadian Press

A would-be car thief in Prince George, B.C., has learned a powerful lesson from a powerless car.

He now knows that the Corvette he tried to steal on Sunday afternoon becomes nothing more than a four-wheeled holding cell when the battery dies.

RCMP Sgt. Jason Keays told the Prince George Citizen the 21-year-old jumped into the idling Corvette just as the owner was putting away a charger used to revive the sports car's dead battery.

The owner watched in disbelief as the thief rolled up the power windows, locked the power doors — and promptly stalled the vehicle while trying to back out of the driveway.

Without enough juice in the battery to restart the car, the suspect was trapped inside as the Corvette withstood his efforts to smash a window or pry one open with a screwdriver.

As police arrived, Keays says the man was trying to bash his way out with a hatchet stored in his backpack, but instead was arrested and charged with various theft and weapons offences.

 

[PMedMoe]

The owner watched in disbelief as the thief rolled up the power windows, locked the power doors — and promptly stalled the vehicle while trying to back out of the driveway.

:rofl:

 

[PMedMoe]

British 'dead man' caught in Australia

A British man who allegedly faked his own death and made off with the life insurance payout has been arrested in Australia, police said Thursday, ending a six-year manhunt.

Hugo Jose Sanchez, 47, also known as Alfredo, was taken into Australian Federal Police custody overnight in Sydney, the force said.

Ecuadorian-born Sanchez and his wife Sophie allegedly faked his death to claim more than one million pounds in life insurance in 2005, but the plot reportedly unravelled after Sanchez's fingerprints were found on his own death certificate.

More at link

Whoops!  ;D

 

[PMedMoe]

Buying microwave with $1M bill leads to arrest

Police say a North Carolina man insisted his million-dollar note was real when he was buying $476 worth of items at a Walmart.

Investigators told the Winston-Salem Journal that 53-year-old Michael Fuller tried to buy a vacuum cleaner, a microwave oven and other items. Store employees called police after his insistence that the bill was legit, and Fuller was arrested.

The largest bill in circulation is $100. The government stopped making bills of up to $10,000 in 1969.


:not-again:

 

[kkwd]

Hey dumb guy, don't you know you are not allowed to mess with other people's houses? Now you won't be able to sit down for a month.

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Shelby County homeowner shoots man trying to get inside

Written by
Kristine Guerra

A Shelby County homeowner fired a single shot that sent a 19-year-old suspected burglar to an Indianapolis hospital this morning.

The incident occurred at a home on West Sycamore Road in the unincorporated community of Pleasant View around 3:30 a.m., when the homeowner called the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office about a robbery. The homeowner fired one shot, according to news media reports.

Shelby County authorities said the man was banging on the door and got his hand inside. The suspected burglar was struck in the buttock, said Major David Tilford, spokesman for the sheriff’s office.

Tilford said the suspect, who’s from Fountaintown, has been treated and released from Wishard Memorial Hospital. An arrest was expected later today.

Tilford said authorities will not release the name of the homeowner.

 

[PMedMoe]

Glad they caught this ass. 

Six bulldog puppies rescued from locked suitcase

What could be more adorable than six bulldog puppies sitting in a suitcase? As cute as the above photo is, it has a less-than-heartening beginning.

An Ohio man has been charged with animal abandonment after Humane Society authorities matched his name with a suitcase in which the six puppies had been trapped. The suitcase, allegedly belonging to Howard Davis, 53, had been left next to a garbage can in a Toledo alleyway.

The puppies were discovered after someone noticed their mother pacing around the closed suitcase.

Toledo Area Humane Society spokeswoman Cyndi Condit told Reuters that Davis lives only two blocks from where the puppies were found.

"Howard's name was on the tag of the suitcase and the mother was licensed to him," Condit said.

If convicted, Davis faces a maximum sentence of 90 days in jail and a $750 fine. Davis claims the suitcase was stolen from him and that he had given the dogs to a friend in Michigan.

More at link

 

[PMedMoe]

And yet another doofus....

Google search and ads lead straight to thief

Shawn Cromwell made it pretty easy for police to find him – with an assist from the homeowner he had stolen from.

The 26-year-old was selling stolen goods on the web-based classified site Kijiji, Ontario Court of Justice heard Tuesday, listing his real name, address and phone number as a point of contact.

Cromwell pleaded guilty to charges of break and enter, three counts of possession of property obtained by crime, unsafe storage of a firearm and possession of a firearm without a proper licence.

Crown attorney Jim Hughes said items valued at about $5,000, including a drill press, were stolen from a Galway-Cavendish and Harvey home June 25.

But the thief left one item behind, a cigarette butt that police sent to the Centre of Forensic Science in Toronto for analysis.

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Police began preparing a warrant to obtain a DNA sample from Cromwell to make sure they had a match. They also asked the homeowner who was robbed if he knew Cromwell, Hughes said.

The two were strangers. But the homeowner did a Google search using Cromwell’s name, which sent him to the ads on Kijiji.

More at link

:facepalm:

 

[kkwd]

Someone could lose an eye.

Original article

Muncie woman captures intruder with BB gun

A Muncie woman awakened by a "crashing sound" in her home early Wednesday found a convicted burglar hiding behind her Christmas tree, according to a police report.

The woman, armed with what was described as a "realistic BB gun," took the intruder into custody and led him to her son's house next door, where police were called.

Arrested on a preliminary charge of burglary was Thomas Charles Miller, 32, of Muncie.

Investigators said they found two bags of stolen items outside the woman's home, in the 800 block of North Mulberry Street, and that Miller was found to be carrying her iPod, necklace and keys.

The Muncie man was arrested in May after he was accused of breaking into a house and vehicles near the Ball State University campus and then using stolen credit cards to make purchases.

He pleaded guilty to a related count of fraud in September, and was sentenced to time already served in jail.

Since 2007, Miller has also been convicted of burglary, receiving stolen property, domestic battery and possession of marijuana.

 

[kkwd]

Muncie again? You might remember that town from the short lives series called Armed & Famous. There are 9 bail bonds companies in that town, not bad for a population of 70,000. Bad Boys Bail Bond never close, look them up if you ever get in a jam in Muncie.

Original article

Muncie man notches his 115th arrest


MUNCIE -- A local man last week was behind bars -- again -- after his 115th arrest since the jail in the Delaware County Justice Center opened in the early 1990s.

The most recent arrest of Tony Irvin McKinley, 53, came Wednesday afternoon in the Southway Centre after he was accused of entering a mattress store and cursing at its employees.

Officer David Porter reported he found an intoxicated McKinley outside a nearby grocery store and took him into custody.

While on the trip to IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital -- where McKinley was examined before being taken to jail -- the Eaton man "threatened to put a bullet in my head when I was off duty," the officer wrote.

At the hospital, McKinley repeatedly threatened to kill, kick or spit on people he encountered.

"A spit hood was placed on his head to keep him from spitting on people," Porter wrote.

McKinley was preliminarily charged with intimidation, resisting law enforcement, public intoxication and disorderly conduct. He had been released from the jail by Friday afternoon.

The vast majority of McKinley's arrests -- part of a criminal record dating back at least 35 years -- have been alcohol-related, leading to at least 20 convictions for public intoxication since the early 1990s.

He's also been convicted of driving while intoxicated at least eight times, and three times has been sent to prison: for criminal recklessness in 2006, driving after a lifetime suspension in 2003 and one of the DWI convictions, in 1990.

Since his most recent release from the Indiana Department of Correction in 2008, McKinley has compiled at least five more criminal convictions, including two intimidation convictions last year.

"Something's wrong, isn't it?" Delaware County Prosecutor Jeffrey Arnold said Friday when asked about McKinley's history.

The prosecutor noted substance-abuse programs, including those offered by the local court system, are effective "only for people who want to change."

 

[The Bread Guy]

DOHHHH!

Posting on Facebook that you’ve just robbed a convenience store isn’t the brightest idea in the world.

But apparently that’s just what one alleged crook did after a Mac’s Convenience store on Simpson Street was robbed.

Police, acting on a tip, obtained a search warrant for the suspect’s residence, seized evidence and asked for an arrest warrant as the suspect was not at home at the time.

Nineteen-year-old Travis Jacob Loon turned himself into police on Sunday morning. He’s been charged with robbery, possession of a prohibited weapon and two counts of breach of probation.

Loon has been remanded to the district jail after a court appearance on Monday. None of the allegations have been proven in a court of law.

tbnewswatch.com, 7 Jan 13

 

[Journeyman]

DOHHHH!

It's kind of reassuring to see that, despite the best efforts of defence lawyers and hand-wringing folks, Darwin is still fighing through trying to rid us of the most dumb.  :not-again:

 

[PMedMoe]

Oh, the irony of it all....

Drunk driver busted wearing 'breathalyzer' T-shirt

A Wisconsin man must not have known how ironic his T-shirt choice would be when he put it on yesterday morning.

Bryan Wendler was arrested for his 6th drinking and driving charge after being found passed out in his car wearing a ‘Free breathalyzer Test’ T-shirt.

More at link

:rofl: