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Two odd cases recently surfaced about criminals who called the cops on themselves:
Neilsville, Wis.—A 911 dispatcher recently received a call from 49-year-old Mary Strey who wanted to report a drunk driver. The dispatcher asked if Strey was currently behind the drink driver on the freeway. Strey reportedly answered, “I am them.” The dispatcher quickly instructed Strey to pull over to the side of the road and turn her hazard lights on, where she was found by sheriff’s deputies and cited for misdemeanor drunken driving. (source)
Brant Township, Mich.—A 54-year-old woman called Saginaw County Sheriff’s Deputies to report a theft early last Sunday morning. When a detective arrived, the woman informed him that two men had broken into her home and demanded that she hand over her marijuana plants, then fled. The woman said that she grew and used the plants for medicinal purposes, but she was promptly arrested on charges of manufacturing and delivering marijuana. (source)
We’re thankful that these ne’er-do-wells had the foresight to call the cops to report their questionable behavior. I wish more criminals would do the same. It would save us all a lot of time and effort.
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In New Jersey over the weekend, three would-be burglars broke into the apartment of a man, woke him up out of bed, and demanded that he hand over mounds of cash they believed him to have. The man fought back, stabbing one of the suspects with a pair of scissors while screaming and successfully resisting to have his arms bound.
At some point, the burglars realized that they had broken into the wrong apartment and had attacked the wrong man. As compensation, they grabbed a piggy bank containing roughly $2 in change and fled the building.
When police arrived, they found a set of keys in the bedroom that did not belong to the victim. When they pressed the “alarm” button, they found the car parked in a nearby parking lot. Quickly running the registration, the police tracking down the residence of the owner of the car and found the suspects in a taxi parked out front.
We applaud these suspects for their cowardice, stupidity, and overall non-criminal-master-mindedness (if that is a word).
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A Port Orange, Fla., man recently called 911 to turn himself in for a robbery he had committed 20 minutes earlier.
Tony Olea handed a note to a teller earlier that asked for money and implied that he had a gun. The teller discretely handed over the money along with a dye pack. 20 minutes later, after the dye pack exploded, Olea made the 911 call from a nearby gas station.
I think we can assume that he turned himself in over the embarrassment of his outfit being ruined by the dye pack. No word on whether the outfit can be salvaged.
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A Michigan high school went into lockdown recently and 180 students in the cafeteria were evacuated to the gym when a cafeteria worker spotted two men putting on ski masks outside the high school.
The lockdown was short-lived, however, because it turns out the two men were local police officers staging a fake robbery as part of an instruction exercise for the school’s forensic science class.
Despite the lockdown, the officers completed the robbery as planned. Presumably, the cafeteria worked was informed that the exercise has been a part of the class for the last 12 years.
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Well, I guess it bears repeating: crime doesn’t pay. Authorities in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., used criminals’ avarice against them recently in “Operation Show Me the Money.” Law Enforcement sent a number of letters to fugitives telling them that they had federal stimulus checks waiting for them. The criminals were asked to call a hot line and set up an appointment to pick up their checks.
When the unsuspecting criminals arrived for their appointment at a auditorium strewn with “South Florida Stimulus Coalition” banners, they were identified and arrested. The sting brought in 75 criminals whose crimes ranged from fraud to attempted murder.
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Wood caught fire when tased by police
A Lancaster, Ohio, man briefly ignited in flames after be tased by local police. 31-year-old Daniel Wood, had been inhaling a chemical spray to get a high when he ran from police. Wood was resisting arrest by biting and kicking officers, when he was tased. The taser briefly set fire to Wood’s clothing—most likely due to the flammable spray he was huffing—and officers quickly patted out the flames. Wood did not sustain any serious injuries as a result of the fire.
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Bank robbers seem to be trying a new tactic that seems counter-intuitive to the casual observer: leaving their personal information with the bank they are robbing. Last week we reported on a case where a robber gave the teller his name and account information before robbing the bank, and now there is this guy…
A Murray, Utah, man recently entered a local Washington Federal Savings Bank and handed the teller a note demanding money. After receiving the money, the man fled, leaving the note behind. The note proved very useful to the investigation because it turns out the robber wrote the note on the back of a recent drug screening information sheet, complete with his name, birth date, and social security number.
The man’s attorney has no comment.
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A 34-year-old man was arrested in Anchorage, Alaska, after robbing an area bank. The man entered the bank branch and asked the teller to check his balance, giving the teller his account information and ID. He then demanded the teller give him money, and he left the bank with about $600 in cash.
The ID and account information he gave the teller before he made his demands were vital to finding and arresting the robber.
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Salem, OR—Police received a call from a woman who claimed her boyfriend had trapped a burglar in their garage. When police arrived, they found a 47-year-old man wearing nothing but a pair of the woman’s underwear. A search of the man’s home, located in the same neighborhood, turned up several garbage bags full of women’s clothing, shoes, and accessories.
Anne Arundel County, MD—After returning to her home one afternoon, a woman found she had been burglarized. After the discovery, she was driving down her own street when she saw a yard sale with several familiar items on sale in the front yard. The woman immediately returned home and called the police. The police arrested the man who was attempting to sell $25,000 worth of the woman’s belongings in a yard sale just down the street from the house he had robbed. The items were returned and the suspect has been charged with 1st degree burglary.
Source: http://blog.taragana.com/n/oregon-burglary-suspect-arrested-wearing-victims-underwear-137104/
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