(NEWSER) – Police in Delaware say a man who robbed a Wilmington bank on Saturday didn’t keep the cash for long—after fleeing the Wells Fargo branch, he paused to make a deposit in the ATM outside. Police say McRoberts Williams, a 44-year-old California resident, handed a note to a teller Saturday morning saying a robbery was taking place, WBZ reports. The 25-year-old woman gave him an undisclosed amount of cash.
Williams fled on foot and made the deposit in a machine on the exterior of the building, Delaware State Police said. Officers responding to the scene found him behind a nearby shopping center and took him into custody without incident. He was charged with second-degree robbery, a felony, with bond set at $6,000.
(NEWSER) – The California Highway Patrol chased a stolen party bus across southern California Tuesday before it slammed into a sedan north of Los Angeles. Top Dog Limo Bus owner Susie Leitzke tells KTLA that the 40-foot vehicle was stolen in San Diego Tuesday morning when a person jumped in while the driver was doing a pickup. She says local cops searched for it until around 90 minutes later, when she received a call from somebody on the 405 Freeway who complained that somebody in one of the company’s vehicles was “driving crazy on the freeway and doing 90mph.”
“I explained to him that was a stolen bus and he stayed on the phone until we called dispatch and got somebody out there,” Leitzke says. Police say the driver continued speeding during a pursuit on freeways through Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, and Santa Clarita before they exited the freeway in Palmdale and hit a silver four-door car minutes later, Fox 11 reports. There were no immediate reports of injuries, but the vehicle was heavily damaged. Patrol units surrounded the bus and a woman exited the vehicle and was taken into custody at gunpoint, reports the Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
(NEWSER) – A man in Oklahoma apparently had his heart set on an Audi, but his alleged scheme to acquire one didn’t work out the way it was supposed to. KTUL reports that Randy Cantwell was arrested in Tulsa after police say he showed up at a car dealership in Tulsa, claimed he was a federal marshal, and tried to drive away in one of the lot’s vehicles. According to the Tulsa Police Department, Cantwell arrived at the dealership in the south part of the city on Monday and expressed interest in an Audi there, per employee accounts. With keys in hand, a worker reportedly took Cantwell over to see the car, though he explained Cantwell couldn’t actually take it for a spin because the vehicle wasn’t prepped to drive.
That’s when things took a weird turn. Cops say Cantwell told the employee the car was stolen, that he was a federal marshal, and that he was leaving with the car. Quick-thinking workers say they blocked him in, however, forcing Cantwell to ditch the car and try to walk off the lot. Police arrived at the scene, and they say the only ID Cantwell provided was a driver’s license—meaning it didn’t appear he was a federal marshal after all, despite him telling officers he became one after Donald Trump declared martial law while president, per FOX23. Cantwell was arrested for false impersonation of law enforcement.
Police say the suspects apparently wanted the trailer’s batteries. (Getty Images/steverts)
(NEWSER) – Two Alabama men have been arrested over an audacious, but extremely ill-advised, theft. The Russell County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post Tuesday that Gabriel Mendoza Garcia and Steve Gerome Spann were arrested Monday for allegedly stealing a speed-warning trailer that belongs to the sheriff’s office. “It appears they were trying to get the batteries to sell the batteries,” Sheriff Heath Taylor tells the Ledger-Enquirer. “Batteries are bringing a high dollar now.”
Both men have been charged with first-degree theft of property and first-degree criminal mischief. Taylor says the suspects were tracked down through the trailer’s GPS. WRBL reports that the trailer is also equipped with a camera, which captured video of the theft. “It just shows you we’ve got crazy people running around,” the sheriff says.
A Boston robber who snatched a woman’s wallet in a schoolyard was handily caught by police after he left his birth certificate and a note from his mother at the scene of the crime.
Zachary Tentoni, 26, of Southington, Conn., was arrested on charges of unarmed robbery on Monday. The alleged robbery victim told police that she had exited the Fields Corner T station in Dorchester and was walking through the schoolyard of Harbor Middle School when a man approached her from behind.
Tentoni allegedly then grabbed her clutch wallet, which contained her ID and $40 in cash. In the process, he dropped two bags he was carrying, which contained clothes, hygiene products and a pair of sneakers.
At the top of his bag was his birth certificate, which identified a Zachary Tentoni, born in 1987, and a letter to him sent by his mother, police said.
Hours later, police were able to apprehend a man matching the description the victim gave police a block away from where the robbery took place. When officers asked the suspect for his name and date of birth, he replied, “John Foisy from Connecticut, and date of birth of June 16, 1993,” according to police.
Tentoni was eventually positively identified by the victim.
“That’s what he looked like. His build and clothing description was of that man,” she told police.
Calls placed to an attorney for Tentoni were not immediately returned.
Tentoni was arraigned Wednesday in Dorchester District Court on one count of unarmed robbery. Prosecutors requested $10,000 cash bail, and bail was set at $500.
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RCMP in Dawson Creek have recovered more than $200,000 in stolen goods — the result of a crime spree in which two thieves blazed a destructive trail from Grande Prairie to Dawson Creek.
The suspects, two men ages 29 and 33, are both from Grande Prairie, police say.
They were arrested after being found passed out behind the wheel of two different stolen vehicles, in two different locations April 1.
Police believe the men worked together, breaking into and stealing from multiple businesses, residences and vehicles between Grande Prairie and Dawson Creek.
“These were not the worlds brightest criminals,” Dawson Creek RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Ed Reinink told the Alaska Highway News on Tuesday.
According to Reinink, the crime spree began when the pair allegedly stole a pick-up truck valued at $60 – $70,000 in Grande Prairie before making their way to Beaverlodge. There, they allegedly stole another pick-up truck of roughly the same value, and broke into a laundromat stealing money from the machines.
Dawson Creek RCMP were alerted by their cross-border colleagues that the thieves were likely heading in their direction.
While responding to the stolen vehicle complaints from Beaverlodge and Grande Prairie related to this case, Dawson Creek RCMP pulled over a vehicle matching the description that turned out not to be stolen. Police however did recover small quantities of cocaine and marijuana, along with firearms and a prohibited magazine.
The Wire showed us that selling drugs can be a very complicated business, and that those who do it successfully operate with a very high degree of professionalism. Even at the street level, there are processes and procedures related to money handling and drug hand-offs that have to be strictly adhered to to limit exposure to rivals and police surveillance.
An example of one of those procedures: Don’t call someone on the phone and offer to sell them drugs. That’s called a narco no-no. And if you forget that because of some catastrophic head injury you’ve recently suffered, at least remember that if you call someone to sell them drugs and the person replies that you got the wrong number, do not offer to sell that person drugs.
This story is very close to being heartwarming, unlike some of the other items on this list. This isn’t a crime of intent. This man wanted to do a nice thing — to go get a sprig of mistletoe to decorate his house for the holidays. And although cynicism rules the day on the Internet, we should generally applaud and celebrate people who try to do nice things.
Except when they do those nice things with shotguns. We should applaud, yes, because niceeeeeee. But it is also our duty to mock those people.
People like Bill Robinson, who used his shotgun (which is not known as “the scalpel of the firearms world”) to shoot a sprig of mistletoe down from a tree in a mall parking lot. This attracted the attention of the local constabulary, who we like to think had to scour their police code book for quite a while to come up with the right way to call this one in.
There is no doubt that this criminal Albert Bailey is one of the world’s dumbest criminals. This man and his partner planned to accomplish a mission that was for a bank robbing. In this case, it seems that they didn’t plan anything or haven’t done any stealing before even for an ice-cream.
Here comes the funniest moment, these two robbers called the bank before they entered it that they are coming to rob it. I mean, what could be funnier than this incident where all the bank’s employees know that the robber is on the way and they have enough time to call the cops.
This incident took place in Connecticut, and according to these thieves, they warned the bank, so bank got threatened and collected the money for these two robbers in advance.
What a sensible mind of these two talented robbers. After a few minutes, Bailey sent his partner into the bank with a note to tell them that these are the same robbers who just called.
Later, the police handled all the situation, and Bailey with his partner among these world’s dumbest criminals got arrested and charged with first-degree robbery and nine years in prison.
Persecution Live 