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Woman Arrested For April Fool's Day Robbery Prank

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:23:23 +0000

It’s becoming harder and harder to pull a good April Fool’s Day prank. We blame the internet for this, as not long after you log on you are reminded of the tricky nature of April 1 and thus put your guard up. One way to circumvent the new always-in-your-face April Fool’s reality is pull the [...]

Drunk Woman Takes Off Pants, Flee Cops In Toy Power Wheels Truck

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:25:37 +0000

Jamie Craft of Jonesboro, Arkansas has herself quite a Tuesday.

The 28-year old kicked of her midweek adventure by getting good and drunk and crashing her Trans Am into the side of a mobile home. Mind you this was a proper, adult sized Trans Am, which becomes important later in this tale and also made what she did a pretty serious crime.

Man Calls 911 Nine Times to Request a Cheeseburger

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:29:04 +0000

There is just something about fast food that makes people abuse 911. In the past, folks have been arrested after calling emergency services to report problems with their orders at Burger King, McDonald’s, Subway and Hardee’s. Gregory Jackson Sr. decided to cut out the middleman. Instead of going to his local restaurant chain to beÂ disappointed, [...]

Woman Loses Tooth In Burglar's Hand

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:30:42 +0000

Police in the Cayman Islands are on the look out for a local woman’s tooth. They may well find it still stuck in the hand of the man who “stole” it from her. What had happened is the woman awoke early Friday morning to find aÂ burglarÂ in her house. The thief tried to silence her screams [...]

Thief Arrested After Trying To Ransom Stolen Lemur

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:10:34 +0000

James Edward Welborn Jr. probably didn’t have primate theft on his mind when he broke into Julie Harris’s home in Mobile, Alabama. But there was Gizmo, a two-year old lemur, and WelbornÂ allegedlyÂ snagged it along with Harris’s TV. The problem with stealing an exotic animal is that it is much more difficult to pawn off than [...]

Clerk Foils Robbery by Being on the Phone

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:35:58 +0000

The clerk at theÂ Sheridan Mini Mart in East Bremerton, Washington probably isn’t the world’s greatest employee. In fact, when a woman came into the store at 10 PM Thursday night the slacker-in-question wouldn’t stop talking on his phone as she tried to grab his attention. HisÂ conversationÂ was so engrossing that he didn’t even care that she [...]

2012′s Dumbest Criminals Are Painfully Dumb

Emerald Catron — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:24:33 +0000

It turns out to make it onto a list of the dumbest criminals, you have to actually be pretty dumb. Granted, we can't all be masterminds, but it probably doesn't take much to know you shouldn't make a YouTube video boasting about the bank you just robbed. Or tweet about punching a guy in the face. Nor should you get into a fist fight over a piece of birthday cake.

Woman Returns Home From Work to Find Her Driveway Stolen

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:30:47 +0000

You’ve surely heard of highway robbery? It turns out that driveway robbery is also a thing (a very, very literal thing). When Florida woman Rachel McCarty returned home from her job Tuesday, she felt a strange bump as she pulled into her driveway. Then she “noticed there was definitely something missing in my peripheral vision.” [...]

Man Steals Ex's Engagement Ring, Gives It To His Wife

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:00:35 +0000

Donald Albritton’s marriage was going through a rough patch, so he turned to his ex-girlfriend for help. The catch is Megan White, the 35-year old’s former-flame, didn’t exactly get a say in the matter… That’s because Albritton swiped White’s engagement ring, planning to give the jewelry to his current wife as a peace offering. According [...]

Dumb 'Chick Bank Robber' Brags About Crime on YouTube, Gets Busted

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:56:28 +0000

After robbing a bank, most criminals will try to lay low for a period of time. Not 19-year-oldÂ Hannah Sabata. TheÂ Stromsburg, Nebraska teen wanted to get credit for her ability to knock over a local bank for over $6,000 and also make off with a Pontiac Grand Am that didn’t belong to her. So, because she [...]

World's Worst Burglar Dozes Off During Robbery

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:25:39 +0000

Everything was going well for burglar Cristian Villarreal-Castillo. He had just snatched a cache of small electronics from cars in a Hillsboro, OR neighborhood and then he really hit the jackpot when he was able to enter into a home through an unlocked back door.

All the 20-year old had to do is not fall asleep and he would've made off with quite the haul. Unfortunately for Villarreal-Castillo, he fell asleep.

A 57 Year-Old Florida Man Is Arrested After Calling 911 Because His Wife Would Not Let Him Check His Facebook In Peace

Cadillac Cruz — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:17:49 +0000

The wife wouldn’t let the husband check his Facebook in peace so he gave her beers to fall asleep, but that didn’t work. Doyle Hardwick, 57, of Central Florida was arrested for misuse of 911 after called saying his wife would not let him check his Facebook in peace after he gave her some beers [...]

A Texas Man Was Arrested After A Bad Response From His Karaoke Skills

Cadillac Cruz — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:47:18 +0000

A man who had a few to many beers was arrested after he knocked out a Applebee’s employee for cutting him while he was singing karaoke. Jeffrey Thompson, 28, of Texas had a few drinks and was having a good time at Applebee’s. It was karaoke night and he decided he wanted to get up [...]

A Florida Couple Attacks Mother Over Using The Son's Taco Sauce Without Permission

Cadillac Cruz — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:35:05 +0000

A Florida couple has been arrested for allegedly attacking a mother because she ate all of their taco sauce. Christopher Phillips, 23, from Florida, along with his girlfriend attacked his mother after she used some of his hot sauce and taco sauce with out his permission. It must have been the bomb.com if he attacked [...]

A Man From Pittsburgh Was Arrested For Stealing Money From A Baby

Cadillac Cruz — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:09:58 +0000

A man was arrested at his work after he took money from a 2 year-old’s piggy bank. Jason Engel, 21, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was arrested from his work, a butcher in a supermarket. The reason for the arrest is Engel failed to appear at a court hearing for allegedly stealing $60, a cellphone and some [...]

A Seattle Man Goes Off At A City Counsil Meeting A Year After He Gets Arrested For Saying The F-Word!

Cadillac Cruz — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:21:58 +0000

A Seattle man attended a city counsel meeting a year after he was arrested and went off, the video was recorded and is a YouTube sensation. So one day a Seattle native had to use the bathroom, he then went to a public restroom that men and women share to handle his business. While inside [...]

A Wisconsin Man Was Arrested After He Cooked His Own Cheesburger At A Denny's Restaurant!

Cadillac Cruz — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:59:56 +0000

One man couldn’t resist a cheeseburger and fries from a Denny’s restaurant so he decided to cook it himself. James Summers, 52, walked into a Denny’s in Madison, Wisconsin and he was hungry. But what he did to get the food is what got him locked up in jail. Summers walked into the restaurant wearing [...]

An Indiana Man Is Going To Jail After A Gambling Argument Lead To Another Man's Ear Being Bitten Off!

Cadillac Cruz — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:56:11 +0000

After arguing about who has the better hand in gambling, one man is arrested for biting off a piece of someone else’s ear. “I gamble better than you,” “In your dreams, I gamble better.” That is how an argument started in a hotel room in Indiana, the end result came when Donald Tolbott, 23, of [...]

A Texas Police Officer Is Serving Suspension After Stealing Food From The Police Station Lunchroom!

Cadillac Cruz — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:05:48 +0000

A Texas Police Station set up a surveillance camera in the lunchroom to catch the thief who is stealing the food from the fridge. This kind of crime happens everywhere, in every business fridge and or lunchroom. But the one place you would think something like this would never happen, happens. A surveillance monitor was [...]

An Arizona Man Was Arrested After His Gun Went Off In A Walmart Bathroom!

Cadillac Cruz — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:05:44 +0000

A man went to use the restroom at a local Wal-Mart and his gun went off frightening customer’s. Andrew Seals, 24, entered the restroom of a local Wal-Mart to use the bathroom when he gave shoppers a good scare after his gun went off. Seals went into a stale and pulled down his pants to [...]