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What would you do if you lost your job, your wife and heard that your father had prostrate cancer? This stupid criminal went on a four day drinking binge and crashed his car. But that isn’t the end of the story. While he was waiting for help, he popped open another beer and was drinking it until help came.
Paul Nigel Sneddon age 47 of New Zealand plead guilty to careless driving and drunken driving . His blood alcohol was three times over the legal alcohol limit. His attorney claims that when Sneddon crashed his car and overturned his car he found he could not open the doors, so naturally he decided to have another beer and wait for help.
The judge fined him NZ$1,100 (US$780) and disqualified him from driving for 10 months. It was his first offense. It is sad that this man had all those troubles all at once, but what was he thinking when he decided to drink another beer at the scene of the accident?
Beware in Seattle! A doughnut thief is lurking. A recent Fox Sports article tells the tale of the stolen maple bar doughnuts.
It seems that rookie wide receiver Golden Tate and a buddy decided they were hungry for fresh doughnuts at 3:00 a.m. in the morning – this is the time of day that most bakers begin to bake doughnuts for the upcoming day. Tate lives in a building that has a gourmet doughnut shop at the bottom of the building. The smell of freshly baked doughnuts must have been too much for Tate and his friend to resist.
According to the story, he and his friend went to the bakery, found an unlocked door and helped themselves to several maple bar doughnuts without paying. When the baker found out that the doughnuts were gone he called the police. The story doesn’t explain how the police and baker figured out that Tate was the thief. Maybe the police followed the crumbs up to Tate’s apartment.
Of course, Tate is very embarrassed about the whole situation and no charges will be pressed. He said that next time he has the urge for freshly baked doughnuts he’ll send a friend to buy some from the bakery. Thank goodness, the police caught the criminal doughnut thief. Seattle is safe once again from a stupid criminal story.
Two more names can be added to the Stupid Criminals list. What were these two young men thinking when they stole paint from an elementary school and decided to tag cars in a Boulder, Colorado neighborhood?
Jarrad McKay age 21 and Matthew Baker age 20 were caught red handed or “white” handed by police. These two dumb and dumber criminals, decided to steal white paint and cover cars in their neighborhood with the paint late at night. Police easily tracked them by following the trail that lead to their home nearby. Both men had paint on them and a quick arrest was made.
They will be charged with criminal mischief and theft and will be added to the Stupid Criminals list for this year.
Another stupid criminal turns a simple shoplifting case into a pot bust. His crime started out as a $20 of stolen merchandise from Shopko in Winona County, Minnesota. Patrick Julius Walker, 20, of Winona returned to Shopko and pleaded with store security to let him pay for the items he took. He took a pair of boxer shorts valued at $7.99 and a pair of earring, valued at $12.99.
However, Shopko refused to let the man pay for the items and called police. When the police arrived, Mr. Walker claimed that he didn’t have the earrings and to prove it he emptied his pockets.
In his pockets he had change, candy, candy wrappers, tissue, a wad of cash with a black clip, and a small bag of marijuana. The police asked about the pot and Walker said that he smokes a little dope. He continued to empty his pockets and revealed a larger bag with 10 smaller bags of marijuana weighing 16.8 grams. As he continued to empty his pockets he brought out another bag of pot weighing 7.57 grams and a small scale. He must have had deep pockets to hold all of this stuff!
The police asked Walker about the bags of pot and he said, “Who cares? I smoke a little dope.” It seems that he wasn’t concerned about the dope in his pocket but was more concerned about the shoplifing charges.
However, the police arrested Walker after a scuffle broke out and took him to jail. He is cited for obstructing justice with force, theft by shoplifting and possession of marijuana with intent to sell.
How would you like to live next door to this man? A rural Menomonie, Wisconsin man is accused of threatening a neighbor with a shotgun. Dustin Valla, age 27, lives in the town of Red Cedar. He claims that he likes to shoot his guns to relieve stress and that’s why he lives in a rural area.
However, a neighbor called police when Mr. Valla threatened him. The neighbor heard shots in the nearby woods and thought someone was hunting illegally. When he found out it was Mr. Valla, he asked him to stop. Mr. Valla said to the neighbor that he could hunt anywhere he wanted and added, “I’m the one with the gun, and I could kill you.”
Shortly after this incident, the neighbor heard more shots. He then heard Valla yell that he was shooting at you guys now. Valla was firing six to eight shots from the deck of his home. When confronted by police, Valla told him that he had just purchased an old shotgun that wasn’t working properly. He was shooting in the woods in an attempt to fix it.
Valla faces a felony charge of first-degree reckless endangerment and several misdemeanor counts that include discharging a firearm within 100 yards of a building and disorderly conduct. He’s not exactly the neighbor of the year.
Most people make a bucket list of things that they would like to do before they die. Some want to learn how to sky dive, climb a mountain or visit a European country. However, a Florida woman had other ideas for her bucket list.
The Florida woman who suffers from non-terminal leukemia and bipolar disorder decided that robbing a bank should be on her bucket list. As a result, Patricia Edwards, 51, walked into a Bank of America branch last week in Sanford, Fla., and handed a teller a note demanding money. She told police that there was no real planning to this robbery just an impulse to rob a bank.
When she was arrested three days later police found out that she wasn’t taking her medication at the time of the bank robbery. She claims that she was sorry for the bank heist. However, she remains in custody on two counts of robbery and a $20,000 bail.
Next time she might want to consider sky diving instead of robbing a bank to check off on her bucket list.
Once again, stupid criminals make law enforcement easy. This time, two criminals thought calling ahead to rob a bank was just like ordering a pizza.
In Fairfield, Connecticut, police arrested 27-year-old Albert Bailey and a 16-year-old boy. They called the People’s United Bank branch in Fairfield and told them to have a bag of money ready for them. They must have been in a hurry and thought calling ahead would make it easier to rob the bank.
Ten minutes later, they showed up to pick up the bag of money; the police were waiting for them; and arrested them.
Obviously, these two guys aren’t the brightest bulb in the pack.
When given a chance, most criminals want to plead not guilty to charges and plea for less jail time for their crimes. Not for a Utah man who asked to “plead up” for more prison time.
Damon Conrow was sentenced to second-degree felony on a charge of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, heroin. He asked to “plead up” to a first-degree felony because he wanted a longer sentence in order to get off his heroin addiction. He said that within eight weeks of going to jail, he expects the withdrawal symptoms to ease so he can start having normal sleeping patterns.
The judge gave him one more chance to change his mind, but Conrow declined.
What was he thinking? A Lebanese man in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian was a major tipper and a real fat cat. He had bundles of U.S. currency of $1 million in $100,000 and $500 notes. But, there is no such U.S. $500 dollar. All the U.S. currency was fake.
What tipped off the police was that he left a tip for a housekeeper in the hotel with a $500 note. When the housekeeper tried to convert it to local currency at a moneychanger, the housekeeper learned it was counterfeit.
The man was arrested and could face up to ten years in jail. This guy is a two-time loser. In 2005, he was charged with cheating over the sale of office supplies. Cheating or fraud carries a maximum penalty of five years.
Just an FYI for would be criminals, the largest U.S. note ever printed was a special edition one for $100,000 in 1934. Bills of $500 were last printed in 1945 and are now no longer in wide circulation according to the U.S. Treasury Department.
A Twin Cities Pioneer Press article, reported a St. Paul, Minnesota bank robber who robbed a bank and then decided to head to the driving range to hit golf balls. Frazier Eugene Turner, age 50, admitted he robbed a teller at the TCF Bank in a Cub Foods back in July. He robbed the bank with a golf shoe cleat tool hidden in a newspaper making it look as though he had a gun.
Turner told police that he lost his job in February and was having money troubles. In fact, his money troubles included a $3,500 gambling debt. He got away with only $600 from the bank. He took $30 from the robbery to fill up his van with gas and hid the remaining money in a zippered pocket of his golf bag.
Turner is no stranger to the law. He has two prior convictions in state court. In 1996, he was sentenced to a year and 25 days in the Hennepin County workhouse after being found guilty of fifth-degree assault in Hennepin County. Three years before that, he was sentenced to 21 months in prison for second-degree criminal sexual conduct. This time Turner could face up to 20 years in prison.
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