Crime Doesn't Pay
When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor
home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than
he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find an
ill man curled up next to a motor home near spilled
sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to
trying to steal gasoline and plugged his hose into the
motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the
vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was
the best laugh he'd ever had.
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A woman was reporting her car as stolen, and
mentioned that there was a car phone in it. The
policeman taking the report called the phone and told
the guy that answered that he had read the ad in the
newspaper and wanted to buy the car. They arranged to
meet, and the thief was arrested.
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David Posman, 33, was arrested recently in
Providence, R.I, after allegedly knocking out an armored
car driver and stealing the closest four bags of money.
It turned out they contained $800 in PENNIES, weighed 30
pounds each, and slowed him to a stagger during his
getaway so that police officers easily jumped him from
behind.
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Drug-possession defendant Christopher Johns, on trial
in March in Pontiac, Michigan, said he had been searched
without a warrant. The prosecutor said the officer
didn't need a warrant because a "bulge" in Christopher's
jacket could have been a gun. Nonsense, said
Christopher, who happened to be wearing the same jacket
that day in court. He handed it over so the judge could
see it. The judge discovered a packet of cocaine in the
pocket and laughed so hard he required a five-minute
recess to compose himself.
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Clever drug traffickers used a propane tanker truck
entering El Paso from Mexico. They rigged it so propane
gas would be released from all of its valves while the
truck concealed 6,240 pounds of marijuana. They were
clever, but not bright. They misspelled the name of the
gas company on the side of the truck.
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Oklahoma City -Dennis Newton was on trial for the
armed robbery of a convenience store in a district court
this week when he fired his lawyer. Assistant district
attorney Larry Jones said Newton, 47,was doing a fair
job of defending himself until the store manager
testified that Newton was the robber. Newton jumped up,
accused the woman of lying and then said, "I should have
blown your head off." The defendant paused, then quickly
added, "-if I'd been the one that was there." The jury
took 20 minutes to convict Newton and recommend a
30-year sentence.
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R.C. Gaitlin, 21, walked up to two patrol officers
who were showing their squad car computer equipment to
children in a Detroit neighborhood. When he asked how
the system worked, the officers asked him for a piece of
identification. Gaitlin gave them his driver's license,
they entered it into the computer, and moments later
they arrested Gaitlin because information on the screen
howed>that Gaitlin was wanted for a two-year-old
armed robbery in St.Louis, Missouri.
