The Associated Press reports that "[t]wo men were arrested after bewildered diners at a McDonald's spotted them wrestling a 5-foot (1.5 meter) python named Boris in the restaurant parking lot, police [in Melbourne] said Thursday." I don't think the diners…
Clifton Taylor, as you may recall from this post in February, was not only The Suspect Who Tried to Eat the Interrogation Notes but also The Fleeing Bank Robber Who Ditched His Jacket Only to Realize Later He Had Left…
Mistakes made by Ronald White of Camden, New Jersey, on July 7: Shoplifted. Got caught shoplifting. Posted bail with counterfeit $20 bills. Returned to the police station the next day. Told them he had "paid too much . . ….
I have mentioned this case before, but am re-posting it because I decided to add it to the Case Law Hall of Fame. It mostly speaks for itself: Briefly stated, the facts are as follows: In the early morning of December 7,…
"This was a really bizarre disguise," said Brandon Clabes, police chief of Midwest City, Oklahoma. He was referring to the Spanx stretch girdle that a woman wore as a mask when robbing an Oklahoma McDonald's this week. "I wasn't sure…
Daryl Simon seems to have included his bogus charity photos in an appendix to his sentencing memorandum, but I was unable to find that on the court’s docket. It may not have been posted yet, but that seems odd given…
In a final effort to put his fraud skills to good use, Daryl Simon tried to scam the court that was about to sentence him by offering fake documents and pictures to support his bid for leniency. Unfortunately for him,…
Big-bellied rapist Bruce Tuck, a flabby 275-pounder who was somewhat uncreatively nicknamed the "Big-Bellied Rapist" during a string of crimes he committed in Tennessee, has now argued in court papers that his confession was coerced because a detective offered him…
Sure, he was negligent, but you were all engaged in a felony.
Convicted terrorist and murderer Carlos Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal," is still upset about how he is portrayed in the new movie, "Carlos," which premiered at Cannes in May. Ramirez is fuming about the movie from…