World's STUPIDEST Burglar?

[Gob]

When it comes to criminals and the stupid things they do, this one is right up there.

A 26-year-old Minnesota man has been tracked down by police after leaving his Facebook profile logged in at a house he allegedly robbed.

Authorities say Nicholas Wig burgled a home in South St. Paul on June 19 and must have decided to use the computer before he fled the property.

But he forgot to sign out



When the owner, James Wood, arrived home and found his place had been ransacked, he reported it to police, CBS reported.

Missing was cash, credit cards and a watch, but he found a pair of jeans, a belt and some Nike tennis shoes.

Realizing what must have happened, he shared a picture of Wig from Wig's profile.

Mr Wood announced Wig was a thief and shared his phone number, asking for anyone with information to call him.

He did not expect to get a text from Wig himself in the evening.

'I replied (saying) ''you left a few things at my house last night, how can I get them back to you?''' Mr Wood said.

Wig agreed to return to the house and pick up his things.

As Mr Wood saw him approaching, he called 911.

Wig was wearing Mr Wood's watch when police arrested him.

'World’s dumbest criminal,' Mr Wood said.

Wig faces up to 10 years in prison and $20,000 in fines if convicted.

He has an extensive criminal record, including a second-degree burglary conviction, a domestic assault misdemeanor and pending drug charges.

[Lord Jim]

'I replied (saying) ''you left a few things at my house last night, how can I get them back to you?''' Mr Wood said.

Gotta hand it to Mr. Wood there...

He must have figured if the guy was stupid enough to leave his Facebook profile up on a computer in a house he robbed, and then text the robbery victim, why not see if he's stupid enough to come back when the victim offers to return his stuff?

[Gob]

It's not exactly a mugshot, but many people have already convicted this man of being a mug.



He has become the chief suspect in Wollongong's great CCTV camera heist, after he was snapped staring directly into the camera as he allegedly lifted it from the wall of a photography studio this week.

Police have released an image of the man, who was wearing a hoodie and cap and had a cigarette dangling from the side of his mouth, at Cole Studios on Crown Street in West Wollongong.

Two cameras were taken during the robbery early on Sunday morning. In fact, police know the robbery took place at precisely 5.36am and five seconds. The footage was also timestamped.

Wollongong police have posted the image on Facebook, where it was being widely circulated on Wednesday.

"He should have just worn a name tag," one person quipped.

"But first, let me take a selfie!" another wrote.

One person lamented: "Some mothers do ave 'em."

Jason Cole, the owner of Cole Studios, said the alleged offender, thought to be aged in his mid 30s or early 40s, was first captured on camera wheeling his bicycle around the front of his business.

"He's done well in life, he's got himself a nice pushbike," Mr Cole said.

Mr Cole said the footage then showed the man pulling his hoodie up, walking down the side of the building and pulling the bin up to one of the cameras.

"He stands on the bin, disconnects it and pulls it out. Just before it cut, he puts the camera in his face," Mr Cole said.

Mr Cole said the cameras were worth about $90 each, and were pointing down either side of the building.

"They're not exactly high-price items, but he has cut the cables as well, so they're not even worth $90 now," Mr Cole said.

A number of businesses in the area had reported problems with intruders in recent times, Mr Cole said, adding that he never kept cash on the premises. The most valuable items in his studio were photographs, which were kept in a safe, he said.

A police spokesman said the man was yet to be identified, but the Facebook post was proving to be one of Wollongong police's most popular.

Police have appealed for anyone with information about the identity of the man to contact Wollongong police on 4226 7899 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

[Gob]

A thief stole a tablet computer from a charity shop – only to return it eight days later because he couldn't get it to work.


Christopher Hooson took the £50 Android gadget from a window display but didn't know it needed more equipment to make it work properly. After failing to get it to do what he wanted, he tried to 'donate' it back to the store. Staff at the Jonny Kennedy charity shop in Whitley Bay recognised him from CCTV footage and called the police.

Lynne Russell, prosecuting, said the offence happened on November 11. She said: 'The defendant went into the Jonny Kennedy charity shop on Park Avenue. Once in there, he removed a computer tablet, valued at £50, which was in the window display. 'He put it in a carrier bag and left the shop. 'Eight days later, he returned to the same charity shop. He returned the stolen computer tablet. 'Because of CCTV, he was then identified by staff and arrested.'

[Gob]

A drunk drug dealer who fled after crashing his car was discovered by police hiding in the loft where he kept his £120,000 stash of heroin and crack.



Leslie Cropper, 37, has been jailed for five years and four months after admitting possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply and driving over the limit. He smashed his car down an embankment in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, after a drunken argument with his partner, Leeds Crown Court heard. Cropper swiftly returned to his nearby home where he was found among £6,000 worth of crack cocaine and heroin weighing 2.389kgs with a potential street value of £112,000.

A breathalyser test revealed he had 53 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, over the limit of 35. He told police: 'I just had a barney with my missus and drove straight off there.'

Neighbours had heard screaming and shouting and then saw him walk away before returning at speed in a Ford Focus from his nearby home in November this year . Prosecutor Dave Mackay said Cropper continued the row through the window of the car before he drove off - only to return once more at speed.But the drink-driver failed to negotiate a junction and crashed down an embankment. He got out of the car and went home where he was found hiding in the loft by police.

Mr Mackay said officers found heroin and crack cocaine with him in the loft and more heroin in a bag in the bedroom. Around £600 in cannabis was also found which Cropper said was for his own use.


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[Lord Jim]

I'm surprised you missed this one:

CCTV: Thief's ATM explosion attempt backfires



WINNELLIE, Australia, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Police in Australia's Northern Territory are searching for a man caught on CCTV attempting to break in to an ATM and fleeing when the machine explodes.

Footage released by Serious Crime Squad Detectives shows the man light an explosive at the ANZ bank ATM in Winnellie, a suburb of Darwin, at about 3:45 a.m. Tuesday before being blown off his feet by the ensuing explosion.

The man was knocked clear out of his sandals and fled barefoot and empty-handed, the video shows.
Police said the man is suspected of being behind a similar ATM attack in the city on Christmas Eve.

"This behavior is extremely dangerous and there is absolutely no reward. This person is lucky to have escaped serious injury," Detective Acting Senior Sgt. Karl Day said.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/12/30/ ... z3NjF6qMFd

I found that at this site; it's treasure trove of ineptitude in crime:

http://www.clumsycrooks.com/

[Gob]

Ha, missed him Jim, cracker!!

here's another

A burglar has been jailed after he was discovered sleeping on a sofa inside the home of a family he was trying to steal from.



Scott Tinsley was found snoring on the settee after breaking into the house in Stoke-on-Trent in the early hours of the morning. Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard how the 38-year-old from Cobridge, Staffordshire, had already taken electrical goods from the house and piled them up in the garden. He then returned to the house to get something to eat and drink but fell asleep on the sofa after taking drugs, leaving the gas turned on.

Tinsley wasn't discovered until the next morning at 7.30am when he was found asleep in the front room. The court was told how the raid last November was supposed to be a quick burglary for easy money to sell on electrical goods.

But the unnamed mother at the house alerted police after finding him snoring in their living room. Prosecutor Neil Ahuja said: 'She was particularly concerned as her three children were asleep upstairs.
'She alerted her husband and they woke the defendant up. He tried to leave but was detained by the husband. 'Various valuables had been removed from the front room and taken outside, including the television, games console and CD player.

'They were found by police in a back garden two doors further down.'

[Lord Jim]

From the looks of that nose, it would appear that Mr. Tinsley has attempted to rob the wrong person on more than one occasion...

[Gob]

Two students have described the moment they found a suspected burglar dangling upside down from a window.



They found the 'intruder' wedged in the frame 8ft (2.4m) off the ground at Nottingham Trent University's Arkwright building.

Daniel De Niet and Tom Burdett had been returning home after a night out and said the man told them he had been there for five hours.

Carl Attar, 27, was charged with burglary and remanded in custody.

Mr De Niet said the pair had been having a race on the way home when they took a short cut outside the Arkwright building at about 2:00 GMT on Friday.

"I got to the top of the stairs and I heard shouting and screaming for help," he said.

"I looked up and saw someone wedged in the window."

Mr Burdett said: "I turned the corner and saw a pair of legs sticking out of a window quite far up.

"I was in pure hysterics. I couldn't stop laughing for a good few minutes."

The pair initially thought he was a drunk student who got himself wedged in the middle of a prank.

But after the fire service freed Mr Attar, with a saw and a ladder, he was arrested on suspicion of burglary.

Mr Burdett said: "He was actually doing a handstand whilst his legs were jammed in place in the window frame.

"He was in a lot of pain, he was crying when we first got there. He was in a lot of distress, understandably so."

Mr Attar appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Monday and was remanded into custody until 2 February.

[Gob]

A serial burglar was caught after posting pictures of his haul on Facebook and by leaving a trail of footprints in snow - leading to where he was hiding.



Nathan Heath, 20, broke into a house in Hull, West Yorkshire, as the homeowner slept before fleeing with the stolen items to a friends house almost a mile away. When the victim woke up and found his front door ajar he followed the footprints all the way to the house and called police - who found Heath and the stolen goods inside. A manhunt was launched after Heath failed to appear at Hull Magistrates' Court on January 2, but rather than answer the charges that day, he was instead burgling another house.



He took a Ford Fiesta, two laptops, a television, a games console, a wallet, a purse, jewellery, fishing equipment, a quad bike and cash from the house. While on the run, he used his social media accounts to boast about his crimes and claimed he would never be caught. One account in the name of Nathan Heath Ov NHE (North Hull Estate - a gang) shows him posing with fanned out bank notes and the caption: 'I ripped him off'. Heath was jailed for three years at Hull Crown Court yesterday, where he admitted to 50 previously unsolved crimes, and stole items worth more than £26,000. PC Andy White from Humberside Police, said: 'Nathan Heath is a one-man crime wave. We believe he has been prolific for a very long time.

[RayThom]

NOT QUITE!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/1 ... 56954.html

[Lord Jim]

What's with these clowns and the sticky-out ears thing...?









There appears to be a correlation between profound stupidity and ears that stick out...

Just sayin'.....

[rubato]

Neutralized by pot PIPE smoking?






yrs,
rubato

[Gob]

Two joyriders who had stolen luxury cars worth more than £100,000 were caught after police found a string of photos taken inside the vehicles pinned on one of the offender's bedroom wall.





Connor Daniels and Jordan Irving stole a number of high-end cars including an a BMW 3 Series, a Mercedes A-Class and an Audi TT, in a series of raids on homes in Manchester. The men were caught after pictures of them posing in the stolen vehicles were discovered by officers searching Daniels' bedroom. Daniels, 19, also posted images of himself on Facebook.

Daniels and Irving took the cars during a 10-month stealing spree, ending last June, Manchester Crown Court heard. There was no evidence that they earned any money on the stolen vehicles.
Daniels, from Manchester, was handed a suspended two-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to 10 counts of handling stolen goods. He was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work.

Irving, 23, admitted four counts of handling stolen goods and was jailed for 14 months. Daniels, who describes himself as 'The Stig' on Facebook, was spared jail after the court heard that he had turned his life around since the thefts.

[Gob]

An armed robber boasted on Facebook about his plans to raid a supermarket minutes before he was stopped by armed police.

Andrew Hennells, 32, posted a comment on his profile which read: "Doing. Tesco. Over" at 19:25 GMT on 13 February.

Just 15 minutes later, after he had held up the King's Lynn store, police caught Hennells with a knife and £410.

He admitted robbery at Norwich Crown Court.



A member of the public had reported seeing a man demanding cash at the Tesco store before he fled to a nearby pub, Norfolk Police said.

Sgt Pete Jessop said Hennells's Facebook confession had made it easier to secure a guilty plea.

"It was a bizarre and unusual case," he said. "The pictures and posts on Facebook helped us confirm what we already knew.

"None of this takes away from the seriousness of the crime or the trauma experienced by the victims of the robbery."

Hennells, of Riverview Way, Gaywood, Norfolk, also admitted carrying a knife as an offensive weapon.

He is due to be sentenced on 8 April.

[Lord Jim]

Note the ears...

[Gob]

MARCH 6--An Ohio man called 911 to report that his wife had stolen his cocaine, according to cops who subsequently arrested him on drug and other charges.



Robert Collins, 39, dialed the police emergency line late Wednesday night to report the cocaine theft, according to an Alliance Police Department report that does not detail the wherabouts of Collins’s spouse or the cocaine.

When officers arrived at Collins’s residence, he apparently had a change of heart and “refused to tell police why he called 911.”

Investigators reported that Collins, who “had a pipe used to smoke marijuana in his possession,” was “arrested and charged with misuse of 911 and drug paraphernalia.” He also had an active arrest warrant in connection with a 2013 criminal case.

Collins, pictured above, was booked into the Stark County jail on the misdemeanor counts. He is scheduled for arraignment today in Municipal Court in Alliance, a city about 60 miles from Cleveland. (2 pages)

[oldr_n_wsr]

An exception to the "big ear" theory.

[Gob]

A bungling robber tried to disguise himself by wearing a Londis plastic carrier bag on his head but made a large slit to see and didn't realise people could see him clearly.




Luke Martin, 28, from Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, walked into two separate convenience stores on different days whilst wearing the gaping bag and brandishing a knife.



He walked into the Day One store on May 9 last year, which was packed with schoolchildren at 8.45am, and pointed the weapon at the woman behind the till, before making off with £88 in cash

[Gob]

A dim-witted shoplifter walked into a police station to complain about the circulation of his CCTV image only to be promptly arrested by bemused officers.



Roofer Nicholas Allegretto was filmed by security cameras installed in the Mackays hardware store in Cambridge after stealing an industrial magnet.



The store put up a picture with his face obscured but it was when the image was later published in a local newspaper that Allegretto took exception.

Instead of lying low, the 23-year-old went to the city's Parkside police station to voice his anger.

He was promptly arrested and later prosecuted.

Shop owner Neil Mackay said: 'I suppose you could say he wasn't the sharpest tool in the box.'

Allegretto, of Ditton Fields, Cambridge, was convicted of theft in his absence at Cambridge Magistrates' Court on Wednesday. He will be sentenced at a later date.

The court heard he stole the £23 magnet on February 2.

According to the Cambridge News, asked by police why he had come to the station, Allegretto told officers his family had noticed his image and he had lost his job at a roofing company as a result of the rumours.

Mr Mackay, who has a rogues gallery of thieves in his store, said: 'The magistrate had a sense of humour and commented that he couldn't imagine what had attracted Mr Magnet man to the police station.
'We've now got a new addition to our rogues gallery and hopefully this will show people that we're not a soft touch.'