in your first day in class in "How To Be A Successful Criminal 101"...It should be the first thing the teacher writes on the blackboard....
"Do NOT tattoo the complete details of your crime on your chest"
Inked on the chest of a Pico Rivera gang member was the detailed scene of a liquor store slaying that had stumped an L.A. County sheriff's investigator for more than four years. It leads to a jailhouse confession from Anthony Garcia — and a first-degree murder conviction.
By Robert Faturechi, Los Angeles Times
April 22, 2011
The process was routine. L.A. County Sheriff's homicide investigator Kevin Lloyd was flipping through snapshots of tattooed gang members.
Then one caught his attention.
Inked on the pudgy chest of a young Pico Rivera gangster who had been picked up and released on a minor offense was the scene of a 2004 liquor store slaying that had stumped Lloyd for more than four years.
Each key detail was right there: the Christmas lights that lined the roof of the liquor store where 23-year-old John Juarez was gunned down, the direction his body fell, the bowed street lamp across the way and the street sign — all under the chilling banner of RIVERA KILLS, a reference to the gang Rivera-13.
As if to seal the deal, below the collarbone of the gang member known by the alias "Chopper" was a miniature helicopter raining down bullets on the scene.
This is even dumber than those Nobel Laureates who videotape themselves committing crimes and then post the videos on You Tube or Face Book....
The only way these bozos could be more accommodating to law enforcement is if they wrote out and signed their own confessions, drove themselves to the police station, and handcuffed themselves to the duty sergeant...
