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Strange Crimes

I'm not sure this is ironic enough for the Irony thread, so I'll put it here ...

The old saying "takes one to know one" comes to mind ...
Miami crime expert to plead guilty in Venezuela graft case

A University of Miami professor who is a top expert on money laundering in Latin America is scheduled to plead guilty for trying to hide $3 million in proceeds from a corruption scheme with Venezuela’s socialist government.

Bruce Bagley, 73, was arrested in November on three counts of money laundering. Authorities said the charges arose from deposits he received from bank accounts in Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates that allegedly contained the stolen proceeds from a Venezuelan public housing project.

Soon afterward, he was freed on $300,000 bail after pleading not guilty. But this week, filings in the New York federal court indicated he would change his plea to guilty in a hearing scheduled for March 20. ...

Bagley, an international studies professor, is co-author of “Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Violence in the Americas Today,” published in 2015, among other books. He has testified before Congress, as an expert in court and been interviewed by numerous news organizations ...
FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/b9843dfd8e939f045c04701e9105ab47
 
A bit more serious than forgotten library books.

A man rented Freddy Got Fingered in 2002 and has been arrested for not bringing it back
James Meyers found there was a warrant for his arrest when he was pulled over.
Mar 24th 2016, 9:39 PM 33,468 Views 37 Comments
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'Daddy would you like some sausage?'
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A NORTH CAROLINA man says he was arrested for failing to return a VHS tape that he rented in 2002.
James Meyers says he was driving his daughter to school on Tuesday when a police officer pulled him over for a broken rear light.
He says the officer told him there was a warrant out for his arrest from 2002, because Meyers had rented the movie Freddy Got Fingered starring Tom Green and never returned it.
Meyers says the officer let him take his daughter to school and go to work, as long as he promised to turn himself in to the police department later that day.


Arrested for not returning an old VHS rental!! @BlakeWSOC9 has new details tonight on @wsoctv cc: @tomgreenlive pic.twitter.com/5EhQIXQGhX
— Paul Boyd (@PaulBoydWSOC9) March 24, 2016

Source: Paul Boyd/Twitter
https://www.thejournal.ie/video-rental-2680281-Mar2016/
 
Noisy people can be annoying bur perhaps he went a tad too far.

A man in Russia has shot dead five people for talking loudly outside his house late in the evening.

Police said the shooting happened in the village of Yelatma, in the Ryazan region about 200km (124 miles) south-east of Moscow. The area is currently under lockdown due to the coronavirus. Investigators say the man initially complained to the group from his balcony, and an argument broke out. He then opened fire with a hunting rifle.

The four men and one woman "died of their injuries on the spot" at around 2200 on Saturday, the Investigative Committee said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52173341
 
Noisy people can be annoying bur perhaps he went a tad too far.

A man in Russia has shot dead five people for talking loudly outside his house late in the evening.

Police said the shooting happened in the village of Yelatma, in the Ryazan region about 200km (124 miles) south-east of Moscow. The area is currently under lockdown due to the coronavirus. Investigators say the man initially complained to the group from his balcony, and an argument broke out. He then opened fire with a hunting rifle.

The four men and one woman "died of their injuries on the spot" at around 2200 on Saturday, the Investigative Committee said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52173341
But did he use a silencer ?
 
They shouldn't have been out anyway


I find it relaxing to hear people talking outside, so long as it is normal talking, not the loud type
 
Might be just concealing a death but likely to have occurred more than 50 years ago.

A 72-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an investigation into human bones found on farmland.

The remains were discovered in a remote location near Chop Gate in North Yorkshire on 31 March.Forensic archaeologists said the bones are male and likely to have been there for more than half a century.

North Yorkshire Police said the arrested man, from the York area, has been interviewed and released on conditional bail. The force is working on the investigation with the Ministry of Defence, the RAF Police Forensic Team and experts from the RAF and the Army. The death is not being treated as a homicide.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-52468298
 
Bones being examined.

Forensic experts have begun studying two sets of bones at a Vatican City cemetery where a missing teenager’s family was tipped to look for her.

Holy See spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said on Saturday that the analysis is being done at the Pontifical Teutonic College, where the bones were found under a stone slab last week. The missing girl, Emanuela Orlandi, vanished in 1983 aged 15 after she left her family’s apartment in Vatican City for a music lesson in Rome.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/break...arch-for-missing-vatican-teenager-938320.html

Nothing to see here, move along.

The Vatican has formally closed its latest investigation into the 1983 disappearance of an employee’s 15-year-old daughter after digging up a Holy See cemetery in search of her remains.

The mystery of Emanuela Orlandi’s disappearance has horrified and intrigued Italians for decades. The cold case resurfaced last year after an anonymous tip to the missing girl’s family suggested her body might be buried in the Teutonic cemetery inside the walls of Vatican City. The Vatican had underground burial chambers near the cemetery opened and brought in forensic experts to investigate. But tests on thousands of bone fragments determined the remains long predated Emanuela’s disappearance, the most recent ones having been interred about 100 years ago.


https://www.irishexaminer.com/break...disappearance-of-15-year-old-girl-996940.html
 
A California man has been arrested for stealing — and drinking — wine from a moving tanker.

Gabriel Moreno, 39, was busted by CHP after he boarded a truck traveling down Highway 99 on Tuesday and began guzzling the contents.

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But as soon as the truck stopped, the driver of the car sprang out — wearing nothing but his underwear — before disappearing behind the trailer.

"That's when the driver realized, 'This isn't right,' and re-enters the traffic lane," Olsen said, per the Modesto Bee.

But unbeknownst to him, Moreno had clambered onto the back of the truck via its ladder.

He then managed to unscrew a valve and began guzzling the wine as it gushed onto the freeway behind them.

The truck driver was completely oblivious — until about a mile later when a gauge in the truck began to show it was losing weight.

He pulled over; as soon as he stopped Moreno "jumped down and placed himself beneath the belly of the truck and was just indulging in the wine," Olsen said.

"He was lying on the ground and doing snow angels, basically, as the wine was pouring down on him."


https://toofab.com/2020/05/08/man-steals-wine-moving-truck/
 
I can't help but wonder how that guy's (the wine thief's) day started. Did he wake up, jump out of bed and say to himself, "I know what I'll do today! I'll get in my car, wearing only in my boxers, and abandon my car to mount a wine truck so I can chug down California Liebfraumilch till I get to the Oregon border!" I know there's no logic to reconstruct, but I get stuck on wondering what train of thought he found logical.
 
I can't help but wonder how that guy's (the wine thief's) day started. Did he wake up, jump out of bed and say to himself, "I know what I'll do today! I'll get in my car, wearing only in my boxers, and abandon my car to mount a wine truck so I can chug down California Liebfraumilch till I get to the Oregon border!" I know there's no logic to reconstruct, but I get stuck on wondering what train of thought he found logical.
Probably an alcoholic who was short of booze.
 
I can't help but wonder how that guy's (the wine thief's) day started. Did he wake up, jump out of bed and say to himself, "I know what I'll do today! I'll get in my car, wearing only in my boxers, and abandon my car to mount a wine truck so I can chug down California Liebfraumilch till I get to the Oregon border!" I know there's no logic to reconstruct, but I get stuck on wondering what train of thought he found logical.

No - he apparently wanted a free sandwich ... :bored:

Here's the rest of the story from the newspaper article linked above ...

When CHP officers caught Moreno, he was cooperative, Olsen said, and was booked for felony vandalism and misdemeanor driving on a suspended license.

“We’ve seen a lot of things, and this is right up there,” the officer said. He realized Moreno would be out of custody quickly, though, noting, “in the current environment we’re in (because of the coronavirus pandemic), a lot of people are being released before the reports are even written.”

Sure enough, Moreno was freed Wednesday and was in trouble again “within moments,” the Sheriff’s Department reported in a Facebook post.

It says a sergeant noticed a large crowd in the parking lot of the Community Services Agency at 251 E. Hackett Road in Modesto. It turned out Ceres police officers were trying to detain Moreno, who’d allegedly just tried to steal a truck belonging to a landscaping company. An employee intervened, prevented Moreno from leaving the area and called 911.

Moreno was distressed by his early release “and was unhappy he didn’t get a sandwich as part of the standard meal at the PSC (Public Safety Center),” the Facebook post says. He tried to steal the truck as “a way of getting a return visit to the jail, where he hoped to finally enjoy his sandwich.”

Seriously, that’s what he admitted, Sheriff’s Department spokesman Sgt. Luke Schwartz said.

But auto theft, too, is eligible for zero bail, Schwartz said, citing the California Judicial Council’s emergency mandate stemming from the COVID-19 health pandemic, to ease crowding for inmate safety.

As of Thursday morning, Moreno was back out.

https://www.modbee.com/news/local/crime/article242563191.html
 
Better than drinking Corona I guess.

A man broke into a hospital cancer ward, drank two bottles of alcohol sanitiser, urinated on the floor, threw up and pulled down a curtain to use as a blanket.

David Dudley Miller was found slumped on a bed the next day by a horrified cleaner at the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby. Miller, 39, of no fixed address, apologised to all of the staff at the hospital when he appeared in court. He said he had such a problem with alcohol that he needed help and if he walked out of court, he would go and steal some.

The court heard the hard-pressed NHS would be left with a £500 bill during the coronavirus crisis at a time when it was facing "financial pressure and difficulty".

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/man-breaks-cancer-ward-downs-4130307
 
A handbag had that many . . . items . . . stuffed into it?
Is "Russian handbag" English slang for sinister and gigantic containers?
 
Killed live on Zoom.

A 72-year-old man has been stabbed to death by his son in New York state during a Zoom video chat with 20 other participants, police say.

Dwight Powers was attacked by his 32-year-old son, Thomas Scully-Powers, who then jumped out of a window and fled in Long Island's Amityville village. He was held within an hour after chat guests had called the police. The motive of the attack was not yet clear. Mr Scully-Powers was later charged with second-degree murder.

In a statement, Suffolk County police said further information would be provided once the suspect, who sustained minor injuries, was treated and discharged from hospital.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52767764
 
Killed live on Zoom.
A 72-year-old man has been stabbed to death by his son in New York state during a Zoom video chat with 20 other participants, police say.

This newer AP story adds more details on this bizarre incident.
DA: Son confesses to fatally stabbing dad during Zoom call

A Long Island man suspected of fatally stabbing his father on a live Zoom call confessed to the caught-on-camera killing after police found him trying to wash blood off his body with Dr. Pepper, prosecutors said Friday.

Thomas Scully-Powers, 32, was arraigned via video and ordered jailed without bail after pleading not guilty to a murder charge in the attack Thursday that left 72-year-old Dwight Powers nearly decapitated as horrified call participants scrambled to dial 911.

District Attorney Tim Sini said Scully-Powers told police he stabbed his father about 15 times and used several knives because the blades kept bending. An autopsy showed that Powers had multiple stab wounds to his back, neck and torso, and police found multiple knives at the scene.

“By the defendant’s own admissions, he brutally stabbed his own father repeatedly until he was certain he was dead,” Sini said, calling it a “shocking and disturbing” case.

Scully-Powers’ lawyer, Jon Manley, said they were only able to speak for about five minutes before Friday’s video arraignment and that it would be premature for him to comment on the case. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison.

Prosecutors say Scully-Powers attacked his father around noon Thursday at their Amityville apartment as the older man sat down for a Zoom video meeting, beating him before returning to the room with a knife. That prompted one of about 20 other people in the meeting to call 911. ...

After an apparent attempt to clean up, Scully-Powers jumped out a second-floor window and fled on foot as police officers arrived, prosecutors said. A mop and bucket were found in the bathroom and a blood-saturated bed sheet was found in a garbage bag.

Scully-Powers then ran to a deli, swiped several bottles of Dr. Pepper and tried using the soda to wash blood off his body, prosecutors said.

Amityville Village police apprehended Scully-Powers within an hour of the killing about a mile from the apartment. He was treated at a hospital for injuries from his jump.

SOURCE: https://apnews.com/d41d10dd57e2e9b1c0de40eadbde9dfd
 
Here's an eerily chilling case with a high WTF-ness factor ...

This mother didn't succeed in killing her child on the first attempt, but kept trying. When the second attempt worked, she claimed the boy had been abducted. This lie couldn't be sustained in light of witness reports and video of the first (failed) murder attempt.

Police: Miami mom faked son’s abduction, faces murder charge

A Miami woman faked her son’s abduction after trying to drown him twice, with witnesses rescuing the boy from a canal the first time, and the second attempt ending in the boy’s death, officials said Saturday.

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said Patricia Ripley, 45, is facing attempted and premeditated murder charges and being held in jail with no bond.

The boy, Alejandro Ripley, 9, was autistic and nonverbal. He was found floating in a canal Friday.

In an interview Saturday, Fernandez Rundle said Ripley apparently tried to drown her son an hour earlier at a different canal but nearby residents heard yelling and rescued him. Then, Fernandez Rundle said, Ripley drove her son to another canal.

“Unfortunately when she took him to the second canal, and there was no one there,” Fernandez Rundle said in an interview with The Associated Press. “She tried it once, and people rescued him. He was alive. He could have stayed alive. She intended, from all the facts of the case, to kill him.”

Fernandez Rundle said an autopsy was being done on the boy Saturday to determine if he had other injuries or perhaps had something toxic in his system. She said no decision has been made yet on whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty.

Fernandez Rundle also noted that because the boy was nonverbal, he could not have told his initial rescuers what had happened with his mother.

“He can’t say anything to his rescuers. We talk about children being voiceless. This is another level of voicelessness. He was incapable of saying that ‘mommy put me in the water.’” ...

Miami-Dade police department says the mother first claimed she was ambushed by two black men who demanded drugs and took her cellphone, tablet and son, before fleeing Thursday night, prompting an Amber Alert in the area south of Miami. ...

FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/024299e864e64dcc9749e67084389639
 
Man in Wheelchair Holds Up Jewelry Store While Pointing a Gun With His Feet

A 19-year-old man placed a note on the counter of a jewelry store in Canela, Brazil, then pulled a gun on the shopkeeper. That doesn’t sound like an atypical way to begin a holdup…except that the attempted robbery was carried out by a man in a wheelchair who doesn’t have the use of his hands.


The teen, who can’t speak, had been in the store for ten minutes before making his move. The note said “Hand off everything. Don’t raise attention.”

The robber used his feet to hold a gun on the man behind the counter. Note that the other customer in the store doesn’t seem phased at all by what’s going on, appearing to apply hand sanitizer while continuing to casually browse the display cases.

The good news: all involved were wearing face masks and appeared to maintain proper social distancing.

The police arrived and arrested the teenager, who was also in possession of a knife.

A family member appeared at the police precinct and assisted the police in questioning the teen due to his disability before he was released from custody.

The would-be thief was released?

‘It must be considered that, given the elements initially brought to the police station, it would possibly be an impossible crime to be consummated, especially if you considered the physical condition of the [person being] investigated, also due to the unlikelihood of escape,’ [City delegate Vladimir] Medeiros said.

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/m...ore-while-pointing-a-gun-with-his-feet-video/

maximus otter
 
Man in Wheelchair Holds Up Jewelry Store While Pointing a Gun With His Feet

A 19-year-old man placed a note on the counter of a jewelry store in Canela, Brazil, then pulled a gun on the shopkeeper. That doesn’t sound like an atypical way to begin a holdup…except that the attempted robbery was carried out by a man in a wheelchair who doesn’t have the use of his hands.


maximus otter

Gimme all your toe rings
 
Thug who tortured taxi driver found with mobile phone and charger wrapped up inside his bottom
Link to Hull Daily Mail Article
Addressing Jones, Judge Nadim said: " ... a mobile phone, four Sim cards and a charging device were found secreted up your anus ...
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