Kathy E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NY Times, Monday, August 25, 1997 -- Alwyn Green of Jersey City, New Jersey, was arrested late Saturday night in Flatlands, Brooklyn. The suspected drug dealer phoned in a fake report of a police officer needing assistance, which served only to call attention to himself and the pound and a half of cocaine he had. According to police, Green reported an officer in trouble on East 36th Street. Officers who answered the call quickly realized that the report was false. When they learned that the call came from a telephone at Ryder and Flatlands Avenues, three blocks away, Sgt. Stephen Bruno and four other officers from the 63d Precinct headed there, and saw Mr. Green talking on a pay phone and holding a shopping bag. Seeing the police approach, Mr. Green hung up the phone and walked away, leaving the shopping bag behind, a police spokeswoman said. When the officers looked in the bag, which held cocaine, Mr. Green started running but was caught a block away. Mr. Green was also holding a knapsack that contained cocaine, the police said. The charges against him include reporting a false incident and criminal possession of drugs with intent to sell. =============================================================== Excerpted from the Daily News (Bowling Green, KY), July 1997 Army Pvt. Daniel Christian Bowden was arrested at the Fort Belvoir Federal Credit Union in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, after a teller thought she recognized him as the man who robbed the bank several weeks earlier, according to an affidavit filed Tuesday. The robber did not wear a mask. Bowden told the teller he wanted to wire $2,900 to Texas and pushed a pile of cash across the counter to be deposited in his account, according to the affidavit. The bills' serial numbers matched a list of the $4,759 taken in the robbery, so the teller called military police. Bowden is a military police officer who had undergone training on handling bank robberies, law enforcement officials said. He is also a suspect in the May 12 robbery of another northern Virginia bank." =================================================================== A guy in Conyers, Georgia, apparently "stole" his own Mercedes. He hid the car in his basement and then told the police that it had been stolen. The goal, apparently, was insurance fraud. However, he apparently forgot that his Benz was equipped with Lojak. The police activated the device and tracked the car to the man's basement. He has been arrested. ================================================================= MIAMI BEACH (Reuters) - Miami Beach resident Todd Boucino was arrested by a posse of police officers after bungling an attempt at robbing a NationsBank branch on Washington Avenue -- just down the road from a precinct station. According to police spokesman Al Boza, Boucino walked into the bank, simulated carrying a concealed weapon, and told a teller "give me all the money." The teller fled, and Boucino helped himself to the cash. Just outside, a passing off-duty police officer heard the commotion and put out the alert. Running out of the bank, Boucino frantically tried to flag down a taxi but the driver, seeing bystanders gesturing in the background, refused to take him. As Boucino fled, he was "chased literally by a parade of officers ... I was one of them," Boza said. One cop having a snack in a diner joined in. The alleged robber managed to stop a cab in another street, but the chasing police officers caught him as he climbed in. They recovered the money; Boucino was charged with armed robbery. "This was an exercise in how not to rob a bank. He got the wrong day," Boza said. [Editor's Note: Sounds like he got the wrong line of work.] ============================================================= SUBJ: I'll Take Door Number Three for Twenty-Five-to-Life, Please Inmate and would-be escapee Mark Conover had his choice of three doors when he made his break for freedom. He chose the wrong door. Upset that a Harris County, Texas, judge had revoked his bail for showing up late to court, Conover made a run for it. The inmate ran down a hallway connecting two misdemeanor courts, with deputies in hot pursuit. He passed the door to the stairwell. He passed the door to a courtroom. He chose door No. 3 -- the door that led to a prisoner holdover cell. "He was embarrassed," Baliff Toby Devine said. Conover, who was in court on a misdemeanor charge of driving with a suspended license, was apprehended and now faces felony escape charges. Because he is a habitual criminal, Conover's short-lived quest for freedom may prove very expensive. If convicted, his failed escape attempt could lead to a minimum of 25 years in prison. =========================================================== SUBJ: At Least He Recognized His Station in Life At the Lancaster State Prison, an inmate had an insightful means of escape. He hid himself in a garbage dumpster knowing that in the morning, he would be dumped into a garbage truck, would be hauled to the local landfill, and walk away. He WAS found at the local landfill with nearly every bone in his body broken. He won't walk again for quite a while... ============================================================== An employee of McDonald's Restaurant [in Des Moines] was mugged late Sunday as he took a bucket of grease outside to dump in a container. Donald L. Skelton, 64, was cut with a knife, but his injuries were listed as minor. Des Moines police said Skelton walked outside about 11:35 p.m. After dumping the grease, he turned to walk back into the building and was confronted by two men demanding money. One of them carried a shotgun or rifle, and the other carried a knife. Skelton told police he grabbed the man with the knife and started to swing the grease bucket at him. He was able to get away, but suffered cuts on his neck and left hand. "No arrests were reported." =========================================== A bunch of not-so-smart bank robbers have blown up a sort of ATM machine in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, a small village in Belgium near Brussels. There was a lot of damage done to the bank as well as to houses in the neighbourhood, but the bank robbers didn't get a lot of money. It seems that the machine they blew up was a dispenser of account statements instead of a money dispenser. ================================================================ Two men were arrested for burglary recently on videotaped evidence. Police had raided the home of one of the men (on an unrelated matter) and were surprised to discover that the man a video library, featuring a tape onto which he had recorded (videotaped) the crimes of himself and his colleague, edited crimes together and added incidental music. -- Kathy E "I can only please one person a day, today is NOT your day, and tomorrow isn't looking too good for you either" http://members.delphi.com/kathylaw/ Law & Issues Mailing List http://pw1.netcom.com/~kathye/rodeo.html - Cowboy Histories http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/2990/law.htm Crime photo's Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues