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Qabilene Updates Archives for 2019-04

A Guy Shoplifted from a Store Twice . . . and in Between, He Applied for a Job

I guess this guy just couldn't wait for his employee discount.

 

 

A 36-year-old guy went into a Sportsman's Warehouse in Gillette, Wyoming on Wednesday and shoplifted some sunglasses and ammo.

 

 

Then a few hours later, he went back to the store . . . and applied for a JOB.

 

 

And then on the way out, he shoplifted two more pairs of sunglasses.

 

 

The store called the cops, and they were easily able to track the guy down since they had all of his info thanks to the job application.

 

 

The guy was charged with theft . . . and we're thinking he didn't get the job. 

 

 

(Gillette News Record)

A Bunch of Bungling Best Buy Burglars Were Busted by Butt-Dialing 911

Hey, in this day and age of Amazon, it's just nice to see anyone going to Best Buy.

 

 

Three guys broke into a Best Buy in Sugar Land, Texas around 3:00 A.M. on Sunday.  They set off the alarm, but they got away before the cops could get there.

 

 

And they MIGHT have gotten away with it . . . except, somehow, one of them accidentally BUTT-DIALED 911 from the getaway truck.

 

 

The 911 operators only heard car noise, so they pinged the cell phone and noticed it was speeding away from the Best Buy toward Houston.

 

 

The cops figured out it must be the burglars, so they caught up with the truck and got into a high speed chase.

 

 

The guys eventually bailed and took off running, and the cops arrested two of them . . . the third one got away. 

 

 

(ABC 13 - Houston)

A Robber Uses a Grocery Bag to Hide His Face . . . But Takes It Off to Carry the Stuff He Stole

Something tells me this guy isn't a master criminal who really thought things through.

 

 

A guy robbed a gas station in Queensland, Australia on Monday, and he wore a blue reusable grocery bag over his head to hide his face from the cameras.

 

 

But he quickly lifted it up a little to talk to the clerk.  And then, when the clerk gave him some cash and cigarettes . . . the guy took the bag off COMPLETELY to CARRY all that stuff out.

 

 

So now the cops have a great look at his face and they're asking for the public's help in identifying him. 

 

 

(Global News)

A Drunk Driver Backs Into Another Car, Then Doesn't Realize He's Towing It Down the Street

Do they even need to do a sobriety test when you're this drunk?

 

 

A 25-year-old named Justin Sproul was leaving a bar near Portland, Maine on Saturday, when he backed his truck into a parked car.  And no, he didn't leave a note.  But that's not why he's in trouble.

 

 

It turned out his trailer hitch got lodged in the other car's bumper.  But he didn't realize it, and drove off.

 

 

Police spotted him turning onto a major road, and he was still towing the car behind him.

 

 

He's facing charges for driving under the influence. 

 

 

(Central Maine)  (Here's his mugshot and a shot of the two cars linked.)

 

 

 

The Easter Bunny Who Got in a Viral Fight in Florida Turned Out to be a Fugitive

If you missed this, a video went viral earlier this week of a guy in a full Easter Bunny costume who got in a fight on the street in Orlando, Florida on Easter.

 

 

Well . . . it turns out the Easter Bunny wasn't as innocent as he seems.

 

 

We now know it was a 20-year-old guy named Antoine McDonald.  And it turns out he's a FUGITIVE who's wanted in New Jersey for a car theft from last fall.

 

 

There's more.  He was also a "person of interest" in a carjacking and two armed robberies in Florida earlier this year . . . and he's been arrested several times in the past for violent armed robberies.

 

 

Antoine probably COULD'VE stayed anonymous too . . . except after the video went viral, he started talking to the media.  And he even started an Instagram account called BadBunnyOf19.

 

 

So now that he's Internet famous, the police in New Jersey are probably going to be pretty eager to get in touch with him. 

 

 

(Tampa Bay Times

 

 

(Here's him as the bunny . . . and one of his mugshots.)

 

 

 

  

A Woman Goes to the Police Station to Discuss Cocaine Legalization . . . and Gets Arrested for a DUI

Was this woman TRYING to get arrested?

 

 

There's a 47-year-old woman named Shelley Boyle from Scranton, Pennsylvania.  And she might be the least bright resident of Scranton since Michael Scott.  Or Kevin.  Probably Kevin.

 

 

A few weeks ago, Shelley drove to a police station and asked to speak with a cop.  Apparently she wanted to discuss the possibility of COCAINE LEGALIZATION.

 

 

For what it's worth, cocaine legalization is NOT currently on the ballot in any state.

 

 

The cops noticed she was clearly high, so they arrested her for driving under the influence and possession of drug paraphernalia. 

 

 

(Citizens' Voice)

A Guy Calls 911 to be Rescued from a Cliff . . . Then Tries to Steal the Fire Truck

If this was all an elaborate heist plan . . . next time, maybe try something WAY simpler.

 

 

There's a 40-year-old guy named Jermaine Nichols in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, and he called 911 on Friday morning because he needed to be RESCUED.  Apparently he was out hiking and got stuck on a steep cliff.

 

 

But his phone died before he could give them his specific location.

 

 

So firefighters and paramedics drove up the cliffs to hunt for him.  And while they searched . . . he suddenly appeared, hopped into a fire truck, and tried to STEAL IT.

 

 

But cops were also part of the rescue effort . . . so he was quickly stopped and arrested.

 

 

He's been charged with attempted theft and failure to comply. 

 

 

(CBC / Canoe)

A Great-Grandma Uses a Baseball Bat to Fend Off a 300-Pound Car Thief

There's a 65-year-old woman named Clarese Gainey who lives in Gainesville, Florida.  She's a great-grandma.  And back in high school, she played softball.  That last detail is important.

 

 

Because in the middle of the night on Sunday, she heard a noise outside of her apartment.  And she saw a 300-pound guy who was just wearing underwear trying to break into her car.

 

 

So she opened her door and yelled at him . . . and he charged at her.

 

 

Fortunately, she had a baseball bat.  So when he got close, she WHACKED him in the head.

 

 

She says, quote, "I took that bat and hit him upside the head like 'Pi-yow!' and he said, 'Oww!'"

 

 

He took off running into a trailer park nearby.  The cops were able to track him down, and it turns out he's a 37-year-old guy named Antonio Mosley. 

 

 

He had cocaine on him when they found him, so he was arrested for burglary and drug possession. 

 

 

(CBS 4 - Gainesville

A Woman Beat Up Her Boyfriend with His Prosthetic Leg After He Dumped Her

Does this count as kicking yourself?

 

 

There's a 58-year-old woman named Michelle Jackson in Marrero, Louisiana.  And last week, her 59-year-old boyfriend dumped her for good after a six-year on-again, off-again relationship.

 

 

And that made Michelle so angry that she did the only logical thing . . . later that night, while he was asleep, she grabbed his PROSTHETIC LEG and started hitting him with it.

 

 

He wound up with a pretty nasty cut on his head . . . and she was arrested for aggravated battery. 

 

 

(New Orleans Times-Picayune)

A Man Says He Wasn't Fleeing the Cops . . . He Was Just in a Ferrari and It "Goes Fast"

I guess if you get behind the wheel of a Ferrari, you're going to want to crank the gas and see what it can do.  And then you can expect THIS to happen . . .

 

 

There's a 29-year-old guy named Gabriel Molina from Miami, Florida.  And on Saturday night, he was in the Florida Keys, driving a Ferrari.  It's not clear if it was his or he was just renting or borrowing it.

 

 

Anyway, a cop spotted him doing over 75 miles-an-hour in a 45, so the cop tried to pull him over.  But Gabriel TOOK OFF, and started going 100.

 

 

Eventually the cop caught up to him when he stopped at a gas station.  And Gabriel's excuse for the chase was that he didn't see the cop, he was just speeding for speeding's sake.  Quote, "The car is a Ferrari, and it goes fast."

 

 

Unfortunately for Gabriel, his female passenger told the cops a different story . . . she said he DEFINITELY saw the cop and decided to try to outrun him.

 

 

So Gabriel was arrested for fleeing and eluding.  And it turns out he has nine traffic convictions in the past six years . . . including one for doing 100 in a 55. 

 

 

(Miami Herald

A Woman Beat Up Her Husband After He Didn't Respond When She Asked If She Was Pretty

If your wife ever asks you, "Am I pretty?" . . . say yes, and say it quickly.

 

 

There's a 20-year-old woman named Lizeth Guadalupe Ramirez in Laredo, Texas.  And on Tuesday night, she was driving in the car with her husband and she asked him if she looked pretty.

 

 

He didn't respond.

 

 

Now . . . he says it was because he didn't hear her.  And maybe that's true.  But it wasn't enough to stop her from immediately going into RAGE MODE.

 

 

She started hitting him while they drove home, then kept going after him once they got there.  And when a relative tried to separate them, Lizeth hit him too.

 

 

She was arrested for two counts of assault. 

 

 

(Laredo Morning Times

 

 

(Here's her mugshot.)

 

 

 

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A Drunk Guy Tries to Fight an Olive Garden Employee, Then Eats Spaghetti with His Hands While Shirtless

Olive Garden's motto is, "When you're here, you're family."  And everyone's got that one family member who's a little NUTS, right?

 

 

A 32-year-old guy named Ben Padgett showed up at an Olive Garden in Naples, Florida on Sunday and started harassing customers.

 

 

He asked for money . . . shouted profanities . . . threatened to beat up an employee . . . and also asked the guy if he was male or female below the belt.

 

 

When cops got there, he was outside on a bench, shirtless . . . eating spaghetti with his hands.

 

 

It's not clear if somebody gave it to him, or if he took it off someone's plate.  But he smelled like booze.  So yeah, he'd been drinking.

 

 

He had so much food on his face the cops made him wipe himself off with paper towels before they cuffed him.  And in his mugshot, he's still got something on his forehead.  But it's hard to tell if it's blood or spaghetti sauce.

 

 

He's facing charges for disorderly intoxication. 

 

 

(Miami Herald / Fox News)

 

 

(Here's his mugshot.  Some people think he looks like Matthew McConaughey.)

 

 

 

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An Uber Driver Drops Someone at the Airport, Then Goes Back to Rob Their House

You might want to have your next Uber pick you up a block away from your home.  Because I guess THIS is something we have to worry about now . . .

 

 

An Uber driver in San Francisco picked someone up and took them to the airport last Thursday.  Then after he dropped them off, he went back . . . and tried to break into their HOUSE.

 

 

They had a doorbell cam that triggered an alarm when it detected him moving around.  So he didn't get in.

 

 

But then he went to a neighbor's home down the street and DID get inside.  He trashed the place and stole a bunch of stuff, including family heirlooms that date back to the Holocaust.

 

 

Another doorbell cam got him on camera again.  And one of the cameras got a clear shot of his license plate.  So cops tracked him down and recovered some of the stuff he stole.  It's not clear if they got the heirlooms back or not though.

 

 

The Uber driver's name is Jackie Wilson.  Uber fired him, and he's now facing burglary charges. 

 

 

(CBS San Francisco / Global News)

 

A Criminal Lost a Foot Race to a Cop in Tap-Dancing Shoes

Maybe this guy needs to do more cardio.  Because he NEVER should have been caught . . .

 

 

25-year-old Dante Flowers was spotted driving a stolen car in Hartford, Connecticut last Friday.  Then cops used their cars to box him in, and he took off on foot.

 

 

But he was chased down by a cop who was wearing a bow tie and TAP-DANCING shoes.

 

 

The cop's name is Jay Montrose.  It's not clear if he was off-duty or what, but he's a detective-in-training.  So he has to wear a tie, and prefers the bow tie look.  Unfortunately there's no word on what the tap shoes were about.

 

 

He caught up with Dante about two blocks away and arrested him.

 

 

He's facing charges for first-degree larceny, interfering with police, and driving on a suspended license.  And when they searched him, they found crack.  So he's also facing a drug charge.

 

 

(Hartford Courant / AP / Twitter)

 

 

(Here's a photo of Jay in his bow tie.)

 

 

 

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A Florida Man Got Out of Jail, Then Broke Into a Car in the Parking Lot

This is the second time the state of Florida has produced this story in less than five months . . .

 

 

A 34-year-old guy named Casey Lewis bonded out of jail in Fort Pierce, Florida last Thursday after he was busted for shoplifting at Walmart.

 

 

Then he got arrested again 15 minutes later for breaking into a car in the jail's PARKING LOT.

 

 

He walked around pulling on door handles, looking for cars that were unlocked, until he finally found one.  He stole $547 in cash from a woman's car, along with her iPhone, debit card, license, and four packs of cigarettes.

 

 

Cops happened to see him tugging on door handles, and confronted him.  Then they brought him back inside and booked him for burglary, grand theft, and possession of stolen property.

 

 

If the story sounds familiar, it's because another guy in Florida did the same thing at a jail near Tampa back in November.

 

 

And last month, he made the "Miami Herald's" list of the top ten "Florida Man" stories of all time. 

 

 

(Smoking Gun / AJC)

 

Police Accidentally Find a Fugitive in a Bunker During a Missing Person Search

This isn't exactly the outcome you're hoping for when you do a major missing person search . . . but it's a hell of a consolation prize.

 

 

The police in Graves County, Tennessee were on a hunt on Tuesday for a missing woman named Samantha Sperry.  She disappeared over a year ago, but they got a tip she might be in the area so they restarted their search.

 

 

Sadly, they didn't find Samantha.  But they DID find someone else.

 

 

One of the police dogs started barking like crazy at some dense woods . . . and when the cops checked it out, they found a secret bunker.

 

 

And inside was . . . a 41-year-old fugitive named Earnest Hendrickson, who's been on the run since November.  He was wanted for a parole violation for several drug and gun charges.

 

 

So he was arrested and taken to jail. 

 

 

(Fox 17 - Nashville

 

 

(Here's Earnest and his bunker.)

 

 

 

A Woman Is Pulled Over for Using Her Phone While Driving . . . Oh, and She Also Had a Goat on Her Lap

You know, just because you're driving a LITTLE bit distracted doesn't mean you have to drive ULTRA distracted.

 

 

A cop in Marlborough, New Hampshire pulled over a 60-year-old woman on Monday afternoon for using her phone while she was driving.

 

 

Oh . . . and she also happened to have a BABY GOAT on her lap.

 

 

Plus it turns out she also didn't have a valid driver's license.

 

 

She only wound up getting a ticket for the license though . . . the cop decided to let her off with a lecture on the dangers of distracted driving for the whole phone and goat thing. 

 

 

(Fox 25 - Boston)

 

 

A Guy Calls the Cops About a Strange Noise in His Attic . . . and They Find His Meth Lab

This guy would've been a lot better off calling some unlicensed ghostbusters than the cops.

 

 

There's a 37-year-old guy named Cory Favreau in Plattsburgh, New York.  And he called the cops on Sunday morning after he heard STRANGE NOISES coming out of his attic.

 

 

The cops came and checked it out.  They didn't find any burglars or ghosts or anything in the attic . . . but they DID find the small METH LAB Cory had set up in the house.

 

 

So he was arrested for manufacturing meth and endangering the welfare of a child, since there was a kid in the home. 

 

 

(CBS 3 - Burlington

A Woman Is Busted Driving Around on Just a Rim with a Margarita in Her Cup Holder

There's really no drunk like tequila drunk.

 

 

The cops in Tulsa, Oklahoma were doing a traffic stop on Saturday night when, suddenly, they saw someone missing a right front tire drive past them.  So she was just driving on a RIM.

 

 

The cops quickly wrapped up their stop, and then they followed the other car and pulled it over.

 

 

It turned out it was a 28-year-old woman named Amy Dillion.  She told the cops she'd only had a couple of tequila shots, but a few things gave away that she was lying.

 

 

One, the whole "driving on a rim" thing.  Two, she could barely stand up and failed a bunch of sobriety tests.  And three . . . the cops found a full MARGARITA in her cup holder.

 

 

She wound up blowing a .21 on the Breathalyzer test, so she was arrested on several charges.

 

 

The cops aren't sure exactly how she lost her tire, but she could face extra hit-and-run charges if it turns out she lost it by crashing into something. 

 

 

(NBC 4 - Oklahoma City / Facebook

 

 

(Here's her mugshot and her car.)

 

 

A Bride Embezzled $93,000 to Get a Butt Lift Before Her Wedding

Gotta look amazing in your wedding photos no matter what it takes . . . right?

 

 

There's a 32-year-old woman named Vanessa Cline from Stafford, Virginia.  And she was just busted for embezzling more than $93,000 from the construction company where she worked as a bookkeeper.

 

 

And quite a bit of the money she stole went toward her wedding . . . which included $25,000 for a wedding planner . . . $2,000 for a dress . . . and most importantly, $7,200 for a pre-wedding BUTT LIFT.

 

 

She was caught when a credit card company called the owner of the construction company and told him that his account was going to get shut down for not paying.  He looked into the books, and figured out what Vanessa had been doing.

 

 

She's facing five charges for embezzlement and 10 different forgery counts. 

 

 

Oh, and by the way, the reason Vanessa even got the job at the construction company is because the previous bookkeeper had been fired and arrested . . . for embezzlement. 

 

 

(CBS 6 - Richmond / Stafford Sheriff / Oxygen

 

 

(Here's her mugshot.)

 

 

 

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