Life and Crimes: All that you can’t leave behind…

By Marg & Izzy

Maybe he should have stolen the pick axe too…

Authorities in Metairie, Louisiana were able to track down 43 year old Scott Rodrigue, after he broke into a pharmacy and stole drugs. Rodrigue used a newly purchased pick axe from a nearby hardware store to break into the pharmacy, but he left it behind. The pick axe still had the price tag from the store on it, indicating where it had been bought. A review of the store’s video camera showed Rodrigue as the purchaser, and the pharmacy surveillance video also showed someone identical to Rodrigue as the one committing the burglary. Drugs from the pharmacy were found after a search of his home. Rodrigue was charged with burglary and drug possession.

Would you like a receipt with that?

Eric Danbar and Greg Vosper of Moore Township, Pa had plans to burglarize a vacant home in the township, but they decided to stop at a McDonald’s restaurant first to get something to eat. They broke a window at the home but triggered an active alarm and fled.

When police arrived they found a receipt from the restaurant that was only an hour old. A review of the McDonald’s video surveillance camera, showed a rusty White Dodge  pickup truck at the drive up window, for the time and date stamped on the receipt.

Police traced the license plate to Danbar and when they arrived at his home they found Vosper unloading items from the truck. Vosper, who had an outstanding warrant from a nearby town, was taken into custody.

He told authorities that he and Danbar planned on burglarizing the home, but took off after the alarm sounded. Vosper said a window at the home came down on top of him and shattered. Vosper said the break-in attempt, which targeted a home that had a sale sign posted was his first.

Police later found Danbar, and he was arrested and arraigned on charges of burglary, conspiracy, trespassing and loitering or prowling at night. Court records indicate Vosper faces the same charges.

Breaking and entering 101: Don’t leave personal documents behind after you break into a car

Investigators with the Jackson County Criminal Investigations Division arrested Jason Matthew Wall and charged him with auto burglary according to Jackson County, Mississippi Sheriff Mike Byrd.

The charge stems from a vehicle burglary in Jackson County in which Wall, 28, of Eight Mile, Alabama, left behind identifying documents belonging to him, inside  the vehicle that was burglarized.

A reward card that takes away your freedom

Raymond Carroll Rollins, Jr. of St Martin, Mississippi was arrested and charged with burglary after he had jimmied the door of his neighbors home with his casino rewards card. Rollins was unable to open the door, so he then  broke a window, and entered the home. Rollins also broke into a shed on the property and stole several items, before leaving.

When deputies and investigators arrived at the scene, they found Rollins had gone, but they found that his IP Rewards Card with his name on it, still wedged in the door, underneath the lock.

Rollins was arrested at his home.

“Investigators discovered all the property stolen from the burglary hidden in the bushes Rollin’s residence,” Byrd said. “The property was returned to the owner.”

Rollins faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

I want to clean your house so badly I’ll break into it

Susan Warren of Elyria, Ohio was sentenced to one year probation and 20 hours of community service after being convicted of attempted burglary. Police were able to track her down because she left her name and phone number and even wanted to be paid for being there.

Warren 53-years-old broke into a home in Westlake, Ohio washed some coffee cups, took out the trash, dusted and vacuumed, then left a bill in the form of a note , written on a napkin; “$75 I was here to clean,” in addition to her name and number.

The homeowner, Sherry Bush, thinking that Warren had come to the wrong house, called her to straighten things out.

“I said, ‘What happened, did you get the wrong house?’ She said, ‘No, I do this all the time.’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ She said, ‘I just stop and clean your house.’”

While on probation, Warren was arrested again, several months later, this time for shoveling people’s sidewalks, without authorization, then demanding to be paid for her work.

Returning to the scene of the hearing

George County Mississippi arrested a 45 year old man, March 13 on four outstanding warrants for contempt of court for failure to appear.

But where did they find him?

Byron Heath Jones, a suspect known to have outstanding warrants, was sitting right in the audience in the George County courtroom watching the other justice court proceedings.

He wouldn’t appear for his own hearing, but decided to take in the other hearings.

Jones was transported to George Regional Jail, where he will remain until his outstanding fines of $3,000 are paid in full.

Life and Crimes: The woman who hid Crack in her crack

By Marg & Izzy

If you ask me, this guy looks like Cherry Garcia.

Forget gun control, we need food control…

In Easton, Pennsylvania , a man has been charged with simple assault and harassment after he struck his girlfriend with a container of ice cream at a local supermarket.

Wilson Borough police say that Robert Ambrose Dixon and Donna Anisimowicz had just finished shopping when they began to argue over a cell phone.

Dixon allegedly grabbed a half-gallon of ice cream they’d just bought and hit Anisimowicz with it, causing her to lose balance and fall to the ground in the store’s parking lot.

Dixon then shoved, struck and pulled Anisimowicz’s hair. Anisimowicz was bleeding from the nose and face from the assault, police say.

He was sent to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $8,000 bail.

And add snack food to the weapons registry in Canada…

In Lindsay, Ontario a couple pelted each other with chips and dip, during a domestic dispute, which police say was due to an argument caused by a shortage of beer..

Shortly after 1 a.m, on February 22, Kawartha Lakes police were called to the home to discover the couple , both “covered in snack food,” the result of throwing food at each other during a struggle to determine which one would get to drink their last bottle of beer.

The 39 year old man and 41 year old woman both face charges of domestic related assault and face a court hearing at the end of March. As is standard in Canadian domestic abuse cases, their names were not released.

The incident is reportedly the 16th time that police have responded to a disturbance at the residence.

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Life and Crimes: You kiss your son with that mouth?

By Marg & Izzy

But that’s the way we do back at the trailer park…

Authorities at the Yates County, NY jail became a bit suspicious when they noticed a woman becoming a bit over affectionate with a prisoner, during a visit to the jail. Especially when the woman was the mother of the prisoner.

Kimberly Margeson, 54, was trying to slip two Oxycodone pills to her 30-year-old son, William Partridge, during her recent jailhouse visit, by French kissing him, when guards, apparently disgusted by the tongue action and saliva swapping, discovered the pills and arrested Margeson.

She has pleaded not guilty to a variety of charges, including third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance and promoting prison contraband.

Partridge has been jailed since Jan. 26 on an unrelated weapon possession charge, and is scheduled to be arraigned next week.

If your wanted poster is up at the post office, try e-mail instead

Jesse Cooley, who escaped from a Mobile County, Alabama mental facility where he was undergoing mandatory mental health treatment following his murder conviction from 1981, was arrested after a tipster recognized his photo from a wanted poster hanging in the Moss Point, Mississippi, post office. And how could the tipster be certain that it was indeed Cooley? Cooley also just happened to be in that post office at the time.

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Life and Crimes: The most polite thief in all of Pennsylvania

By Marg & Izzy

If you must drive nude…at least wear a seat belt 

A resident of Sparta , NJ, called police at 12:52 a.m. Friday January 18, to report that someone had just crashed into the stone retaining wall on his property, and had fled the scene.

A short time later, Officer Joseph Pensado, located a white Volkswagen Jetta with fresh fresh damage to the left-front fender, the driver-side door and the rear-left door.

But when he stopped the car, he also found that the driver, 36-year-old Catherine Giaquinto of Warwick, NY was wearing nothing but a jacket that was unzipped and wide open.

Pensado asked Giaquinto why she was driving in the nude, but Giaquinto denied being completely naked.

Pensado suspected Giaquinto was under the influence of alcohol, as her speech was badly slurred and mostly unintelligible, she couldn’t remember if she’d been involved in an accident and she didn’t know where she was going.

Pensado saw a dress and other clothing in the rear passenger seat, retrieved the items and ordered Giaquinto to get dressed.  It took about 10 minutes for her to do so, and when she finally did, she put her dress on inside-out.

Giaquinto wasn’t able to maintain her balance or listen to the instructions for a roadside sobriety test. She was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, refusal to submit to breath testing, leaving the scene of an accident, careless driving and failure to wear a seat belt

Her vehicle was impounded, and she was released to another party several hours later.

Sometimes when you shout “Stop, thief,” it actually works….

Zachary John Torres, thought that no one was looking when he helped himself to the contents of an unattended cash register at  Cooperburg Auto Parts in Coopersburg, PA, on February 5, but another customer in the store saw him filling his pockets with currency and yelled at him, causing the 22-year-old to grab what he could and quickly exit the store.

The customer then alerted the  store’s owner, Thaddeus Kohut who ran out of the store and shouted at Torres to come back, which surprisingly enough, he did. Torres returned, and handed Kohut the  470 bucks which he had taken, and apologized for his misdeed.

He then waited for the police to arrive and was arrested. Torres has been charged with misdemeanor counts of theft and receiving stolen property, records say. He was arraigned and released from the Lehigh County (PA) Prison after posting $5,000 bail.

His preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 1.

Life & Crimes: The Canadian Edition

By Marg & Izzy

The Mounties always get their man, just sometimes the man has to let them know who he is….

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Des Burridge was off duty and driving through Deer Lake, Newfoundland, when he stopped to pick up a hitchhiker. When they got to talking, the hitchhiker introduced himself as Ken Colson.  After racking his brain, wondering why that name sounded familiar, Colson realized that his passenger was a suspect that the RCMP had been after for more than six years.

Colson had skipped the province after he was charged with fraud  and there are several outstanding arrest warrants against him.

But the coincidence didn’t stop there. Burridge also happened to be the lead investigator trying to locate Colson. Burridge had never seen Colson, or even seen a picture of him ,but there he was, back in Newfoundland and sitting right in Burridge’s own vehicle.

Burridge then pulled over, identified himself as a police officer, arrested Colson and took him to jail.

A Judge is a Hell’s Angels best friend

In 2007 authorities seized club paraphernalia during raids of the Hell’s Angels clubhouse in Toronto, as well as several members’ homes. Seized were a hand-carved grandfather clock, gold rings, belt buckles, vests, club pins and T-shirts, all bearing the biker organization’s insignia, a winged skull emblem. Nine of the bikers were convicted of drug related offenses, during trials 18 months later, and the seized property was ordered forfeited.

But not so fast, stated Judge Forestell. The seized items could not be directly related to any crime, because the Hell’s Angels bylaws specifically state that members must remove anything bearing the club’s insignia while in the process of committing any criminal offense.

Little sister don’t you do what your big sister done

When people flee from the police, they usually try to be as inconspicuous as possible. That is unless they have have consumed a great deal of alcohol.

Tiffany on the left, Brittany on the right.

Pincher Creek, Alberta RCMP say that two women left a pre-New Year’s Eve party and were involved in a head on car crash. Both women fled the scene of the crash before the police arrived, but the officers soon located the driver, 27 year old Tiffany Hourie.

“As we were dealing with the impaired driver, and obviously the passenger being absent, we started making patrols for her as well,” said Pincher Creek RCMP Constable Robert Wright.

As they searched for the missing passenger,  officers received another call . This time from the local arena, concerning a naked woman who had interrupted the hockey game which had been in progress. It seems that the passenger, Brittany Hourie, who was also intoxicated, had stumbled upon the arena after she had fled the scene of the accident, and climbed over the boards and had begun a strip tease.

“She got down to her undergarments. If she took anything more off, we haven’t been informed yet,” said Wright.

“We’re still in the process of gathering the surveillance tapes now. Lord only knows what we’ll see.”

Tiffany Hourie, 27, has been charged with impaired operation of a motor vehicle, leaving the scene of an accident, refusal to provide a breath sample and other provincial driving fines.

Brittany Hourie, 21, has been charged with indecent acts, obstruction of a police officer and causing a disturbance.

They will appear in court later this month.