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Carjack suspect jump-starts his own prosecution - police recover auto, he reports it stolen
Baltimore Sun ^ | May 5, 2005 | Ryan Davis

Posted on 05/05/2005 1:13:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Gregory Alston called police Tuesday morning to say his white Nissan Maxima had been stolen from in front of his apartment building.

Trouble is, the car wasn't his. Police say he had stolen it at gunpoint two weeks earlier. The only reason he couldn't find it was because the victim had spotted it and called police, who towed it away.

Not only did Alston not get the car back, police arrested him and jailed him on charges of armed robbery, possession of a stolen car and a handgun violation.

Why did Alston call police?

He had left his wallet in the car and wanted it back.

Even hardened Baltimore police officers were astonished. Detective Gregory Jenkins signed off his report with, "Again, this really happened."

.......The report says that he told detectives he had let the car sit in a parking lot, "until he thought the dust settled, then began to drive the vehicle as if it were his own." Jenkins wrote that Alston reported the car stolen because he wanted his wallet back, "and was trying to retrieve it without drawing suspicion to himself."

Jenkins said: "Another detective told me, 'Greg, you had to make this up.'"

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: cary; dumbasdirt

1 posted on 05/05/2005 1:14:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

LOL!! What a dummy LOL!!


2 posted on 05/05/2005 1:17:12 AM PDT by GloriaJane (http://music.download.com/gloriajane)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Have to put that one away for reference....

If anyone makes a theft of a car, and later that car appears to have been also stolen from you, might be a dumb move to report the car as stolen to the authorities.

OK, got that down, thanks! ;-)

Almost Darwin award stuff if the thief could have just killed themselves in this process.


3 posted on 05/05/2005 1:17:41 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Truth is stranger than fiction sometimes.


4 posted on 05/05/2005 1:20:33 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha ...... Opps!...darn coffee in the keyboard again... Ha Ha Ha Ha.... My son needs a tale of a crime for his Humanities class. Thanks!
5 posted on 05/05/2005 1:28:51 AM PDT by schwing_wifey (Coffee, Today's Toons, and Flaming Trolls - Yeeeaaaahhhhhhh)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Why didn't the police look for prints or other evidence in the car to determine who stole it?

They would have found the wallet and could have arrested him before he had time to disappear.

Instead the stupid criminal had to come to them...


6 posted on 05/05/2005 1:32:14 AM PDT by DB (©)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Another Democrat in the news.


7 posted on 05/05/2005 1:34:55 AM PDT by Imaverygooddriver (ALL YOU BASE ARE BELONG TO US)
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To: schwing_wifey
"My son needs a tale of a crime for his Humanities class."

Wouldn't that mean it has to have ... Oh yeah, ... the cops ... they're human.
nevermind.

8 posted on 05/05/2005 1:38:10 AM PDT by knarf (A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
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To: Cindy

Truth is stranger than fiction sometimes.>>>>>

Pert near always! There is a reason why we have all heard that old cliche, it is true!


9 posted on 05/05/2005 3:00:50 AM PDT by RipSawyer ("Embed" Michael Moore with the 82nd airborne.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; All

ONE OF THE MANY FRAMED QUOTES ON MY OFFICE WALL SAYS,

"STUPIDITY SHOULD BE PAINFULL"

GODSPEED!


10 posted on 05/05/2005 3:29:41 AM PDT by alpha-8-25-02 (SAVED BY GRACE AND GRACE ALONE!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Gotta love it when a plan comes together! LOL


11 posted on 05/05/2005 5:17:24 AM PDT by Donaeus (Government is not the guarantor of our freedom it is the forger of our chains.)
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To: Donaeus

Nothing irks a thief more than getting ripped off. One less vote for the democrats next election...


12 posted on 05/05/2005 5:25:47 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Note to self: Don't report property as stolen, if I've stolen it.


13 posted on 05/05/2005 5:27:58 AM PDT by Guillermo (Vote for Pedro)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This is like that idiot Muslim terrorist/bomber in the first World Trade Center attack, who went back to the rental center for his deposit on the van he blew up.


14 posted on 05/05/2005 5:32:28 AM PDT by hershey
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To: GloriaJane

This is right up there with the idiots that call the police to report someone had stolen their stash of drugs.


15 posted on 05/05/2005 5:40:31 AM PDT by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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To: Americanexpat

For years I've been telling people we were carjacked by the world's stupidist criminals. Now, I'm not so sure.

I may not be the only person ever carjacked for a Hyundai, but I'm sure I was the only one carjacked for one where the carjackers thought it was a BMW.

One of the two was in the Navy. He's spending 39 years in jail in Raleigh and then there will be two MP's standing there waiting to take him off for his trial on AWOL charges.

The other one got his lawyer (who has now been disbarred) to give him the address of my girlfriend (now wife) and he wrote her a letter, apologizing and claiming innocence. It was a 7 page rambling mess. He's also sitting there for 39 years.

The night before they carjacked us, they grabbed some other guy from in front of an adult book store off U.S. Highway 1 (the busiest road in Raleigh basically) and jumped in the guy's car. (An 85 Toyota Celica) The guy in the back started getting everything. Wallet, money and then he told the guy to strip. The guy in the back suddenly realized that they weren't moving. So, he yelled to the other guy "GO!!!" The other guy said "I can't. It's a stick." They did the Chinese fire drill and then took off. They stripped the guy down naked, showed him his driver's license and said "We know where you live. If you tell anyone this happened, we'll come to your house and kill you." Then proceeded to deposit him, butt-naked, in the middle of U.S. 1. As if a naked man in the middle of the busiest road in the earliest part of the evening, wouldn't get the attention of the authorities and he wouldn't tell them WHY he was standing there naked.

When they were arrested, they were pulled over in a little country town in Eastern NC (as they were driving back roads back to Norfolk so one of them could get his dishonorable discharge from the Navy) they pulled into a driveway. Two doors down from the cop. They were told to stay in the car. The cop waited for backup. After 15 minutes of planning their alibi, they had the cop approach and ask if they knew they were in a stolen car. The brain surgeons responded with the best they could come up with. "We didn't steal the car officer, we bought it for drugs."

This guy is threatening to displace them as world's dumbest criminals.

Paul


16 posted on 05/05/2005 7:23:39 AM PDT by spacewarp (Visit the American Patriot Party and stay a while. http://www.patriotparty.us)
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To: mhking; aculeus; general_re; BlueLancer; hellinahandcart; Larry Lucido; Constitution Day; ...

Criminal Genius alert.


17 posted on 05/05/2005 7:26:47 AM PDT by dighton
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To: DB

You live in a fantacy world don't you. Cops don't dust for prints on a car theft or burglary, hell around here if you get broken into they don't even come out, they give you a case number over the phone so you can file insurance claims.Cops have more important things to do like write speeding tickets for revenue enhancement.


18 posted on 05/05/2005 7:33:26 AM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: dighton; aculeus; BlueLancer
Pop this in the tape deck, and away we go...
19 posted on 05/05/2005 7:37:06 AM PDT by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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To: spacewarp

That's funny. LOL


20 posted on 05/05/2005 7:42:30 AM PDT by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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