Posted on 12/31/2006 9:21:26 AM PST by buccaneer81
The year’s least-skilled criminals Sunday, December 31, 2006 Kevin Mayhood THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Pastor Kevin Lentz had just finished a wedding at Holy Family Church in Franklinton on Aug. 12 when two homeless men tried to sell him a camera for $50.
"They told me they found it in an alley," Lentz said. He thought they must have broken into a car but knew the only way to ensure that the camera got back to its owner was to buy it. He did, the men left and Lentz called police.
The owner, Dave Back, was in a cruiser with officers, looking for the men. He had been near Veterans Memorial taking photographs of Downtown when two men asked him to take their picture. He did. Then one knocked him down and they robbed him.
Back hurried to the church to retrieve his camera and could see that the film was still inside.
He developed it, and photos of the robbers were soon taped to police-cruiser dashboards. Nicholas Bush and Antonio Eberhart were arrested within days. The men pleaded guilty to robbery. Bush, 25, was sentenced to a year in prison; Eberhart, 19, to three years of probation.
They are among a number of people who appeared to have chosen the wrong vocation and ended up in Franklin County’s criminal courts this year.
Among others:
• Sean T. Wall, 31, formerly of the East Side, gave up a swab of cells from inside his mouth before being released from prison in 2005. His DNA was placed in a statewide database.
This year, Wall was charged with three burglaries, including a June 28, 2003, break-in. In that one, Wall entered a home through a basement window and took a pair of earrings. Before fleeing, he found a girly magazine. Wall perused the pages and left a little of himself behind. The DNA on the magazine matched his in the database. He pleaded guilty to the burglary and is awaiting sentencing.
• John R. King, 21, of the North Side, stole eight checks from his father and cashed them at a nearby Kroger in March. He was easily identified. The clerk who handed him the money had known the Kings for years.
King’s father ordered him to move out. On April 7, King broke a rear window, entered his father’s home and stole two pitchers of beer and a toothbrush. His brother saw him.
King was arrested nearby. He admitted the crimes and is now on three years of probation.
• Daryl "Darnell" Smith, 21, was on probation for cocaine possession. A 17-month prison sentence was hanging over his head. Still, he continued to test positive for drugs and refused treatment.
Common Pleas Judge Richard A. Frye thought Smith needed a wake-up call. During a hearing this month, he sentenced him to six months in prison. Smith, sitting at the defense table, suddenly turned to a courtroom deputy, said, "Get me out of here" and began walking. Frye told the deputy to return Smith to his seat and then told Smith he was now going to prison for 10 months.
"Why don’t you make it the whole 17? " Smith asked.
Frye thought a second, but left it at 10.
• Nathaniel Robinson III was fired because he used a coworker’s credit card when he called a phone-sex line. He was caught because he used his real name on the sex line.
Robinson, 21, formerly of the Northeast Side, then decided to rob the Key Bank on Georgesville Road. The morning of Aug. 24, 2005, he nervously asked a teller what time the bank closed and then left.
Robinson returned bundled up as if it were cold out. As soon as he walked through the door, tellers began pushing silent alarms.
He left with $1,800 in cash, but police nabbed him before he could drive off in his car, parked at a restaurant next door. He said he robbed the bank because he was afraid to tell his parents he’d lost his job.
His mother, in a wheelchair, and sister came to court for his sentencing on March 28. When Judge Julie Lynch ordered Robinson to serve two years in prison, he dropped over. His sister dropped over. His mother slumped over. Deputies scrambled to give them aid and call emergency squads.
"It reminded me of ‘the vapors’ women used to get in the old days," said Lou Friscoe, Robinson’s attorney.
Lynch thought Robinson was faking and called the next case. Robinson seemed to come around when deputies told him they were about to shock him with heart paddles.
kmayhood@dispatch.com
It's an icky job but someone has to do it. Remind me to buy a beer for the forensics technicians we take for granted...8>)
No. Dumber than a stack of girlie magazines...
As for that Robinson fellow and his family... they are the missing link.
Funny how we're all zeroing in on that one specific crook....I predict an "over 90 percent" ratio as this thread expands.
LOL!
This is without doubt the funniest video I have ever saw. It is must see TV. I wonder whatever became of him?
He only gets three years probation? Maybe he's not as dumb as people suggest.
Is that a cucumber in your poc...oh, never mind!
Wow. Now there's a real winner. Amazing that he isn't working for some liberal think tank.
What I find interesting is that he keeps falling, even onto glass, yet never appears to be seriously hurt. I think he must have been on drugs at the time.
Perhaps, or he is really, really stoopid. :)
Nope!
For a female ... that's not possible ... .
Impossible for a female to carry a cucumber in her pocket? I had no idea...LOL!
* worst criminal *
Oh, jeez! That's funny, Vince. Thanks ........... FRegards
Thanks.
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Proving they don’t call it crack for nothing, a 23 year-old man allegedly pushed a plastic bag containing crack cocaine into his rectum Saturday night after the car he was riding in was pulled over by police.
Ashtabula, Ohio police officer Tom Perry cited the driver of the car for failing to use his turn signal at West 32nd Street and Lake Avenue, according to police reports. But the passenger, Jesse McDowell of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was arrested on an active warrant for traficking in crack cocaine and was transported to the city jail, Ashtabula court records show.
“When he bent over to put on his jail uniform, an officer spotted the plastic bag sticking out of his behind,” Captain Phil Varckette of the Ashtabula Police Department said Monday.
Corrections officers found less than 5 grams of crack in the bag, Vardkette said. McDowell was charged with conveyance of drugs into a detention facility.
Monday morning, McDowell was arraigned on the drug trafficking charge, court records show. He did not enter a plea and attorney Marie Lane was appointed to defend him. Judge Albert Camplese set bail at $5,000 cash or surety. As of Monday afternoon, McDowell remainted in the city jail.
Story courtesy Shelley Terry and the Ashtabula Star Beacon
One of the best I rembember is a bank stick up note a guy left behind on the back of his electric bill.
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