Posted on 12/28/2016 9:01:39 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Police to Shoplifting Suspect: 'Please at Least Try to Hide'
A man in Marietta, Ga., filled out a pawn ticket right before allegedly shoplifting from a pawn shop. That means he left the clerk with all of his driver's license information and even a fingerprint ... during a transaction that was caught entirely on camera. The Marietta Police Department had a little fun in an open letter posted to the not-so-sly suspect on the department's Facebook page Monday, the day of the theft. "A request to the gentleman who shoplifted from one of our local pawn shops today," the letter reads. "Please at least try to hide. ... When you make it this easy it takes all the fun out of chasing bad guys!"
The following day, the PD posted an update: "Fortunately (for us) he turned out to be just as bad at hide & seek as he is at stealing. He was picked up by our Morning Watch Officers after a search, it was quite short.... We also found all of his drugs and the stolen property he took from the pawn shop!" Suspect Dale Jonathan Tice, who was found at a local motel, is being held on drug and theft charges, CNN reports.
Well, the ones that are caught are. How about those whose crimes are not even suspected?
He wanted 3 hots and a cot with the least effort.
In the Navy you get four squares a day....
But unlike jail, there’s a chance of drowning.
The amount of time a person holds an item in their hand at the store might be more than when they get it home and place it away.
We're not far away from a national DNA data bank and DNA can be obtained quickly from a fingerprint, a flake of dandruff, etc now.
Fast, accurate facial recognition is now with us....just waiting for the completion of the national data base.
Shortly, you'll not get away with anything.
Heck, with digital data lingering all over the place now, the asst. Principal’s threat of putting stuff in your permanent record now rings true....
Why is it, these days, that the word “gentleman” is only used in relation to a criminal - and more often, a despicable one?
Democrat.
Let me see, I guess the motel he was at was not a Holiday Inn Express.
I had to deal with a shoplifter once, and it ended up being a reasonably fun experience (for me, anyway). I worked at a department store in the mid to late ‘80s and had just arrived at work. There were others in my department, mostly milling around since we weren’t busy. The code for a shoplifter came over the loud speaker for a door right next to us, and one of our guys says something like, “what’s going on; that’s the third one today.”
The dude had taken a walkman like tape or CD player, walks outside, gets confronted, DROPS the device, and starts running. I saw others running after him, so I decided to join. Across the parking lot was a tire/car repair place, and then across the street was a string of mostly restaurants. He clears the parking lot (running really fast), goes around the first restaurant, and disappears! The guys I was with keep running but I had a suspicion he had ducked into the Chuck E Cheese type kids pizza place, so I go in there. I look around, and see the door to the men’s room closing, so I go in to check it out. The guy is trying to crawl up into the ceiling to hide!
I grab his legs to prevent his escape and he gets loose and kicks me in the chest — which hurt! So now, I’m pretty mad and throw a punch right into the last area he wants a punch thrown into, and he drops down. I drag him out the back of the restaurant and somehow the cops are just driving up. They handcuff him and put him in the back while reading him his rights. I told them he’d be using the right to remain silent for a few minutes, anyway! I never did figure out how the cops and I timed our meeting so well.
Now, the cops won’t respond at all or if they do, they’ll write a ticket.
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