The Stoooopid Criminals Thread

[Jangler]

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/may/20/wrong-number-leads-to-drug-arrest/

WENATCHEE — Transposing room Number 119 at a Wenatchee motel — and instead dialing 911 — resulted in the arrest of two Wenatchee residents on suspicion of drug possession early Wednesday morning.

Sgt. John Kruse, a Wenatchee Police Department spokesman, said a man staying in Room 118 of the La Quinta Inn & Suites, 1905 N. Wenatchee Ave. misdialed the number. When officers arrived to find out if there was a problem, the man explained the misdialing. Officers asked for the name of the person he was calling in Room 119. They did a background check on the name of the man in Room 119 and determined there was a warrant out for his arrest.

Officers then went to Room 119, arrested the man and discovered a half ounce of heroin and other drugs in the room, Kruse said. The 29-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of three counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell. A 22-year-old woman in Room 119 was arrested on suspicion of two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell.

[Jangler]

http://boston.com/community/blogs/gatekeeper/2010/05/the_baby_for_beer_offer_an_inn.html

By now you’ve probably read or heard about the man who offered to trade his baby for two forty-ounce bottles of beer at a Chicopee, Mass., gas station Monday night. A Google News search as late as Thursday afternoon turned up 424 stories about it; people on Twitter are still talking about it.

Turns out the beer part isn’t true. The man offered to trade his baby for crack cocaine.

So why didn’t the baby-for-beer story die? Because beer is trivial, beer is ordinary, and beer — as any who has watched “The Simpsons” knows — is funny. Crack cocaine is deadly, crack cocaine is strange, and crack cocaine is depressing.

At almost the same time, Masslive.com posted an updated story with the headline “Chicopee police not sure whether Matthew Brace was trying to sell baby for beer or cocaine.” The story reported the Chicopee Police Chief John Ferraro Jr. told the paper in a new interview that forty is “slang for both beer sold in a 40-ounce bottle and crack cocaine. Investigators are not sure whether Brace meant beer or crack, he said.”