Tag: MUGSHOT

Remember Matthew Maynard? He's the image-conscious crook who sent his own photo to a UK newspaper via text message because he was unhappy with the police mugshot they published. Just when we thought Maynard's vanity had peaked, it turns out the 24-year-old burglary suspect was arrested Wednesday while getting his hair cut at a Swansea, South Wales, barber shop. According to The Sun, a person ...

Fugitives, take note. If you're disgruntled over that unflattering mugshot, follow Matthew Maynard's lead and send in one of your own. Last Monday, the 23-year-old Welshman took cheekiness to the next level by texting The Evening Post a shot of himself, posing in front of a police van and dressed in matching neon yellow trousers. Maynard, wanted in conjunction with a burglary in Swansea, South ...

If you plan on visiting the Tampa Bay area, you may want to try harder than usual not to be arrested. A new mug shot Web site is putting perps front and center, and we're not just talking photos. Tampa Bay Mug Shots is a new site devoted to criminal activity in the Florida counties of Pinellas, Hillsborough, and Pasco. The main feature of the site is a scrollable line of mug shots at the top of ...

Last week we brought sad news of a man in Oregon whose house and barn had been ransacked by eager bargain hunters responding to a bogus Craigslist ad. It indicated that the owner, Robert Salisbury, had to leave town unexpectedly, and so everything he owned was up for grabs. The ad was completely fake, and yet the man tragically lost much of his belongings since hoardes of folks took the ad ...