Tag: DUMBCRIMINAL

Most video game addicts would do just about anything to get their hands on a free copy of their favorite game. But few would go as far as to pull off a bank robbery-style heist of their local retailer. Why? Because it's illegal, it's stupid, and, in the age of rampant online piracy, it's not even slightly necessary. Steven Archer, however, apparently thought it was worth a shot. The 33-year-old ...

Advice for convicted felons out on parole: don't try to sell your illegal firearm through Facebook. One Chicago ex-con apparently didn't think this was such a terrible idea, and found himself in more trouble than he could have imagined. After advertising that he wanted to sell a .38-caliber revolver on his Facebook page, an interested user responded and went to go pick up the gun. While ...

The NYPD just busted a ring of alleged drug dealers that had reportedly cornered the heroin market in Brooklyn's North Williamsburg area. The group of seven was caught on surveillance cameras openly selling drugs on a street corner near the Cooper Park housing projects; they were even recorded hiding their product in a magnetic lock-box stashed behind a metal sign. And if you've ever wondered ...

Joseph Eric Williams knows who he is, and he clearly wants everyone else to know who he is, too. Why else would he have the phrase 'I'm Me' tattooed across his forehead? Unfortunately for him, though, that tattoo also helped police identify him as a suspected iPhone thief. According to police in Broward, Florida, 19-year-old Williams is believed to have stolen iPhones from as many as 15 ...

Share Darren Suchon, like many middle-aged unemployed people, used to spend his days playing video games. One day, though, his girlfriend, Colleen Frable, decided she'd had enough of Suchon's idle gaming, and took his beloved PlayStation to work with her. The 42-year-old gamer then did what most video game addicts would do. He drove her off the road. According to the Morning Call, Suchon ...

On September 1st, a man who had been hiding in the bathrooms of an Arlington, Texas branch of Texas Trust Credit Union suddenly emerged after closing time, forced bank employees into the cash vaults, and walked away with a handsome $183,000. About four hours later, police arrested a suspect, Tyce Von Franklin, after pulling him over and finding a handgun, piles of cash, and a surgical mask in his ...

Police in Oregon think they've found a bank robbery suspect known as the 'Where's Waldo Bandit,' although the man they've targeted certainly wasn't as subtle as his namesake. Law enforcement officials are now on the lookout for 29-year-old Ryan Homsley, who is suspected of robbing and threatening to blow up a local bank on Tuesday afternoon. As the AP reports, police identified Homsley as a ...

As most of the Switched team lives, eats and ultimately passes out on top of their precious laptops, we have no sympathy for criminals who would want to carry off our little babies. Especially not the guy pictured above, who allegedly swiped four laptops from an East Hampton, Long Island home, and was either brazen or stupid enough to sign on and webcam-chat with one of the victim's friends. ...

Last week, police in Pennsylvania arrested a 27-year-old man on charges of statutory rape, after he had inexplicably professed his love for a 14-year-old girl on Facebook. A child welfare agency in Delaware County initially alerted law enforcement authorities after the suspect, Robert Nickson, Jr., announced on Facebook that he was "in love" with and "engaged" to his unnamed teenage paramour. ...

We're not sure exactly how high you have to be to text the local sheriff to score some weed, but we figure it's somewhere in the range of "really" to "inspiringly." Where this Helena, Montana teenager lands on the scale doesn't really matter. What does matter is that the boy and his friend managed to confuse their dealer's phone number with that of the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff. Sheriff Leo ...

Criminals and thugs have still not learned that, if you want to get away with misdeeds, the last thing you should do is brag about them online. A gang, known as B515, has been terrorizing Birmingham, England for some time: vandalizing police cars, dealing drugs and intimidating residents. But the roughly 40-member strong group of hoodlums made the mistake of posting videos to YouTube in which ...

A 19-year old bank robber in southern Germany was found out today when -- as is so often the case -- his pride got the best of him. After police and press had published reports of last week's robbery of a bank in the town of Roettingen, they received e-mails from an indignant thief, mocking the cops and reporters alike for inaccurately describing his height, age and accent. He also mentioned that ...

Robbing a bank might not be the most original crime in the world. Robbing a bank while dressed as the most ruthless villain in the universe, on the other hand, definitely takes a little extra thought. According to Newsday, such a feat is exactly what one "man" recently pulled off at a Chase bank in Long Island. After strolling into the bank at around 11:30 a.m., Anakin pulled out a handgun, ...

A man accused of credit card fraud and bail-jumping just received a 285-month sentence, despite the fact that his defense submitted several photoshopped images of him doing charity work in a bid for a lighter penalty. Daryl Simons's sad attempt to show himself as some kind of humanitarian backfired in White Plains, New York federal court when a quick analysis of the photos in question proved that ...

Most iPad owners probably wouldn't trade their beloved gadget for much of anything -- unless, of course, they're stoned enough to take the kind of deal two burnouts in Arizona offered last week. As AZFamily reports, Jacob Walker and Joseph Velarde recently came up with the brilliant idea of offering a third generation iPod touch and a .25 ounce of fluffy marijuana in exchange for an iPad. As ...