Posted on 08/03/2023 6:18:11 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A pair of distinctive red Crocs landed a Florida man behind bars after he allegedly robbed the bakery where he was once employed, allegedly spending the stolen money on food and alcohol.
A suspect wearing a black mask, a black sweatshirt, black pants, a brown and black backpack and bright red Crocs snuck into Crumbl Cookies in Brooksville on July 20 and removed cash from the bakery's safe and cash register, according to a Facebook post from the Hernando County Sheriff's Office.
The store's manager told police that the thief was probably 18-year-old Jacob Ortega, a former employee who always wore red Crocs and carried a brown and black backpack, police said.
Police said they tracked down and paid a house call to the owner of a vehicle captured on surveillance footage leaving the store's parking lot around the time of the break-in. The owner allegedly told detectives that Ortega called him around 2 a.m. on July 20 asking for a ride to a drug deal.
The unnamed vehicle owner told police he dropped Ortega off near the store, then picked him up later at a nearby Home Goods.
Several days later, Ortega allegedly told him that he had "obtained" money from the Crumbl Cookies - and that he had stored some of that money inside the vehicle to "hold on to." With the owner's permission, police searched the car and found a "sum of cash" in the glove compartment.
Ortega confessed to the burglary when questioned by detectives on August 1, telling detectives that he remembered the unchanged access codes on the bakery's side door, safe and register from when he was employed there.
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He’s not the sharpest bulb in the drawer.
In Portland, they would not have bothered tracking him down.
I have a pair of red Crocs that I wear in the garden.
But I din’ do NOTHIN’, I swear, LOL!
FM is at it again.
Yeah, pull off an obvious inside job wear8ng distinctive articles of clothing you wore when you worked there. Einstein. 🙄
Bright red Crocs lead detectives to Florida man accused of robbing bakery where he used to work
Ya. I thought how could a red crocodile help run down a thief? Anywhere else, nah, but it is Florida.
Criminals tend to be pretty stupid. The worst of them tend to have some combination of bad childhood, personality disorder, and organic brain dysfunction. Some also have a genetic predisposition toward aberrant, even violent behavior.
Ortega. Of the Pennsylvania-Dutch line of Ortegas.
When I read the head line I was thinking some animals he colored red but no just shoes
Me too
“When I read the head line I was thinking some animals he colored red but no just shoes.”
I considered that the crocs got him running with red velvet cake. Follow the trail. Wonder if crocs like red velvet cake? If they are allergic to it look out for PETA. They’ll probably sue the bakery.
wy69
Anything's possible.
But To Tell A Family Secret, My Grandmother Was Dutch
Well, he may not be the sharpest bulb in the drawer, but at least he was smart enough to spent his ill gotten gains wisely.
” spending the stolen money on food and alcohol.”
“Criminals tend to be pretty stupid.”
Read an interview with a prison warden long ago and he said there were no geniuses in here (referring to his prison).
Ok, I first fast glanced at it and thought two red crocodiles caught the guy.
My father was a circuit judge for many years and he found that criminal defendants were often phenomenally stupid. My father repeatedly saw defendants reject a plea offer that their attorney begged them to accept. Instead, defendants often believed that they could talk their way out of trouble on the witness stand through some implausible tale. The result was inevitably a conviction and a much longer sentence.
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