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A 23-year-old woman in Florida was arrested last week after she allegedly called the police to her hotel room to report that someone had stolen marijuana from her — apparently without realizing that she had two outstanding warrants for her own arrest. Lily Marie Rinker was taken into custody on Friday and charged with one count of probation violation and one count of failure to appear in an unrelated case, court records show. According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, officers with the Stuart Police Department at about 2:04 a.m. responded to a call in regards to an...

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A Grand Crossing man stole a towing company’s truck and then called 911 himself because he was upset that the truck’s driver dared to pull a gun on him, prosecutors said. Elliott Scott, 22, is charged with aggravated possession of a stolen motor vehicle, misdemeanor theft, and driving on a suspended or revoked license. “Mr. Scott called 911?” a befuddled Judge Charles Beach asked prosecutors after hearing their allegations. “Yeah,” Scott interjected. “Right.” Scott’s defense attorney quickly advised him, “it’s not best to talk about the charges” in court.

Mount Vernon Police District – Detectives are searching for this suspect who shot an ATM with a shotgun in an unsuccessful attempt to get money. Officers were called to the BB&T bank in the 8600 block of Richmond Highway around 11 a.m. Sunday after a customer walked up to the ATM and realized pieces of it were missing and scattered on the ground. Surveillance footage revealed the machine had been shot around 4:45 a.m. The suspect is believed to have left the area in a 4-door sedan. If you recognize the person in these photos, or have any information on...

Fremont Burglary Suspect Who Entered Fumigated Home Dies FREMONT (CBS SF) — A burglar who was caught on video breaking into and stealing from a home being fumigated with a hazardous chemical collapsed and later died after leaving the property, police said. The apartment building located in the 39800 block of Fremont Boulevard was being fumigated for bed bugs and was covered with a tent. The residents shared the surveillance footage from the camera they purchased just days earlier out of fear one of the fumigation workers might steal from them. What they wound up seeing was even more shocking.

ROCK HILL Two Rock Hill teens were charged Monday in an early-morning robbery after one of them accidentally shot himself, deputies say. Around 4:45 a.m., a man approached a bread delivery driver behind Harris Teeter on Celanese Road and asked for directions to Taylor Oaks, according to a York County Sheriff's Office report. Then, another man came from behind a dumpster, holding a knife and asking for money. The man who asked for directions put a bandanna over his face and pulled out what looked like a sawed-off shotgun, said Lt. Tim Hager of the York County Sheriff's Office. The...

'Dumbest criminal' robs cop Saturday, March 28, 2009 BY MATTHEW KEMENY Of The Patriot-News Jerome Blanchett took a loaded handgun into the Holiday Inn-Harrisburg East on Friday, passing dozens of unmarked police cars in the parking lot and a sign at the hotel's entrance welcoming 300 officers to the Pennsylvania Narcotic Officers' Association conference, police said. Nevertheless, the 19-year-old Harrisburg man went into the men's room and waited to rob the next person who walked through the door, police said. Unfortunately for Blanchett, that person was John Comparetto, a retired New York City Police Department lieutenant. "He chose to rob...

Owner Says Same Man Robbed Him Earlier This Week

Man charged with stealing five newsstands Tue Jun 13, 5:04 PM ET PHILADELPHIA - An apparently frustrated, would-be newsstand operator used a rented crane to steal five newsstands from city streets and redeposit them elsewhere, authorities said. Fatai King of East Mount Airy had filed 42 applications for newsstand licenses with Philadelphia's Department of Licenses and Inspections only to have each rejected, they said. So King lifted the boxes into the air and then positioned them on some of the corners where he had hoped to operate, according to authorities who charged him Thursday with theft and receiving stolen property....

TAMPA - A plan to rob partygoers ended with one suspect hogtied, another shot with a pistol the men brought for the job, and all four being arrested. Judging by the bloody stains and handprints on the door to Apt. 108 in The Landings at Cypress Meadows, off North Dale Mabry Highway, clearly something bad happened there. Outside, blood-stained socks and bandages lay in wads, apparently discarded in a hurry. The concrete was littered with shards of green glass from broken beer bottles and crumpled yellow crime-scene tape left behind by Hillsborough County sheriff's investigators. It's what happened inside that...

Hector Zaragoza walked out of the Huntsville "Walls" Unit early Thursday morning a free man. He didn't remain that way long. Zaragoza, 28, stole a van which was parked near the bus station in Huntsville shortly after he was released from prison Thursday, and after a high-speed chase on Interstate 45, was apprehended in Madison County and arrested by officers from the Texas Department of Public Safety. After completing a three-year sentence for driving while intoxicated and aggravated assault, Zaragoza was back in jail, this time facing charges of felony theft of a vehicle, evading arrest and operating a vehicle...

Man Arrested for Bank Robbery After Allegedly Bragging on Radio Station The Associated Press Published: Feb 23, 2005 CHICAGO (AP) - Federal officials say they have finally solved a bank robbery because a suspect bragged about the crime on a radio talk show. A caller boasted on WKSC-FM that he and five others tied up employees at a TCF Bank branch in South Chicago Heights in April, took $81,000 and spent some of the money at expensive stores. A bank employee heard the program last fall and called authorities, setting off a five-month investigation, according to a criminal complaint made...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Somewhere in Canada there are thieves with nearly 50,000 cans of beer they will have a hard time selling, although police said on Thursday the truck driver who disappeared with the loot has been arrested. The shipment of Moosehead beer, worth over C$75,000 ($57,000), was on its way to Mexico from an East Coast brewery when it went missing, along with the driver. The transport truck was recovered last week -- still running -- in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, but with most of its cargo missing. The 30-year-old driver was picked up in Lindsay, Ontario, about 1,000...

A would-be carjacker bit off more than he could chew Thursday. About 9:45 p.m., a Columbia woman was at a stoplight in the 7200 block of Two Notch Road when she was approached by a man wearing a black ski mask, according to a police report. The man opened the passenger door and grabbed her by the throat with his right hand. Not a good move, according to a dog inside the vehicle. The canine bit the man on his right arm. The suspect hit the woman in the face to force the dog to let go, the report said....

(Columbia SC) August 16, 2004 - Richland County Sheriff's officers arrested a shooting suspect without incident around 2:00am Monday after an eight-hour stand-off on Atlas Road that started Sunday. Investigators say Ronald Porterfield shot a man on Percival Road before police were able to catch up to him around 6:00pm Sunday. Richland County Deputies wrestled Porterfield to the ground, cuffed him and put him in the back of a patrol car. The arresting deputies then turned to inspect a bag Porterfield had been carrying. That's when he reportedly slipped out of his cuffs and pulled a 9mm handgun from his...

A Columbia man on Friday was sentenced to a 55-year prison term after he was convicted on charges in a December 2000 bank robbery and car chase. Christopher James Reese, 32, of 3426 Maybank St., tried to convince jurors he was insane and that the movie "Terminator" and a music video by rapper Scarface made him rob the Bank of Ridgeway, 115 McNulty St., in Blythewood, prosecutors said. After a four-day trial, jurors convicted Reese on charges of robbery, two counts of carjacking, two counts of assault with intent to kill and firearm possession. Reese is accused of entering the...

MIAMI (Reuters) - A man dubbed by authorities as the "bumbling bank robber" had his two gold teeth knocked out as he ran into traffic and was hit by a van while fleeing a heist, FBI ( news - web sites) agents in Miami said. The suspect, who also may have shot himself accidentally, escaped in a waiting get-away car but police recovered his teeth from the street and held them as evidence, the FBI said on Tuesday. The suspect walked into a Wachovia Bank branch in North Miami Beach on Monday, pulled a gun from his pocket as he...

<p>Greenville Police said a man pretending to be a Steak-Out delivery driver pulled a gun on homeowners at a Watkins Road house.</p> <p>Lt. Mike Gambrell said the incident began when a real Steak-Out delivery person drove to the house to deliver an order. When he got out of his car, a man standing in the yard came over and paid for the food.</p>

(Columbia S.C.) May 30, 2002 - Around 4pm Thursday afternoon a man was hit by a vehicle and killed on Interstate 77 near Forest Drive in Columbia. The man was inside the of the nearby Wal-Mart where he had been apprehended for shoplifting. The man reportedly became involved in an altercation with a Wal-Mart employee inside the store. The man left the store with the employee apparently in pursuit, both on foot. When the man ran onto I-77 he apparently tried to flag down a motorist, but the driver drove away. The man was then struck by a J.B. Hunt...

TOLEDO, Ohio -- A bank robbery suspect whose getaway driver took off without him made one big mistake, according to police. Eric Davis (pictured, left), 31, of Detroit allegedly jumped into the back seat of an unmarked police car Tuesday in Toledo -- and ordered the officer to start driving. Instead, police said that the officer grabbed the suspect's gun and jumped on top of him. A group of nearby high school students reportedly helped get him under control. Davis is charged with aggravated robbery and kidnapping. Police said that Davis was running toward a getaway car but fell before...