Eric Cunningham, 18, or Orlando Florida isn’t the brightest criminal on the planet. He was arrest and charged with robbing a Hess gas station at gun point in Orlando in April.
He got caught because he forgot to take his gun case with him when he fled the store. Inside the gun case was a receipt for his gun with his name listed on it.
Then we have yet another winner for the dumbest criminal awards … Jazrahel King, 29, was arrested in April in Norwalk Conn. when he tried to trade in the jeep that he’d allegedly stolen from the same Wholesalers of America dealership that he’d appropriated the vehicle from in the first place. He was trying to trade the jeep in for a larger vehicle.
Jazrahel King hadn’t even taken a moment to think about the fact that the dealership would have the cars vin number on record, or the fact that the jeep still had the dealerships temporary plates on it.
How many times have you heard stories about criminals that have done some stupid everyday kind of thing that ends up being what gets them caught? I know I’ve written enough stories like that here on Odd Planet!
You know the ones that have expired tags on their vehicles or a broken tail light? Basically minor traffic infractions that end up getting them caught for major crimes!
Once such criminal is Larenzo Dixon, 22 of San Diego. He was arrest in March at a downtown transit station during a police crackdown on jaywalkers.
A routine check of the illegal jaywalker turned up a murder warrant on Dixon from Louisiana.
Doug Guetzloe, one of central Florida’s most prominent political operatives and subject of investigations by the Florida Elections Commission and a highway agency in Orlando, had long eluded criminal charges by denying any knowledge of unethical activities in which prosecutors were sure he was involved.
But late last year, Guetzloe missed a payment on his rental storage locker, and 50 boxes of his personal and professional records were seized and auctioned for $10 to a curious citizen, who then gave them to Orlando’s WKMG-TV, which had several earlier investigations of Guetzloe pending.
Based on early readings of the storage-locker papers, Guetzloe was indicted for felony perjury in March, and the case continues.
If you came here for Photo Hunters I haven’t thought of anything for this theme yet. I may still come up with something … but I’m trying to figure out how to combine Salty - this weeks theme - and funny. Give me some time - I may still come up with something yet!
I did come up with something - see photo below!
In other news - I slowed down on posting this week. Sorry about that. It’s not that there’s been a lack of Odd news, weird news or dumb criminal stories to write about. Nope, I don’t think that people will stop doing stupid things. It’s just that work has been so busy this week that I’ve been exhausted by the time I come home and haven’t put much time into bloggin’. Sorry about that!
I’ll leave you with a funny photo. I was saving this one as a blooper since it looks like none of the ladies from either basketball team wanted to catch the ball. However, now that I take a better look at the photo it might fit the theme this week … those ladies have got to be sweaty after running around playing basketball … and sweat is salty .. so yeah, this fits this weeks theme:
Salty, stunned basketball teams:
