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Police Say Man Tried To Steal Their Candy Bars

Talk about sticky fingers: Police arrested a man they say tried to take their candy bars. Police in the southwest Ohio city of Middletown, around 30 miles north of Cincinnati, charge that Derek Kidd, 32, tried to walk out of the station with two candy bars and a police toboggan cap. Police Maj. Mark Hoffman [...]

Woman Accused Of Shoplifting 418 Items

An Iowa woman is accused in a South Dakota shoplifting case that authorities say involved more than just a few items stuffed in a pocket. Sioux Falls police said a 51-year-old woman allegedly took $2,200 worth of items from the Lewis Drug Store, hauling stolen merchandise to her car in bags and then returning to [...]

Man Invites Deputies In To Show Them His Marijuana

Thanksgiving could have been better for Ronald R. Conkright. The man’s troubles first started when he called 911 at 11:47 p.m. Thursday, according to an arrest affidavit. He told the operator, “I’m looking for a friend. It was one last joke.” Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies showed up at his home at 2504 55th Ave. N, [...]

Robbers Attempt To Hold Up Funeral Home

Calvert County authorities are searching for two men who tried to rob a funeral home that they may have mistaken for a bank. Police said the men robbed Lee Funeral Home, next to a PNC Bank, in Owings on Monday. Lt. Steve Jones of the Calvert Investigative Team said an employee told the suspects they [...]

Florida Man Steals Deodorant To Pay Back Drug Debt

His nickname is Priest and he had a $40 drug debt to pay off. So on Thursday afternoon, Robert McCray — a 37-year-old felon with “Thug Life” tattooed on his chest — headed into a CVS Pharmacy on U.S. 301, according to the Dade City Police Department. He needed something to barter off his debt. [...]

Would Be Robber Gives Up After Four Failed Attempts

A luckless crook surrendered to police after four robberies flopped in the same day. Ralf Lautenbach, 24, fled after trying to hold up two hotels which set security guards on him – and then abandoned a break in at the local tax office in Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany. Finally the failing would-be crook handed [...]

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