EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The young man apparently just wanted to phone his parents. But his mistake came when he made the call from the Eugene, Ore., police station lobby.
Police say an officer working a desk assignment Wednesday recognized the man from surveillance footage of Tuesday’s robbery of a Wells Fargo bank branch.
The officer notified detectives, who arrested the man nearby.
ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) — Police in Ellensburg, Wash., say a man looking for a place to sleep broke into the basement of a bank, and – yes – he had been drinking.
Surveillance video shows the man breaking a basement window about 3 a.m. Saturday and leaving before 8 a.m.
Police tracked down the 21-year-old by Tuesday and arrested him at his home for investigation of second-degree burglary and malicious mischief.
Capt. Dan Hansberry says the man was intoxicated and doesn’t know why he went to the bank to snooze.
As far as excuses go, “God told me to do it” is pretty good but for some reason I don’t think this will be helping him much.
THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — A man who told police that God told him to walk the streets naked to save his soul has been arrested. Thibodaux police responded to an obscenity complaint around 2 a.m. Thursday and found Shafiq Mohamed walking nude down the street. When approached, Mohamed reportedly told officers that “America raped him” and added God told him to walk the streets naked to save his soul.
Mohamed was taken into custody and charged with obscenity. He was booked into the Lafourche Parish Detention Center where he awaited bail.
It was not immediately known whether Mohamed has an attorney.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life it’s that robbing (or trying to rob) a bank is a bad idea and it’s made much worse if there is a uniformed officer standing in line behind you. The best possible outcome is a shoot out where you have a shot at a Darwin award. Here’s yer sign!
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio said a woman tried to rob a bank with a note and then attempted to eat it once she saw a uniformed officer in line behind her. FBI Special Agent Harry Trombitas said the woman wearing sunglasses handed the teller the note at a Columbus Chase bank branch Wednesday morning.
Trombitas said in a statement that the off-duty officer wasn’t aware of what was going on, but when the woman noticed him, she grabbed the note and fled.
Outside, the officer arrested the 40-year-old Columbus woman, Lois Harvey. Trombitas said she tried to swallow the note as she was nabbed, then coughed it up onto the sidewalk.
Harvey remained jailed Thursday after a judge set bond at $250,085. Court records do not list her attorney.
