DD78
January 6th, 2010, 12:55 PM
I don't know how we got this far without a stupid criminals thread. I mean, doesn't every cop website require one? Well here it is!
Feel free to add to this. If you do however, make sure the story is legit. Only stories of stupid criminals that you were personally present for or have been reported in some form of semi-respectable media.
We don't want to hear about what your boyfriend's, mother's, second husband's, friend's kid saw one day in a stop and rob.
Without further ado...
YOU CAN'T BUY YOUR POT BACK FROM THE COPS!
Florida Keys cops leave ransom note for pot, nab suspected grower
<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript"> /* * Tell JavaScript how much of each type of content there is */ storyVideoCount = 0; storyVideoBoxCount = 0; storyVideoOldTypeCount = 0; storyAudioCount = 0; storyPhotoCount = 3; storyPhotoGalleryCount = 0; storyGoogleMapCount = 0; </script>BY CAMMY CLARK
<!-- begin /production/story/credit_line_format.comp --> <!-- end /production/story/credit_line_format.comp --> MARATHON -- After a citizen's tip led undercover detectives to six large marijuana plants growing in a wooded lot in the Keys, police half-jokingly left a phone number and ransom note.
``Thanks for the grow! You want them back? Call for the price . . . We'll talk.''
Ten minutes later, the phone rang.
Steven Locascio, 48, negotiated $200 to get his six-foot-tall plants back and arranged a meeting place.
``He's got to win one of America's dumbest criminal awards,'' said Monroe County Sheriff's Col. Rick Ramsay. ``The plants were worth about $1,000 each. So he probably thought it was a good deal.''
The undercover detectives loaded the plants into a pickup truck and met Locascio, who handed over the cash -- and was arrested.
A court-approved search of his apartment turned up 20 smaller pot plants, four pounds of freshly harvested pot in a freezer and several 80 milligram Oxycontin pills. Detectives also seized $1,380 in cash.
Locascio and his wife, Christine, 50, were charged with cultivation of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and sale of marijuana.
``The detectives left the note as a last ditch effort, thinking he would never call,'' Ramsay said. ``But sometimes people do stupid things.''
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1411133.html
Feel free to add to this. If you do however, make sure the story is legit. Only stories of stupid criminals that you were personally present for or have been reported in some form of semi-respectable media.
We don't want to hear about what your boyfriend's, mother's, second husband's, friend's kid saw one day in a stop and rob.
Without further ado...
YOU CAN'T BUY YOUR POT BACK FROM THE COPS!
Florida Keys cops leave ransom note for pot, nab suspected grower
<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript"> /* * Tell JavaScript how much of each type of content there is */ storyVideoCount = 0; storyVideoBoxCount = 0; storyVideoOldTypeCount = 0; storyAudioCount = 0; storyPhotoCount = 3; storyPhotoGalleryCount = 0; storyGoogleMapCount = 0; </script>BY CAMMY CLARK
<!-- begin /production/story/credit_line_format.comp --> <!-- end /production/story/credit_line_format.comp --> MARATHON -- After a citizen's tip led undercover detectives to six large marijuana plants growing in a wooded lot in the Keys, police half-jokingly left a phone number and ransom note.
``Thanks for the grow! You want them back? Call for the price . . . We'll talk.''
Ten minutes later, the phone rang.
Steven Locascio, 48, negotiated $200 to get his six-foot-tall plants back and arranged a meeting place.
``He's got to win one of America's dumbest criminal awards,'' said Monroe County Sheriff's Col. Rick Ramsay. ``The plants were worth about $1,000 each. So he probably thought it was a good deal.''
The undercover detectives loaded the plants into a pickup truck and met Locascio, who handed over the cash -- and was arrested.
A court-approved search of his apartment turned up 20 smaller pot plants, four pounds of freshly harvested pot in a freezer and several 80 milligram Oxycontin pills. Detectives also seized $1,380 in cash.
Locascio and his wife, Christine, 50, were charged with cultivation of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and sale of marijuana.
``The detectives left the note as a last ditch effort, thinking he would never call,'' Ramsay said. ``But sometimes people do stupid things.''
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1411133.html