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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 48 views
University of Rochester quarterback Daniel Bronson’s biggest play was not on the football field. The 21-year-old junior was leaving a restaurant when he saw a man run past a 73-year-old woman and snatch her purse as he passed. Bronson began chasing the man, who dropped the purse but keep running. Bronson…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 35 views
Italian police investigating drug crimes discovered two Van Gogh paintings that vanished in a 2002 robbery. The paintings were found in a farmhouse where police seized over $22 million worth of assets. The director of the Van Gogh Museum Axel Rueger said investigators had contacted them so that art experts…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Devonte Levoris Pace and two accomplices allegedly staged a holdup outside a bar and robbed the men in a car of about $600. Police promptly arrested Pace without any problem of identification. It seems Pace dropped his own wallet, with his ID in it, in the process of committing the robbery. When we think…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Twenty-seven years after he stole a Color TV from the Norwalk, Connecticut Jewish Center, Randy Iannacone turned himself in to the police, who booked him for the crime. Though the Jewish Center closed in April of 1989, the 60-year old man still is working to make things right. –Jim L. Wilson http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-man-turns-self-stealing-tv-1989-n555411…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Police in Northern California say a man robbed a local gas station and then returned a few hours later to return the money he had taken. Authorities say 23-year-old Cyle Abbott Jr. told officers that he took the money because he wanted to leave town and make a fresh start. Later, when he thought about…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
Steven Felton, 34, was arrested for 10 armed robberies. Multiple security cameras caught his bare face with him holding a pellet gun and demanding money. In his defense he claimed his “evil twin” had carried out the robberies. Neither the jury nor the judge believed him and he was convicted by the jury…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
The courts convicted Cornealious Anderson of armed robbery and sentenced him to thirteen years in prison in 2000. The day he was sentenced, Anderson was told to wait for instructions on when and where to report to prison. When those instructions never came, Anderson went on with life and actually turned…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 19 views
When Greg Carlson’s Las Vegas taco shop was burglarized, he deiced to turn the footage into a television commercial. Security footage shows three men breaking into the closed restaurant and ransacking it, looking for cash or other valuables. Carlson was alerted by an alarm system, and found the glass…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
Minnesota police say they were able to arrest a man after he committed a dumb act that led them right to him. They say 26-year-old Nicholas Wig allegedly broke into a home and stole several things. Wig might have gotten away with the crime if he had not used a computer in the house to log on to Facebook,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Footage from surveillance cameras from two businesses located near each other show a man who tied to rob both of them came up empty handed. The suspect, a Hispanic man in his twenties, first walked into a convenience store and demanded money. He was holding a potato disguised as a gun. The thief fled…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
After an attack of conscious, Kent Clemens called 911 asking them to send the police over to his house and arrest him "for making a mistake." That was invitation the authorities couldn’t refuse. What was Clemens’s mistake? He had robbed a bank in Williston, North Dakota, telling the teller that he wanted…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Police in New Jersey say an accused carjacker was captured after he let pride get the best of him. They say a 20 year-old-victim reported that her car was stolen at gunpoint by a man wearing on ski mask on January 29. The woman reported the man had taken her cell phone in the robbery as well. After filing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
You would think that someone who spends his life dispensing justice would find it for himself, but that isn’t always the case. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed twice in 2012. The first time it by a man holding a machete in the Caribbean, the second time in his townhouse in his Georgetown…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Police in Louisiana say they arrested two alleged car burglars after the two suspects returned to the victim’s home to apologize. Police say the men aged 50 and 48 were charged with simple burglary, and they are seeking a third man believed to be involved. Reports say the men were allegedly taking a…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
A Christian rock band in Minnesota says they have received some big breaks, but will face their latest challenge with faith. The group known as Hyland signed a record deal, finished a full length album, and even plans a nationwide tour in the near future. Just as things begin looking up, the band’s hopes…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Rolf Klasson, a 62-year-old man living in Sweden was prepared, even if he did not look like he was. A former boxer, today Klasson requires the use of a rolling walker. When two thugs thought he was an easy target, they tried to hold him up at an ATM machine. First Klasson warned them; “This isn’t going…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
GENEROSITY A convenience store clerk in Arkansas would not open the cash register for a robber, but gave the would-be robber money from his own wallet. Police say they were called to the convenience store where the clerk explained that a man he did not know entered the store displaying a weapon. The…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
When caught in a less than honorable situation many of us blame it on the devil. “The Devil made me do it,” is more than words. It is an attempt to absolve ourselves of responsibility. “Ex-convict John Stephens told a Floyd County (Ind.) judge that he had a full-time job and intended to turn his life…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 2 views
A bank robber shoved a note across to the teller: “Put the money in this bag, and don’t make a move.” The teller took her time to write and push back her own note: “Straighten your tie, stupid. They’re taking your picture.”
John Leffler • Illustration • • 15 views
How To Get Real Action HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU'RE OLD AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE. George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi , was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back door to…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 114 views
My conscience is clean....on this issue. Taxpayers who think they've cheated the US government have a place they can send their money anonymously. It's known as "The Conscience Fund" and the government uses it for miscellaneous expenses. Well I called bull on this story. No way! The government takes…