The improbably named "Kasey G. Kazee," better known to history as the "Duct Tape Bandit," pleaded guilty on April 29 to robbing a Kentucky liquor store. The robbery failed despite the fact that Kazee had carefully prepared for the robbery…
New York prosecutors dropped charges today against two men who had been charged with a number of offenses resulting from an attempt to cash a Social Security check in January. The problem, as you may recall, was the body they…
“You’ve got an arrow sticking out of your head, bro.”
A man’s woodshed is his castle’s outbuilding. Or something like that.
A 31-year-old Estonian thief who escaped from a Finnish prison on February 29 was "recaptured" a week later, but only after going to some trouble to arrange it. It’s not entirely clear whether Martin Vaiksaar had decided he wanted to…
Act One.A small town in Oregon. Two men in "cowboy garb," Adam and Vincent, are eating doughnuts. Enter two sheriff’s deputies. DEPUTY ONE: A burglary has been reported.DEPUTY TWO: Yes, we must hurry to the scene of it.VINCENT: …
Serena Kozakura was convicted last year of property destruction, after a man accused her of kicking a hole in the door of his room so she could get inside. Since Kozakura is a well-known pin-up and bikini model in Japan,…
Most of us have "called in sick" at one point or another, when we probably could have dragged ourselves into the office but had other priorities. But who among us has been as creative, determined, and stupid as Daniel Kuch,…
In a classic opinion of which I have just learned, the California Court of Appeal ruled in 1998 that police were in fact justified in detaining a man they saw on a bicycle at 3:00 in the morning, primarily because…
On January 22, defense attorneys representing Cesar Rodriguez conducted a remarkable cross-examination of a detective who had been called to testify against their client. Rodriguez is on trial for the murder of his 7-year-old stepdaughter, Nixzmary Brown. But, defense attorneys…