Crack criminal
A Utah man trying to steal an iPod and a debit card out of a car was captured by a woman who gave him a wedgie.
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Yvonne Morris was working in her office when she heard a car alarm going off and saw a man riffling through her co-worker’s car.
Morris immediately headed out to the parking lot and told the man, 21-year-old Frederic Baze, that the police were on the way. Baze took off, but he slipped on some loose gravel.
Morris grabbed the back of his pants, which ended up being a handful of undergarments.
So Baze, according to police, was snagged by a snuggie.
Smooth operator
A California man backed his truck into a sheriff’s patrol car then fled, naked, after the truck careened into a nearby ditch.
John Michael Ferraris, 24, faces an assault charge after an officer saw Ferraris’ 2003 four-door Nissan pickup parked against a locked gate. The officer shined a spotlight on the truck, and Ferraris jumped naked from the rear seat area, got in the driver’s seat and backed into the patrol car at high speed. He kept driving in reverse with the truck “in full throttle” until it ended up in an empty ditch.
Ferraris streaked away on foot, leaving a 17-year-old girl in the back seat. He turned himself in two days later.
Next time, steal a belt
A Pensacola, Fla., burglary suspect was literally caught with his pants down.
Police arrived to an alarm at a convenience store to find Robert Pittman, 37, exiting a convenience store through a smashed-out front door carrying armloads of cigarette packages. Pittman tried to flee, but the handfuls of cigarettes prevented him from holding up his pants, which fell down and tripped him before he could make it out of the parking lot.
Dear Miss Manners …
A Massachusetts man is facing assault charges for allegedly beating another man with a golf club at a gas station.
The fight was over manners.
Police say the victim held a gas station door open for Carlos Navarro, 38, who failed to thank the other man.
The two men got into an argument. Navarro went to his car, grabbed a golf club, which he allegedly used to strike the victim in the stomach and legs.
Her allowance dropped with the roof
A Hawaii woman crashed into a two-story house at the end of the cul-de-sac and continued to drive through the living room and kitchen, stopping on the backyard patio. Police said a family of four was sleeping upstairs at the time, and no one was injured.
The 19-year-old woman apologized to the homeowner and pleaded, “Don’t tell my mother.” The driver was arrested on suspicion of underage drunken driving, police said.
Slightly Stoopid, indeed
A University of Arizona student was arrested on multiple DUI charges after police found her passed out at a red light and a near-empty bottle of Sailor Jerry Navy Rum. When asked if she knew where she was, the woman said she was coming back from the “Slightly Stoopid concert.”
