“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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I know it’s June but you will see later why the title says April. The fools bit is appropriate all year round for these guys as will also become clear.
Now for the story.
A cunning master criminal and his accomplice were caught after a burglary attempt at a place of business in Maplewood, Minnesota, thanks to an alert police dispatcher and a real dumb-ass criminal.
As a result Todd J. Weiss 32, from Minnetonka and his sidekick Justin G. Evans, 38, from Savage, were arrested at the scene. Both face third-degree felony burglary charges.
The incident took place around 4:45 a.m. April 1 (Fools Day appropriately enough, hence the title).
Maplewood Police Chief Paul Schnell said a 911 dispatcher first got a call and hang-up, then another call from the same number.
The second time, the call stayed open. The dispatcher overheard pieces of a conversation about where police were and the dangers of getting caught.
“If it goes off, they are right across the street,” one of the men said, according to the charges.
Police Chief Schnell said it was “pretty clear based on some of that conversation that this was a burglary”.
The phone had been in Weiss’s pocket and whatever he was doing at the time, he had inadvertently pressed the phone’s emergency-call feature, twice!!
As with all 911 calls, the dispatcher could see the location of the caller, in this case a car-repair shop at White Bear Avenue and County Road D.
Officers arrived to see the two men leaving the building wearing dark clothing, the charges said. One was carrying a television, the other a box.
Upon seeing the officers, the men dropped their booty and ran for it. Officers ordered them to stop, then sent police dogs to nab them.
Weiss refused to speak to police after he was read his Miranda rights. Evans said he had taken more than a dozen Xanax and the police report confirmed that he “appeared to be under the influence of the substance”.
He denied being inside the business, saying he was outside behind nearby apartments having relations with his girlfriend.
Both men’s criminal histories include burglary and theft, according to Minnesota court records.
Police Chief Schnell rightly praised the 911 operator, but it has to be said that morons like these who phone 911 while burglarizing a property make it a bit too easy for the cops to catch them.
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