From: Walt Gilbert
On 8/18/2011 1:48 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Ann Sanfedele<[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Thief-Jacks-Car-With-Kids-Poodle-Drops-Them-All-Off-at-Home-127999188.html
There seems to be a rash of totally inept criminals lately. They pop
up on the morning news here at least once a week. Where the heck are
today's Lex Luthors?
It may sound like an urban legend, but I happen to know this one to be
true, as I personally know one of the guys who did it. In fact, I
talked to him less than a month ago.
Anyway, the local sheriff's department had made a pot bust and seized a
bunch of plants that'd been growing on a local farm. There was a big
story on the local news about it, as usual, so everyone in town was
talking about it. Since it's a rural area, everyone pretty much knows
everyone else -- and that includes the people on the sheriff's department.
Well, this guy I know and a couple of his buddies got this bright idea:
Since they knew some of the deputies, they also knew where the sheriff's
department kept the evidence they seized in such situations. So, they
figured they'd wait until things died down a little, and then they'd
break into the evidence room and steal the plants that were seized.
Well, they did. And, apparently, the plants were fairly large, because
they had to drag them from the evidence room to the motel room they'd
rented for the operation, which was maybe a couple-hundred yards from
the evidence room they'd broken into. We know this because, upon
discovering the break-in, the sheriff's deputies followed the trail of
fallen marijuana leaves all the way to the hotel room and busted them
the next morning.
True story.
A while back here in NC there was a story concerning ineptitude in a
local sheriff's department, although there were suggestions the case
might have involved corruption as well.
Seems the local gendarmes had made a rather significant pot bust ...
2-1/2 TONS ... but were slightly overwhelmed by the quantity involved.
They decided to keep a portion for evidence and "destroy" the rest by
burying it in a local landfill. The evidence was stored in an unsecured
military surplus cargo truck parked behind the sheriff's office.
Nine months later it was discovered the pot was "missing" from the back
of the truck. During the subsequent investigation regarding the missing
evidence, it was also discovered that the buried pot was missing from
the landfill.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/101062/
AFAIK, none of the missing evidence was ever recovered, although the
FBI's Charlotte, NC office did offer a $40,000 reward.
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