Crimes Gone Awry–Mystery Question

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Crimes Gone Awry is this week’s Mystery Question. A friend alerted me to one of these crimes and I just had to find two more. Would you believe it wasn’t that hard?

But first the photo and scripture verse. When I saw this photo on Unsplash, the verse just popped into my head. I look forward to the day when I see clearly!

Now for last week’s But I’m Innocent Mystery Question: Here are four arrests that should have never happened. Three are REALLY true, and I made up the fourth one. It’s up to you to figure out which one I made up.
  1. When a woman left her car idling in her drive, she also left her purse, and this proved to be too tempting for a thief. Unfortunately for the thief the police quickly responded to the theft and pulled her over two miles from the victim’s house. The thief was booked, posted bail, but once she was out, skipped town. Two months later, the victim was pulled over for speeding. Yep, you guessed it. The thief had been booked under the victim’s name, and she was arrested on an outstanding warrant for stealing her own car. She spent an afternoon protesting her innocence until someone finally checked the fingerprints on file for the thief.
  2. One poor woman in Georgia was pulled over for a broken taillight. When the officer ran her driver’s license, an outstanding warrant for shoplifting showed on the record he pulled up. He arrested her and took her to jail where she was fingerprinted. Unfortunately for the woman, the prints were never compared, and neither was her photo and she spent the night in jail.
  3. A Massachusetts man whose identity was stolen two years ago was held in custody because a Bronx cab driver with the name, birthday, and Social Security number jumped bail on a weapons possession charge. A judge finally decided to free him after noting the suspect who stole his identity was 6-1 and 245 pounds while the victim was 5-8 and weighed less than 200. Plus, his fingerprints didn’t match the suspect’s–and he had written proof his identity was stolen.
  4. When a man was arrested in Brevard County, Florida, he claimed his name was that of a childhood acquaintance. Both were born six days apart. However, the childhood friend was 6’2 and the arrested man was 5’7”…Fast forward a few months and police arrest the childhood acquaintance on a failure to appear warrant for shoplifting–even though he said he was innocent and asked for the police to compare their mug shots and fingerprints. It was only after he was booked into the Volusia County Jail that officers discovered the mugshot on file didn’t match the real person and neither did the fingerprints.
And the answer is…#1. Congrats to all who guessed correctly.
Now for Crimes Gone Awry–this week’s Mystery Question. As usual, three are true, one is made up. Can you guess the false one?
  1.  Two men forced their way into a woman’s house at gunpoint, put a hood over her head, and handcuffed her and her neighbor. They left the neighbor behind and sped off with the woman in a van. When deputies noticed the van swerving, they tried to pull it over. The men pulled off the interstate onto a dead-end road and tried to escape by swimming a canal. Unfortunately, both drowned.
  2. A man called a cab and once it arrived, he asked the driver to wait a few minutes since he’d forgotten something in the bank he’d just left. He returned with a bag, jumped into the cab, and gave the driver an address. About that time, the dye bomb exploded, covering him and the inside of the cab in red paint. The cabbie abandoned the cab and called police.
  3. While being pursued by squad cars and a bank robber pulled into a convenience store and ran inside and threw $20 on the counter for a pack of cigarettes. Then he ran out and drove off with the police on his tail. He was caught shortly after with the pack of cigarettes still unopened.
  4. Police were demonstrating their equipment to local children on a Detroit street, and a man became curious. He handed them his driver’s license for use in a demonstration of a field background check. When the police ran his information, they found he had a warrant out for his arrest for his involvement in a 1986 armed robbery in St. Louis.
Okay, Super Sleuths, which one did I make up?

Leave your answer in the comments, and I’ll enter you in a drawing for a book from my library!

July’s winner is…Priscilla Bettis!

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  5. Tim Johnson

    In life, our vision is clouded by many things, but though faith in the Lord, we have all the clarity we need. I love that verse, Pat.

    Those crime scenarios you found made me chuckle. I agree with Priscilla’s reasoning. I think you made up #1.

    Congrats Priscilla!

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      Patricia Bradley

      Tim, I love that verse, too, and the photo on Unsplash reminded me of it. And I found these scenarios very funny…so much so, it was really had to come up with one to compete with them. lol We’ll see next week if it’s #1. 🙂 Always good to see you!

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  10. Trixi

    I’m going to with #3 this week, something just seem off with it. Could be my logic that’s off, lol!
    Congats Priscilla on being July’s winner! Thanks for sharing the scripture Patricia 🙂

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  15. Edward Arrington

    I’m going with #3. If he was pursued by squad cars, it’s hard to fathom that he would risk getting caught by stopping for a pack of cigarettes. Even more difficult to fathom is how the police could let him give them the slip while he stopped for cigarettes. Did they stop before they got that far to take their own smoke break?

    That is an interesting photo. You picked a great verse for it. I hope the fact all the brake lights seem to be glowing brightly means the cars were stopped. I can’t imagine trying to take a picture while driving in a downpour like that.

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      Patricia Bradley

      It’s not a photo I took, Edward, so I’m not sure, but like you, I hope so! I love your logic…except we are dealing with crooks…we’ll see next week if it’s #3. Thanks for stopping in!

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