Criminal(s) of the Week

Police nab three for copper thefts
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highlights

Jon Krisner Manson, 32, and Christopher Lee Jackson, 39, who both live in room 255 of America's Best Value Lodge, and Patryce Eboni Ryland, 27, who lives in room 257,

Jackson told the officer that he lived in room 257 with his girlfriend and her two children, Pickles and Toy Toy, according to the report. Jackson couldn't give the woman's last name, telling the officer that he had not known her for long,

DB Cooper Where Are You

Expert: Parachute not D.B. Cooper's
AMBOY, Wash., April 1 (UPI) -- An old parachute found in rural Washington last week wasn't used by skyjacker D.B. Cooper back in 1971, an expert said Monday night.

Earl Cossey told The (Portland) Oregonian Monday night an FBI agent took the parachute to his home last Friday and asked him if he believed it could be the one Cooper used when he leaped from a Northwest Airlines flight the night of Nov. 24, 1971, with $200,000 in ransom money.

"Not even close, not even close," said Cossey, who packed the four parachutes given to Cooper.

An agent in the FBI's Seattle office told The Oregonian the law enforcement agency wanted to take one more step Tuesday before commenting.

The mystery of what happened to Cooper after he leaped from the jetliner that night remains unsolved.

/look for it to appear on EBay shortly

Update: Heals may be on to something here. Could this be DB Cooper?

Vigilante Justice

This is just all kinds of political incorrectness, but Rufus Terrill's 'BumBot' is the kind of crime deterrent that would make Mack Machowicz (FutureWeapons) green with envy.

Read the story about this Atlanta bar owner and his RoboCop here

"Quit" is not in his vocabulary

101 Arrests puts Alger Scott slightly ahead of Cedric McCants
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be sure to check out the slideshow for more mugshot goodness.

More Astounding Criminals

Jury Finds Man Guilty Of Shooting Two Orange County Deputies

...prosecutors said Ernest Simmons made a choice to shoot two deputies even though he said he accidentally shot at them 11 times with 2 different guns.

damn thing keeps going off, both of them!

no words can adequately express...

Police: 'One-Man Crime Spree' Arrested For 99th Time

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a brief summary of Cedric McCants' 'career':
99 arrests
78 convictions
15 jail sentences

i'll skip the puns on his name and just congratulate the man for a very impressive career.