posted on January 6, 2003 03:23:27 PM new
Candy Leads Cops to 'Dum-Dum' Robbery Suspect
Jan 6, 10:18 am ET
LITTLE ROCK (Reuters) - An Arkansas man was arrested after police followed a trail of evidence from a bungled bank heist -- discarded wrappers from candy he allegedly stole and ate as he made his getaway, police said on Saturday.
"It's a classic," said Patrolman Jerry Lung of the Marked Tree police department, who arrested Michael Brown, 33. Marked Tree is a small community about 135 miles northeast of Little Rock.
Brown allegedly smashed the glass door of a bank in the community, and then looked directly at the bank's security cameras, Lung said. He also triggered an alarm.
When Brown found that all the money had been stashed away because the bank was closed, he allegedly stole a clock radio and fistfuls of candy, police said.
As he left the facility, he ate the candy and left a trail of wrappers that led to his home in a nearby trailer park.
Brown was arraigned on Friday on robbery and other charges and remains in jail pending trial. Bail was set at $25,000.
"It was almost like he wanted to be caught," Lung said Saturday.
The candy allegedly stolen from the bank was "Dum-Dums," the police officer said.
posted on January 6, 2003 04:10:26 PM new
Funny story -
Hey Bear - You must have missed my post about the 'Welcome To Arkansas' signs that are posted on our boarders. When Clinton was in office the state hung smaller signs below the 'welcome' signs that said..."Home Of Bill Clinton". But when we moved here, they were hard to read. Full of spray paint and bullet holes. lol
I did miss it. But I remember a story from a town in Arkansas, that when Clinton moved to Washington, erected a sign stating, "Thank God He's gone" under a billboard promoting Clinton for president.
Also received the following in a email today:
Reinventing Hillary
"The Hillary who, in 1992, derisively boasted that she'd never stay home to bake cookies is trying to repackage herself as the moral conscience of the Democrat Party. Advisers tell her she can afford to stand in the wings, waiting to be drafted for president rather than groveling to win the nomination. It's a strategy that appears to be working.
"...But like Mario Cuomo, another New York politician who was courted for president by the Democrat Party only to leave them standing at the altar, Hillary will bask in the attention only to turn her back on the faithful. Why? Because like Al Gore she knows she can't win."
posted on January 7, 2003 08:42:21 AM new
I'll bet the GOP election organization will secretly conribute to Hillary, Daschle, and Lieberman's campaign funds!!!!!
