Here are a few women who suck at committing crime!
9 - Christina Burden Christina Burden, an Oakland, California,
woman, scammed PPP money meant for struggling businesses during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
According to official documents, Burden submitted several applications to the Paycheck Protection
Program for a whopping $4.5 million.
The PPP program required applicants to use the funds for valid business purposes like
payroll and utility expenses.
If they did, the money wouldn't have to be paid back.
From these applications, Burden got almost $700,000 for a shell company called Blessing
Box Co. and an additional $300,000 for three separate companies.
She spent the money on new cars, boat rentals, private jet flights, and luxury items from
ultra-expensive fashion brands like Louis Vuitton.
Apparently, nobody told her the money wasn't meant to pay employees.
Then, as if she wasn't greedy enough, she applied for more government loans through
the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program and scored an additional $150,000.
The kicker?
All of her company's had been created moments before she applied for the loans.
To be eligible for a PPP loan, your business had to be in operation before February 2020.
She falsely claimed to have 89 employees and monthly payroll expenses of $700,000.
For her idiotic scheme, Burden faces 30 years in prison.
8 - Ailing Lu and Ji Hyun Lee Scamming their way through phone calls, two
women from California named Ailing Lu and Ji Hyun Lee were arrested after convincing
people they worked at the IRS.
The pair made calls to unsuspecting individuals and identified themselves as employees from
the IRS.
They would then threaten the person with arrest if they didn't pay a large sum of money.
What's funny is the way they would ask for the money– Target gift cards.
After the police received a complaint from one of the victims –who paid $2200 in Target
gift cards—they finally caught up with the IRS scammers.
It turns out they ran a ring of operations across the country.
They hit Target stores from California to Indiana.
Surveillance footage confirmed it was them using the gift cards in both locations.
The police raided two different properties and found almost $900,000 worth of electronics
and items bought using the gift cards.
Authorities suspect more people were involved in the operation.
A Georgia couple used the same method to scam six people out of $16,000.
Both Lu and Lee were arrested for theft by false pretenses but were later released on
bail.
The real question is, who's dumber?
These two for thinking the scam would last, or the people who believed the IRS wanted
to collect their taxes in the form of Target gift cards?
7 - Jennifer Lopez-Ramirez
Jennifer Lopez-Ramirez, a 22-year-old Denver local, robbed six banks in just over a month.
However, it's how she was finally got caught that lands her on the "worst scammers" list.
She first walked into First Citizens Bank in Englewood, Colorado, and handed the teller
a note asking for the money.
The bank teller complied, and she got away with the cash.
An hour-and-a-half later, Lopez-Ramirez stepped into UMB Bank in Centennial and handed the
teller another threatening note.
This time, she flashed the firearm she was carrying for added emphasis.
As if this wasn't enough, Lopez-Ramirez robbed the third bank using the same note.
Did she have the world's most convincing handwriting or something?
Two days later, on May 11th, she walked into Bellco Credit Union in Denver and ordered
the teller to hand over the money.
This time, the heist didn't go as smoothly.
She got mad and went behind the counter to grab the cash herself.
However, she accidentally grabbed a GPS tracker kept in the drawer.
Police started following her, resulting in a high-speed chase that ended with her crashing
into another car, seriously injuring the driver.
Lopez-Ramirez was finally arrested but released 9 days later on the condition that she wore
an ankle monitor.
A month later, she took the ankle bracelet off and went on the run.
However, being a fugitive didn't stop her from robbing two more banks, hitting one in
Aurora, Colorado, and another in Denver.
After a well-performed series of bank heists, she was ultimately arrested while clumsily
shoplifting.
Lopez-Ramirez was sentenced to 19 years in prison.
6 - Walmart Faceplant An Ontario woman fell flat on her face while
fleeing Walmart with $645 worth of goods, and security cameras captured the entire thing.
She sprinted through the parking lot, pushing her cart full of stolen goods with Walmart
security hot on her tail.
Seconds later, she face-planted on the pavement, and her cart spilled groceries all over the
parking lot.
Once the security camera footage got out, the internet quickly dubbed her "the world's
worst shoplifter."
Although she managed to escape, employees at the same Walmart claim this isn't the first
time she's been caught stealing.
Only a few days before, the same woman made off with $2400 worth of products, and they
don't think she's working alone.
Two men and three women are believed to be involved in her shoplifting gang.
The woman in the video is still at large.
5 - Kristen DaCosta Burglars can be plain stupid sometimes.
Take it from Kristen DaCosta, a woman from Massachusetts who just couldn't help herself
from breaking into people's homes.
DaCosta, who was on probation for breaking and entering and ordered to wear an ankle
monitor, thought she'd try her luck at breaking into another house.
Her ankle bracelet tracks and tells police her every movement, but DaCosta, apparently,
didn't know that.
Why else would they make her wear it?
She entered a home in Somerset, Massachusetts, stole some jewelry, and left without a trace...
well... without a physical trace at least.
Apparently, DaCosta was going on a breaking-and-entering spree all over southern Massachusetts and
Rhode Island.
Police charged her with 17 robberies in several towns, including Dartmouth, Tiverton, and
New Bedford– all while still wearing the ankle monitor!
Without the ankle monitor, DaCosta was a pretty good thief.
It took one homeowner two months to realize their jewelry was missing.
She must have held her burglary skills in high regard and never thought she'd get caught.
Little did she know she was leaving a trail of GPS breadcrumbs wherever she went.
Burglary runs in the DaCosta family.
Her mother, Dianne, was caught breaking into a home in New Bedford.
Dianne, who was 57 at the time, was caught by the homeowner's son, who chased her down
after the police were called.
DaCosta's mother was not as lucky as her daughter, as she was caught in the act and presented
with several charges, including intent to commit a felony and disorderly conduct.
She also bit the son on the arm as they struggled in a nearby parking lot.
4 - Amber McCrory Amber McCrory might be as evil as they come.
This Alabama woman took advantage of people suffering after natural disasters by offering
fake home repairs.
She went to people's houses and introduced her home repair business, Above Board Roofing
and Restoration.
Then, she'd give them an estimate for the work before asking for a large deposit.
Once people paid the requested amount, she would completely disappear.
McCrory went on a scamming spree when tornadoes touched down in Lee County, Alabama, in March
of 2019, leaving hundreds of people in need of home repair.
In one instance, she asked a client for a $3700 deposit and then disappeared with the
money.
She played the same scam on another Lee County resident for $3500.
McCrory, however, didn't have a clean record up to this point.
She'd been arrested in 2018 for running a similar scam but obviously didn't learn her
lesson.
Her home repair scam stretched outside Alabama, reaching communities in North Carolina as
well.
McCrory was caught after police asked for the community's help in catching her.
After a while, authorities received a tip from the public that eventually led to her
arrest in Cullman, Alabama.
She faces charges for defrauding several tornado victims.
Did she really think these people wouldn't say something when the roofers never showed
up?
3 - Jenna Interman Jenna Interman pushed her luck a little too
far when she decided to rob a Calgary bank in 2016.
Her boyfriend, Clayton, probably wishes the two had never met, as he was arrested after
breaking a female police officer's ankle during the arrest.
Interman walked into the Calgary bank wearing all black.
Nerves must have gotten the best of her, as she let a customer go ahead while she fumbled
through her purse.
Perhaps she misplaced the threatening note she’d eventually give to the bank teller
when it was her turn at the window?
After handing over the note, Interman flashed what looked like a handgun and demanded the
teller open the register.
For such a big risk, Interman left with only $100 in hand.
Did she get scared?
Was she not paying attention?
Did the bank teller pull a fast one on her?
We’ll never know.
What we can say for sure is Internman’s name and face were plastered all over social
media.
The $100 bank robbery was only the tip of Interman’s criminal iceberg, as she was
wanted on seperate breaking and entering charges too.
Police finally found her during a routine traffic stop, and arrested her on the spot.
However, Jenna’s boyfriend didn’t go down without a fight, and, as mentioned, broke
an officer’s ankle during the arrest.
In the end, Interman was charged with a laundry list of crimes including identity theft, resisting
arrest, possession of illegal substances, and possession of a weapon.
2 - Iconic Facce Iconic Facce is a transgender woman who walked
into a Mississippi bank and threatened the bank teller for money.
The teller handed over $4800 dollars, and Facce hopped on the first flight she could
to Mexico.
Facce then had plastic surgery, including cheek fillers, lip implants, and a nose job.
After altering her face, she flew back to the United States.
Upon her arrival at Houston Airport, she was arrested by officers who clearly recognized
her by the bandages and swollen cheeks—qualities in line with someone who just robbed a bank
and flew to Mexico for plastic surgery.
Officers extradited her to Mississippi to face charges for the robbery.
Iconic Facce didn't take into account her iconic looks that ultimately helped authorities
recognize her.
Seems like Facce hadn't thought about the security footage at the bank either, which
captured her as she entered and performed the robbery.
But this wasn't the first time she'd robbed a bank in recent years.
From 2007 to 2008, Facce robbed banks in Alabama using the same note-handing method.
Formerly Jimmy Smith, Facce used $10,000 in stolen money to pay for gender reassignment
surgery in Mexico before robbing the bank in Mississippi.
After two years in court, Facce admitted to her crimes and was sentenced to 15 years in
prison.
1 - Kenyeitta Gordon A 2021 robbery in Florida took everyone by
surprise when people discovered the thief was a woman in a wheelchair.
Kenyeitta La-Key Gordon rolled into a Regions Bank in Jacksonville and went about her business
as usual.
After a misunderstanding with the teller, she started yelling and demanding money, threatening
to hurt everyone in the bank if they didn't comply.
She got the money and left the bank as fast as her electric wheelchair could take her.
The bank had already identified her because she had presented her ID to access her bank
account.
Somehow, she managed to get away with the money, but not for long.
Police found her about a mile away from the bank and arrested her.
She was still in her wheelchair.
Authorities did confirm that Gordon had been arrested 12 times in the past.
She was charged with strong-arm robbery and possession of paraphernalia.
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