In no particular order, here are the dumbest criminals out there!
10 - Not Facebook This Time We’ve covered criminals who’ve posted
pictures to facebook showing off things they stole.
And just when we didn’t think people can get dumber, there’s this girl.
19-year old Hannah Sabata from Stromsburg, Nebraska managed to pull off a bank robbery
where she stole several thousand dollars.
On top of that, she also stole a car earlier that day!
After handing just a note to a female bank teller, Sabata made off with more than $6,000
in cash.
While the police had some pretty good leads on the case thanks to video surveillance and
eyewitness descriptions of the suspect, Sabata basically did their job for them when she
posted a video on YouTube bragging about her crimes.
Fanning herself with the stolen cash, she admitted to the robbery and detailed how she
did it!
The best part is, she was actually wearing the exact same clothes she wore during the
robbery!
Okay, maybe the best was what she actually put in the video’s description.
She wrote quote “I just stole a car and robbed a bank.
Now I’m rich, I can pay off my college financial aid and tomorrow i’m going for a shopping
spree.
Bite me.
I love GREENDAY!“
Seriously……...can anyone get any dumber?!
Keep watching to find out and take part in the poll!
9 - Pull Over Getting pulled over is never fun.
But when you’re a cop who gets pulled over by a man pretending to be a cop...well that’s
probably a lotta fun!
An off duty Akron police officer was driving down the interstate when David Scofield swerved
in front of him and began shining a spotlight into his car!
Being a cop and smart enough not to be fooled by an imposter, this officer instead called
the cops to report what was happening.
That’s when real cops actually showed up and pulled over Scofield.
To make things worse, Scofield claimed to be a Sheriff’s Deputy.
Maybe this is a tactic that would have worked 50 years ago or so, nowadays with google around,
yeah, it’s a dumb move.
Since the officers had never seen him around the station they quickly figured out he was
lying.
Do we need to remind you guys that it’s against the law to impersonate a police officer?
From there, things got even weirder.
Police found a SWAT uniform, red and blue police lights and a police scanner in his
trunk.
When they raided his home they found three police cruisers, which, how and why he got
his hands on those is anyone’s guess.
They also found fake badges and fake documents that said Scofield was a police officer.
Maybe this guy was just nuts?
8 - Do You Take Reservations?
Again, we’re not experts in crime here, and in no way are we advocating robbing a
bank.
But if we were WERE planning a heist of some kind.
We advocate the element of surprise as part of our plan.
Not like these guys here.
Now we don’t know if Albert Bailey was just trying to save time, or if he just expected
bank tellers at a People’s Bank in Fairfield, Connecticut to happily go along with his heist.
But he and his partner felt comfortable enough to actually call ahead to tell the bank tellers
that they were on the way to rob the bank!
They wanted to make sure that the money was ready to go!
During this call they demanded that $100,000 in cash be ready or there would be consequences.
Obviously, it didn’t go as planned.
Can criminals get dumber than this?
As expected, the bank tellers simply called the cops.
Bailey and his partner showed up, and handed them a note demanding the cash.
However, patrol cars were already waiting.
Yeah, they were arrested and charged with first degree robbery.
The tellers also put one of those exploding dye packs along with the cash.
So yeah, even if they got away, that was another wrench in the plans!
7 - Karma Man
Sometimes in life there are coincidences.
And sometimes, there’s poetic justice in the form of karma so ironic, you’d think
there was some sort of divine intervention!
Back in June 2018, Shamon West went to a restaurant to get some food.
The thing is, Mr. West here is a petty crook who has a habit of stealing from other people.
After he finished his meal, he tried to pay for the meal with a card that he had stolen.
However, it turns out, that card actually belonged to the waitress serving him!
Why would he hand over a card with a woman’s name on it?!
Two day prior, the waitress serving West had her car broken into and her purse stolen at
a gas station that was only two blocks away.
West tried to pay by handing her a stolen card.
How did she know it was stolen?
Well, when she went to ring him up, she realized that it was HER card, because it had ner name
on it!
Naturally, she secretly called the cops.
West was arrested at the restaurant by the police.
In addition to the card West tried to pay with, officers searched West and found the
waitress’s driver's license, other credit cards, and her social security card.
Because he had her license he his pocket, he should have known what she looked like!
But amazingly enough, West still handed her her own card to pay!
6 - Old Faithful
It’s not really clear what Gabriel Villava thought would happen when he decided to take
a whiz into old faithful.
Maybe he didn’t know that he’d be caught on camera defiling one of our most iconic
natural treasures.
Maybe he never imagined his actions would lead to a wild Hollywood style police chase.
And chances are, he never guessed the authorities would also find footage of him peeing into
Beryl Spring, another geyser at Yellowstone National Park!
But, these things happened.
In September of 2018, Villava was seen standing way too close to the boiling hot spring at
Yellowstone National Park.
Despite pleas from Park Rangers and concerned bystanders, the dude just stood there, risking
life, limb and other body parts to pull off this weird crime of passion.
The bizarre saga came to an end days later when authorities in Cheyenne, Wyoming got
calls about an erratic drive.
Villava was driving his car in the wrong direction and was weaving through a park and golf course.
He was arrested after police were finally able to get him to stop his car.
Yep, of course alcohol was involved!
Villava was charged with a DUI, reckless endangerment, destruction of property, and eluding and fleeing
. Oh yeah, and aggravated assault.
Not too bad for an afternoon’s worth of work!
5 - Free AirBNB
Not that we encourage burglary.
In fact, you should never do that.
But here’s a helpful hint.
IF you do break into a house, bank, or whatever, do yourself a favor and get in and out.
Don’t do what Tyler Love did, which is still kind of hard for us to believe.
Love broke into the home of Mary Royster, an elderly woman living in rural Alabama But
rather than just loot the house of jewelry, electronic goods, or any other valuables,
he just basically…...stayed.
He broke in and washed his clothes, took a shower, shaved and even clipped his toenails.
Afterwards, he made some scrambled eggs and a sandwich.
Specifically a ham, egg and cheese with onions.
This guy sounds like he really thought it was his own house!
Then Mary came home.
We’re not sure how the exact dialogue went, but in a nutshell, she probably asked, “what
are you doing?”
This dude had the audacity to casually say that he was waiting on his clothes to dry.
THEN, as if this it weren’t weird enough, he claimed to be her grandson.
Maybe he WAS counting on her being senile...but she wasn’t.
She actually gave him the option to leave, but since he didn’t, she called the cops.
He was arrested and could be looking at a lengthy jail sentence.
There’s probably a deep psychological reason as to why someone would break into a house
to do things they could have just done at home or at a friend’s house.
But I’m scared to go there….
4 - Day Still Counts
Back in 2013 James Blankenship was arrested for breaking into his mom’s home against
her will.
Ordinarily, this misdemeanor would seem more like the kind of thing that would be solved
with some family counseling.
But this case provided us with some insight into the depth of some criminal’s stupidity.
James hadn’t been welcome in his mom’s house for approximately three months, nor
did he have any of his things at her place.
After his mom caught him breaking into her home, he fled the scene.
The cops were called and he was eventually found hiding in a crawl space.
His first line of legal defense was to argue that he could only be charged for a burglary
at night time.
Let that sink in a for a second.
The reason why he broke into his mom’s house was because it was during the day time!
He told officers he thought that he couldn’t be arrested for burglary because it was during
the day.
Yeah, it’s obvious this guy didn’t go to law school, but we’re sure plenty of
people who didn’t go either know that breaking and entering IS a crime, regardless of when
it occurs.
How do these guys exist?!
3 - Evil Twin
As far as legal defense go, posing as your own legally blind twin isn’t the worst idea.
It’s in no way a good idea as you’ll see in just a moment, but worse ideas have been
employed.
While it might be a good SNL sketch, impersonating someone who doesn’t exist in a court of
law can backfire on you.
Olawale Agoro was supposed to appear in a New Jersey court to pay off some traffic tickets.
Rather than just pay his fine for his relatively minor offenses, Agoro thought some good old
fashioned trickery was the way to go.
He posed as his twin brother Tony, a legally blind man acting on his behalf.
Obviously the problem is, his brother didn’t exist.
“Tony” asked for a new court date.
Maybe it was to buy some more time to pay off the tickets.
It didn’t work.
The cop who pulled him over was in the courtroom and was suspicious.
His hunch was proven correct when he decided to follow “Tony” . He watched a helpful
citizen give Tony a ride home.
But the officer saw Tony take over the driving when his car was a block away!
The officer pulled Agoro over and issued him three more traffic tickets as well as impounded
his car!
Agoro was forced to admit that he wasn’t blind so that he could get his car.
Even after that incident Agoro tried to appear as Tony again in court!
Eventually the authorities figured out there was no twin brother and charged Olawale with
hindering apprehension, providing false witness and resisting arrest.
We’re still wondering how he was planning to add his fake twin brother’s records to
the court!
2 - A Woman and Her Chair
Throwing a chair off of a high rise balcony may not seem like a crime.
Then again, it also doesn’t seem like it SHOULDN’T be a crime either.
But when a video of Marcella Zoia tossing a chair off of a balcony made it to snapchat,
she was, in fact, charged with a crime.
Seriously, how dumb is someone to record themselves doing something extremely dangerous?!
Also, why is it cool at all to throw a chair off the balcony?!
We think most people would agree hurling objects off a balcony to a street below ISN’T a
generational thing.
It’s just flat out stupid.
And dangerous.
And pointless.
Thankfully, she was arrested and charged with mischief endangering life, mischief damaging
property under $5,000, and common nuisance.
Which let me pause at the common nuisance thing.
Who knew being a common nuisance was a crime?
If that’s a crime, we know a lot of people who should be charged!
She was released on $2,000 bail and she apologized via her lawyer.
Interestingly enough, the condo in question was an AirBnB that she was briefly renting.
Yeah, she’s definitely not staying there again!
Whose been the dumbest criminal so far?
Is it the YouTube girl, or someone else?
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1 - No Ride
If any of us just got released out of a police station, the last thing we’d do would be
to commit a crime on the same day right in front of the station.
Right?!
Cesar Garcia had just gotten released after getting arrested earlier in the day.
He was originally arrested for drinking in public inside a grocery store in Chandler,
Arizona at 10:45 in the morning.
At this point, Garcia really wasn’t in all that much trouble.
He was issued a citation, and was released.
Apparently deciding that he hadn’t made enough mistakes for one day, he decided to
steal an ambulance that happened to be parked outside the Chandler police station!
One thing that’s obvious is that he didn’t want to walk home.
He jacked the ambulance and drove back to his house.
Hilariously enough, the police saw what happened, and followed him back to his house and arrested
him before he even got inside!
He then decided to get into a fight with the cops and ended up in the hospital.
Garcia was charged with theft of transportation, unlawful flight from law enforcement, resisting
arrest, criminal damage, and aggravated DUI.
Here’s what’s next!