Weird Criminal Law Stories 115
Waco, TX: Call her a real boob! A Texas trickster, Trista Joy Lathern, 24, faked having cancer and spent $10,000 raised at a benefit in her honor to get breast implants to salvage her seven-month marriage. Lathern, of Waco, was arrested and charged with theft by deception. Police said she shaved her head to look like she was going through chemotherapy, then had friends organize a benefit.
Shameful…
Pennsylvania: Police caught a couple of soaking-wet thieves who were trying to lift some pipe from an abandoned house — not realizing that the water was still on. The pair tried to explain that they had nothing to do with the gushing pipe sticking out of the wall, but police didn’t believe them.
Yes, yes, we know… Their story was all wet. Yuk, yuk, yuk.
Tampa, FL : More water! A Florida woman and her 6-year old son survived after she slammed the family pickup truck into a 1,500 gallon saltwater fish
