Birdsong's Law Blog

Here we go again with more weird criminal law stories.  Where do they get these folks?

Murray, UT: Be careful what you use for scrap paper!  A bandit in Utah passed a demand note to a bank teller, got some money and left.  When police looked at the back of the note, they were happy to find he had used a receipt from a drug screening that included his name and birthday.  He was quickly arrested.

SPAIN: It’s called butt profiling!  Spanish customs officers stopped a man coming through Barcelona’s airport because he had an unusually large behind — and found 14 pounds of cocaine strapped to his rear.  When investigators got to the bottom of it, they found a pair of neoprene pants with pockets holding 160 packages of  blow.

Los Angeles, CA: August 4, 2009.  A man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for selling hallucinogenic mushrooms to a teen who was killed when she wandered naked into traffic.  Steve Roman, 31, was sentenced after pleading guilty in April to felony drug charges.  He sold psilocybin mushrooms to Victoria Nugent, 17, who walked naked onto US 101 and was hit by a car.

So sad……

Oakland, CA: If you’re going to pretend to be cop you better know the real ones.  Antonio Martinez, driving a car outfitted with flashing lights and speakers, tried to pull over a car driven by a person who looked like an easy mark in Oakland, apparently to rob him.  However, the driver of that car was an undercover police officer, who promptly arrested him.

Martinez es “El Stupido.”

Myrtle Beach, SC: An employee of a Myrtle Beach Japanese hibachi restaurant used a cleaver to fend off a robber dressed in a gorilla suit,