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Thieves Recorded Swiping Camera
— -- People in Glass Museums …
T A C O M A, Wash. — It was not a picture-perfect crime.
When three young thieves decided to steal a video camera from the Museum of Glass and International Center for Contemporary Art, perhaps they should have considered wearing a disguise, or at least not looking directly into the lens.
Instead, they decided just to go ahead with it.
"They unscrewed it off the mounting and stole it," said James Mattheis, the Tacoma Police Department's public information officer.
"And of course as they're doing that, it's got a full-on image of the guy doing it."
The video shows a man wearing a baseball cap with the word "SECURITY" written on the front, staring into the camera.
Police released images from the security tape of the three suspects, two men ages 21 and 20, and a 17-year-old female. Their names were not released, pending the filing of criminal charges.
"We had good pictures of them and we knew someone was going to recognize them," said Mattheis.
The publicity apparently brought the master criminals to their senses. Police said the three young thieves walked into the Tacoma Police Station and confessed to the crime on Jan. 31.
They also returned the camera and 12 glass apples they had also swiped from the museum, police said.
Way Off Course
D E L A N D, Fla. — It's harder than you might think to stop a man fleeing in a speeding golf cart.
Officers said they spotted David Johnson driving in traffic down New York Avenue in an orange, three-wheeled Harley-Davidson golf cart around 10 p.m. on Jan. 29.
When they pulled him over, Johnson's breath smelled of liquor, officers said, and they noticed a beer can in the cart.
But Johnson apparently wasn't going to give up that easy.
When the officers asked him to take a sobriety test, the 43-year-old allegedly cursed them, hopped back in his cart and drove off.
Police tried to shock Johnson with a Taser electrical shock gun, but the suspect's leather jacket apparently blocked the weapon.
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