Police in Riverhead, New York, who were investigating a bank robbery had an easy time finding their suspect. That was because her own address was on the back of her holdup note. “I don’t think anyone realized what was on the other side,” Riverhead police Detective Sgt. Joseph Loggia said the morning of June 30.

Thirty-year-old Charmaine Williams Stein appeared in the Suffolk County Court on June 29 on one count of grand larceny, standing accused of holding up Chase Bank on Main Street on June 10 and getting away with $22,000.

Detectives determined that the bank teller, 20-year-old John Mueller, was the woman’s accomplice, according to Loggia. Mueller gave her the money and didn’t trip the alarm until she was out of the building, police said. Mueller, of Coram, was charged with grand larceny earlier this month.

The note was written on the back of a bulk mail ad that had Stein’s address on it, according to the detective. Stein, who was believed to have not been in town for several weeks, was arrested at her home on the night of June 28.

Our dumb robber was being held on $20,000 bail. I wonder if she’ll post the bond with some of the money she stole from the bank.

A not-so-dynamic duo of marijuana smokers picked a bad day to use the drive-thru window at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Buffalo, New York. The two men, said to be in their 20s, pulled up to it and ordered the Wednesday special.

As luck would have it, two narcotics detectives were inside the restaurant ordering their food, when a cloud of pot smoke swirled into the restaurant. The detectives spotted the two men smoking what one of the officers said was “the biggest marijuana cigar your ever saw.”

The detectives then went outside and arrested 23-year-old Charles Morris and 26-year-old Gregory Quick, both of Buffalo.

One of the cops said he got the clerk to give back the pot smokers’ money for the Wednesday special.

These guys probably won’t be getting any Wednesday specials for quite a while if they’re found guilty.

A St. Cloud, Minnesota, man was busted when he was found unconscious on his riding lawnmower. Police said his blood alcohol level was almost three times the legal limit.

Neighbors witnessed the 24-year-old man plowed through yards, scaled curbs, and even did some donuts in a front yard around 11:00 PM on June 27.

“Lawnmowers are supposed to be for cutting grass, but not everybody in the neighborhood’s grass,” said resident Darwin Benjamin, who saw the man on the mower.

Police reported getting calls saying that the man was cutting grass at one point, but was mostly riding around the neighborhood erratically.

Police said that the unidentified man had a blood alcohol of 0.23%, which is almost three times the legal limit of 0.08%, for operating any motor vehicle, and that includes lawnmowers.

“The fact he was on a lawnmower, I think people find that humorous, but in all reality it is serious that he was operating this thing that late at night. And you hear all the time about people injured on lawnmowers. The fact that he was operating this thing at a 0.23 BAC, yeah, we’re going to take it seriously,” said St. Cloud Police Sergeant Jerry Edblad.

Police say that the man had two prior DWI convictions, as well as a revoked license. Police took the mower in as evidence, but they might give it back since it belongs to the man’s father.

The man is in jail and he could be charged with a gross misdemeanor.

Oak Ridge Tennessee police arrested a woman for attemped arm robbery.  Seems she drove up to Burger King, passed a note saying that she had a gun and wanted cash, through the drive-in window.  The clerk took too long to get back to her so she drove across the street to Micky Dees and made the same request.  The manager called the cops while she waited.  End of story.

As a parole officer working in Atlanta, I arrest a number of parole violators each week.  Some for technical violations, others for new crimes.  Vary rarely do we charge anyone with a new crime, while in our office.  Those generally happen “in the field”.  Today was different.
One of our known meth users showed up to the office, after just being released from jail, and had been kicked out of a treatment program.  After we arrested him for the parole violation, I began a search of his person and belongings.  I found a contact lens case in his change pocket.  Upon opening the case I found approximately 1/4 of a gram of meth.  His reply was “Oh there it is.  I thought I lost that.”  Of course he was charged with a new felony for Possession of Meth.

How nice we were to find it for him.

A 42-year-old Lake Crystal, Minnesota, man led cops on a chase. Now, if you’re a dumb crook, what would you use as a getaway vehicle? Why, a 5-horsepower mini-motorcycle.

A call was received that the man, identified as Douglas Lee Menne had crashed at a downtown intersection. Sheriff’s Deputy Jeff Wersal responded, suspecting that the man was drunk.

However, by the time the deputy arrived at the scene, Menne had recovered and driven off. After tracking him down, Wersal tried to get Menne to pull over. The bike was missing a taillight and a license plate.

Wersal chased Menne to a parking lot where he paused momentarily, started up the bike again and sped out the other side of the parking lot. The chase went on as Menne led the deputy down a nearby street at about 25 miles per hour.

Wersal pulled alongside Menne and yelled at him to stop. The chase slowed down to about 10 miles per hour when Wersal pulled in front of the bike.

Wersal shot his Taser out the window of his cruiser. One of the darts hit Menne, but it fell out. But the effort impeded him enough for Wersal to get out of his car and push Menne off the motorcycle.

It required the help of another deputy to arrest Menne, according to the report.

Menne was jailed and released on $12,000 bail. Charges are forthcoming.

A burglar who forced his way into a little grocery store in the Thai province of Uthai Thani, 125 miles north of Bangkok, was busted after he hid under the store owner’s bed, drank some beer, and started snoring, according to police.

The burglar broke into the store in the middle of the night, swiped a few beers and quickly ran for cover when he heard the shop owner approaching, police Captain Prasert Hiewchawna said June 21.

The unidentified robber made a bad situation slightly worse when he decided to hide under a bed in the store–the same bed that was occupied by the owner at the time, Hiewchawna said.

While waiting to split, the robber drank a few of the pilfered beers, keeled over, and started snoring so loudly that he woke up the shop owner, who called the cops.