Police in Grand Rapids, Michigan, caught a bank robbery suspect when he tried to hold up the same credit union twice in one month.

Here’s why we at dumbcrooks.com say “tried”: Employees of the West Michigan Credit Union on Front Avenue recognized him before he could actually enter the place.

A worker thought that the unidentified man was also responsible for a hold-up that occurred on January 9. Employees locked the door before he could get inside and called the cops.

Officers arrested the man as he tried to drive away. He’s from Newaygo.

He later confessed to the previous robbery and admitted that he planned to hold up the credit union a third time.

A business owner in Wichita, Kansas, calls this a case of dumb criminals and a dumb crime.

Art Lohnrengel owns A & L Roofing on East Kellogg. On January 26, a man and woman in a white pickup pulled up to his business and stole the outside surveillance camera.

Lohnrengel says that what the couple didn’t realize was that their crime was being recorded by that very camera. “I’d give them idiot of the week,” says Lohnrengel.

Lohnrengel says that the surveillance camera was the only thing taken. He has three theories as to what they did with it: 1) pawned it, 2) needed it for themselves, or 3) wanted it disabled for a future crime at his business. As of this writing, the business owner is working with his security company to a clear picture of the crooks and is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to their arrest.

Police in Aloha, Oregon, say that a man accused of mail theft had the not-so-hot idea of hiding from the cops in a hot tub.

Washington County sheriff’s deputies allege that when they came up to the man, identified as Mathew Keuscher, as he sat in his car, he ran off after they noticed other people’s mail inside his vehicle, KPTV-TV Channel 12, the Fox affiliate in Portland, reported January 26.

Police said that while Keuscher managed to lose the officers by hiding around houses January 25, a K-9 unit cornered him inside a local hot tub.

Local resident Jeff Elliot told the TV station that he heard the police dog breaking through fences in the neighborhood and someone closing the lid on his outdoor hot tub.

“I heard banging and then a loud thump as our hot tub lid was closed,” he said.

Police quickly tracked Keuscher to the hot tub and arrested him on charges ranging from mail theft to criminal trespassing.

Police in North Charleston, South Carolina, say that a man was arrested January 23 after he took a laptop into a store there to get the password protection removed. Which would’ve been fine had the thing not been stolen.

A manager at RentWay at 5617 Rivers Avenue recognized a picture on the Dell Inspiron laptop’s startup screen as his friend’s child, according to an incident report. The laptop had been stolen from an apartment at 5941 Willard Drive in Hanahan.

Officers found the man, identified as 19-year-old Anthony Jamal Macon of Burton Lane, who took the computer to the store riding a bike on South Boland Circle.

Macon was arrested on a charge of possession of stolen property over $1,000, according to police. Macon left the Charleston County Detention Center the next day after posting $5,000 bail, according to the jail and Charleston County Clerk of Court records.

A man in Winter Haven, Florida, found out the hard way that trying to escape from bail bondsman Rico Reed could cost you your pants.

Yep, that’s what happened to the man, identified as 44-year-old Eric Lee Andrews, in front of a crowd of people in the downtown section of the city on the evening of January 24. Turns out, Andrews doesn’t wear boxers or briefs. In fact, according to witnesses, he doesn’t wear anything under there.

Reed, a veteran bondsman, was bloodied in the mêlée that wrecked three cars around 5:20 PM that day.

Reed said that he planned to take Andrews to jail on felony warrants, although he wasn’t sure for what, and for skipping bail.

Acting on a tip, Reed said that he found Andrews inside a building located at 280 West Central Avenue. That’s where the mayhem started.

Andrews, who measures 6 feet tall and weighs 200 pounds, jumped through a window window inside the building, but Reed said that he caught him, handcuffed him behind his back, took him outside to his company’s 2006 Dodge Durango, and secured him in a seatbelt in the backseat of the truck.

He said that he went around the vehicle to make sure that the doors were locked and, in that short amount of time, Andrews slid the cuffs under his feet, unfastened the seatbelt and jumped into the driver’s seat. The keys were in the ignition.

“He punched the gas,” Reed said. Reed ended up on the street with a gash on his head, which was later treated by paramedics.

Andrews then hit two cars, one of which had to be towed, reports stated. And then, just across the street from where he started his fruitless effort to escape, Andrews crashed head-on into a tree, according to police, ruining the truck’s front end.

By this time, Reed was not happy. His head was bloody and his truck had been trashed. So Reed tackled the fleeing Andrews and, in the process, Andrews lost his pants.

When asked if the pants being separated from Andrews was deliberate, Reed grinned. “No,” he said. “I just grabbed onto whatever I could.” He pinned Andrews down until police quickly arrived.

“It was bizarre,” said Kendall Reasoner, 21, who had a front-row seat to the chaos, on a street-side bench.

“At first I was scared,” she said. “But then you see this naked guy getting the crap beat out of him. In a strange way, it was kind of funny.”

Winter Haven police arrested Andrews on charges of grand theft auto, driving with a suspended license, reckless driving and four outstanding felony warrants.

His trip to the Polk County Jail in a city police car was expected to go a little more according to plan.

Police in Sandy Springs, Georgia, say that a woman was arrested while waiting at a bus stop to make her getaway. The woman, identified as 22-year-old Channel Monae Gaskin, was arrested January 23 after a cop saw her waiting for a bus and matched her to the description of the suspect in the robbery. She has been charged with robbery.

That just wasn’t too bright,” Sandy Springs police Lieutenant Steve Rose said of the escape plan.

A woman went into a bank just after 1:00 PM that day and demanded money, according to police. She did not produce a weapon.

After she was given a bag of cash, she ran across a parking lot to a restaurant, where a dye pack exploded and sprayed orange-colored ink on her and the money, police said.

She left the restaurant and then tried to hide the dye-stained clothes and money in a bathroom at a nearby grocery store, Rose said.

The woman apparently changed clothes and went to a bus stop behind the grocery store, Rose said.

But what made Gaskin think that she could escape using public transportation? Police say that she told them that she had done it before.

Gaskin admitted that on January 15, she held up a bank in DeKalb County and then got on a bus, police said.

The woman was taken January 23 to the Fulton County Jail and will likely be turned over to DeKalb County authorities and charged with the January 15 robbery, police said.

A detective in Salt Lake City, Utah, helped bust a narcotics dealer when he received an errant text message attempting to make a sale.

When Dan Wendelboth received an unusual text message, reading, “I have 10 Lortab 7.5,” he decided to play along with the conversation to help police nail the suspected dealer, KSL-TV Channel 5, the NBC affiliate there, reports.

Wendelboth replied to the message with questions asking for a price, time, and place where he could buy the prescription pain medication.

Detectives were present and ready to make arrests when two suspects, identified as 27-year-old Carrie Brooker and 42-year-old Christine Rollins,  and one other unidentified female arrived at the 8:00 PM January 22 meeting in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart, according to police.

Police said that they arrested one woman for carrying Lortab capsules and arrested the other for prescription forgery.

A 2-year-old, who is now in protective custody, was with one of the women.