This is just the weirdest news segment I’ve seen in some time. It is infinitely quotable, most notably “What you can’t see here is the smell.”
Also, congratulations to Mississippi on its first Meat Crime entry!
(Warning: Deer carcasses do appear in video, but not overly graphic)
How do you get someone to hate you enough to dump a 150 pound hamburger/hot dog/pizza sculpture in your front yard? Because I really want someone to hate me that bad.
Also, enjoy this stand out moment in on-location reporting: “I guess it’s made out of, um…you know, what do they call that? Uh…glass…uh… Yeah!”
11/30/09 A man tried to steal a bag of frozen shrimp Sunday from the Giant in the 2100 block of West Union Boulevard, police said. The man paid for some items, but attempted to steal the shrimp, and when store security approached him in the parking lot he tossed the shrimp under a car and fled. Police are following up on a license plate number for the getaway vehicle. (Bethlehem, PA)
11/30/09 Robert Anguiano, 48, and Michele Ann Floyd, 32, were arrested on suspicion of shoplifting at Walmart early Sunday afternoon. Store employees recognized them as the alleged shoplifters in a Nov. 12 incident, in which $500 in merchandise was stolen.
Sunday, the pair had approximately $350 worth of merchandise in their cart, including Nintendo Wii controllers, Wii games, DVDs, corn dogs, bacon, hair bleach, cat food, a pillow and cooking pots. Floyd allegedly had a stolen parmesan cheese package in her purse, as well as a marijuana pipe. She attempted to pose as her sister, according to police.
In addition to two counts of shoplifting, Floyd was arrested on suspicion of false reporting to law enforcement, possession of drug paraphernalia and taking the identity of another.
Anguiano allegedly pushed a Walmart loss control employee and had to be subdued by several other employees until police arrived.
In addition to shoplifting, he was arrested on suspicion of assault and trespassing. The trespassing arrest centered on another 2007 shoplifting incident at a Redlands, Calif., Walmart. Anguiano was subsequently banned from entering all Walmart stores. He also had a felony warrant for drugs out of San Bernardino County.
Both Anguiano and Floyd were taken to Mohave County Jail in Kingman. (Bullhead City, AZ)
11/30/09 Swaim Circle: A home was burglarized between 8:30 a.m. Nov. 21 and 10 p.m. Sunday. A 42-inch flat-screen TV and a package of frozen meat were stolen. (Huntsville, AL)
11/28/09 A man reported that a female entered the a N. Columbia Street grocery store several times Saturday and stole $150 worth of steaks and $80 worth of shrimp. The man was able to get the shrimp back before the suspect fled the scene. (Milledgeville, GA)
11/25/09 Jackson police are working to crack a case of fowl play. They’re searching for a man who broke into an apartment about 11 p.m. Tuesday and stole a family’s holiday turkey. Police Lt. Christopher Simpson told the Jackson Citizen Patriot the suspect ran into the kitchen and stole the turkey out of the freezer.
He said the 6-foot, 300-pound bald man “fled with turkey in hand.”
Police said a woman and two children were home at the time, and no one was injured.
The woman told authorities she knew the man. (Jackson, MI)
11/24/09 Harris County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) deputies arrested a man suspected of stealing meat from Kroger’s on Woodforest, Nov. 20.
The store’s manager reported seeing a package of wieners sticking out of the back pocket of a customer on the meat aisle.
The customer allegedly also had a large bulge protruding from the front of his waistband.
The manager, along with two employees, waited for the suspected shoplifter to leave the store before approaching him.
The suspect, later identified as 55-year-old Joe Thurman, of Missouri City, reportedly pushed two of the employees to the ground in an attempt to run away.
The third employee ran after him. Thurman allegedly punched the employee in the chest. He was captured and detained until HCSO Deputy Luce arrived. Luce arrested and charged Thurman with robbery. Thurman is held in the Harris County Jail on a $20,000 bond.
Approximately $75 worth of meat — sausages, T-bone and ribeye steak — was confiscated from Thurman and returned to the store. (Houston, TX)
11/18/09 Battery: Two brothers were charged with disorderly conduct and battery after a fight over a fast-food order. It began when one of the defendants returned from a dinner run without sauce for the chicken nuggets. (Grand Chute, WI)
11/17/09 Patricia L. Smith, 39, of 260 S. Grand Ave., Bradley, was arrested at about 9:25 a.m. Friday at Mario’s Market, 1557 W. Court St., Kankakee, and charged with felony retail theft, Kankakee police reports said. She paid for chips and hamburger buns, but allegedly walked out of the store without paying for three packages of ground beef in her purse, police reports said. Smith’s charges were elevated to felony retail theft because she had a prior larceny conviction. (Kankakee, IL)
10/25/09 On Oct. 25, a Trinity County game warden received a call that a local man had killed a deer off a county road. When the warden arrived, he found two men with one skinned buck deer head arguing over the proper way to measure the spread, plus a cooler full of meat. One man said that he was dropped off by his friend in the national forest to squirrel-hunt but could not pass up the large buck. When asked why he had his friend drop him off to hunt, he stated, “So the game warden would not catch me.” (Trinity County, TX)
I’d wager good money that this segment producer spent all Thanksgiving afternoon bragging about the line “trotting along in his carnivorous crime wave.” And I’d double down that a family member spent that same afternoon wanting to stab him or her in the neck with a plastic fork.
11/26/09 Thousands of dollars in coins and electronics, as well as cheesecake, beer and a child’s birthday money, were stolen during a holiday burglary at a Lower Saucon Township home, police said.
Burglars sometime on Thanksgiving eve or the holiday broke through a window at a home on the 2000 block of Alice Drive, police said. Police said the robbers took $2,000 to $5,000 in Morgan Silver Dollars, two video game consoles and 25 video games.
Also missing were $90 from a 10-year-old’s birthday card, a jar full of loose change, a cheesecake and non-alcoholic beer, police said. Police said the burglars placed a pound of bacon on a kitchen floor in an apparent attempt to quiet a dog.
Police did not name the homeowners but said the family was away when the burglary happened. The family found the home ransacked on Thanksgiving. (Lower Saucon Township, NJ)
11/26/09 A woman reported Nov. 17 that she received a chicken McNugget from McDonald’s that had been spit on. Officers observed a substance on the chicken, but they couldn’t determine what it was. McDonald’s management stated they would review security cameras to see if any illegal activity took place. (Strongsville, OH)
11/24/09 Two hundred pounds of deer meat valued at $400, 15 rods and reels valued at $1,500, one tackle box with lures valued at $2,000, a box containing reloading brass valued at $200, an angle grinder valued at $100 and a portable battery charger valued at $50 were stolen from a home on Rue Road in Coker between 11 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday. (Tuscaloosa, AL)
11/24/09 A 57-year-old woman was charged with shoplifting after a security guard saw leave Shop Rite without paying on Saturday, police said.
The woman, Catherine Spano of Adams Street, was arrested at 12:23 p.m. She took three lip balms, a box of antacids and an (apparently very large) bag of shrimp, because the total was $60.93, police said. (Hoboken, NJ)
This guy would have been better off heading back into the club and politely explaining to one of the strippers that he needed a few of his dollars back because he was hankering for a hot dog.
But then the Kelbaughs would have had far less to chit chat about over Thanksgiving dinner.
(Thanks to Joe Corey for the tip!)
11/24/09 A local bar owner is hoping surveillance video will help lead police to a burglar who struck early Monday morning.
The crook was caught on camera breaking into the Cadillac Bar downtown. Police say he made off with plasma TVs, liquor and even frozen turkeys.
The owner, Jesse Medina, says he is most upset about the turkeys. They were supposed to go to his employees for Thanksgiving.
The burglar didn’t get away easy, though. Police say he was hurt when a TV fell on him, leaving the suspect’s blood at the scene.
Investigators also have the finger prints.
Medina plans to offer a $1,000 reawrd for information leading to the arrest. (San Antonio, TX)
11/24/09 A robber ordered a meal at Esaan Thai Restaurant in York Monday afternoon, waited until the food was ready and then pulled a gun and demanded cash from the employee, according to York City Police.
The robber made off with $320 and a shrimp and chicken dinner.
The robbery happened just after 1:30 p.m., police said. The restaurant, which opened in the spring, is located in the first block of North Beaver Street. (York, PA)
11/24/09 A resident in the 2700 block of North Murco Drive reported raw meat and parts of an animal carcass were left on his car overnight between 11:30 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday, according to a police report. The man reportedly heard sounds around midnight and looked out the window but didn’t see anything.
No details on what type of animal or what had been done to it were available. (Mineral Wells, TX)
11/24/09 Police called to check out two suspicious-looking men selling meats from the back of a van found that one of them was wanted on Dorchester County arrest warrants. The meat was being sold in the area of Ann Drive on Monday without the Health Department’s permission, police said. And the van’s driver, Dwayne Terrel Lake, 30, of Cambridge, was wanted by authorities in his home county for second-degree assault and destruction of property charges.
Police said Lake was arrested, taken to a District Court commissioner and held on $25,000 bond. The van and the meat he was selling were held by the Health Department. Police did not say if the second man was charged with any offenses. (Berlin, MD)
“Seven packs of ribeye steaks, with a total value of $75.51, were recovered from Caldwell’s pants, the arrest report says.”
Where will those steaks end up? There are so many possibilities.
11/24/09 A Moncks Corner officer responded to a call at the Kangaroo Station on U.S. 52 about a suspicious person sleeping in a vehicle. When the officer arrived, he made contact with the subject, who stated he was not sleeping but simply waiting for his brother to meet him at that location. When the officer asked for identification, the man said he didn’t have any on him; after a few minutes of questioning, he admitted he drove there and his license was suspended.
While the officer was speaking with the subject, he happened to notice several packages of ham and bacon, still in their wrappers. The subject said he had no idea where it came from, that the vehicle was his girlfriend’s car and that the meat was “just there.”
Finally, the subject admitted stealing the meat from a store in Moncks Corner. Because of the time of day and the fact that the store was closed at that time, the officer arrested the subject for receiving stolen goods and transported him to Hill Finklea Detention Center.
When the subject got to the detention center, he became combative and detention center employees had to subdue him and place him into solitary confinement. (Moncks Corner, SC)
11/24/09 A Virginia man was arrested Monday evening for shoplifting after attempting to smuggle several food items out of a Myrtle Beach Wal-Mart in his pants.
An employee of the Wal-Mart on 541 Seaboard St. said he witnessed Gregory Baker, Jr., 27, of Rosehill, Va., enter the store and proceed to the electronics area, where he picked up a “messenger kit” and an “N-router” and concealed them in his clothing, according to the police report.
The employee said he watched as Baker went to the food section of the store and begin to put various food items, including beef jerky and cheesecake, inside of his pants. He then left the store out the front door without paying, the witness stated.
The loss prevention employee approached him, escorted him back to the office and had Baker return all of the items.
The total value of the items stolen was $116.44. Baker said he was stealing the items for Christmas, according to the report. (Myrtle Beach, SC)
11/12/09 4:22 a.m. — A caller along the 12200 block of SE McLoughlin Boulevard told police a weird smell was coming from an upstairs apartment, and the fire department refused to respond. She told police it smelled like beef stew, then said she thought it was drugs. It turned out to be curried chicken baking in an oven. (Milwaukie, OR)
11/10/09 At 10:46 a.m. Louie’s Seafood on Broadway reported the theft of six 10-pound boxes of haddock. Suspects entered through a rear metal door that had been pried open. (Raynham, MA)
