Crime!

[Bamaman]

Guy in my Sunday School class was convicted for possession of child pornography. The Feds are watching certain websites for "hits". Some they prosecute and some are referred to the local state courts for prosecution. He got 226 years in hellish Alabama state prisons. Had the Feds handled the prosecution, he'd probably gotten 10 years in a much cleaner Federal prison. He was an ex-Army Ranger, college grad and hadn't even had a parking ticket in 39 years.

[Mdlerth]

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Originally Posted by W2R Wow. Could it be that this was a case of two people having the same name?

Nope. The local news story included a photo.

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Originally Posted by steelyman Is this the Nextdoor thread?

It might have been had I not moved out-of-state. But if I still lived in that old town I'd have heard it right away instead of having to find out from the interwebs afterward.

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Originally Posted by Winemaker My first and only crime spree was soaping car windows coming home from basketball practice in th 7th grade, with my best friend at the time. Sorry, I can't embellish my life of crime any more, nor can I hide it.

It's time to stop running from the law. Turn yourself in and pay your debt to society. Only then can the healing begin. With good behavior, they might let you out of the slammer early.

[HawkeyeNFO]

We don't have any crime in my neighborhood, because it's now illegal.

[ckelly78z]

A guy I once worked with got pissed off, and drove his truck through the plant door, and damaged multiple machines to the tune of about $150,000.

Another one was mad that he was walked out "unjustly" and posted all sorts of crazy social media videos of himself confronting management after he walked back in one day.

[gwraigty]

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Originally Posted by Bigdawg I had to reread those last few sentences. Thought maybe you knew and disliked the 84 year old lady also. LOL

[Amethyst]

Someone I used to care for a lot, thought highly of, and still was friends with on FB, suddenly dropped off Facebook and stopped answering emails. So naturally I googled their name to find out if they were still alive.

Turned out they were in jail. I won't say what their crime was, but it was the last thing I would have expected from that person. Apparently prisoners usually can't access the internet. It really was a shock to the system, to find out what a dark side my good friend was hiding.

[Amethyst]

One of my recurring nightmares (I have managed to banish most of them) is of somehow accidentally committing a crime I did not have any intention to commit. The dream has me being hauled off to jail, while the horrifying realization that yes, I did do the thing I was accused of and managed to forget it, is sloshing through my brain.

I think it is one of my subconscious's tricks for making me think about what I should be doing, that I'm ignoring.

[pjm-7]

Yes, Jeffery Dahmer WAS my cousin's neighbor!

[brewer12345]

I am more concerned with increasingly pervasive big city problems leaking into my quiet burb. The last couple years have seen a spike in the vagrant population along with an epidemic of property crime (unlocked cars get rifled through, spare tires stolen, unattended property disappears). I am now seeing the less stable among the vagrants around the shopping centers. Last night a ranting nut trailing pot smoke crossed the supermarket lot as I went out to the truck. Presume there is dope dealing going on. Not real eager to have dw or the girls out after dark these days.

[MatatuPuncher]

From my 12 person team at my first real job out of college: One guy tried to hire a hitman to kill his wife. Sentenced to 10 years. Another one was caught trying to smuggle 20 pounds of cocaine on an airplane. Sentenced to 4 years.

These were both federal agents.

[Dtail]

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Originally Posted by aja8888 Many of my old friends from Connecticut during the 1960's - 1970's were Mafia. I have no idea what they became after they made millions and moved to Florida to retire.

So why can't we get a great cannoli down here in FLA?

[CoolRich59]

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Originally Posted by Breedlove Remember a night in Cleveland as kids we screwed up and ended up at Murray Hill . Followed and told ……….Time to get out of here you don't belong here . Nice but firm men . We left .

Not to go off on tangent, but I had a similar experience on the west side of Chicago years ago. I was with a coworker and we were trying to find our way somewhere (pre GPS). We stopped at a service garage to ask directions.

No one in the office, so we walked into the garage where we surprised some very "hard" looking men standing around the open trunk of a car. They did not need to tell us that we did not belong there; I did an about face, pushed my coworker in front of me, and got out of there!

[CaliKid]

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Originally Posted by Bigdawg I had to reread those last few sentences. Thought maybe you knew and disliked the 84 year old lady also. LOL

Ya, that's how I read it at first too. Lol.

[sengsational]

I don't typically look up people from my past, but came across my diver's certification card and searched my dive instructor from when I got my certification (while I was in high school).



Turns out the guy has three convictions for going after 12 to 15 year olds. First convicted for an offense at age 56, got 7 years. Then another offense at age 74, and another at age 76. You'd think by then sex would be less interesting. I dunno.



I couldn't figure out if it's girls or boys, but he never tried anything with me or my dive buddy back when he was in his 30's.

[Amethyst]

I guess for a bad person, having power over a younger person never gets old, so to speak.

You and your buddy might have exuded too much self-confidence for him to "try anything."

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Originally Posted by sengsational I Turns out the guy has three convictions for going after 12 to 15 year olds. First convicted for an offense at age 56, got 7 years. Then another offense at age 74, and another at age 76. You'd think by then sex would be less interesting. I dunno. .

[bw5972]

In grad school I needed one more semester and rented a room in a 3 bedroom apt. Shared kitchen, bath, etc. The guy in the next room to mine is right now on trial for:

Racketeering conspiracy, forced labor conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, sex trafficking conspiracy, sex trafficking, attempted sex trafficking, conspiracy to commit identity theft.

[aja8888]

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Originally Posted by Dtail So why can't we get a great cannoli down here in FLA?

Well, some are dead by now, some are in the Witness Protection Program and appear to act very Irish these days, and the rest were not the cooks, but were the owners of the Italian family restaurants in CT (or owned used car lots and roofing companies).

Plus, they are into legal crime these days: real estate, tax evasion, smuggling (importing), etc.

[HFWR]

It is possible that I was involved in some shenanigans of questionable legality, but always kept just enough wits about me to know when to quit or where to draw the line. I call this “having a governor”.

I knew many in my youth who had no such thing...

[aaronc879]

I worked with a guy for a few years who spent 30 years in prison for killing his boss when he was 19.

At my current job, there was a guy who had surgery so he went on short term disability. Apparently he didn't think it paid enough because he robbed a gas station. He got caught the same day then fired and is now in prison.

Hard to imagine that someone you work with every day could do these kinds of things.

[ocean view]

The CFO at one of my employers was charged in an insider trading scheme. He was tipping off a hedge fund manager. He agreed to pay $1.8M to the SEC and admit no guilt, he was also barred from serving on any boards for 5 years. He had many millions, so 1.8 was nothing for him to pay to make this go away. He was a very nice man. I was shocked and disappointed when I heard about this.