Attention, all criminals! Need proof that crime doesn’t pay? Read these…and weep.
BIG THANKS TO THE BIG SCREEN
In October 2010, Brooklyn resident Earle Barranco allegedly shot and killed a man in Chelsea after an argument but disappeared after the murder. There were no leads…until Barranco went to a basketball game in North Carolina and showed up on the arena’s jumbotron. Someone at the game recognized him and later reported him to police. When he went to another game at the same arena, police picked him up and sent him back to New York. And how did that witness (and police) identify him? Barranco was wearing the same diamond-encrusted pendant he’d had on during the murder.
WATCH OUT ABOVE!
In August 2010, Sherin Brown was walking down a sidewalk in Brooklyn when a tractor-trailer jumped the curb and careened into a light pole, knocking it over. When paramedics arrived, they found Brown pinned beneath the pole and screaming in pain. They pulled her out and took her to the hospital, where she was treated and released. And then she started preparing a lawsuit. But what Brown didn’t know was that a nearby surveillance camera caught the entire accident on tape…including Brown walking up to the light pole after the accident and pinning herself underneath it. Brown’s lawsuit was thrown out, and police arrested her for falsely reporting an emergency.
GIMME ALL YOUR DOUGH
One evening in November 2010, Salvatore LaRosa and an accomplice followed two men out of the Brothers Pizzeria in Staten Island. The men carried a large bag that LaRosa believed held all the day’s earnings, so he and his buddy pulled on ski masks, pointed guns at the men, and demanded they hand over the bag. They did, and the criminals ran off with their haul…which they soon realized held pizza dough, not money. In the end, LaRosa gave himself up.
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