Don’t Commit Crimes While Wearing A GPS Bracelet
It’s not a good idea to wear GPS technology while committing crimes. Look, it’s going to be incredibly difficult to get away with committing crimes without wearing technology that will track your location. If you are wearing that kind of thing, you stand very little chance.
Now, a teenager in St. Louis is learning that the hard way. Here’s more on the story.
Teen Arrested After GPS Helps Lead To Arrest
According to First Alert 4, Leslie James III, 18, is facing 31 counts of stealing-related offenses after a series of smash-and-grab robberies across the St. Louis area. James has been charged with 8 counts of second-degree burglary, 3 counts, of attempted burglary, 11 counts of felony property damage, and 8 counts of misdemeanor stealing. Additionally, he was charged with a count of tampering with a motor vehicle, per First Alert 4.
It looks like he was pretty busy on this crime spree. First Alert 4 reports that James and two others went to 9 businesses in St. Louis where they smashed windows and stole property (or attempted to). It’s also been reported that James was driving a stolen vehicle and someone in the group was armed with a gun.
To make things even worse, police say James was wearing a GPS bracelet while the crimes were being committed. Examining data from the technology showed that James was at each of those businesses on the day and time of these robberies. That makes for a pretty easy case. He’s really making things easy on the prosecutor. How can you not think about that? You can’t be wearing one of those! Having your phone on you would be bad enough, but wearing GPS technology that literally tracks your every movement while committing crimes is a terrible idea.
Check out a video report of the crimes below from FOX 2 St. Louis.
5 of the Craziest Cringeworthy Crimes Ever Committed
While committing crimes may seem black and white (you either broke the law or you didn’t), there are certainly some crimes that are dumber than others. Sometimes it’s the crime itself that’s wild, other times, it’s the people committing said crimes. These are 5 of the craziest, cringeworthy crimes ever committed.
Crimes can happen anywhere, anytime, to anyone. However, it takes a very unique individual, a case study if you will, to commit some of these outrageously dumb crimes. Years ago, these criminals would have been featured on Spike TV or one of those America’s Dumbest Criminal shows. Today, I’m not sure if those shows are around…and I’m certain Spike TV isn’t around anymore. That’s a story for another time.
Someone being arrested. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Craziest Crimes
Crimes can happen for a number of reasons. They may happen out of necessity. They could also happen on accident. These crimes, however, do not fall into those categories. These crimes are different. None of these would accidentally happen. They also aren’t a matter of life or death. There’s no ethics quiz here, or any matters of ‘would you steal bread to support your family?’ These crimes, and criminals, aren’t straight up cringeworthy.
While all of these crimes are crazy and certainly cringeworthy, they also make for excellent conversation pieces. That’s why I’ve gone and found five examples of the wildest stories that Dave and Chuck the Freak have talked about and made a list highlighting the best of the best. Let’s be honest…what’s better than reading a story about one of the craziest crimes ever committed? Or, watching Dave and Chuck the Freak talk about some of the dumbest crimes ever committed? Personally, I’m going with the funny storytellers.
They add their own two cents and perspectives on these stories that nobody else could provide. Not even those talking heads on the dumbest criminal shows. Am I the only one who remembers those? I feel like they were a staple on TruTV or VH1, but now all I can find on TruTV is Impractical Jokers, which is awesome but…you get it. Let’s not delay! Here’s the list!