In New Mexico, we don’t have the market cornered on stupid criminals. After all, it usually isn’t the brightest guy on the block who sets out to be a burglar. They’re everywhere.
It didn’t take long for officers to identify a suspect in the burglary of a government building Thursday, according to a police report.
All they had to do was follow a set of footprints in the 8-inch-deep snow leading from the crime scene to the spot where they ended, the report says. There, in the parking lot of a nearby apartment complex, they found Mark Mendoza, 31, sweeping snow off his truck, according to the report.
Mendoza refused to allow officers to search his apartment, so a state District Court judge signed a search warrant and police later found the missing computer in Mendoza’s closet, the report states.
Who would have thought that footprints were noticeable in the snow? Who?
The exact same thing happened in my hometown a few years ago. A guy was walking down the street breaking into cars that were parked on the street…. The police followed the footprints in the snow from car to car, and then to the front door of the house he lived in. They found some sunglasses, cassettes, CDs and $20 in change.
BUSTED!
woo hoo!
Snow is an invasion of privacy.
A story from the Blizzard of ’78 in Indianapolis.
I had a rare (in those days) 4wd vehicle, so volunteered to drive two city cops around late at night. We actually got free gasoline, donuts and coffee out of this, incidentally. The patrolmen got a call to go to a particular bar in the rougher side of town.
Footprints in a snowdrift and on the roof told the story. Some really stupid guy had climbed the snowdrift to the flat roof of the bar, broke a skylight, and dropped into the bar. Unfortunately for him, the security doors for the bar were very strong, and locked and unlocked only with a key that only the owner had. And–the skylight was far enough away from the bar or anything else that was sturdy. The guy couldn’t get out.
One cop got out at the bar, called in a SWAT team, and notified the owner. We drove away as the SWAT team came up…
Your supposed to walk backwards…
I wonder about SOME peoples brains…
Hey, be fair here folks(it’s Christmas after all), the guy’s name was Mendoza…..how much snow do you think he dealt with back home in the tropics?