Found Him: This Has To Be THE Dumbest Criminal
from the sharing-is-caring dept
In our ongoing coverage of the crossroads of technology and stupid criminals, we’ve seen quite a bit of dumb, ranging from really stupid to the kind of stupid that is so painful one wonders how faith in humanity persists. I now submit to you that we’ve found the purist expression of stupidity in a criminal known to man.
Meet Anthony Lescowitch, 35, and apparent testimony personified to our failing educational system. Anthony was wanted by police in Freeland (heh), PA, where police helpfully engaged their community by submitting a wanted photo of our criminal and a public BOLO (be on the lookout) on their Facebook page. After all, you never know what helpful citizen will assist law enforcement by sharing that status update with their friends, widening the net for a criminal on the run. Hell, sometimes it’s that very criminal who so assists LEOs, as Anthony proved by sharing the status on Facebook.
Lescowitch shared the wanted bulletin minutes after Freeland police posted it on the department Facebook page Monday night, authorities said. He was being sought on assault-related charges.
An officer pretending to be an attractive woman then messaged Lescowitch, according to police. Lescowitch refused the offer of a drink but eventually agreed to meet for a cigarette, and was arrested at the agreed-upon location. After the arrest, police posted this message: “CAPTURED!!!!!! SHARES OUR STATUS ON FACEBOOK ABOUT HIMSELF, CAPTURED 45 MINUTES LATER.”
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Comments on “Found Him: This Has To Be THE Dumbest Criminal”
I hope they gave him access to a computer after they arrested him, you know he’d share the ‘Captured!’ post as well as soon as he saw it.
“Cajones” = drawers.
Don’t knock Freeland.
Where's the CFAA when you need it?
Did the officer (pretending to be attractive, or pretending to be a woman, one can’t help but wonder) violate Facebook’s TOS in their effort at pretense? Lock ’em up!
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I’ll just quote my Dad “There are no smart criminals in jail, because the smart ones don’t get caught”…lol
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Smart criminals open a bank rather than trying to rob one.
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Smart thugs and bullies become police officers.
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A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
— Howard Scott
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“There are no smart criminals in jail” because they’re all in Washington D.C.
I would have loved to be at Freeland PD when this guy shared the article about himself just to see the cops reaction to it. I can just imagine them all behind a computer laughing their asses off as they chat with him and goad him into meeting up for a smoke.
You could say it was…
*sunglasses*
From BOLO to YOLO.
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BOLO = Be on the lookout? Wouldn’t that be BOTL? Or was that one already taken?
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You only live once so you may as well be behind bars?
Gimme your sunglasses.
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Corey Hart borrowed them. He likes to wear them at night.
Liking the police story isn’t what got him captured. The police messaged him on Facebook and lured him to a place where they captured him. They can do that with anybody they’re looking for. It really doesn’t say anything good about the Freeland police that they had to wait for this guy to get in touch with them before they tried to track him down on Facebook.
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No, but it was still really stupid. Plus, this guy violated rule #1 of the internet. If a stranger says they want to meet online it’s a trap.
Hell, using an account tied to you as someone wanted by the police is dumb to begin with. Even without trying to track the IP address, most browsers offer “location services” which are accurate enough to tell what building you’re in.
That’s what they taught me in school at least, right along with the D.A.R.E. program. Might explain part of the problem online dating sites have had in the past.
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Actually, that’s rule 2, rule 1 is never give out your personal information.
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And who attempts override rule number 1 in furtherance of $$$ (& as a concession to law enforcement)? Google+, FaceBook, etc.
Why are you a member of such services? Because you’re a masochistic imbecile.
[F]ace
[B]ook
[I]ncorporated
Can they make it any more obvious to your ass?
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I thought rule #1 of the internet was “don’t talk about the internet”
Who wrote this article a 15 yr old? How the f*^k did you get a job writing anything more than the list of ingredients on gum wrappers?
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I don’t know about the person’s age, but it’s someone who uses Facebook.
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Hey, Mr. Geigner embodies the best youthful elan in conjunction with the best adult cynicism! (and he has a funny avatar, to top it off!)
i STILL LIKE THIS ONE BETTER.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/world/middleeast/suicide-bomb-instructor-accidentally-kills-iraqi-pupils.html?_r=0
Terrorist trainer, kills self, 22 others, and wounds a bunch more..
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How better to train people to be suicide bombers than showing them up-close?
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Reminds me of “The Queen’s Own McKamikaze Highlanders”…
wait..
I thought Marcus Carab lived in Canada. Is he moonlighting?
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People that stupid don’t know enough to come in out of the cold so we shipped them all south. It worked well for your parents, not so good for the rest of us.
You keep using that word...
The word you’re looking for is “cojones”, not “cajones”. Cajones is drawers.
Please edit the article on those two typos
Cajones = drawers or more loosely it could pass as just boxes.
Cojones = balls, courage, valor.
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and purist to purest, too
Not quite Darwin Award
This guy is quite at the Darwin Award for stupidity. But his mental faculties are very, very limited and pushing Darwin Award levels of stupidity.
FIFY
Thanks for the laugh, Tim. About the criminal, I mean.
And this is a great example of why I don't use facebook!
My unwillingness to create a facebook account prevents me from doing/saying monumentally stupid things on the internets, except here of course…
I have no faith in humanity.
Dang Tim, you really let yourself go with this one.
“cajones” “purist” etc.
Also it’s inappropriate to suggest that this guy is anything but innocent until proven guilty, y’know?
Some people are so stupid.
I bet when the people read the post that the police put on their Facebook page later they were laughing! What a way to encriminate yourself. Wow.
Brilliant
Anyone who knows jimi knows that he did this intentionally to get caught since the pd couldn’t seem to catch him in the 1 street light town of freeland…it’s a joke that he had to put it on Facebook for the freeland pd to actually locate his whereabouts …
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I actually do know Jim and I will say while def an impulsive guy he is a loyal friend .
I love these fking word nerds on here talking shit , knowing full well they are cyber geeks that wouldnt say shit to any ones face .
Shit there user names say it all .
Any Way Jim Good luck Buddy .