A Movie Misstep: 5 Craziest Crimes of Week

Including 2 teens' amazing way of foiling a robbery
By Newser Editors,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 31, 2015 5:19 AM CDT
Updated Jul 31, 2015 7:22 AM CDT
A Movie Misstep: 5 Craziest Crimes of Week
Actor Jason Stange high-fives co-star Katie Hemming during filming for the movie "Marla Mae" in Olympia, Wash. This photo was bad news for Stange.   (Tony Overman, The Olympian via AP)

A fugitive who should have thought twice about his next career choice and a whole lot of stripper tips are among the craziest crime stories of the week:

  • Fugitive Caught Thanks to Role in Horror Movie: When it comes to promoting a movie, no press is bad press, right? Right, unless you happen to be a fugitive. Police in Olympia, Washington, arrested Jason Stange after recognizing him in photos that ran in the local paper about the movie's filming. It's a horror flick, not a bank-robber flick, a topic Stange knows something about.
  • Teen Clerks Brilliantly Foil Would-Be Robber: Best attempted-robbery story in a while: When a guy in a lame disguise (it involved a plastic bag) walked into a Subway store in Coventry, Rhode Island, and demanded money, the young clerks had a simple but effective reaction.

  • How Not to Ask for Directions to the White House: Some guys will never ask for directions, and some guys just shouldn't. An example of the latter: The driver of an out-of-state pickup pulled over his truck in Washington, DC, about 2:30am Tuesday and approached a police officer to ask, "Where's the White House?" Then the officer saw what was allegedly in Steve Oney's car.
  • Feds: Man Tipped Strippers 2K Times With Company Cash: There's using the company credit card for unethical reasons, and then there's this story out of Gilbert, Arizona. The feds accuse John David Berrett of dropping $476,000 of his employer's cash on online strippers—strippers he tipped 2,200 times. He also bought them some odd gifts.
  • Reporter Confronts Accused Thief of His Credit Card: "You picked the wrong guy," Dallas Fox 4 reporter Steve Noviello can be heard telling the woman on video. He's not kidding: Noviello is on the consumers affairs beat, and when he got an alert that someone had used his credit card number at a local hotel, he headed there and confronted the suspect as police led her away in handcuffs.
Click for more crazy crime stories. (More weird crimes stories.)

Get the news faster.
Tap to install our app.
X
Install the Newser News app
in two easy steps:
1. Tap in your navigation bar.
2. Tap to Add to Home Screen.

X