“9-1-1? How Much Pot Can I Grow?”

February 10, 2011

Can one man set the legalization of marijuana movement back a decade?

That depends on how they define “emergency” in Connecticut.

Robert Michelson really needed to know how much trouble he could get into for growing one marijuana plant. So the 21-year-old decided to do what his mommy had instructed him to do in case of emergency all those years ago.

He dialed 9-1-1 to find out. Give yourself a treat by listening to his actual phone call.

As it slowly, slowly, oh so painfully slowly dawned on him that the operator was not interested in helping him as much as she was in apprehending him, Robert got wise and hung up.

Sadly, he had made the call from his home and the police were soon confiscating his ganja garden and hauling him in.

It's still unclear whether Mr. Michelson's actions were the result of marijuana's debilitating effects, or just plain, old-fashioned dumb.

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Brave Woman on Toilet Robbed By Some Clown

November 16, 2010

This crime made us dust off the Bizarre Crimes blog for a special update. The story behind this evil clown mask is that it was used by a ridiculous home invader while he robbed a woman in Akron, Ohio. After breaking in through a back door, he happened upon her while she was on the toilet. Not without her sense of humor, the woman said, "Boy did you break into the wrong house; a poor person lives here," according to Cleveland's Fox 8 News.

She offered the man her diabetes medicine, but he wanted oxycontin and jewelry. He ended up taking some $1,000 worth of costume jewelry but returned a bracelet after reading its touching inscription. "That's when I knew he wasn't going to hurt me," said the woman.

The suspect, Cory Buckley, 22 of Akron, fled in the woman's car, which he promptly flipped before being apprehended by police. He allegedly confessed to the crime on the spot.

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Torturing and Robbing Drug Dealers-Dominican Republic Style

May 12, 2008

Now here's something you don't read about every day:  A sadistic group of eight men from the Dominican Republic were charged Tuesday, May 6, 2008 in a Brooklyn, New York federal court with conspiracy to commit robbery, drug dealing, and a number of other crimes stemming from offenses that began occurring in the spring of 2003 that targeted major drug traffickers in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Florida.  The gang of eight from the Dominican Republic impersonated police officers in a complex scheme that involved the abduction and torture of several high-profile cocaine traffickers that forced the drug movers to turn over millions of dollars' worth of their illegal stashes to the fake cops over the past several years.

According to the real police and the unsealed federal indictment, the police impersonators committed 100 holdups of the drug traffickers in the aforementioned states, and injured as many people as there were holdups while committing the drug heists.  The gang was "particularly sophisticated" in its tactics, and often kept the drug traffickers under close surveillance for several weeks before making their move in "police-style" car stops using handguns and vehicles outfitted with police lights and sirens.  Sometimes the gang would burst into the dealers' homes after identifying themselves as law enforcement officers, and would hold the traffickers and their families hostage for several days--until they got what they were after.  It wasn't unusual for the gang to handcuff its victims, or bind them with duct tape, after which they would conduct acts of torture while interrogating their captives.  According to the indictment, sometimes the gang would simulate "drowning through repeated submerging of victims' heads in water for extended periods of time," and in at least one instance that occurred in 2005, a victim reported that two of the gang members "applied a pair of pliers to the victim's testicles and threatened to squeeze the pliers if the victim did not talk."

U.S. Attorney Benton Campbell said that the Dominicans' scheme "was breathtaking in...

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