Smartest criminals ever encountered by police (r/AskReddit | Reddit Stories)

remember to subscribe for daily top rated stories okay story time police officers offer edit who's the smartest criminal you've ever encountered most of them are really stupid so this guy isn't a criminal mastermind but here goes he wanted to rob a jewelers on our city's Main Street so he found out the flat beside the jewelers was empty and he hid there for two weeks he triggered the alarm on purpose several times a night massive headache for the police and the business we turned up to see nothing there nothing on cameras thought it was just a fluke so the jewelers turned off the alarm system and said they'd wait until the morning to get a new one installed or that one ray wired because something wasn't right as soon as he heard that in the police leaving he tore down the wall he'd already been working on this apparently and robbed the place taking his sweet time escaped without anyone noticing anything for hours until the jeweler's came back in the morning then he tried to resell something he stole which had a serial number on it in got caught so not that smart after all good effort though a friend of my brother moved to Israel where for a period of time it was is acceptable to drive with an American driver's license he was pulled over for speeding and when asked for his license gave the officer his Costco card Costco is a membership-based to retail warehouse in the US and a few other countries the exchange apparently went something like this Officer Costco what is Costco friend it's the state time frog officer that sounds made-up friend there are lots of states you probably haven't heard of have you heard of Arkansas how about Idaho officer I guess not friend while I'm from the small state of Costco the officer didn't have a response and wound up writing the ticket to someone with a Costco driver's license friend framed the ticket and still has it hanging on his wall well there was this one guy well call him jack Jack stole stuff that also involved a lot of people one time he was planning to steal a whole bunch of cars all luxury cars so what he did was he got his people to call nine-one-one etc from all different places and countries to tell them that car theft was taking place in multiple places oh he also only used a few people each time so it was different voices people locations etc so the police went each time until he actually did the crime then no one came he was never caught when the owner of those cars came the police didn't believe him ten stroke ten genius right there the story goes like this a homeowner walks out one morning to drive to work only to find his car missing he reports the car stolen to police a few days later his car is sitting back in front of his house when he gets inside he finds a note it was an apology that said the thief was in dire need of quick transportation and so he borrowed the first car he found with the keys inside the writer noticed the sticker on the car for the local sports team and officer there were no hard feelings he left four tickets to an upcoming game in the glove box for the home owner and his family so the homeowner and his family attend the game but when they returned home they find the house has been ransacked and all items of Fanueil are gone there was a guy with over 50 speeding charges with the name boy of jazz D he was in a different car with a different disguise every single time eventually after the government set up a special task force to take down this guy they realized that projets D means driver's license in Polish clarification it was fifty different people the police just wrote down their name as Pro jazz D every time someone with a Polish driver's license was caught speeding there's a small tourist town where I grew up that is divided in half by a big river the only way between the two sides is over a long bridge unless you go all the way around another mountain pass these guys called in like two three bomb threats to a posh hotel on one side of the bridge I think they even left some dummy packages all the police went across the bridge to do crowd control etc etc that guys then called in a bomb threat on the bridge and started robbing stuff on the other side the police couldn't be positive the bomb threat was real or not and hesitated long enough to give the thieves a head start I first heard this story about ten years ago in Banff Alberta never bothered to look up what was real versus what is invented I think this is pretty close but as my father used to say you can't let truth get in the way of a good story working in a home-improvement store when younger this guy came in went to the snowblowers took one and went to the return desk said he wanted to return it but had no receipt they told him you need a receipt so he says ok I'll be back and wheels it off to car through the front door he did this a few times apparently couple places even helped him load it back into his car homeless guy in my hometown figured out if he committed some act of petty theft he'd get a night in jail a warm place to sleep and a hot meal he'd show up turn in his stolen goods and that would be that after a while the police would just tell him to take back whatever he stole the next day quite the town character a French thief who spent 10 years in prison became a comedian when he got out one of his stories finds a building goes in chooses a floor and transforms the exits door into an extra apartment puts the apartment number fake lock welcome rug etc puts an iPhone for sale the person comes to buy it he opens the door in a shower robe and says give me one second I'm just gonna count the money and he's gone from the exit stairs not a police officer but was in Rawdon college my university owned all the houses adjacent to campus these were ran like dorms with rosin the same rules which included a very strict no alcohol policy it was a privilege to live in the houses and priority was given to upperclassmen who were more likely to bend that rule because they were of age and it was harder to police off campus in houses there was a student who went around knocking on doors saying something like I'm and ramped housing director's name sent me for health and wellness checks she'd find there booze I take it and follow up with how she's doing them a favor by just giving them a warning she wasn't actually and roarin was just keeping the booze for herself the only reason she got found out was because she did it to an actual raw the raw was male they kept men and women housing separate and just assumed he didn't know her because of that it was only later he questioned why they had a female doing wellness checks on male housing they did an investigation and asked other residents incidents dated back previous two years never found out who it was probably someone who committed a crime I never solved with that being said I had a guy use a sledgehammer to smash his way through a wall at a Best Buy and steal a bunch of phones and cameras he was smart enough to wear gloves and a face mask and not touch anything he didn't have two alarms didn't go off until he exited out the back door which the alarm company gets after a minute or two and takes them like three strokes four minutes to call in to us giving him a good five minute head start so he was probably a few miles away before we got dispatched to it he clearly scoped out the area before doing his deed too smart dude edit so part of the building was built into a hill so the hole was on the backside off the building along the great line but when you're inside the building it was about eight feet up so it was easier for him to leave out a door also the wall section where he broke through was hollow cement block the portion of the wall below that poured concrete not a policeman here but I have a nice story from insurance debt collectors there was this guy who was already in heaps of debt like more than a lifetime's worth of debt he proceeded to file several police reports for identity theft up to the point that he got protected from financial checkups it was a temporary measure that were given to repeated identity theft victims at the same time he had reported fake income to the IRS for the last couple of years to between 40 to 60 millions depending on the year so when he applied for credit cards and loans they were unable to check his financial credit due to the identity theft protection but they checked his tax returns which showed he had a massive income got his loans and credit cards emptied them out and left the country definitely this guy who ate the bank robbery notes right off the hood of the police car when they were emptying his pockets although I'm fairly sure he was still convicted this was in the late 90s early zeros a guy in my dorm came to school solely to deal Droog us he took out student loans registered for a bunch of 300 persons freshman survey courses where he would never be missed we then literally never went to class all he did was go to raves and concerts and keggers and sell partied rugose after the first semester he was suspended he wrote the usual I was young and dumb and in over my head sob story and got put on probation for a semester so he had a repeat of the fall at the end of the year he was kicked out and didn't care he made something on the order of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in return for about eight thousand dollars and student loans to cover a year of housing and tuition so far as I know he was never caught it may have been a short-sighted maneuver in the long run but in the short run it seemed fairly genius to effectively use federal loans to start your druga business not a police officer but I once dealt with a criminal who forged court documents facilitating his own release from prison learns about smartest criminals become smartest criminal himself I have a friend who is no longer a criminal but committed crimes for about 15 years and never got arrested or even investigated some of his highlights growing magic dragon in a shed on his neighbor's property the neighbor was old and never left the house buying a building under a fake name taking out huge loans against it getting HUD money and burning it all down sold fake raffle tickets to raffle off stuff he never had in never a fault I can't remember how many times he pulled that scam but he bough a new car with the money he moved a bunch of times because people would suspect him of being a con man his dad was in jail for similar stuff but he was never even questioned by the police about anything now he has a family and a normal job same thing as the computer rooms guys would cut the power to electrical stations damage the wiring then hide waiting for the cops to show up once the owners of the buildings came they would shut off the power because of the unsafe wiring that would have to be repaired in the morning everyone would leave for the night then then would cut away all the non powered wiring to get the copper I heard about one person that pulled a shoplifting scam on a large popular and well-known US retail store they walked in with some cheap nylon product to get one of those I walked in with a stick as they used to put on returning merchandise the sticker easily peeled off the product undamaged they walk to the electronics department grabbed an expensive box off the shelf and went to customer service they placed the sticker on the big box and asked if they could return the item without a receipt unfortunately no not without the original receipt dang it and they walk out customer service even gave the doorman the thumbs up having just interacted with the customer this took place before widespread inventory controls and cameras absolutely everywhere worked at a jail after getting off work I watched an ex-inmate homeless being released he walked over to a patrol car looked me in the eye and the elbowed the window in he was walked back to the entrance and Reba oktin it was middle of January he didn't want to get too cold edit to the people talking about can't break car windows that's true also depends on the car the patrol car they used was specifically old model used more for the perimeter of the jail and less other patrol cars were in the shop those windows have been replaced so many times I don't know if it's the same material or what and for the ones asking for newslinks come on guys you really think the news reports small-time things those aren't dramatic enough I could probably find their charges and stuff and share but I'm not gonna do that to this guy he was a nice guy not a big bag I'm not gonna put him on blast just to prove anything to people for karma or anything along those lines some fella broke into a jewelry store a couple of decades ago you would think he'd go for the vault but instead he stole the chandelier overlooking the showroom turns out the thing is priceless funny thing is we found the owner's daughter half-naked in the store in the morning she claimed she had night walks and we immediately suspected foul play unfortunately the security camera footage for that night had been removed so we couldn't verify her story we let her go and tracked her as we thought she could lead us to the chandelier some time later she made a trip to Mexico in the middle of nowhere we thought she stashed the chandelier there so we set up a raid with the Mexican police on the day of her arrival we raided her cottage only to find her sitting around in Lasry with no chandelier in sight trail went cold and we never caught the thief but the chandeliers been reportedly sighted in the German black market the perfect crime whether it's by the girl or some probably very handsome strong and authoritative individual who probably owns a thriving farm I remember getting into a festival and seeing a magician guy do tricks on the people searching him to distract them from the druggist he had on him a spectacular show and I'm sure he made good profit if the police officers knew they'd be talking about it on here but I doubt it I worked with this one guy who had a lengthy record he had a system for getting released if he got caught after committing a crime if the police were in pursuit and he knew he was about to be cornered he would act insane his girl would play along with it telling the police that he was off his medication the police would arrest him but then send him to a mental ward with papers instructing the ward to release to police once he was cleared once he was in the mental ward he would cause a distraction that would make the person attending the desk with the file cabinet to leave said cabinet he would then crawl to the file cabinet look for his release to police papers and then would literally eat the papers when the psych evaluators decided that he was stable enough to be released there would be no instructions to send him to the police and he would be released to the general public he did this about 10 times until police officers noticed him back on the streets this stunt forced the states to change their procedure for attaining mentally unstable suspects not a policeman but several years ago in Cape Coral FL a man waited on a sidewalk in front of a Publix grocery store and used a Taser on an armored car guard carrying two bags of money a getaway driver in a car with stolen tags pulled up taser guy and moneybags get in and they took off never caught when I first moved to the area in the 90s a man robbed a bank jumped on a bicycle that he rode down a footpath through some woods where he had left a boat on a waterway never caught Doug Judy known as the Pontiac bandit not one but Frank about nail junior must have been pretty good I'm not a cop that I would say DB Cooper deserves a mention dude hijacked a plane got ransom money and released all the passengers had the plane take off again then during the second flight parachuted out of the plane and was never caught mandatory not a police officer but the story of the Mumbai Opera House jewelry heist probably belongs here sometime in 1987 a guy placed an ad in the newspaper looking for recruits to the CBI the investigative police agency in India a bunch of people showed up he'd rented an office to interview them he selected 26 of the candidates tailed them to assemble the next day near a popular jewelry shop to practice a mock raid he had a fake search warrant and old handy then he led these guys to conduct a raid on the jewellery shop together they collected all the jewellery in the shop to call the cash and then he asked the trainees to keep a watch on the shop employees while he deposited the stuff he then walked out and disappeared took half an hour for someone to suspect something wrong and call the actual police they never caught the guy never even found out who he was the balls on that man shoot I got a run for president thanks for listening if I spark joy hit me with a like and subscribe I make new videos every day till then 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Length: 17min 45sec (1065 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 20 2020