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Kevin E. Tibbs, 21, was arrested in Brunswick, Maryland, in February for attempting to steal a parking meter. When police stopped Tibbs he was trying to conceal it in his trousers.
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Randall Eugene Davis, who has only one leg, was arrested in Clarinda, Iowa, in March; he was suspected of stealing a truck that contained animals, among them a three-legged Labrador retriever.
Mary Ann Linder of Nashville was arrested for shoplifting at a Victoria’s Secret store in October. When asked by the store’s clerks to hand over the stolen items, Linder stripped off $1,400 worth of lingerie and was released to police. She left two more pairs of underpants and several hangers in the backseat of the squad car. Guards then recovered $300 more in stolen clothing at the jail. Final tally: 30 panties, 20 bras, 4 robes, and one pair of men’s silk pajamas.
In December a 51-year-old man with no criminal record was referred to psychiatrists after police picked him up in Parma, Ohio. He had just purchased 19 guns from a K Mart and told the clerk “not to come out tonight”; he also spent $7,000 on fabric at another store, telling the clerk that it was for “covering up the bodies.” Parma police recognized the man as the one they’d picked up a week earlier for placing doughnuts on headstones at a local cemetery. (The man explained, “People get hungry.”) Said a police officer, “We could have had a disaster.”
