Crime doesn’t pay: Busted by burglars
| August 17, 2009 | 6:01 AM
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Maybe there’s some honor among thieves after all.
A British man has been convicted on child-pornography charges after being turned in — by burglars.
Two thieves found pornographic images on a laptop computer they had stolen from Richard Coverdale, 24, of Redcar, England, a seaside resort. They were so disturbed by what they saw that they tipped off police, taking the risk that they would be locked up in the burglary.
Nearly 80 illegal photos and videos were found on the computer. Authorities say that Coverdale also invented a 14-year-old character so he could expose himself to a teenage girl over the Internet.
Now he really has to worry about locks — he’s serving three and a half years behind bars.
Read more at London’s Telegraph.
More crimes that didn’t pay:
- In Florida, a grocery store owner used a can of beans to chase off a man after a robbery and stabbing in his store. The suspect was later arrested. Read more at highlandstoday.com.
- In Texas, a woman was arrested after allegedly burglarizing the same house multiple times — while being caught on camera and wearing a shirt advertising DirecTV. Read more at upi.com.
- In Missouri, two teenage boys allegedly stole go-carts from an entertainment park and raced them on Interstate 70 before being caught. Read more at kmbc.com.
- In New Zealand, an alleged thief provided a name and contact information to a clerk before a robbery at a record store. Read more at stuff.co.nz.
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