Tag: burglary
Man busted for stealing 150 pounds of waffle mix
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. — A Georgia man is accused of stealing 150 pounds of waffle mix from a former employer and flipping it to a syrupy stream of buyers.
Peachtree City police spokeswoman Lt. Odilia Bergh told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday that 33-year-old Brandon Lee Nelson is charged with burglary.
Police say Nelson drove to his former employer’s storage facility in August and stole five boxes of Golden Malted waffle batter. Bergh says Nelson then covertly sold it to buyers who contacted him about the stolen dough.
Bergh says Nelson later was identified on surveillance video of the theft and arrested this month. He has since posted bail and been released. It’s unclear if he has a lawyer.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/28/man-busted-for-stealing-150-lbs-of-waffle-mix/
Teen busted for breaking into home for Wi-Fi
A California teen broke into a home through an open window this week — to ask residents if he could use their Wi-Fi, cops said.
The Palo Alto couple in their 60s woke up around 12:30 a.m. Sunday to see the stranger standing in their bedroom, police said.
Instead of ransacking the joint, the intruder, a 17-year-old boy wearing a T-shirt around his face, asked the couple if he could hop on their Wi-Fi network, cops said.
But the homeowner threw up a firewall — bolting out of bed, and pushing the wannabe web-crawler outside.
Cops quickly arrested the teen, whose name wasn’t released because he’s a juvenile, and charged him residential burglary, a felony, as well as prowling and providing false information to an officer — both misdemeanors, authorities said.
The teen’s networking may have been a ruse — the couple reported that two kitchen knives were missing from a drawer.
Meanwhile, police said it wasn’t the teen’s only Wi-Fi request of the night.
About 45 minutes earlier, a Palo Alto woman in her 20s spotted the teen outside her bedroom window, standing in the yard and motioning that he wanted to talk to her.
When she approached, he asked for permission to use her network because he was out of data.
She refused and he sped off on a bicycle — which police believe may have been stolen.
He may face an additional misdemeanor petty theft charge.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/07/27/teen-busted-for-breaking-into-home-for-wi-fi/