TV hostage and escape from the wedding: the most ridiculous crimes of 2021

This year was difficult for everyone, but it was especially difficult for the criminals. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, burglars could not get into houses, and pickpockets had no one to rob. Edition Lenta.Ru has compiled a list of the most ridiculous crimes of the outgoing year.

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I will kill your TV mama

Not everyone has good relations with relatives. However, few manage to go to jail, having quarreled out of the blue with the closest family members. But in 2021, heroes were found who ended up in the strong hands of justice, having done the most stupid way with their loved ones.

In Kenya, a young man named Ronald Kipkemboy went to jail for six months after he threw a scandal on his mother. It all started with the fact that the man decided to visit her. He called the local two-wheeled boda-boda taxi and drove to his parents' house.

True, Ronald did not have cash to pay for the trip, and he asked his mother to pay the driver. She also did not have the funds, and she offered to transfer the money to the taxi driver's mobile phone. This pissed off Kipkemboy.

He accused the mother of all mortal sins, said that no one in the family loved her, and later encroached on the most valuable thing in the woman's house - her beautiful LCD TVs.

Ronald took the devices hostage, threatened to deal with them, and even managed to damage two televisions.

The woman's patience ran out, and she called the police. As a result, Kipkemboy was sentenced to six months in prison. The main witness for the prosecution at the trial was the mother of the offender, accompanied by crippled devices.

The wedding sang and danced

Divorce is a sad affair, although not so rare. However, many people forget that some obligations remain for former spouses, and especially abandoned children. And the reckoning for their failure can come at any time.

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A resident of Ecuador experienced this on himself, and the police appeared at the very moment when the man, under the church organ and the clinking of glasses, almost created a new family.

The police outfit detained the alimony defaulter right during the wedding ceremony in front of the amazed guests, relatives and the priest, who was about to declare the couple husband and wife.

The groom was handcuffed and put in a police car, and when the car started, the sobbing bride, picking up the snow-white hem of her wedding dress, rushed after him, begging him to at least finish the ceremony.

Later, the media found out that the ex-wife of the detainee, who wrote the statement at such an inopportune moment, is raising two children from their marriage, and has not received money from her ex-husband for several months.

I want to go to jail

And sometimes it is not relatives who call the police, but the criminals themselves go to the police to get rid of the company of annoying relatives. This is exactly what happened in Italy, where the former drug dealer himself came to surrender.

A 30-year-old Albanian was detained and convicted of crimes related to trafficking in illegal substances. It must be said that the Italian court showed rare mercy and sentenced the man to several years of home imprisonment. It would seem that all that remained was to sit in front of the TV, eat ravioli and wait for the expiration date.

However, a few months after the beginning of serving the sentence, the convict escaped from supervision and immediately surrendered to the first patrol he met.

“Look, my home life has become hell. I can’t bear it anymore, I want to go to jail, ”he told the policeman.

The police fulfilled the criminal's plea, which, however, was quite simple considering the escape.

Where is my potato, dude

Fast food is as harmful as it is popular. However, not everyone thinks that just going out for a hamburger and fries can end up in jail.

23-year-old Davion Guillory and 25-year-old Trecaya Cohen were imprisoned precisely because of the potatoes. Young people from Texas made an order at McDonald's in Houston and drove up to the McAuto window.

When an employee of the establishment gave them a hot bag with the coveted burgers, it seemed to the young people that the fries were not salted enough. The men got into a skirmish with the manager of the establishment, and then Cohen drew his pistol and pointed it at the fast food worker.

And although the conflict has subsided, the restaurant employees have already managed to call the police, who later detained the violators.

After checking, it turned out that Cohen recently received a suspended sentence for robbery, so waving a gun was not the best solution. Both were arrested for aggravated armed assault. The court has assigned bail of $ 10 to each.

Just such a strong love

As practice shows, not only petty criminals fall for all sorts of nonsense. Experienced criminals who have led the police by the nose for years can also become victims of their own carelessness.

In Great Britain, the leader of a large gang of drug dealers, who for several years was considered elusive, went to jail for 13 years. 39-year-old Karl Stewart was perhaps the largest drug dealer in Liverpool and was one of the most wanted gangsters in all of Albion.

The man made transactions through the EncroChat messenger, which, thanks to deep data encryption, has become very popular among criminals.

The special British police department dealing with online delinquency managed to hack into Stewart's account, but this did not work at first, because the experienced criminal was very circumspect even with encrypted messages, and it was not possible to establish his identity.

Has brought the hardened bandit love, and not to another human being, but to the cheese "Stilton". Stewart once again acquired his favorite delicacy and could not resist sending one of the accomplices a photo of his own hand holding the yummy.

One of the Scotland Yard employees turned out to be a real bulldog in a professional sense. He clung to the seemingly unrecognizable photograph and managed to copy Stewart's fingerprints from the image. After some time, the elusive bandit was identified, caught and sentenced to 13 years.

And it's the same again

The Liverpool police seem to have thoroughly studied the experience of the capture of Karl Stewart, but his colleagues did not guess to draw the necessary conclusions. A similar story of the failure of a drug dealer in the capital city of Merseyside came just a few months later.

Nathan Harding and an accomplice were engaged in the marijuana trade, and police found evidence of the sale of 193 kilograms of cannabis, which cost about one million pounds. The criminals also sold other illegal substances: apparently, they considered themselves no less elusive than Karl Stewart.

In any case, Harding took a photo of his own hand filled with marijuana without much trepidation. This was enough for the police to identify the bandit's fingerprints and send him to court, which sentenced the man to 18 years in prison.

You don't appreciate me at all

Lorraine Graves of the United States, who was wanted for alleged complicity in the murder, decided to scold the Tulsa, Oklahoma police department on Facebook.

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The suspect was outraged by the fact that the announcement of her wanted list on the police page did not contain information about the remuneration for the capture. "Where's the reward?" - asked Graves under the post of law enforcement.

"Girl, you better stay away from social networks, they can hunt you down!" - posted by one of the users. And he was right.

The woman was identified and detained within 500 hours after the question, she was assigned a bail of $ XNUMX thousand.

We accidentally

However, you shouldn't think that in 2021 only criminals got into awkward situations. The servants of the law were also noticed in opposition to logic and common sense.

At the end of November, British law enforcement officers decided to make a strange gift to a certain Lauras Matyushovas, who was sentenced to four years for blackmail. No sooner had the man settled himself in the cell, when two days after the verdict was pronounced, he was told that it was time to leave.

Matyushovas did not believe that 1460 days of imprisonment had erased from his memory, and even asked the court to check again whether there really were no more claims against him. The lawyers rummaged through the papers and assured the blackmailer that everything was in order.

To celebrate, Matyushovas called all his acquaintances, and after leaving he threw a grand party that lasted almost two weeks. The holiday was interrupted again by the police, who appeared on the threshold of the released on December 6 and stunned him with a message that he would still have to sit out the remaining 1458 days of the term. The error came out.

And later, data appeared that in 2021, the British justice accumulated a lot of such errors - from February to May of the second year of the pandemic, the courts of the United Kingdom erroneously released at least six criminals.

But still, in the new year, let's hope that there will be fewer criminals, and law enforcement agencies will be more attentive.

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