It Takes a Thief
A man called police in Moncton, N.B., Canada, to report that he had been robbed. Donovan James Clements told officers that he had just gotten a bottle of whiskey from a liquor store, and four men on the street took it from him. Police went to the liquor store to review its security camera tape, hoping to spot the four men there. The tape didn’t show the four men, but it did show Clements had stolen the bottle in the first place. He was arrested, pleaded guilty to theft, and sentenced to two years of probation. (Moncton Times and Transcript) ...So they busted one petty shoplifter, let four robbers go in the process, and called that successful crime-fighting.
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