Provo City

Stupid Criminal Stories


In Modesto, CA, a man was arrested for trying to hold up a Bank of America branch without a weapon. The Man used a thumb and a finger to simulate a gun but unfortunately he failed to keep his hand in his pocket.
 
 
A man went into a drug store, pulled a gun, announced a robbery, and pulled a Hefty bag face mask over his head and realized that he'd forgotten to cut eye holes in the mask.
 
 
After a short chase, an Officer charged the driver of a white Mazda with DUI. The car had been driving down Pacific Coast Highway with the upper half of a traffic light pole laying across its hood. When the Officer asked the drunk driver about the pole, he responded: "It came with the car when I bought it."
 
 
Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words, "Give me all your money or I'll shoot", the man shouted, "That's not what I said!"
 
 
A Des Moines convenience store clerk noticed a car pull up to the gas pumps that, the night before, had been involved in a theft of gasoline incident. The clerk, upon identifying the car, turned the gas pump on for the driver thinking that doing so would make police get to the store's location faster to catch the thief in the act. The car's driver filled up and once again, left the store without paying for gas!!
 
 
Kentucky: Two men tried to pull the front off a cash machine by running a chain from the machine to the bumper of their pickup truck. Instead of pulling the front panel off the machine, though, they pulled the bumper off their truck. Scared, they left the scene and drove home. With the chain still attached to the machine. With their bumper still attached to the chain. With their vehicle's license plate still attached tothe bumper.
 

 
 
Provo Police Department
48 South 300 West
PO Box 1849
Provo, UT  84603