Apparently, there is a thin line between joking with a buddy and third degree theft. A maintenance worker on 58th Street found this out the hard way on Sept. 29, when he played a “prank” that didn’t go exactly as planned. As a landscape crew worked at the property, they suddenly noticed their $750 mower was missing.
The crew then spent the next hour and half looking for the mower, with the quest ending when a worker found it inside a vacant apartment while looking through the window. A few minutes later, the mower had been removed from view. After calling police, the maintenance worker on duty admitted to taking the mower, but only as a joke. He was apparently pretty committed, keeping the ruse up for an hour and a half. When the officer determined it probably wasn’t a joke, the worker was booked into Fife Jail for third degree theft.
A woman on Hosmer Street was playing some kind of criminal version of Bingo on Sept. 28. The woman found herself in a hotel, refusing to leave and cussing out staff, who then called the police. The police officer that arrived on scene was already familiar with the situation, as he’d already banned the woman from four previous locations on the street earlier in the night. But this was the time the woman decided to stand her ground and refuse to leave. She was promptly transported to Fife Jail for first degree trespassing.
Compiled by Derek Shuck