POSTED // Sep 17,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again John Wilkinson, 24, entered a drug store in Stanton, Texas, carrying what appeared to be a gun wrapped in a dark cloth, yelled at customers to get down and demanded Zanax and hydrocodine from the pharmacist. He made off with the drugs,...

POSTED // Sep 10,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again Authorities identified a wanted man because he had his name tattooed on the side of his head. Federal task force officers investigating an unrelated incident at a shelter in Billings, Mont., said they recognized Sterling F. Wolfname,...

POSTED // Sep 3,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again A man phoned a Pizza Hut restaurant in Elko, Nev., claiming to have stolen five signs used atop delivery vehicles. He demanded $500 for their return. Police said when the manager wanted proof he had the signs, the caller sent a cell...

POSTED // Aug 27,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again A man disguised as a woman walked into a restaurant in Metairie, La., ordered two doughnuts and handed the clerk a $5 bill. According to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, when the clerk opened the register, the man pulled...

POSTED // Aug 13,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again Police in Troy, Wis., identified Paul Crowell, 22, as the one who stole a Taser from a patrol car after he posted a video online showing him and his father, Paul Dupey, shocking each other with the stolen weapon. Crowell, who pleaded...

POSTED // Aug 6,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again A surveillance video of an attempted drug-store robbery in Port Richey, Fla., shows the suspect handing a hold-up note to a clerk, only the note is blank. The St. Petersburg Times reported the suspect then verbally announced the robbery,...

POSTED // Jul 29,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again An armed man wearing a fake beard and mustache and a wig walked into a bank in Fort Worth, Texas, and demanded cash. Police Lt. Paul Henderson said the robber, who apparently took a taxi to the bank, asked the teller for a ride, but...

POSTED // Jul 23,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again John Opperman-Green reported to police in Kissimmee, Fla., that when he asked some men he didn’t know for a ride outside a 7-Eleven store, they robbed him. While being questioned, Opperman-Green told police that the money the...

POSTED // Jul 16,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again Calvin Robinson, 19, was caught counterfeiting in the family bathroom of a shopping mall in Spokane, Wash., after he spent $100 on a color copier to make enough bogus $10 bills to buy $90 worth of marijuana. The Spokesman-Review reported...

POSTED // Jul 9,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again Police said the father-and-son burglary team of Randall Popkes, 41, and Joshua Williams, 22, broke into Iowa’s Des Moines Golf and Country Club and used a reciprocating saw to cut into the safe. When they couldn’t get...