POSTED // Jun 18,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again New Zealand police charged Michael Geoffrey Linn, 36, with robbing a bank in Cromwell after he drove to a lake and used gasoline and some papers from his car to start a fire to burn the clothes he wore during the hold-up. Nearby construction...

POSTED // Jun 11,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again •  When police in Sheboygan, Wis., stopped a vehicle for improper registration, one of the passengers identified himself by giving a false name, hoping to conceal unpaid traffic citations in another state. The name he gave,...

POSTED // Jun 4,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again A New Jersey grand jury indicted Ishak Boutros, 31, for trying to cash a forged scratch-off lottery ticket. Prosecutors said Boutros tried numerous times to scan the bogus ticket at the gas station where he worked and at a nearby...

POSTED // May 28,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again The day after police in Waterville, Maine, charged Connecticut visitor Darryl Copeland, 25, with assault, nine packets of heroin were found near where he was arrested. Suspecting Copeland had tossed the drugs, detectives waited until...

POSTED // May 21,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again Police who stopped Cyheam Forney, 31, for a minor traffic violation in Melville, N.Y., discovered his license had been suspended. Officers arrested Forney for the misdemeanor but added a felony charge when he tried to pay his bail...

POSTED // May 7,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again Sheriff’s investigators reported that Kasey Allan and David Connell warned a gas station clerk in Benzie County, Mich., they would be back to rob her after they got their masks and a gun and asked her to cooperate in exchange...

POSTED // Apr 30,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again Christopher Allen Koch, 28, pulled into a bank parking lot in Liberty, Pa., and, according to police, waited in his car for about 20 minutes before heading for the bank entrance wielding a shotgun and wearing an orange ski mask. The...

POSTED // Apr 23,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again Baltimore transit authorities said Issac Ray Dunn, 58, boarded the city’s light rail system but failed to show a ticket when asked. The transit inspector writing the citation for not paying the $1.60 fare ran a routine check...

POSTED // Apr 16,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again While sitting in an unmarked vehicle on a stakeout to catch an arsonist in Lambertville, Mich., sheriff’s Detective Thomas Redmond reported the 17-year-old suspect approached the vehicle carrying a bucket, unscrewed the gas...

POSTED // Apr 9,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again As Tiffany Vance and Christopher Egnatz were finishing their meal at an Applebee’s restaurant in Schererville, Ind., Vance complained loudly about finding worms in her salad. Servers let the couple walk out on their $57 tab,...