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,...

POSTED // Apr 2,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again Tennessee resident William K. Anderson, 51, tried to apply for welfare benefits in Lee County, Va., but was arrested after arousing suspicion by arriving in a 2004 H2 Hummer with Michigan plates. “We thought it was unusual that...

POSTED // Mar 19,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again Authorities investigating the theft of an antique slot machine worth $4,000 from a home in Sutherlin, Ore., identified the culprit as a 30-year-old man whose wife filed an insurance claim to cover damage to their van during the burglary....

POSTED // Mar 12,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again New York City prosecutors accused undercover police detective Sean Johnstone, 34, of tampering with drug evidence after listening to a tape recording of him confiding to another officer that he and his partner kept 11 of 28 bags of...

POSTED // Mar 5,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again Highway Patrol officers stopped three Philadelphia men they observed driving at night without lights and noticed piles of cash and coins strewn about the car. Just then, they heard a police broadcast about a store robbery nearby....

POSTED // Feb 27,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again Two men walked into a bank in Slidell, La., with a note demanding money. When the teller handed one of them money, the other exclaimed, “Hey, don’t take that woman’s money!” According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune,...

POSTED // Feb 20,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrived on the scene mere moments after an armed robber held up a bank in Vernon, British Columbia, because an RCMP detachment happened to be in the same building. The robber raced to his pickup truck,...

POSTED // Feb 13,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again A shoplifter hid $300 worth of hunting knives in his waistband at a store in Grand Rapids, Mich. but got into a scuffle with security guards and fell on the knives. Police said the 26-year-old suspect suffered several puncture wounds...

POSTED // Jan 30,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again While James Miller, 38, was being held as a burglary suspect in Dedham, Mass., he called his girlfriend to tell her to sneak him a handcuff key while hugging or kissing in court. Authorities thwarted the plan by monitoring Miller’s...

POSTED // Jan 23,2008 - Curses, Foiled Again A man broke into a condo in Clinton Township, Mich., only to be confronted by the owner, who had just returned from a hunting trip and greeted the intruder with a 12-gauge shotgun. According to police Capt. Richard Maierle, the 29-year-old...