Couple Catches Burglar and Makes Him Clean Their Home

In Montgomery, Al a couple named Adrian and Tiffany McKinnon came home to find a thief had broken in and had taken almost everything they owned. Adrian sent his wife her sister’s house while he inspected the house. When he walked back into their sunroom, the thief walked in from the back door straight into him. Adrian held the man at gunpoint and made him clean up the mess that he had made, which was piles of stuff that was thrown out of the drawers and cabinets to the floor, until the police arrived. When the police arrived the thief complained about being made to clean up at gunpoint.

The thief is being charged with burglary and theft. He is being held at the Montgomery County Detention Facility on a $30,000 bond.

Burglar Says TV Taught Him How to Rob

In Richmond, KY a man, named Michael Hobbs, says that he learned how to rob homes by watching television. He says he learned how to break in to homes by watching the Discovery Channel show “It Takes a Thief.” The show is about two ex-convicts who show property owners how easy it is to rob a home. Hobbs was sentenced to 12 years in prison and pleaded guilty to five counts of burglary.

A Thief and Victim Meet Again

It is reported that in Prescott, Arizona, A woman whose purse was stolen and the thief who stole it by chance stood next to each other at a Prescott bookstore and as she complained about the unauthorized use of her credit card he was there to get some money.

The victim went to the store to report that someone had stolen her purse and used her credit card fraudulently to buy $200 worth of DVDs. Several minutes later while the victim was standing there a man went to the counter and tried to return eight DVDs in exchange for cash. At the time the two didn't recognize each other.

When the manager came to the counter to handle both transactions she immediately made a connection with the situation. That is when the thief ran out of the store.

The thief admitted to the police that he had stolen the purse and used the victim's credit card at the bookstore, a grocery store, and a Walmart that totaled up to $716 worth of goods.