Beldin:
Re: “If I remember correctly, he was burglarizing the Church building and cars, and when confronted, he was combative.”
You remember correctly but he wasn't combative (except for calling people liars.) In fact, we all thought it was odd that he didn't just climb in his truck and leave. No one would have stopped him. But he didn't realize the extent to which he'd been seen and decided to play the "I didn't do anything wrong!" line until after the police had arrived and heard him contradict himself.
See, he thought he'd been seen in the church so he just tried to say that he'd made a wrong turn while wandering around and trying to deliver an Amazon package and find a bathroom. In fact, he WAS delivering an Amazon package so his explanation might have worked. What he didn't know is that my wife actually saw him in the pastor's car before going outside and talking to him (when he was no longer in the car.) The police found the pastor's checkbook in his pocket and he admitted that he'd picked it up near her office - "but that was all. Honest!" Then the pastor told the police that $100 was missing from her car. He called her a liar. The police searched him and found a hundred dollar bill tucked into his sock. Whoops.
The guy seemingly went into the pastor's office, found her keys and checkbook, used the key fob to find her car, ransacked it and found the money, RETURNED the keys to the pastor's desk drawer, and then encountered my wife. It was an interesting strategy. With the keys not missing, the pastor would probably have never realized that she'd been robbed and may have just thought she'd lost the checkbook and money.
I wonder how many times the guy pulled that stunt and got away with it. As an Amazon deliveryman, he had an excuse for entering and wandering around businesses.
But he didn't get away with it this time. The case was open and shut.
By the way, I asked my wife if he LOOKED like a crook and she said he did. She described him as looking like Snoop Dog. She's obviously prejudiced against Snoop Dog lookalikes. clo would call her an evil person and blame the judge for not fining my wife.
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