Suspect Arrested In Rosenbaum Murder
Following the area-wide broadcast of surveillance video of a man allegedly using the credit card of slain New York Times reporter David E. Rosenbaum, a man walked into a police substation in the worst part of town and asked a peculiar question.
Michael C. Hamlin was arrested shortly after 6 p.m. when he walked into the 7th District police station in the 2400 block of Alabama Avenue SE, which is in the block where he lives, and asked why "my face is on TV," police said.
Criminals are famously stupid, but this is either a whole new category of dumbshit, or there is more to the story than is being reported.
If a crook had found and used a credit card conveniently left in a bad part of town, I could see him walking into a police station to try to talk his way out of trouble.
A murderer, however, would not seem a likely candidate to try such an approach.
Even dumbasses have watched "NYPD Blue" and other police propaganda shows and would probably not want to go in for the full treatment.
Food for thought.
Update: A second suspect has been arrested. He walked into the police station, too. Everyone can get back to working on their taxes now.
Michael C. Hamlin was arrested shortly after 6 p.m. when he walked into the 7th District police station in the 2400 block of Alabama Avenue SE, which is in the block where he lives, and asked why "my face is on TV," police said.
Criminals are famously stupid, but this is either a whole new category of dumbshit, or there is more to the story than is being reported.
If a crook had found and used a credit card conveniently left in a bad part of town, I could see him walking into a police station to try to talk his way out of trouble.
A murderer, however, would not seem a likely candidate to try such an approach.
Even dumbasses have watched "NYPD Blue" and other police propaganda shows and would probably not want to go in for the full treatment.
Food for thought.
Update: A second suspect has been arrested. He walked into the police station, too. Everyone can get back to working on their taxes now.
posted by Effwit at 9:53 AM
3 Comments:
Stonefruit:
That's my working hypothesis.
The PTB certainly need to close this case.
Elsewise, the critical questions would just keep multiplying.
It does seem odd that these guys would just turn themselves in. Two-bit hoodlums who are out to rob people on the street don't just walk into the police station to turn themselves in or to find out why their faces were on TV. At least, not unless there's something in it for them. I hardly believe this would be the first time these guys had done something like this, and one would think they would know the risks of using a stolen credit card.
Hey, lots of criminals are dumbasses who do really stupid things. Maybe these guys fall into that category. Or maybe there's more to this story than meets the eye. We may never know for sure.
Drew L:
This case seems very dirty.
We will keep an eye on the proceedings.
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