During the 2000s, it seemed like there was a bottomless collection of TV shows about the most intense police chases or the world’s dumbest criminals.
They were likely a response to the success of Cops and it was hard not to at least watch them for a little while before flipping past to whatever we were actually looking for. But one thing that never seemed to emerge from that “real police videos” craze was a show about criminals who weren’t necessarily dumb, but just ridiculously unlucky.
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We’ll probably never know whether that was because they didn’t have enough footage for something like that, didn’t think their audiences would like that framing, or simply never thought of it.
But if they had, one man’s recent brush with the law would fit into that show’s programming perfectly.
While patrolling the M-55 near Clam Lake Township, Michigan, police came across a vehicle parked on the shoulder.
According to Fox23 , troopers noticed a woman in the driver’s seat and a man riding shotgun.
They also noticed that the man ducked when they turned on their emergency lights.
This only seemed to heighten the officers’ suspicions and they approached the vehicle and asked the man for his name.
Apparently thinking he had an ace in the hole, the man then gave them a fake name.
But if he just came up with his phony identity on the spot, he’d be hard pressed to think of a worse possible moniker.
That’s because when police ran the name, they found that the person attached to it had a warrant for his arrest.
As Fox23 reported, while troopers were in the process of arresting the 30-year-old Lawton resident for this other man’s crime, they found methamphetamine and other drug paraphernalia on his person.
But while it already seemed like the man was in enough trouble, it turned out that his legal woes were just beginning.
Troopers told Fox23 that he had somehow found a way to smuggle more drugs into Wexford County Jail while he was being booked for the contraband they had already found.
Apparently, it wasn’t until the man was being fingerprinted that police realized he had given them a fake name.
So while that means he’s no longer on the hook for whatever the person attached to that name was wanted for, it also meant that officers were able to add a count of lying to a peace officer during a felony to his drug charges.
They also decided to charge him with littering “after troopers found numerous pop cans and lottery tickets that were thrown on the ground that were able to be connected back to the vehicle.”
h/t: Fox23
