Stupid!!!!! Just plain stupid.

[wiseone]

Mods.....Even though this arrest is not related to weed please allow this post. It just shows how stupid people can get, how they can get busted and what lengths LEO will go to get a confession:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tattoo-20110422,0,1399043.story

 

[BlueBlazer]

Link doesn't work for me.

 

[smokefrogg]

your link has http:// twice which is why it's broken

here's a link that works:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tattoo-20110422,0,1399043.story

here's copypasta:

Gang tattoo leads to a murder conviction
Inked on the chest of a Pico Rivera gang member was the detailed scene of a liquor store slaying that had stumped an L.A. County sheriff's investigator for more than four years. It leads to a jailhouse confession from Anthony Garcia — and a first-degree murder conviction.

L.A. County Sheriff's detectives said the tattoo on Anthony Garcia's chest included key details from the scene of a liquor store murder that puzzled them for four years. (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department)
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By Robert Faturechi, Los Angeles Times
April 22, 2011
The process was routine. L.A. County Sheriff's homicide investigator Kevin Lloyd was flipping through snapshots of tattooed gang members.

Then one caught his attention.

Inked on the pudgy chest of a young Pico Rivera gangster who had been picked up and released on a minor offense was the scene of a 2004 liquor store slaying that had stumped Lloyd for more than four years.

Each key detail was right there: the Christmas lights that lined the roof of the liquor store where 23-year-old John Juarez was gunned down, the direction his body fell, the bowed street lamp across the way and the street sign — all under the chilling banner of RIVERA KILLS, a reference to the gang Rivera-13.

As if to seal the deal, below the collarbone of the gang member known by the alias "Chopper" was a miniature helicopter raining down bullets on the scene.

Lloyd's discovery of the tattoo in 2008 launched a bizarre investigation that soon led to Anthony Garcia's arrest for the shooting. Then sheriff's detectives, posing as gang members, began talking to Garcia, 25, in his holding cell. They got a confession that this week led to a first-degree murder conviction in a killing investigators had once all but given up hope of solving.

For Lloyd, the image on the chest of the delicate, doe-eyed gang member brought back a rush of memories. The snapshot was taken inside the sheriff's Pico Rivera station after Garcia was arrested in a routine traffic stop and booked on suspicion of driving with a suspended license.

Before they are released, suspected gang members typically are asked to remove their shirts and have their tattoos photographed by graffiti team deputies. Taggers often mark their own bodies with the same signatures they spray on buses and storefronts — and eyewitnesses to crimes sometimes help close cases by recalling distinctive tattoos.

Homicide Lt. Dave Dolson said gang members frequently get symbolic tattoos to bolster their street cred: three dots on the hand to signify "mi vida loca" ("my crazy life"), sketches of prisons where they've done time, gang insignia prominently stenciled on their heads and torsos.

But a tattoo laying out a detailed picture of a crime scene is something far outside the norm. "I haven't seen it before, and I haven't heard of anything like it either," Dolson said.

Garcia's tattoo shows a man with the body of a peanut being hit by bullets and falling back toward the liquor store. In gang slang, the word "peanut" is used to derisively describe a rival gang member.

Lloyd had been at the scene of the Pico Rivera killing as a station sergeant. After he recognized it in the tattoo, the 30-year veteran called up the cold case file. He pored over the crime scene photographs alongside the photos of Garcia's chest. He also drove to the site of the slaying.

"I worked Pico Rivera a lot of years, so I'm pretty familiar with that area," he said. "It was incredible."

With the help of major crimes investigators, deputies found Garcia living with relatives in La Habra. They arrested him and began setting up a ruse to secure his conviction.

A detective posing as a Los Angeles gang member who'd been arrested on attempted murder charges was placed in Garcia's Norwalk station jail cell. He soon got Garcia talking, sheriff's investigators said. Garcia was proud, and he bragged about the shooting. He didn't know the conversation was being recorded and that it would soon be played for a jury.

But perhaps it was all bound to end up this way, said Capt. Mike Parker.

"Think about it. He tattooed his confession on his chest. You have a degree of fate with this," Parker said. "The detective who spotted it had been a Pico sergeant who went on to become a homicide sergeant. I never worked Pico station. I never would have recognized that Pico liquor store."

Investigators don't believe Garcia's elaborate tattoo was a rash decision. Photos from several bookings over the years show the mural on his chest evolving as he added details to the tattooed murder scene — until one day Lloyd saw them as a whole and something clicked.

robert.faturechi@latimes.com
Copyright © 2011, Los Angeles Times

 

[BongRipkenJR.]

I dunno what you are pissed about TS. The dude shot and killed somebody. Its a pretty heinous crime. Karma is a bitch? I don't mind police trying this shit on idiot gang members that are suspected of murder. However petty victimless crimes don't need this type of action imo.

 

[paulo73]

I love stupid criminals. Specially when they get caught.
I don´t approve most police action but in this case i don´t seem to mind it that much.
I prefer a cop to a gang member any day

 

[jd4083]

I dunno what you are pissed about TS. The dude shot and killed somebody. Its a pretty heinous crime. Karma is a bitch? I don't mind police trying this shit on idiot gang members that are suspected of murder. However petty victimless crimes don't need this type of action imo.

seriously, how could you take issue with this?

 

[gdtrfb]

had to do a doubletake, but...yah. his tattoo is of him ganking mr. peanut.

also, he's a helicopter.

i'm sure it made sense at the time...

 

[ddrew]

I knew Mr peanut would end up on the wrong end of a gun one day, going around wearing that big top hat, acting all superior.

 

[Midnight]

If your stupid ass is a bona fide gang member then I think you should be put against a wall and summarily executed. No trial, no attorney, just a bullet to the brain.

 

[wiseone]

I just don't understand how someone can be so ignorant that they'll tattoo their crimes onto their body parts. WTF?
Like the guy in Maryland who was busted/convicted last year for tattooing the murder of his child's mother onto his arm.
Makes sense why our prison system is so overcrowded if this is the mentality of some folks.

 

[CANNATOPIA]

lol.. yep not a bright one there. hehehe

 

[wiseone]

The main reason for this was to show just how the 'little' things can get you busted. I've seen so many times over the years people posting pics on here and other sites showing their ink, or showing more than what needs to be seen in the 'plant/bud' pics.
All it takes is for a 'click' to register in one's head.

Be safe folks.

 

[MMJcali]

I don't hate the police, and this is exactly why.

Sometimes they do really good things - like putting murderers behind bars.

 

[Supernatural]

What's more stupid is that a numpty who tattoos a confession to his chest had outsmarted the police all those years.

 

[longearedfriend]

nice read, I don't see gang members from a good eye

 

[genkisan]

Wow....there's one chap who has rancid porkfat fer brains, that's fer sure.........