Dumbest criminal....gets arrested 30 minutes after being released from Prison

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A clueless criminal who stole a taxi less than 30 minutes after he was released from prison was caught after leaving his release papers on the front seat.

Gerard Graham, 31, had only been released from HMP Grampian for 20 minutes before he stole the cab because he was 'too impatient' to wait for a short bus ride back to Aberdeen.

He grabbed the vehicle from a petrol station while the driver was paying for fuel, before breaking into his ex-girlfriend's car where he left another damning piece of evidence behind - his prison travel voucher.

Graham was eventually traced to a residential street in Aberdeen the next day, where he was found to be in possession of a stolen bicycle.

He was put back behind bars for another 10 months, with his own exasperated solicitor describing the career criminal's actions as 'absolutely insane'.

Graham pleaded guilty to six charges at court, where he was told he will serve another 10 months behind bars and be banned from driving for more than a year.

The 31-year-old stole the minibus taxi from a petrol station in Peterhead before abandoning it in Aberdeen with the crucial clue, his release papers, still on display.

Fiscal depute Lucy Simpson said the taxi's owner was paying for fuel when Graham jumped in and drove off on October 28 last year.

But that wasn't the end of his ineptitude.

He next stole his ex-girlfriend's car and left another damning piece of evidence behind - his prison travel voucher.

Graham has been now been placed back behind bars for another 10 months following the incidents with his own solicitor describing it as 'absolutely insane.'
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I laughed out loud at this...how dumb can you get...?
 

Back in the 90's when I was working for the Sheriff's Dept. I had an inmate worker who:
...just got released from state prison(CIM), had the $200 given to him(called "gate money") so that he could at least buy a meal or two and pay for a room. He was just down the street from the prison- went into a grocery store and stole a pair of flip flops and some other small item. Store security was watching him, as they can spot a parolee easily. That was that, arrested, parole violated and sent to county jail. :rolleyes:
 
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Bellbird said:
Maybe he wanted to go back in, they get all the comforts of home, I have heard of it going on here.
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Perhaps some do want to go back, if prison life has been all they're known, for decades. Most prisons don't have the "comforts of home", unless that means frequent body searches, eating and sleeping in a communal setting or sharing living quarters that is 70 sq ft, and being watched over by people wearing green Kevlar vests and toting pepper spray.
 
Well, the guy already WAS in prison, so his police avoiding skills needed some improving to begin with. One kind of ironic thing is he gets to spend almost another year in prison, and for punishment, he loses his driver's license for a year. I doubt that'll be much of a problem for him.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Well, the guy already WAS in prison, so his police avoiding skills needed some improving to begin with. One kind of ironic thing is he gets to spend almost another year in prison, and for punishment, he loses his driver's license for a year. I doubt that'll be much of a problem for him.
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Maybe he'll steal a boat the next time.
 

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