Dumbest Person: Chicago Man Steals Prosecutor’s Purse from Courtroom, Racks Up Credit Card
While we admit that this is not the worst crime ever, it certainly could be categorized as being one of the dumbest identity theft crimes. As such, we are shifting this week’s “Worst Person” post to being the “Dumbest Person” post. So, what did this not-so-bright criminal do you ask? He stole a prosecutor’s purse from a court room. And, get this, while while at a hearing where his friend received a 3-year sentence for identity theft (irony anyone?).
That is correct. Derrick Boyd, 45, allegedly stole from the courtroom a Coach purse that belonged to a top felony prosecutors — then used her identity to buy items worth more than $1,100. In the trial that began this week, Kathy Patton, then a felony courtroom supervisor and now chief of the state’s attorney’s felony division, testified she left her brown leather purse under a table prosecutors use in a fourth-floor courtroom on Nov. 24, 2008, before stepping outside to speak with a police officer. When she came back, the purse was gone.
What Boyd did not realize was that security cameras caught him red-handed. Man, did you not think that there would be security cameras in the courtroom?
Derrick Boyd, you are clearly not the brightest bulb on the tree. And, congratulations, you are officially the first ever “Dumbest Person” in identity theft.
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