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A man steals a snake by stuffing it down his pants; a woman turns shoplifting into a game of chance; a man makes himself a pizza while breaking into a pizzeria.
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00:00A crossbow klepto with a bold plan.
00:24A smashing grabber who thinks inside the box.
00:27Who uses a box to cover their hands?
00:30A shoplifter with a creative excuse.
00:34A serpent snatcher who hides the goods in a sensitive spot.
00:44If you are gonna steal a snake, you probably shouldn't put it down in front of your pants.
00:49We're counting down the strangest of the strange steals caught on camera.
00:54Kicking things off at number five, a man shoves his live loot where the sun don't shine.
01:10Animal House Pet Center in St. Petersburg, Florida has seen its share of theft over 30 years in business.
01:17Despite their best efforts, some expensive animals began to go missing, including snakes.
01:26Pretty much to the day, every month, we were missing snakes.
01:31You know, these snakes go for $150, $300, $400 a piece.
01:37The owners, Steve and John Silk, continuously check their surveillance footage in search of answers.
01:43Probably flipped them for $100 or something.
01:47Something like coming in here, twisting a lock off, pulling a snake out of the tank.
01:50I mean, that's a quick $100, $150 for him right there.
01:55Finally, the Silk spotted a man later identified as 27-year-old Travis Tretter acting suspiciously near the reptile room.
02:03My son came to me and said, you know, I think this is the guy.
02:09The second he walked through the store, I was kind of excited because I'm like, okay, something's going to happen.
02:15Steve and John immediately headed into the store's office to follow their suspect on the security cameras.
02:21I kept watching and watching and watching after, you know, several minutes went by.
02:34Sure enough, he had walked right up to the cage, looked over his shoulder a few times towards the register,
02:39and in one quick motion just kind of twisted the lock off the cage, reached in, grabbed two pythons, and dropped them right in his pants.
02:46The Silk's watch as Tretter stole snakes, very similar to the ones that had previously gone missing from the store.
02:56Can't wake up. It's in his pants.
03:10As Steve confronted Tretter, John recorded the interaction on his cell phone.
03:14John? Yeah.
03:16Man, I'll tell you right now.
03:17No, stop.
03:18Locking the door.
03:20I'm locking the door.
03:21Stop.
03:22I'm locking the door.
03:24Locking the door.
03:26Lock the door.
03:27I'm locking the door.
03:28He broke loose, hit the front door.
03:30Stop.
03:31No, no, sorry.
03:32Man, stop.
03:33Adam and a chokehold I thought would slow him down, but it didn't.
03:37Meanwhile, watching all of this unfold was Roosevelt Kimball, an active duty Army veteran who was waiting at the counter to pay for dog food.
03:46I just stepped in and asked those guys if they have any zip ties in the store, which they did. I made a pair of flex cuffs with the zip ties. I put them on the gentleman.
04:01Give me other hands. Put your other hand back on your back now.
04:06And then we proceeded to take him to the back office and wait for law enforcement to come.
04:12He's still there.
04:13Please call somebody.
04:14I'll call somebody.
04:15I need to get down.
04:16Don't you start nothing crazy now.
04:18St. Petersburg police soon arrived and Shredder was arrested.
04:23He pled guilty to petted theft and resisting a merchant and was sentenced to 123 days in jail.
04:30He was also ordered to pay $450 in fines and court fees.
04:36The snakes were safely returned unharmed to their tanks and eventually sold to new owners.
04:42And for any would-be thief casing this pet emporium, Roosevelt has a bit of advice.
04:47Don't steal from the animal house because they will lock the doors.
04:51Everybody in the store will jump on you at the same time.
04:54And if you are going to steal a snake, you probably shouldn't put it down in front of your pants.
05:00In Florida, several jurisdictions are on the hunt for a person they say is becoming a serial thief and a master of disguise.
05:15Grocery store surveillance video captures someone dressed in a floral dress and a blue bonnet zooming around on a motorized shopping cart.
05:30The individual is seen weaving through the aisles before ending up parked in front of the shelves filled with baby formula.
05:37Once the basket is loaded, the culprit drives away.
05:43Only to return for another round of cans.
05:46Multiple stores are hit over the course of three months.
05:50And when the suspect strikes again, this time in Lee County, the sheriff's office gets the case.
05:56Just who is the bonnet-wearing formula swiper?
06:00An elderly woman doing the dastardly deed?
06:03Detectives soon discover the thief is not who they appear to be.
06:07Employees call us, make a report saying there's a gentleman in disguise hitting the stores and stealing baby formula.
06:16The distinctive headwear becomes the unofficial name of the case.
06:20When I first assigned the blue bonnet case, I ended up reviewing video cameras to see what kind of leads we had.
06:26He knew where that baby aisle was.
06:28So once he found that, it was just a matter of getting as many cans into his cart or his bag as possible.
06:35Within the two minutes he was in and out.
06:37I think one of the employees was able to identify him for a six-pack photo lineup.
06:41We were able to get an actual name from an individual who used to go to school with him.
06:47The baby formula bandit is soon identified as 24-year-old John Owens.
06:57Reports say Owens' intent was to resell the stolen formula.
07:01I was able to establish a proper cause and write up a warrant request where he just picked up that later date.
07:08For all of the incidents, Owens is eventually arrested and charged with two counts of grand theft.
07:14Larceny grand theft, less than $5,000, burglary of a structure, and scheme to defraud.
07:20He accepts a plea deal, pleading no contest to a burglary of a structure, and scheme to defraud.
07:28The other charges are dismissed.
07:30Owens is sentenced to one year in county jail, 36 months of probation, and to pay $3,772 in restitution and court costs.
07:41Although the next clip didn't make the top five, it deserves an honorable mention.
07:51Shoplifters are a big problem for American businesses, large and small.
07:58Only about 2% are ever caught.
08:00So it's no wonder 46-year-old Darren Durant Jr. felt brazen enough to take it to a whole new level.
08:07Durant's suspicious behavior had previously caught the attention of a hardware store in Mims, Florida.
08:19But until recently, their security cameras were broken, so catching thieves was difficult.
08:25One store employee noticed that Durant always left in a red Jeep, so they took a picture of it just in case.
08:33Then, after an inventory check showed that two crossbows were missing, the store's manager fixed the surveillance cameras and eventually caught Durant stealing the same type of crossbow.
08:45After realizing it was attached to a display, Durant came back with snippers and clipped the 34-inch crossbow from his tethering, took it to a less conspicuous aisle, and stuffed it down his pants.
09:08The store's manager called the Brevard County Sheriff's Department, who ran the Jeep's license plate, matched it to Durant and issued a warrant for his arrest.
09:21About two weeks later, he was tracked to a nearby drugstore and, after a short-lived escape attempt, was arrested.
09:36Durant, Durant, who already had multiple theft convictions on his record, fled guilty to a felony charge of petted theft with two or more prior convictions.
09:47He was sentenced to 27 months in prison.
09:50When officers encounter a suspected shoplifter in a parking lot one afternoon in March, they unknowingly end up as players in a very strange game.
10:03A call comes in to Central Dispatch about a potential theft in progress in Palm Coast, Florida.
10:14911, where is your emergency?
10:19Somebody just shoplifted.
10:22Can you give me a description of the subject?
10:25Red hair with a bandana and black hoodie.
10:28It doesn't take long for Flagler County officers to make contact with the suspected shoplifter, 30-year-old Amber McCann.
10:35How you doing?
10:36Good.
10:37Awesome.
10:38So...
10:39What's up?
10:40Okay.
10:41Is this your car over here?
10:42No.
10:43All right, would you come over here with me?
10:44Where?
10:45Over in this lane.
10:46For what?
10:47So...
10:48We're doing an investigation right now.
10:49Apparently somebody walked out with a...
10:50Car?
10:51Put it in a random car?
10:52Yeah.
10:53Yeah, that was me.
10:55Well, this is a first.
10:56People usually don't just come up and say, yeah, I did it.
10:59Would you come over by the car with us?
11:01Whose car is it?
11:02What do you mean?
11:03Whose car is it?
11:04I don't know.
11:05Me neither.
11:06Okay.
11:07So where's all your stuff you took out of the store and put it in the car?
11:08I put it in a random car that was open.
11:09In a random car that was open?
11:10Yeah.
11:11For what?
11:12What do you mean, for what?
11:13Because y'all was coming.
11:15Okay, so you just put all the stuff in a random car you didn't know?
11:17Yeah.
11:18It's a game I was playing.
11:19Okay.
11:20Yeah.
11:21You got any ID on you?
11:22No.
11:23All right.
11:24Makes sense.
11:25What kind of purse did you have?
11:26It's a Michael Kors purse.
11:27Can you go get it for me?
11:28After asking the officer to run an errand for her, McCann elaborates on her so-called
11:31game.
11:32It's a game that we play.
11:33It's called 21.
11:34It's basically like you go and steal all the that you can steal and then you get out
11:35without being caught.
11:36Well, I did it one other time than this time, but I got caught this time.
11:37So now I got to figure out where my purse is and where my merchandise is because now
11:38I got to give all the merchandise back.
11:39Well, it's not really a game.
11:40It is a game.
11:41It's stuff.
11:42To you, that's stuff.
11:43It's fun too.
11:44It's really fun.
11:45Oh, going to jail is fun.
11:46Okay.
11:47Well, I suppose.
11:48Am I going to jail?
11:49It was just weird that she would just nonchalantly be stealing stuff from a store and think it's
11:54no big deal.
11:55Go ahead and put your hands behind your back for me.
11:56Do you have any leg shackles?
11:57I don't need leg shackles.
11:58I have a hobble.
11:59Hey, I have a hobble.
12:00I was just trying to grab my phone.
12:02You want flex?
12:03We can do flex.
12:04Yeah.
12:05Just for now.
12:06You all going to put me shackles?
12:07Are you f***ing serious?
12:08You got a cast on me?
12:09I'm not.
12:10No, no.
12:11I'm not.
12:12I'm not.
12:13I'm not.
12:14I'm not.
12:15You got a cast on me.
12:16You got a cast on me?
12:17I'm not.
12:18I'm not.
12:19I'm not.
12:20You got a cast on me?
12:21I'm not.
12:22I'm not.
12:23I'm not.
12:24So you got a cast on your arm.
12:25Exactly.
12:26Regular handcuffs.
12:27They got scraped up knees, too.
12:28Okay.
12:29So what are y'all putting shackles on me for?
12:31You got a cast on your arm.
12:33Oh.
12:33It's too big for regular handcuffs.
12:35Oh, okay.
12:35Look at that.
12:36Flex cuffs.
12:37So I'm just going to stick these back here.
12:43After a few minutes in the police vehicle, Amber's story suddenly begins to change.
12:48It's my boyfriend's car.
12:49It's your boyfriend's car?
12:49But my boyfriend doesn't know that I steal.
12:51Okay.
12:51And he doesn't know that I put all this in the car, neither.
12:54Okay.
12:54I thought you said it was someone random.
12:56Yeah, I know.
12:57I lied to you.
12:57This was the strangest arrest that I've countered.
13:00While checking the vehicle in question, officers find over $1,000 worth of stolen merchandise,
13:06as well as narcotics.
13:10And so it's game over for McCann.
13:12Before we go any further, I'll give you the right to remain silent.
13:15Okay, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
13:17We still have to read it before we can talk.
13:18Okay, go ahead.
13:18It's like music to my ears.
13:19McCann is charged with trafficking methamphetamine, grand theft, possession of a Schedule IV substance,
13:28possession of cannabis, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
13:32She pleads no contest and is sentenced to 86 days in jail, 12 months in a residential drug treatment program,
13:39followed by four years of probation.
13:41Jeremiah's Berganza was not only upset when his store got burglarized, he was also confused.
13:56One of my technician guys went into the store really early in the morning,
14:01and he called me like 8 a.m. in the morning.
14:03He's like, Jeremiah, somebody has broken, so you got to come right now.
14:08That was a really bad way of waking up.
14:12We went through the security footage.
14:15I see this guy with a box in his head.
14:24Who uses a box to cover their heads?
14:30He's like struggling to move it around so he can see.
14:34And right at that moment, he dropped the box.
14:36After his box blunder, the alleged burglar exits the store for now.
14:42The first break-in was at 12.30, so he came back like around 2 to 3 a.m.
14:50The second time, I guess he learned that the box wasn't the best way to cover his face.
14:55Luckily for Berganza, the alleged burglar's mistake was his good fortune.
15:13Right when the box fell, we saw his face, and we knew who he was.
15:18He was always hanging around in the plaza.
15:21So I started talking to all the business around the plaza and showing them the picture of the guy.
15:28Later that day, Jeremiah's detective work pays off.
15:31The guys from the barbershop called me like, the guy that broke into the store is in the liquor store, just hanging around, drinking, like nothing happened.
15:41Come right now.
15:42So at that moment, I called the police.
15:44Police arrive at the scene and arrest the now-unmasked 33-year-old Claude Vincent Griffin.
15:55That's not right.
15:57Please don't take me to jail.
15:59Please don't take me to jail.
16:02I'm not gonna run.
16:04I'm not gonna run.
16:11I did the whole investigation.
16:13I found him.
16:14It felt really exciting, you know?
16:17Most of the shows that I watch about how people catch the bad guys, you know, paid off.
16:26Got him?
16:27Yeah.
16:29Griffin is charged with two counts of grand theft, two counts of burglary, criminal mischief, and resisting an officer without violence.
16:37He pleads guilty and is sentenced to 366 days in jail and two years of probation.
16:48For the number one strange deal, a burglar gets sidetracked and starts cooking dinner.
16:54That's 25-year-old Oscar Sanchez inside Big Slice Pizza in Fullerton, California.
17:02He's broken in after hours and appears to be making himself a pizza.
17:08So we saw the suspect's force entry into the store, started looking at some items, rifling through some things.
17:23And then made his way back towards the pizza kitchen, where he put on some gloves, grabbed some dough, to kind of prepare to make himself a pizza pie.
17:41He begins to kind of knead the dough out.
17:46He attempts to actually throw the air a little bit.
17:51This was one thing that was definitely surprising.
17:58But despite the video evidence of his crimes, police were missing one key piece of information.
18:05Based off of the surveillance footage, we couldn't identify and tell you exactly who that person was.
18:10It gave us characteristics and physical descriptions.
18:13There's a male, thin build.
18:15He had a dark blue hat on with a sweater and a dark sweater vest, some shorts and black frame glasses.
18:22There were a few tablets taken.
18:24There was like a credit card machine.
18:26Also what was taken were some printers and then keys to a vehicle that belonged to the business.
18:33The unidentified man never finished making his pizza.
18:36Instead, he went outside where security cameras captured him stealing a silver Chevy Spark, the restaurant's delivery vehicle, which soon became the case's most important piece of evidence.
18:47We enter that license plate and the vehicle description into a database so that everybody kind of knows when they contact this vehicle that it's stolen.
18:56And the next day, Brea Police got an alert from a silver Chevy Spark.
19:00It helped the Brea Police Department hone in and ultimately locate that stolen car in the suspect.
19:07Just three days after Big Slice Pizza's burglary, the suspect was arrested at his home in La Habra, California.
19:16Wait a second, Jake.
19:17Hey, what's up, man?
19:18Officer, come out.
19:18Your hands up, dude.
19:19Am I getting arrested?
19:21Yeah, you're getting arrested.
19:22I'm just going to read your rights and get that out of the way.
19:25I just need to walk past me.
19:26Police Department, anybody inside?
19:28They located items that corroborated that he was there.
19:34A lot of clothing that matched the description of the subject in the video was at the suspect's house.
19:39That's you, right?
19:40Yeah.
19:41Look at the hat, look at the jacket.
19:43Where are his registers?
19:44Where are his drill?
19:45Where are some tablets?
19:47It's in your car.
19:48All of it?
19:49It was you.
19:49Although Sanchez admitted to the burglary, the motive behind his illegal pizza making is still in question.
19:58Do you want to see the video of you making pizza?
20:00Yeah.
20:01Did you see it?
20:02Man.
20:04You used to make pizza before or what?
20:05Hell no.
20:06I never make pizza before.
20:07I don't know what you're doing, dude.
20:09It looks like a huge pizza taco or something.
20:11If I couldn't make it round, I was going to make my deep dish, but I couldn't find a pan.
20:14The stolen car and electronics were all returned to Big Slice Pizza.
20:20So bottom line, Oscar, would you agree you shouldn't break into pizza shops?
20:23Yeah?
20:24Or make pizza?
20:26Sanchez was charged with grand theft, grand theft auto, and second-degree burglary.
20:31He pled guilty, and since he had a prior record, received an enhanced sentencing of four years in prison.
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