Apparently this dude's never seen HBO's "The Wire," or else he would know that cell phones and crime do not mix. For example, if you try to charge your cell phone at the scene of a crime, you might always forget to scoop it up before making your getaway. And that's exactly what cops in Maryland say happened to 26-year-old Cody Wilkins (pictured on the left), who now stands charged in 10 home burglaries involving jewelry thefts (link below).Following a snowstorm, more than 200,000 Montgomery County, Maryland residents had been without power recently, and cops say Wilkins was among them. Thus, "he needed a place – anyplace, it seems – to charge his phone." And what better place that in someone else's home during a burglary!
I'm trying to understand Wilkins' thought process here (allegedly): OK, I got two things I need to accomplish today:
(1) Pull another jewelry heist; and (2) Find someplace to charge up this damn cell phone. Wait! I can multitask! Kill two birds with one stone! If I can just find a home with power, I can knock the joint over and get a good charge into my phone!
But so much for the best laid plans of mice and men. Cops say Wilkins found a home with power, entered through a rear window and started "rifling through the rooms." But that's when the owner's son showed up!
Cops say that hearing the son's entry downstairs frightened Wilkins, who allegedly jumped out a window and ran away. When the cops arrived, they found "a cell phone, charging in an electric socket, that didn't belong to the homeowner." Two words:
BUS-TED! [BTW, no word yet whether this multitasking marauder also had some supper going on the home's stove when he was forced to flee].
Cops quickly found out the identity of the phone's owner by pulling a little "ruse" in which they used the same cell phone and called a number that had been programmed into it. They told the woman who answered that the man to whom this cell phone belonged had been involved in an "incident" and they needed to know his name.
Turns out that the woman was Wilkins' girlfriend, and she quickly led cops straight to the phone-charging bandit (allegedly). When cops got to Wilkins' home, there was apparently no disruption in his water service, since they say he was in the $hithouse trying to flush jewelry down the toilet.
Cops have pinned 10 burglaries on Wilkins so far, and more are probably on the way: It seems that the area has suffered more than 40 similar jewelry heists since January 1, not to mention that Lindsay Lohan (who can't leave California) has an airtight alibi.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/02/AR2011020206010.html?hpid=sec-metro
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