Oh, stupid criminals...you may have a new low to aspire to. A 22-year-old was arrested Tuesday in South Seattle for attempting to burglarize his own mother's house. The kid's mom and other family members confronted him and his 15-year-old accomplice in the midst of the would-be armed robbery and caused the kids to flee the scene. The pair were quickly arrested and await charges. We imagine this is one case where Mom won't be bailing......

There has to be a better was to do this, guys. Border patrol agents are reporting another huge bust at the Lynden border crossing into Canada. Agents followed footprints they found on the Canadian side of the border into some bushes, where they found three individuals and two duffel bags filled with 115 pounds of marijuana. Despite the stoner stereotype of smoke-induced dimwittedness, these type of stories and the frequency which they are reported astonishes......

The continuous availability of stupid criminal stories never ceases to amaze us. The latest vignette to this never-ending novel comes from the newly launched Seattle 911 Blog. The King County Sheriff is looking for a man suspected of robbing three banks this month, including hitting one of the banks twice. The suspect, who police describe as an African-American male in his mid-30s to 40s, first robbed the Key Bank branch on June 7th and then......

This is a new one. Instead of fleeing arrest, a Moses Lake man crashed his car into a police parking lot gate to guarantee his arrest would happen. Officers inside the station heard the impact of the crash and responded immediately (very easy to do when it involves getting up and walking outside). The gate to the police parking lot was destroyed and the culprit, Allen J. Pavese, was backing away from the scene......

The Oregon Supreme Court ruled today that helping a pal move their pot plants is indeed illegal. To which we have to say: it took the Oregon State Supreme Court to decide that? Surely a lower court could have easily ruled on this decision, ending it with a "duh." At the center of the case is Thomas Fries, who argued he should be acquitted of a marijuana possession charges because he was simply helping......

It's only Monday, but we can assure you the following will be the best local news headline you read all week: Man Watches as One-Legged Thief Steals His Truck It has everything you need for a funny local news headline: absurdity, oddness, a slapstick quality, and nobody was seriously injured. Everyone wins! Except the fellow who watched from a roof he was repairing as his truck was stolen by a wheelchair-bound, one-legged man. Not so......

We've all called in hooky and faked a cough or cold to get out of a day of work. Sometimes the daily grind just seems unbearable...we understand. But we sincerely hope that karmic justice comes fast and furious at Sandra Dee Martinez, a 40 year-old woman who faked brain cancer to get out of work. Martinez received over $21,000 of paid time-off from her job at the Department of Social and Health Services in......

A Coinstar employee has been accused of stealing nearly half a million dollars from the company's coin-counting machines in three states. 39-year-old Michael R. Burns was arrested yesterday and is expected to be charged with first-degree theft. Burns, who was trained to fix the Coinstar machines and worked in the company's manufacturing department, used his knowledge of the coin kiosks to break into them while he was off-duty. Because Burns would wear a company......

The Woods Coffee Shop in Bellingham was victim to two insults this weekend--theft and vandals who didn't take the care to spell their message properly. Someone caused over a thousand dollars of damage, smashing in a tempered window and plate glass. Also left behind at the scene of the crime, some misspelled political graffiti. "Facsism (sic) begins with the sale of public space" was stenciled on two of the remaining windows. Police believe the......

A Seabeck, Wash., man was arrested twice in one day for Driving Under the Influence. The 48-year-old man was pulled over twice by State Troopers on Friday for driving while intoxicated. The man was arrested once Friday morning with a blood-alcohol level of five times the legal limit. After being released, he must have gotten right back to drinking, because he was arrested that same night with a blood-alcohol level of four times the......

A Woodinville man accused of driving under the influence, showed up to his court date Monday obviously intoxicated. The 35 year old, Joseph T. Longfellow, had been arrested in December for his involvement in an accident on Route 202. Though Longfellow refused a breathalyzer test in the field, officers suspected he was intoxicated. Longfellow was scheduled to be sentenced in Redmond on Monday (2/11) for the DUI arrest. However Longfellow, who presumably drove himself......