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M.L. Nestel

Jun 23, 2025

MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE

ISSUE № 964 — 06-23-25

<> PULL QUOTE: ‘We’re asking all aspiring criminals, seasoned veterans, and those who find themselves committing crimes out of boredom, to please stay indoors. Today is a perfect day to Netflix and chill, literally, with the air conditioner set to 68 degrees. K? Thx!’

-Taylorville PD

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Until the next ones… -MMM

⬛ SIRENS/NATIONAL BLOTTER

▀ Parched Cops Ask Bad Guys To Cancel Crime & Stay Cool To Take Hot Day Off? (Taylorville, IL)

WITH THE MERCURY soaring into the 90s, a police department in Illinois is trying for a day truce with the bad guys.

“Due to the extreme heat, the Taylorville Police Department is officially cancelling all criminal activity for today and tomorrow. It is just too hot to be outside committing crimes. We’re asking all aspiring criminals, seasoned veterans, and those who find themselves committing crimes out of boredom, to please stay indoors. Today is a perfect day to Netflix and chill, literally, with the air conditioner set to 68 degrees. K? Thx!

Indeed, the region was experiencing the dogs of an early summer with peak temps reaching 93-degrees Farenheit.

The detente didn’t exactly go down well with fellow Taylorville denizens.

Some musing about taking off the day to stay cool instead as pure nonsense.

Others harped on the 68-degrees AC setting.

Todd Stringer: Well all right I suppose I could lay off high jinks for a few days.. maybe put off some tom foolery, definitely no bologna... What about shenanigans are shenanigans okay?

Andrew Smith: Well I guess I won’t rob a bank tonight. I’ll wait until fall.

Megan Fair: Who has the money to set the air to 68?? Ours is a solid 76 and definitely comfortable (as I sit here in my sweatpants and hoodie 🥶🤭)

Straight Heikes Walter: The criminals can watch 60 Days In to see what they are missing!!! Lol

Dakota AD Patrick: 68? Please 60 is where it’s at

Richardo Samplini: Why not 69 degrees. Even nicer

⬛ WANTED V. NABBED

▀ Walmart Century Sniper (Cleveland, OH)

A GLAD-HANDER GRABBED a C-Note from a distracted Walmart shopper.

Cops released a still image pulled from CCTV of a woman pushing a trolly that they say broke bad in the queue of the big box chain store.

The woman is being pursued for allegedly plucking $100 from another shopper in front of her as she was engaged in a conversation with her spouse.

BACKTALK

Jana Blackburn Crowder: I hate a thief, but....I hope she buys a good bra with it! Lol, sorry 😬

Gabriele Smith (responding to^): that’s probably why she stole the money! Those puppies needs a good support bra!

Tonya Raette Trundle: Sounds like she made a cash withdrawal and didn’t take it from the machine I had someone do that around Christmas I gave the money to the clerk and described the person that was in front of me

Debbie Welch Cox: Had to pay for that watermelon smh

David Fowler: It's 1984; Big Brother is everywhere. And a narrative was created, to sway the masses. How do we know from the image given that the woman is not carrying her own change? How do we KNOW she stole it? Not saying that she did or didn't but how do we honestly know when the charge is laid before the public and she's already being convicted by the masses.

Jonathan Tiffany Bogan: this is a screenshot to provide a picture for identification but there is live footage showing her taking the cash that was accidentally left and then paying for her items with the cash…

▀ Money Man (Sarasota, FL)

HE MADE A loathsome withdraw.

A skull-capped, shade-sporting bandit ripped off a bank of some of its drawer dough.

At around Noon on Friday, the not-so-incognito crook stepped into the Clark Road money hub.

Once he grabbed the loot, cops say he fled northbound towards Bronx Avenue.

▀ Hardhat Heister (Albany, GA)

A BOOTLEGGER IS being sought after for snatching construction boots from a home.

Cops say the suspect smashed house windows of a Hilltop Drive domicile back on June 20 and took off with soles.

They hope a tipster will come forward and make the guy.

▀ Perilous Jacker (Cactus, TX)

A PUNK ROLLED off in a 2019 Ford Fusion.

The hotwheels vanished and the suspect is someone not to be trifled with.

Local police warned: “If located DO NOT approach the individual(s)” and instead ring the law.

⬛ EVIDENCE ART

▀ Devil’s Dandruff Motel (Winthrop, ME)

A COUPLE WERE nabbed slinging product out of a motel and a storage unit.

The pair — 34-year-old Stephen Lee Smith of Connecticut and 32-year-old Katelynn Dubois of Winthrop — were taken into custody on June 18.

COps say they had been setting up shop from the motel and transacting cocaine and fentanyl to more than motivated clientele.

They also were stashing a bunch of their suspected powders inside a storage unit, authorities say.

All told they were netted with $44,500 worth of dope.

The bust had officers seizing from the storage unit 301 grams of cocaine, 116 grams of fentanyl, and $6,980 in suspected drug proceeds.

HAUL:

STORAGE UNIT + MOTEL: 301 grams of cocaine, 116 grams of fentanyl, and $6,980 in suspected drug proceeds.

RAPS: Aggravated drug trafficking. Dubois was also charged with unlawful trafficking schedule W drugs

▀ Cops Comandeer Arsenal And Dope (La Plata, MD)

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NARCOS RAIDED A man’s abode and hauled away loads of dope and guns.

Bruce Robinson, 57, was met by SWAT and other detectives who took his door on Weatherly Place back on May 30.

The man was cuffed.

The MOS walked out with bags filled with hundreds of Oxycodone tablets, Suboxone strips, amphetamine tablets, cocaine, several unregistered guns including three pistols, three rifles, two shotguns, and $6,400.

HAUL: Hundreds of Oxycodone tablets, Suboxone strips, amphetamine tablets, cocaine, several unregistered guns including three pistols, three rifles, two shotguns, and $6,400

RAP: Eight counts of weapons violations, five counts of drug/narcotics violations, and one count of drug equipment.

▀ Burrrrr (Sanford, NC)

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HIS GLOVEBOX WAS extra frosty.

Rasheem Burroughs was pinched while zipping along US 421 back on June 16.
Deputies pulled over the 35-year-old and discovered he was allegedly ferreting 271 grams of nose candy in vacuum-sealed bags stowed inside of the car’s glove box.

He was summarily arrested and booked.

HAUL: 271 grams of cocaine

RAP: Trafficking Cocaine by Transport, Trafficking Cocaine by Possession, Possession with Intent to Sell and Deliver Cocaine, Conspiracy to Traffic in Cocaine, Felony Maintaining a Vehicle for the Sale of a Controlled Substance

▀ Sketchy Driver Caught With 2 Keys (Selbyville, DE)

A MAN’S POOR road skills landed him in a heap of trouble.

Two bricks high!

Alfonzo Johnson, 44, was behind the wheel of a Cadillac on Route 1 back at around 10:30 a.m. on June 18.

Cops started to trail the man as he was racking up several infractions. That led to a stop and with enough reason to take a closer look — the car was searched.

That’s where investigators say they discovered two kilograms of puro tucked somewhere in the car.

Johnson was then booked and facing a heavy load of dope-peddling crimes.

He was remanded as he couldn’t come up with the $120,000 cash bail.

HAUL: Two kilos cocaine

RAP: Possession with/ intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, violation of following a motor vehicle too closely, violation of failure to signal continuously.