MMM - DAILY
MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE
ISSUE № 970 — 07-02-25
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<> PULL QUOTE: ‘This is Matt. I can’t answer. Leave a message.’
-Thief’s new recorded prompt after stealing phone and going on a $13,000 Dior shopping spree.
< ‘I am going to call the sheriff because you stole from me!’
-Trespassed customer who was refused service, accuses merchant of taking his cash.
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Until the next ones… -MMM
⬛ SIRENS/NATIONAL BLOTTER
▀ IHop Armed Heist Was Inside Job: Cops (Greenville, NC)
AN EX-IHOP WHO held up an IHop at gunpoint for quick cash has been netted.
William Brown, 32, was picked up for the heist of his former workplace back on June 16.
Cops say the man marched into the pancake chain located on Evans Street and pulled the pice and demanded till cash.
He apparently scored $3,300 and then fled.
The worker-turned-criminal faces common law robbery and felony conspiracy.
▀ Ax Swinging Bank Robber Gashes Clerk (Southfield, MI)
HE HAD CASH and his ax when he was picked up on Joy Road.
The 55-year-old allegedly ripped off a PNC Bank branch located on Northwestern Highway at around 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday
The lumberjack looter barked to workers to give up the greenbacks.
That’s when cops say he swung the ax and whacked a woman clerk on her head.
An hour later he was sitting in the back of a cop cruiser.
Meantime, the woman was rushed to the hospital and expected to recover.
▀ Naked Man Mugs Pair With Wooden Post (Raleigh, NC)
A BARENAKED BRUTE terrorized several people with a wooden post.
Cops say the birthday-suited bandit had been strutting his stuff along Atlantic Avenue on Tuesday when he turned surly.
He first approached a man who had been exiting his car and ordered him to drop everything he was carrying and let him in.
The man crawled back into the ride and locked the doors. But not before the lunatic struck him with the wooden post.
The capricious kook wasn’t done.
He then allegeldy targeted a woman, creeping up to her as she was eating her lunch in her car.
And with his wooden weapon he hit her in the arm with the wooden post yanking her out of the car and attempting to drive off.
However, the dunce couldn’t figure out how to shift the car out of park.
He then skipped out and ducked into a storage room.
Cops found him (in his state of undress) and put some cuffs on his wrists.
It’s unclear if they managed to drape a blanket over him to save the world from the sight.
⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ Table Full (Griffin, GA)
A REPUTED SLINGER in the drug game fouled out after deputies raided his home.
Travis Warner, 45, was walked off in cuffs back on June 25 following a surprise visit by the heat at his Hollonville Road residence. So was 45-year-old Andrew Ordonez (but only for his alleged MJ stash).
“Warner is familiar to us, he kept selling, and once again, his occupying a jail cell on Justice Boulevard. What he needs to worry about now is the total of 36 felony charges he faces, where he will be laying his head for the immediate future, and the distinct possibility of federal prosecution. Thirty-six felonies sounds like a lot, and it is, but those are the stupid prizes you win when you play stupid games.” -Spalding Sheriff Darrell Dix said.
HAUL: A pound of coke, 10 pounds of MJ, a pound of cocaine, a pound of psilocybin mushrooms, all sorts of illegal THC vape products, a substantial amount of fentanyl and fentanyl pills, and an assortment of other prescription medications, including oxycodone, amphetamine pills, codeine pills, 15 guns (three of which were reported stolen from various Georgia counties).
RAP:
*Warner: Trafficking cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, possession of cocaine, trafficking marijuana, possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, possession of marijuana, trafficking amphetamine, trafficking opium, possession of Schedule I narcotics (psilocybin mushrooms), possession of Schedule I narcotics with intent to distribute, possession of Schedule I narcotics (THC Oil), possession of Schedule I narcotics with intent to distribute, possession of fentanyl, possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, two counts of Possession of a Schedule II controlled substance, two counts of Possession Schedule II controlled substance with intent to distribute, two counts of possession of a Schedule IV controlled substance, possession Schedule IV with intent to distribute, 15 counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony
*Ordonez: Possession of marijuana
▀ Getting Kicks On Route 66 (Middlefield, CT)
THE DUO WAS busted for being bose deep in white powder.
Jameson Beardsley, 38, and John Arnold, 27, were busted on Monday while fluring along Route 66.
State troopers brought in a pooch and after a “free air sniff” caught a scent of the bad stuff.
The takeaway from the traffic stop resulted in the confiscation of 52 bags of cocaine (weighing in on 83 grams), six mystery pills, dope paraphernalia, and $2,442.
HAUL: 52 bags of cocaine (weighing in on 83 grams), six mystery pills, dope paraphernalia, and $2,442
RAP: Possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, use of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance. Arnold has been charged with use of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance.
▀ Dope Seized, Deviant Lamming (South Fulton, TN)
A DOPE TASK force moved in on a suspected slinger of all kinds of narcotics.
Only the perp flew the coop.
Tyler Armstrong, 34, was a no-show when narcos raided his home and bagged 8 pounds of methamphetamine, 1.25 pounds of MJ, 14 ounces of coke, 24 ounces of Promethazine, and $21,315.
Whenever he’s wrangled, Armstrong will be facing felony warrants including 2 counts of possession with intent to sell schedule II, possesion with intent to sell schedule IV, and possession with intent to sell schedule VI.
⬛ THE BLUE NOTE
▀ Power Wrench Goes Poof (Orange, OH)
«SOURCE»
▀ Laundry Looters Back At It (Agoura Hills, CA)
▀ ‘Matt’ Steals Phone, Runs Up $13K Dior Tab (Westlake Village, CA)
«SOURCE»
▀ Contruction Signs Swiped (Clearfield, PA)
▀ Sugar Freaks (Clearfield, PA)
▀ Pot Calling Kettle A Thief (Gainesville, MO)
▀ Donut Doofus (Pontiac/Caney Mountain, MO)
▀ Irked Landlord Calls Law After Ankle-Bracelet Tenant Invites Fellow Outlaw Over To ‘Reminisce On Their Crimes’ (Tecumseh, MO)
▀ Grounded Daughter Dials 911 To Gripe About Parents (Caney Mountain, MO)
▀ Don’t Do It Bro! (Caulfield, MO)
▀ Woman Claims Misplaced Pillow Is Proof She Was Sexually Accosted (Gainesville, MO)
▀ Furious Bloke Stabs Table, Scatters Gal’s Sex Toys After Being Blocked On Cell Phone (Bakersfield, MO)
⬛ ET AL
▀ Cops Cop To Photoshop AI Oops (Westbrook, ME)
IT SEEMED LIKE honest knolling.
Some dope collected in a bust on Brackett Street by the cops.
And then the administrator decided to spruce it up. Add the agency’s patch in the background using a Photoshop app.
But the subtle addition gummed up the works.
The original photo was lost. No longer the same thing.
The law enforcement agency offered their apology without offering any clarification about whether the tweak involved AI or not.
Westbrook PD: We want to provide more information about the photo from the Brackett Street drug arrests. You will see in this post that there are two photographs. The first photograph is the original photograph taken by an officer involved in the arrest. After taking the photograph, the officer wanted to add in our department patch to identify Westbrook as the arresting agency. To do this, the officer used a photoshop app to insert the department patch. The patch was added, and the photograph with the patch was sent to one of our Facebook administrators, who posted it. Unbeknownst to anyone, when the app added the patch, it altered the packaging and some of the other attributes on the photograph. None of us caught it or realized it. The second photograph is the altered photo. We apologize for this oversight. It was never our intent to alter the image of the evidence. We never realized that using a photoshop app to add our logo would alter a photograph so substantially. As noted in the previous post, it is not uncommon for us to encounter drug-related materials with gibberish text on the packaging, as they are manufactured and sold in illicit ways. When initially alerted to the public concerns of the image, we assumed this was the case in this situation as well. Clearly, we should have looked further into the shared image. We consider this a valuable lesson learned. This image distracted from the message we wanted to share, which is that dangerous drugs have been removed from our community. To remain fully transparent, we will be inviting the news media to come look at the original evidence, so they can see that the evidence does actually exist.
*ORIGINAL*
*ALTERED*
Folks aren’t pleased.
BACKTALK
Tristan Price: “Trained” police officers too lazy to take another photo with their badge in the background, use unsanctioned AI, and are not able to detect obvious AI manipulation of their photo. Truly elite officers you have Westbrook
Jakob Haynes: Nah photoshop doesn’t do anything like that. Yall ran it through Sora AI or Grok 😭😭😭😭
Meghan McLeod: The police officer who wanted to add the badge to the photo… May be an illustration of text that says "graphíc design is my passion"
Tyler Dumas: Doubling down on the clearly altered pictures and promising you didn’t use any AI before posting this new update was an interesting choice.
Matt Losier: The dangerous part isn’t that you used AI to alter an image. It’s that you denied using AI at all on the photo. You told a bold faced lie to the public that you are sworn to serve. You carry weapons. You enact and enforce justice. If we cannot trust you to be honest and uphold your oath, then you are a danger to us. Whoever wrote that “clarification” post should be fired.
Hannah Reilly: “The more nonsense we type about photoshop, the better we can trick people into thinking that photoshop actually did this instead of holding ourselves accountable for the inappropriate misuse of AI”
Jodie Steele: Adding a logo doesn't completely remove things like the cookies stickers. This is like saying you googled restaurant near me and somehow a search for hot young singles in your area came up instead.
Jesse Stickley: What exactly is a "Photoshop app?" There is an application called Photoshop, but this was clearly not done with photoshop. It is blatently AI. Welp, guess theres gonna be some openings at westbrook pd
Valerie Budner: Posting this after deleting the original post and the post that double downed on the ai photograph being real and trying to claim that the package labels were printed using AI was a very interesting choice
Lotus Carroll: So, it’s common to make photoshop edits to crime scene evidence photography? One would think that is strictly prohibited. Thanks for the heads up.
Steve Smith (responding to^): while I agree an actual crime scene photo shouldn’t be touched a photo they post on Facebook could require some edits for specific reasons. Adding the badge would have been fine. Or blurring something offensive. I don’t have an excuse for what they did here. 😬
Mary Brooking: To my knowledge, Photoshop doesn’t do this, but AI definitely does.
Adam Murgittroyd: Why’d the spoon change?