When I wrote for a newspaper, a cop told me that he and other officers catch many criminals because they trip themselves up. One common way, he told me, is that the perps try to commit the same crime again. This is particularly true, he said, of thieves.
Such was the fate of a would-be two-time bike thief in University Circle, Ohio. A man caught him in the act of trying to steal his girlfriend’s bike.
The crook was on a bike: the one he stole from the man a month earlier. He was arrested and oh, by the way, had a warrant for his arrest—for yet another theft case.
