Criminal caught after screaming activates cell phone
Dec 31st, 2007 by Steve
Got a giggle out of this. Kind of a "stupid thing to do" moment.
Keith Allen Sturgill tried to rob a Columbus, OH East Side Wendy’s on Deember 27th, 2007 by forcing an employee back inside where two other employees were getting the restaurant ready to open.
He demanded money, but the safe had a time lock on. In the meantime, an employee’s phone rang. Sturgill yelled that he’d shoot if anyone answered the phone, police said. But his screams to not answer the phone instead activated the employee’s Bluetooth that was on her ear.
Needless to say, after the phone rang, the caller heard what was going on and called the police. Sturgill was so distraught that he ended up banging his own head with his gun as oficers tried to talk him into surrendering.
Sturgill spent last night in the Franklin County jail on charges of aggravated robbery and kidnapping, but police likely will seek more charges when they take his case before a Franklin County grand jury.
For more, check out the story in The Columbus Dispatch by Jodi Andes and the UPI story.