Stupid Criminal Files: SCF Tip: Stealing Something? Make Sure the Getaway Car Is Big Enough!

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Stupid Case File for April 29, 2006

SCF Tip: Stealing Something? Make Sure the Getaway Car Is Big Enough!

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Police who charged a Cincinnati couple with stealing a big-screen television said they should have thought about a bigger car.

Police stopped Richard and Stephanie North early Wednesday when they noticed their Mercury Sable going down a road with one of the doors open. Police found a 55-inch flat-screen TV on the back seat, hanging out the door.

Earlier, police had responded to an alarm at a TV and appliance store where the window on the front door was smashed out and a Hitachi flat-panel television was missing.

Richard North was charged with breaking and entering and felony theft. His wife was charged with complicity.