The state that keeps giving. 42 stories.
The man deputies were hunting as the 'tequila bandit' — thousands of dollars in liquor stuffed into a backpack — was picked up before they could get to him. He had been pulled over in the next county for driving under the influence.
A Florida man is accused of walking out of Fanatics Fest in Manhattan with $17,000 in trading cards. He traveled a long way to be the guy who ruins a card show.
A Florida man is accused of running Texas livestock past inspection during a screwworm emergency — the flesh-eating parasite those checkpoints exist to catch. The paperwork he allegedly skipped was the entire point of the paperwork.
A Jupiter man allegedly broke into a neighbor's house at dawn to slice a lime and pour himself her tequila, a towel wrapped around his head. He lives just down the street; a Ring camera caught him trying the front door first, six-pack in hand.
A Florida man allegedly rerouted seven former co-workers' paychecks into his own account. It is a bold way to stay on the payroll of a job you no longer have.
One man's abandoned boats have cost Florida more than $370,000 to pull out of the water. Thirteen investigations and 24 unpaid citations later, the state got around to arresting him.
A Florida man barricaded himself inside an RV in a New Jersey Walmart parking lot, reportedly with a flamethrower for company. Crisis negotiators worked him for sixteen hours before police settled it with pepper spray.
A Daytona Beach man ran from his own crash, then warned the officers asking for his ID that they were going to get sued. The roadside sobriety test went about as well as the headline suggests.
A Florida man turned up nude behind a New Smyrna Beach Circle K with no explanation on file. No word on what he came to buy, or why it required taking everything off.
A Florida man allegedly buried malware in Steam games and drained $220,000 in crypto across 8,000 devices. The FBI unraveled it by following the stolen Bitcoin to his Uber Eats orders.
A Florida man repaid a deputy's courtesy — cuffs moved to the front for his sore shoulder — by yanking a fake-urine rig out of his pants and flinging it across the patrol car. It was, the sheriff noted, his second bad decision of the day.
A Florida man is accused of helping himself to an ambulance straight out of a Jacksonville fire station. It's one way to get somewhere fast without the copay.