I’ll try another summary. Mahaloth, please correct if I’ve misstated something.
**Probably within the last twenty years or so, a man was misled by law enforcement authorities, who intentionally broadcast or published incorrect medical information about a third party. The third party was said to be sick, although we won’t find out what the disease was, except that it wasn’t pregnancy-related.
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**As a result, the man comes out of hiding – probably to protect a stranger. Before that, the authorities could have arrested him if they could have found him. The man did not expect the police to be waiting to arrest him – but they were, and did.
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**The crime was a serious one, but probably not violent. It “****involve[d] the criminal ending up with something of value which legitimately belonged to someone else,” but was not robbery.
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Was the false information broadcast, or published?
Was the crime primarily a property crime, or only incidentally one? (We heard it involved the transfer of property, but that might have been incidental.)
Was the crime victim the same person as the “sick” person?
The guy was a serial burglar who robs people’s houses while they are in hospital. The police laid a trap for him. They published information saying that a particular person would be in hospital, then waited for our guy to arrive.
Sorry, Mahaloth – you answered this one “NO,” but I didn’t phrase it as a yes/no question. (My bad there.)
To be clear:
Was it primarily a property crime?
Was it only incidentally a property crime?
Are the previous two questions too vague as stated to answer yes/no?
About the “to protect a stranger” bit:
If the “sick” person really had been sick, and the criminal hadn’t come out of hiding, would someone have been hurt?
4a) Would it have been the “sick” person being hurt?
4b) Would it have been a third party singular?
4c) Third parties plural?
Was the crime theft?
Was the crime identity theft?
Was the crime fraud?
Did the crime involve deception?
Did the crime involve the criminal being in some place he shouldn’t have been?
I think this is easier than people are making it. Yeah, just keep asking crimes and when you get the crime right, I think a lot will play out. I thought this was a quick-and-easy, but it just shows that you can NOT predict how these will go. Not judging anyone, I get that it seems tricky when you don’t know, I just didn’t realize this one would be a longer one.
Did the police broadcast that the kidnap victim had a highly contagious and likely fatal disease that could be spread by casual contact, and the kidnapper come forward to get life saving treatment?
