I went to high school with a guy who boosted a car years earlier and got caught. I only found out after he tried to enlist in the Navy on my recommendation.
They eventually took him.
One of my favorite uncles (by marriage) was convicted for 1st degree murder when I was 15.
Embezzled money from his boss’s company, took out a life insurance policy on him I believe and killed him one night in cold blood. Put his body in the trunk of his car and parked it at the Oakland Mall. Took days before they found his body.
I miss our snowmobiling trips.
Too many. Sigh.
Some of them are friends.
There must be a divide in the legal profession. Prosecutors brag about how many convicted felons they’ve encountered and defense lawyers brag about how few of the people they’ve worked with were convicted felons.
I shook hands with Governor John Rowland of Connecticut…
My most reliable friend is a 5 time felon. He has anger/impulse control issues and is easily swayed by conspiracy theories. Wow, I’m getting so good at politically correct speak, how’s that for a nice way to say he’s batshit crazy?
I like to think that I’ve been a stabilizing influence on him, its been over 5 years since I last had to bail him out.
He’s also showing his age (59 and looking 70), so maybe he’s just gotten too tired to give a shit anymore.
There were times that I was honestly worried that he’d climb a clock tower, but I was never afraid of him. When I got married and moved, I brought him with me. He lives a couple of miles away, so I see him a couple of times a week.
The thing is, he’s a good neighbor. He always waves to people when he’s in his yard and is always happy to talk to everyone. He fosters homeless kittens and puppies for my rescue group so talks more about that then he does about his conspiracy theories.
So, if he ever does climb the clock tower, all of his neighbors will say how he was a nice guy and they never expected him to do such a thing.
I’d be the one saying “Oh yeah, I saw this coming years ago.”
You don’t have to bail anyone out, you know.
Two that I know of.
About 10 years ago a guy I went to school with flipped out and took a couple of tourists hostage at gun-point. He eventually surrendered and did 10 years (I think).
My (half) brother-in-law is due to be sentenced tomorrow for conspiracy to commit murder. So I guess that counts. 
When I was a second lieutenant I knew another 2 LT who robbed several banks to support his marijuana habit. He went to prison and I have no idea what happened to him. This was 40 years ago.
I knew someone who committed timecard fraud in the government and he went to prison. It wasn’t an ‘oopsie’ it a was an egregious, repeated, long-term fraud, violation of trust kind of thing.
Do you count courts martials? I probably know a couple, but man, that was a long long time ago. I knew a colonel who got charged with adultery but he dodged the bullet so to speak.
You have a lot more experience with people like Tony than I do, but I have to disagree with you here. Tony does NOT deal well with being locked up and he’s batshit crazy and gets even crazier if he’s locked up. He’s one of those people who have slipped through the cracks.
The last time I had to bail him out of jail and help him deal with the system, his probation officer honestly threw his hands in the air and told me that if I could make Tony keep his appointments and not re-offend that he (PO) would marry me and carry our babies.
Tony loves animals, so I got him into fostering homeless cats. The last time Tony got arrested, I told him that he couldn’t foster cats anymore because I was worried that they would starve to death while he was in jail.
It seems to be working, or maybe Tony is just too old and tired to attack people anymore. I don’t know.
I do know that somehow Tony became my feral human. Once you have adopted a wild animal, you are responsible for it. I guess that’s how I feel about Tony.
OTOH, Tony is has the keys to all of our vehicles, he has our house keys and security codes. He’s my go-to guy if we have to leave suddenly, he will feed our critters, clean up after them and drag the trash cans to the street.
My very own Jewish Bubbe committed identity theft against a family member, back in the 50s. I didn’t know about this until a couple of years ago. I wish my parents were still alive, so I could find out whether they knew about it at the time.
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I burn enough weed to contribute to global warming, but I just work it into my budget. I think somebody was being overcharged!
Looks like my brother’s ex-fiancee and the mother of one of my nieces got picked up again in April, this time for drugs and fraud.
If I were the type of person who liked to look at my first wedding pictures, I’d be annoyed that her mug is in them. As it is, it took this thread to inspire me to look her up.
It was the 70s. 2Lts only made $600 a month back then. Plus he had a wife and two kids. What else was going on other than the drug use, no idea.
I just verified that it was usually less than $25.00 an ounce. That is not a bank robbing level expense.
I’m impressed with your research skills.
I can only say I’m repeating what my commanding officer told us at the time. If our 2LT felon was doing more stuff than supporting a drug habit, I never heard anything else.
Outside of family and ex-family (2 car thieves, an armed robber, a white collar criminal and 4 murderers), I’ve known probably a couple of dozen.
One guy who used to work for me had served four years in his twenties for dealing coke. A whole mess of the guys I’ve played music with or ridden with had done time at some point. Mostly for drugs.
The guy I called to give me a hand going to get my SIL and nephew when my brother died suddenly some distance from home had served four years and change for dealing drugs in the seventies. There were things he took care of at the time that I didn’t even knowabout until much later.
(I only had to type in “How much did an o” for google to auto-complete to " … an ounce of weed cost in the 70s", first on the list.)
Just my cousin Frankie; started stealing from neighbors and his mom until it escalated to being w/ a group where someone had a gun when they were all caught after robbing a 7-11 (he claims he was only waiting in the car and thought he was getting a ride).
He’s been in and out of prison for the last 30 years, missed his father’s funeral and a majority of his kid’s lives as well. He can’t seem to keep it together to make it through one sentence w/o another one being tacked on for fighting (never his fault) or petty theft (a misunderstanding every time) drug possession (not his, doesn’t know how it wound up in his stuff/on his person, probably a frame-up) and the like.
And I know a handful of people w/ DUIs.
I recently found out that a guy I was close friends with growing up is serving 15 years for child molestation. I lost touch with him over the last decade and my mother recently told me about what happened. He’s a former police officer and an Internet search for his name turns up a lot of stories about his arrests, trial, conviction and sentence. I was completely shocked when I found out. I would have never thought he would be capable of anything like that.