NOT THE SHARPEST KNIVES IN THE DRAWER: Stimulus Sting
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department set up "Operation Show Me the Money" - a sting operation promising economic stimulus checks from the "South Florida Stimulus Coalition" – to round up 76 Floridians with outstanding warrants on charges that included second-degree murder and failure to pay child support, reports Reuters:
[P]olice mailed letters asking the suspects to call an undercover phone line and make appointments to claim their money. When they showed up at an auditorium and presented their identification, they were led to an area where uniformed police were waiting to arrest them.
It seems improbable that someone in trouble with the law would fall prey to the lure of easy money - well, maybe less so, after stimulus checks went out to prison inmates – but police officials tell Reuters that such stings are safer and more efficient than serving warrants at people's homes.
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