NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER: Thief Gets Unwanted Exposure
While in town attending a wedding at the State Capitol in Madison, WI, John Myers wanted a family photo in front of the majestic structure so he set the timer on his new Canon G7 camera and ran over to join his wife, Katharine, and their children, Charlie and Matilda. Shortly afterward, they started to head to the reception when he realized he had forgatten his bag - but when he went back to retrieve it the bag was nowhere to be found. As luck would have it, the family photograph happened to capture the theif in the background rummaging through Myers’ bag, reports Wisconsin State Journal:
The photo clearly shows in the background, behind the Myers family, a man dressed in hard-soled dark brown shoes, white socks, cut-off dark blue denim shorts and dark T-shirt and ball cap, going through the bag on the ground at the building entrance. …
It turns out the man in the photograph resembled a man who frequented the Capitol grounds.
“They were amazing,” Myers said. “They located the guy. He was still carrying the bag.”
When he was stopped by police, near the Capitol at West Washington Avenue, not only did the man have the bag with him, but it contained Myers’ wallet, cash, credit cards and other items.
The man, who was arrested and identified as Glenn R. Lambright, 59, no permanent address, told police he found the bag abandoned, and he also told them where he had trashed the rest of the bag’s contents.
The paper notes that the Capitol’s security camera was out of commission, so Lambright would not have been caught so quickly – if at all – were it not for a family portrait that turned into a candid shot.
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