Idiots

Photogenic Crooks Catch Themselves


ATLANTA (AP) -- Three armed robbers shouldn't have been too surprised when they heard their crime was caught on camera. After all, they took the pictures themselves.

Michael Lee Merritt, 18, Wendell Mackey, 20, and Darnell Robinson, 22, playfully took snapshots of themselves while driving around in a stolen SUV after robbing 35-year-old Eric Haney on Dec. 18, 2001. The three ambushed Haney at gunpoint outside his apartment, then went inside and took DVDs, a video game machine and clothes.

After their joyride, the men unwittingly left the disposable camera in the car, helping police identify and track them down. In one of the photos, Merritt smiled smugly while wearing the victim's black leather jacket.

"They basically convicted themselves," Fulton County prosecutor Chris Toles said.

A jury convicted them last week of armed robbery, hijacking a motor vehicle, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, aggravated assault and a deadly weapon, false imprisonment and burglary.

On Friday, Merritt and Mackey both were sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for Robinson, a career criminal. Superior Court Judge Alice D. Bonner is expected to decide his punishment Monday.

There was this other idiot that robed a store with a tracking device around his ankle from a previous conviction.

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Only 15 years? Pathetic.

Put them in a cell with "Bubba" the 300 lb. rapist for about 40 years, and give them another disposable camera! I bet they won't be quite as excited about taking pictures of themselves then!

Mike

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