A JPMorgan Executive, Attending the Knicks' NBA Championship Parade, Emptied a Municipal Trash Can Onto the Street in Order to Steal the Empty Can — Was Filmed Doing It, Photographed Riding the Subway Clutching Her Trophy, and Was Subsequently Fired and Fined

Angie Báez wanted a souvenir from the Knicks parade, weighed the cost of simply not stealing city property against the cost of dumping a full bin onto a public sidewalk on camera and posing with the evidence on the train, and chose the latter — a risk-reward analysis that a JPMorgan vice-president presumably has the credentials to perform and visibly lacked the judgment to execute.

Source: TMZ

An 85-Year-Old and a 57-Year-Old Denied to Police That They Had Been Street Racing at 110 and 125 MPH — and Then One of Them, at the Booking Desk, Explained Which Car He Had Been Driving by Saying It Was 'The One That Won'

William Bosworth, 85, and Philip Signorino, 57, denied knowing each other at the scene; Signorino maintained his 1998 Corvette — whose factory-rated top speed is 167 mph — was 'incapable' of the speed for which it had just been clocked, and then undermined this defense entirely at the booking desk by identifying his vehicle as 'the one that won,' an answer that is simultaneously a confession, a boast, and the most efficient possible refutation of his own alibi.

Source: Jalopnik (citing Fox 35 Orlando / Lake County records)

A Man Who Allegedly Stole More Than Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars of Merchandise From a Boca Raton CVS Returned to the Exact Same Store the Very Next Morning, Where the Staff Recognized Him on Sight and Called the Police

Jesstin Dave Corbitt, 28, is accused of lifting $2,557.48 in goods from a Boca Raton CVS and then, having gotten clean away, electing to revisit the one establishment on earth whose entire staff had spent the previous day reviewing footage of his face — leaving his license-plated car running in the lot during repeated unpaid trips in and out, as though the only flaw in the original plan had been insufficient familiarity between himself and his victims.

Source: Boca Daily News

A Chicago Man Robbed a Fifth Third Bank by Handing the Teller a Demand Note — an Hour After Visiting the Same Branch, Asking Suspicious Questions, and Being Reported to Other Branches — Then Fled Through an Alley Dropping Some of the Cash on Camera and Stopping to Pick It Up

Solomon Marshall, 24, pre-announced his robbery by scouting the branch so conspicuously that the teller he spooked alerted other locations, then returned an hour later and handed a demand note to the same teller who had already flagged him — and when his $776 spilled in the alley, he paused to retrieve it on camera while Chicago police tracked him in real time across the CTA transit camera network to the Illinois Medical District stop, where he was arrested still carrying all $776 in a Potbelly's bag. The meticulous recovery of scattered cash was the one competent thing he did, and he did it on film.

Source: CWBChicago

A Paso Robles Man Robbed a Wells Fargo in a High-Visibility Yellow Construction Shirt and Distinctive Facial Tattoos — and Was Identified From Surveillance Footage Within Hours

Ernesto Noriega Cisneros allegedly chose, for a midday bank robbery, the one garment in his wardrobe specifically engineered to be seen at a distance — a high-visibility construction shirt — and paired it with a tribal tattoo near his left eye that detectives described as decisive in the surveillance identification, a combination that is less a disguise than a business card delivered under oath.

Source: Paso Robles Daily News

A Texas Criminal Court Judge Who Was Running Her Courtroom as a YouTube Channel — Livestreaming Proceedings, Building a 'Book Club,' and Pressing Defendants on Whether to Accept Plea Offers On Camera — Has Been Issued a Public Warning by the State Judicial Conduct Commission

Judge Stephanie Boyd of San Antonio's 187th Criminal District Court livestreamed her court to YouTube, cultivated a viewer community around active cases, and 'improperly injected herself into the plea bargaining process' — pressing defendant Willberth Villamil on whether he would accept the court's twenty-year offer and calling it a 'life-sentence worthy case' on camera — conduct the Commission found cast 'public discredit upon the judiciary,' which is not wrong, though the more precise description is that she treated a criminal courtroom as content, which is a different kind of problem than mere discredit.

Source: ABA Journal — Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct public warning, June 3, 2026

A Texas Criminal Court Judge Was Running Her Courtroom as a YouTube Channel, Cultivating an Audience Around Active Cases and Pushing Defendants Toward Plea Deals On Camera — and Has Received a Public Warning From the State Judicial Conduct Commission

A judge who livestreams her courtroom and cultivates an audience around active prosecutions has confused the robe — which is supposed to signal impartiality — with a streaming credential, and the Commission's finding that this 'cast public discredit upon the judiciary' understates the problem: a defendant pleading to a twenty-year sentence in front of a live subscriber count is being adjudicated by someone who has made the proceeding into a performance, and the performance and the justice are not the same product.

Source: ABA Journal — Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct, public warning June 3, 2026

College Students Across America Demonstrate, in Street Interviews, That a University Degree and a Working Knowledge of the Country Are Entirely Unrelated Credentials

Source: KeroNgb (YouTube street interviews)