In
its continuing battle to become the Florida of the southern Plains, Oklahoma
makes a new entry in the competition for most inept criminals. News 9 Oklahoma reports that a family,
Richard Andress, his daughter Hollie Andress, and her fiancé Matthew Waller
went into the lobby of the Edmond, Oklahoma police station and went to the bin
where folks can dispose legally of prescription narcotics that they are no
longer using and don’t want to flush down the toilet.
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| Ocean's 3 of Oklahoma: Andress family and fiancee |
Security
footage (protip for criminals: police stations have video surveillance going
24/7), showed the suspects reaching into the bin numerious times, sometimes all
the way up to their shoulders and pulling out pills while the record clerk
helped other people. The clerk let it go
for a while, letting the Oceans 3 team get on with their heist. As News 9 states: “At one point,
Waller tried to hide behind the metal detector. You can see officers come out
to handcuff the suspects and they said Hollie Andress did not think she had
done anything wrong.”
One of the officers couldn’t
handle it any longer (probably after he stopped rolling on the floor laughing)
and came out to tell her she was under arrest.
She told him that “it doesn’t say anywhere in the fine print that you
can’t take drugs out of the box.”
Shrewd. Very shrewd.
According to the Oklahoma Bureau
of Narcotics, they have 153 prescription drug bins in police stations and this
is the first time in the three years of the program that anyone has tried to
take drugs out.
Apparently the OBN is not going to
let the Andress family go with their “fine print” defense. According to the OBN spokesman, “everyone
should know that you’re not allowed to come in and take someone else’s
medication out of a box, especially in a state agency.” Yep.
You should. Doesn’t mean they
did. But, as they say, ignorance of the law
is not a defense. Nor is plain
ignorance.
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