Sunday, December 30, 2007

Robbery suspect has an identity crisis...

A burglary suspect in the United States who gave a false home address to police after his arrest didn't count on one thing, getting robbed himself.

Daniel Cabral, 22, was arrested on December 26 and charged with burglarising a University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth building, police said. He was arraigned and released until his next court date.

Hours later, he was robbed at gunpoint while walking home from a bar. He reported the robbery to police, this time giving them his real address instead of the phony one he reported earlier in the day, according to authorities.

Police arrested two suspects and a man accused of being an accomplice after the fact. They also obtained a search warrant for Cabral's real address and found computer equipment that had been taken from the UMass building as well as power tools that had been reported missing from a local theater.

Cabral was released on his own recognizance. Police were not sure if he had an attorney, and there was no telephone listing for him in New Bedford.