San Diego Criminal News » assault http://www.sandiegosduilawyer.com/blog Legal News You Care About Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:53:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Mugger Calls Police For Help http://www.sandiegosduilawyer.com/blog/2010/02/criminal-news/02/mugger-calls-police-for-help/ http://www.sandiegosduilawyer.com/blog/2010/02/criminal-news/02/mugger-calls-police-for-help/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:24:41 +0000 admin http://www.sandiegosduilawyer.com/blog/?p=145 There’s an old expression amongst San Diego criminal lawyers that says if you do something stupid, don’t do something else stupid to make it worse. Someone must have failed to teach that lesson to a robber who was assaulted by a bystander. Rather than take the hint that the jig was up and it was time to run, the mugger instead called the police, claiming the man assaulted him.

Unsurprisingly, the police quickly were able to figure out the truth behind the “attack” and arrested the mugger after the 83 year-old robbery victim confirmed that he was being defended by the bystander.

To read more about the story, see the article in Sign On San Diego. Image Via threephin [Flickr].

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