Georgia burglar breaks into burger shop, leaves big clue that leads cops straight to him
A Macon man who broke into an eatery on North Avenue in the middle of the night and stole $750 didn’t make it very difficult for the police to find him. He left his ID next to a drink dispenser.
The man, 33, said he had a good reason for doing so — a reason, that while not so good, he explained during a May 26 hearing in Bibb County Superior Court.
The man was pleading guilty to burglary for his July 2020 break-in at the WNB Factory, a wing and burger joint in the Baconsfield Shopping Center, when his explanation emerged.
Before he was sentenced to five years in prison for that burglary and another one the same night at a nearby dollar store, the man said that on the night of the break-ins he had been drugged and that “people” were after him.
The man said he had been at a party and that someone must have spiked his drink and dropped him off near the eatery.
He said the unnamed people were trying to kill him — “for real,” he told the judge — and that he left his ID behind so that, if he were murdered, the police would “know who I was.”
“That worked,” Judge Howard Z. Simms deadpanned. “They didn’t need Sherlock Holmes to figure this one out.”
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