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Mom’s untimely call bags burglar

LAKE WORTH, Florida: A burglar who left his phone behind was rumbled when his mum rang just as police officers arrived at the house he’d just robbed.

Derek Codd, 19, left his cellphone on the kitchen sideboard after he and sidekick Kristen Rynearson stole jewellery from a house in Palm Beach County.

When an investigators were called to the house, the discarded phone rang, the officer picked it up and saw “Mom” lit up on the screen.

The policeman asked the woman on the other end who the phone belonged to, and she said it was her son’s.

Codd, of Lake Worth, had stolen the victim’s cellphone and a shotgun. His female companion had 49 pieces of jewellery belonging to the victim’s wife in her purse.

Both were arrested and face multiple charges, including burglary and larceny. – orange news

One thought on “Sunday smile”

  1. This has happened more than once in the USA, quite unbelievable but true.
    Plus stealing mobile phones and computers with trackers in them!!!!! Nicked as fast as the fuzz can drive there!

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