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Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday May 01 2018, @04:48AM   
from the self-incrimination dept.

-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

Associated Press affiliate KTAR-FM reports

[...] after 25-year-old Xavier Moran was involved in a crash on April 5, he told a sheriff's deputy he had been cut off by another driver and could prove it with his dashboard camera. He then signed a consent waiver to search the camera.

When the Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy reviewed the footage, he saw Moran burglarizing a beauty store. Authorities say the video showed Moran taking a baseball bat from the trunk and someone using the bat to break the glass door to the store.

He was arrested [April 10] on burglary charges.

Boing Boing further reports that the guy just can't stay out of trouble.

I first heard the story via NPR's "news" quiz show "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me".

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• Re:Don't talk to cops! Re:Don't talk to cops! (Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:13AM (1 child)

  by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:13AM (#674049) Homepage Journal

  President Clinton, Bill Clinton, is a great friend of mine. I'm not even sure that he shouldn't have just gone in and taken the Fifth Amendment.

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• Re:Don't talk to cops! (Score: 4, Touché) by The Archon V2.0 on Tuesday May 01 2018, @09:01PM

  by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Tuesday May 01 2018, @09:01PM (#674314)

  > President Clinton, Bill Clinton, is a great friend of mine.

  It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

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