What is the craziest crime someone you know has been convicted of

So I'm going to keep this as vague as humanly possible because it's probable that someone might recognize me if I spill too many beans.

I was working at an arms dealership for a little bit of time until I saw that they were doing some pretty illicit stuff. Straw purchasing, selling stuff that they told me was illegal to sell -- and they were pretty cavalier about it.

So, two months go by and I say to myself: Yeah, this definitely isn't for me because while it might be normal for them, I had big plans and so I put in my two weeks and decide to get out of Dodge.

Well, I'm sitting in a pizzeria and some kid comes up to me and asks me if I worked at the location, I told him I did and he says: "I'm 17, and I have to be 18 to purchase ammunition (at the time), think they'll let me?" And of course, me being young and stupid I said to him: "shite yeah, I've seen way more illegal stuff."

So of course, this then leads to an extremely threatening text message from my coworker (who is now the owner of the business) and...their highly coincidental arrest for purchasing military gear -- from my roommate.

I was younger at the time, and the worst part is that I never knew what was going on. I was living with a soldier on base (illegally, but whatever, I had the required ID) and so I'm playing cards with these guys -- all of these guys (soldiers) who end up getting arrested for selling military hardware to the place I was working temporarily.

So I guess the tl;dr is: My roommate and his G.I. Joe buddies got arrested for selling military gear and my boss got arrested for fencing aforementioned articles and both were obviously convicted. Neither did very much time (I think they were both sentenced 90 and 100 days).

DUI or Peeing in public


Yea i live a wild life

He’s hasn’t been convicted yet but no way he won’t- went into a post office with a gun waving it around and firing it (no one injured) with basically what had to be pure intent to be arrested and taken in by the feds.

I’m old remember and I knew him from high school and hadn’t seen him in a long time. Smart guy and mild mannered (or so he projected), I and i think everyone that knew him from old was super shocked.

oh wait.

I had a friend/friend of the family get in trouble for some white collar crime.

He was busted by the SEC for layering. No jail time but a big fine and was suspended by Finra for a few years.

A guy in my fraternity was a pretty big drug dealer. The feds found him and he ratted out his supplier. Went into witness protection, and no one has heard from him since.

Bonard Fowler

I knew this guy (he killed someone during the Civil Rights era)

When a trader makes and then cancels orders that they never intend to have executed in hopes of influencing the stock price.

I know someone who was arrested in a prostitution sting. Other then that its just the usual minor drug possession or shoplifting.

I did get me too’d at my last job. A woman who was being terminated for continuously not showing up to work filed a complaint against me and another guy for allegedly running a pool as to who would sleep with her first. It was found unsubstantiated because I didn’t do that shite.

But layering is definitely something I would think to do and not imagine that it was illegal.

Interesting. Was it some kind of a joke or was there a larger plot there?