Twitter-Twit Lady Brawl / Those Are My Robbery Pants / New Job, New Life, Sticky Fingers

By Joseph Hosey and Lorraine Swanson
Patch Crime Writers

Twitter Twits Take Fight to Street: Cops

No-Style Points: The Maroon Sweatpants Bandit

Do you think this bank robber planned his outfit or just put on the first thing he found in his closet? The FBI hasn’t given this guy a nickname yet, but we’d like to suggest the ‘Maroon Sweatpants Bandit.’ If you know someone who owns a pair of pants like this, the FBI is offering a reward.

$150 Bribe Offer Just Buys Arrested Man More Trouble: Cops

A man in custody for rushing the cops tried bribing his way out of trouble and went as high as $150, but was only able to buy a trip to jail, police said. The Shorewood man was shocked with Tasers before he was taken into custody, police said, and then was charged with offering a bribe.

Sticky-Fingered New Secretary Looted Church: Cops

An Oak Park woman stole as much as $10,000 from a Bolingbrook church where she worked as a secretary, according to a criminal complaint. Alexa Botwin, 31, was charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing from New Life Lutheran Church in Bolingbrook. Botwin started stealing from the church eight months after she was hired to work there, according to court papers and the New Life newsletter.

'Ooh, That Smell'

Is it possible to smell raw cannabis hidden car? If you're not a dog? That’s what a public defender told the judge when representing an Elgin man who was stopped on I-294, when cop claimed he could smell 59 grams of pot stuffed in the man’s trunk.

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