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Marketing executive Leonard Schwartz, 34, was arrested in New York City in July and charged with impersonating a medical doctor in his swanky Manhattan apartment building. Schwartz allegedly took a female neighbor’s temperature rectally, tried to administer an enema to her, and offered to examine the 11-year-old daughter of another resident.
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At a western-wear store in Omaha last February a well-dressed man in his 40s asked to see a horse harness for a costume party and went into a dressing room to try it on. He emerged a short time later and ran around the store wearing only his undershorts and the harness. After a few minutes he quietly changed back into his business suit, told the clerk he would be back with his wife to buy the harness, and left.
Three weeks apart in March a High Point, North Carolina, couple and a Clyde, Ohio, couple reported that someone had stolen approximately 50 used cloth diapers from their front porch and garage, respectively, before the diaper service showed up.
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David Richardson, 19, who was arrested in a Gadsden, Alabama, convenience store in August and charged with robbery, told police that he had made no holdup demand and in fact was only there to buy a few things. Police entered the store to find Richardson standing in the back, having just put a pair of panty hose over his face and socks over his hands, and carrying a butcher knife in his pocket. When he saw the police, Richardson, still wearing the panty hose, grabbed an item off the shelf and acted as if he were shopping.
