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William James Silva, 44, was arrested in San Jose, California, in February after he allegedly robbed a police decoy who was posing as a street-corner drunk. It was the 550th time Silva had been arrested; his record covers 127 feet of computer paper. (According to police, before robbing the decoy Silva had argued with a friend about whether or not the man was a police officer, with Silva insisting he wasn’t.)
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Malaysia’s New Straits Times reported in February that a man in Perak, Malaysia, was arrested after several incidents in which he climbed on roofs at night and, using fishing line and a hook, lifted the sarongs of sleeping women so he could look at their bodies.
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Fort Worth, Texas, police arrested Philip G. Rojo, 24, in April after stopping his car at a roadblock because he wasn’t wearing a seat belt. The police said they were backing away from the car when they spied three silver pipelike packages on the floor. They told Rojo they thought the packages were part of a pipe bomb. Rojo reportedly tried to reassure them and blurted out, “Man, that ain’t no pipe bomb. That’s cocaine.”
