In an effort to apprehend a suspect involved in an attempted robbery, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office took to social media with a tweaked version of an all-points bulletin. As reported on the JSO Facebook page, the authorities in Jacksonville are looking for information on an individual who attempted to break into an ATM while wielding a butane lighter instead of the more common tools of the illicit trade.
The unsuccessful heist, detailed by the sheriff’s office’s post, involved a suspect “holding that unlit cig like it was a fashion statement” and wearing a Puerto Rico shirt. The imagery provided casts an almost ludicrous scene of crime—a would-be thief seeking to penetrate an ATM’s defenses not with brute force, but with fire. In a cheeky twist, the statement from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office read: “You stumbled your way up like you were about to make the withdrawal of the century, but instead of cash, you pulled out… a butane lighter.”…