Another memo to the aspiring criminals out there: if you steal someone’s identity, don’t go to dinner at the bar where they work:
WESTLAKE, Ohio (AP) — A bar waitress checking to see if a customer was legally old enough to drink looked down to see a familiar photo.
It was her own.
The 22-year-old waitress, whose name was not released, called police last week and said she had been handed her own stolen driver’s license by a woman trying to prove she was 21.
The woman, who became suspicious of the delay as the waitress went to call police, fled the Moosehead Saloon, but her companion provided her name.
Maria Bergan, 23, of Lakewood, was charged Sunday night with identity theft and receiving stolen property. She was arrested at her home in suburban Cleveland.
The waitress said she had lost her wallet July 9 at a bar in Lakewood.
“The odds of this waitress recovering her own license defy calculation,” police Capt. Guy Turner said Monday.
Not when you factor in the stupid criminal they don’t.
