First tip to the aspiring criminal; if you send a threatening letter, don’t include a return address:
NEW YORK — “Catch me if you can.”
Those were the parting words of a taunting missive containing a white power sent to a police station earlier this week.
Police had no trouble finding their suspect: He signed the letter and included his return address on the envelope.
Abdullah Date, 18, was charged with sending the threatening letter to the 73rd Precinct in Brooklyn’s East New York section, and ordered held without bail, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in Brooklyn federal court. The white powder turned out to be harmless.
Authorities said Date, who was arrested on Tuesday, has had other run-ins with police, but the complaint dealt only with an incident last month in which Date allegedly threw vials of crack out of the window of his Brooklyn home while police watched.
The obscenity-filled letter, allegedly mailed in anger over the drug bust, said: “Ha, Ha (you) thought it was anthrax.” It ended with “Catch me if you can,” and was signed Abdullah Date, according to the complaint said. His home address appeared on the envelope, it said.
File this under: Too Stupid To Live.
