What do you do when someone's having a heart attack?

[PilotsError 2338]

Do you render first aid?  Call 911?  Or do you fucking rob them?

A cop from family with a history of thieving police officers busted stealing just like his grandfather did 50yrs before.

Texas City police officer Linnard R. Crouch wasn't the first cop in his family nailed for stealing just days before Christmas.

And he might not be the last.

And if the thought of a cop stealing isn't bad enough, officer Crouch was caught on his own body camera stealing from an elderly man, 74-year-old James Mabe.

Mabe was suffering a heart attack when Crouch rolled up and stole $2,000 of the $2,400 his wife had given him to buy Christmas gifts on December 19, 2016.

Crouch never tried to save Mabe's life, according to officials who have seen the footage.

Before stealing from the dying, Crouch was repetitively found to have violated department policy by not having his body camera turned on when handling the property of people arrested and detained, according to a civil lawsuit filed by Mabe's family after his death.

"At a time when seconds could mean life or death, as my husband clung to life, a police officer who is charged by law to protect and serve robbed my husband when he needed help the most," James Mabe's widow Linda said after her husband's tragic death.

Incredibly, in 1966, just 50 years earlier, Crouch's grandfather, Clarence Linnard Crouch, stole several transistor radios from the same department while on duty, according to records.

At the time, officer Clarence Crouch told another cop the radios would make good Christmas gifts.

And it was Christmas gifts that James Mabe planned on buying the afternoon of December 19, 2016 when he died of a heart attack.

Mabe was visiting his son Michael, an attorney and business owner in Texas City, Texas where Linda was also employed.

Linda handed $2,400 in cash to James, so he could buy some Christmas gifts for the family. James drove away to buy presents.

A short distance from his son's office, James stopped his vehicle on the street.

Texas City police received a call regarding a truck stopped in the roadway.

That's when officer Linnard Crouch arrived on scene in his squad car. It was around 5:40 p.m.

After opening Mabes' locked truck door, Crouch reached into James' right from pocket and removed $2,400.

There was only one problem: Crouch never reported the $2,400.

Instead, he gave back a bag to Mabe's wife containing $300.

Relatives reported the theft and Crouch resigned from the Texas City Police Department on January 30, 2017.

Then, in July 2017, Crouch was arrested and charged with theft after Mabe's family filed a lawsuit against him and Texas City, which was later settled for an undisclosed amount.

Crouch pleaded guilty to one count of theft by a public servant and received 10 years of probation with no jail time on Tuesday, September 2.

As part of the plea deal, an aggravated assault charge stemming from an incident involving a gun and his girlfriend was dismissed, according to the Dallas Morning News.

Read the lawsuit filed Mabe's family against officer Crouch and the Texas City Poice Department here.

https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/public-records/no-jail-time-for-texas-cop-who-robbed-man-dying-of-heart-attack-_WvZD_-X_ESUNVnfRBGKZg/

[HOOKEM4 5088]

Trick question, option B and C are the same.

[clapclapclap 9000]

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Incredibly, in 1966, just 50 years earlier,

How old is the author?

But yeah, the lack of jail time is infuriating.

Linnard of Skinnard:

Crouching dragnet, hidden wallet.

Edited October 4, 2018 by clapclapclap

[Anastasis 23529]

what a peckerhead looking mofo. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13569]

I would bet anything this guy will turn up somewhere else in law enforcement.  They always seem to know someone that gives them another chance to ruin more lives.

[Bert Orange 1132]

You take their TX/OU tickets and scream “It’s the time of your death and OU STILL SUX!!!”

[Gene Parmesan 4030]

That's precisely how I pictured him to look.

[Js1 85989]

[Sbbruin 21943]

 

[Underdog 28894]

Cop took Blue Santa to the extreme. 

[HenryJames 66394]

I was going to say laugh.

[El Diablo 4232]

I think he was going to go buy gifts for the old guys family thereby fulfilling the dying mans last wish. And then something came up, he forgot he had the $2,000 dollars in his pocket. It happens all the time. Just last week I found some change in the couch, had been there no telling how long. I was going to put it in the coin jar but I think I left it on the coffee table.

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2645]

Shhh. All cops are heros. 

[Quagmire 2147]

If a hot chick was having one I’d try and fuck her before she went cold

[RPM 26435]

8 hours ago, PilotsError said:

Crouch pleaded guilty to one count of theft by a public servant and received 10 years of probation with no jail time on Tuesday, September 2.

As part of the plea deal, an aggravated assault charge stemming from an incident involving a gun and his girlfriend was dismissed,

He was busted stealing $2K so they cut him a deal with no jail time and drop a separate aggravated assault charge? Thin blue line.

[The Gimp 350]

10 hours ago, PilotsError said:

Do you render first aid?  Call 911?  Or do you fucking rob them?

 

At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse.

Samuel Shem,  “The House of God”.

[52-80 19291]

shit, i was going to make a funny joke about taking their wallet... and then i read the first post

[Underdog 28894]

Dude should be hung by his nuts in Gen population and used as a piñata. 

[Fuck Tim Beck 3855]

So this is not the preferred way to pad the fake wreath fund?