As the man says in the beginning of "Law & Order": "In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: The police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories."
Specifically, this is one of their stories, from New Jersey, where the cops didn't have to conduct a widespread search for a wanted fugitive, because she applied for a job to work with them.
You read it right.
We're talking about Ms Zyeama Johnson, who was wanted in Monroe County, PA, on fraud charges. Jersey City, NJ, also had papers on her for traffic charges - some ten bench warrants, all told.
But they didn't have to employ any sort of fancy sleuthery at all to bring her in. With these two active warrants in her name, Johnson filled out an application for an opening as a security guard with the Hudson County Sheriff's Office.
Hudson County is the county where the traffic charges were filed on her.
Given an easy opportunity to clean up the local blotter, police invited her in for a follow-up interview. That's where she was taken into custody, and during a search, was found to be in possession of two stolen credit cards.
She was arrested on a charge of “being a fugitive from justice.”
“While conducting a routine inventory of Johnson’s property following her arrest, sheriff’s officers discovered that she was in possession of two credit cards believed to be stolen, and she was subsequently charged with credit card theft,” according to Hudson County. It also turned out that she once worked for the the U.S. Postal Service, which has opened their own investigation after being tipped off by the sheriff's office.
American criminals long enjoyed a worldwide reputation for evading arrest by moving far away, surgically altering their appearance, and other measures meant to trip up the gendarmes. Now they make it so easy. What a shame.
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