Meet Nathaniel Ferguson, northeast Ohio’s most arrested man.
He was picked up this week for the 109th (!) time by the South Euclid Police Department after allegedly shoplifting teeth whitening products from a pharmacy on Mayfield Road.
109 arrests may very well be a record in northeast Ohio, but Mr. Ferguson still has a ways to go to top the national record, held by Kentucky’s Henry Earl who has been arrested more than 1,500 times.
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So lets just keep arresting him! Cause jail has rehabilitated this man so well! How bout we try to find out why he wont stop stealing from folks!! Maybe hes a fuckin klepto, in which case no amount of arrests and jail is gonna help this guy!!!-DEO
Seems to me like a valuable lesson: going for the record isn’t done all at once. You have to approach it by increments. You can’t hit the world’s record for arrests by doing more than petty theft. Grand larceny will land you in the courtroom for sure. Keep your thefts at the shoplifting level; the judge and/or prosecutor will blow it off rather than deal with the annoyance, the amounts will never get you jail time, and you’ll get away with a lot more free merchandise–most of the crimes never even get any attention.
So lets just keep arresting him! Cause jail has rehabilitated this man so well! How bout we try to find out why he wont stop stealing from folks!! Maybe hes a fuckin klepto, in which case no amount of arrests and jail is gonna help this guy!!!-DEO
Seems to me like a valuable lesson: going for the record isn’t done all at once. You have to approach it by increments. You can’t hit the world’s record for arrests by doing more than petty theft. Grand larceny will land you in the courtroom for sure. Keep your thefts at the shoplifting level; the judge and/or prosecutor will blow it off rather than deal with the annoyance, the amounts will never get you jail time, and you’ll get away with a lot more free merchandise–most of the crimes never even get any attention.