Crook demands $185k in ransom for stolen cellphone

If a burglar with exquisite taste somehow managed to snag a million dollar Goldvish, asking for just $185,000 for its safe return wouldn't be too far-fetched. Apparently, the mobile in question wasn't of the princely variety, as this particular thief managed to lower his asking price to a rock-bottom $200. The suspect, known initially through police paperwork as "Baby Boy," was lured into a trap after police tagged along for the exchange and arrested him at gunpoint. When Mr. Boy (later found to be Randy-Jay Adolphos Jones, which is only slightly better) was questioned, he just couldn't put a finger on why he blurted out the $185k figure versus something more reasonable, but hey, not everyone can be right on top of current market conditions, right?

[Via The Raw Feed]

[Tony @ Oct 17th 2007 11:07PM]

ha, I just read about this guy in the paper yesterday!

[Zak @ Oct 18th 2007 1:27AM]

Wow..They arrested Will Smith?

[nih @ Oct 18th 2007 3:39AM]

I SAID LOOK INTO THE CAMERA PLEASE SIR.

[m4272000 @ Oct 18th 2007 9:59AM]

Will Smith after he has been in a fight, and lost, with Mike Tyson.

[jdmbo1 @ Oct 17th 2007 11:10PM]

whats up with this eye?

[imacmatt09 @ Oct 17th 2007 11:18PM]

he has a lazy eye haha

[SteveMB @ Oct 17th 2007 11:30PM]

Boo-ya!

[- @ Oct 18th 2007 12:48AM]

Not even in the clear yet and he's already eyeing the phones under "Breaking News."

[TEM @ Oct 18th 2007 1:19AM]

Probably bad karma to make fun of his lazyeye.

[R @ Oct 18th 2007 8:22AM]

It's not lazy eye . . . It's called strabismus. As Mike Myers said in the little-watched movie "View From The Top:"

There's no business like strabismus.

[Aaron @ Oct 17th 2007 11:11PM]

Ransom....right?

[AJ @ Oct 17th 2007 11:39PM]

You'd think "Baby Boy" wrote the headline on this one. Come on, Engadget!

[hamburglar @ Oct 17th 2007 11:11PM]

ranson? more like ransom, amirite?

[Kurt MacD @ Oct 18th 2007 12:27AM]

Maybe the guy was asking for ranson or ransom, so either the guy the owned the cell phone had to give "baby boy" his first born child or the $185K.

[kuzu-b @ Oct 17th 2007 11:11PM]

Lol, what a retard.

[Darayz @ Oct 17th 2007 11:21PM]

This guy needs to spread his seed so we can get more stories like this in the future. Oh Baby Boy. We hardly knew ye.

[Adrian Williams @ Oct 17th 2007 11:22PM]

it's not news it's fark

[derek @ Oct 17th 2007 11:22PM]

That's quite a large ranson for a phone...

[imacmatt09 @ Oct 17th 2007 11:26PM]

This sounds like something you would read on The Onion...

[Morey @ Oct 17th 2007 11:30PM]

Come on, spell check before you post! Or atleast re-read once? I'm embarassed to bring my friends to this page with all these typos! :X)

[Nex @ Oct 17th 2007 11:34PM]

OMG you have FRIENDS!!

[Will @ Oct 17th 2007 11:37PM]

You could "atleast" take your own pills...

Regarding the "ranson", I don't think it's too far fetched... Imagine how naive somebody has to be to buy a $1,000,000 cell phone in the first place? $185k probably doesn't even count as "Real Money" to somebody with that much coin. (Bastards)

[AJ @ Oct 17th 2007 11:42PM]

But this wasn't a $1,000,000 phone he stole, dude.

[Matthew Castillo @ Oct 17th 2007 11:55PM]

DOOD!!! Does anyone else see that eye!!!!
o_O

[Dan @ Oct 18th 2007 12:04AM]

No, what eye?

[RyanTV @ Oct 18th 2007 12:13AM]

the wandering eye is so VERY important!

[Xidius @ Oct 17th 2007 11:59PM]

Will Smith is in tough times... :(

- Xidius

[Chris P. @ Oct 18th 2007 12:32AM]

Oh shit, LMAO :-D

//* blow milk out of nose laughing out loud *//

[webon @ Oct 18th 2007 12:44AM]

HAHAHA Tupack meets will smith HAHAHA

[Xzavier @ Oct 18th 2007 9:36AM]

Will Smith's stunt double...

I am more than positive that he was on the wrong set or something. He just couldn't figure out why he had lines in that movie so that's why he ask for an outrageous sum of money... It's got ta be!

:D

[burnblue @ Oct 18th 2007 12:17PM]

What's with all the Will Smith comments? Do all Black people look the same to you guys?

[webon @ Oct 19th 2007 5:42AM]

@burnblue, dude I just showed the pick to my wife and she said "Oh god what happened to the Fresh Prince??"

[Darkest Daze @ Oct 18th 2007 12:10AM]

Uncross your eyes! Oh...sorry.

[Twitchy @ Oct 18th 2007 12:19AM]

It's a sad indicator for the state of a nation when someone is willing to risk going to prison for $2oo, especially through an action which would so obviously end in apprehension.

[EvilBahumut @ Oct 18th 2007 12:21AM]

That's a mask right? I want that for halloween! I'll scare EVERYBODY!!

[Joe P @ Oct 18th 2007 12:31AM]

That's a nice lazy eye he's got there. Have a good time in prison.

[Steve @ Oct 18th 2007 12:32AM]

Wow, Will Smith is pretty desperate these days..

[Typhoid Mary @ Oct 18th 2007 12:43AM]

Now I would have asked for $184,999.

But hey, that just me.

I'm nice like that.

And my eye ain't lazy. Its tired.

[Alex @ Oct 18th 2007 1:10AM]

Wow, Denzel Washington has really been letting himself go.

[togroovy @ Oct 18th 2007 1:46AM]

At least in jail he wont need anyone to watch his back

[Steven @ Oct 18th 2007 1:54AM]

I didn't know brian peppers was allowed to do that anymore.

[Video Game Nerd @ Oct 18th 2007 2:07AM]

Is he looking at ME or YOU?

[Ed @ Oct 18th 2007 2:55AM]

This is why I miss America's Dumbest Criminals. This is almost as good as the punk that can't get away because the door is pull instead of push.

What on earth would make the guy think he could set a meeting ahead of time to ranson (Old Archaic English spelling of the word) a phone? And for 10,000 times the market price of the phone?

If this guy kidnapped somebodies kid he would meet the parents at a chuckee cheese WITH the kid and would probably take a check.

LMAO.

P.S - This guy is going to be corn holed so many times in prison just by somebody asking him to pick up the soap.

[Darkest Daze @ Oct 18th 2007 2:37AM]

He'd probably ask for $1 million but then settle for a pizza and 10 tokens.

[Ed @ Oct 18th 2007 2:54AM]

LOL. Yeah, then ask you for some more tokens to play air hockey with your kid and then a ride home. Probably have to take his ass inside to his couch since he would of fallen asleep in your car.

[TMLC @ Oct 18th 2007 7:54AM]

The thing that confuses me the most about this, is that the police actually believed the victim...

[DickHardknocks @ Oct 18th 2007 8:12AM]

I, ROBOT

[DickHardknocks @ Oct 18th 2007 8:12AM]

EYE' ROBOT

[bsm0f0 @ Oct 18th 2007 8:46AM]

eye speye with my little eye ...

[DickHardknocks @ Oct 18th 2007 9:41AM]

EYE Am Legend

(its his new movie coming soon)