He was shaping up to be such a promising lottery machine thief, but his gluttony did him in.
Roderick Reifenstahl and two other men allegedly used a stolen key last month to steal about $1,600 out of a lottery game at the Kum & Go store in Des Moines, Iowa, according to The Des Moines Register.
Detective Dave Smith noticed one of the suspects heading off to buy doughnuts and a soft drink while the other two stayed at the machine when he was looking over surveillance footage of the incident.
The mid-burgle doughnut buy was made with a food-stamp card, he later learned.
Cops traced the give-away pastry to Reifenstahl, 42, with the aid of the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals.
The police said last Tuesday that the sweet-cake transaction provided an electronic fingerprint to go with the security tape evidence.
Smith and Des Moines cops "hit a home run on this one," Ken Moon, an Iowa Lottery investigator, told The Register. "We've had several of these thefts reported around the city, and this is the first arrest."
Machines like the Blazing 7s slot-machine-like one the trio allegedly broke into are popular with gamers and a sought-after target of thieves.
A key to the machines was stolen from a store earlier this year and a thief swiped a key ring from a worker who services them in a separate incident, Moon told The Register.
Police have charged Reifenstahl with second-degree theft and say they are on the hunt for the other two alleged thieves.
Posted by: SOT
I didn't know you could use food stamps to buy cake and candy.
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