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January 01. 2001 <br />Part pMug© WMtts•5^ <br />A citizen reported seeing underage kids standing Police Candidate Come Clean On Application <br />around smoking cigarettes at the Alternative School <br />between 1100 and 1130 hours. She has asked that In an attempt to follow his dream of being a police <br />an officer drive by and stop this illegal behavior. officer, a Baltimore man resorted to honesty on his <br />_______________________________________application. <br />I i <br />"WcVe trying a new <br />approach. Chief, to get <br />them to talk." <br />130 days until the fishing opener! <br />i <br />Edwin Gaynor entered police headquarters in <br />Baltimore to fill out an application for employment. <br />When he got to the part that asked, “Have you ever <br />committed a crime?" he answered honestly, “yes." <br />Following that question was an area to provide a <br />brief description; and he did so by explaining he had <br />robbed five people in Texas and also carjacked a <br />woman <br />Not surprisingly, officers arrested him shortly after <br />his application was reviewed. <br />They asked a few routine questions to see if he was <br />joking. After they realized he was serious, they <br />searched their databases and checked wit the <br />police in Killeen. Texas to see if his story matched <br />with the crimes. Indeed they did. <br />Gaynor ’s honesty does not stop there. During <br />conversations with officers, he told them he'd worn <br />a green and white bandanna and carried a .380 <br />caliber chrome plated handgun during the crimes. <br />The woman he carjacked had reported the <br />perpetrator was wearing a green and white <br />bandanna. Both the bandanna and gun were found <br />after the police obtained a search warrant and <br />searched his mother s house <br />Gaynor was subsequently charged with carjacking <br />and was taken into custody, thus ending all <br />possibility of his dream of becoming a police officer. <br />In Modesto. California. Steven Richard King was <br />arrested for trying to hold up a Bank of America <br />branch without a weapon King used his thumb and <br />a finger to simulate a gun. but unfortunately, he <br />failed to keep his hand in his pocket.