A criminal who failed to rob a retired NYPD officer was called the "stupidest criminal in the state of Pennsylvania" by his would-be victim.
The retired officer, John Comparetto, was in the bathroom of a Holiday Inn when Jerome Blanchett, 19, approached him with a gun. After demanding money, Blanchett tried to flee, but he didn't make it very far.
ABC 27 News reports that Jerome failed to realize that the Holiday Inn held a police conference that day, even though there was a sign out front welcoming the cops and a parking lot full of unmarked police cars.
Blanchett was apprehended in the parking lot.
That was not Blanchett's only offense. Less than a week after he was accused of the comical robbery, he was in court regarding a different crime.
He was sentenced to 52 years in prison for robbing and beating four pizza delivery men.
Even though his failed robbery is humorous, that should not take away from the fact, as Comparetto puts it, Blanchett is a dangerous man with a "propensity for violence"(The Patriot News).
His trial for his most recent charge has begun this week.
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