Carjacker calls police to confess after getting lost, crashing stolen SUV

Published: Friday, December 29, 2006 | 9:53 AM ET

Canadian Press

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) – A carjacking suspect called 911 and turned himself in to police after he crashed a stolen sport utility vehicle twice and got lost while fleeing the crime scene, authorities said.

Claude King, 31, called police from a Palm Springs, Fla., pay phone and confessed to stealing the SUV on Tuesday night, the Palm Beach Post reported.

“Um, I committed a crime,” he told the police dispatcher. “I stole a vehicle.”

He asked for officers to respond to his location, but when the dispatcher asked where the vehicle was, King didn’t have an answer.

“I couldn’t even tell you,” he said. “I don’t even know where I’m at.”

Boca Raton police found King waiting on a curb. He was being held without bail in the Palm Beach County Jail.

© The Canadian Press, 2006

? Did you hear about … the thief who was scared out of robbing a Burger King in Connecticut because he mistakenly thought that the timer going off on a microwave was a burglar alarm.

Did you hear about:

– The crook in Florida who hid from police in a tree on a golf course. When a golfer lost his ball in the grove the thief called out, “Hey,hey, your ball is over there.” The golfer connected the man in the tree with the police helicopters that were searching the area and turned him in.