Florida man says he was 'trying to toughen' up an 8-year-old by bringing him along on a crime spree

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Florida authorities arrested a man they say had an 8-year-old with him while commiting various crimes, the Miami Herald reported.

Ernest McKnight III, who is accused of multiple crimes, was taken into custody on Thursday and is facing charges including theft, burglary, and "contributing to the delinquency of a minor," according to a news release by the Polk County Sheriff's Office per The Miami Herald.

McKnight is accused of stealing a red Hyundai on November 7 in Lake Wales, Florida, according to the news release. He is also accused of "rummaging" through a man's parked Chevy HHR on November 12. Authorities said when McKnight was discovered in the act, he drove away in the red Hyundai he took days prior.

According to the news release, hours later on the same day, McKnight took a package from a person's porch and said: "It's mine now!" He then left the scene in the red Hyundai, authorities said in the news release.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-man-says-trying-toughen-191429300.html

[Renew Deal]

1. Wait till he finds out his son can sing.

[abqtommy]

2. This sure puts my birth family in perspective! I'll have to rethink my prior conclusion

that my family was dysfunctional. Maybe they weren't so bad after all.

[ret5hd]

3. Teaching him to be the PETTIEST of criminals?

Stealing a Hyundai??? A fuckin’ Hyundai??? Not a Vette, not a Cadillac, not a Lexus, but a fuckin’ Hyundai???

And then steals a package from a porch? My god, what a criminal mastermind! Rivals the Joker, right? Babies beware and hide that candy!

Man, I gotta tell ya’, you need to find another trade...something that takes absolutely no imagination, no skill, no drive. Candle dipper...knob polisher...I dunno, but professional criminal you ain’t.

[Karadeniz]

4. Apparently the mother goes along with this....please take the child away...

[gratuitous]

5. The man's name was McKnight and not Timson?

Bit of an upset there.