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Mugshots and Arrest Records of the Famous and Infamous
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Although the headlines fade, the humiliation, vulnerability, and sometimes chilling smugness of the alleged criminal in the mug shot stands the test of time. Covering 150 years of run-ins with the law, Busted reveals more than 500 of the most famous, disturbing, and just plain pathetic mug shots ever recorded. Subjects from all walks of life face front and turn to the left in this enthralling slice of social history. Among the alleged perpetrators are James Brown (carrying an unlicensed weapon and assaulting a police officer), Lenny Bruce (obscenity), Bill Gates (running a red light, driving without a license), Al Capone (tax evasion), Jeffrey Dahmer (rape, torture, murder, cannibalism), Eminem (assault), Mick Jagger (drugs charges), Malcolm X (burglary), Al Pacino (carrying a concealed weapon), Charles Barkley (disorderly conduct), Frank Sinatra (morals charges), Bernie Madoff (securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, perjury, making false filings with the SEC, theft from an employee benefit plan), Bugsy Siegel (gambling and bootlegging), Tupac Shakur (sexual assault), Roger Clinton (drug dealing), and hundreds more.
The date of the arrest is provided, along with the fascinating, shocking, and sometimes ludicrous stories of the circumstance that led to the arrest, as well as occasional details of the trial and punishment (or merely the humble apology) that followed. Impossible to turn away from, Busted is the perfect coffee-table or gift book for our celebrity-obsessed society.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Frank William Abagnale
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, “The Christmas Day Bomber”
Omar Abdel-Rahman, “The Blind Sheikh”
Sada Abe
Mehmet Ali Agca
Marv Albert
Felix Alderisio
Muhammad Ali
Dennis “Mr. Death” Allen
Tim Allen
Aldrich Ames
Yigal Amir
Allen Andrade
Lowell Lee Andrews
Susan B. Anthony
Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle
Amy Archer-Gilligan
Louis Armstrong
Raymond Aubrac
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Johnson Aziga
Lena Baker
Jim Bakker
Daniel Baldwin
The Bali Nine
Klaus Barbie, “The Butcher of Lyon”
Brigitte Bardot
Charles Barkley
Clyde Barrow
Kevin Barry
Marion Barry
Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry
The Beatles (John, George, Paul)
Byron De La Beckwith
Menahem Mendel Beilis
Nadja Benaissa
David Berkowitz
Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
Chuck Berry
Halle Berry
Rainey Bethea
Stephen Biko
Rod Blagojevich
Robert Blake
Yasmine Bleeth
John Wayne Bobbitt
Lorena Bobbitt
Amy Maud Bock
Ivan Boesky
Danny Bonaduce
William Bonin, “The Freeway Killer”
Brian Bonsall
Lizzie Borden
Mohammed Bouyeri
David Bowie
Belle Boyd, “Cleopatra of the Secession”
Benjamin Boyd
Christian Brando
Chris Brown
Foxy Brown
James Brown
John Brown
Lenny Bruce
Kobe Bryant
Ted Bundy
Plaxico Burress
Joey Buttafuocco
William Calley
Glen Campbell
Jose Canseco
Al Capone
“Carlos the Jackal” Ilich Ramirez Sanchez
Clarence “The Choctaw Kid” Carnes
Amy Carter
“Butch Cassidy” Robert Leroy Parker
Edith Cavell
Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu
Robert Chambers “The Preppie Killer”
Robert Chambliss
Charlie Chaplin
Henri “Papillon” Charrière
César Chávez
Styllou Pantopiou Christofi
Galeazzo Ciano
Roger Clinton
Gary Coleman
Charles Colson
Robert Conrad
Joseph Corbett Jr.
Mary Ann Cotton
Larry Craig
Cheryl Crane
Thomas Neill Cream, “The Lambeth Poisoner”
Hawley Harvey Crippen
David Crosby
Russell Crowe
Leon Czolgosz
Jeffrey Dahmer
D’Angelo
Mike Danton
Angela Davis
Jefferson Davis
Eugene V. Debs
Tom Delay
Levi Detweiler
Eamon De Valera
Andy Dick
John Dillinger
Peter Doherty
Nannie “The Jolly Black Widow” Doss
Alfred Dreyfus
David Duke
Francisco Martin Duran
Monk Eastman
Adolf Eichmann
Eminem (Marshall Mathers)
Pablo Escobar
Michael Jude Fay
Ronald De Feo Jr.
Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, “The Lonely Hearts Killers”
Jacques Fesch
James Richard Finch & John Andrew Stuart
Amy Fisher
Heidi Fleiss, “The Hollywood Madam”
Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd
Errol Flynn
Jane Fonda
John T. Ford
Peter Foster
Joe Francis
Antoinette Frank
Leo Frank
Martin Frankel
Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme
Sataro Fukiage
Zsa Zsa Gabor
John Wayne Gacy
Mahatma Gandhi
Phillip Garrido & Nancy Garrido
Bill Gates
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Jean Genet
John Geoghan
Richard Gere
Geronimo
Mel Gibson
John Gielgud
John K. Giles
Gary Gilmore
The Glen Ridge Rapists
Amon Goeth
Alan Golder, “The Dinnertime Bandit”
Julio Gonzalez
Dwight Gooden
Miura Gor
John Gotti
Hugh Grant
Rose O’Neal Greenhow
Irma “The Beautiful Beast” Grese
Charles Guiteau
Arlo Guthrie
Merle Haggard
Anna Marie Hahn
Robert J. Halderman
Mary Nance Hanson
Robert Hanssen
Naveed Afzal Haq
Tonya Harding
Mata Hari
Woody Harrelson
Jean Harris
Colton Harris-Moore, “The Barefoot Bandit”
Robert Harrison
Nidal Malik Hasan
Bruno Hauptmann
The Haymarket Riot Anarchists
Patty Hearst
Neville Heath
Richard Heene & Mayumi Iizuka Heene
Leona Helmsley
Glenn and Justin Helzer
Russell Henderson & Aaron McKinney
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens)
Richard Hickock and Perry Smith
Henry Hill
Paris Hilton
John Hinckley Jr.
Alger Hiss
Adolf Hitler
Mark Hofmann
Billie Holiday
Hollywood Ten
Dennis Hopper
Tom Horn Jr.
Jeremy Jason Hull
Saddam Hussein
Clifford Irving
Khalid Islambouli
Michael Jackson
Mick Jagger
Amana Jawad Mona
Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter)
William J. Jefferson
Justin S. Johnson
Chief Joseph
Ahn Jung-Geun
Ted Kaczynski, “The Unabomber”
Fanya Yefimovna “Fanni” Kaplan
Radovan Karadzic
Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab
Stacy Keach
Charles Keating
George “Machine Gun” Kelly
Patrick J. Kennedy II
Bernard Kerik
Ken Kesey
Jack Kevorkian
Kid Rock (Robert James Ritchie)
Sante and Kenny Kimes
Larry King
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rodney King Police Officers
Julian Knight
Reginald and Ronald Kray
Gene Krupa
Jan Kubis and Jozef Gabík
Konrad Kujau & Gerd Heidemann
Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski
Sharon Lain
Pierre Laval
Ken Lay
Timothy Leary
Tommy Lee
Fernand Legros
Ken Leishman, “The Gentleman Bandit”
Vladimir Lenin
Jerry Lee Lewis
G. Gordon Liddy
Rush Limbaugh
John Walker Lindh
John List
Heather Locklear
Lindsay Lohan
Jack London
Jared L. Loughner
Henry Lee Lucas
Luigi Lucheni
Charles “Lucky” Luciano
Kurt Frederick Ludwig
Patrice Lumumba
Bernie Madoff
Norman Mailer
Malcolm X (Malcolm Little)
Nelson Mandela
Crystal Gail Mangum
Charles Manson
Marilyn Manson (Brian Hugh Warner)
Peter Manuel, “The Beast of Birkenshaw”
Matthew McConaughey
Gary McKinnon
Steve McQueen
Timothy McVeigh & Terry Nichols
Lyle and Erik Menendez
Thomas Francis Meagher
Ramon Mercader
Jacques Mesrine
George Metesky, “The Mad Bomber”
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
George Michael
Michael Milken
Slobodan Milosevic
Brian Mitchell & Wanda Barzee
John Mitchell, John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman
Robert Mitchum
Harry “Breaker” Morant
Dudley Moore
Sara Jane Moore
Barry Morris
Jim Morrison
John S. Mosby
Jean Moulin
Zacarias Moussaoui
Samuel Mudd
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Terence Mullen & Jack Hughes
Laura Jane Murray
Benito Mussolini
Sun Myung Moon
John Myatt
Michael Myers
Bess Myerson
Norio Nagayama
Imre Nagy
Carrie Nation
Vince Neil
George “Baby Face” Nelson (Lester Gillis)
Paul Newman
Frank “The Enforcer” Nitti
Nick Nolte
Manuel Noriega
Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace)
Nuremberg Trial Defendants
Khloé Kardashian Odom
Madalyn Murray O’Hair
James E. O’Keefe, Robert Flanagan, Joseph Basel and Stan Dai
Edward Capehart O’Kelley
Sara Jane Olson (Kathleen Anne Soliah)
Daniel Ortega
Ozzy Osbourne
Lee Harvey Oswald
Al Pacino
Emmeline Pankhurst
Rosa Parks
Mary Pearcey
Louis Jay Pearlman
Sean Penn
Ty Pennington
Rafael Pérez
Sophia Perovskaya
Vincenzo Perugia
Philippe Pétain
Scott Peterson
Philippe Petit
Michael Phelps
Mackenzie Phillips
Robert William Pickton
Roman Polanski
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi
Jonathan Pollard
Charles Ponzi
Paula Poundstone
Lewis Powell
Francis Gary Powers
Gavrilo Princip
Puck (David Rainey)
Abdul Rahman Al-Amoudi
Bruce Raisley
Richard Ramírez, “The Night Stalker”
Edwin Ramos
Djordjije Rasovic & Snezana Panajotovic
Lou Rawls
James Earl Ray
Sidney Reilly
Martha Rendell
Antoin “Tony” Rezko
Dennis Rodman
The Romanovs
Axl Rose (William Bruce Rose Jr.)
Paul Rose
Pete Rose Jr.
Tokyo Rose (Iva Toguri D’Aquino) & Axis Sally (Mildred Gillars)
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
Diana Ross
Dan Rostenkowski
Carlton Rotach
Mickey Rourke
Jack Ruby
Winona Ryder
Nicola Sacco & Bartolemeo Vanzetti
Abe Saffron
Saleh Salem
Margaret Sanger
Charles “Smitty” Schmid Jr., “The Pied Piper of Tucson”
Duncan Scott-Ford
The Scottsboro Boys
Faisal Shahzad
Mutulu Shakur
Tupac Shakur
Al Sharpton
Cindy Sheehan
Charlie Sheen
Sam Sheppard
Offer “Vince” Shlomi, “The Sham-Wow Guy” & Sasha Harris
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel
O.J. Simpson
Frank Sinatra
Udham Singh
Sirhan Sirhan
Michael Skakel
Eddie Slovik
William Kennedy Smith
Wesley Snipes
Martha Stewart
Robert Franklin Stroud, “The Birdman of Alcatraz”
Peter Sutcliffe, “The Yorkshire Ripper”
Henry David Thoreau
T.I. (Clifford Johnson Harris Jr.)
Craig Titus & Kelly Ryan
Hideki Tojo
Rip Torn
William “Boss” Tweed
Mike Tyson
U.S. Capitol Shooters
Frankie Valli
Marinus van der Lubbe
Joran van der Sloot
Han van Meegeren
Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle)
Vince Vaughn
Paul Verlaine
Sid Vicious (John Simon Ritchie)
Michael Vick
Donnie Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg
Walker Spy Family
Oscar Wilde
Henry Wirz
P.G. Wodehouse
Yanni (John Yanni Christopher)
About the Author
INTRODUCTION
Lots of people have run-ins with the law, and this book chronicles hundreds of them, ranging from the notorious to the famous to the hilarious. You’ll find the truly terrifying Jeffrey Dahmer, the rapist, torturer, killer, and cannibal, but also the hapless Levi Detweiler, an Amish teenager who tried to outrun the cops in his horse and buggy. In between are serial killers, burglars, war criminals, chiselers, spies, assassins, and, of course, the stars of Hollywood, few of whom, it seems, can resist the temptation to get behind the wheel of car when they’ve had a snoot-full.
Flipping through this book is a lot like snooping through police files—you never know who you’re going to find. That Lizzie Borden, O. J. Simpson, and Mel Gibson appear here will surprise no one, but what about Offer “Vince” Shlomi, from the ShamWow television commercials: He was arrested for punching a prostitute in the face. But he had his reasons—the woman bit his tongue and wouldn’t let go.
Then there’s the short story writer, O. Henry. Before he began writing, he embezzled more than $800 from the bank where he worked as teller. His three-year stint in jail introduced to him to lots of colorful inmates and prison guards who would become the inspiration for characters in his stories.
The crime of tax evasion attracts an interesting cross-section of society: There’s the gangster Al Capone, the action-adventure movie star Wesley Snipes, and the immortal Henry David Thoreau. Capone and Snipes received lengthy prison sentences, but Thoreau spent only one night in jail—his aunt paid his back taxes for him.
Anyone who has watched an episode of MTV’s reality series Jersey Shore knew it was only a matter of time before Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi would get picked up on a disorderly conduct charge, but who would have believed that at age 21 Al Pacino was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon? He told the arresting officer the gun was a stage prop he was taking to an audition—which is a great alibi. As it turns out, Pacino was telling the truth.
There are plenty of cringe-worthy moments here, including Congressman Larry Craig getting booked after cruising for sex in an airport men’s room; Ozzy Osbourne being arrested for relieving himself on the Alamo; and the little-known case of Sada Abe, a Japanese Lorena Bobbitt.
A surprising number of cases are still being debated. Did Bruno Hauptmann kill the Lindbergh baby? Were Sacco and Vanzetti executed because they were killers or because they were anarchists? Was Henry Wirz, the commandant of the Andersonville prisoner of war camp, a heartless sadist? Did the cops who beat Rodney King get off easy?
Of course, not everyone who gets busted is a lowlife. Think of Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and Rosa Parks. For social and political reformers, jail time is almost a badge of honor.
Here then is an arresting, informative, entertaining selection of some of the most notable jailbirds of the last 150 years.
FRANK WILLIAM ABAGNALE
(1948–)
NATIONALITY
American
WHO IS HE?
With an IQ of 140 and looks that made him appear older than his actual age, Frank Abagnale began life as a con man at age 16.
WHAT DID HE DO?
Abagnale passed $2.5 million in bad checks in every state in the Union and in 26 foreign countries. Between the ages of 16 and 21, he successfully passed himself off as an airline pilot, an attorney, a college professor, and a pediatrician.
DATE OF ARREST
1969
CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE ARREST
While living in France, Abagnale was spotted by an ex-girlfriend who notified the French police. They arrested Abagnale while he was grocery shopping near his apartment in Montpellier.
THE CHARGES
Fraud and forgery
THE SENTENCE
Abagnale was sentenced to a year in prison in France, but after serving six months he was extradited to Sweden, where he was tried and sentenced to a year in prison. Then the Swedish government sent him to the United States where he was sentenced to 12 years. After serving 5 years, he was paroled. Abagnale was 26 years old.
AFTERWARD
Abagnale found a new career working for the FBI as a teacher and consultant to the Bureau’s Fraud Prevention program.
THE MOVIE
Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film, Catch Me If You Can, is based on Abagnale’s autobiography of the same name. Leonardo Di Caprio played Frank Abagnale.
UMAR FAROUK ABDULMUTALLAB, “THE CHRISTMAS DAY BOMBER”
(1986–)
NATIONALITY
Nigerian
WHO IS HE?
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is the son of a wealthy Nigerian banker. After high school he studied Arabic in Sana’a, Yemen, and then enrolled at University College in London, where he studied mechanical engineering and became head of the university’s Islamic Society. At some point he was recruited by Al Qaeda, and in November 2009 he disappeared. Abdulmutallab’s father, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, went to the U.S. embassy in Abuja to report that, given Umar’s association with Islamic extremists, he feared that his son had become a security threat. Embassy officials and a CIA officer sent a report of the meeting to Washington, but did not revoke Abdulmutallab’s visa to the United States.
WHAT DID HE DO?
On Christmas Eve 2009, Abdulmutallab used cash to purchase a ticket from Lagos, Nigeria, to Detroit, via Amsterdam. He had no luggage. Several hours later, as the plane carrying 278 passengers approached Detroit, Abdulmutallab returned from the bathroom, threw a blanket over his lap, and tried to activate explosives made of PETN, or pentaerythritol, which he had concealed in his underpants. The bomb misfired, giving off a loud pop, and then setting fire to Abdulmutallab’s pants. Many of the passengers panicked, but Jasper Schuringa, a Dutch filmmaker, leapt on top of Abdulmutallab and tried to put out the fire. It was doused by members of the cabin crew with fire extinguishers.
DATE OF ARREST
December 25, 2009
CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE ARREST
Abdulmutallab was taken into custody at the Detroit airport and transported for treatment to the University of Michigan Burn Center in Ann Arbor. He was arraigned the next day, handcuffed to a wheelchair.
THE CHARGES
Attempted murder and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction
AFTERWARD
At the time of his arrest, Abdulmutallab was interrogated by agents of the FBI. At some point it was determined that he should be read the Miranda rights and given access to a lawyer, at which point Abdulmutallab stopped cooperating with his interrogators. The mirandizing of Abdulmutallab set off a firestorm of debate about whether he should be treated as an enemy combatant or as a criminal. Weeks later the United States brought two members of Abdulmutallab’s family to visit him; after this visit, he began to cooperate with his interrogators once again. As of 2010, he was being held at the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan.
OMAR ABDEL-RAHMAN, “THE BLIND SHEIKH”
(1938–)
NATIONALITY
Egyptian
WHO IS HE?
Omar Abdel-Rahman is a leader of the Islamic Group, a militant Islamist organization founded in Egypt and regarded by the governments of Egypt and the United States as a terrorist organization. The Islamic Group is suspected of having carried out the 1997 Luxor Massacre, a terrorist attack on tourists at the Temple of Hatshepsut, in which 63 foreigners and Egyptians were killed and 26 were wounded. In 1990, Abdel-Rahman entered the United States on a tourist visa. As a leader of MAK, a forerunner of Al-Qaeda, he traveled throughout the United States and Canada recruiting mujahideen, or holy warriors, to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. He also preached in mosques in the United States, urging Muslims to make war on the West: “Cut the transportation of their countries, tear it apart, destroy their economy, burn their companies, eliminate their interests, sink their ships, shoot down their planes, kill them on the sea, air, or land.”
WHAT DID HE DO?
Abdel-Rahman led a cell that planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. On February 26, 1993, a member of the cell, Eyad Ismoil, drove a rented van, packed with explosives, into an underground parking garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. Adbel-Rahman and his fellow conspirators hoped the explosion would bring the North Tower toppling down onto the South Tower, killing thousands. The explosion did not bring down the towers, but it did kill six and wounded over 1,000.
DATE OF ARREST
July 2, 1993
CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE ARREST
When federal agents came to arrest him, Abdel-Rahman was holed up inside a mosque in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. He remained inside with a large congregation of supporters until shortly after 6:00 p.m. when he emerged from the mosque and surrendered.
THE CHARGES
Seditious conspiracy, conspiracy to murder, among other charges
THE SENTENCE
Life in prison
AFTERWARD
In 2005, one of Abdel-Rahman’s defense attorneys, Lynne Stewart, was convicted of passing messages from the sheikh to members of the Islamic Group in Egypt.
THE MONEY MAN
It is believed that funding for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing came from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is also alleged to have planned the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, the Bali nightclub bombings, and the September 11 attacks.
SADA ABE
(1905–1970?)
NATIONALITY
Japanese
WHO WAS SHE?
Genre:
- "...addictive fun."
- On Sale
- Dec 12, 2011
- Page Count
- 480 pages
- Publisher
- Black Dog & Leventhal
- ISBN-13
- 9781603762694
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