Busted

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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SADA ABE

(1905–1970?)

NATIONALITY

Japanese

WHO WAS SHE?