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Armed Homeowner Scatters Fake FBI
In a not so funny version of the Three Stooges, three would-be thieves were sent running from the scene of their poorly planned heist by a homeowner who was locked and loaded.

The incident happened just after 4 a.m. on July 12, when the three suspects, dressed in unofficial FBI garb, pulled up to a Cooper City home in the 5000 block of SW 104 Avenue. While FBI lettered T-shirts, baseball caps, fake badges and dark fabric masks may have seemed fool-proof, the home owner, Malcolm Jose Pena, 35, was unconvinced.

Surveillance cameras captured the scene as the three bandits pulled up in a silver Mercedes Benz SUV, two men approached the home and one stayed back on lookout. The masked FBI impostors began prying the front door open with a crowbar until Pena interrupted with a bullet from his .40 caliber Smith & Wesson pistol.

After Pena's bullet broke through the front window, the flustered impostors fled to their SUV and high tailed it away from the scene empty-handed.

Their mad dash to flee the scene -- reminiscent of Moe, Larry and Curly -- led the BSO to dub them the "Three Stooges."

The Broward Sheriff's office is trying to identify the three men, who are still at-large.
Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-07-15
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