The Five Strangest Corrupt Cops

Meet Honolulu’s finest, Kevin Fujioka and Shane Souza. As you might have guessed, they were enjoying some of Hawaii’s more beloved but less legal agricultural crop when, for no explicable reason, a whole bunch of police approached them after smelling weed coming out of an illegally parked van. Being smart and sensible fellows, they immediately tried to drive off, crashed their van, and then tried to run away. As the cops were not the ones stoned, they were caught pretty quickly.

To be fair, they should be held up as examples. See kids? This is why you don’t do drugs.

In Baltimore, Drug Dealers Bust Cops

William King and Antonio Murray had two problems: one, they lived in Baltimore, which exists to make Detroit feel better about itself. Two, they were police officers in Baltimore, so their jobs were, of course, absolutely terrible. King and Murray decided to moonlight on the side, just to make a little extra money. Which is how they became drug dealers.

King and Murray actually had a pretty smart plan: beat up the drug dealers, steal their drugs, and then resell the drugs. Well, pretty smart in the sense that they didn’t have to pay for the drugs, just the post-beating beers. But it was pretty stupid in the sense that they didn’t bother to hide their identities to the point where they were actually featured in the Stop Snitchin‘ DVD as examples of corrupt cops. After the Baltimore Police Department realized they had some movie star in their midst, King and Murray were arrested.

If this sounds a bit like some characters from The Wire…perish the thought.

Andre Stander Robs Banks on His Lunch Break

Andre Stander started out as a good cop, but being a good cop in ’70s South Africa is just a little hard to do. Stuck on a racist police force with no hope of advancement since he wouldn’t go around beating up black people for the crime of existing, Stander needed a hobby to blow off steam.

So he started robbing banks on his lunch break. And he did it for three years.

The basic problem was, while most of South Africa’s police were off bolstering the country’s sterling reputation for race relations, most of Johannesburg was essentially left unguarded. Stander, being a master of disguise, could knock over a bank, go back to work from lunch, come back to the bank as a police officer, interview the cashier he robbed, and nobody would realize he’d been the one to do it. In other words, he was a one-man crime wave and he did it on his lunch break.

Oh, and then later on, he broke out, formed a gang, and robbed up to four banks a day, even coming back and robbing a bank that had made the mistake of announcing he hadn’t gotten at the real vault. And later got a biopic starring Thomas Jane. So, basically, he’s the most awesome corrupt cop ever.