While this might be a headline most would associate with a male specimen in the state of Florida, it was actually a man in South Carolina that was busted after holding up a convenience store using a Nintendo controller.
Despite his colorful choice of hair, he was careful to disguise his weapon by spray-painting it black in an effort to conceal the fact that he was, in fact, using an outdated video game controller.
And it worked.
The cashier was quick to hand over the cash from the register to the mask-wearing thief after he brandished the ‘weapon’ in the waistband of his pants. In the end, he got away with about $300 in cash from the Kwik Stop.
Police later caught up to the suspect, David Joseph Dalesandro, 25, as he was busy spending his new windfall of cash at a local Dollar General just down the street from the scene of the crime.
Dalesandro was apprehended and charged with armed robbery with a deadly weapon, petit larceny and a charge of “wearing masks and the like.”
In the state of South Carolina, you can and will be charged for use of a deadly weapon, even, as in this case, if the weapon itself is not deadly in nature. So long as you pretend that a weapon could potentially be deadly, you can be charged – and rightfully so.
