A thick-headed teen is making an early bid for the title of year’s stupidest outlaw, after ordering a woman to show up with more cash a day after he kidnapped and robbed her — leading cops right to him, police said.
Jason Donte Hayes, 17, broke into a Nether Providence Township home in Pennsylvania about 3 a.m. Jan. 3, waking up the woman by tapping her on the shoulder with a gun, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
When the woman, in her 70s, told the creep she had no cash on hand, he forced her to drive to an ATM, ordering her to withdraw $2,000, cops said.
Hayes allegedly threatened to kill her and her husband, who remained asleep in a separate bedroom, if she refused to withdraw the cash.
The ATM only allowed the woman to withdraw $460, so Hayes demanded she meet him in a shopping center parking lot the next day with more dough.
“He said, ‘I’ll be dressed exactly the same way as I am today,’” Nether Providence Police Chief David Splain told the paper. “This is where stupid takes off pretty quickly.”
The couple reported the incident to police shortly after noon Jan. 3.
“He clearly told the victim that he would meet her at a certain location at a certain time,” Splain explained. “Not that we would believe that a robber would have ever showed up for a scheduled appointment, but it was something we had to cover.”
Splain and two plainclothes cops waited for Hayes at the rendezvous spot, where he promptly showed up — wearing the same black-and-white camouflage pants and the dark scarf around his face.
“We let him sit there for a couple minutes,” Splain said. “It was clear he was waiting for somebody, and at that point, we took him down.”
The cops found $363 in cash on Hayes and a gold Timex watch that had been pilfered from the victims’ home, police said.
Hayes — who used to live in a rental home owned by the woman — was charged with kidnapping, robbery, aggravated assault and other crimes.
“We were the last ones he was waiting to see. He was waiting for a little old woman,” Splain said. “If he can survive the remaining 340-some days of the year, he will definitely win the dumbest criminal of the year on Dec. 31.”