MIMS, Fla. — A man was arrested just days after he was caught on camera stealing a crossbow by stuffing it down his pants, the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office said.
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On Feb. 6, deputies said employees at the True Value Store on Highway 1 in Mims reported that two crossbows had been stolen from the store.
Video from inside the store shows the man, later identified as Darren Durrant, walking into the store, stealing a pair of cutting tools off the shelf and then cutting the zip ties off of a Ravin R10 Crossbow.
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The man then walked around the corner from where the crossbows were shelved and stuffed the weapon in his baggy sweat pants.
“Just when you think you have seen it all, this guy takes carrying a concealed weapon to a whole new level, as he proves to all of us that you can actually stuff a crossbow down the front of your pants!!” the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office posted on Facebook.
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Deputies said Durrant was found a few days later in the parking lot of a nearby Walgreens.
They said Durrant tried to run away but didn’t get very far.
Durrant is currently in the Seminole County Jail on an unrelated burglary charge, but he will face a judge in Brevard County for this case.
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Sheriff Wayne Ivey called Durrant “one of the world’s dumbest criminals caught on video stuffing a crossbow down his pants.”
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