Keystone Cops: Pants Off Dance Off

Keystone Cops is a daily look at crime, police, public safety and drug news. Homicide totals are unofficial.

• Crime of the day: Four charged in pants theft. Yes, it took four people to allegedly steal a pair of pants (and, later, a car) from a man who thought he was going to get laid. A 21-year-old woman lured him into a motel to ostensibly get it from behind, but when the man removed his pants, she and her three male accomplices fled with them. The pants didn’t contain the dude’s wallet, so they went back and took his car, but were later arrested. [Camden Courier-Post]

• Police officer Lawrence Leissner detailed his experience rushing into a bloody crime scene. Actual sentences from article: “In the main office area, five desks were neatly cluttered with Apple computers, iPods, music CDs and computer software. But the furniture and accessories hardly mattered to Leissner, who led his fellow officers through the office space.” I would’ve stopped to take some iPods. [Daily News]

• Richard Laird was sentenced to death in a retrial of the 1988 abduction and murder of Anthony Milano. [Buxco Courier Times]

• A man was found dead in a car in West Kensington, the city’s 40th homicide of the year. [Inquirer]