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Man Busted For Home Invasion — With A Toy Gun
August 9, 2011
An Escambia County man was busted for a home invasion in which he pulled a toy gun.
William Payne, 26, was charged in the armed home invasion in the 1200 block of Basin Street. He remained in the Escambia County Jail Monday with bond set at $100,000.
According to the victim, Payne called him Sunday morning about finishing a tattoo. He began to shout and hung up the phone during the conversation, according to deputies. A short time later, he showed up at the victim’s house, knocked on the door and rattled the doorknob.
When the victim opened the door, Payne forced his way into the home and pulled a black-colored handgun from his pocket, saying “give me my tattoo kit or I’ll shoot all of you,” according to the arrest report. Payne then grabbed the victim’s tattoo kit.
The victim grabbed the gun in an effort to wrestle it away from Payne, and it broke into pieces. It was at that point he realized the gun was plastic.
Payne still managed to jump into his vehicle and leave the premises with the tattoo kit. He was identified a short time later by Pensacola Police and deputies arrested him on charges of home invasion robbery.
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7 Responses to “Man Busted For Home Invasion — With A Toy Gun”
There was a cartoon of Dennis the Menace years back in which his father is pointing some sort of a gun at a burglar who’s broken into their home.
Dennis yells, “Go ahead, Daddy, SQUIRT HIM!”
That’s alot to go thru just for a tattoo..some people are as dumb as they look .. Maybe He will have some time to work on that tattoo in the jail cell..
I would have tatooed once an idiot on this flower of intellegence.
You cant fix STUPID!!!
He’ll walk this time also. He has had 29 felony and misdeaminor arrests since 2001. Everything from coccaine possess, auto theft, coccaine possess with intent to sell at a school. Most of these were dismissed or nollo prosecu according to the clerk of courts site. He had some weed convictions which he plead guilty on and the jail time was suspended.
His first run in with the law was at 17 on a curfew violation. Guess he didn’t learn from that one. Momma must be real proud of him.
william thomas payne-Clerk of courts Alumni
poor thang
another fine citizen. he was lucky he did not get shot by someone in the home.
some people just amaze me with the dumb stuff they do.