Baron Calmese, the piggy bank thief.

"Man, I bought a piece of ass and some heroin" was the incredibly charming response Baron Calmese allegedly gave police when they asked him last year why he stole money straight from his nephew's piggy bank.

Given that statement on record it's not a huge surprise that, many months later, Calmese, a 31-year-old Clayton man, formally pleaded guilty to the unbelievable offense of stealing hundreds of dollars from a four-year-old child.

Straight from the little boy's piggy bank!

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Kevin Flatley.

A naked man sitting in his car outside a library in St. Peters this week asked a teenage girl if she wanted a ride while he fondled himself.

That is according to St. Peters police officials who yesterday arrested Kevin Flatley, 49, two days after he allegedly decided it would be a good idea to sit nude in his car and talk to passersby in the parking lot of a library on Spencer Road.

After an investigation involving surveillance footage at the library and testimony from the victim, police located Flatley at his house and took him into custody, officials say.

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Imani Shakoor, 21.

Imani Shakoor, 21, allegedly stole a woman's iPhone right from her hands while she was riding on the MetroLink. Unfortunately for him, he was not able to get away fast enough -- and the victim was not going to let her smartphone go without a fight.

Police say in trying to get her phone back, she chased after him -- and pulled on his hair.

"The victim followed Shakoor and grabbed him by his hair and told him to give the phone back to her," a report from the St. Clair County Sheriff's Department says, regarding the incident last week as the train was entering the East Riverfront metro station.

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Victoria Gibbs.

It's like Dumpster diving...only this rummaging through trash can apparently land you in jail.

The St. Louis circuit attorney's office announced yesterday that Victoria Gibbs and Ladale Lewis have both pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of metal "Dumpster hooks" from the city.

Why? Dumpster hooks -- which are small metal parts -- are apparently valuable!

The city, however, also may notice if you take them. Especially if you snag them from 30 different locations across the city as these two did.

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Police say they've located the nude man seen fleeing an explosion early Wednesday morning in Farmington.

The suspect, a 22-year-old male from the nearby eastern Missouri town of Bismarck, checked himself into Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis last week and is undergoing treatment for severe burns to his face and arms.

Lieutenant Jeff Crites with the Farmington Police Department tells Daily RFT that a witness observed a "nude man running down the street" immediately following an explosion that rocked an apartment building around 5 a.m. on May 1. The man's clothes lay burning on the sidewalk.

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Two of the four accused employees.

Another day, another allegation of financial misconduct at the St. Louis city department in charge of overseeing public dollars. This treasurer's office controversy involves four employees who schemed -- with not a whole lot of success -- to steal public dollars from city-owned parking lots, prosecutors say.

These latest charges come less than a month after a former employee of the treasurer's office was convicted of multiple fraud charges, including siphoning off public dollars and filling out false time sheets.

These new theft allegations came to light when Tishaura Jones, who became St. Louis treasurer in January, noticed something wasn't adding up.

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A St. Charles man has learned a valuable lesson: pointing a laser at an aircraft can be wickedly entertaining when you're drinking and painfully regretful when you're standing before the judge.

Yesterday, 36-year-old Michael Brandon Smith was sentenced to two years of probation, two months home confinement and 40 hours of community service for pointing a laser at a police helicopter.

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Thomas Duroso, alleged KSDK harasser.

Update below: We here at Daily RFT are no strangers to very angry readers commenting on our articles and Facebook page expressing outrage, hate, disgust, etc. But generally they don't show up in person to our office, demand to speak with us and threaten to hurt us -- and tell us we may soon face death.

But this appears to be the case with Thomas Duroso, 32, who allegedly has some serious gripes with KSDK (Channel 5) and decided to repeatedly harass several employees in a series of obscene Facebook messages -- and then, last week, in person.

One threat said "enjoy the last remaining moments of life," according to a probable-cause statement, on view below. In addition to this alleged harassment, Duroso also apparently spends a lot of time posting strange rants on his own Facebook page and filming bizarre videos on YouTube.

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Madison County Sheriff's Office.

David Hurley, twenty.

A 77-year-old Alton, Illinois, man asked two young men speeding by in a truck to slow down. Instead, they drove their vehicle straight into his yard -- but not before attacking him.

At least these are the accusations of police who say that Tyler Bates, age nineteen, is now facing charges of aggravated battery. And his alleged accomplice, David Hurley, twenty, the driver at the time of the incident, is facing criminal damage charges.

Police were able to track down the two with the help of Christina Hurley, 21, who is the sister of the suspected driver. But she, too, was arrested because she was actively wanted out of the Collinsville Police Department for a failure to appear on a traffic offense, officials say.

What happened to the elderly man?

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Christopher Duffy, 22.

Is it safe to buy stuff on Craigslist?

Not if you're responding to the ads of Christopher Duffy, 22, and Devion Russell, 20, who police say twice plotted robberies via St. Louis Craigslist -- luring victims with promises of a used car and then robbing them at gunpoint.

Police have charged the two men in connection with the incident last Wednesday, in which a man was shot in the face when he went to check out a vehicle from Craigslist.

And that was the second armed robbery the two suspects orchestrated last week, police say.

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