E-mail updates
Follow on Twitter
Subscribe to RSS
Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office
Michael Conder and Carrol Lee Leazer
A Utah couple claimed they swallowed razor blades hidden inside store-bought doughnuts, but police say their story had a hole in it — the couple planted them.
The couple, identified by authorities as Michael Condor, 35, and Carrol Lee Leazer, 39, were arrested Monday. Among the charges was aggravated assault because the couple let one of their co-workers at a Dollar Tree store bite into one of the doughnuts, police said.
Police got a call last week from someone who reported finding a triangular piece of sharp metal in a doughnut purchased from Smith’s Food Store in the city of Draper, outside Salt Lake City.
Hospital X-rays showed several razor blade pieces the size of fingernails in the couple’s stomachs, police said. But as detectives looked into it, “things weren’t adding up,” Draper police Sgt. Chad Carpenter told NBC affiliate KSL in Salt Lake City.
Investigators told the Deseret News newspaper that the couple were trying to win a settlement from the store. The couple were in debt, the newspaper reported, citing a police statement.
The co-worker bit into the suspect doughnut but did not swallow it and was unhurt, Carpenter said. The co-worker is the one who reported the metal to police, Carpenter told KSL.
Smith’s initially pulled that brand of doughnut off its shelves.
“Those doughnuts were actually manufactured out of state and sent to that store in sealed, tamper-proof packaging,” Marsha Gilford, a spokeswoman for the grocery store, told the newspaper.
Leave a Comment:
Must be an easy way to get money!
Crazy what is wrong with folks.
“Those doughnuts were actually manufactured out of state and sent to that store in sealed, temper-proof packaging..."
TEMPER proof? Makes sense I guess. I'd be upset.
good catch hans.....love it.
The DA thieves will pay for it the next day
Something about that whole "donuts...manufactured from out of state (and shipped to this store)" thing does not create an appetite for store-bought donuts anyway, at least not for me.
I guess that might have saved a lot of people, or at least people who care what they eat and how it tastes, from this couple's crime.
Okay just curious but can any medical pro's here explain how you remove razor blades from someone's stomach without risking further injury or even open surgery?
More white trash Americans.
So we know that these folks put the blades in the donut themselves because the police say so??? What is the evidence that the cops have suggesting that the folks did it themselves. If it's because they are in debt then most or all of us better hope to not get hurt.
Who cares if the donuts were/are "Temper Proof" it could of happened at the bakery. Plus what in the hell is a "Temper Proof" box, does it mean it is heat treated or that it can't get mad.
These MSM sites articles are getting worse by the day, just because the cops claim something or have a suspect then the article claims or makes folks look as if they are guilty.
But as detectives looked into it, “things weren’t adding up,”..... Well what was not adding up? How about doing your job. And the link they had gave no more info!
From KSL Utah
Carpenter said as detectives investigated the incident, however, "things weren't adding up."
Eventually two people were arrested when detectives determined the couple put the razor blades in the doughnuts themselves
Geez cops have never been wrong or fabricated info. Again what is the evidence besides so cops gutfeelings, and we know they have plenty of them for donuts. You better never claim to the cops that a donut harmed you
One would assume the rest of the journey for those pieces of razor might lead to something fatal.
I would suggest both an IQ and drug test for these two. They must have been on crack to do something this stupid!
snake,
It's easy. according to a show I saw on Discovery or one of those cable channels, the doctors have all sorts of gizmos for retrieving objects--from both ends. Just bring lots of money.
One case they talked about was removing a light bulb that had apparently been used for "recreational purposes." To avoid breaking the bulb while it was still "up there," they first drilled a hole into the base of the bulb and then pumped plaster of paris into the bulb through a small tube. This solidified the bulb so that the glass would not break. Then they were able to pull it out, so to speak. The patient was sedated during the entire process. The process at the hospital, that is.
fishman, you are correct.
the critical information is missing, if not only in the news story, but apparently from the investigation as well.
It surprises me that some people put MORE energy into scamming someone and avoiding being productive than they would if they actually pursued and honest days work!
Wanted to add a GM Scooter!
Maybe you can help me with the Temper Proof
Is Temper like what the government is doing to the masses?
Temper: to exercise control over ; to dilute, qualify, or soften by the addition or influence of something else
Now we know they ment Tamper but they are just idiots. As some may know it is very easy to open many "tamper proof" donut or pastry box then close it back up with a little glue
Jim
Jim well it actually amazes me even more that folks like you can read an article with on evidence what so ever and determine a person or people to be quilty because MSM or a cop said so. Then many of these same people will comment another day on an article about a cop gone bad and claim how crooked the cops are.
Jim What evidence in this story makes you believe that these people are guilty?
Fishman: You're right, the story left a lot to be desired but stop with the conspiracy theories already. Don't you think the police have better things to do than to fabricate such an elaborate story? Besides, it's been done before (remember the finger in the Wendy's chili story?). Eventually, we'll probably find out that the suspects likely admitted they were involved in a scam. Withhold judgment until we find out more detail.
Hermetically sealed packages? No wonder Smith's prices are so much higher than their competitors. Or did they mean that the customer would not get pi$$ed off trying to get to the donuts.
This article was out in the local news nearly a week ago. Typical nbcsnooze - if they can't find a gun shooting or racial comment to post they bring up week old
"news"olds.So what led the cops to believe that the couple planted them? Good reporting NBC.
The woman looks like she's been eating donuts for quite a while.
These types of really ignorant people get caught because they always think they are smarter than the authorities.
From Sharp minds come sharp ideas! Ha, ha, ha...
Eating razor blades so they can sue the store ?? We may have just found THE two stupidest people on the planet ! Damn,when those two morons get out of jail we could use them in DC.
What a waste of human flesh. Some people are stupid. Get a job or if you have one...get another one to get yourself out of debt. Did I say MORONS????
A lot of holes in this article. Doughnut holes that is.
"We interviewed the male today and he did admit ... that this was just a scheme thought up by them," Carpenter said. "They wanted to get a settlement of some sort."
"Conder told police he and Leazer-Hardman devised the plan after telling each other about being in debt, the probable cause statement said." - from the Deseret News.
NBCLite almost never has details.
Three hours later additional charges of aggravated ass_aults were added.....
They give what they have in the moment. If they waited for all the details, their competition would get a jump on them, and they don't like that. It's all about ratings.
....stupid is as stupid does.
There has to got to be an easier way to earn money.
C'mon folks, everyone knows the cops are the dougnut experts, after all who has seen more dougnuts than a cop?
Idiots ALERT.
They may still get their own show on E or MTV when they video themselves crapping the blades out.
Not to belittle all, but one phrase, " Dollar-tree Employees". At their ages, that says a lot about them.
Don't tamper with their temper ! The only way to stop a bad guy from suing after eating his own razor, is for a good cop to arrest him. When the docs pull those bits out, they should enter through the lower opening, and if they nick the lower opening here and there in the process - oh well !
I thought the goddamn spammers went away. They're baaaccckkk. PatriciaJames, you're a liar and a crook.
I think the evidence was that they got their coworker to eat one of the donuts and she immediately discovered the metal bits without swallowing, while the two accused had several pieces of metal in them. Think about what the article does say - the bits of metal were "the size of fingernails" - would you swallow several of these without noticing them as you chewed? I don't think so. They used the coworker to get someone who wasn't in on the scheme to be the one to report the "problem" and an injured party who didn't know anything about the scheme. I'm sure there is more that the article didn't tell us, but I think the size and number of pieces of metal in their bellies was a pretty good indicator they didn't unknowingly swallow these bits of razor blade from donuts that had been tampered with prior to purchase.
ouch that's gotta hurt time to inspect doughnuts like we inspect halloween candy
Inspect Candy?.......well i am an inspector by trade so...
Why oh why, do people just read the headlines and then post. The people put the razor blades in themselves! It was a scam!
Enma you missed it lol i was being sarcastic lol i know they are frauds and should arrest them if they haven't already
Well, that was terrible "sarcasm"!
ban doughnuts!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey don't criticize me okay? I didn't respond like most people would've responded and argue about it.
Cowtowntrucker;
Read the damn headline those idiots planted the razor blades in the pastry and "liking" your own comment is pathetic for the lack of better words i would've said.
accually Emma if YOU read the article it state's .....
But ya knew that right?.......
Scooter; of course she knows that she is what some of us call a "know it all"
Enma is razor sharp this morning!
It must be SallyAnn she just changed her name lol
Rose, too bad your sarcasm sounded like stupidity
Too Bad Mary your ignorant for liking your own comment
Hello ...snap
Good lord folks...
"Every Rose has its' thorn."
wow
I'll be happy to inspect Candy. Who is she and where is she now?
im on a roll for trolls and this thorn going to prick those ignorant fools
Is the blog name "enma" a reference to "enema?"
Sorry, enma. No offense. It was too tempting to pass this up. Have a nice day.
Oh gosh!, inMYday, I never hear that one before! How imaginative and original you are. Does mommy know you aren't in school? At your age, I don't think you ought to be home alone. Call mommy, okay honey?
Enma seriously the age card and how old are you
Enma, you know you are my mommy. Too bad we never did figure out who Daddy was though.
CAT FIGHT ......CAT FIGHT.....
GM Rose, Carol Scooter Here's a thought -
Those tiny little razor blade pieces have to eventually pass through the "system", so to speak. I can hear both of the perps yelling "ouch, ow, ouch ow" and then rubbing their butt on the carpet like a dog that has worms! A sight to see, I bet!
gm lafalot
On the cutting edge of incisive commentary, as it were.
Lmao!!!
gm Jack
Hello all.... MEOW... yes a good cat fight. You do not mess with Florida girls.... GM Gents!!
Shout .....CAT FIGHT..... and see who shows up........
GM Jack, Bill.......
( sorry guys it was just too easy)
LMAO!!!!!
@Tramp,
Hey, someone has to pick the low-hanging fruit.
Lets hope none of has to see that. lol
Looks like Enma got mad, took her toys and went home. Maybe it was the "daddy joke."
more then likely
Congrats to all who chimed in on this post. The longest back and forth about nothing I have seen.
irony is you comment on this post as well so that makes you chiming in on nothing.......derp
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha..................................................................................Well this thread was that funny. Like my wife always says, it's not funny the second time around. Got to love them people who likes to correct sarcasm and those who likes to criticise others for doing the same thing.
Wild rose, looks like you pricked off a few today.
it does look like i did
You people should be ashamed. Engaging in a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
ah so you must be a guy that thinks every battle should have a gun well i have one its called my mouth
OK so these two wanna be fraudsters go and put broken razor blades into a bunch of donuts and a co-worker tries one and spits it out yet these two idiots both eat the donuts and just how many did they eat and swallow before the coworker comes into the picture?
How would you even explain eating the donuts without noticing the bits of metal in the mix and then swallowing them when someone else spits it out almost immediately when trying one?
It must have taken all the brain power these two both had to come up with this plan and now hope they have to pass the evidence the natural way to send the point home.
They say it takes all kinds but what does this fall under besides utter stupidity on a grand scale.
Hopefully they investigate this couple farther to see if their other claim against the dollar store has any real merit.
America, the sue happy empire... we have more lawyers than the rest of the world combined.
You're probably right about that. But, then again, we have more rights that can and need to be protected than the rest of the world combined. Such rights as the right to a defense and the right to redress when someone harms you.
And yet the schools graduate them at about an 8-1 ratio over doctors...so i ask whats wrong with this picture?
I don't know what's wrong with this picture, but I do know if you went to school, you would know it is STATES not state's......
Officer Ellen...
verb (used with object)
But ya knew that right?.....So whats your Vine SP&G Badge number?
What kind of dumbass uses an apostophe in "states" and then tries to defend it? An IA.ScooterTramp dumbass!
WOW you should have not said that
he says scooter a dumbass but yet he liked his statues therefor BobFreebird whose the dumbass now
"What kind of dumbass uses an apostophe in "states" and then tries to defend it? An IA.ScooterTramp dumbass!"
Ummm....a person who is trying to show possession? Like "the state's capital is ___________?" The states' overall GDP is __________________? I don't know but I think that was taught in basic english back in grade school.
What do I know, cause I didn't even know States was spelled STATES. But I've been wrong before. Anyways, if yer gonna correct some one's grammar, at least get yer own right.
its you're not yer derp
Take them to the woodshed, pull down their pants and beat them with a pair of plow shears. Sorry bunch of oxgyen thieves.
You're dead on, my friend.
I don't disagree with your suggestion, but I think you meant "plowshare". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plowshare)
I just like words too much to let this pass by unmentioned.
American Soldier, you really don't have any clue on what a plowshare is do you. I would love to see you try and pickup a pair of plowshares. I take it you have never worked a farm or guided a plowshare.
Now granted there are some hand held shares but they are used in a mill setting and not on a farm stored in the "woodshed"
I was also wondering what your fascination is with pulling down a mans pants? A little odd isn't it.
Attention insurance fraud dummies: People who are not faking it do NOT actually swallow bits of glass or metal BECAUSE THEY CAN FEEL IT IN THEIR MOUTHS BEFORE THEY SWALLOW IT.
hee hee! Dumb asses!!!!!
Sure, when I worked at a Foster Farms factory I planted all kinds of things. I dreamed about some poor sap at Christmas time getting one of my sausage links, a grandma perhaps, putting a nice piece on a Ritz cracker taking a bite, and falling off the couch dead from the meth I planted....Ahhh those were the days! Well, gotta run, I'm working the morning shift at the Shamrock factory, have to grab my mixture and be off.
Maybe you weren't 'around' when the Tylenol tampering killed all those people... but if you're trying to be sarcastic (like Rose, unsuccessfully) you missed the mark and I hope the cops come to your door and just make sure. Just to make sure you get over it.
et tu Mary?
Mary go shove an 8 inch boot somewhere and keep my damn name out your ignorant ash mouth!
temper temper young lady.....
Rose every Wednesday the tolls come out of the woodwork. Good lord, some of the comments are so dang stupid
What amazes me as she puts my name in her mouth cause she clearly is ignorant to do so she Likes her own comment
Well.............I like to see more than just your name in her mouth. But that may depend on how much beer I've had.
Smart real smart.... they make a fine pair, pair of what im not sure but i bet their combined IQ wouldn't match room temperature in an igloo . But at least they burnt an ambulance chaser out of a few bucks. Whats he going to do after all ? sue em?.......
And the "Dollar Tree"? I'd go for some bigger company. Like robbing a gas station when you could have robbed a bank. (Scooter tramp, the ridin is great out here in SoCal right now)
wish i was there, couple bikes out here, but i dont play the whole "ride no matter what" anymore. one slick spot and bam...parts prices are nuts.
Wes,they only work at the dollar tree, they were trying to get money from smith's, where they bought the doughnuts
Well, tramp have you been in an igloo? Don't insult room temperature in an igloo my friend that's just wrong.
"Stupid is as stupid does." When you live your life by something Forrest Gump said, you know you're in trouble.
As the article said,this story has some holes in it.
Why, we should all live our lives by something Forrest Gump Said. The world would be a better place.
Time to ban razor blades so criminals won't have access to them!
Oh puhleeze, will you stop with this ridiculous analogy! It was stupid the first time it was tried and it is even stupider after it's posted on everything!
LOL time to ban everything!
ban...."ban".....
I'm surprised they're from Utah, not Florida.
I'm not.
like location matters....a bag of nuts is a bag of nuts no matter where they are.
True. But location does matter. This is the very heart of the "Southern Strategy" ... a political concept invented by Utah native Karl Rove which gave us the idiot Bush.
Know what i find surprising?...That it took this long to inject politics into the article....OCD is cure-able ya know.
You're not surprised !!!
You've been posting here long enough to know better. If you'll lie about that ....
Besides ... politics and location (which IS a key point in the article) really do go together. Tell me it's an accident that Italy has had "fifty governments in its first fifty years of democracy" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Italy).
No kiding IA.ScooterTramp I'm amazed it took this long too and wow talk about cat fighting! Whew! Merrroooowwwwwww :)
It's Bush's fault................Will he be running for a second term?
So they are sitting around one night and one say's "Hey, you know what, let's buy some doughnuts, chip up razor blades, swallow them and then sue the company" and the reply from the other was "here hold my beer"..... can't fix stupid
Ego LOL yep it was probably "Hey ya'll watch this!" Boy it's gonna hurt once those blades pass ouch!
I'd be willing to send a couple of bottles of Isopropyl - sanitation, you know.
Lets see. Should the government outlaw doughnuts or razor blades???
SMH! See post 10.1!
The government should outlaw people like you trying to derail and confuse the issue.
Ask Mayor Bloomberg about that.
after posting....
round metal cooking receptacle meet ... larger round metal cooking receptacle.....
"round metal cooking receptacle meet ... larger round metal cooking receptacle....."
Good to meet you, Scooter!!!
Something tells me that you don't like the obvious being pointed out to you. equating donuts to guns seems a little more remote than pointing out that stupid seems to be concentrated in specific locations and isn't restricted to eating razor blades.
I LOL'd IA.ScooterTramp.
Outlaw donuts.
"equating donuts to guns seems a little more remote than pointing out that stupid seems to be concentrated in specific locations and isn't restricted to eating razor blades."
Or, perhaps people are equating the banishment of doughnuts and razor blades to transfats and large sugary drinks? In this case, NYC would be the location of improtance, no?
People, stupid swarms all over this world!
Swarming stupid people................what a ungodly sight.
moving up the Darwin awards list...idiots
Unfortunately, one has to die to be a recipient of a Darwin Award. I wish these two the best on that endeavor.
Tom- both, as they will use something else if there are no razor blades to be found!
Okay...wouldn't it be less life threatening and probably easier to just pay off your debt?
Depends on who they're in debt to. ;)
They work at the Dollar Tree....
I wonder if they did this on their lawyers advise.
They are probably being represented by Jose Baez.
That helps make at least some sense of it. This is a company that wants to judge the intelligence level of prospective employees, and hires on the basis of the lowest scores. Maybe they can keep the turnover down like that.
step up from their last gig of jail staff...
Brilliant criminal minds at work here.
They obviously didn't think about the end result.....those razor blades have to come out somehow!!!
Now, what would have been funny if police and hospital officials got together to teach these two a lesson! After the x-rays, doctors could have told the couple that they were sorry, but there is nothing we can do! The razor blade fragments will cause a hemorrhage within 24 hrs and you both will die!!
Aren't credit cards wonderful things? Especialy when combined with high paying jobs like the dollar tree and a double digit IQ.
Now that's justice...post their picture on the net so the whole world can see what a pair on dumbass's look like.
Thanks losers for the daily laugh...these two sure aren't worth much more....but they sure make a great example of stupidity in motion.
"Hey honey, we're out of money for meth. What should we do now?" "Oh, I don't know. Think of something..."
It appears that the NUTS were eating the
donuts instead of topping the treats?!?!??!?