A 23-year-old Slidell beauzeau is facing burglary charges after police say he broke into a seafood business where he used to work and made off with some money -- then tried to hide his face from surveillance cameras by wearing a bucket on his head. But the cameras glimpsed the suspect's face as he was peeking around a corner, and police arrested Richard Boudreaux at his home last week, Detective Daniel Seuzeneau said in a news release.I don't think a bucket would make a good mask. Either it wouldn't mask the face well or else the burgler wouldn't be able to see.
Seuzeneau said police believe Boudreaux, dressed in hunting camouflage and gloves, broke into Kenney's Seafood on Pontchartrain Drive on Jan. 8. Remembering that the business had surveillance cameras, Boudreaux found a bucket and placed it over his head, trying to keep it from getting sucked into the vacuum therein, as he scoured the business looking for money, Seuzeneau said.
"Dough/Is what I'm looking for/Raids/Are how I'll make it mine/Me/The one who benefits/Far/Away I'll be, and fine..."
| Oh my. You really went all the way there... and did jumping jacks. LOL |
"And I doubt my handy disguise ever got of kilter, either."
"Police! Freeze!"
"****!"
Boudreaux told Slidell Police detectives that he broke into Kenney's Seafood because he was having money problems and had "bad blood" with the owner, Seuzeneau said. Boudreaux also said he tried to break into Jerry's Buy and Sell to get a gun because he was afraid of the possibility of future gun control laws being passed, Seuzeneau said.
A motive that the usual suspects will no doubt harp endlessly upon.
Bourdreaux is charged with simple burglary of a business, attempted simple burglary of a business possession of poison hemp and possession of drug paraphernalia, Seuzeneau said.