Hardened Felon Traces his Life of Crime Back to Tripping the Library Alarms

Former felon, Davis Angel, revealed what he thought to be the commencement of his life of crime in an exlusive tell all interview.

“One day I was working on a paper on the fourth floor of the Goddard Library. I was running on three days of no sleep and a ton of adderall. So, when the announcement came on that the library would be closing in ten minutes I kind of went on autopilot. I packed up my computer, books, and went downstairs. It wasn’t until after I passed through that weird metal detector looking device that I realized my mistake. The alarms started blaring, and in that moment of shock and surprise I remembered that there were books from the stacks in my bag… books that I hadn’t checked out. The alarms were sounding, I got nervous, I ran. I never looked back until 15 years later when I found myself pressed up against the hood of a police car in Baton Rouge.”

Angel was arrested on July 12th, 2012; charged with a litany of offenses including armed robbery, burglary, breaking and entering, embezzlement, and battery. When his belongings were searched, the arresting officers found the same books that he had accidentally stolen years before.

“It appears like this was a clear example of the domino effect,” said veteran Clark University Police Sergeant Fred Haddad. Mr. Angel started running when he heard the alarms, assuming he was in trouble. Already in the mindset of a fugitive from the minute he exited the library, he turned to a life of crime to survive. By the time they caught him he had already robbed convenience stores and banks from Main South to the Bronx to Baton Rouge.”

Angel has been serving his sentence in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, where for the past two years he has been attempting to challenge convention by exchanging ramen, coffee, and cigarettes for new perspectives and insights of the world. Now a hardened criminal, with over 20 felonies on his record, Angel says his only regret is forgetting to check out those books when he left the library nearly 20 years ago. He says that if he were to receive parole, he would use the opportunity to warn students about the dangers of not checking out books.

“First it’s those loud alarms that put you in the limelight of the library, next thing you know you’re emptying the cash registers at Acoustic Java. Don’t make the same mistakes I did.”

As for the books in question, they were safely returned to the Goddard stacks shortly after Angel’s arrest, where they have remained untouched to this day.

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