Honestly, we don’t make this stuff up! A West Palm Beach man was re-arrested, shortly after being released from the Palm Beach County Jail, following an embarrassingly unsuccessful carjacking attempt, Tuesday March 25, in West Palm Beach, FL.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said that Frank Singleton, 21, was arrested on a misdemeanor trespassing charge, and released on his own recognizance following his first appearance before a county judge. Singleton then ran into the jail parking lot and tried to wrestle control of a silver Nissan 350Z from the car’s owner, a 23-year-old woman, after she finished her business at the county complex. Finally able to grab control of the keys he placed them in the ignition but couldn’t make the car go because he didn’t know how to drive the six-speed stick shift.
But wait, it gets better: Noticing a skirmish, Pastor Leo Krug, who mentors and teaches inmates at the jail, pulled a gun (yes, a pastor) on the would-be carjacker, who immediately got into a prone position as deputy sheriffs ran to take him into custody.
Singleton is back in the Palm Beach County Jail, awaiting his arraignment on carjacking charges.
A PBSO spokesperson said “we can’t put ourselves in the mind of someone like this.” Singleton later told an investigator, “I didn’t feel like walking.”
