Police Having Trouble Taking Clown Burglary Seriously

Story by Emily Wilson 

| Published Nov 23, 2010

Ohio police are attempting to keep a straight face as they investigate the recent burglary of Jacqueline Cutright, 70. Cutright says the suspect broke into her house at 2 a.m. wearing a clown mask and stole 28$ as well as $1,000 $ in costume jewelry.

“We’re doing everything in our power and we’ve got a lot of pressure on us right now to close this case,” said Summit County chief of Police Josh Whittington during a press briefing Thursday, he then glanced off camera and added with a stifled giggle “it’s a media circus out here.”

Summit County police have previously been accused of not taking crimes committed against less-wealthy members of the community seriously. Cutright herself claims that the first detective on the scene Cory Jacobsen seemed to find the whole story amusing. “At one point he called up some other detectives and put me on speaker phone, I told them that I would have kicked that clown bastard’s ass but I was on the commode when he broke in, that just made them laugh harder,” Cutright said.

However when asked about the case’s progress district attorney Doug Johnson had good news. “We think this might be part of a larger crime ring, Ronald McDonald broke into a florist shop in Dayton last night,” Johnson said. “But seriously we’re not clowning around here, you have my word we’re going to catch this bozo.”