Confession on Gangster's Chest



Anthony Garcia
(Los Angeles, California) A 25-year-old local gangbanger, Anthony Garcia, was convicted this week of first-degree murder for the 2004 shooting death of 23-year-old John Juarez, a rival gangbanger.

Interestingly, Garcia was convicted because he documented his crime in a tattoo on his chest. An alert sheriff's investigator, Kevin Lloyd, was reviewing photos of known gang members in 2008 and noticed that Garcia's ink reminded him of an open homicide case from 2004.

Lloyd and his colleagues soon found Garcia and arrested him. Then, a detective posing as another gang member was placed in Garcia's jail cell--and soon got him talking. Before long, Garcia was bragging about the liquor store shooting--unaware that the undercover detective was recording him.

That recording would later be played for a jury, which convicted Garcia of the murder.

Almost a good as video, eh?