Today's CSI SUNDAY spotlight proves (again) that some criminals are stupid and some criminals are unlucky ... and some are a combination of the two:
That would obviously describe 29-year-old Joshua Goverman perfectly -- on the evening of October 7th the would be petty thief was inexpertly attempting to abscond with a spool of copper wire when his fingers got caught in it.
During the botched burglary and ensuing struggle to free his hand, he inadvertently lost one of his digits, taking a moment to photograph the grisly spectacle for Facebook before hastily leaving the severed finger behind at the scene entangled in the wiring.

"It was caught on the tire here and I went to the sidewalk," he said. "And that's
where I found the finger on the end."
CSI detectives arrived, retrieved the severed finger and promptly sent it for forensic analysis and fingerprinting.
"They took a popsicle stick and were able to attach it to that finger,
and they were able to roll that finger and get a print..."
Which then led to the arrest of the now nine-fingered Joshua Goverman a week later.
The estimated value of his bungled copper haul would have been no more than 300 dollars.
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