The Baseball Cap Bandit

Sleep easy tonight, my friends. According to Louisville, Kentucky’s FOX41 News, The Baseball Cap Bandit, responsible for keeping store owners in Kentucky and Tennessee up into the wee hours of the morning, has been captured. William Cunningham’s reign of terror is over.

Hillview Kentucky Police say 62-year-old William Cunningham was caught on surveillance tape at the Cracker Barrel restaurant gift shop in Bullitt County. They say you can see him taking collegiate caps, stuffing them in his jacket, and leaving.

Police believe the Nashville resident has a routine — traveling from Tennessee to Kentucky, normally on Tuesdays.

Detective Danny Cook explains, “Repeatedly traveling from Nashville where the gentlemen is from, up to Louisville, once a month, doing these kind of thefts is kind of unusual. But we see shoplifters hit the same locations that are local, but this is the first time where I have seen them travel from out of state.”

Shoplifting out of state. Every Tuesday. You know, there’s something to be said for routine.

This just in: The NotGraphs Investigative Reporting Investigation Team has learned that Hillview Kentucky Police, after being granted a special request by Albany Police, had Ken Griffey Jr.’s rookie baseball card work The Baseball Bandit’s interrogation. Mr. Cunningham refused a laywer, and admitted to his crimes. In record time, according to Hillview Kentucky Police.

Authorities are in the process of determining just how many baseball caps were swiped, but of this they’re sure: Cunningham was selling the caps on the streets.

Ken Griffey Jr.’s rookie card, lover of baseball caps, was naturally pleased with the outcome of the case.

“We’ve got to keep dirty baseball caps off the streets, man,” it said. “Or at least the clowns who wear them like douchebags.”

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