Sheriff’s deputies in Lakeland, Fla., tracked down a man charged with stealing the Nov. 16 offering from a Southern Baptist church with help from a visitor card he had filled out the previous Sunday. He had given the church his first name and his mother’s address. And the church treasurer from whom he allegedly grabbed the money just happens to be the county sherriff’s stepmother. Harold Williams, 28, was arrested Nov. 17 on charges of robbery by snatching, a felony punishable by up to three years in prison, and disrupting a religious assembly, a misdemeanor. Williams is accused of grabbing a portion of the offerings collected from about 70 worshippers at Crystal Lake Baptist Church from the church treasurer, then running away.

And that, my friends, is why it’s a bad idea to fill out those visitor cards when you’re a criminal visiting a church with plans to rob it.