From the silly news desk

Boy are criminals dumb.

Hat tip- Wizbang who adds that police aren't adding the charge of being a moron to Mr. Dixon's crimes.
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Merrimack — A Brookline man was arraigned on a charge of felony armed robbery yesterday, sporting injuries police said were from a pistol-whipping he received from a female clerk using his own handgun.

Marc Dixon, 24, 50 South Main St., Brookline, was arrested early yesterday by Brookline and Milford police after allegedly attempting to rob a clerk at Ladd’s Convenience Store on Route 13 Monday night.

Dianne Duval, who has run the store along with her husband for the past 17 years, said yesterday her voice was still hoarse from yelling at the would-be robber who entered her store about 8:15 p.m.

“I wasn’t thinking at the time — all I did was react,” Duval said yesterday. “You don’t really know what you’re going to do until something like that really happens.”

It was the first such incident for Duval, 51, a Nashua native, and her husband, Lucien.
Duval said a masked man wearing a hooded sweatshirt entered the store with his revolver pointed in the air and yelled, “Give me your money.”

“He followed me behind the counter, put his gun down and turned his back to me and went to grab the register,” Duval recalled. “That’s when I picked up the gun and cold-cocked him over the head.

“I can’t tell you exactly how I swung that gun — I just grabbed it, swung up and over and went for his head,” she said.

She said the suspect was unable to remove the cash register because it was still attached by a cord, and when he was hit, he dropped it and put his hands to his head.

He then took the gun away from her, ran from the store and escaped north toward Milford in a silver Oldsmobile. A vehicle matching the description was spotted by Milford police Thursday outside a Union Street residence.

At his Merrimack District Court arraignment yesterday, Dixon was sporting two black eyes and a cut over his nose. Investigators said a large amount of blood was found at the scene.

According to the arrest affidavit, police said Dixon tried to purchase “either cocaine or heroin” in Milford before the attempted robbery.

Police said Dixon admitted the attempted robbery, saying he was expecting to get “a couple thousand dollars” at the store and that he used a fake gun.

Duval said yesterday the gun she hit the man with didn’t look or feel fake to her.

A witness said the man fleeing the store got into the passenger side of the vehicle. Dixon told police he was by himself.

Judge Clifford Kinghorn handled the arraignment in Merrimack and ordered Dixon held on $50,000 cash bail.