POLICE have arrested a real life Joker after he allegedly went on a stealing spree at a screening of the new Dark Knight movie.

Officers in Michigan arrested Spencer Taylor, 20, who they say tried to steal posters and other items related to the new Batman movie from a cinema lobby while dressed up as the Joker.



Detective Mike Mohney said Monday he expects Taylor to be charged with larceny and malicious destruction of property.



Taylor is scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 5 in St. Joseph County District Court.











Mohney says police officers who were dispatched early Sunday to the Three Rivers 6 theater arrived to find employees restraining a man wearing a purple suit, a green wig and face paint in the style of Batman's nemesis in "The Dark Knight."





Originally published as Real life Joker arrest