KALAMAZOO -- By his own admission, William Kimbrel Bradley isn't a very good criminal, racking up six felonies and four misdemeanors by age 25.

He added to the list Monday when he was sentenced for larceny in a building.

Bradley stole a computer.

From the Kalamazoo County Jail.

Where he was serving a sentence on a different case."This is the dumbest crime I've heard today," Kalamazoo County Circuit Judge Gary C. Giguere Jr. told the Kalamazoo resident. "It may be in the top half-dozen in my career.

"You need to get a handle on this theft thing. Your life of crime is not working out."

Bradley, a student at Western Michigan University, agreed.

"I'm not the best criminal," he said.

Bradley said he's been going to counseling for several months for stealing stuff -- something he's done since he was a kid, even if he didn't need or want the item he was taking.

"Where do I put you?" Giguere said. "Back in the jail where the crime occurred?"

Bradley asked for home arrest. Giguere said no and ordered him back to jail for 180 days, plus state fees.

On Jan. 31, Bradley took a computer that had been delivered to the jail -- and was still in the box -- put it in a trash bag and placed the bag behind large garbage bins for later pickup, said jail administrator Lt. Gail Sampsell.

The box was sitting in a garage area that is monitored by security cameras, Sampsell said. When the computer was discovered missing, video of the garage showed Bradley had taken it from there.

Bradley holds active status as a sophomore at WMU, spokeswoman Cheryl Roland said.

He is listed as studying psychology and chemistry.

Contact Lynn Turner at lturner@kalamazoogazette.com or 388-8564.

