Parolee picks wrong victim

   The car was running, while the owner popped into a gas station, so the target was too tempting for a parolee from Chicago who was in Lakeland.

   But there were a couple of details that Abel Angel Mena didn’t know before he jumped into the car and drove off, TheLedger.com reports. One was that the victim’s girlfriend was accompanying him in a different car. The other was that the victim, 33-year-old Frank Scianimanico, was a Winter Have police detective.

   So not only did Scianimanico immediately give chase, he called Lakeland police. Mena drove only a mile, then tried to escape on foot. He didn’t get far.