MAN ARRESTED FOR EXPENSIVE DINING-AND-DASHING

A man named Nicholas Cooper, 21, has been arrested for a series of dine-and-dashes across Washington, D.C. over the past few weeks.
– Cooper had already been arrested and charged with theft after trying to skip out on the bill at two restaurants. He used a fake name at the Willard InterContinental, and later tried passing a canceled credit card at Old Ebbitt’s Grill.
– His second arrest came three days later, for destruction of property, after shattering a set of glass doors at the Embassy Row Hotel.
– He walked out on a $500 tab after ordering oysters and “expensive drink after expensive drink” at the Hay-Adams hotel
– On March 23, Cooper not only dined on rack of lamb at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, but also drank a $156 bottle of wine and downed a shot of 34-year-old Irish whiskey costing $1,200. He then charged his tab, which totaled $2,220, to the room of Denver Nuggets basketball player Trey Lyles — who was in town playing the Washington Wizards — before attempting to leave. Police caught up with Cooper in the hotel lobby. He was arrested after being tackled to the ground and a bottle of alcohol tumbled from his pocket in the process.
Cooper is due in court on April 12.
* Dude – you know McDonald’s has a Value Menu, right? And tomorrow is $10 Tuesday at Papa Murphy Pizza. Affordable food is everywhere.
* A $1200 shot of whiskey. Who does the hotel think they’re fooling? “Give him a shot of Johnnie Walker. He’ll never know the difference.”
* As punishment, he was ordered to watch the Nuggets play the Wizards.