An Arizona man didn’t try to escape after robbing a pizza store. He wanted to be caught — and he told the cops exactly why.
Most criminals run from the police. Dusty Tyrone Porter walked straight toward them — and that was always the plan.
On May 4, the 38-year-old Tucson man walked into a Domino’s Pizza on Sixth Avenue and Valencia Road carrying a handgun. He took $300 from the register. Then, when Tucson Police officers arrived on the scene, Porter did something almost no suspect ever does: he approached them himself and admitted everything.
“Because I want to be locked up. I don’t want to be out there.”
Those were Porter’s own words in court — a stunning confession that revealed the robbery was never really about money. It was about getting back behind bars.
Porter told investigators he had thrown the gun into a trash can at the store. Police later recovered a maroon Glock 9mm — but with no magazine. Porter revealed that too, telling officers he had hidden the magazine behind protein bars at a nearby Circle K.
The gun, it turned out, had been reported stolen by Porter’s own girlfriend just one day before the robbery.
Court records show this isn’t Porter’s first time down this road. He was convicted of armed robbery in Pima County in 2010, sentenced to 7.5 years in prison, and released in 2017 — just a few years before this incident.
Porter now faces charges of armed robbery and prohibited possession. He is being held on a $150,000 bond — though given his stated reason for committing the crime, that may be exactly where he wants to stay.
