REDLANDS, Calif. (AP) – Police in California say they had a lot of help nabbing a pair of car theft suspects – from the suspects themselves.

The men left behind not only fingerprints, but also photos of themselves sitting inside and standing outside the stolen 2001 Ford Mustang, police said.

The photos were taken with a disposable camera the suspects found in the Mustang, which they left behind when they abandoned the car.

“These are not the brightest people,” said Carl Baker, a Redlands police department spokesman.

The fingerprints and photos led police to the Redlands home of Albert Engelsman on Friday. Police say he was wearing the same shirt he had on in the photographs.

“Once he was confronted with this evidence, he pretty much realized he was done in,” Baker said.

Engelsman, 28, was charged with grand theft auto and possession of stolen property, Baker said. He is free on bail.

An arrest warrant on the same charges has been issued for his alleged accomplice, Matthew Montanez, 22, of Rialto, Baker said.

Both men have unlisted telephone numbers.

Redlands is about 80 miles east of Los Angeles.

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – Police were searching for a man who fled a New Zealand hospital spinal unit – wearing a traction apparatus and with both arms in casts.

The man disappeared Wednesday from the Burwood Spinal Unit in the southern city of Christchurch wearing a traction “halo” to correct a serious neck injury and elbow-to-wrist plaster casts, police said in a statement.

Removing the halo could cause potentially fatal injuries, police said.

It was not immediately clear how the man sustained the injuries that put him in hospital, nor why he fled before completing his treatment.

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CHEVIOT, Ohio (AP) – The life-size baby Jesus from this Cincinnati suburb’s nativity scene has disappeared again. This time, one of the sheep is missing, too.

“At first, we thought it was just a prank and they would be returned quickly,” said Steve Neal, Cheviot’s safety service director.

Several years ago, a thief took the baby Jesus, but only for a day, Neal said. It was recovered after a tip.

Neal said Tuesday that authorities have no leads in the latest disappearance.

A city employee noticed the figures were gone last Thursday.

“If something happens to one of the figures, I don’t know where I would go to get a new one,” Neal said.