Hoist with his own petard

The outraged ex-husband who tried to rat out his ex-wife would have done well to remember that old saw about glass houses before picking up the phone. After spending the previous night in jail on domestic violence charges, he explained, he returned to his Annapurna Drive home to discover his erstwhile Missus had committed theft most foul, making off with several paintings and other valuables during his brief incarceration in direct violation of their rather heated verbal property settlement agreement, which is what landed him in the pokey in the first place. While not unsympathetic to his situation, the deputies could do little in what was clearly a civil matter. On the other hand, the protection order his former frau obtained that very morning banning him from the property – a copy of which he’d received but apparently had yet to read – lay well within their sphere of action, and action they took, arresting him on the spot.