In Puente, California, the Diaz family awoke to find they had a new Lexus. The bad news it they it was at the bottom of their swimming pool. The family said drivers navigating the tricky intersection next to their house had hit their cinderblock wall before, but this was the first time somebody smashed right through it and landed in the pool. A crane was brought in to fish the car out. The driver-- 40-year-old Modesto Cabral-- was able to escape from the car through the passenger side window and had only minor injuries. He was booked on suspicion of drunken.
5.17
Olympic Sized Bet! Australian Olympic shooting gold medalist Russell Mark will be making quite an entrance at the upcoming summer Olympics in London. Having lost a bet, Mark is set to parade during the opening ceremony wearing a lime-green "mankini" -- the kind made famous by the movie character "Borat." Mark, who won double trap gold at the 1996 Atlanta Games and silver in Sydney, pledged to wear the skimpy swimsuit if Melbourne-based Carlton lost to St. Kilda in the Australian Football League. Carlton suffered a shock four-goal defeat in the match on Monday night and Mark owned up to making the bet on local radio. At age 48, this will be Mark's sixth Olympics and he has a chance at being named flag bearer. Set your DVRs. (Reuters)
5.16
Guy Wanted To Know What It Felt Like To Be Shot; Friend Obliges A Stockholm, New York man had his friend shoot him in the leg with a rifle because he wanted to know what it feels like to be shot. The shooting occurred Sunday afternoon. Shawn Mossow, 25, relented to his friend's repeated requests and shot him once in the right leg with a .22-caliber rifle. The unidentified 24-year-old man is expected to make a full recovery.
5.15
Teen Tries To Rob Cop Inside Police Station A teenager in Texas told the cops he was just kidding when he walked into the Wilmer Police Department last week and told an officer to hand over his money. 18-year-old Keithan Manuel attempted to hold up a police officer, inside a police station. Manuel followed the female cop into the Wilmer, Texas police station and told him to hand over his money. He soon realized where he was and what he was doing and tried to change the subject, telling the policewoman he was there to check on a warrant. That didn't work. Manuel was arrested and booked into Dallas County Jail.
5.9
Woman Blames Nyquil and Armor All For Car Crash An East Haven, Connecticut woman ws charged with DUI after her car crashed into a iquor store But driver Sharon Brooks, 63, blames Nyquil and Armor All. Leaving the polcie station after booking, Brooks said she has a cold and had taken Nyquil. What's more, she says somebody cleaned the inside of her car and put Armor All on my brake pedal, and her foot slipped off. Brookse said, "I never had the whole inside of my car cleaned before and this time I did so it would look really nice, and my foot slipped off the brake.
5.8
Biker Flips Off Speed Camera Munich police have caught a biker who was caught 26 times by the same speed camera – and often photographed giving traffic cops the finger. The 17-year-old habitually drove at more than 100 kph through the southern German city’s Richard Strauss Tunnel – often sticking his middle finger up towards the speed camera. On Sunday, police set up a trap at the end of tunnel, and the biker raced straight into it. He faces a hefty fine.
5.7
Robber Tries To Run With Heavy Cash Register Robert Bennett, 24, entered the Ho-Wah Restaurant in Marina, California last Wednesday, asked an employee behind the register a question, then simulated he had a handgun in his pocket and demanded cash. When the employee froze, Bennett grabbed the cash register off the counter and fled down the street. But the cash register weighed 50 pounds. "He made it maybe a hundred yards before he discarded it," said a police spokesman. Police responded within minutes to the robbery and spotted Bennett, who was throwing the money out of his pockets as he ran, presumably in an attempt to get rid of the evidence. Eventually, Bennett just gave up, and he was arrested.
5.4
Drunk Grandparents Tow Girl Behind SUV The grandparents of a 7-year-old girl thought it would be fun to tow her in a plastic car behind their SUV. To top it off, Grandpa was drunk. Paul J. Berloni, of Sarasota, Florida, is charged with driving under the influence, child endangerment and driving with a suspended license. His wife, Belinda Berloni, 47, also faces a child endangerment charge. Deputies say the granddaughter was not injured.
5.3
Store Robber Uses Boxer Shorts As Disguise Tazviona Bhebe, 40, was sentenced this week to three years in prison for a liquor store robbery in London, England. Bhebe entered the store on January 11th with a pair of boxer shorts over his head and a knife in his hand and demanded money. The clerk jumped over the counter and struck the robber, knocking the boxer shorts from his head, allowing the security camera to get a good picture of his face as he fled the store.
5.2
Guy Steals Sausage Off Truck
The worse thing...someone thought it was entertaining enough to film.
5.1
Guy Breaks Into House and Leaves Cell Phone Behind
Here's some good advice...if you ever decide to break into someone's house and steal their electronics make sure you keep tabs on your phone at all times. A guy broke into a home in York County, PA and apparently left his cell phone behind. Police were able to use the cell phone to track the alleged burgular. They eventually found him at home along with the stolen goods. CLICK HERE for more on the story.
4.30
Woman Sends Taunting Tweet, Is Arrested Police in Houston, Texas arrested Mahogany Mason-Kelly, 20, at Lamar University after she posted a Twitter message saying: "I still got a warrant in Pearland...Those pigs will never catch me!!! NEVER!" Mason-Kelly admitted giving police officers her sister's name when she was arrested.
4.27
Judge Sends Shirtless Picture To Baliff In Detroit, Third Circuit Judge Wade McCree, who specializes in sexual misconduct cases, admitted texting a shirtless photo of himself to his bailiff's cellphone, where her husband found it. McCree told a reporter, "Hot dog, yep that's me. I've got no shame in my game. I ain't talked to nobody else's wife … There's nothing nude about it. I'm in no more clothes than I'll be at the Y this afternoon when I swim my mile." The husband of the unidentified bailiff said, "He's not what he appears to be … What kind of a man would send this to a married woman?"
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4.26
Man Goes To Jail Over Tomatoes A Vero Beach, Florida man punched a Sonic manager after his food order came with tomatoes. Michael Linn Ogborn, 36, orderedno tomatoes, but there was a mistake. Ogborn became upset and desired a refund. Ogborn entered the employee area and started yelling at the workers. The manager gave Ogborn the refund, but then Ogborn punched him in the face. He was arrested on charges of battery.
4.25
Guys Break Into Sea World, Steal Penguin In Australia, three men are accused of drunkenly breaking into a Sea World marine park, stripped to their underwear to swim with dolphins, then kidnapped a penguin. The next morning, when they realized they had a penguin, the trio panicked and released it into a canal. The bird, named Dirk, was rescued when two passers-by spotted it called authorities. Police busted the three after they had boasted on Facebook about the ‘bird’ they took home with them that night. They have been charged with trespassing and stealing a protected animal. This is Dirk.
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4.24
Guy Facebooks Photo Of Gas Theft From Cop Car Michael Baker of Jenkins, Kentucky, thought it would be funny if his girlfriend took a picture of him siphoning gas from a police cruiser. He thought it would be hysterical to post it on his Facebook page. Police didn't think it was so amusing. Baker spent a night in jail for his offense and was charged with theft by unlawful taking.
4.23
Man Pees On The Alamo A 21 year old El Paso man who is charged with urinating on the wall of the Alamo. Daniel Athens was arrested after police spotted him ducking under a fence and then relieving himself on the walls of the Shrine of Texas Liberty. As you may remember, back in the eighties, rocker Ozzy Osborne was formally 'banned' from San Antonio after urinating on the Cenotaph, the 1936 monument that stands on Alamo Plaza.
4.20
Car Thief Butt-Dials 911 A Seattle-area man was arrested for car theft after repeatedly butt-dialling 911 from inside vehicles he had stolen and discussing his plans for more thefts. Police say 40-year-old Wesley Strom called 911 by accident and discussed his car thefts at least four times before they were finally able to track him down and arrest him. In the first call on March 14, Strom could be heard discussing with his passenger how he planned to steal more cars. On March 18, Strom accidentally called 911 again, discussing a 4-Runner he had allegedly stolen, now being used as means to steal other cars. Strom was recorded arguing with his accomplice over their plans to steal rims. Officers were finally able to track Strom down after his fourth call on April 1st.
4.19
Man Pees On The Alamo A 21 year old El Paso man who is charged with urinating on the wall of the Alamo. Daniel Athens was arrested after police spotted him ducking under a fence and then relieving himself on the walls of the Shrine of Texas Liberty. As you may remember, back in the eighties, rocker Ozzy Osborne was formally 'banned' from San Antonio after urinating on the Cenotaph, the 1936 monument that stands on Alamo Plaza.
4.18
A woman named Fellony was arrested for felony battery after she allegedly struck a woman in the head with a glass at an Indiana bar. Fellony Silas, 30, was hauled in early Sunday following a fight at Kilroy’s Sports Bar in Bloomington, Indiana. The attack was reportedly triggered when the victim accidentally bumped into Silas while she was dancing. The 24-year-old victim suffered several lacerations.
4.17
Female Car Thief Caught Pooping By Side Of The Interstate A Florida Highway Patrol trooper spotted Melissa Mansfield "going to the bathroom" on the side of I-95 near Ft. Pierce on April 7. Mansfield stumbled when she was asked for her name, driver's license and Social Security number. She eventually said the car was her boyfriend's, but when the trooper checked the plate number and called the owner, the owner said he wasn't familiar with Mansfield. The man put the phone down to check and discovered his car had been stolen. Mansfeld was arrested for car theft.
4.16
Man Uses Toilet Plunger To Rob Banks A Utica, New York man tried to rob three different banks armed with a toilet plunger. Bank employees say he came in started yelling obscenities, asking them to put money in a bag, and threatening the tellers with the plunger. Officers in an unmarked car responded to the scene and saw the suspect walking away. When the suspect saw the officers, he ran. Police caught up with him and arrested. Lawrence Deptola, 49. The plunger was recovered.
4.13
Woman Steals Everything From Hotel Room Sheriff's detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying a woman caught on hotel surveillance walking out with a TV from one of the rooms. The woman is seen on the video checking several doors as she walks down the hallway of Sabal Suites in Tampa, Florida, before entering a room under renovation. Making several trips,she is seen taking the bedspread, picture frames, iron with ironing board, rugs, trash can and curtains. Total amount of stolen items is estimated at over $700.00
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4.12
Police investigators in Romania cannot explain the sudden appearance of a porta-potty in the middle of the street. Motorists were forced to swerve around it after it appeared overnight in the middle of a road in the city of Cluj-Napoca. Police were called to the incident and checked to see if anyone was trapped inside, but left without moving the troublesome plastic container. A frustrated driver was forced to get out of his vehicle and move it himself. A police spokesman said, "No one knows how it got there. Whether it was put there for a joke or fell off the back of a truck. No one has come forward to claim it."
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4.11
Man Proposes To Woman Who Stabbed Him A British man proposed in court to the woman who stabbed him. Gregory Todd, 48, popped the question to 32-year-old Tiffany Baillie. He proposed from across a courtroom through Baillie's lawyer. Baillie is still in protective custody for stabbing him last December. The couple was living together in when Baillie stabbed Todd in the back as he slept at their home. She plunged a 12-inch knife into the chef's back, piercing his liver, spleen and pancreas, causing wounds that would have been fatal had Todd not received emergency surgery right away. After several months of recovery, Todd went to visit his girlfriend in prison and said he forgave her. Baillie has admitted to causing grievous bodily harm with intent, which usually carries a sentence between nine and 16 years, leaving a difficult decision for the judge.
4.10
A 26-year-old Pennsylvania woman is accused of setting fire to an apartment because she was upset with her child's father. Below is her mugshot.
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4.9
Drug User Calls Cops on Her Dealer
Suzanne Basham is now in a bit of trouble with the law after calling the police on her drug dealer. Basham was not happy when she purchased $40 worth of sugar from said dealer when she thought she was buying crack cocaine.
So what does one do in the above situation? Call the police, tell them all about it and ask them to help get your money back. The police stopped by the alleged dealer's house and the claim was denied according to "the Smoking Gun."
Basham acutally ended up being the one to get arrested when police discovered a crack pipe in her possession.
This one takes the cake. Alan Golden was recently arrested to attempting to "dine and dash" at an Applebee's in New Mexico. Golden consumed at $30 dinner at the restaurant and decided to leave without paying his bill. Unfortunately for Golden, he didn't know there was a "Tip-A-Cop" fundraiser that evening in which the usual Applebee's waitstaff was replace with local law policemen and woman. The good news...local law enforcement raised $3000 that evening to benefit Special Olympics. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. CLICK HERE for more on the story.
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4.5
Cat Hoarders These three people, Arthur C. Millard, Earl J. Millard, and Mary A. Ryan were found to have been keeping 174 cats in their trailer home in Halfomoon, New York. They have all been charged with mistreating the animals and are in some serious trouble. The cats of all ages rescued from the home are now at the Saratoga County Animal Shelter.
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Man Tried To Get Dog To Lick His Backside An Evansville, Indiana man was arrested for allegedly breaking into a dog pen. Noble Gray II was found half naked inside a dog pen at a private home. The dog's owner told police that Gray was trying to get her dog to lick his backside. Police say Gray had been drinking
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4.4
Cattle Rustlers New Mexico authorities arrested three men found with a 220-pound baby cow in the back seat of their car. A Luna County sheriff's deputy pulled over their Honda Civic on Friday and saw the animal sharing the backseat with one of the alleged thieves. The men are accused of cattle rustling.
4.3
Man Steals Money Off Bar Wall A 66-year-old Michigan man is accused of stealing 43 dollar bills off the wall at McGuire's Irish Pub in Destin, Florida. It happend on St. Partick's Day. A manager spotted the man taking dollar bills that had been stuck on the walls and putting them in his back pocket. He alerted a deputy, who searched the man and found he had taken $43 off the wall. The man said he was taking the money home "as souveniers".
4.2
Arrested Drunk Sings "Bohemian Rhapsody" From Back Of Patrol Car
3.30
Woman Fails Urine Test With Someone Else's Pee Mishelle Lindy Salzgeber, of Dade City, Florida, tried to fake a drug test for her probation. The 20-year-old woman filled a small vodka bottle with somebody else's urine and paced it in her vagina. However, the pee inside the vodka bottle failed the test, which led to her arrest. A body scan during booking revealed the small vodka bottle.
3.29
Woman Calls 911 For Bathroom The Pasco County, Florida, Sheriff's Office says 32-year-old Marcia Usher called 911 call Wednesday night, saying she was lost in the woods and didn't know where she should urinate. Responding deputies found Usher not in the woods, but instead in front of her home, reportedly intoxicated. Usher was taken into custody, where a vial of meth residue was allegedly discovered on her during a strip search.
3.28
Man Lands Job, Celebrates With Gunfire, Arrest A 20-year-old Middletown, Pennsylvania man celebrated landing a new job by firing gunshots into the sky Saturday night. Now he faces criminal charges. No one was hit by the bullets, which were fired from a shotgun and 9 mm handgun the man legally owns. The man, whose name has not yet been released, was charged with reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.
3.27
Batman Pulled Over Police in Montgomery County, Maryland pulled over the Batmobile for having invalid license plates. Batman impersonator Lenny B. Robinson was headed to a children's hospital in his black Lambourghini when officers spotted his bat symbol rear plate instead of regulation ones. Mr Robinson was reportedly questioned and let go with a warning.
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3.26
A Posting On Minneapolis Craigslist.com PLEASE READ - A grill was listed last night for curb pick up - American Outdoors Brand - someone got it with no problems - however someone also went arround our building looking for the grill after it was already gone and took our neighbor's new Kenmore Grill that he received last weekend for his birthday. The grill that was taken was brand new - Kenmore - Black and Stainless steel with a tank attached to it with a bike chain. PLEASE if you made a mistake in the dark - please call 952-xxxx-xxxx or just return it - REWARD OFFERED! Please help us fix this - We dont want our getting rid of our grill ruining our neighbors summer!
3.23
Cop Has Sex in Squad Car, Broadcasts It On Radio A Memphis, Tennessee, police officer has been suspended for allegedly having sex in his squad car while on duty. Fellow officers said they heard Dion Anthony having sex with an unnamed woman between 8.45 and 9pm last Monday, when it was broadcast over his radio scanner. The broadcast was on an open channel that could be heard by not only by other officers but also by anybody with a police scanner. Anthony, who has worked for the force since 2007, was relieved of duty while the department
3.22
Woman Cuts Line At Gas Station, Blows Up Pump At a Chevron station in Miami Beach, a woman got tired of waiting to buy gas and cut in line ahead of a yellow Hummer. She swerved her car into the pump, causing it to burst into flames. The woman driver and a passenger escaped from their SUV. No word on if there will be any charges. 3.21
When Do You NOT Call 911...When Girlfriend And Craigslist Acqaintance Show Up At Same Tim
Colorado Springs police say a man's girlfriend unexpectedly came home just before another woman was due to visit, so he called police to report his new acquaintance as a burglar. Police say Gaylor had invited a woman he met online to come to his home after 3 a.m. Wednesday so they could get better acquainted, but his girlfriend came home first. Police say that when the other woman arrived, Gaylor called police and falsely reported an intrusion.
Guy Cuts Through Plastic Patio Wall in Attempt to Dodge $33 Bar Tab Patrons of Centro Latin Kitchen in Boulder, Colorado, wouldn't readily describe the place as a "hole in the wall." It's clean, trendy, and befitting a handful of other adjectives attributed to a decent place. Robert Engles disagrees, at least if we're to judge him by his actions.
Engles was busted Saturday after he cut a hole in the restaurant's plastic patio wall and crawled through it in an attempt to leave without paying. Engles' escape, however, was cut short by a metal fence that surrounds the patio. With no place to go, employees at the restaurant restrained him until police arrived.
Man Caught Speeding Three Times In One Hour Police in Portland, Oregon pulled over 34-year-old Jose Romero-Valenzuela three times for speeding - first at 105 mph, then at 98 mph and finally at 92 mph. The reason he was speeding? he was late for a court date on meth possesion charge. Romero-Valenzuela racked up $2,000 worth of speeding tickets in an hour. plus his license could be suspended for up to 90 days if he's found guilty of driving in excess of 100 mph.
3.16
Drunk Guy Steals Road Sign In The Ukraine
3.15
Man Steals Papa John's Pizza Constume Authorities say a man walked into the Papa John's in Lakeland, Florida, put on the restaurant's 6-foot-tall pizza slice costume, and walked right out the door. Detectives are now looking for that man and the other six people he was in the store with. The suspect is described at about 5'10'' and delicious looking. The crime begins at about 1:10.
3.14
Man Arrested Breaking Into Prison A man was arrested Sunday night after he was caught trying to break into the King County Jail in Downtown Seattle. The man had climbed a fence and was found inside a secure area. The man told police he knew he was at the jail, but did not say why he was trying to get inside. Officers arrested the man and, yes, booked him into the jail for investigation of criminal trespass.
3.13
Don't Drink And Buggy Police in the rural town of Sherman, New York have charged four young Amish adults with illegal possession of alcohol after their buggy collided with a police car. Sunday night, deputies were responding to reports that people were drinking in several Amish buggies on a country road. As a patrol car arrived on the scene, one of the Amish buggies changed lanes, colliding with the police vehicle. The buggy flipped onto its side, causing minor injuries to one of the people on board. Police say several other buggies fled the scene.
3.12
Idiot Steals Jude's Nameplate, Posts Picture on Facebook Steven Mulhall, 21, of Coral Springs, Florida, stole the nameplate off the courtroom door of Broward Circuit Judge Michael Orlando, and then posted a picture of himself holding it on his girlfriend's Facebook page. Deputies picked Mulhall and booked him into Broward County's Main jail. "The nameplate is like only $40, not that big of a crime, but what an idiot. He puts it on Facebook," said Broward County Sheriff Al Lamberti. Mulhall had previous multiple convictions for petty theft, making this theft a felony.
3.9
Criminal Mischief With Cheese Blake Oren Robinson, 28, of Coralville, Iowa, was seen loitering in a Hy-Vee grocery store Friday afternoon. He was then spotted on security video stealing a jar of Tostitos Salsa Con Queso Medium Cheese, chips and beer. Robinson went into the men's restroom and began eating. In the course of events, he proceeded to smear the cheese all over the floor and walls of the men's room.
3.8
Tutu-Wearing Burglar A man wearing purple tights and a tutu with his you know what exposed was arrested early Wednesday on suspicion of burglarizing an Allied Gardens, California church. Police were called to the Palisades Presbyterian Church around 4 a.m. after someone noticed suspicious activity. They were able to locate the man int he tutu, along with his white pickup loaded with electronics, musical instruments and other items taken from the church.
3.7
Mom Hit With Pop Tart A 51-year-old Muncy, indiana mother was hit by her 11-year-old son with a Pop Tart. Injuries? WOW.
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3.6
Man Robs Woman, Then Asks Her Out Police in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania say John Jardini, 26, took $60 from a girl who had just gotten off a bus and was waiting for her mother. After the robbery, Jardini called the woman on his cell phone twice, asking her if she had a boyfriend and if she wanted to go out with him. Police got a search warrant to trace the phone records and were on the verge of tracking Jardini down, but then Jardini reportedly assaulted the same girl and her mother outside a grocery store. He was arrested on the spot and positively identified as the guy who earlier robbed the girl.
3.5
Naked Woman Stomps Windshield In the Noe Valley section of San Francisco, John Knight was driving when he came across a commotion: a heavyset woman wrapped in a blanket was being evaluated by medical personnel. Suddenly, the woman threw off the blanket, revealing herself to be naked, walked over to Knight's car, walked upon the hood and stomped on the windshield, breaking it. The woman was hospitalized. Mr. Knight had his windshield replaced.
3.2
Door-To-Door Chicken Seller Lufkin, Texas police officers arrested 33-year-old Daniel Ramirez Huerta, who was attempting to sell chickens door-to-door. The thing is, he was doing it at 3 AM last Saturday morning. He was also intoxicated.
3.1
Robbers Wore Realistic Masks The NYPD is looking for three perps who held up a Queens check-cashing store on Valentine's Day -- all wearing high-quality, Hollywood masks. he three armed themselves and wore fake police gear and badges. They made off with more than $200,000 from a Pay-O-Matic. At first, investigators thought the robbers were three white males, but it later became readily apparent that the suspects weren't who they appeared to be. Police don’t know if they are white, black or Hispanic.
2.29
Naked Man Walks Into Welding Shop, Asks For Job A man apparently high on methamphetamine entered a Sacramento, California welding shop asking for a job interview. Shop owner Chris Johnson called police after escorting Jose Ayala, who asked for a job interview, out of his shop. “I turn around and I’m like ‘whoa!’” Johnson said of seeing the nude man. “He said something about he was looking for work, and he was good with his hands. I didn’t know why a naked dude would be in my shop.” Ayala was transported to a local hospital and later charged with with resisting arrest, indecent exposure and other charges.
2.28
Failed Robber Returns To Buy Dropped Gun Cedrick Mitchell, 39, barged into a room at the Royal Motel in Bradenton, Florida. He pulled out a handgun and demanded “everything you got” from the two men inside. The men began to fight, and Mitchell dropped his gun. One of the victims pepper sprayed him in the face, and Mitchell ran away. But a few minutes later, he went back to the motel room and asked to buy his gun back for $40. Mitchell was pepper sprayed in the face again. He ran away, but by this time the police were called and spotted Mitchell, who was arrested.
2.27
Bridge To Eternity A woman and her two passengers survived - relatively unharmed - a 40-foot plunge off an unfinished bridge in Fuzhou, China. Workers had forgotten to block off the bridge to traffic. There were no safety barriers or even warning signs to keep motorists back.
2.24
Man Claims To Be Denny's Manager, Cooks Dinner James Summers, 52, walked into a Denny's restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin Tuesday afternoon carrying a briefcase and wearing a maroon tie and long black trench coat. He told workers that he was the new general manager and was starting his new job right away. When current manager said she had not gotten any word from corporate about a new general manager, Summers told her she must not have gotten the memo. As the manager called corporate, Summers cooked himself a cheeseburger and fries. The manager learned he was a fraud and called 911. Police arrived and arrested Summers on charges of fraud, disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia.
2.23
Man Arrested For 40th Time Stephen Brewster was recently arrested in Sarasota, Florida, for car burglary. This was Brewster's 40th arrest. Says Sarasota Sheriff Tom Knight: "He's been though the judicial system (so much), he probably knows it better than I do." Brewster's rap sheet includes arrests for fraud, forgery, stealing credit cards, criminal mischief, grand theft, petty theft, robbery and loitering. A spokesperson for the State Attorney's Office points out that in July of 2009, Brewster was sentenced to 33 months in prison, followed by 27 months of community supervision. The spokesperson says that was more than what the state sentencing guidelines called for, and also notes most of his offenses were non-violent property crimes and his cases were prosecuted based on the evidence available.
2.22
Good Dog! In Paraguay, three dangerous inmates in the Tacumbu prison dug a tunnel about 26 feet from their cell to the street, and were about to break free just before dawn when a stray dog in the street saw one of the escapee sticking his head out of the ground and began to bark. His barking alerted a guard, and the three were caught and returned to the jail.
2.21
Spiders On A Plane A man with dozens of tarantulas hidden in his luggage was arrested as he tried to smuggle them past customs officials in Zurich Airport, Switzerland.
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2.20
Wanted Drug Dealer Caught Through Facebook Photos A drug dealer from Sicily, Italy, was found hiding in the U.K. after he posted a picture of himself with President Obama's wax figure on Facebook. Michele Grosso, 27, has been on the run since 2008. Two weeks ago, he took a picture of himself posed with President Obama's wax copy at Madame Tussauds wax museum. That photo, and others showing him at tourist spots around London, let police to a restaurant where had been working waiting tables.
2.17
False Car-Jack Victim Just Wanted Ride Home Hector Felix Jr. called Port St. Lucie, Florida, police to report a carjacking. After questioning, Felix admitted that he wasn't car jacked. He said he just needed a ride home to Hollywood, Florida, and was hoping the police would take him there after hearing his story. Instead, Felix was escorted to the St. Lucie County jail on a misdemeanor false reports of commission of crimes charge.
2.16
Kidnap Report Was Just Valentine's Day Role-Playing Portland, Oregon, couple was arrested Tuesday night and accused of disorderly conduct after police heard multiple reports that a woman was "tied up in a car with duct tape over her mouth." Police thought they were dealing with a potential kidnapping case. Turns out the couple was doing some Valentine's Day role-playing and we will leave it at that.
2.15
Man Steals Laundry Detergent Police in St. Paul, Minnesota, arrested Patrick Paul Costanzo, 53, for allegedly stealing $25,000 in Tide laundry detergent from a supermarket. A study of the store's security tapes showed Costanzo allegedly stealing detergent four to five days a week from January 1 to February 7. It's unclear what he planned to do with all of the laundry soap, but it was enough to wash more than 82,500 loads of clothing.
2.14
Woman Held In Honey Bun Assault A woman in Rhea County, Tennessee is behind bars after reportedly trying to assault a man with a box of honey buns. 55-year-old Wilma Wooten pulled a knife on a man last Friday during a fight over the buns. Wooten then whacked him with the entire box of buns.
2.13
Firefighter Responds To Call, Finds Stuff Stolen From His Home Vacaville, California, firefighter Louis Jones responded to an emergency call at a mobile home. When he and his team got there, he came upon a surprise find: tools and equipment that had been stolen from his own home - thousands of dollars' worth of items stolen last week. Jones said burglars had kicked in the back door to his garage at night and made off with an ATV quad, boxes of tools, a lawnmower, Christmas goods, kitchen stuff, a washer and dryer and assorted other items. Jones didn’t say anything to the homeowner at the time, but he called police after he left with the other firefighters. Detectives later arrested 47-year-old Ricky Mankini, who was visiting a relative that firefighters had helped that day.
2.10
Fake Kidnapping To See If Mom Loves Him Dorian Ford, 19, of DuPage, Illinois, staged his own kidnapping to see if his mother loved him enough to pay a $1,000 ransom. Ford called his mother Tuesday and told her he had been hit on the head and abducted. He told her she had to pay a $1,000 ransom to free him. Instead, she called police. Investigators found Ford - currently on probation for a 2011 robbery conviction - who admitted that the kidnapping claim was phony. His mother didn’t attend his Wednesday afternoon hearing
2.9
Burglar Found Naked, Covered In Peanut Butter A Chocolate A naked burglar covered in chocolate and peanut butter was arrested last Tuesday after workers found him inside a Neon, Kentucky supermarket. Andrew Toothman, 22, was discovered wearing only a pair of black boots, smeared in peanut butter and chocolate. Several fire extinguishers had been discharged and, according to the police report, there was Nyquil on the floor that spelled out the word "sorry.”
2.8
Man Robs Bank With McDonald's Apple Pies A California man is behind bars after robbing a Sacramento bank using two apple pies wrapped in a McDonald's bag. Daniel Hegwood, 33, entered a downtown Wells Fargo over the weekend, told a teller he had a dangerous bomb inside the bag and demanded money. He then fled on foot with a “substantial” amount of cash, leaving the bag behind. However, bank security followed him, and polcie were able to find Hegwood as he entered a nearby parking garage. The McDonald's bag was later found to contain apple pies and not a bomb.
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Woman Claims TV Was Stolen Through Window Smaller Than The TV A A woman in Paignton, England, called police to report that her TV had been stolen. She told police that burglars had taken the television out through the living room window. But when police measured the window, they found it was smaller than the flat screen TV. Detectives went back to the house with a search warrant and found the television hidden under an upstairs bed. The woman was fined $100 for wasting police time.
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COOS BAY, Ore. -- An alleged carjacker in Oregon certainly didn't check the fuel gauge on the car he's accused of taking from a grocery store parking lot. Officers in Coos Bay quickly arrested the man when he stopped a few miles away to buy gas. Authorities say the man threw a woman out of the car Tuesday and sped off. The World of Coos Bay reports man pulled into a gas station and asked to pay cash, but the attendant was suspicious because the driver was agitated. The attendant says the man was obviously relieved when police drove past the station. But officers drove around the back and cornered the suspect. Police say he tried to drive away but crashed the stolen Honda Civic into a light post. Story from www.abclocal.go.com 2.3
An Australian Black Swan named Ruffles who lives at Lake Eola is recovering after it was choked by a man earlier this week. John Mark Wynne was arrested Monday evening after Orlando police bicycle officers said they saw him strangling the docile animal. He is charged with animal cruelty and grand theft of a commercially owned farm animal. Officers say 47-year-old Wynne got in the water, grabbed the swan by its neck and carried it several feet with its body dangling. He told a group of people, “Hey guys look at this!” Bicycle officers were nearby when they saw Wynne carrying the swan by its neck with its full body weight hanging and immediately rode over to him, reports show. When Wynne saw the officers, he dropped the animal. It’s not clear why the man grabbed the bird. Sheila Bolin, CEO of The Regal Swan Foundation, is the former caretaker of the Lake Eola swans and was called by police to assess the injuries to the bird. Story from www.stupidknews.com
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In Thailand a man recently married his dead girlfriend in a joint wedding/funeral. Although the move sounds bizarre and creepy…Chadil Deffy AKA Deff Yingyuen says the ceremony was a way for him to right a wrong. The two had been dating for 10 years when Sarinya Anne Kamsook was suddenly killed in an accident. The couple had talked about marriage but never set a date.
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If you haven’t heard, a 41-year-old woman from Melbourne, Florida was going to her car when her ex-fiancé's new girlfriend ATTACKED HER. 22-year-old Amy Winter pulled a pocket knife on her boyfriend’s ex and stabbed her repeatedly aiming for her heart. The ex survived all thanks to her new breast implants. Yes…the knife pierced her implant . . . but shielded her heart. Winter was arrested for assault.
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God.... The Babysitter
Earlier this week, 32-year-old Julian Jay Johnson of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania wanted to go to a bar. But he was with his three children at home . . . they're one, three, and six years old. So Johnson decided to go to the bar anyway, and leave their kids with their babysitter . . . God. As he later explained to the cops, quote, "God was watching them." Because, ya know, God is everywhere. The cops found Johnson because he was trying to start FIGHTS with people at the bar. Once they caught him and arrested him, he told them about how his kids were home alone. At his house, the police say they found several safety issues. Fortunately, all three kids were okay . . . and they've been put into protective custody. Johnson is facing a huge list of charges.
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Guy Breaks Into Cop's House Around 3 AM last Sunday morning, Jarvis Guthrie, 18, broke into a home in Orange Park, Florida. Unfortunately for him, it was the home of Police Officer Garret Osilka. Here's Guthrie's mug shot.
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In a recent interview on the "Dan Le Batard Is Highly Questionable" show Pat Sadak admits hosting the Wheel of Fortune under the influence during the earlier years of the show.
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Man Calls 911, Wants To Fight A Cop A 38-year-old Willowbrook, Illinois man called 911 and asked to fight a police officer. Police said John R. Pacella “wanted to see an officer because he wanted to fight with them” about 4 a.m. on January 19. The police obliged. Pacella shoved the officers, and he was arrested and charged with aggravated battery, resisting a police officer, and battery with intent to provoke.
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Skateboarding Bank Robber Mexico City police arrested a would-be bandit who rode his skateboard to bank robbery attempts. Police allege Sergio Ledesma attempted to rob a bank and then, failing to get any money, skateboarded off to a second bank. At that bank, the teller set off a silent alarm, and counted out the money while the would-be robber waited patiently. Police arrived and arrested him. 1.23
Staged Car Accident Caught On Dashboard Camera The car in front stops, the car behind stops. The car in front backs up, hitting the car in back. The occupants of the carin front emerge and appear to claim they were hit. The driver of the car in back points to his dashboard camera. The occupants of the car in front return to their car and drive away. Better luck next time!
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C Is For Cookie, Cash Omaha, Nebraska, police are looking for a man who was wearing a Cookie Monster hat during the armed robbery of a convenience store early Wednesday. The clerk told police the man entered the store with a gun and demanded money from the register. He grabbed the money and ran off.
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Couple Attempts To Blow Up Car With Flaming Tampons Two young Pennsylvanians are accused of attempting to blow up a car with flaming tampons. According to State Police troopers, on January 7, Patricia Deshong, 25, and Quentin Deshong, 22, seriously vandalized a 2006 Ford Fusion, which had its windshield and windows either cracked or broken, was covered with dents, and had blood on the front passenger seat from what appeared to be some type of accident. The car’s hood was also open and various hoses had been disconnected. Investigators also discovered that "the gas cap was removed and tampons were used to possibly ignite the gas tank." Additionally, a tampon was found in the engine compartment where the oil fill cap is located.
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Drunk Driver Passes Out On State Patrol Front Lawn When Michigan State Police troopers arrived for duty around 5:30 a.m. on Sunday at their station in Cadillac, they discovered a 2005 Saturn Vue stuck in the snow on the front lawn. The driver was asleep inside the vehicle and the motor was still running with the transmission in drive. Troopers banged on the window and woke the driver. A drunk driving test was administered and the 20 -year-old man was arrested for Operating While Intoxicated. He had been doing doughnuts int he parking lot and front lawn of the state patrol building.
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Wanted Man Found In Clothes Dryer Sheriff’s deputies in Florida arrested 23-year old Usier Rosario on Wednesday. He was found hiding in a clothes dryer at a home in Bradenton. Back on November 1st, Rosario and two others ransacked an apartment after holding a woman at gunpoint and choking a man until he was nearly unconscious. He's been charged with two counts of home invasion robbery with a firearm and one count of aggravated assault with a firearm.
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Man Breaks Into Ex-Girlfriend's House, Just Wants To Cuddle Police in Orange County, California say that Agustin Sanchez broke into his ex-girlfriend's house early Sunday morning and snuck into her bed. When police arrived, Sanchez, apparently drunk, told them he just wanted to cuddle. Authorities are investigating the incident for attempted burglary and assault.
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Mug Shot Of The Week Andrei Bibbs, 53, of Blue Island, Illinois, picked up for driving under the influence.
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Suspect Steals Squad Car, Asks Where Handcuff Keys Are In Kouts, Indiana, police arrested William Blankenship Tuesday evening on drug charges. Though he was handcuffed in the back seat of the police cruiser, he managed to make it into the front seat and drive off. He then used the police radio, asking where he would find keys to the handcuffs and the cigarette lighter. On Wednesday morning, police found their only squad car, “wrecked and submerged in water”. Blankenship is at large.
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Police Arrest Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop Madison, Wisconsin police arrested Mr. Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop, 30, for carrying a concealed weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and a probation violation. Court records show his previous name to be Jeffrey Drew Wilschke. He legally changed it to Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop in October.
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Drug Suspect Shows Up For Court In "How To Cook Meth" Jacket In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last Friday, a man accused of drug trafficking showed up for court wearing a jacket that bore a cartoon-style recipe for cooking crack cocaine. The man's white jacket was decorated with a series of little pictures of a white substance with a spoon, a carton of baking soda and a little pot over a fire. The end product was a "rock," slang for the drug.
Photo from www.media.miamiherald.com
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HOV Lane Skeleton A Seattle, Washington man was stopped on December 20 for aggressive driving in a carpool lane. While giving the man a ticket, the officer noticed the man's passenger: A seat-belted, plastic skeleton. The propped-up, plastic skeleton in the passenger seat was draped in a white hoodie, with a metal cookie tin between its thighs. The driver received a ticket for speed, unsafe lane change and the HOV violation.
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Woman Rubs Butt On Modern Painting A Colorado woman dropped her pants at a museum and rubbed her rear end all over a painting valued at $30 million. Carmen Tisch, 36, was arrested after scratching, punching and rubbing her butt against Clyfford Still's "1957-J no.2" and causing an estimated $10,000 damage to the artwork at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver. She also tried to urinate on the painting, but missed. Police believe she was drunk during the incident, which happened late December. Tisch was charged with felony criminal mischief.
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Discharged Emergency Room Patient Discharges In Fort Pierce, Florida on December 17, hospital patient Isreal Rosado, 44, was discharged from the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center's emergency room. Howver, Rosado refused to leave until he got a meal. After police told him to leave, he pulled his penis out and urinated on the floor. As the officer was arresting him, he reportedly "continued to pass gas. The aroma was unbearable," an affidavit states. He was arrested for misuse of the 911 emergency system.
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Juror Lies About Illness To Go See Show In Manchester, England, Matthew Banks, 19, was one of the jurors in the trial of a man accused of running over his girlfriend. On the day of jury deliberations, Banks called the judge to say he had been throwing up all night. The judgesent the other 11 jurors were sent home. But when the court called his home to see if he would be well enough to return after the weekend, Banks' boyfriend, Christian Orr, told court officials he had "gone to London to see a show." Instead of recovering at his mother's home, Banks was actually heading to see "Chicago" at London's Garrick Theatre. Banks was given a 14-day prison sentence for contempt of court.
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Bank Robbed With Glue Gun Police in Indianapolis, Indiana arrested a man they say robbed a bank with a glue gun on Monday. Bank employees said the man displayed what they thought was a gun and told them he had a bomb, while showing them something taped to his leg. He got away, but investigators identified him through surveillance video and arrested Aaron Randolph. They found all the money, along with the suspected “firearm” that was used — a glue gun.
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Breaking Something Right After You Get It David Dopp of Santaquin, Utah, won a green Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 Roadster, grand prize in the "Joe Schmo To Lambo" contest by Maverik gas stations. Less than six hours after taking delivery of the car last Saturday, Dopp lost control, hopped a curb and spun it into an embankment. The car is insured.
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Shoplifter Stuffs Meat Down Pants Ronald Broadway, 45, was arrested Thursday night in the parking lot of a Salisbury, North Carolina Food Lion supermarket. Employees saw Broadway sticking the food down his jeans. Investigators found he had a pair of sweatpants on under the jeans, with duct tape around his ankles to keep the food from falling out.. As police began to pat him down, food began falling from the fly section of his jeans. Officers found eight bags of shrimp, eight rib-eye steaks, a package of smoked turkey and an undisclosed number of baby back ribs. Broadway told officers it was his 45th birthday and he wanted to celebrate.
12.28
Man Fined For Putting Trash Out 30 Minutes Early A Queens, New York man received a $100 fine for putting his garbage cans at the curb 30 minutes early. "I can't say how incensed I am over this," Raymond Janson says. "Not only at the excessive amount, but the nature of the summons." Janson says, "We've lived here 30 years and always put the garbage out Monday and Thursday for Tuesday and Friday pickup." It is legal to put out the trash cans the day before pick-up but the time of the day matters. City sanitation rules say the cans can be put out no earlier than 4:00 p.m. from October 1st to April 1st. Janson's ticket was written at 3:27 p.m. "What, do they sit down the block waiting so they can go catch all of those criminals?" Janson asked.
12.27
A Woman Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $166,000 From a Law Group To Spend on Facebook Games
Between May 22nd, 2006 and September 9th of last year, she forged checks to embezzle $166,000 from the group. And a good chunk of that money went toward . . . purchases in FACEBOOK GAMES. Bettysue was apparently obsessed with "Mafia Wars" and "YoVille" . . . which is like a city version of "FarmVille" . . . and stole all that money to buy upgrades in the games. On Wednesday, she pleaded guilty to theft by forgery. She could get up to six years in prison at her sentencing on January 3rd.
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A Man is Busted for Attacking Shoppers at a Toys 'R' Us With a Plastic Light Saber It's sad to see someone go over to the dark side like this, when The Force was so strong in them. It happened to Darth Vader . . . and now it's happened to 33-year-old David Canterbury of Hillsboro, Oregon.On Wednesday night, around 9:50 P.M., police in Portland, Oregon got a call from a Toys 'R' Us. David was inside the store, he had a plastic "Star Wars" LIGHT SABER in his hand . . . and he was ATTACKING PEOPLE with it.When the police got there, David kept on swinging the light saber at them to keep them away.They tried to Tase him . . . and that's where The Force came in: David used the light saber to swat one of the wires away and keep himself from getting shocked.Finally, they just charged in and tackled him. I guess they realized it wasn't a real light saber and it was made of plastic.David will be facing three assault charges, a theft charge, and a resisting arrest charge . . . but only after he undergoes a mental health evaluation. Fortunately, none of the people he attacked with the light saber needed medical attention.
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Drunk Man Thwarts Robbery
12.21
McDonald's Drive-Thru Customer Throws Order Back Through Window Simone Paolercio, 39, had ordered about $20 worth of food when she got into a dispute with a worker manning the drive-thru window over two hashbrowns. Paolercio wanted McDonald's to take the food back and refund her money. After a manager refused to provide a refund, Paolercio tossed the hash browns through the window. Eventually, more items came out of Paolercio's car and back through the window. Paolercio fled in her vehicle, but was tracked to her residence, where she was arrested on the misdemeanor charge. The hash-browning begins at about :32.
12.20
Shoplifters Robbed Korin Vanhouten, 47, and Eldon Alexander, 36, were caught shoplifting at WinCo Foods in Ogden, Utah, last Thursday. They were detained by police and cited for stealing about $25 worth of merchandise, and then let go. The couple then returned to their car and discovered that someone had broken into it. Surveillance video from the parking lot shows a man breaking into Alexander's truck. The thief stole their stereo and amplifier, a drum machine and some cigarettes. The items taken from their truck were worth about $60. But the mug shot is priceless.
12.19
Thieves Foiled By Butt-Dialed Phone In Madison, Wisconsin, Jason Hamielec, 29, and Brian Johnson, 28, couldn’t stop talking about their success steraling videos and computer games from a Target store. They talked inside their getaway SUV for 54 minutes, bragging about what they stole, describing the vehicle they were in, and discussing where they might get the best prices for the stolen merchandise. After settling on the Video X-Chang used game store, they pulled into the parking lot, only to be met by police with drawn guns. How did the cops know? One of the men had accidentally dialed 911 on his cell phone, and police were listening to their plans the entire time.
12.16
A 27-year-old named Abe Liu has been caught spending the semester at Harvard College posing as a freshman, sleeping in friends' dorm rooms and even posing for a fashion feature in school's newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. When caught, Liu said he did it because he was "lonely". Liu had created an elaborate backstory about himself, claiming he was 22 and had taken a few years off after high school before coming to Harvard. When his friends began to realize that he was not listed in the Facebook, Liu claimed he was an Extension School student. Later, he claimed to be a former Olympian.
12.15
Guys Build Hockey Rink In Backyard Two guys in Tinley Park, Illinois are in trouble for building a backyard ice rink. Tony Nelin and Timmy Ryan, both 20, ran a hose from a fire hydrant to flood the area that measured 91 feet by 43 feet. "We had good intentions," Nelin said. "We were trying to do something productive for the winter." The guys are likely to be fined and ordered to pay for the water they used, which is estimated to be $127.44.
12.14
Mom Drops Kids Off At School, Breaks Into Homes Melissa Addison, 36, from Chesterfield, Virginia, was arrested for burglarizing at least 27 homes between Oct. 26 and Dec. 2. According to police, Addison would drop her children off to school each morning and then go break into homes.
12.13
Man Publishes Fake Obituary Of Mother In Brookville, Pennsylvania, Scott Bennet published a fake obituary for his living mother in the local newspaper so that he could get paid bereavement time off from work. Randy Bartley, editor of the local Jeffersonian Democrat newspaper, said he accepted the obituary in good faith after being unable to confirm the funeral arrangements at press time. Bennet's mother visited the paper in person to prove she was alive. Police charged the 45-year-old Bennett with disorderly conduct.
12.12
Crime of the Century A 19-year-old Wisconsin teen was charged with disorderly conduct after authorities saw pictures of him planking on ATMs, tractors, and a police car. Alexander Hart claims the photographs, taken earlier this year and posted on his Facebook page, were taken 'to get laughs.' A judge fined him $303.
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Woman Drives Into Ocean During Driving Test Angela Castro, 35, was taking her driving exam in a pick-up truck in Antofagasta, Chile, when she misjudged a curve and drove into the Pacific Ocean. The examiner, Edgardo Aguilera, managed to scramble free, but Ms Castro struggled to undo her seatbelt. A heroic passer-by jumped into the ocean and managed to free her.
Photo from www.blog.herald.com
12.7
Here's What Happens When You Try To Mug A Mixed Martial Arts Fighter In South Side Chicago. 24-year-old Anthony Miranda pulled a handgun on a man in a parked car and demanded money. After getting some, he ordered the driver out of the car. Unfortuinately for Miranda, his victim was a mixed martial arts fighter. The victim was able to get control of the gun, and the two wrestled, with Miranda accidentally firing his gun and shooting himself in the ankle during the fight. The victim held Miranda down until the police arrived. He was taken to Holy Cross Hospital for treatment.
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Drunk Man Runs Into "Booze It Or Lose It" van A Hickory, North Carolina man ran his car into a "Booze it or Lose It" DWI mobile command center Sunday morning. Law enforcement were conducting a DWI checkpoint when a 1989 red Camaro rammed into the back of the mobile unit. No one was injured.
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Woman Hits Parking Spot Poacher With Car A Longview, Texas woman ran over a man in a Walmart parking lot who was trying to save a parking space for his wife. The incident occurred Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. The victim had parked a shopping cart in the coveted spot and was waiting for his wife to catch up and park their car. Vanessa Blackshire wanted the space also, so she hit the man with her car. The victim refused transport to the hospital at the scene but reportedly later checked in, complaining of pain. Blackshire, who has no criminal record, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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Robber Caught After Calling Place She Robbed A York, Pennsylvania woman accused of robbing a Burger King at the drive-through window earlier this month was caught after she called the restaurant to see if officers were on her trail. Tyechia Lorraine Rembert, 33, ordered breakfast at the drive-through on November 11. When she pulled up to the window, she pretended to have a handgun and demanded money, police said. After the robbery, Rembert called the Burger King to find out if any witnesses saw her license-plate number. Investigators were able to track her down using cell phone records.
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It's Important To Live Near Where You Work A brother and sister in Forestville, Maryland, are accused of robbing a bank, just down the street from where they live. Police say Shakir and Kadija Taylor held up the M & T Bank back on November 8th. The siblings live on the same block as the bank.
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Stabbed With A Christmas Ornament Police in Southington, Connecticut, answered a call about a theft at a craft fair. Police approached suspect Ruth Wagner, 55, about the alleged thefts, but Wagner ran off. A vendor yelled for someone to stop the her. Another woman tried to stop Wagner, but Wagner stabbed her in the forearm with the seashell ornament. Police eventually caught Wagner, charging her with robbery, assault, reckless endangerment, larceny and breach of peace.
11.29
Guy Tattoos Picture of Poo on His Cheating Girlfriend's Back In Dayton, Ohio, tattoo artist, Ryan L. Fitzjerald was supposed to tattoo a scene from Narnia on his girlfriend's back. However, right before he did the work, he found out the girlfriend had been cheating on him with his best friend. So instead, while she was drunk and passed out, he tattooed an image of a pile of excrement with flies buzzing around it on her back. The ex-girlfriend, Rossie Brovent, is suing him for $100,000 lawsuit.
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11.28
Giant Beer Bottle Stolen The Treasure Island, Florida, Police Department is investigating the theft of a 30-foot inflatable beer bottle. The theft occurred on Saturday evening, November 19. The expensive display is a 30-foot-tall, inflatable Bud Light bottle with logo and includes a portable, electric blower. Its estimated value is $5,000.
Photo from www.baynews9.com
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Teen Applies For Job, Shoplifts In Santa Clarita, California, a teenager applied for a job at a hobby shop. But after dropping off his resume, he then shoplifted a $129 Airsoft gun and strolled out the door. The 17-year-old, whose name was not released because he's underage, explained his thinking this way: “Honestly, I wasn't planning on stealing anything," he said. "I was actually trying to get a job. And... what can I say? I'm a teenager, that's stupid.”
11.24
The Goldilocks Bandit A woman broke into a Rockwell, North Carolina home Friday night, raided a cookie jar and fell asleep in the homeowner’s bed. The homeowner called the authorities when she found 26-year-old Ashley Sedalia Haithcock in her bed, under the covers, around 10 p.m. The sliding glass door was open and a cookie jar inside the home was broken. Haithcock had been staying nearby with her grandfather, but got upset when he prohibited her from drinking. The grandfather said she has a drinking problem.
11.23
Teenage Burglar Stuck In Chimney A teenager became stuck in a chimney while trying to break into a Norcross, Georgia, home on Tuesday. The 16-year-old had been trapped in the chimney since 3 a.m. The rescue happened around 1:30 in the afternoon. Several rescue workers surrounded the chimney and threw down a rope. Within moments, the teen, Ranaldo Jack, in his socks, was pulled out. After the teen was led down a ladder, he was taken down by two Gwinnett County police officers and placed in handcuffs.
11.22
Kidnapping Foiled By Testicle-Grabbing Mom A Ghanaian woman was able to stop an armed robbery suspect by grabbing his testicles. The incident occurred Friday night. Two men attempted to rob and kidnap a woman as she was getting into her car after visiting her mother. As they pushed the victim into the car, her 65-year-old mother pounced on one of the men, later identified as 24-year-old Daniel Ikechukwu, held him and squeezed his testicles hard. She held him tightly and made him lie on the ground until the police arrived. The other suspect, known to the police as "Lucky", escaped.
11.21
Man On Jury Duty Steals Laptop A man was arrested for stealing a laptop computer while waiting for jury duty inthe Miami-Dade County courthouse. When the victim noticed his MacBook was missing, he notified security. Employees quickly reviewed security footage and spotted Ramon Torrech taking the laptop. Torrech, 55, was arrested as he sat in the jury pool room. According to an arrest report, Torrech said, “I was stupid, officer. I should have returned the laptop but I didn’t. I thought about returning it a million times but I didn’t. This is probably going to mess up my marriage and career.”
11.18
Man Wearing "I'm A Drunk" T-Shirt Arrested For DUI A man wearing a T-shirt reading "I'm a Drunk" crashed into a police car early Thursday on Long Island. He was charged with driving while intoxicated. Kevin Daly, of Coram, N.Y., was driving at about 1:45 a.m. when he hit the patrol car. The officer was treated for minor injuries. Coram was not injured. The complete massage on his T-shirt reads - I'm Not an Alcoholic, I'm a Drunk. Alcoholics Go to Meetings.
11.17
Woman Watches House Robbed Via CCTV A woman is watching her house being robbed through a security camera linked to her computer. She describers the action to 911 as the burglars walk through her home picking things up. At the end, four cops show up, guns drawn. The suspects were caught.
11.16
Burglar Decorates House For Xmas Terry Trent, 44, was allegedly high on bath salts when he broke into a Vandalia, Ohio home, put up some Christmas decorations, lit a candle, and sat on the couch. When the homeowner's young son saw him, he said, - I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. I'll get my things and go.-
11.15
Man Calls 911 Over Malfunctioning iPhone Michael Alan Skopec, 48, dialed 911 operators five times to complain that his iPhone was not working. Police in Kendall County, Illinois traced the calls to Skopec’s home, where he was arrested around 1 AM Wednesday when he “refused to comply with orders from deputies.” The police report noted that Skoped was intoxicated. Skopec was charged with obstructing or resisting a peace officer, a misdemeanor. It is unclear what Skopec thought cops could do about his malfunctioning smartphone.
11.14
Heat-Seeking Police Police in Hastings, Michigan used thermal imaging to find a fleeing suspect who turned out to be hiding in a leaf pile. An officer responding to a burglar alarm at a restaurant Friday saw a man with a backpack running away and gave chase. After losing the suspect, the officer pulled out a thermal imaging device and found the suspect hiding in a pile of leaves. Police said the man had also been making meth in his room at a motel.
11.10
The Dancing Shoplifter 26-year-old Anthony DiVietro not only shoplifted from a Kmart store in Blackwood, New Jersey - he danced while he was doing it. DiVietro was seen on CCTV footage dancing as he stuffed items into his waistband, and then proceeded to leave the store. Spotted by security, DiVietro was challenged by a member of staff, but he dumped the gear and fled the scene. However, cops posted the video of the 'Dancing Shoplifter' on YouTube, and it became a viral hit, attracting 70,000 views. It became so popular that DiVietro was soon recognized and cops swooped to make a belated arrest.
11.9
Brazilian Cops Ram Plane To stop a suspects in an illegal transport investigation from taking off, Brazilian police hit the accelerator and ram ithe plane. Five people were arrested. The cargo - not quite as exciting: $200,000 worth of notebooks, electronic surveillance equipment, and a bicycle.
11.8
Man Lies To Girlfriend About Being Kidnapped A Helena, Montana man, for unknown reasons, tricked his girlfriend into believing he was kidnapped by men in skeleton masks on Halloween. Noah James Vanderelst, 28, told his girlfriend at least two men had kidnapped him, threatened to kill him and taken him up into the hills in a gray van. Police received a call from the girlfriend reporting the alleged kidnapping at about 12:30 a.m. Monday. Vanderelst elaborated that he owed someone money and that’s why the men had taken him captive and assaulted him. He allegedly sent texts from his phone from the supposed kidnappers demanding a cash ransom. Police, who believed they had a hostage situation, located Vanderelst at his apartment at about 4 a.m. He admitted to being the one who texted his girlfriend. He now faces a felony charge of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence along with several other charges.
11.7
Man Urinates In Drive-Thru Bank Tube A man pulled up at the drive-thru at RBC Bank in Palm Coast, Florida last Wednesday morning. He asked if they sold money orders. When he was told no, he became upset and mumbled something about bad customer service. A short time later, another customer pulled into the same drive-through lane. The customer said that there was liquid in the plastic tube and that it smelled like urine. The customer then picked the tube up, and the liquid spilled onto her and her car. Deputies are working to identify the culprit, who could face a second-degree misdemeanor charge.
11.4
Woman Sets Ex-Friend's House On Fire Over Facebook Detectives in Des Moines, Iowa arrested Jennifer Harris, 30, on a charge of first-degree arson. She allegedly set the fire in the garage of Jim and Nikki Rasmussen. Jennifer was a long-time friend of Nikki but recently became involved in a dispute over Facebook. Jen asked Nikki to create an event on Facebook for a party, which Nikki did. But as the date for the party approached “there were a lot of ‘declines,’ on Facebook, and the party was a bust. Increasingly hostile texts were sent and messages left until Nikki ended their friendship on Facebook.
11.3
Thieves Steal Pigs' Feet Thieves broke into a Union Pacific train after it made an emergency stop Friday in Victorville, California. They grabbed 20 boxes of cargo took off. A Union Pacific spokesman said the thieves probably didn't know what they were stealing - they got away with 20 boxes of pigs' feet worth $200. The suspects remained at large Tuesday.
11.1
Paroled Prisoner Uses Illegal Phone, Gets Additional Five Years Dwayne Kennedy has been serving a life sentence in a California prison since 1990. Last year, he was finally granted parole. He borrowed another inmate's cell phone to call his family and tell them the good news. Unfortunately, the phone he borrowed from the other prisoner was contraband, which is, of course, illegal for a prisoner to have. The phone call caused him to be denied parole, ensuring that he would be in prison for another five years until his next parole hearing.
10.31
Superhero Gets Beat UP By a Girl In Seattle, Washington, a guy who dresses up like a superhero and calls himself "Phoenix Jones" patrols the streets at night with his sidekick, "Ghost". He also has his own film crew following him. In the video below, he "breaks up" what he thinks is a street brawl, but one woman turns on Phoenix and starts hitting him with a shoe. Police ended up arresting Phoenix because he started pepper spraying everyone.
10.28
Man Arrested For Licking Stranger's Knee Police in Chandler, Arizona arrested a man Friday after he allegedly licked a stranger's knee after she tripped and fell. Martin Soto, 43, reportedly licked the woman's knee when she fell down a step on a street corner. Soto then reportedly tried to hug her and lick her face, but the woman pushed him away, got in her car and called police.
10.27
Ice Cream Sandwich Down The Pants A Port St. Lucie, Florida man was arrested for shoplifting an ice cream sandwich down his pants. The assistant manager of a Family Dollar store says he saw 32-year-old Robert Silvia go to the cooler, then leave without buying anything. She watched as he crossed the street and removed an ice cream sandwich from his pants, then began eating it. When confronted by police, Silvia said he stole the ice cream "because his car had a flat tire and he only had three dollars and he was sorry." The assistant manager wanted to press charges.
10.26
Insurance Scam Fail A car, with a camera conveniently mounted on the dashboard, strikes a pedestrian. No, perhaps 'strikes' is too strong a word. The car stops, and the 'pedestrian' lamely throws himself against the bumper.
10.25
Guy Makes Animal Noises In Dark; Friend Shoots Him In Manlius, New York, Stephen Comrie, 20, thought he would be funny and make animal noises in the woods to scare his friends, who were all sitting around a campfire. His noises were really realistic - one of his friends fired off his shotgun in the dark, hitting the prankster in the face, chest, forearm and thigh. Comrie, 20, was able to walk out of the woods and checked himself in to an emergency room. He was treated and released. Jeremy J. Messina, 21, was charged with felony reckless endangerment after firing his shotgun several times.
10.24
Dad Forces Daughter To Sword Fight In Yelm, Washington, a man upset with his 16-year-old daughter because she went out Saturday night without parental approval night forced her to suit up in armor and then beat her with a wooden sword for two hours until she could no longer stand. The father, identified as Freemon Everett Seay, 38, is a Renaissance fair enthusiast. He also donned armor and gave his daughter a wooden sword before the assault, which happened from 2 to 4 AM Sunday morning. The 16-year-old was not hospitalized, but suffered extensive bruising on her face, torso and legs. After Seay realized the extent of his daughter’s injuries, he reportedly told her he was sorry and “he did not intend to go that far.”
10-21
Assault With A Frozen Armadillo A man used a frozen armadillo to attack a 57-year old Pleasant Grove, Texas, woman. The incident happened on Sept. 29 in an apartment complex parking lot. The altercation occurred when the suspect was selling the carcass to the victim, who planned to eat the animal. The pair apparently began arguing over the price of the item when the man twice threw the armadillo at the woman. The animal first struck the woman in the leg and then in her chest. She was reportedly bruised by the attack. Detectives have been unable to find the man.
10-20
Man Sets House On Fire To Get Rid Of Unwanted Guests A 50-year-old Loris, South Carolina man was charged with arson after setting his house on fire because some family members refused to leave. Carl Preston Johnson, 50, was charged with third-degree arson. Detectives learned Johnson set the fire due to family members who refused to vacate the property. No injuries were reported during the incident.
10.19
Why Do You Keep Hitting Yourself? Somewhere in Eastern Europe, this guy was picked up for drunk driving. He decided to hit himself in the face, so that he could then accuse the police officer of police brutality - until the officer pointed out that he was being filmed.
10.18
A Clever Disguise! Bank robber in Cumming, Georgia, uses a furnace filter to disguise himself during a robbery.
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10.17
Fugitive Harvested In Kankakee, Illinois, Daniel Thomas, 19, had a warrant out for his arrest for a parole violation. After police pulled over a vehicle in which he was riding, Thomas took off from the car and ran into a cornfield. Police brought in a canine unit, which was unsuccessful in finding Thomas. As was an aerial view - a plane with a police officer flew over the field, unable to spot Thomas. Then, one of the cops got an idea: ask the farmer if he's ready to harvest his field. The farmer fired up the combine and got to work. Thomas emerged from the cornfield into the hands of waiting police.
10.14
Man Finds Beer Trailer A 46-year-old man stumbled across a refrigerated beer trailer Tuesday used by the Schwaben Verein German heritage club in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. The trailer hoolds beer kegs inside, connected to taps on the outside. Realizing he had nearly unlimited access cold beer, the man grabbed a nearby pitcher and began drinking. At noon, staff at the banquet hall found him and called police, who found the man extremely intoxicated and called an ambulance. Before being sent to Northwest Community Hospital, he told police he didn’t think he had done anything wrong. He said that, in finding a free beer truck, he thought he had died and gone to heaven.
10.12
Bad Handwriting Foils Bank Robber Last Saturday afternoon, 40-year-old Thomas Love entered the WSFS Bank in New Castle, Delaware. He handed a bank teller a demand note written on a deposit slip. However, the teller couldn't read what was written, so she handed it back and asked that it be re-written. Love fled the bank, leaving without any money. Officers later found Love and took him into custody.
10.11
Robber Prays WIth Victim Before Leaving In New Castle,Pennsylvania, a man stopped to pray while robbing a woman in a wheelchair. The disabled woman had opened her door after hearing a knock. A man told her he needed money, so she gave him $5, but he said he wanted more and pushed his way in and grabbed $20 from her purse. The woman said she began to pray. The man said, "I'm sorry, I've never done this before. I'm desperate." He then knelt down as she prayed before running away. Police arrested 32-year-old Christopher Perretti II on charges including burglary and robbery..
10.10
54-Year-Old Man Caught In Back Seat With 71-Year-Old Woman A naked 71-year-old woman and her equally naked male companion, 54, were arrested last month for indecent exposure after a Michigan cop found them having sex in the back seat of a Buick Regal. that was rocking gently and had its windows steamed over, according to a police report. According to the police report, Tim Adams had met Rita Daniels in a nearby bar “before moving to the back seat of the Buick.” When questioned by cops, neither Daniels nor Adams knew the other’s name. Daniels and Adams were arrested for indecent exposure and disorderly intoxication.
10.7
Phone Thief Accidentally Uploads Picture To Victim's Facebook A woman pulled up at a McDonough, Georgia, daycare September 26 to pick up her child. She did not lock her car when she went inside to get her child. When she got home, she realized someone stole her purse. Later that night, she pulled up her Facebook page where she saw a picture that has been automatically uploaded. The phone thief had taken a picture of himself on the phone, whichj was automatically set to upload pictures to Facebook page. Police are asking that anyone recognizing the suspect call investigators.
10.6
Thief Identified By Underwear In Port Charlotte, Florida, 65-year-old Donna Decker saw a suspicious male inside an unlocked 1991 Dodge pickup in her apartment parking lot. As she approached, the male - a teenager - ran out of the vehicle. As he ran, his baggy shorts fell down, exposing his red boxer shorts. Deputies were called, and a brief search found Antonio Kleiss, 14. The witness, Decker, wasn;t sure of his face, but she knew he was wearing red underwear. Police asked Kleiss to drop his pants, showing the red boxers. A subsequent search of Kleiss' apartment turned up an ignition part that was stolen from the unlocked Dodge. Kleiss was charged with felony burglary and attempted grand theft.
10.5
Cop Standing Right Behind Robber 21-year-old Stephen Daniel walked into a Snellville, Georgia gas station and screamed, "Give me all the money!" The store's manager did just that - smiling and laughing while doing so. The reason? Standing right behind the crook was uniformed Snellville police officer B.W. Brown.
10.4
DUI Mom Tries Throwing Kid Over Fence Nikke Settle, a 25-year-old from Spartanburg, South Carolina, was reportedly under the influence when she crashed her 2009 Lexus into median on Interstate 26. She then ran from the car, taking her 4-year-old with her across the interstate, up a hill, towards a tall fence. She attempted to throw her child over the fence. Witnesses had to persuade Settle to stop throwing the kid into the 10-foot-tall fence. When she returned to the crash scene she was arrested. The child was unharmed and turned over to his grandmother.
10.3
In Charlotte, North Carolina, a couple on their first date last Tuesday returned to the man's car after eating at a local restaurant when the man's gun, which was in the car, somehow went off and shot the man.. His date was not injured and he was treated for a non-life-threatening leg wound.
9.30
Tough Times: Thief Tries Stealing From Wishing Well Police in San Marcos, Texas say someone apparently broke into the Wonder Cave at the Wonder World Amusement Park and tried to steal coins from the cave's wishing well. They found evidence that someone tried to lower themselves down the elevator shaft to steal money out of the well, leaving behind a canvas bag and a broken flashlight. It happened sometime between 10 p.m. on Sunday and 12:30 p.m. on Monday. Wonder Cave is part of Wonder World Amusement Park, a longtime San Marcos attraction that also includes a wildlife park and anti-gravity house.
9.29
Cemetery Worker Steals Guitar From Casket A Wisconsin cemetery worker is accused of taking a $2000 Fender guitar from the casket of a 67-year-old Army veteran who died last week. The deceased had told family members that he wanted to be buried with the instrument. Steven Conard, a 39-year-old grounds worker at the Allouez Catholic Cemetery, was arrested Saturday and charged with felony “theft from person or corpse.” Conard, who plays in a band, said, “This isn’t something I normally do. I just have a respect for fine musical instruments.” The cream-colored guitar was recovered from Conard’s living room.
9.28
Arrested For Pillow Fighting Police in Boca Raton, Floria, arrested 36-year-old Joyce Belkadi last Friday after they say she struck her boyfriend with a pillow during an argument. Belkadi faces battery charges.
9.27
Drag Queen Gang Busted Three men were arrested Sunday at a Jo-Ann Fabrics store in Orlando, Florida, part of a reported gang of drag queens who have been allegedly stealing thousands of dollars of fabric, sequins, feather boas and other accessories from fabric stores across the state. The three were arrested for shoplifting. One of the men, wearing a tank top and multi-color tights, was spotted stuffing items into a handbag, including packs of feathers, lace gloves, fake eyelashes, bra pads, five butt pads, and gel inserts as well as three handbags, two boas, three pairs of costume glasses and 10 bandanas. Said Amanda Marshall, manager of the Jo-Ann Fabrics store,"It's a whole gang of drag queens. They were real upset when the police made them take their wigs off. They could wipe out a whole section of boas in seconds."
9/26
Beer Heist Gone Wrong, Wrong, Wrong Three Covina, California men are behind bars after allegedly stealing a 30-pack of Tecate beer from a market Wednesday. While attempting to escape, an employee jumped ont he hood of their car to avoid being run over. The driver careened through the parking lot, hitting a curb and sending the employee onto the pavemen. Two of them jumped out of the car. One climbed a fence and ran into a car wash next door. He ran into the car wash tunnel, which had two cars in it. When he emerged at the other end, soaking wet, opilce were waiting for him. And to top it off, one of the thieves left his ID behind at the crime scene. Andy Huynh, Nicholas Kalscheuer and Nicholas Fiumetto, all 19, were arrested Wednesday on charges of robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest.
9/23
Woman Steals Hearse In Beckley, West VIrginia, Angela DeHart got in a fight with her girlfriend on their way home from a bar home. DeHart jumped out of the car to walk home. As she passed the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Home, a hearse driver had just pulled in to drop off a body, and had left the car idling while he ran inside. DeHart hopped in and sped away in the hearse, drigin all the way home. Police found the hearse where DeHart left it near her home with the corpse still in the back. She is charged with grand larceny and displacing a dead body.
September 22nd
Woman Finds Burglar Cooking Bacon Kenya Ealy of University City, Missouri, returned home after an errand and found a strange man frying bacon in her kitchen. The man initially tried to keep her out of the house by trying to hold the front door shut. But Ealy and a friend managed to tackle and subdue the man and call police. Arrested was 36-year-old Damon Petty, a suspect in a string of burglaries
September 21st
Amish Roundup These 8 Amish men of Graves County, Kentucky, were arrested for refusing to put an orange caution sign on their buggies.
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September 20th
Drunk Man Tries To Pull Own Tooth Port St. Lucie, Florida police received a 911 call from a woman whose husband was drunk in the garage trying to pull out a tooth with a pair of pliers. It is not known if Francisco Rojas was unsuccessful in the tooth extraction, but police noted his efforts had caused him to vomit several times. He was arrested for disturbing the peace.
September 19th
Women Arrested For Stealing Arby's Art Two women were arrested Wednesday, accused of stealing artwork from a Johnson City, Tennessee Arby’s restaurant. Connie L. Sumlin, 45, of Erwin and Gail Trula Johnson, 58, also of Erwin, were arrested and charged with theft of property over $500. The pair is accused of stealing the Arby's artwork on Sept. 3 of this year.
September 14th
This guy may take the "Dumb Criminal of the Year" award.
SHARON, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania jewelry store owner says a man charged with burglarizing the shop called and offered to help solve the case after the owner offered a reward.
Police have since charged 28-year-old Emile Pratt Jr. with burglarizing Mark Multari's Gold Mind Jewelers in Sharon, PA.
Multari tells The Herald newspaper of Sharon he announced a reward a day after the Aug. 31 burglary and that Pratt called claiming to have heard glass breaking when the alarm sounded at 2:45 a.m. and "said he would help in any way" to catch the thief.
Police charged Pratt after tracing some of the 100 items stolen in the burglary to stores and pawn shops where Pratt allegedly sold them.
September 13th
Parolee Wears Ankle Monitor To Robbery Steven K. Tubbs was arrested for allegedly robbing an Omaha, Nebraska, home invasion. How did they catch him? A parole officer heard the description of the men involved and thought one might be Tubbs, who had been wearing a court-ordered ankle monitor. When the officer checked information on Tubbs' ankle monitor, it showed him at the couple's address about the time the robbery was committed.
September 12th
Teenage Defendant Urinates In Judge's Trash Can In Tyler, Texas, Corey Webb, 17, was standing trial for shooting a police officer during an attempted escape from a youth detention center. He was angry at the judge, so shortly after the jury had left the courtroom, he urinated in the judge's trash can. The judge told Webb: "I don't know how you were raised, but peeing in a trash can in a state district courtroom is inappropriate behavior."
September 9th
Walmart Robber Wanted Sex Change Two employees of a Phoenix, Arizona, Wal-Mart are in police custody after robbing the store of $45,000. Half of the money was spent on a getaway car; the other half was set aside so that one of them could have surgery to become a man. Spencer Culler, 23 (pictured, left), and her male accomplice, Adriano Altiveros, 19, were arrested. Cullen told detectives that she stole the money to go have a sex change operation that she had wanted.
September 8th
Gumby Attempts To Rob 7-11 Police in Rancho Penasquitos, California, are searching for a man who wore a Gumby costume during an attempted robbery of a 7-Eleven store. The bizarre robbery attempt happened just after midnight on Labor Day. Initially, the man in the Gumby costume asked for a pack of cigarettes but then told the clerk, "This is a robbery." The clerk thought it was a joke, telling Gumby, "Come on man, don’t waste my time. I have things to do." The guy in the Gumby suit responded that he had a gun and then began fumbling with his costume as if he was trying to pull it out. The entire incident was caught on the store's surveillance cameras.Unsuccessful at getting money, Gumby retreated into a van with a friend and drove off.
September 7th
Shirtless Man Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs Indiana State Police found a shirtless man marching down I-65 near Merrillville, carrying a 35-inch samurai sword. Police said he was marching like a drum major, holding the sword, moving it up and down in rhythm with his marching cadence. When the trooper approached, the man swung the sword in a defensive manner but then dropped it. The man, who refused to give his name, was arrested and taken to jail, where he told police he was “cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”
September 6th
Cat Hoarder Labeled, Froze Dead Cats Kansas City, Missouri Animal Control removed dozens of cats from a home. Officials say that around 80 live cats were rescued from the home on Monday afternoon. Another 40 dead cats were also removed from the home. The woman who was hoarding them apparently labeled the dead cats by name and wrote the date the animals died and saved them in a freezer.
September 5th
Man In Chicken Suit Knocked Down Lincoln, Nebraska police are looking for a teenager who knocked down a Paycheck Advance employee in an inflatable chicken suit while he stood outside the store. The 53-year-old man in the chicken suit was trying to draw customers to the business when the teenager ran up the street, crossed his arms and lunged. The man suffered minor cuts and bruises to his elbow and hands when he fell.
September 2nd
Guy Arrested For Mowing Lawn At 4AM An Oklahoma City man was handcuffed and ticketed for mowing his yard and a neighbor's yard last Friday morning. Phil Ray Gage, 40, was arrested for disturbing the peace after a neighbor called police to report him for mowing a lawn at 4:30 a.m. Gage said he's been mowing in the early morning hours for 10 years, and nobody has complained before. He mows in the early morning hours because of the heat and because, being a carpenter, it fits his work schedule best. Gage said he would have stopped mowing in the early morning hours if someone had asked him to.
September 1st
Woman Buys iPod in Parking Lot, Turns Out To Be Block Of Wood Ashley McDowell was approached by two men in a Spartansburg, South Carolina, McDonald's parking lot where they offered to sell her an iPad for $300. They told her they had bought a bunch in bulk. She only had $180, but they gave it to her anyway. When she got home, she opened the FedEx box only to find out it was really just a block of wood with an Apple logo painted on the back. The unusual thing here, police noted, was that the scammers went through the trouble of painting the block of wood. The 'screen' had black tape around it, and on the front was a Best Buy flyer.
August 31st
Massive Toilet Paper Theft Illinois police say a Georgia-Pacific warehouse worker stole $60,000 in toilet paper and plastic utensils from the company. Police allege Juan J. Hernandez and William Chaban stole truckloads of merchandise from the warehouse between February and April. Cops got a tip to look at local flea markets, and on June 4 found two vendors at a flea market in Joliet selling items stolen from Georgia-Pacific. Officers learned it had been supplied by Hernandez, 25, who was arrested August 23 and charged with theft.
August 30th
Bee Theft Somebody stole Don Stokes' bees, while he was on a trip to Utah. Stokes kept three hives, with about 250,000 bees, in his Estancia, New Mexico home. "We live in a small town and this was the last place that we thought that somebody would steal bees, of all things," said Wendy Stokes, Mr. Stokes' daughter. The total value of the bees and the stolen hives is about $1,000. The family is offering a $100 reward for anybody who can help them get their bees back.
August 29th
20 Arrests, 20 Different Hairstyles This is Khia Chambers. She's been arrested 20 times. Below are 18 of her 20 mugshots, and in every mugshot, a different hairstyle!
Photo from dailymail.co.uk
August 26th
Newlywed Couple Arrested For Shoplifting
In State College, Pennsylvania, 32-year-old Arthur Phillips III and his bride, 22-year-old Brittany Lurch, were arrested last Saturday after taking more than $1,000 in merchandise from a Wegmans supermarket. The couple told police they had been married a couple days earlier and took the food for their wedding reception that afternoon
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August 25th
Drunk Woman Refused Bikini Wax Anna Katherine Bacon-Silveira of Iowa City, Iowa, walked into Zender's spa and asked for a bikini wax. An employee refused because Bacon-Silveira was noticibly drunk. Bacon-Silveira became incensed, then snapped a towel at the employee and ran off. She was found by police soon after, and charged with assault and intoxication, both simple misdemeanors.
And the money shot
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August 24th
Robber Returns Money After Scolding From Girlfriend Otto McNab Jr. walked into a Butler Township, Pennsylvania bank, told the teller he had a bomb and demanded money. He left the bank with $2,262 and returned to his car, where his girlfriend sat waiting. Unaware McNab had robbed the bank, his girlfriend yelled at him. McNab ran back into the bank, returned the money and left.Using a description of the vehicle, police took McNab into custody as he pulled into his driveway.
NOTE: MAN he got busted by his woman, got yelled at and still went to jail. If only he had thought this one through a little bit more.
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August 23rd
Naked Burglar Pulled From Sewer In Knoxville, Tennessee, Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a report of a naked man seen running through the parking lot and then jumping into a storm sewer. David Bryan Ford, 50, eventually was freed from the hole by members of the Knoxville Volunteer Emergency Rescue Squad. Ford allegedly admitted to authorities he had broken into a business earlier that morning, and tried to hide int he sewer. He didn't explain to authorities exactly why he was naked.
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August 22nd
Today's Darwin File is a continuation of Friday's. Here is the video of the robber who wore a flowered dress.
August 19th
Robber In Dress With Underwear On Head Dallas, Texas, police are looking for a bank robber who wore a black and white flowered dress and tighty whities on his head while he stuck up a convenience store Tuesday morning. Surveillance video shows him holding what could have been a gun under his dress. He takes money from the clerk and a patron before leaving. The man is described as a white male that is about 5 feet 5 inches tall and 145 pounds.
August 18th
Mayor Dumps Boulder In Ex-Wife's Driveway The mayor of the small Canadian town of St-Theodore-d'Acton, east of Montreal, left his ex-wife a 20-ton boulder on her driveway as a gift. Dany Lariviere joked that his wife had always wanted a 'big rock' (like a diamond - get it?). The boulder wastopped with a pink ribbon and covered in a spray-painted message: "Happy birthday, Isa." Lariviere was not happy he had to spend a lot of money during their divorce proceedings to get shared custody of their children. Lariviere's ex-wife, Isabelle Prevost, called police to file a complaint after discovering the delivery Sunday morning. Photo from www.media.winnipegfreepress.com
August 17th
Drunk Driver Steals Forklift To Carry Wrecked Car Home In Bedburg, Germany, a drink driver crashed his car and then tried to sneak it home on a stolen forklift. The 27-year-old was caught trying to load the dented Volkswagen Golf onto the forklift while he was nearly twice the legal drink drive limit.
Photo from www.web.orange.co.uk
August 16th
Not the brightest tattoo to get in the world!!! And if you are going to get such a thing tattooed on your face....DON'T GET ARRESTED!!!!
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August 15th
Man Handcuffs Self To Girl In Hopes Of A Date In the movies, this always has a happy ending: In Ringgold, Georgia, 24-year-old Jason Dean pulled up next to an 18-year-old woman in a Taco Bell parking lot and handcuffed himself to her wrist. Both worked at the Taco Bell, and Dean had been trying to go out with her for several weeks. She called for help, and several other employees ran outside and talked Dean into letting her go. Police arrested Dean two days later for false imprisonment, which is a felony. Now he's got a date...(put sunglasses on) ...with the judge!
August 12th
Robbery Over - Now It's Nappy Time Deputies in South Haven, Michigan, were answering the call of a break-in. Officers found an unattached garage that had been forcibly entered. Numerous items were missing, including two four wheelers. Deputies followed the tracks from the four wheelers where they found the two stolen ATVs with a male suspect lying against one of the vehicles asleep. Deputies woke the man and took him into custody. The suspect claimed that he had taken some Valium and he must have fallen asleep.
August 11th
Police Pinch Pimple-Popping Perp Patrons of a Cape Coral, Florida, McDonald’s alerted authorities to a man standing outside the restaurant who was squeezing the pimples on his back. He had been popping the pimples for about 10 minutes when an officer confronted the man. He took off on a brief chase before officers tackled him. Owen Lemire Kato, 23, was found to have a syringe in his pocket allegedly used to inject Oxycontin. He was arrested on charges of giving a false name as well as drug offenses.
August 10th
Mom Bites Her Son A Lakeland, Florida, mother has been arrested for child abuse after biting her son. 26-year-old Ann Marie Kane allegedly left three adult-sized bite marks on her son. Kane admitted biting the boy in the past because he was biting his siblings.
August 9th
Man Robs 7-11 With Tree Branch A man tried to rob a 7-Eleven store in Central Islip, New York Thursday night using a large tree branch. Michael Zimmerman, 31, walked into the store around 11:30 p.m. and demanded money from the clerk. After being denied, police said Zimmerman struck the clerk several times with the branch. Zimmerman took off on his motorcycle but didn’t get very far - an off-duty police officer blocked the motorcycle after he saw Zimmerman being chased by the clerk and a small group of customers. Zimmerman has been charged with robbery in the first degree.
August 8th
Police in Idaho Falls, Idaho received reports Monday of a man in a bunny suit who was frightening their children. One resident reported that her son had been frightened by a William Falkingham, 34, who was wearing a black bunny suit, hiding behind a tree and pointing his finger like a gun at him. Other neighbors reported that the Falkingham also occasionally wears a tutu with the bunny suit. Falkingham stated that he enjoys wearing the bunny suit but understood the neighbors’ concerns. He was advised by police not to wear his bunny suit in public.
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August 5th
Man Covers Self In Waste To Throw Off Police Dogs A Longview, Oregon man doused himself with a bucket of liquid human waste and hid in a portable toilet after plowing his Jeep into a carport at a Longview, Oregon riverfront condominium Tuesday afternoon. Gordon Flavia, 56, got into his Jeep, threw it into reverse and backed into the carports for the condominiums next door, knocking down a large support beam and driving his Jeep through a wall, coming to rest in a bathroom. Flavia then fled on foot. Police found him hiding inside a portable toilet, soakign wet. He had splashed himself with the contents of the toilet because, according to police, "he thought the dogs were coming, and he was trying to throw off the scent." Police believe alcohol was involved.
August 4th
Siblings Assault Each Other Over TV Channel In Bismarck, North Dakota, 21-year-old Damiah Johnson stabbed her 15-year-old brother with a kitchen knife after arguing about changing the television channel. The boy then grabbed a wooden pole and hit his sister with it. Both were taken to the hospital.
August 3rd
Troll Doll Arrested This 27-year-old Georgia man was busted for suspicion of battery.
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August 2nd
Carjacker Uses The Old Batman Excuse For Robbin' In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a man tried to carjack a plainclothes officer. The suspect opened the car door, sat down and told the officer to get out. The incident happened near where the new Batman movie is being filmed. When the officer asked what the man was doing, he replied that taking the car was part of the Batman script. Micah Calamosco, 21, was taken into custody and faces a charge of robbery of a motor vehicle.
August 1st
Plan to Get Ex-Girlfriend's Sympathy Backfires When Jordan Cardella's girlfriend broke up with him, he came up with a cunning plan to get her back: He figured if he was shot, she would certainly have a change of heart. So he asked one of his friends to shoot him, in the arm. The ex-girlfriend did not even come to visit the 20-year-old Milwaukee, Wisconsin man in the hospital. But police did. At a sentencing hearing earlier this month for Michael Wezyk, the shooter, Wezyk told the judge, "I'm sorry to bring something so stupid into your courtroom." The judge sentenced him to two years' probation and 100 hours of community service. As for Cardella, he was charged with obstructing police by lying about what happened, but that charge was dismissed.
July 29th
Fugitive to cops: "Catch Me If You Can" and they did!!! After Victor Burgos was added the US Marshalls 10 most wanted last month, he posted a message on his Facebook page: "Catch my if you can, I'm in Brooklyn." Burgos even posted on his Web page a video showing him walking into an unidentified NYPD stationhouse believed to be in Brooklyn. Well, sir, on Monday night, U.S. Marshalls captured Burgos, in a Brooklyn apartment, sitting at a computer with his Facebook page open. Burgos, 29, was being sought for domestic violence and harassment of his ex-girlfriend.
July 28th
Guys In Stolen Car Asks Cop For Directions In the early morning hours of Monday, two men were driving a gold Honda Accord near the Palm Springs, California, International Airport, when they stopped to ask police for directions. The police officer ran a routine license plate check and found out the car was stolen. The driver of the vehicle, 20-year-old Brentyn Mitchell, was charged with possession of a stolen vehicle and violating parole. The passenger, 21-year-old Jaron Hopkins, was charged with providing false information to police, receiving stolen property and violating parole.
July 27th
For Sale: Casey Anthony Mask For sale on eBay, a $200 latex Casey Anthony mask. The item description says it's "pre-owned".
Chuck E. Cheese Giving Obscene Hand Gesture in Photo? Little Corbin Anderson went with his family to celebrate his birthday at the Las Cruces, New Mexico, Chuck E. Cheese, and posed with the main mouse for a picture. But when Corbin's parents got home and uploaded the pictures to Facebook, they noticed that it looked Chuck was giving the camera that obscene hand gesture we all know and love. So, Corbin's father took his concerns to Chuck E. Cheese headquarters and were told that the costume's glove has a thumb and three fingers, so what you see is his index finger extended — not his middle finger.
NOTE: I don't know about you but I am thinking the parents aren't far off on this one. And if that were the case...really - what is he pointing at?
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July 25th
5-Year-Old Crashes Mom's Car During Candy Run In El Paso, Texas, a 5-year-old boy managed to drive his mother's minivan into a telephone pole early Friday morning. Police found the van crashed into a pole at around 1 a.m. He told them he was driving to a nearby store to buy candy.
July 22nd
Chihuahua Chases Robbers Out Of Store Two men tried to rob Ace Smoke Shop in Los Angeles, California. The store owner's Chihuahua becomes enraged and chases the men out of the store.
July 21st
Swan Theft Orlando police received a call of someone stealing a swan from the city ’s Lake Eola Park around 1 a.m. on Monday. Police were able to follow a trail of feathers to the back yard of a home where they found the swan, and arrested 24-year-old Geffre Smart. Smart was charged with grand theft and cruelty to animals. (photo is of the swan in the back of a police cruiser)
Bride Arrested Michigan police on Saturday arrested Tammy Lee Hinton, 50, on a two-year-old felony warrant accusing her of identity theft. They nabbed her just after she said "I do." Hinton opted to keep her bridal dress on for the mugshot. Hey - a free wedding photographer!
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July 19th
Guy With "F-- You" Tattoo Tries Cashing Stolen Check Investigators in Redding, California say 21-year-old Patrick Brooks tried cashing a stolen check from Cottonwood Bible Baptist Church at a check-cashing store on Monday. The store manager got suspicious when he saw Brooks’ forehead, which had the words "F--- You" tattooed on it. The manager called the church to confirm the check was from them. It wasn't, and the manager called police.
July 18th
Mother Refused To Toilet Train Son, 5 An over-protective mother did not toilet-train her children because she could not bear to see them grow up. an Australian Family Court recently heard the case of the woman who kept her son in diapers until well past his fifth birthday. She also has a 4-year-old child. The children's father told the court the older child would not feed himself, insisting that he be hand-fed. Justice Garry Watts last week gave the father sole parental responsibility, giving the mother only supervised time. The parents were ordered to ensure the children are fully toilet-trained.
July 15th
Note To Self: Don't Forget To Rob Store Jonathan Ochola, a suspect in a betting parlor robbery in Portsmouth, England, told police he was at home watching football with his brother at the time. Police found clues that led them to Ocholoa. After he denied taking part in the robbery, police checked Ocola's daytimer, where he had written: “Go Portsmouth robbery happens.” He then admitted driving the getaway car in the theft.
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July 14th
Killer Goes On Chinese Dating Show Liu Hao appeared as one eight eligible bachelors on China's “Happy League” dating show. The 39-year-old music teacher wowed the audience with his soulful singing and high-energy dancing. One woman picked him out of the eight as her date. One small problem: police received an anonymous tip from a viewer who recognized the pudgy-faced Liu as a suspect in a murder case from the 1990s. Police say Liu resembles Wu Gang — who stabbed a man to death more than 13 years ago outside a restaurant. Liu has now been detained as the key suspect in the case. A spokesman said that Liu had become accustomed to his new identity and fooling everyone around him, he didn’t think twice about going on the show.
July 13th
Husband Tried To Get Wife To Sit In Electric Chair A British man built an electric chair in his garage in an attempt to kill his wife after she asked him for a divorce. Andrew Castle, 61, was so furious at the crumbling of his 18 year marriage that, back in March, he wired a metal armchair to the electrical main in the garage, then invited his wife Margaret in ''for a chat.'' Castle asked unwitting Margaret to sit in the chair so he could knock her her out and throw on the switch. But Margaret, 61, got up out of the seat. The couple began struggling. Castle landed several blows on his wife's head with a rubber mallet but she escaped through a side door. The fight then carried on outside, and a passer-by intervened and called police. Margaret was treated for minor head injuries. Andrew was found in the back garden with self inflicted knife wounds to his wrists after trying to commit suicide. This week, he was found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to ten years in prison.
July 12th
Josephine Varriale, 49, of Port St. Lucie, Florida, was arrested Tuesday for hitting her mother. Varriale's 68-year-old mother told police she lives with her daughter and that they'd been involved in an altercation over Varriale "continuously using" her mother's clothes. The mother said she could tolerate her daughter's behavior no longer and decided to confront her. But Varriale told police her mother attacked her, claiming that it was her mother who wears Varriale's clothes.
July 11th
The Bacon Limit-Enforcing Grandma This is Marilee Ann Kolynych, the Pennsylvania grandmother arrested for pinning down her grandson and squirting him full force in the face with a garden hose because he ate all the bacon for breakfast. The incident happened on July 28. She was charged with endangering the welfare of her nine-year-old grandson. He was not physically injured in the incident.
July 8th
Man Shines Laser At Police Copter A police helicopter was flying over Phoenix Wednesday night when somebody on the ground pointed a laser at it. The helicopter crew was able to direct officers on the ground to where the laser originated. Officers arrested Conrad Rzewuski, 24. He has been booked into Maricopa County Jail and charged with two counts of endangerment.
July 7th
Melvin Roberts, 58, of Seneca, South Carolina, was struck by lightning for the sixth time in his life on Monday. Roberts was outside trying to cover his lawn mower when he was struck. Neighbors found him lying unconscious in the yard. Roberts carries a scar on his head from the first time he was hit, and scars on his legs from a strike in 2007. That strike left him with nerve damage to his left leg and he spent more than a year in a wheelchair. This time he has a wound on his foot and blisters on his ankles. Roberts said, "I've been married five times and I've been hit by lightning five times. (My wife) says this is the sixth time. I'm not leaving my wife, so I'm going to have to try to do something different."
July 6th
Wife Tries To Smuggle Husband Out Of Prison In A Suitcase A woman was caught trying to sneak her husband out of a Mexican prison in a suitcase. Officials at the prison in Chetumal noticed that the woman, who was leaving after a conjugal visit, seemed nervous and was pulling a wheeled suitcase that looked bulky. Guards checked the bag and found inmate Juan Ramirez Tijerina curled up inside in the fetal position. Ramirez is serving a 20-year sentence for a 2007 conviction for illegal weapons possession.
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July 5th
Man Shoots Self During Gun Safety Demonstration In Sanford, North Carolina, a man showing off the safety features of his new pistol to a group of friends shot himself dead after pointing the weapon at his head and pulling the trigger without the safety engaged. 23-year-old Randall Trent Butler, was showing off to friends a .22-caliber semi-automatic pistol he had recently acquired. According to police, he was showing them how if the safety was on how you could pull the trigger and it wouldn't fire. He held it up to his head and pulled the trigger and it went 'click' but it didn't go off." Butler's friends told him to stop and to put the gun away, but he continued his safety demonstration, pulling the slide back which not only chambered another live round but also, investigators believe, disengaging the safety. He then put the gun to the side of his head for a second time. This time the gun fired.
July 4
Men Steal Motorized Shopping Carts In Auburn, Alabama, Timothy W. Dixon, 45, and Travis A. Brumbalough, 25, were arrested and charged with first-degree theft of property after trying to make a getaway on a pair of motorized shopping carts they took from a Walmart last. Sunday evening. A store employee saw Dixon and Brumbalough leaving the store parking lot riding the carts and called police. When police caught up with them, one of the suspects claimed to have purchased the cart, while the other suspect stated that he’d just gotten tired of walking. The motorized shopping carts, intended for use by physically impaired shoppers, were returned to the store.
July 1
Bank Robber Wearing Sponge Bob Hat Police in Mableton, Georgia are looking for a bank robber. The robber walked into a Wells Fargo bank and produced a “demand note,” indicating that he had a gun and wanted money. After receiving an undisclosed amount of cash, he ran from the bank. The suspect was described as black, in his mid- to late teens and wearing a dark t-shirt and a yellow “SpongeBob Square Pants” baseball cap.
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June 30th
Drunk Woman Sprays Cops With Breast Milk Deputies in Bridgewater, Delaware received a call about a domestic dispute at a wedding banquet hall. A man told them that he had been attending a wedding reception with his wife, who had gotten drunk, struck him several times, and then locked herself in a car. Unable to talk the woman out of the car, they attempted to remove her forcibly. The woman told the deputies that she was a breast feeding mother, and then removed her right breast from her dress and began spraying deputies and the vehicle with her breast milk. They arrested Stephanie Robinette, 30, and charged her with domestic violence, assault, obstructing official business, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
June 29th
Drunken Neighbor Defecates In Woman's Garage A drunk, naked man was arrested in Wausau, Wisconsin late Monday after he entered a neighbor’s garage and defecated on the floor. The homeowner heard noises in her garage, went to investigate, and saw the man. Officers identified the man as Thomas O’Neil, 47, who lives nearby. He was apologetic to officers, and said he thought he was at his home. He then was taken to jail on charges of disorderly conduct, criminal damage to property and obstructing an officer. Officers made O’Neil sit on a plastic sheet inside a squad car.
June 28th MAN HID IN PORTA-POTTY TANK During the June 17th Yoga festival in Boulder, Colorado, a woman using a portapotty told police that, when she lifted the toilet seat lid, she noticed something moving in the tank. The woman exited the toilet and asked a nearby man to check inside. The man saw someone inside the tank covered with a tarp. An event supervisor was alerted to stand watch and, eventually, a barefoot, shirtless man emerged. He ran away, covered in feces. One witness told police he believed the man was a transient who goes by the name of "Sky."
NOTE: not the same Sky that works for our sister station - just wanted to point that out.
June 27th God And Herb Told Man To Break into Home Levon Sarkisyan, 27, of West Hartford, Connecticut was charged with third-degree burglary and first-degree criminal mischief. He had broken into a Farmington, Connecticut home last Sunday, rummaged through the closets, put on some of the clothing, and used a fireplace poker to smash statues and a marble table, causing about $10,000 in damage. When the homeowner arrived and saw the mess, Sarkisyan told him, "God wants me to help the world." When the homeowner asked Sarkisyan how he broke into the home, Sarkisyan stood up, "flexed his arm and said, 'You see, super-human strength." Sarkisyan later told officers he'd smoked "a strange strand of herb" that caused him to do what he did. His mug shot shows he may be telling the truth.
June 23rd Suspect Tosses Pot Onto Hood Of Police Cruiser New York State Troopers say 20-year-old Sean Schmidt was standing with his upper body sticking out the sunroof of a vehicle traveling on Interstate 190 in Buffalo late Monday night. When the police cruiser activated its lights and siren, Schmidt threw a small bag of marijuana, which landed on the hood of the trooper's car. Schmidt was ticketed for marijuana possession and not wearing a seatbelt.
June 22nd Amish Man Arrested For Sexting A 21-year-old Amish man was arrested in Connersville, Indiana, for sending dirty texts and pictures to a 12-year-old girl. William Yoder is accused of sending hundreds of dirty texts to the girl, including pictures of his penis and "lewd videos." When the girl's parents found out about communication, they took the phone and contacted the authorities, who set up a sting for Yoder. They arranged for Yoder to drive his buggy to meet who he thought was the girl at a local restaurant so they could have sex, and "the proposed sex act would happen inside the buggy." In his defense, Yoder said he thought the girl was 13.
June 21st Man Urinates In Portland's Water Supply Security officials at a water treatment plant in Portland, Oregon watched their security cameras as a 21-year-old man urinated into the Mt. Tabor reservoir early Wednesday, one of the key water supplies for the city. They immediately took the suply offline. David Shaff, administrator for the Water Bureau, said about 7.8 million gallons of drinking water will be discarded because of the incident. Shaff said the Water Bureau regularly finds dead animals in the same drinking supply but doesn't dump the water. "This is different," he said. "Do you want to drink pee?" he asked. The 21-year-old because he was not arrested or charged with a crime, although he did admit "It was a stupid thing to do." When told he urinated in Portland's drinking water, he reportedly said, "I didn't mean to show disrespect. I thought this was a sewage treatment plant."
June 20th Escaped Con Knocks On Door Of Prison Guard James Edward Russell, serving time for theft and forgery, escaped from the Olympic Corrections Center near Forks, Washington last Tuesday morning. Later that night, on the run, Russell - still wearing his prison uniform - knocked on the door of a cabin in the woods and asked to use the phone. The owner of the cabin was a guard at the prison Russell had just escaped from. Recognizing the red prison jumsuit, he tried to subdue Russell. A scuffle ensued and Russell took off again, but was caught several hours later.
June 17th Woman Drives Car Down Staircase Xiang Zhen saw a sign to the parking lot with a direction arrow at the mall in Liuzhou, China. She turned the corner, following the arrow, and found herself driving down a staircase. The mall has admitted the sign should not have been there and is in talks with Xiang over compensation.
June 16th Men Load Car In Back Of Van Police in Germany pulled over a white van swerving from side to side on a busy road. In the back of the van they discovered a car wedged in on its side. The men in the van, from Kazakhstan, bought the car in Germany and figured it would be cheaper to stick the Mazda 626 in the back of the van than to rent a trailer or pay for the gas to drive it home. The men and some friends managed to load the car into the van on its side - putting a mattress underneath to stop the doors getting scratched.
June 15th Brothers Fight Over Shampoo Two brothers in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, were charged Monday with disorderly conduct for fighting over a bottle of shampoo. Jonathan R. Pippert, 32, and Jared J. Pippert, 27, came to blows Sunday at their home, where both live with their mother. Both brothers said the fight began when Jonathan Pippert went into his brother’s bedroom and took a bottle of shampoo while Jared Pippert was in bed. Each claimed the other attacked him, forcing him to defend himself. Jonathan Pippert faces up to two years behind bars due to prior offenses, while his brother face a maximum of 90 days.
June 14th Women Steal 75 Sticks of Deodorant Two women were caught on security camera stealing 75 sticks of deodorant from a Winn Dixie supermarket in Ft. Pierce, Florida - Gillete Men's and Secret Women's, if you must know. Supermarket managers says people sometimes commit crimes like this and sell the merchandise to smaller mom-and-pop-stores.
June 13th Man Arrested For Exposure In Pennsylvania, Lower Paxton Township police said a 35-year-old man pulled up next to a woman with his pants around his knees at the Colonial Commons Shopping Center last Tuesday afternoon. His name: Handy Wood.
June 10th Man Fakes Death For Sex Change Police in Stillwater, Oklahoma say a divorced couple allegedly tried to fake the man's death so he could start a new life as a woman. Late last month, the ex-wife Heather Davis told police she dropped off William Davis at his favorite fishing spot. Hours later, Heather claimed William went missing. Under questioning, the alleged lakeside disappearance story quickly unraveled, and Heather admitted the scam: William told her he would give up his parental rights to their children and get a sex change if she assisted him in the faked death. He had some outstanding warrants for his arrest, and the plan was to report him missing so he could get a sex change operation. She went along with it to get him out of her life. Investigators say the pair lost custody of their children after their underage daughter caught the ex-husband having sex with a blow up doll. The couple were charged with false reporting.
June 9th Contortionist Thief Discovered in Suitcase In Spain, an airport shuttle bus service was having theft problems aboard its buses. On Friday, an employee noticed one passenger struggling to put a heavy suitcase into the luggage hold. Police noticed the suspicious suitcase was warm, so they opened it. Inside, they found a man doubled up like a contortionist. The man was also found with a head lamp, a sharp tool that police believe was used to open zippers and locks, a small bag and a cell phone. Police believe the alleged thief was loaded onto the bus by his accomplice, who would then retrieve him 90 minutes later when the shuttle arrived at Barcelona's Girona airport. The two men were arrested.
June 8th Woman Sets Fire To Roadside To Attract Attention Jena Liberty, 48, of Fresno, California, had locked her keys in the car near the Golden State Freeway around 4 a.m. last Friday. She tried using the freeway call box, but it was not working. So, to get someone's attention, she set the hillside on fire. The fire burned about a half-acre of brush before it was quickly put out by firefighters. No injuries were reported. Liberty, who was on her way to the beach, was arrested and booked on suspicion of arson.
June 7th Man Pulls Gun Demanding Birthday Cake For His Kids Joseph Hayes, 48, was arrested by Memphis, Tennessee police late Saturday night. According to a police affidavit, Hayes and his children were at a birthday party when he became upset because “Y’all didn’t save my kids no damn ice cream and cake.” Hayes then left the party and went to his apartment, and returned with what appeared to be a gun tucked in his pants. Hayes approached the host, lifted up his shirt and said, “I ain’t scared to go to jail, just take care of my kids." The host then called police. After being arrested, Hayes told police that it was not a gun, just an object that looked like one when tucked in his pants.
June 6th The Pirate Robber Police in Colorado Springs, Colorado are trying to identify a man who robbed a Walgreen's pharmacy. The man was disguised as a pirate. Wearing a beard and an eyepatch, and armed with a gun, the robber demanded prescription medications. Booty in hand, the thief left the store and fled in an unknown direction.
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June 3rd Awful Police Sketch 74-year-old Ann Lee Ernst had finished shopping at the Crestview Mall in Miami, Ohio, when a man shoved her into her car at gunpoint, drove her to a nearby woods, tied her up and gagged her and then fled with her car. Ernst eventually freed herself and went to the police, giving them a description of her assailant. Police are circulating a sketch of the suspect. Have you seen this man? * Note that the artist signed it!
Photo from www.700wlw.com June 2nd Wanted Man Talks Too Loudly Guests at the Traveler's Motel in Delmar, Maryland on Tuesday heard a man talking very loudly on a phone in the room next to theirs. He was yelling that there was a warrant for his arrest. The guests called police. Richard Vermalyea, 32, was arrested on two open warrants; one was for failure to appear in a theft case, and the other was for violation of probation.
June 1st Man Shoots At Airplanes Phoenix police arrested a man they believe shot at a grounded airplane parked at Deer Valley Airport early Sunday. Police say Randon Reid was likely drunk when he fled the airport about 1:30 a.m. after patrol officers heard gunfire. Yada yada yada...but here's his mugshot!
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May 31st Illegal Mouse Races The Des Moines, Iowa, County Sheriff Department busted up an illegal gambling operation in a local bar. The Bucktail Lodge was cited for...mouse racing. Bar owners Scott Beach says, "Mouse racing is entertainment, entertainment for family, friends and its something to do on a Sunday afternoon. We didn't know we were committing a criminal act." Patrons would bet between one and two dollars per mouse.
May 30th The Flatulent Prisoner An inmate at Kirseberg prison in Malmo, Sweden has been warned over using his persistent flatulence against prison guards. The unnamed 21-year-old prisoner is accused of deliberately breaking wind at the guards as a protest against prison life. When told to stop, the convict claimed that his flatulence was "all noise and no fragrance". He has been served with an official warning that future flatulence aimed towards prison guards will be punished.
May 27th My Plan Is Foolproof 36-year-old Terrence Dunn was sentenced to eight years in a Coralville, Iowa prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges of threatening the President and threatening to to blow up a building. Dunn had sent a letter to the FBI saying he was part of an underground organization that was going to blow up two federal buildings and go after the President. The letter said "I have a master plan to have Barack Obama killed and this plan is fool proof." Authorities were able to find Dunn because he put the return address on the envelope.
May 26th Escapee Found Inside Clothes Dryer In Rochester, NH, Michael Mendoza, 27, made headlines two weeks ago after escaping from the back of a police cruiser. Police finally caught up to Mendoza about 5 p.m. Tuesday. They suspected he might be hiding at his home. When police went in to make the arrest, they couldn't find him at first. Detectives eventually found Mendoza hiding inside a dryer with the door shut.
May 25th Woman Attacked With Swim Noodle Remember the expression, "20 lashes with a wet noodle"? A woman at the beach in Naples, Florida saw a rotting watermelon that had been carved and shaped into a head sitting on the sand. The watermelon seemed to have been abandoned so she placed it in the ocean in hopes that it would disintegrate and not attract any bugs. A man on the beach retrieved the watermelon from the ocean and placed it back on the beach. The woman placed the watermelon in the ocean once again. The man then came up to the woman with his swim noodle full of water and dumped the water on her as she was sitting on her towel. Then, he punched her in the cheek. Karl Ludwig Eichner, 68, was arrested for battery.
May 24th Large Suspect Won't Fit Through Courtroom Door In London, England, Beverley Douglas is accused of pocketing thousands of dollars of welfare money while working as a bus driver. However, a judge postponed her trial because she was too heavy to get into court. The 43-year-old told officials she could not climb the stairs to a narrow doorway leading to the courtroom to face the charges against her. Douglas sat outside the courtroom while the judge agreed to adjourn the hearing so she can be tried in a more accessible courtroom.
May 23rd A Jersey City man charged with murdering his 69-year-old neighbor was removed from court after he stripped off his shirt and started singing. Patrick O. Powell, 39, will undergo psychological evaluation.
NOTE: Hmmm...I smell scam. Now of course he can attempt to plea insanity.
May 20th Bank Robber Told To Put Hood Down and He Listens A man in a dark, hooded jacket entered a Columbus, Ohio Bank on Wednesday. As the man waited in line with his hood up, concealing most of his face, a bank employee told him they had a "no hats, no hoods" policy. He put down his hood. When he got to the window, the man handed a teller a note saying he had a gun, was robbing the bank and would shoot her if she didn't give him money. She did, and the robber fled. Police are looking for the man in this photo - and it's a clear picture, too, because he put his hood down.
May 19th The Bad Humor Man In Pennsylvania, Middletown Township Police Department received a call about an ice cream truck swerving all over the roadway. The Jack & Jill ice cream truck was pulled over minutes later. Investigators say the ice cream man, 46-year-old Yassir Hassan, was visibly drunk. Upon further inspection, authorities found several wine boxes inside. But even more disturbing was the discovery of at least three water bottles filled with urine and one of them was found inside the freezer unit used to store the ice cream.
May 18th Not A Doctor A Niles, llinois man told police that he went to see a doctor based on an ad in a Bulgarian newspaper. He went to the clinic back in April. He said that the building appeared to be closed, with no other patients or employees around, except for the doctor, who was dressed in a white lab coat. The doctor conducted an exam on the man and gave him acupunture, only instead of needles he stuck toothpicks in his chest. He then gave the man a bottle of pills called "Prosperous Farmer Dietary Supplements", telling him to take one each day until the bottle was finished — though the expiration date on the bottle was February 2002. He charged the man $200. A few days later, the man called the clinic and asked about the doctor. They had never heard of him. The man returned to the clinic with his son. The doctor saw them and ran out of the building, locking the door behind him and running down the road.
May 17th Dopey Defendant on Judge Judy Last week on Judge Judy, as the plaintiff described the contents of her stolen purse - "...gift cards, my earpiece, and a calculator...", the man accused of stealing it jumps in and says, "There was no earpiece in there, your honor." Judge Judy cracks up, saying "I love it!. Judgement for the plaintiff."
May 16th
Man Tries Quick-Draw On Michael Corleone A Hillsboro, Oregon man was practicing his quick draw at a life-size poster of Don Michael Corleone when he accidentally fired a shot that hit the "Godfather" movie mob boss in the shoulder. The .357 magnum slug went through the wall of his apartment, hitting his neighbor's flat-screen television. Travis Hood, 27, was charged with reckless endangerment.
May 13th Insane Clown Mug Shot Andrew Davis, 20, an Oklahoma driver with a funny sense of makeup, but a tragic sense of morality as he hit a pedestrian and dragged him 100 feet, then fled the scene. What a freakin' low life.
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May 12th Quick Robin...to the Bat Mobile In Petoskey, Michigan, a 31-year-old man dressed as Batman was arrested Wednesday. The caped crusader was seen hanging from the wall of a downtown business. Officers pulled the man back onto the roof and found a baton-type striking weapon, a can of chemical irritant spray, and a pair of lead lined gloves. The suspect was arrested for trespassing and possession of dangerous weapons.
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May 11th The Duluth Ball Slasher Police in Minnesota caught the infamous Duluth Ball Slasher - again. Christopher Bjerkness, 33 is known for having a fetish of slashing exercise balls with a knife. He allegedly attempted to strike again on Sunday, breaking into a Duluth school about 1:30 p.m. Sunday. As he entered, an alarm was triggered and staff located him in a room used for physical and occupational therapy. Inflatable exercise balls were in the room but none were damaged. Bjerkness has been convicted after similar incidents with exercise balls in 2005 and 2009
May 10th The Nacho Cheese Bandit Michael Richards, 50, bought a bag of potato chips from a 7-11 in Chicago, then went over to the condiment bar and started pumping cheese into the bag. When the store clerk told him the nacho cheese was only for customers who bought nachos, Richards pulled the clerk’s arm behind his back, twisted it and threatened him. Police were called, and arrested Richards . On Sunday, in court for a bail hearing, Judge James Brown asked, “So what was stolen... was the cheese?” The District Attorney Piwowarczyk replied, “The defendant was informed that it was not yo’ cheese.”
May 9th Have You Seen This Goat? Police in Overland Park, Kansas are investigating the theft of the town's favorite goat. Workers at the Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead said Latte the goat was likely taken back on April 25. Latte is a La Mancha goat. She weighs 55 pounds. Latte is tan, and she has very small ears and a white patch of hair behind her front right leg. This goat is a favorite of visitors to the farmstead.
May 6th Woman Arrested For Shoplifting Two Scented Toilet Paper Holders A Bangor, Maine woman was arrested about Tuesday after she allegedly attempted to steal two scented toilet paper holders from a Family Dollar store. According to the arrest report, Poors attempted to shoplift the toilet paper holders by removing them from their packaging and concealing them in a sweatshirt pocket. The report indicated that the roll holders were valued at $1. Jennifer Poors, 25, was charged with violating the conditions of her release from a prior arrest.
May 5th Man Asks Cop If He'd Ever Arrested Him Before In the town of Surprise, Arizona, David Williams, 23, rode his scooter up to an officer last week in front if a convenience store to ask if the officer had ever arrested him before. The officer told Williams that he did not think he had arrested him but ran his name to check. The officer discovered that Williams had a valid warrant for his arrest on suspicion of assault with a weapon. Williams was then arrested.
May 4th Belts: The Beer Thief's Best Friend Guy stealing beer gets tripped up by his falling pants.
May 3rd Guy On The Lam Runs Into Park Full Of Cops In Joliet, IL, 21-year-old Domonique Loggins was a passenger in a car driven by his girlfriend Thursday when they began arguing over cigarettes, and he punched her in the mouth. She drove to a nearby police department, and ran in to tell police.“Officers went outside and saw Loggins walking away. He began running as they approached him. He ran across the Jefferson Street Bridge into Bicentennial Park, where he was met with about 60 squad cars and over 100 cops attending a training camp. More officers entereed the chase, and Loggins was eventually nabbed.
May 2nd Thieves Can't Get Wallet Out Of Guy's Pants A Hoboken, New Jersey man was robbed while walking home early Friday morning. The 24-year-old victim was approached by two men. One pulled out a gun. They robbed the man's cell phone, but they were unable to remove his wallet from his pants pocket, and fled.
April 29th Man In Cow Suit Steal Milk In Stafford, Virginia, a man donned a cow costume and crawled into a Walmart, where he put 26 gallons of milk into a shopping cart, and then rolled it out of the store without paying for it. Outside, he tried to give away the milk to customers. He soo took off, but police found the culprit: Jonathan Payton, 18, who was booked for shoplifting and released on his own recognizance.
April 28th Guy Dials In False 911 To Distract Cop Jonathan Paul Rorech, 31, had been pulled over in North Naples, Florida and was about to be arrested for driving with a suspended license. But when the deputy wasn't looking, Rorech called 911 and reported shots fired and "one subject on the ground" at a nearby bar. The officer left to answer the call, leaving Rorech to drive away. When the deputy found out it was a fake 911 call, he started investigating tracked it back to Rorech's phone. The deputy waited for him to return home. When Rorech pulled up outside his apartment around 2:25 a.m., the deputy arrested him. He was charged with making a false 911 call, and driving on a suspended license.
April 27th QUESTION: Can you guess what today's stupid criminal was arrested for?
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ANSWER: Kelly Gibson, of Ft. Wayne, Indiana, arrested for huffing paint for the 48th time.
April 25th Hair Theft Police in Chicago are searching for robbers who stole human hair from a beauty-supply company. Authorities say the culprits pried open a huge steel door to the Beauty One shop early Sunday, then took the hair. No dollar amount for the hair was given, and there was no immediate explanation why thieves would want it.
April 23rd Killer Tattooed Scene Of The Crime On His Chest L.A. County Sheriff's homicide investigator Kevin Lloyd was flipping through snapshots of tattooed gang members when one caught his interest. A tattoo showed the scene of an unsolved liquor store slaying from 2004. The details were the same: Christmas lights that lined the roof of the liquor store where a 23-year-old clerk was gunned down, the direction his body fell, the bowed street lamp across the way, even the name of the gang that did it: Rivera-13. Police arrested the owner of the tattoo, Anthony Garcia, who confessed to the crime.
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April 22nd In Pensacola, Florida, an 8-year-old girl took a small packet of marijuana from her jacket pocket and told the teacher "this is some of my mom's weed." The Lincoln Park Elementary School teacher reported the incident to her principal on Tuesday afternoon. The student won't face charges, but the sheriff's office and the Florida Department of Children and Families are investigating the child's mother.
Apriil 21st If You Were To Imagine A Criminal, This Is What He Would Look Like In Portland, Oregon, police were working a crime scene when a car came crashing through their work area. Turns out the car was stolen, the driver - Kevin Signalness - was drunk, he had his pants unzipped and there was a naughty magazine on the seat next to him. But here's the best part: his mugshot.
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April 20th Guy Dresses As Mannequin, Stands in Ladies Room At Mall In England, University of Birmingham student Joel Hardman was caught trying to secretly film women on his cell phone. Where they caught him: inside the women's restroom at a shopping mall. He was "dressed like a mannequin with a mask and a wig". When security guards nabbed him, Hardman said: "I've been a bit weird." He also told police: "It's good you've caught me — maybe now I'll stop." Hardman was released on bail with the judge's condition that he never, ever, ever do it again.
NOTE: is there any where in the world for people to hide from freaks? I'm just saying.
April 19th Woman Leads Cops On Strange Chase In Coral Springs, Florida, a police officer tried to pull over Roberta Spen, 64, Monday for having faulty brake lights. She instead pulled into a McDonald's drive-thru and ordered lunch. The officer pulled up behind Spen in the drive-thru lane, walked up and told her to pull out into the parking lot. Spen completed her food order, paid the bill, and then took off down the road, at legal speed. The officer again flipped on his siren and stopped Spen,. She rolled her window down one inch and said she was not speeding and she would not roll her window down. She then drove away again. The cop flipped on his lights and siren — again — this time with several other police officers in pursuit. Spen finally stopped at a gas station, where officers surrounded her car, smashed the driver's side window and pulled her out. She was arrested on charges of fleeing and eluding, resisting arrest without violence and driving with defective equipment. Spen was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the chase, had no criminal record, and police could find no explanation for why she didn't just pull over.
April 18th Bearded Lady Robber Modesto, California police are looking for a woman who robbed a gas station Wednesday night. She was dressed as a man and had drawn a beard on her face with a black magic marker.
April 15 Evil Hypnotist Robs Elderly Police in the south-western Russian city of Stavropol are searching for an ‘evil hypnotist’ who is putting elderly bank customers into trances and stealing their money. The hypnotist has been captured on a bank's security cameras. In the footage he is seen convincing an elderly gentleman who has been put into a trance to withdraw money. One victim, Mayra Sovic, said: "I remember this man coming up to me and saying he desperately needed money and I would help him. The next day my bank manager told me I had withdrawn my life savings."
April 14 Knife-Throwing Fiance Arrested Police arrested an 18-year-old Detroit-area woman who allegedly threw knives at her fiance during an argument about their wedding plans. Jenna Spraggins of Ferndale is accused of throwing a bread knife and a steak knife at her mother and her fiance on March 28 during an argument over the man's failure to get Spraggins a ring. In addition, the man also wanted to go skateboarding.
April 13 Arrestee Flushes Cop's Tie Down Toilet A Bracebridge, Canada teen was arrested for public intoxication and was taken to the station to sober up in a cell early Sunday morning. While at the station, officers escorted the 19-year-old to a cell, which he decided that he was not going to go into without a fight. While struggling with police, he managed to grab an officer's tie. The teen then threw the tie in the toilet in the cell and flushed it away.
April 12 It's Hammer Time! Judge's Gavel Stolen Magistrate Daniel Cook, who handles small claims cases in Lorain, Ohio, was on the bench when he reached for his gavel and discovered it was missing. After a search, Cook concluded that someone had actually stolen his gavel. They reviewed surveillance video and found, a fews days earlier, an unknown male had indeed stolen the hammer. Police arrested Christopher Collins, who admitted to stealing the gavel, but said he left it in another man's car.
April 11 Teen's April Fool Prank Backfires A 16-year-old Bloomington, Illinois girl texted her friend and cousin last Friday morning and said she'd been robbed and shot in the foot. The pair called police, who rushed to a home where they found the 16-year-old safe. She hadn't been robbed or shot - it was her idea of an April Fool prank. The police gave her a $100 ticket for disorderly conduct and a $50 ticket for truancy because she wasn't in school Friday.
April 8 Man Tattoos 3-Year-Old Son Eugene ‘Stonner’ Ashley, 26, pleaded guilty to giving his three-year-old son Matthew a tattoo on his shoulder blade. He was sentenced to one year probation and ordered to pay a $300 fine, and he may no longer have contact with his son. Ashley had told police that he was drunk and did not remember tattooing the letters "DB" on the toddler’s body. Although he did remember that "DB" stood for "Daddy's Boy". The tattoo was discovered when social workers visited the family home after someone complained about the living conditions.
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April 7 Happiest Looking Bank Robber Ever An Allentown, Pennsylvania man faces as much as two decades behind bars after admitting he robbed a city bank last September. Samuel Santos, 18, pleaded guilty Monday to robbery. Here is a picture of him shortly after his arrest last September 17 (photo from Morning Call Newspaper).
April 6 Man Shoplifts Frozen Chicken in Shorts A Louisville, Kentucky man was caught attempting to smuggle chicken out of a grocery store by concealing it in his shorts. Steven P. Malone was seen stuffing four pounds of chicken down the front of his shorts around 4 p.m. Sunday at a Valu Market. Store employees saw him walking down the aisle with his shorts falling down past his knees. He also had two packages of M&Ms in his pockets, police said.
April 5 You might have a drinking problem if you get into a first fight over the last beer... Police in Victoria, B.C., were called to break up a fight last Saturday between a man and his nephew over the last beer in a case.Accfording to the police report, "This 'less filling' versus 'tastes great' argument escalated to the point of a fist fight." By the time police arrived, the uncle had left the apartment. Neither man was injured. The report did not indicate who actually got the coveted beer at the end of this 'brew' haha, police said. April 4 Pizza Robbers Are Off Da Hook Someone called Topper's Pizza in Clifton, Ohio early Monday morning and placed a large order. The customer apparently forgot to hang up the phone. The employee who took the order stayed on the line and overheard a plan to rob the delivery driver for the order. The worker called 911, and an undercover police officer replaced the normal delivery driver. When the undercover officer delivered the pizzas, the suspects took the pizza and ran. A 19-year-old and a 14-year-old juvenile were arrested and charged with robbery. April 1 Thief Returns To Scene Of Crime To Apply For Job Anthony Frodelly, 19, applied for a job at Cranford Plumbing, Heating & Cooling in Garwood, New Jersey. During the job interview, the shop's owner recognized Frodelly from security video as the guy who had stolen copper tubing from his business the night before. Frodelly was arrested and charged with theft. March 31st Angry Estranged Husband Crashes Through Hotel Window A Spring Hill, Florida man who found his estranged wife in a hotel room with another man was arrested after he knocked out the hotel-room window with a chain saw and punched the man in the face. Timothy Brooks, 49, found his estranged wife's car at a Best Western hotel about 3 a.m. Tuesday. Witnesses saw Brooks crash through the window, holding a chain saw, which was not running. Brooks punched the man three times, then left when the man called the Sheriff's Office. The victim told deputies he had only known the woman for a few days and had never met Brooks.
March 30th Miss Jail 2011 In Pernambuco, Brazil, the Miss Jail contest was won by Rebecca Rhaysa Suelen Guedesin, 19, (second from right) who is serving life for murder in Recife Prison. She said: "It was a real thrill to be cheered by the inmates and the guards. Sadly the dress has to go now and it's back to prison routine." Twelve contestants were judged for beauty, general knowledge and their good behavior record. Guedesin added: "I have an appeal coming up soon. I never killed anyone so I hope to return to normal life one day soon.
NOTE: What is this world coming to?
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March 29th OK... What Really Happened? Chinese cab driver Xiao Cheng ended up stuck halfway down a flight of steps in Quanzhou, southern China. Xiao had a drunk passenger in his taxi at 5am who, as he says, "insisted on driving directly down the mountain stairs, as he said his home was down there." The passenger threatened to beat him up if I didn't do it. Xiao tried driving cautiously down the stairway, but his vehicle got stuck on the steps halfway down. The passenger then accused him of not taking him to his destination, and demanded compensation. Xiao gave him all his money then he ran off and left him and his cab on the steps. Residents tried to help Xiao free his car with jacks and bricks - but it was too dangerous and eventually a crane had to be brought in to lift the cab to safety.
NOTE: AND YES...I have a photo.
March 28th Things Missing From the British Ministry of Defense Luciana Berger, a British member of the Parliament, asked for a list of items that had been reported stolen from the Ministry of Defense worth £100 or more since the current government took office last May. One the list: A plane fuselage, a ship's anchor, a helicopter rotor tuner, guns, a bridge, 34 laptops, 42 BlackBerrys, Army ration packs, and a clarinet.
NOTE: Okay, the laptops, BlackBerrys and guns I get. BUT how does one steal a plane fuselage and a ship's anchor and no one happens to notice? I think the Ministry of Defense just ended up on the Darwin side of things. March 25th Naked Man Falls Through Ceiling Kaliegh Townsend was asleep in her bed Tuesday morning in her Hattiesburg, Mississippi apartment when she heard a crash. Startled, Townsend got out of bed to investigate. She found a naked man in her living room. He had fallen through the ceiling. Townsend screamed for the man to leave, but the man wanted to borrow a pair of shorts. Townsend kept telling him to leave, and he bolted out the front door. "Then, he gets halfway out the door and runs back in screaming at me just to borrow a pair of shorts." Townsend said. "So, finally I get him to leave, and he grabs my jacket and steals it. [He] wraps it around him and runs out the door." The man, Patrick Williams had been staying in a nearby apartment when police arrived to bust him on cocaine charges. He crawled into the attic of that apartment, broke through the fire wall and fell through the ceiling into Townsend's apartment. Police later captured WIlliams. March 24th Kid Claims He Was Shot To Cover For Ripped Pants A South Salt Lake, Utah teenager lied about being grazed by a bullet to avoid getting in trouble for ripping his new pants. The 14-year-old reported the shooting just before 6 p.m Tuesday. "He fell down and tore the knee,” police said. “He didn’t want to get in trouble. He was claiming he was grazed, but it’s a scrape where he fell down.” About 10 witnesses said they heard no gunfire in the area at the time of the purported shooting, police said. March 23rd One Robbery Per Night, Please In Tulsa, Oklahomna Sunday night, a man came in the back door of a Papa John's pizza restaurant, robbed the restaurant and left with money. Then, another robber came in the front and also demanded money. An employee told the man he can’t rob them because they were just robbed. He turned and left. Police believe the two men were working together.
March 22nd Man Fires Shots Over Taco Bell Price Hike Sunday afternoon in San Antonio, Texas, a man went through the Taco Bell drive-thru ordering seven Beefy Crunch Burritos. What he didn't know was that the price of the Beefy Crunch Burrito had gone up from 99 cents to $1.49. When he found out about the price hike, he shot an air gun at the manager, then displayed a semiautomatic assault rifle and pistol while in the restaurant's parking lot. Police were called, and the man exchanged gunfire with three officers who pulled him over. He then barricaded himself in his hotel room, engaging SWAT negotiators in a more than three-hour standoff before surrendering. The man faces three attempted capital murder charges for the exchange of gunfire with police plus possible other charges — all over an additional $3.50 plus tax.
March 21st Man Held Against His Will Calls 911 The Sandusky, Ohio 911 received a call from a man who said he was being held against his will. In fact, he was - the man was calling from jail. He had been handcuffed to the door of his holding cell early Sunday because officers said he wouldn't calm down and they were afraid he would hurt himself or cause damage. He'd been arrested in a dispute outside a local bar. Police took away the man's cell phone after the 911 call was placed, and then charged him with misuse of 911.
March 18th Woman Arrested For Drunk Driving After Complaining To Police (story courtesy of dailymail.co.uk)
You'd think someone who may have been driving under the influence would want to avoid police at all costs.
But instead a suspected drunk-driver in Colorado decided to get out of her car at a police traffic stop - and scold officers for the way they had parked.
Police claim Katherine Morse, 49, was over the limit when she pulled up at a suspected drink-driving collision to complain they had chosen a 'stupid' place to conduct a traffic stop.
Officers had been called to a car crash in Westminster on Sunday evening and were trying to persuade the driver to put the hand brake on after he allegedly drove into the back of another vehicle.
According to Trevor Materasso, a police spokesman, one officer was climbing in the passenger side to try to turn off the engine when Morse pulled up to check on the driver.
He told Channel 7: 'The officers are saying, "Ma'am, you need to go back to your car". And she gets belligerent with them, telling them it was a stupid place to do a traffic stop.'
Police claim they thought they smelled alcohol on her breath, and began to suspect she was intoxicated too.
March 17th Bank Robber Tries Clever Escape By Bus Police in Dayton, Ohio say a man robbed a bank and then tried to flee on board a public bus. The suspect got away with cash from a downtown KeyBank branch at around 10 a.m. Wednesday. Witnesses told police they saw the man catch a bus about two blocks away. Officers followed the route of the bus and pulled it over less than a mile away. The suspect was arrested without incident and the money was recovered. March 16th Mom Shows Up To Retreive Gangsta's Grill Arkeem Thomas, 19, is accused of kicking open the door of a Port St. Lucie home and trying to punch a 19-year-old victim. The victim said Thomas tried to punch him but missed. The victim started punching Thomas in the face. The final punch caused Thomas' gold grill to fall out of his mouth and onto the floor. Thomas ran. His mother, however, showed up at the door several minutes later to retrieve the gold grill.
NOTE: I guess with the price of gold these days...folks will go to extreme lengths!!! March 15th On-The-Lam Criminal's Fatal Mistake: Lasagna Police in Italy say Giancarlo Sabatini went into hiding in 2000, shortly after being given a 3-year, 8-month prison sentence in a cocaine trafficking case. Last week, acting on a tip, police staked out the homes of Sabatini's wife and daughter in the town of Rocca Priora. They watched as the daughter left her mother's house and dashed toward her own home carrying a tray of lasagna. Police burst in and arrested Sabatini. Many Italians prepare lasagna for lunch on the Tuesday before Lent, and Sabatini had come home from his hideout in Belgium to celebrate with his family. March 14th Today's stupid criminal was actually caught on tape so instead of a written story you get a visual. Yes folks...this brillant criminal actually walked into the store he was going to hold and AND TOOK HIS MASK OFF vs. leaving it on to hide his indentity. It doesn't any dumber than that! ENJOY!!!
March 11th Walmart Greeter Robs Own Store An 83-year-old greeter at a Statesville, North Carolina Walmart allegedly robbed his own store. Police say George Plane Jr. was working Sunday night when he went to his car, put on a disguise and walked back inside. He put a gun to a fellow employee's head and demanded money from a cash register. Plane fired a shot in the air after leaving with the money. He was arrested on Sunday.
March 10th Man Arrested Mid-Haircut A Connecticut man was halfway through a getting a haircut when he allegedly stabbed another man in the back with a pair of scissors. Police say David Davis, 21, was getting his hair done in a Stamford apartment Tuesday afternoon when another man approached him in a threatening manner. Davis claims he used the scissors in self-defense. He was arrested for felony assault. The victim--who was not Davis’s barber--was transported to a local hospital for treatment of his injuries.
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March 9th Burglar Calls 911 From Victim's Bathroom Timothy James Chapek called the Portland, Oregon 9-1-1 just after 7 p.m. Monday to report a break-in. Only he was the burglar. Chapek had broken into a house and, for some reason, decided to take a shower. While in the shower, he heard the homeowner return. Afraid that the homeowner might have a gun - because he had two dogs barking outside the bathroom door - he called 9-1-1. Meanwhile, the homeowner, a 55-year-old woman and her daughter, also called 9-1-1. Officers arrested Chapek, 24, noting that "conversation with him suggests mental issues of some sort are present in his personna.
NOTE: It's it a rule of thumb when you are breaking into someone's house to "get in and get out." What would possess someone to suddenly feel the need to take a shower in the victim's home?
March 8th MAN DRIFTS OUT TO SEE ON ICE SHEET A Polish man was drinking with friends by the sea in Gdansk when he decided to test the strength of the ice forming beside the shore. Holding a bottle of vodka, Michal Kawolski, 23, hopped onto an ice floe. But as he did, the piece broke away and swept Mr Kawolski into the Baltic Sea. "We dared him to do it and it seemed like a good idea after a few hours of drinking," said one friend. The friends thought it was funny at first but then he started to scream for help. They contacted the coastguard, who had already spotted him up bobbing past one of their observation posts a mile out to sea. Rescuers were able to get Mr. Kawolski to safety. He spent the night in hospital and was treated for hypothermia.
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March 7th Dumb Drunk Driver Drinks Early last Wednesday morning in Elyria Ohio, police pulled over Stephen Supers, 25, for speeding. When the officer asked if he had been drinking. Supers replied that he had been and then picked up an open can of beer and took a drink in front of the officer and said, "Yes". The arresting officer performed a series of field sobriety test on Supers, all of which he failed. He was placed under arrest.
March 4th MAN FOLDS WOMAN INTO SOFA In Palmetto, California, a 53-year-old Mark Foreman was arrested after he allegedly folded a 66-year-old female into a couch. Foreman, who was visiting his ex-girlfriend, pushed her mother onto a fold-out couch where she had been sleeping. Then, he folded the couch with the woman still inside. She suffered minor injuries to her wrist and back. Foreman has been charged with battery of a person over 65 and was being held on $2,500 bond.
March 3rd Guy Steals Bra for Girlfriend
Johnnie L. Brown, 29, was arrested Tuesday evening for shoplifting to bras from an Ocala, Florida Wal-Mart. He told police that he wanted to do something nice for his girlfriend, who will be released from jail later this month, so he stole two brassieres. "She has done so much for me," Brown said of his girlfriend of three years, "and I felt I had to support her." March 2nd Drunk driver crashes into rehab facility
A suspected drunk driver crashed a sport utility vehicle into a South Los Angeles sober living home early Saturday morning. The driver and a passenger were trapped in his Ford Explorer temporarily after the vehicle slammed into the Watts Healthcare building, a home for people working on their sobriety, just before 1:00am.
March 1st MOM, DAUGHTER FIGHT OVER A POTATO
In Port Clinton, Ohio. 30-year-old woman got into a fight with her 50-year-old mother over how to best cook a potato for a family member. The mother threatened the daughter with a 9-inch scrub brush. The daughter grabbed her mother's arm, punched it, and spit in her mom's face. A male relative in the home confirmed the mother "held the brush in a threatening manner." While the two women continued to argue, he went to bed. Deputies chose not to charge either woman.
February 28th MAN IMPERSONATES POLICE OFFICER WITH BARBECUE FORK
A 69-year-old Pompano Beach man was arrested Monday for allegedly telling a motorist he was a cop and forcing the driver to pull over - with a barbecue fork. Police found Howard Schultz in the middle of the street waving his cooking utensil as cars passed by. He had managed to get at least one car to pull over, telling them he was a police officer. February 25th BANK ROBBER PARADED DOWN STREET WITH PANTS DOWN
In Aachen, Germany, an armed robber is suing police after they paraded him down a street in his underwear. The accused man had walked into the bank with a revolver and demanded money, but a cashier pushed the silent alarm and minutes later the building was surrounded with police commandos. The robber held customers hostage for more than an hour. FInally, police negotiators convinced him to give up.Afterwards, police paraded him out onto the street with his pants around his ankles and a jacket over his head. Said a lawyer, "The handcuffs are understandable, but what the police have to explain is why he was brought out with his jeans pulled down and his underwear on show. It is clearly a breach of his human rights and caused him needless humiliation and embarrassment."
Oh but wait...there is a photo. MORON!!!
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February 24th 11-YEAR-OLD BOY ARRESTED FOR STICK FIGURE DRAWING
Police in Arvada, Colorado arrested an 11-year-old boy for drawing a stick-figure picture with the words "Teachers - they must die." The boy was doing what his therapist told him to do - draw pictures of his feelings. A teacher spotted the drawing and reported it. That evening, in October of last year, police showed up at the boy's house and took him away in handcuffs. At the police station, he was put into a cell, fingerprinted, and not allowed to see his parents. He was sent to a juvenile facility for three days before finally being released to his parents. When he returned to school, he had to have an an adult go with him everywhere he went - to class, to the restroom, to lunch.
February 23rd BURGLAR STEALS ONLY CANDY, SPRITE
Police in Forest Grove, Oregon arrested Christopher Robison, 26, last Sunday afternoon after he set off an alarm breaking into the School District offices, where he stole a handful of Dum Dum lollipops, and the nearby St. Bede Church, from which he stole a liter of Sprite. February 22nd NOISY MOVIE POPCORN EATER SHOT, KILLED
In the country of Latvia, during a screening of the movie "Black Swan" on Saturday night, one audience member shot and killed another because the victim was eating his popcorn too loudly during the film. The shooter politely waited until the closing credits before pulling the trigger. February 21st COUSINS ARRESTED FOR STEALING BEEF JERKY
Two West Virginia cousins were arrested after police found them with a carload of stolen beef jerky. Michael Graham, 37, and John Barry, 35, both of Milton, West Virginia, acknowledged stealing the items from auto parts stores and gas stations and were trying to sell the items for gas money.
February 18th MAN FORCED TO EAT OWN EAR
A gang attacked a man in Newbridge, Ireland early Monday and forced him to eat part of his own ear. Police said the gang dragged the man down a lane and beat him with a hammer and a metal bar. The suspects cut off part of the man's ear and forced him to eat it. The man, 21, is recovering in a hospital.
February 17th MAN ESCAPES HANDCUFFS WITH SPIT AND, UH, OTHER STUFF
Russel K. Carpenter II, 20, of Saranac Lake, was being held in the police station on a warrant for violating his probation. He was handcuffed to a bar on the wall of the station's booking room. While no one was looking, he used spit and snot to lubricate his handcuffs, slipped out of them and ran out of the station. Carpenter was recaptured 20 minutes after his escape.
February 16th GUY SPEEDS AT 118 MPH TO POST ON YOUTUBE
Stanislav Bakanov, 30, of Keizer, Oregon, was pulled over for speeding down Interstate 5 at 118. Bakanov told the officer he was making a video to post on YouTube. When the deputy walked up to his car, Bakanov even played back what he had recorded up to that point. The video contained footage of the speedometer with the needle pegged and then showed the police stop. Police seized the camera for evidence, arrested Bakanov and booked him at the Marion County Jail.
February 15th MONEY STOLEN FROM BRA
A Gastonia, North Carolina man told police he was sleeping with his girlfriend when someone stole his $325 that he had left secured in his girlfriend's bra. David Wright, 21, told police he believes the person came into the bedroom while they were sleeping last Sunday and took the money out of his girlfriend's bra, and that she was wearing the bra when the money was taken. He thinks he knows who did it, and gave police the name.
