Quick
Catch
R.C. Gaitlin,
21, walked up to two patrol officers who were showing their squad car
computer equipment to children in a Detroit neighborhood. When he asked
how the system worked, the officers asked him for a piece of
identification. Gaitlin gave them his driver's license, they entered it
into the computer, and moments later they arrested Gaitlin because
information on the screen showed that Gaitlin was wanted for a
two-year-old armed robbery in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Robber Tries to
Take A Bite Out His Own Crime...
WEST
BRIDGEWATER, Massachusetts - A robber in Rhode Island was bound and
determined not to be fingered for a crime by chewing off his fingertips.
According to R.I. police officers, Francisco Sanchez, 21, and a man who
identified himself as Ivan Cruz, 28, of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, were
arrested at about 6 p.m. after a drug deal. As Sanchez awaited to be
fingerprinted in a jail cell, he began to gnaw on his fingertips until
they were completely bloody and mangled. But not bloody enough that the
officers could not get prints useable for identification purposes.
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Weighed down
by stolen loot, thief drowns in river.
A suspected
thief, weighed down with more than 50 pounds of stolen cameras and CDs,
among other items, drowned as he attempted to evade police by swimming
across the Arkansas River, officials said.
The man,
identified as Edward McBride, 37, was carrying a duffel bag weighing 50
pounds that contained stolen items and was found Friday with stolen goods
also stuffed in his pockets, said Tulsa police spokesman Lucky Lamons.
He was being
pursued by Tulsa police who suspected him of robbing a Tulsa home when he
jumped into the muddy Arkansas River.
"He got about
40 yards out and yelled for help," Lamons said. "The officers took off
their shirts, shoes and belts off and jumped into the river. By the time
they reached him, he had gone under."
Lamons said
rescue workers retrieved McBride's body about an hour later from about 8
feet to 10 feet of water along with the duffel bag containing stolen
goods.
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Front MAN Turned In For Reward
A suspect was
arrested in Detroit and charged with robbing a bank with the help of a
12-year-old boy he had recruited to act as the front man. The robbery
scheme fell apart, and both escaped unidentified.
However,
shortly thereafter, the suspect called the police and tried to turn the
young boy in for the $2,000 reward that was being offered. The police
played along until they could get their hands on the adult.
He is now
serving time in prison.
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Police Humor...
The officers
drove to the street and observed a small crowd standing on a corner. The
rookie rolled down his window and said, "Let's get off the corner people."
A few glances,
but no one moved, so he barked again, "GET OFF THE CORNER NOW!"
Intimidated,
the group of people began to leave, casting puzzled stares in his
direction. Proud of his first official act, the young policeman turned to
his partner and asked, "Well, how did I do?"
Pretty good,
chuckled the vet, "especially since this is a bus stop."
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Skunk
assists police by spraying suspect in the face
LEWISTON, Maine
- Police who were chasing a man after a traffic stop got an unlikely
assist from a skunk, who sprayed the suspect in the face.
Kenneth Rideout,
32, was nailed after he ran into the woods Tuesday night. He was wanted
for violating release conditions stemming from a domestic assault.
The skunk
didn't stop Rideout but it slowed him down enough that police officers
were able to catch up with him.
"It was
powerful enough to pretty much incapacitate him," said police Lt.
Tom Avery.
Officer Eric
Syphers arrested the smelly suspect. The squad car reeked by the time the
prisoner arrived at the police station.
"Sometimes we
get help from where we don't expect it," Avery said. "We're calling this
skunk Officer Pepe LePew."
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Police impersonator
pulls over real officer
LONGWOOD --
Authorities said a 19-year-old Daytona Beach man flashed a badge, turned
on flashing red and blue lights and pulled over a motorist on Interstate
4.
The problem:
the teen-ager was no cop -- but the driver he pulled over was.
According to a
police report, Daniel Ryan Blais was traveling east on I-4 in the Longwood
area when he attempted to pull over another vehicle.
Investigators
said Blais rolled down his window to display a silver badge to another
driver, and then Blais turned on flashing patrol lights. The two cars
pulled into the rest area.
At first, Blais
said he was a bond-enforcment agent, police said, but then admitted he was
not. The man Blais pulled over was off-duty police Officer David Mixon.
Seminole County
deputies arrested Blais and charged him with impersonating a
law-enforcement officer.
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Short NUTS 2
Two teenagers
riding bikes hit a police car at Heritage and Josey Thursday when they
tried to stop short. Once of the teens went under the car with his bike
and the other managed to swerve. Once of the boys told police he had no
brakes on the bike because it made it more interesting that way.
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The Pentagon
spent $3,000 on a six-month study to answer this burning question: Do
umbrellas detract from the appearance of military officers?
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Thief takes off
with Lucky Charms cereal.
A woman in the
500 block of Deere Park reported recently that her box of Lucky Charms
cereal was stolen, according to the August 27th police reports.
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Anger Management Not Working
FREMONT, Calif.
- Two men who met at an anger-management class got into a brawl while
working on a home-improvement project together, leaving a dead chicken and
a trashed van in their path, police said.
The incident
pitted David Wilson, 36, against Tim Phillips, 37. The two had met several
weeks ago at an anger-management seminar and Phillips later had agreed to
do some odd jobs for Wilson.
While searching
for a missing puppy, Wilson walked into his backyard and found one of his
pet chickens dead and dismembered, police said. Enraged and believing that
Phillips was responsible, Wilson allegedly pulled a knife and got into a
tussle with Phillips, who was cut above an eye, police said.
Wilson then
allegedly picked up a board and smashed out all the windows on Phillips'
van and slashed all of the tires, police said.
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Banking Hours
MIDDLETOWN,
Conn. -- A would-be bank robber may have learned a lesson about bankers'
hours.
The man showed
up at a Citizen's Bank branch Monday wearing a mask and carrying a note at
3:08 p.m., eight minutes after the branch lobby closed for the day.
Bank workers
watching from a window called police as the man pulled futilely on the
locked door, police said. He then fled in a truck.
A police
sergeant witnessed the man throwing the mask and a note out the truck
window. Both were recovered.
Michael Maslar,
45, surrendered without incident after being stopped by the officer.
Police did not find a weapon. Maslar was charged with criminal attempt to
commit third-degree robbery and was being held on $500,000 bail.
Police said Maslar, who lives with his 72-year-old mother, is on federal
probation for a bank robbery in 1991 in New York state.
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Picture Removal
Convicted sex
abuser Daniel Ray Erickson (who once "purchased" a 5-year-old girl whom he
then molested) petitioned a judge in Brooksville, Fla., in December to
have his photo removed from Florida's sex offender Web site. "How," he
asked, "can a guy get married and become a good, stable citizen if they're
putting your picture there?" (Indeed, he said, his previous girlfriend had
left him when she found out he was on the Web site.)
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Humiliating Lawsuit
In February, a
23-year-old woman who had once changed clothes in the office of a talent
agency in Brighton, Mich., while a hidden video camera was running,
convinced a jury that that one humiliating experience was worth $575,250.
She said that the incident was so severe (even though she had not sought
counseling or taken medication for it), she had lost all trust in people
and would have to give up on being a model.
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Man Moons Judge, Gets More
Jail Time
ATHENS, Texas
(AP) - A man who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault had an additional
six months tacked onto his eight-year sentence after he mooned the judge.
Judge Jim
Parsons held 40-year-old Ray Mason in contempt of court Monday after he
dropped his pants and showed Parsons and the rest of the court his
backside.
He said
something like, 'Hey, judge, look at this,' Assistant District Attorney
Barry Spencer recalled. About 70 other people were in the courtroom at the
time, Spencer said.
"I've been
practicing criminal law for well over 20 years, and I've seen a lot of
things," said Mason's defense attorney John Sickel. "This is the first
time anything like that has happened."
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PHONE COMPANY SENDS BILL TO
DEAD MAN
(Massachusetts)
- A man's phone bill has followed him to his grave. A local cemetery
received a phone bill last week for David Towles at his correct
address—Hillside Cemetery, Evergreen Section, Auburn, Mass. 01501. Towles
was buried there in December 1997. He died at age 60.
Cemetery
Superintendent Wayne Bloomquist says he was surprised to see the Sprint
bill for 12 cents, including 10 cents for a call placed on Feb. 16, five
years after Towles died. "Our clients here don't usually get mail," he
said. "I wondered if maybe we should start putting mailboxes on the
monuments."
A call to
Sprint's automated service on March 6 showed that charges on the unpaid
account had inflated Towles' bill to $3.95. The bill was turned over to
interim Town Clerk Ellen Gaboury, who said she would hold on to it for a
while. "I'll have to," she said. "Mr. Towles' credit could be affected if
it remains unpaid."
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SWAT Callout
Canadian police
in a frantic search for an abducted woman dispatched a SWAT team to her
home late on Tuesday before officers on a routine patrol across town found
her naked and bound in the back of a car. But police in Edmonton, Alberta,
soon realized they had a problem -- she did not want to be rescued. It
emerged that the 17-year-old female and a man at the scene were engaged in
a role-playing game, but not before the man was arrested and the woman
sent to hospital for examination. She was less than co-operative, police
said. "She did answer questions, but she wasn't very forthcoming with the
detectives. They pieced it together that it was some form of fantasy
scenario on the part of the people involved," Edmonton police spokesman
Wes Bellmore said on Wednesday. "It wasn't so funny for us because we
burned up a lot of taxpayers' money dealing with this." The saga began
just before midnight on Tuesday when a man called 911. He reported he had
been talking on the phone to the woman when she said someone had broken
into her house. Then the line went dead. Police sent a tactical team to
the house in west-central Edmonton, because the address had shown up on
their records as the site of a previous weapons complaint. "We had to make
sure the suite was cleared by a tactical team in case there were weapons
involved. When all was said and done, there were about 10 police units
involved in this," Bellmore said. About the time the SWAT team determined
the home was empty, officers in another part of town found the car in a
secluded area by a golf course, with the woman inside bound with tape and
her would-be abductor outside the vehicle, he said. "She was not fully
clothed. She was in a state of ... she was naked," Bellmore said. Police
arrested the man, who eventually told investigators that the scenario was
consensual. The woman refused to file a complaint. "As far as our
detectives can tell, there was nothing malicious about it," he said. "We
really had nothing else to do except release everybody, probably with a
stern warning to be more careful." Police said they did not believe the
man who called 911 had been aware of the nature of the events.
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Dressing With A Sense Of Scent
Shoppers with a
nose for fashion will soon be able to buy perfumed clothes thanks to new
technology that allows scents to be woven into fabric. The technology,
called Sensory Perception Technologies (SPT), will allow firms to weave
particles of moisturizers, deodorants, fragrances and even anti-tobacco
agents into fabrics. "Early trials have proved SPT a success with many
global clothing companies interested in a host of products from
moisturisers and deodorizers to signature scents," ICI, whose fragrances
unit Quest developed the technology with marketing body, The Woolmark
Company, said in a statement on Monday. ICI said the technology will allow
fabric makers to incorporate tiny droplets in miniature waterproof
particles into fabrics that can be activated by movement or touch.
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Botched Attempt
A Romanian man
plans to complain to consumer authorities about the poor quality of a rope
he used in a failed attempt to hang himself, Romanian papers reported
Thursday. "You can't even die in this country," 45-year-old Victor Dodoi
was quoted as saying in the daily Adevarul. The newspaper said Dodoi's
relatives found him hanging from a tree in his garden and managed to cut
the rope with a knife. He was taken by horse-drawn cart and then by
ambulance to a hospital in the northern town of Botosani. Dodoi said he
would file a complaint with the Consumer Protection Authority about the
quality of the rope, which was easily cut, as soon as he is released.
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Evidence In Abundance:
In Clovis, N.M., in July, Danny J. Jimenez, 51, was
sentenced to six years in prison for a pair of 2003 burglaries. Police had
captured Jimenez by following the blood trail that stemmed from his
encounter with a pawn shop's glass jewelry case. Later, investigators
learned that an injury to Jimenez's head did not come from the jewelry
case but occurred when Jimenez accidentally hit himself with a hammer
while burglarizing a church later that night. Said a detective, "(Jimenez)
had a big, round (indentation) in his forehead that was consistent with
the hammer that I found." (And, as if he needed more misery, Jimenez's
loot bag broke during his getaway, causing him to lose most of the
jewelry, anyway.) [Albuquerque Journal, 7-13-05]
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Real-Estate Board
Priced Out of Own Town
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Sky high
real estate prices in this resort city in the mountains have driven yet
another business out of town: the Aspen Board of Realtors.
The board was renting an office
at the Aspen airport because of the cost of real estate in the city, where
even a small house can cost $1 million.
Now, the board has purchased a
spacious office in Basalt, 10 miles from Aspen, said Brynne Kristan,
executive vice president of the board.
Kristan said the board had
hoped to own its own office in Aspen.
"We thought we'd be real estate
owners ourselves," Kristan said.
Scores of businesses have moved
out of town in the past decade because of the high cost of real estate and
commercial space.
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