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Saint Paul, Minnesota police officers were looking for a way for an undercover investigator to infiltrate downtown drug dealing. They came up with a "brilliant tactical plan" that would allow the plainclothes officer to blend in and appear non-threatening, Police Chief John Harrington said -- they put him in a wheelchair. The undercover officer bought drugs from more than 140 people over three months, mostly in the areas surrounding the Dorothy Day Center. As of Monday, 108 had been charged, and 50 to 60 more cases were under review. Although the homeless shelter is across from the X-cel Energy Center, which will host the Republican National Convention in September, police said the undercover operation wasn't done in response to the event. --Originally reported by The Saint Paul Pioneer Press.
Four women, at least three of whom are pregnant, were arrested in Camden County, Missouri on suspicion of prostitution, Sheriff John Page announced in a news release. They ranged in age from 18 to 22. Page said in the release that his department conducted an undercover sting operation at a Lake Ozark area hotel after receiving several reports that pregnant women were advertising prostitution on an Internet site. Three women ranged from being three months pregnant to eight months pregnant. --Originally reported by The Springfield News-Leader
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One of the candidates in the race to become Fairhope, Alaska's next mayor is considerably more hairy than the rest. He also has twice as many legs and a constantly wagging tail. Wille Bean Roscoe P. Coltrane is a seven-year-old yellow Labrador retriever whose owner has taken a satirical poke at politics by launching the pooch into the race. The dog's owner Tress Turner, 43, manages the Coffee Loft, which is also the dog's campaign headquarters where supporters can purchase T-shirts and yard signs. Some of his supporters say all the politicking, name-dropping and sign-maneuvering in the seven-man Fairhope mayoral race is wearing on them weeks ahead of the August 26th election.In 2004, Rabbit Hash, Kentucky elected Junior Cochran, a black Lab, as mayor. --Originally reported by The Fairhope Press-Register
Three naked men were robbed after women lured them to a Calimesa, California motel for some partying. The men told Riverside County sheriff's deputies they met three women in a Yucaipa park and rented a room. After taking off their clothes, sheriff's investigators said, four men entered the room and robbed them of about 80 dollars and fled. One of the victims ran from the motel room, leading to 9-1-1 calls about a nude man in the area.--Originally reported The Monterey County Herald
Two angry Wendy's customers in New York City are suing the fast-food giant, claiming they found a dead rodent in their bowl of chili. According to papers filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court last week, Paul Picone, 20, and Jason Hebrans, 19, both of Brooklyn, became ill after eating the chili con critter at a Midtown Manhattan location. A Wendy's spokesman declined comment on the suit. --Originally reported by The New York Post.
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A 57-year-old Milwaukee man who might have been struggling with a hangover has been charged with shooting his lawn mower with a sawed-off shotgun. A criminal complaint quotes an apparently inebriated Keith Walendowski saying, "I'll tell you the truth. I got pissed because my lawn mower wouldn't start, so I got my shotgun and shot it. I can do that. It's my lawn mower and my yard, so I can shoot it if I want." Walendowski was charged with a felony count of possessing a short-barreled shotgun and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct while armed. If convicted of both charges, he faces up to six years and nine months in prison. --Originally reported by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jeff Hornagold, a U-P-S driver for 20 years, was delivered to his final rest in style -- in his best friend's U-P-S delivery truck. Hornagold, a Crystal Lake, Illinois resident, died Tuesday after a battle with lung cancer. Before the service on Saturday, Hornagold's best friend and co-worker, Micheal McGowan, delivered the casket containing Hornagold's body from Davenport Funeral home to Saint Thomas the Apostle Church in his brown truck. His wife of 24 years, Judy Hornagold, said it was a great tribute to a man bigger than life. --Originally reported by The Northwest Herald.
A Department of Motor Vehicles examiner in Maine was injured Thursday when the teenage girl taking her driving test pulled into the path of an oncoming car. Linda Norton, 51, complained of neck pain after the accident and was taken to Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport for treatment. Police said Norton was administering a road test to Desirea York, 18, of Port Clyde when the accident occurred. York was headed toward downtown on Limerock Street in a 2003 Toyota when she took a left on Broadway directly into the path of a 2002 Mercedes Benz coming up Limerock from the opposite direction. --Originally reported by The Bangor Daily News
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According to Utah cops, Vitaly Kovtun was behind the wheel last month when a car pulled up to his S-U-V at an intersection. After gesturing to the 22-year-old Kovtun to roll down his window, passenger Stephen Cox asked, "Excuse me, sir, do you have any Grey Poupon?" Kovtun responded, police charge, by pulling a handgun from his glove compartment, cocking the weapon, and leveling it at the prankster's auto. According to a probable cause affidavit, Kovtun said, "Here's your Grey Poupon, roll your [bleeping] windows up," Kovtun was charged this week, having been tracked down by cops after another occupant of the second car wrote down his license plate number. When questioned by police, Kovtun admitted that he "pulled out his handgun and racked the slide back towards the victims in a threatening manner," according to the District Court affidavit.--Originally reported by The Smoking Gun
A convicted killer serving a life prison sentence in Denver has been on a hunger strike for 10 days protesting reduced prison activities for inmates after authorities took away his drums. Jonathan Kasper, 39, began the hunger strike with five other inmates at the Limon Correctional Facility on July 14th, said a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections. In a complaint letter Kasper sent to prison officials, he claimed the prison has cut back on organized sports, weight lifting, music and photography programs. His mother, Marjorie Kasper, 70, said the prison stopped allowing a prison band to play together. Her son was the drummer. The spokeswoman acknowledged the prison has tightened security and cut back on some prison activities after another convicted killer slit a correction officer's throat during a sewing workshop.--Originally reported by The Denver Post
What is in a name? On Wednesday, a family court judge in New Zealand branded a couple as child abusers for giving their child a bizarre name. The judge put a girl under the guardianship of the court, after learning her parents called her Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii. Talula's lawyer said the nine-year-old was so embarrassed by her name that she had not revealed it to her friends. Her parents appeared to have given no thought to the implications of giving their child such a name. And it seems they are not alone. Judge Murfitt said others had given their children names such as Number 16 Bus Shelter, Violence and, for twins, Benson and Hedges. The Registry for Births, Deaths and Marriages says they do question names, and can decline those they deem unsuitable.--Originally reported by The New Zealand Dominion Post.
A naked model photographed using Peru's flag as a saddle while mounted on a horse will face charges that could put her in jail for up to four years for offending patriotic symbols. The suggestive shot of Leysi Suarez, whose main job is dancing for the band Alma Bella -- or Beautiful Soul -- was splashed on the cover of D-Farandula magazine and has caused a political uproar as Peru prepares to celebrate the 187th anniversary of its independence from Spain on Monday. Defense Minister Antero Flores told reporters, "These are patriotic symbols that demand total respect, and using them improperly requires punishment." Flores has ordered a public prosecutor to take up the case and file charges.--Originally reported by Reuters
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A weekend bomb threat at ****'s Market in Centerville, Utah yielded nothing but a piece of string cheese. Around 3 p-m Saturday, police and fire units responded to a phone call advising the Davis County Sheriff's Office that a bomb had been placed inside the grocery store. The store was evacuated shortly after the call came in. During the evacuation, a ****'s employee reported seeing a cylindrical device wrapped in duct tape near a cooler of dry ice. Centerville police Lieutenant Paul Child said the businesses remained closed for about two hours while bomb-sniffing dogs and a bomb technician checked the building and determined it was safe. The cylindrical device the employee saw turned out to be a piece of string cheese wrapped in duct tape, made to resemble a bomb. A potential suspect was caught on a store surveillance camera planting the phony bomb near the ice box. Child said detectives have interviewed "several persons of interest" and that the fake device has been sent to the crime lab for analysis and fingerprints. Child said the suspects in the case are juveniles.--Originally reported by The Utah Standard-Examiner
Robyn Lee, 23, of Corryville, Ohio was charged with aggravated assault after being accused of trying to cram a peanut in the mouth of her allergic neighbor Saturday evening. According to police and court records, Lee was riding in a car with a neighbor, Shenna Ferguson, just after 6 p-m, when she allegedly tried to put the peanut in Ferguson's mouth. In an affidavit, Ferguson wrote, "I told her to stop because I was very (allergic) to peanuts. She laughed." The women headed to the Tri-County Mall in Springdale, where Lee continued to taunt her, Ferguson said. Lee allegedly threw peanuts at Ferguson when the women reached the mall. Ferguson went inside, then returned to her car to fetch an A-T-M card. She noticed Lee was stooped near Ferguson's gold Chrysler, "messing with my tires." The windshield wipers were torn off, the car was keyed and the tires were deflated, Ferguson wrote. A judge ordered her to stay away from Ferguson.
A man whose body was found in the ventilation shaft of a Hollywood, Florida sports bar was upside down and died of suffocation, the Broward Medical Examiner's Office said. The cause of death of Benjamin Rodriguez, 46, was given as positional asphyxia, meaning his lungs became compressed and he suffocated. It was classified as an accident. The Hollywood man could have been dead for up to 72 hours when police found him at 441 All-Star Sports Bar. Police believe Rodriguez, who was five-foot-seven and weighed 182 pounds, could have been trying to burglarize the business. It took authorities about five hours to extricate the body from the vent, which police said measured no more than two square feet.--Originally reported by The South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Major Steven O'Donnell said. After police arrived, the man had trouble getting out of the car, then grabbed it and refused to move, forcing troopers to carry him to the breakdown lane before taking him back to their barracks. A Breathalyzer test showed the man had blood alcohol readings of point-489 followed by point-491, O'Donnell said, the highest readings anyone at the State Police or the Department of Health could remember for someone who didn't end up dead. The legal limit in Rhode Island is point-oh-eight. A blood alcohol of point-three is classified as "stupor," point-four is "comatose" and point-five is considered fatal, according to the health department.--Originally reported by The Associated Press
