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Cop makes arrest in bathroom after smelling crack
Feb 24 2009 - AP
ELKTON, Md. – The Cecil County Sheriff's Office said a deputy about to take a bathroom break at a gas station smelled crack cocaine and made a quick arrest. Police spokesman Lt. Bernard Chiominto said Deputy John Lines was waiting to use the...
Naked Japan major nabbed with women's underwear
Nov 7 2008 - Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) – A male Japanese air force major caught naked while shopping for women's underwear has been suspended from his duties for 10 days, a spokeswoman at his base said on Friday.
The man, on his way home from a late-night...
Deputies find sleeping burglar at AZ gun store
Sep 16 2008 - AP
Sheriff's deputies in Yavapai County said a man picked the wrong place to take a nap, but he'll now have plenty of time to catch up on sleep.
Sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn said in a statement that deputies responding to...
Lewd vandal leaves greasy imprints on Neb. town
Sep 12 2008 - AP
Boy, how people here wish their busiest vandal would find another way to make his mark. Beginning more than a year ago, some man has been skipping from one business to another at night, pressing his naked behind — sometimes his groin, sometimes...
Man says he's porn inspector, demands free videos
Aug 11 2008 - AP
A man claiming to be a police detective tried to get an adult novelty shop to give him free X-rated videos, saying he wanted to make sure the performers weren't underage, authorities said.
He made three tries within nine days last month...
Man accused of trying to rob store with empty box
Aug 8 2008 - AP
Charleston police said a man tried to rob a movie rental store with an unusual weapon — an empty cheesecake box. Earlier this week, the suspect placed the box on the counter of the Movie Gallery with a note saying it contained a bomb. He told...
Clothing store opens bar in middle of sales floor
Aug 1 2008 - AP
A Cleveland clothing store wants to make sure its customers are comfortable, so it has opened a bar in the middle of its sales floor. M. Lang Executive Attire owner Mike Lang said he hopes the cash bar will not only help put shoppers in a relaxed mood...
Buy a car, get a free gun
May 23 2008 - Reuters
A Missouri car dealer said on Thursday sales have soared at his auto and truck business since launching a promotion this week that promises buyers a free handgun or a $250 gas card with every purchase.
Max Motors, a small Butler, Missouri dealership...
Pet store owner says 25 ornamental pond fish stolen
Apr 26 2008 - AP
The owner of an Indiana County pet store is sure of one thing: 25 ornamental pond fish didn't walk away from his aquarium. Mike Pearce, the owner of Pearces' Pet Place in White Township, says someone took the koi sometime between 1 a.m. and 2...
Burglars done in by doughnuts
Mar 5 2008 - AP
When two guys in cowboy garb offered the sheriff's deputies doughnuts, and then the deputies investigated a burglary involving doughnuts and the prints of cowboy boots, it didn't take Sherlock Holmes to crack the case.
"The officers...
That's it for today. You guys gotta walk
Feb 15 2008 - AP
A driver who apparently took her work rules very seriously abandoned a bus full of former prisoners along a highway because her hours for the day were over, police said.
The 40 passengers had been paroled or released from the state prison in...
Underwear on the face didn't fool anyone
Feb 14 2008 - AP
A robbery suspect tried to hide his face with a pair of underwear but the disguise didn't fool witnesses. Police arrested Jerry Keene, 40, and Elizabeth Blankenship, 48, both of English, a short time after the pair allegedly robbed the Hillbilly Market...
Police: Family caught shoplifting
Jan 25 2008 - AP
Shoplifting is all in the family for one California clan, police say.
A grandmother, her daughter and some of her grandchildren tried to steal $900 worth of merchandise from a Target store in Lodi, 35 miles south of Sacramento, police...
Robber picks wrong place at wrong time
Jan 18 2008 - Reuters
A would-be Canadian robber picked the wrong place at the wrong time this week, attempting to hit a liquor store -- right across the street from a police station in the midst of a shift change.
Police in the western Canadian city of Edmonton,...
Pair learn finders not always keepers
Nov 26 2007 - AP
A pair of Salem residents learned the hard way that finders are not always keepers. Lonnie Anderson, 47, and Jacqueline Shimmin, 37, were arrested last week failing to return a lost ring. Each faces a charge of first-degree aggravated theft of lost or...