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Illinois sheriff goes to jail for an education
There’s a new sheriff in jail.
Sheriff Mark Curran of Lake County, Illinois, walked into his own jail on Wednesday to spend a week as a prisoner, saying he was divinely inspired to learn what it was like to be confined and to sample jail programs designed to reduce recidivism.
“The biblical [...]
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Cuban Woman in Florida has 10 Husbands
The honeymoons are over for a 26-year-old woman who authorities say has at least 10 husbands.
Eunice Lopez has been charged with bigamy, accused of marrying 10 men between 2002 and 2006 without divorcing any of them, federal immigration authorities say. The Miami Herald reported Saturday that a records [...]
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Thief hopes ironworkers don’t find him
A brazen thief who offered condolences at a memorial service made off with $10,000 collected for the family of an ironworker killed in a Las Vegas Strip construction site mishap, friends and family members said.
Las Vegas police were searching for the suspect after the Sunday night theft marred the service [...]
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Man, 70, charged in Pennsylvania bank holdup
Police say a 70-year-old man told them he tried to solve his financial problems with a grocery bag, bandanna and a 50-year-old handgun that doesn’t work. Instead, Donald Cesare is in the Erie County Prison on federal bank robbery charges stemming from a holdup Thursday at the First National [...]
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Man, being a cop just gets worse and worse!
Police patrolling the red-light district of the Belgian capital have been ordered to stop visiting brothels and drinking in bars when on duty.
A letter sent to officers in Brussels’ northern police district, and published in a Belgian daily Tuesday, urged them to set a good example and earn the [...]
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WA state troopers named best dressed
It’s a look that lead-foot drivers know all too well: the crisp black bow tie and blue “Smokey Bear” hat of a Washington State Patrol trooper.
And according to a national trade group, the outfits are the best-looking state police uniforms in the country.
The patrol, which has been wearing [...]
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Woman jailed for 50 days over cat urine
Cynthia Hunter spent almost two months in jail over a vial of cat urine. Hunter, 38, was arrested Aug. 15 on a charge of petty theft after she was accused of stealing from a Wal-Mart store.
Deputies added charges of possession of a controlled substance after finding a vial containing a yellow substance [...]
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Woman told to ditch bra to enter court
Security guards refused to allow a woman into a federal courthouse until she removed a bra that triggered a metal detector. Lori Plato said she and her husband, Owen Plato, were stunned when U.S. Marshals Service employees asked her to remove her bra after the underwire supports set off the alarm. [...]
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Bag snatcher turns out to be policeman
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A thief chased and caught by a group of Malaysians after he snatched a woman’s handbag turned out to be a policeman, a newspaper said Tuesday.
Bystanders gave chase on hearing the screams of a housewife at a coffee shop in Ipoh, capital of [...]
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Ceiling burglar patiently gets narcotics
Denver police say a very patient burglar has stolen narcotics from three pharmacies by walking in during business hours, climbing into the space above the ceiling and hiding there for at least eight hours until the store closes.
All three pharmacies are in grocery stores. Investigators say the man climbed [...]
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Tryst with judge costs prosecutor
A former prosecutor faces up to a three-year suspension of her law license after admitting to having sex at the Douglas County courthouse with a judge before whom she prosecuted at least two cases.
Laurie Hurst, 29, admitted misconduct and agreed to a three-year suspension, with the understanding she [...]
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Drug Dealer calls cops after pot stash stolen
A marijuana dealer telephoned police after armed thieves stole his quarter-pound stash of pot. The 19-year-old Felton man told police that two men, one of them armed with a handgun, robbed him at gunpoint as he sat in his car on Tuesday night.
“It was unique to have people who were dealing drugs [...]
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Husband pulls over his deputy wife twice
An off-duty Elko County sheriff’s deputy was arrested on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol after her husband, a fellow deputy, pulled her over.
Charlotte Moore, 36, a jail deputy, was off duty driving her 2004 Pontiac Grand Am on Saturday when she was pulled over by her husband, [...]
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Rio police arrested for mugging U.S. cops on holiday
Rio de Janeiro police arrested two fellow officers on Thursday accused of extorting money from two American tourists who happened to be San Francisco cops on vacation.
“One of the victims identified the officers and they are under administrative arrest for now,” a police spokeswoman in Rio [...]
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Founder of Soviet secret police to show soft side
It seems Felix Dzerzhinsky, legendary founder of the ruthless secret police network that became the Soviet KGB, had a soft side.
The FSB, Russia’s latter-day spy service, plans to publish Dzerzhinsky’s letters to the love of his life, Margarita Nikolayeva, in a book called “I Love You”.
“He [...]
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