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Jewelry Thieves are Robbed by Robbers

March 19, 2009

Wis. jewelry robbers fleeced as they flee

Two robbers leaving a south side Milwaukee jewelry store with cash and gems didn't get far with the loot.

Police said a group of robbers met the two as they walked out and robbed them.

According to police Lt. Thomas Welch, a fight broke out in the street before the groups got in vehicles and a chase ensued.

Welch said officers pulled over both vehicles and arrested four people, including the original two robbers, ages 40 and 31, and two men from the second group, of ages 22 and 27. All four are from Illinois.

But he said police didn't recover any cash or jewelry and are searching for more suspects in Wednesday's incident.

There's no immediate estimate of the value of the things taken.

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Information from: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Entry #225

Mother Punches, Bites Principal and Threatens To Shoot

Principal in Providence bit, punched by mom, police say

 

01:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, March 18, 2009


 

By Linda Borg

Providence Journal

Staff Writer

 

PROVIDENCE — The principal of Roger Williams Middle School says he was punched and bitten by a parent in his office Friday afternoon after he told her that her son was being suspended from school.

Aleyda Uceta, 30, of 164 Gallatin St., was charged with assault on school officials, assault on police officers and resisting arrest.

The principal, Rudolph Moseley Jr., said he told Uceta that her 11-year-old son would be suspended for three days, according to a police report. Moseley told the police that she became angry and began yelling at him.

School Department spokeswoman Christina O’Reilly confirmed Monday that Moseley was allegedly assaulted by a parent but declined to provide details.

Moseley repeatedly asked Uceta to lower her voice but she refused, the police said, and Uceta then punched the principal in the face. When Moseley pushed the mother away, her son struck him, according to the police report. Next, Uceta allegedly grabbed Moseley’s left arm and began biting him.

A teacher intervened and began speaking to Uceta in Spanish but Uceta punched her in the face, according to the police.

When officers arrived, they attempted to escort Uceta out of the school but she continued to try to punch Moseley, the police said.

By then, a large crowd of Uceta’s family had gathered, making it difficult for the officers to take her into custody. During the struggle, Uceta bit a patrolman’s arm and struck a patrolman in the face, according to the police. She also kicked another police officer and ripped the pocket out of his jacket.

After Uceta was placed in custody she said, “I’m going to take your gun and shoot all of you,” according to the police report.

While handcuffed and seated on the floor of the school’s main office, Uceta attemped to kick the window panes out of a door, the police said.

Moseley was taken to a hospital for treatment, according to the police. One officer was bitten and another suffered a back injury, the police said.

Yesterday, Moseley said he was fine and that he had no idea what prompted the attack. The 11-year-old boy was suspended from school, he said, because he refused to go to a room where misbehaving students are assigned to cool down. The incident happened around 1 p.m.

“The school is OK,” the principal said. “We’re focusing on teaching and learning.”

Roger Williams is the school where an assistant principal, Robert Perkins, was suspended last week after he stepped on a Dominican flag on Dominican Independence Day. The students had reportedly been running up and down the hallways with the flag. The incident caused an uproar in the Dominican community, which felt that their flag had been dishonored

Entry #224

$43,000,000 Is Not Enough, Wife Divorcing Ex-CEO

Courtroom Showdown: UTC Chair, Estranged Wife In Court Today For Divorce Battle

By MARYELLEN FILLO The Hartford Courant

March 18, 2009

It could be Hartford's version of the War of the Roses as Former United Technologies Corp. President and current board Chairman George David and his estranged wife, Swedish countess Marie Douglas-David, head to court today, bringing their increasingly vicious divorce out in the open.

The wealthy, high-powered couple, who were not able to reach an out-of-court settlement in recent days, will arrive with their respective heavy-hitting legal teams at Hartford Family Court at 10 a.m. with Judge Stephen Frazzini presiding. The two were married in 2002.

Douglas-David's attorneys include Hartford-lawyer Bruce Louden and high profile New York City divorce lawyer William Beslow whose celebrity clients have included Christie Brinkley, Tatum O'Neal and Marla Maples.

David's attorneys include retired Connecticut Appellate Court Judge Anne C. Dranginis and Dara Goings, both with Rome McGuigan in Hartford. Listed on his witness list for the trial is Adria Hillman, who represented business billionaire Ron Perlman in his divorces against former socialite Patricia Duff and actress Ellen Barkin, and actress Beverly D'Angelo when she and Al Pacino fought over custody of their twins.

How to spend $53,000.00 a week like Marie Douglas-David:

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-david-divorce-case-53000-pg,0,2158262.photogallery

 

Marie Douglas-DavidFinancial Statement:

http://www.courant.com/media/acrobat/2008-12/44011085.pdf

 George David and Marie Douglas-David:

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-george-marie-david-,0,108298.photogallery

 

 

 

Entry #223

Bicycle Made of 100% Wood That Really Works

100% wooden bicycle by a Shandong farmer

Believe it or not, it is made of 100% wood, there is no any other material at all

and it works!

This is from a shandong farmer, so amazing!







 wooden bicycle farmer

Entry #222

Man Used Drive-Thru To Rob Bank

     
   

 

Man used drive-thru lane
to rob bank

Police say man didn’t
appear to display a weapon

Updated: Monday, 16 Mar 2009, 5:53 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 16 Mar 2009, 5:50 PM EDT

PHARR, Texas (AP) - A bank robber in South Texas held up the place from the comfort of his car.

Police said a man used the drive-thru lane Monday morning to rob Lone Star National Bank. Police said the driver slipped a note to a female teller, who provided an undetermined amount of cash, the man then drove away.

Lt. Guadalupe Salinas said the man was alone in the car and did not appear to display a weapon. Salinas told The Associated Press there's no indication that the robbery was an inside job.

Law officers declined to release the contents of the note. Police are reviewing bank surveillance video.

The FBI declined comment.

Entry #221

71 Year Old Man Holds Off Knife- Wielding Robber With Ice Scraper

Senior fends off knife-wielding robber

Posted: March 13, 2009 05:03 PM EDT

Updated: March 13, 2009 03:53 PM MDT

 KOTA-TV

 

RAPID CITY, S.D.- People with street smarts say ‘don't bring a knife to a gun fight'.  But apparently if you are a 71-year-old man, you can  substitute an ice scraper for the gun.

A 71-year-old Rapid City man reportedly fended off a robber armed with a knife, early this morning in the 800 block of LeBlanc Street.

Police say the senior was scraping ice off his car when a man pulled out a knife and demanded money.  Rapid City Police Sergeant Pete Ragnone said the senior used his ice scraper to fend off the attacker who then fled into a nearby home where his girlfriend lived.

That set off another altercation between the suspect, 20-year-old Talon LaClaire, and his girlfriend.

By the time police showed up with a K-9 team, LaClaire had had enough, surrendering without another altercation.

LaClaire is charged with attempted first degree robbery for his run-in with the senior; and aggravated assault/domestic violence for the argument with his girlfriend.  A robbery conviction would net LeClaire up to 25 years in prison.   The assault charge is an additional 15 years.

Entry #220

Identifying 103 Famous Faces In One Painting is Hottest New Contest

103 famous faces in one painting

Josef Stalin and Leonardo da Vinci are deep in conversation, Vladimir Putin rests his legs next to a sprawled Mike Tyson, while Margaret Thatcher – clutching her handbag – looks on with disdain.

 

By Matthew Moore
Last Updated: 6:30PM GMT 16 Mar 2009

 
Part of the painting. Click the link the below to see the whole thing
Part of the painting. Click the link the below to see the whole thing
This detail shows the Queen, Stalin, Lincoln and Mao, among others, sitting around a table
This detail shows the Queen, Stalin, Lincoln and Mao, among others, sitting around a table
This detail from the painting includes Prince Charles, George W Bush, Kofi Annan, Luciano Pavarotti and Yasser Arafat
This detail from the painting includes Prince Charles, George W Bush, Kofi Annan, Luciano Pavarotti and Yasser Arafat

This extraordinary painting depicting 103 figures from world history in striking detail has become the latest internet hit.

Click to here to view the whole painting (2600 pixels wide)

Message boards have erupted with contests to identify all those featured, who range from instantly recognisable figures like Gandhi to some more obscure figures such as Liu Xiang, the Chinese hurdler who limped out of the Beijing Olympics in the summer.

An element of mystery also surrounds that origins of the picture, which appears to have drawn inspiration from Raphael's Renaissance fresco The School of Athens.

While the figures in Raphael's painting were all ancient philosophers, there appears little to connect the characters in the recent work which finds room for historical greats like Napoleon as well as Bill Gates, the bespectacled face of modern success.

But eagle-eyed observers have spotted clues to the painting's provenance in some of those depicted.

Many of the figures in the painting – including Chinese communist leaders and poets – have little profile outside of Asia.

And the inclusion of Juan Antonio Samaranch, the career bureaucrat and former International Olympic Committee chairman would be inexplicable unless the artist came from China, where Mr Samaranch is well-known as the man who awarded Beijing the 2008 Games.

Another clue comes from the three undistinguished men in contemporary dress who survey the scene from behind a wall at the top right of the picture.

Internet detectives have identified these three as little-known Chinese/Taiwanese artists named as Dudu, Li Tiezi, and Zhang An.

They created the oil painting – titled Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante – in 2006, although it has only become a viral internet hit in the past few weeks.

Alastair Sooke, art writer at The Daily Telegraph, said that the work reflected a trend of contemporary Chinese artists adopting Western styles and subjects.

"But the Dante reference makes us wonder whether we are looking at some nether-circle deep inside the Inferno: this is a vision of Celebrity Hell," he added.

 

Note:  If you click on the link and enlarge the picture and click the larger picture you are able to view entire picture up close.  You can also move the picture up, down, east and west to get a better view of the faces.

 

 

Entry #219

Lottery Scholarship Available


Updated: March 12, 2009

Warwick Advertiser 

News

Lottery Scholarship Available

Published: March 12, 2009
SCHENECTADY - The New York Lottery is accepting applications for the $5,000 Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship for the 2009-10 academic year.

The scholarship recognizes strong academic achievement as well as a student’s participation in extracurricular activities and his or her demonstrated commitment to community service. The $5,000 scholarship is distributed in payments of $625 per semester and may be applied toward the cost of attendance at any New York State accredited college, university, trade school or community college.

Participating high schools are required to submit the names of two students to the Lottery for consideration. A multidisciplinary selection panel comprised of professional educators, administrators, counselors and other qualified staff then reviews candidate applications and selects a winner. The second nominee may be eligible to receive the scholarship in the event the original recipient cannot accept the award.

Application materials for the scholarship are now available at high schools statewide. Interested students may inquire about the program through their principal’s office or guidance department.

The deadline for schools to return completed applications and accompanying student transcripts to the Lottery for consideration is April 8.
 


Call 518-525-2686 for more information.
Entry #218

$122,000,000 In Lottery Prizes Go Unclaimed

Unclaimed Lotto Money

Associated Press

Published: March 14 2008 - 11:39 am
Last Updated: March 14 2008 - 11:41 am

 

Unclaimed Lotto Money

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The Florida Lottery has made a lot of millionaires - some who don't even know it.
The Lottery says nearly $122 million in prizes have gone unclaimed since the games started in 1988. Winners have six months
to claim prizes.


The largest unclaimed payout was a $50 million Lotto ticket sold in a South Florida market in 2003.                         

The rest of the five largest unclaimed jackpots aren't chump change either - ranging between $10-$20 million.


Most of the unclaimed winnings benefit state schools. The rest goes back into the lottery till.


March seems to be the month when luck develops amnesia. Tickets for three of Florida's largest unclaimed jackpots - a combined $85 million - were sold in March.

Entry #217

Burglars Drag Safe Leave Trail for Police

Gouge tracks lead to Cape Coral robbery suspects

Dragged safe left trail, Cape Coral police say

News-Press.com

JL Watson 

March 7, 2009

Police had some help tracking down two burglary suspects this week.

Wayne Blanks, 19, of Fort Myers and Jarvis B. Bowens, 23, of Cape Coral were arrested after police followed a trail of gouges in the pavement left by a stolen safe. The safe had been dragged by a truck from a burglarized home and across several vacant lots to a residence at 2921 NW 27th St., according to Connie Barron, Cape Coral police spokeswoman. Police said Bowens lives at that address.

Bowens and Blanks were charged with armed burglary, motor vehicle theft, 15 counts of grand theft of a firearm and criminal mischief for stealing a large gun safe containing several firearms from a home at NW 26th Terrrace on Tuesday, police said.

A Yamaha dirt bike, flat screen television, laptop computer and a 2005 Ford SUV were also missing from the home, which is owned by Kenneth Staples, according the Lee County Property Appraiser. Staples could not be reached for comment.

Other items were also missing and possibly transported from the location, police said. Police recovered the SUV Friday in a wooded area in the 2900 block of NW 28th Avenue. Blanks and Bowens remain in custody at the Lee County jail.

"While our detectives are really great at what they do, the methods the suspects employed made our job easier," Barron said. She said detectives can't comment further because the investigation is ongoing.

According to reports, Bowens said that Blanks showed up at his home Tuesday dragging the safe behind the Ford SUV, according to police reports. Bowens said he helped unload stolen items from the SUV and placed them in his home.

Blanks initially said he found the SUV loaded with the stolen property in the road near the burglarized residence, with the key in the ignition. Blanks said he abandoned the SUV because he did not want to be caught with a stolen vehicle. He and Bowens broke open the safe and found that it contained several firearms, reports state.

 

Blanks then asked police if he could revise his statement. He said he acted as lookout during the burglary of the home, and that a third party was involved. Bowens then confirmed that another person was present at his home.

During the investigation, police found large scrape marks that led from the yard of the burglarized residence. The marks appeared to have been caused by dragging the safe from the home to Bowens' address. An independent witness later told detectives that the stolen safe was in the garage of Bowens' residence, police said.

Cape detectives are trying to determine if any other parties were involved.

Wayne Blanks Wayne Blanks

 

 

Jarvis B. Bowens

Jarvis B. Bowens

Entry #216

Man Paid $.35 for Original Superman Comic Book Which Sold For $317,200

The Associated Press

 

The Associated Press

Published: March 14, 2009

 

 

NEW YORK - A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $317,200 in an Internet auction.

The previous owner of Action Comics No. 1 bought it for less than a buck.

It's one of the highest prices ever paid for a comic book, a likely testament to the volume's rarity  and its excellent condition, said Stephen Fishler, co-owner of the auction site ComicConnect.com and its sister dealership, Metropolis Collectibles.

The winning bid for the 1938 edition, which features Superman lifting a car on its cover, was submitted Friday evening by John Dolmayan, drummer for the rock band System of a Down, according to managers at ComicConnect.com.

In addition to being a musician, Dolmayan is a dealer of rare comic books. The auctioneers said he acquired the Superman comic on behalf of an unidentified client.

"I imagine it's someone from the entertainment world," said Vincent Zurzolo, chief operating officer at ComicConnect and Metropolis Collectibles.

Only about 100 copies of Action Comics No. 1 are known to exist and they seldom come up for sale.

"Maybe in a booming economy, it would have done a hundred grand more, but in this economy, I think the price is great," Fishler said.

The man who had previously owned the book purchased it in a secondhand store in the early 1950s when he was nine years old.

He paid 35 cents.

Entry #215

Court Will Not Take Any New Cases Unless You Bring Paper

BUDGET PINCH IN MORROW COUNTY
Paperless court is motionless
Saturday,  March 14, 2009 3:20 AM
Dana Wilson
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
A Morrow County court is going BYOP: Bring your own paper.

 

The Municipal Court that handles civil, small claims, criminal and traffic cases won't accept new case filings starting Monday because it's almost out of supplies and has no money to re-order.

The court has just enough paper to handle hearing notices and other documents for pending cases, but not new ones, Judge Lee W. McClelland said.

"Basically, unless they want to provide paper, we can't process anything," he said.

The judge sent a memo explaining the problem to local government and law-enforcement officials this week. He said that the county hasn't yet paid the bill for basic supplies the court ordered and had delivered back in November. The purchase orders sent to the county auditor were returned, "indicating that no funds were available to pay them," McClelland wrote.

Morrow County Sheriff Steven R. Brenneman received McClelland's memo. He doesn't understand how a court can refuse to take legal charges.

"We are going to do our job, and if we make arrests or issue citations, we're taking them to the court," Brenneman said. "Whether the court accepts them, I guess that's something they're going to have to deal with."

McClelland also announced that his court, like many other Morrow County government offices hit with budget cuts, will switch to a four-day workweek and be closed on Friday starting the week of March 30. The court will operate 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

Several agencies already have volunteered to bring in enough paper to process their own Municipal Court filings, McClelland said.

"They're still going to issue tickets, and the court is going to be open to take pleas," McClelland said.

State Highway Patrol Lt. Chad McGinty, commander of the Mount Gilead post, said he called McClelland after receiving the memo. He is concerned about what will happen to the patrol's court cases if they cannot be adequately processed.

"When we issue a citation, we aim at changing driving behavior, and that means following that case to the end," McGinty said.

Morrow County Prosecutor Charles Howland declined to comment on the Municipal Court's changes but said that Common Pleas Court still will operate five days a week.

The county, hit by declines in investment income and sales-tax receipts, is operating with roughly $1.2 million less than last year. The general-fund budget dropped from about $7.7 million in 2008 to about $6.5 million this year, according to the county treasurer.

Cuts were the county's only option, Commissioner Olen Jackson said. "There isn't any more," he said. "That's what we have to work with. 

Entry #214

Burglar Caught After Blowing His Nose

A burglar with a cold was caught after he

broke into a house in Portsmouth-

because he dropped his handkerchief.

Last Updated: 12:31PM GMT 14 Mar 2009

Telegraph- UK--Timothy Mcleod, 46, got away with a television set and a jacket, but left the hanky at the scene when he got it out to blow his nose.

The serial crook was caught by police after they examined the handkerchief and found traces of his DNA.

Mcleod, who had a string of previous convictions for burglary, has now been jailed for two-and-a-half years.

PC Catherine Stacey, who investigated the case, said: "He was caught through DNA identification after he left a handkerchief in the kitchen.

"He had a hanky with him and he was stupid enough to leave it behind."

Mcleod was on licence from a four-year prison sentence when the burglary took place in Portsmouth, Hants, on October 14 last year.

Just eight days earlier he had broken into another home in the city and stolen jewellery.

Judge Roger Hetherington told Portsmouth Crown Court he had no choice but to send Mcleod to jail.

He said: "My primary duty must be to reflect that you have committed these further offences.

"I would be failing in my duty if I allowed the public to be put at risk by giving you a community order."

Pc Stacey, from Hampshire Constabulary, was pleased with the sentence.

She said: "Police are very pleased with the prison sentence imposed against this career criminal for the serious offence of dwelling burglary.

"The sentence sends out the message to people who commit this type of crime that they will be dealt with robustly."

Detective Inspector Nigel Oliver added: "It's a pretty robust sentence and I think it's the appropriate sentence for his offences."

Mcleod, from Portsmouth, admitted two counts of burglary and a further offence of handling stolen goods.

 

Entry #213

Man Tries To Rob Tae Kwon Do Studio

Man unwisely tries to rob Tae Kwon Do Studio

Fri Mar 13, 9:18 pm ET

FOX POINT, Wis. – A robber gets more than he bargained for when he targeted a Tae Kwon Do studio in suburban Milwaukee. The robber thought he could quietly slip in and out of David Kang's studio in Fox Point with some loot. What he didn't realize is that he would encounter a Tae Kwon Do master who wasn't about to let him off the hook.

Kang was giving a private lesson Tuesday and heard someone in his office. Kang found the man going through his closet, grabbed him by the neck and sat him down while he called police.

The robber took off and Kang gave chase, finally catching up with the man and holding him by the neck until police arrived.

Information from:  Fox 6 WITI-TV

 

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Entry #212

Woman Drugged Boss To Get Him To Chill Out

Bail set for woman who drugged a vet


Last Update: 11:16 am 

Sandra Kirk
Fox16.com
 


http://www.fox16.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?articleID=73987

 A woman is in jail after police say she drugged her boss. Police say an employee from the Reynolds Road Animal Clinic slipped valium into one of the veterinarians cups of coffee sending him to the emergency room.

Shortly after Dr. John Duckett had some, coffee he knew something was wrong. Employees at the clinic tell police they thought he was having a heart attack, but it turns out he had been drugged by one of his own. There are certain things you expect to find in your morning cup of Joe like sugar and creamer, but not drugs.

Veterinarian Dr. John Duckett knew something didn't feel right while working Tuesday morning at the Reynolds Road Animal Clinic in Bryant. That's when someone from the clinic called 911.

"He knew he hadn't taken any medication, he hadn't taken any prescription pills. He had suspected that he had been poisoned at his office," says Todd Crowson with the Bryant police.

Now 24-year-old Erin Kelly is behind bars after telling police she drugged Duckett because, “he needed to chill out.”
"She came in this morning and we talked with her and she ended up telling us what happened, pretty much confessing," Crowson said. “She actually admitted to putting a substance in his coffee which turned out to be a benzodiapine.”

Benzodizapines, like valium, are tranquilizers. They can reduce inhibitions, typically used for reducing stress or anxiety.  We're told Kelly worked at the clinic cleaning cages. Now she's in one.

"I have never seen anything like this happen. This is the first time I've worked anything like this," said Crowson.

FOX16 spoke to Dr. Duckett on the phone but he didn't want to comment on what happened.

Kelly's bond has been set at $25,000.  Saline County Prosecutor Ken Casady asked for bond to be set at $100,000.  Kelly's next court appearance is April 21st at 1PM.

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