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Naked burglar tells Slidell police he has medical problem

Jeff Adelson

The Times-Picayune

October 07, 2009, 8:01PM

A Luling man who broke into a Slidell home while naked, made himself a meal and took a shower before fleeing has told police he was suffering from a medical problem during the bizarre break-in, authorities said Wednesday.

Slidell Police DepartmentThe naked burglar

cooked and took a shower while ransacking

a Slidell home early Monday morning, police said.

Slidell police planned to question the man, whose name has not been released, on Wednesday night and determine whether he will be booked with a crime, Slidell police spokesman Capt. Kevin Foltz said.

Police received a call Tuesday evening from a relative of the man who saw news media reports about the early Monday morning break-in, Foltz said. Investigators then spoke with the man, who agreed to come in for questioning, he said.

Police were told the man was suffering from a medical problem related to his diabetes during the break-in, Foltz said.

Video cameras at a house in the Country Club Estates subdivision captured the man striding up to the house naked on Monday about 1 a.m. He rinsed himself off with a garden hose in the driveway and knocked on the front door of the empty home before sitting covered in a garbage bag in the backyard.

The man then broke into the home and ransacked the place before making himself a meal and taking a shower. He then fled the home wrapped only in a sheet.

The 61-year-old homeowner, who was visiting her son on the West Bank all weekend, found out about the break-in after returning home Monday and gave police the surveillance video from her home security system.

The man had apparently left his car on a nearby highway before the break-in, Assistant Chief Jesse Simon said.

Mom, daughter accused in beating, choking of ‘snitch’

Lucas Sullivan 

Dayton Daily News

Monday, October 5, 2009, 11:02 AM

DAYTON - Three people are in Montgomery County Jail after a man said the three beat, choked and tried to kill him because the group believes he told police about their drug habits.

Debbie Sandifer

Lonnie Black

 Brandy McBeath

The 35-year-old victim was in his apartment in the 100 block of Central Avenue about 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, when he heard a knock of his door, according to a police report.

He said Lonnie D. Black, 24, wanted him to come out so the two could fight. The victim said after Black left after he refused to come out of his apartment, the report stated.

Fearing that his car would get damaged, the victim went out to check on the vehicle, he told police. On the way to the parking lot, Black reappeared and confronted the victim.

The two men were about to fight when Brandy McBeath, 26, and her mother Debbie Sandifer, 51, arrived, the victim told police.

The victim said Sandifer tried four times to strike him with a club, while McBeath picked up a long piece of wood and struck him twice in the face, the report stated.

The victim hit McBeath with a club and the group fled the scene, the report stated. As the victim walked back to his apartment, Black came up from behind and choked the man with a shower curtain rod.

The victim hit Black with an object and was able to escape.

When officers arrived Black was armed with a “weighted club” wrapped around his wrist and telling at the victim, “I want to kill him,” the report stated.

The victim told officers he was attacked because McBeath and Sandifer were arrested on Thursday after officers found them with the drugs, according to a police report. McBeath and Sandifer thought the victim “snitched” or told police they were involved in drugs, he told police.

Officers found McBeath and Sandifer at their apartment at 628 Plymouth Ave. While searching the apartment, officers found 1.24 grams of crack cocaine, a crack pipe and a broken shower curtain rod believed to be used in the assault.

The apartment was labeled a nuisance, and Sandifer and another man living there were presented with nuisance abatement paperwork, the report stated.

Sandifer, McBeath and Black were taken to Montgomery County Jail each on one felonious assault charge. Their victim was treated for minor injuries.

Elementary student’s jaws pried from teacher’s forearm

Lucas Sullivan

Dayton Daily News 

Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 10:41 AM

DAYTON - A Patterson-Kennedy Elementary School student sent his 54-year-old teacher to the hospital after biting him in the forearm Monday, Oct. 5.

Police responded to the Dayton City school, at 258 Wyoming St., about 11:30 a.m. after school officials said they had to pry the child from the teacher’s arm, according to a police report.

The child was brought to assistant principal Jack Johnson’s office by teacher Stephen Green for being disorderly in the classroom, the report stated. The child began throwing things in the office and had to be restrained by Green.

While clutching the child, Green was bitten in the forearm, Johnson told police. The child would not release Green’s arm and Johnson had to pry the boy’s mouth open — with his hands.

Green went to the hospital to be treated for the bite, the report stated. The child was transferred to Kettering Hospital for a psychological evaluation.

The child is being charged with felonious assault, but was not taken to the juvenile detention center. A court date has not been set.

Pa. police say woman put stolen check in church offering and stole a wallet from a pew

NEW BRIGHTON, Pa. - Police said a woman put a forged $50 check in a church offering plate and stole a woman's wallet from a pew in the same western Pennsylvania church. New Brighton police Chief Charles Van Fossan said Tuesday that police were still searching for a 20-year-old woman. She allegedly committed the crimes at First Presbyterian Church in New Brighton on Sunday.

Police said the offering check was from a previously stolen checkbook.

The woman used a credit card from the stolen wallet to buy about $200 worth of merchandise from a dollar store and a convenience store. Police said the woman also tried to use a credit card stolen from another church to get a $16,000 cash advance that a bank refused to issue.

New Brighton is about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

San Anselmo police: Couple used boy, 13, as designated driver

Gary Klien

Marin Independent Journal

10/05/2009 08:03:24 PM PDT
     

A couple was arrested in San Anselmo on allegations they let a 13-year-old boy drive them home from a restaurant because they both feared getting another DUI, authorities said.

The incident occurred Sunday night after the couple and the boy, who is related to one of the suspects, had dinner at a downtown restaurant, said San Anselmo police Sgt. Rob Schneider.

The couple, who have several drunken driving convictions between them, had been drinking that night and did not want to risk a new DUI arrest, so they had the boy drive, Schneider said.

The boy started to drive home, but he soon stopped the vehicle in the middle of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard near The Hub.

Police came upon the stalled vehicle and stopped to investigate.

"The story that he gave was that it freaked him out, so he stopped and refused to drive anymore," Schneider said.

The 32-year-old woman and the 29-year-old man were booked into the county jail early Monday morning on suspicion of felony child endangerment and misdemeanor public intoxication. Bail was set at $50,000.

The boy was released to another family member at the San Anselmo police station.

The woman, a Mill Valley resident, was charged Monday with a misdemeanor count of child endangerment and a misdemeanor count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, said Deputy District Attorney Charles Cacciatore.

She was also charged with allowing a minor to drive, an infraction. The vehicle, a Land Rover, was on loan to her while her own car was in the repair shop, Schneider said.

Her boyfriend, a San Rafael resident, was not charged.

Both were released from jail Monday night. The woman was scheduled to appear for arraignment next week.

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10-Year-Old Gets $260 Ticket At School

School Officers Cite Student For Disrupting Class

7:37 am PDT October 6, 2009

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Man Arrested at Apple Store After Threatening to Shoot His iPhone with a 9mm Handgun

Burglar caught after drinking victim's wine and falling asleep

A burglar was caught after drinking a bottle of his victim's wine and falling asleep on the sofa instead of making his getaway, a court has heard.

Telegraph UK 

9:00AM BST 06 Oct 2009

Michael Dwyer, 44, broke in through a window of a basement flat in Cambridge before stuffing several pillow cases with DVDs, CDs and electrical items.

Unemployed Dwyer, who had already been drinking, then spotted a bottle of red wine and settled down on the sofa to drink it.

But he fell asleep until he was discovered with the empty bottle by his feet the next day by the homeowner returning from work.

The victim was still unable to wake up Dwyer and called police, who arrested him at the scene.

Dwyer admitted burglary following the raid on September 22 at Cambridge Magistrates' Court on Monday.

Paul Brown, prosecuting, said Dwyer claimed he had broken into the house to use the lavatory.

He said: "Mr Dwyer was found sleeping on the sofa with a bottle of wine next to his feet.

"The victim informed police who then arrested Dwyer. He claimed that he didn't remember putting the items in the pillowcase and said he had a serious alcohol problem."

Monica Lentin, defending, said Dwyer had shown genuine remorse for his crime.

She said: "He is really trying to get help for his alcohol problems. This is the first time he has actually committed a burglary and it is out of character."

Magistrates adjourned sentencing until October 27 and requested a pre-sentence report be prepared by the probation service looking into Mr Dwyer's alcohol addiction.

Suspects betrayed by their baseball caps

Henry K. Lee

Chronicle Staff Writer

Monday, October 5, 2009


(10-05) 15:05 PDT CONCORD -- Two Concord bank robbery suspects were identified after they left behind DNA-laden baseball caps and a "High School Musical" bag filled with dye-stained cash, court records show.

Donte Maurice Turner, 29, and Sterling Isaac Garner, 22, allegedly robbed the U.S. Bank on Clayton Road in Concord at gunpoint last Oct. 15 and fled with $6,889.

Witnesses saw two men running through the parking lot of a nearby store. One man was carrying a black bag that was "emitting smoke" from a dye-pack device, FBI Special Agent Todd Dorman wrote in an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Oakland.

Police called to the scene found a large amount of dye-stained money, two exploded dye packs, two baseball caps, a black "High School Musical" bag with red dye stains and a pair of gloves, Dorman wrote.

A crime lab processed the baseball caps and matched DNA to Turner and Garner, authorities said.

In addition to the October robbery, Turner is in custody for a parole violation for allegedly robbing the Concord Federal Credit Union on Second Street on June 12.

Garner allegedly confessed to last year's robbery and told authorities that he was "yelled at" for dropping the money when the dye packs exploded, because the cash "could have been cleaned with alcohol," Dorman wrote.

Garner, whose listed occupation is that of a crime-scene cleaner, is being held without bail at a downtown Oakland jail.

Hotmail passwords leaked online

The email accounts of thousands of users of Microsoft's Hotmail email service have been compromised after passwords and account addresses were posted on the internet.

Claudine Beaumont

Technology Editor
5:33PM BST 05 Oct 2009

A list of around 10,000 Hotmail passwords has been leaked online Photo: CLARE KENDALL

The login details of more than 10,000 accounts briefly appeared on a web-site used by computer programers.

The list included only addresses starting with A and B, raising fears that more could appear online in the coming days, potentially exposing tens of thousands more Hotmail users.

According to technology website Neowin.net, an anonymous user posted details of around 10,000 Microsoft Hotmail, Windows Live and MSN accounts on Pastebin.com, an online forum used by developers to share snippets of programming code. Neowin said the details appeared legitimate, and that most of the accounts exposed by the leak belonged to European web users.

The source of the leak remains unknown, but it seems likely that the details were collected as the result of "phishing" scams, which use fake websites to trick people in to revealing personal details, such as account login information, believing they are on a legitimate site.

Microsoft said that it had been made aware of the problem.

"We're actively investigating the situation and will take appropriate steps as rapidly as possible," said Microsoft in a statement. "Microsoft is committed to protecting the privacy of our customers, and believe they deserve to have their personal data used only in ways they have agreed to, and in ways that provide value to them."

Users of Hotmail, Windows Live and MSN email accounts are advised to change their passwords and security questions immediately, in order to block unauthorised access to accounts. There are fears that hackers or cybercriminals could use these email accounts to gain access to sensitive or personal information, or to log on to online bank accounts and shopping websites to make fraudulent transactions. Many internet users use the same password details for multiple accounts.

"It's unclear at this stage whether the cause of the leak is phishing attacks or some kind of attack on Microsoft's servers," said Carole Theriault, a senior security consultant with Sophos. "These things do happen, and people shouldn't panic, but we recommend taking some practical steps. If they have a Hotmail, MSN or Live email addres, they should change their account password and security question."

Hotmail is the largest web-based email service in the world, boasting an estimated 500 million users, with 14 million in the UK alone. The password leak comes at the start of a busy month for Microsoft, with the company launching its new computer operating system, Windows 7, on October 22. It also recently unveiled Microsoft Security Essentials, a suite of security software designed to help protect internet users against malicious software, trojans and viruses.

Lukas Oberhuber, chief technical officer at Forward Internet Group, said the leak looked like the result of a phishing attack. "Those sorts of attacks are almost impossible to defend against," he said. "They are becoming increasingly sophisticated.

"It's hard to say at this stage what the motivation was for posting the list online. Was the person responsible simply trying to prove that it could be done?"

Mr Oberhuber said that one indication that an account had been compromised might be if the user receives a number of emails saying that they had requested other account password reminders.

"Hotmail is not the first web email service to be hacked in this manner, and it won't be the last," he said.

A report earlier this year from Lucid Intelligence estimated that the identities of around four million Britons had been stolen and made available online to the highest bidder, while ast week, users of Twitter, the microblogging site, were targeted in a phishing scam. Clicking on a link received in a direct message re-directed unsuspecting Twitter users to a fake webpage that prompted them to enter their username and password details, and then harvested that information to hack accounts.

And the Yahoo! email account of Sarah Palin, the former US vice-presidential candidate, was famously hacked last year by an internet user who guessed the then Alaskan governor's password using readily available biographical information found online.

Ex-Ala. judge accused of spanking inmates

PHILLIP RAWLS

Associated Press Writer

Sunday, October 4, 2009

                 WARNING SOME DETAILS ARE GRAPHIC!!!

10-04) 09:23 PDT Montgomery, Ala. (AP) --

Herman Thomas had an enviable political record as a black Democrat elected and re-elected in a county overwhelmingly white and increasingly Republican. The respected circuit judge once was the Democratic Party's choice to be the first black federal judge in south Alabama.

Then his career collapsed under allegations that he brought inmates to his office and spanked them with a paddle. Later, an indictment accused him of sexually abusing male inmates in exchange for leniency. The trial on charges of sodomy, kidnapping, sex abuse, extortion, assault and ethics violations is set to start Monday.

The case has shocked his friends and former colleagues.

"I've always had the highest regard for him. The allegations were a complete surprise to me and everyone else who knew him," said Bob Edington, a prominent Mobile attorney and former Democratic state senator.

Thomas, who was known for wearing distinctive bow ties, stepped down from the bench in 2007 after the allegations of paddling surfaced and just ahead of a judicial ethics trial that could have forced him out of office. He was indicted on the more-serious charges this past spring by a Mobile County grand jury. If convicted of the most serious charges — sodomy and kidnapping — he faces from 20 years to life in prison.

The oldest incident in the charges dates to 1999, his first year as a circuit judge. The first public claim against Thomas surfaced in lawsuits filed by an inmate in 2001 in Mobile circuit court and in federal court that claimed the judge offered to help him with his case in return for sex. Both lawsuits were dismissed, and Thomas' reputation remained unblemished.

Chief Assistant District Attorney Nicki Patterson said authorities began looking at Thomas after he changed a jail sentence in 2006 for his cousin, former Mobile County school commissioner David Thomas, even though the case was being handled by another judge. Other cases that Thomas had taken over from other judges without their approval soon surfaced, she said.

Some inmates in those cases described being checked out of the jail for meetings with Thomas in his car or in his private office in the county courthouse. First, there were reports of inmates having to pull down their underwear for spankings with a wooden paddle. Then came allegations of oral and anal sex, according to court records.

Retired Mobile County Circuit Judge Braxton Kittrell said people thought Thomas' personal interest in the defendants was a positive.

"Everyone thought he had a lot of concern for people who got into criminal difficulty. All of this was a surprise to everyone," he said.

Defense attorney Robert "Cowboy Bob" Clark calls the accusers "lying felons" who are trying to wreck the career of "a prestigious member of the Bar for over 20 years." The NAACP has defended Thomas and claims race is behind his prosecution.

But Patterson disputes that, noting that each of the victims is black, and says that jail checkout records back up inmates' claims about trips to Thomas' private office, and other inmates spotted marks after paddlings. There also is other evidence, according to court records, including one inmate's seminal fluid on the office carpet. The inmates also were able to describe in detail Thomas' unmarked windowless office.

Prosecutors say they have 15 current and former male inmates lined up to testify in a trial that could take several weeks.

The 48-year-old attorney, whose license to practice has been suspended, maintains his innocence. He has said he was trying to mentor the inmates.

He and his attorney blame the charges on politicians who don't like him. "There is no doubt that people assisted these inmates in telling these lies on me," Thomas said in April.

His attorney called the indictment "a high-tech lynching" by some in power in Mobile. "They don't like uppity black folks, and that's what they consider Herman," Clark said.

Thomas grew up in Mobile and returned home after law school at Florida State University to become an assistant district attorney.

At the time, the majority white county had no black judges, and local officials were concerned that a federal judge might end countywide elections for judges. Local Democrats and lawyers recruited Thomas because he had a reputation as a young, bright lawyer and was widely respected for his civic activities, Mobile attorney Cecil Gardner recalled.

They got a Republican governor to appoint him to a vacancy in 1990 and he later won election to a full term. He handled lower level cases as a district judge, but he moved up to a county circuit judgeship in 1999 and started handling the most serious crimes, including murder.

In 1997, Alabama's presidential advisory committee recommended President Bill Clinton appoint Thomas as the first black federal judge in the southern district of Alabama. The nomination was never acted on after Thomas failed to get the American Bar Association's top rating and amid some squabbling within the party.

Thomas still enjoys support in Mobile. He and his wife Linda are frequently seen in public, and he continues to keep a high profile, including maintaining leadership roles in several civic organizations.

Edington said Thomas was particularly proud when he got to see his teenage twin daughters march in President Barack Obama's inaugural parade as members of Mobile's Azalea Trail Maids.

"If all these things are proven, then I along with everyone I know will be dumbfounded," Edington said.

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Woman Has Chronic Hiccups For 4 Years

Doctors Puzzled With Hiccups Case

Posted: 6:20 am PDT October 2, 2009

  Updated: 7:47 am PDT October 2, 2009

So what ever happened to her?

Molisee suffered from what she described as debilitating and relentless hiccups. She couldn't stop her hiccups, and every time WJXT visited her, it seemed to get worse.

And today, Molisee is still at it.

"Four years this month," she said as she hiccuped. "It's very painful."

Molisee said the hiccuping gives her   headaches and chest pain. She takes medication, but nothing seems to cure it.

Doctors remain puzzled.

"They're still not sure what's causing it," Molisee said.

She said it has gotten a little better since the last time WJXT talked to her.

"It's gotten to the point where they'll come on for a couple weeks and then they'll go away," Molisee said.

But she said they always come back, though she's not letting the hiccups stop her from living her life.

Molisee said she's getting married in three weeks to her fiance Ryan Tucker, and the two just bought a house.

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