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Man gets 2 years for bribing IRS with pizza
Houstonian gets 2 years for bribing IRS with pizza MARY FLOOD Houston Chronicle May 22, 2009, 5:45PM Moral of this story: Don t try to bribe the IRS with pizza, officials aren t that hungry. Ramesh G. Khilnani, 51, a native of India and a Houston-area resi...
May 23, 2009, 9:53 am - truesee

Burglar arrested after returning to scene with more tools
May 11, 9:02 PM EDT Okla. police arrest would-be burglar after he returns to the scene of the crime with more tools TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Police said officers arrested a would-be burglar when he returned to the scene of the crime after failing the first time to get in. Police said officers were called about 8:30 p.m. Sunday to the pharmacy of a medical center where witnesses said someone had tried to break in -...
May 12, 2009, 5:57 am - truesee

Man brings pot pipe to court
Man put marijuana pipe in security tray at St. Lucie courthouse, deputies say Will Greenlee Thursday, April 30, 2009 Clinton...
Apr 30, 2009, 9:41 pm - truesee

Man Uses Debit Card To Buy Soda Then Attempts To Rob Store
Mar 4, 7:38 PM EST Flustered W.Va. man uses debit card to pay for drink during alleged store holdup CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Would-be robbers take note: Don't use your debit card during a holdup. A West Virginia man who police say attempted to rob a convenience store instead ended up buying a soft drink with his debit card - ultimately leading to his arrest. Shawn Thomas Lester, 33, told the store clerk Monday he ha...
Mar 4, 2009, 8:05 pm - truesee

Neb. deputies say man stuffed cat inside 'bong'
... OMAHA, Neb. A man who tried to cool out his hyper cat by stuffing her into a boxlike homemade bong faces cruelty charges and catcalls from animal lovers. Lancaster County sheriff's deputies responding to a domestic disturbance call Sunday alleged they saw 20-year-old Acea Schomaker smoking marijuana through a piece of garden hose attached to a duct-taped, plastic glass box in which the cat had been stuffed. This cat was just dazed, Sgt. Andy...
Mar 2, 2009, 6:51 pm - angelm

Father Stabs Son For Refusing to Remove Hat In Church
Man stabs son in left buttock after he refused to take off his hat in church The Baltimore Sun 4:35 PM EST February 24, 2009 BALTIMORE (AP) Police said a 58-year-old man stabbed his teenage son after he refused to take off his hat at church earlier in the day. The father and his 19-year-old son got into an argument on Sunday afternoon. That's when police said the father went to a car, got a kn...
Feb 24, 2009, 4:47 pm - truesee

Cops recognize robbery suspect at police station
Cops recognize robbery suspect at police station MILWAUKEE Call it confidence, or maybe foolishness. A day after allegedly robbing a woman of her purse, a 19-year-old man walked into a Milwaukee police station to inquire about the arrest of his 18-year-old girlfriend for an alleged robbery. Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer said the man didn't disguise himself when he walked into the station's lobby Tuesday night, so Sgt. Willie Lee recognized him....
Jan 14, 2009, 3:42 pm - angelm

Couple: We didn't notice $175,000 bank error
Cops arrest pair who allegedly bought home when cash appeared in account The Associated Press updated 10:31 a.m. ET, Wed., Jan. 14, 2009 BLOOMSBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania couple is behind bars after police say they failed to call the bank when a glitch put an extra $175,000 in their account. Authorities say 50-year-old Randy Pratt and 36-year-old Melissa Pratt instead withdrew the mo...
Jan 14, 2009, 3:11 pm - NBey6

Man tells 911 slot machine stole his money
Man tells 911 slot machine stole his money TAMPA, Fla. - A second Florida man has been arrested on charges of making false 911 calls in as many days. An arrest report says 47-year-old Carlos Gutierrez was at the Hard Rock Hotel Casino early Monday and called 911 to say the slot machine stole his money. The report says Gutierrez left the casino to place a second 911 call to say the same thing. He was arrested and charged with making a false 911 call. He'...
Aug 5, 2008, 6:16 pm - angelm

A Breach in Nuclear Security
New Mexico police got more than they bargained for last fall when they responded to a call about a domestic dispute in a trailer park near Los Alamos National Laboratory. Not only had they stumbled on paraphernalia for making the drug crystal meth; they also found thousands of pages of highly classified documents detailing the designs of U.S. nuclear weapons. We're taking it (the security breach) very seriously, said a spokesman for the Energy Department, which controls the...
Apr 21, 2007, 4:50 am - LOTTOMIKE