QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — A 5-year-old Massachusetts boy may have a future in law enforcement. The Quincy Police Department on Wednesday posted to Facebook a recording of a 911 call the boy placed to report his father had run a red light. The boy tells a dispatcher: “Daddy went through a red light.” He then […]
KOCHVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man is facing charges after a stripper was paid with a counterfeit $100 bill following a lap dance. Stephen Gidcumb is charged with intentionally passing counterfeit notes. Police tell The Detroit News that fake bills were mixed in with real $100 bills. MLive.com reports the 32-year-old was arrested May […]
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — Politely holding a door open for a police officer has landed a Massachusetts man in jail. Authorities say Kayvon Mavaddat was at the Natick Mall on Friday when he held the door for the leaving officer. That officer thought Mavaddat looked familiar, and went to check his cruiser’s computer. The officer […]
SYCAMORE, Ohio (AP) — A teenager who toured an Ohio high school while posing as a state senator has pleaded guilty to impersonating a peace officer. Prosecutors say they’ll recommend probation for Marion resident Izaha Akins. The 18-year-old pleaded guilty Monday to the felony charge. Authorities say Akins spoke to a government class at Mohawk […]
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Investigators say a robber helped them out when he apparently dropped his own wallet with his identification in it as he and two accomplices tried to take money from men outside a Florida Panhandle bar. Twenty-eight-year-old Devonte Levoris Pace was arrested in Panama City on Tuesday following the armed robberies […]
SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle man running a so-called Christian prayer website and other businesses will return millions of dollars to consumers nationwide who paid for prayers, the Washington state attorney general said. As part of an agreement, Benjamin Rogovy will pay back as much as $7.75 million to approximately 165,000 customers who were victims […]
SALEM, Va. (AP) — A Virginia jail is no longer allowing inmates to receive personal photographs after officials found inmates were chewing on pictures that had been soaked in a drug. Western Virginia Regional Jail Superintendent Bobby Russell tells The Roanoke Times that the pictures were saturated in a liquid form of the narcotic-addiction treatment […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Investigators in the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office in north Florida say they are searching for clumsy burglary suspect who was caught on surveillance video falling through the ceiling of a Popeyes fried chicken restaurant. First Coast News reports the video shows the man crashing to the floor in a heap early Monday. […]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities say a Pennsylvania man tried to sell drugs in a Pittsburgh traffic court. Officials say 35-year-old Christopher Durkin spoke to a man in court after he appeared Monday to face charges of driving under suspension. A deputy told Durkin to leave. The other man told deputies Durkin attempted to sell him […]
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in Florida say a suspected burglar was arrested after returning to a crash scene to retrieve a bottle of iced tea, fearing it would be used as evidence. Local news outlets report 23-year-old Bryan Lindon is charged with burglary of an unoccupied residence and grand theft. Authorities say Lindon […]
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Authorities say a Canadian man was arrested while pulling a sled carrying more than 180 pounds of prescription pills across the border into the United States. The U.S. attorney’s office says 21-year-old Cedrik Bourgault-Morin was apprehended early Wednesday after he crossed the border from Quebec along a railroad line into North […]
LIMA, Ohio (AP) — A man Ohio police say sent them a selfie because he didn’t like the mugshot they were using has been arrested in the Florida panhandle. Lima, Ohio, police say Donald “Chip” Pugh was arrested Tuesday in Century, Florida, and is being held on another warrant out of Georgia. Police in Ohio […]
