`How about a little relaxation with your robbery?
A burglar gave a 35-year-old woman a shoulder massage for several hours after breaking into her apartment in central Tokyo and tying her up, police were quoted as saying Friday.
He stole 210,000 yen ($1,900) in cash and her bank cash card, though he later mailed the card to her as she requested after withdrawing 980,000 yen from her account, Kyodo news agency said.
It said Lee Jin-se, 29, a South Korean, admitted the burglary and told police he lingered in the woman’s apartment and gave her the massage “to relax her.”‘
`McKenzie police have charged two Carroll County parents with raping their child.
Jonathan Wayne Goodrum, 19, and Kristina Louise Sawyer, 18, are charged with raping their 1-day-old girl before she was taken home from McKenzie Regional Hospital about six weeks ago, said McKenzie Police Lt. Tim Nanney.
While both parents have been charged, Sawyer’s bond was reduced because police still are investigating what role, if any, she played in the possible rape of her child, Nanney said. She was charged because “I could not exclude her from being part of it, so I had to charge her also,” he said. “I could not exclude her at the time from being a participant of it.” ‘
`A girl is to become Britain’s youngest mother after becoming pregnant at 11.
The girl smokes 20 cigarettes a day despite being eight months’ pregnant. She conceived aged 11 when she lost her virginity to a boy of 15 on a drunken night out with friends.
The 15-year-old has since been charged with rape by police, and is due to appear again at Edinburgh sheriff court on July 10.
Her 34-year-old mother, who gave birth to her youngest child eight months ago, said she was ‘proud’ of her daughter.’
`A girl in the eighth grade has been suspended from school as authorities investigate allegations that she fondled and bit the penis of a 6-year-old boy while on a school bus.
The incident occurred about 4 p.m. Tuesday on a bus returning children home from school, according to the boy’s mother, of Caseyville.
She said in an interview Thursday that she will now take her son and his 9-year-old sister to and from their school, Edgemont Elementary School.
“When you send your kid to school or put them on a school bus, you don’t expect to hear this,” the mother said. “He doesn’t want to take a bath or pull his clothes off now.”‘
`Chesterton Police say a 17-year-old boy suffered a broken leg after he asked a friend to hit him with his car “for fun.”
Michael Morris of Chesterton is hospitalized in fair condition Tuesday, three days after the incident Saturday night. His friend, 18-year-old Stephen dDomonkos, told police Morris asked him to hit him with his car and that they had done it on previous occasions.
He told police Morris was “an adrenaline junkie.”‘
`A “cowardly” Edmonton man who “scalped” his sleeping girlfriend while using a power drill to style her hair avoided being sent to the slammer yesterday.
Shee Theng, 30, was handed a nine-month conditional sentence to be served in the community and eight months of probation on his assault with a weapon conviction.
“You’re like a shadow on the wall,” said provincial court Judge Shelagh Creagh, referring to his detailed evasiveness in a pre-sentence report and psychiatric assessment. [..]
Court heard the attachment caught in Rose’s hair and pulled out a clump, leaving her bleeding, screaming and terrified while Theng took off. Court also heard Theng knew it was a dangerous idea because he had earlier scalped himself the same way.’
`The cave had it all, everything Fred Strunk and his work crews needed to grow 100 pounds of marijuana every two months.
Row after row of white-bright grow lights were powered by “free” electricity via an illegal splice into utility lines. An indoor irrigation system was nearly an engineering marvel. A ventilation system controlled humidity, while a security system featured a bank-vault-like entrance, with security cameras placed everywhere.
And there was the cave itself, a rock fortress shielding the illegal activity.
Strunk’s pot harvests, without a doubt, replaced tobacco and vegetables as Trousdale County’s biggest cash crop, investigators said.’
follow up to Men Grew Pot Inside Cave.
`A knife-wielding mugger who robbed a woman of her bags before discovering they were full of dog mess has been jailed for four years.
David Carlisle, 32, forced 52-year-old Marion Budd to hand over the bags at knifepoint last July as she walked her dog in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.
When he realised what he had taken, Carlisle, a drug addict and father-of -four, fled the scene empty-handed.
The bungling would-be thief was jailed after admitting attempted robbery.’
`A California lawmaker has introduced a bill sparked by Tom Cruise’s revelation he bought a sonogram machine to watch his daughter grow in Katie Holmes’ womb.
Democratic Assemblyman Ted Lieu’s bill would ban selling, leasing or distributing ultrasound machines to anyone other than licensed medical professionals, E! Online reported Wednesday. The state assembly is scheduled to debate the bill in Sacramento Thursday.
“If someone sees Tom Cruise buy one, they think this is the thing to do,” Lieu said. “This is a public safety measure. There’s really no medical reason for an untrained person to use this machine.”‘
`Midvale police are on the lookout for a man who allegedly tried to kidnap a 13 year old boy while he walked to school Tuesday morning.
Brendon Nichol tells police that he noticed a man following him almost from the moment he left his home headed to Midvale Middle School around 7:00 a.m.
“That’s when I took out my notepad and pencil and started looking at his facial expression and how big he was,” says Nichol.
Nichol also says the man followed him for several blocks, and then finally approached the boy from behind, getting him in a headlock. “My first reaction was to pick it up and stab him like this and it broke off somewhere in his face.” Nichol says.’
`Governments in Canada should steer completely clear from adopting or emulating any current drug policies in the United States, an outspoken New York state prosecutor said Tuesday.
“My advice to Canada is stay as completely far away from U.S. drug law policy as possible,” said David Soares, the district attorney for Albany County in the state of New York. “You (Canada) are headed in the right direction.”
In a blunt and scathing condemnation of his state and country’s ineffective drug war, Mr. Soares said lawmakers, judges and prosecutors in the U.S. know their system is ineffective.
But they support it anyway because it provides law enforcement officials with lucrative jobs.’
`A high school teacher in Belleville, Ill., was arrested and charged with breaking the neck of a 17-year-old student and then leaving her to die in some woods, according to police.
Investigators said Samson Shelton, 26, who is a teacher at Columbia High School, tried to strangle Ashley Reeves and then left her to die.
Shelton was with St. Clair County detectives when they found Reeves in a park in Belleville. She survived in the woods for 30 hours before she was found.’
`A carpenter who keeps his clothes clean by working in the nude was arrested after a client returned home early and found him building bookcases in the buff.
Percy Honniball, 50, was charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure this week for the October incident.
He told officers he stripped before crawling under the client’s house to do electrical work because he didn’t want to soil his clothes, police said.
Honniball said Thursday that working in the nude gave him a better range of motion and that a skilled craftsman can work clothing — and injury — free.’
`Fire departments are using Homeland Security grants to buy gym equipment, sponsor puppet and clown shows, and turn first responders into fitness trainers.
The spending choices are allowable under the guidelines of the Assistance to Firefighters grant administered by the Homeland Security Department, which has awarded nearly 250 grants since February totaling more than $25 million out of the current spending pot of $545 million.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff vowed to redirect grant spending based on risk of a terrorist attack, but Congress has ignored his pleas, federal officials say.
“The administration has not supported the funding for physical fitness equipment as part of the fire grant program,” says Marc Short, Homeland Security spokesman. “Physical fitness is an individual responsibility.”
The Bush administration has specifically asked Congress not to allow funding for physical fitness, but the members who run Congress’ appropriation committees keep inserting the language into the department’s budget, officials say.’
`A man who claims he mistakenly had sex with “the wrong woman” after entering a dark bedroom at the home of a Sydney magazine editor was yesterday committed to stand trial for rape.
Paul John Chappell, 31, was invited back to the editor’s Bondi flat after they met during a night out.
The pair went to bed and Chappell later got up to use the bathroom.
But Chappell claims he mistakenly returned to the wrong bedroom, where the editor’s 23-year-old flatmate was asleep.
He got into bed with the flatmate and initiated sex, allegedly believing she was the other woman.
The flatmate participated because she thought it was her own boyfriend who had come to bed after falling asleep in the loungeroom.’
`A Salvadoran woman is in some trouble after she allegedly tried to smuggle into the country’s main prison a military grenade and marijuana hidden in her vagina.
The cylinder was about 10 inches long and 4 inches wide. Officials didn’t say what prompted them to check Lidia Alvarado, 44, but authorities have raised the security level at jails across the country, fearing inmates may be planning something.
Alvarado was visiting two inmates serving 25 and 30 years when she was arrested. She now faces drug and weapons charges.
Police who inspected the M-67 grenade said it was in working condition.’
`Britain’s worst driver was [behind] bars last night after being banned from the roads for nine lifetimes plus 109 years.
John Williamson, 40, was locked up for 14 months yesterday after he admitted defying eight previous life bans for drinking and driving.
In 2000, Williamson was branded the worst driver “in Scotland, if not the UK”, after earning his sixth life ban.
At the time, he claimed he only got behind the wheel when he was drunk.
He also claimed he had never caused an accident – shortly before smashing into a police car.
At Perth Sheriff Court yesterday, Williamson was banned for life for the ninth time after he admitted driving while disqualified and with no insurance.’
`From the life-does-not-always-imitate-art department, an Albany, New York, resident was sentenced to jail for second-degree assault and attempted first-degree assault, reports the online branch of Capital 9 News.
Tyrone McMillan was taken into custody last year after leading police on a car chase when officers attempted to pull him over for a parole violation. After slamming into two cars, McMillan told police that he thought he could outrun them because he played games from Rockstar’s controversial Grand Theft Auto franchise.
McMillan, in his 30s, apparently thought that his gaming skills translated to the real world. His experience navigating the fictional streets of San Andreas and Vice City with a PlayStation 2 controller led to a 55-minute real-life car chase, part of which had his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter and her 10-year-old cousin in the backseat. The girls leapt from the moving car while it was turning onto a highway.’
`An intruder has been found dead and naked in the house he broke into after apparently overdosing on prescription drugs he had found inside.
The 60-year-old resident of an Adelaide property found the body yesterday after being away for two days.
Police said the dead man appeared to have taken the resident’s diabetes tablets, vomited in the toilet and then used the shower before collapsing.
Detective Senior Sergeant Brian Kimber, of Elizabeth, said the intruder, aged in his 20s, had been known to police.’
`When Thomas Carroll couldn’t come up with the $125 in fines and fees to bail his pet Weimaraner out of the dog pound, investigators say he broke into the pound to free his pooch and three others.
The dogs’ liberation didn’t last long, and authorities soon caught up with Carroll, charging the Glen Carbon man Tuesday with two felony burglary counts. Carroll, 20, remained jailed Wednesday on $50,000 bond.’
`A teenage boy accidentally set himself on fire early Wednesday morning after allegedly trying to siphon gas from a firefighter’s car.
Police first learned of the injury after a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy claimed that someone had thrown gasoline on the 17-year-old at the Common Cents service station and lit him on fire, said Lt. Rod Hauge.
The boy was taken to the hospital with second- and third-degree burns on his legs. Police were called to the hospital to investigate the incident and later learned that the 17-year-old spilled gas on his pants while siphoning gas. He then used a lighter to try to determine how wet his pants were and set himself of fire, Hague said.’
`An arrest warrant was issued Sunday for an Allentown man who police say took dominos to a violent extreme.
Reynaldo Nieves, 38, of 25 Cleveland St., allegedly attacked his girlfriend, Ana Alicea, early Sunday after she and her sister won their third game of dominos at 1045 Livingston St., Bethlehem, police said. [..]
According to the police report, Nieves and his friend Danny Ortiz were ”having a nice time” playing dominos with Alicea and her sister Glenda Alicea. but during the fourth game, Nieves, who the report said had been drinking, accused Ana Alicea of cheating. He then cursed at her, threw a domino at her and punched her in the face before jumping on top of her, the report states.’
`A 75-year-old Romanian pensioner literally knocked out a burglar with karate moves she said she learned from television.
Anica D, who lives in Popeni village in Vaslui county, told police she was sleeping when the intruder broke into her house and attacked her.
The woman said she shouted for help but nobody came so she tried some karate she had learned from a self-defence TV programme.
Anica successfully managed to “immobilise” the burglar and then phoned police who arrested the man, the Ziarul newspaper reports.’
`Two Catoosa County neighbors got in a gunbattle after one shot the other’s dog, Sheriff Phil Summers said.
One man was transported to Erlanger Medical Center after the gunplay on Sunday night. [..]
During the altercation, the two men exchanged gunfire. McDaniel was not injured, however, Mr. Beyer suffered from gunshot wounds to the head and chest area from McDaniel’s shotgun.
McDaniel was transported to Catoosa County Detention Center and charged with cruelty to animals.
Sheriff Summers said the case is still under investigation. At this time, the Sheriff’s Office is attempting to determine if additional charges should be filed.’
`Two people who police say conspired to get off of work for a few days by filing a fake obituary with a newspaper have been arrested.
James Ralph Snyder, 36, and Mary Jo Elizabeth Jensen, 33, both of Waterloo, participated in the scam by filing an obituary saying Jensen’s 17-year-old son had died, police said.
Snyder was charged with tampering with records. Jensen was charged with being an accessory after the fact.
Snyder, claiming he was Daniel Reddout’s father, submitted the obituary to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier in December, police said.
Snyder, who is Jensen’s boyfriend, said Reddout died at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn., after a lengthy illness, police said.
Later in the week, people who know the family and the teenager saw him at a downtown restaurant and called authorities, police said.’
`A Lincoln, Nebraska, man who has six prosecutions for urinating in public – has been caught again.
But this time Darwin Shum was caught with his pants down doing a “number two” on the concrete veranda of Lincoln’s Hall of Justice.
If convicted, Shum could face a minimum £57 fine. Police said they did not believe Shum was making a political statement or intoxicated at the time.’
`If you’re launching yourself as Britain’s FBI and say you will make the lives of organised criminals “hell” then you need a dynamic logo to match the job.
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has chosen a fierce big cat bearing its fangs and leaping over a stylised silver globe, with a crown capping it all.
It’s bold but bears a striking resemblance to the logo of the 1980s children’s cartoon series Thundercats. So was the comparison to the show – which featured humanoid cats battling evil mutants in the Earth’s distant future – intentional? Soca declined to comment.’
`A man smuggled half a tonne of $2 coins out of the Royal Australian Mint in his boots and lunch box and kept notes of when he exchanged the money, a court has been told.
The theft has forced a major security upgrade at the Mint, which produces 10 million coins every week.
William Grzeskowiac, 48, of Monash, today pleaded guilty in the ACT Magistrates Court to dishonestly appropriating the money between April 2005 and February this year.
The court heard Grzeskowiac carried more than 77,000 coins worth $155,000 out of the Mint over 10 months, avoiding detection by the facility’s inadequate security system.’
`Federal investigators said Friday they are preparing to file charges against a Santa Cruz couple suspected of taking a two-day-old harbor seal pup from the beach back to their home.
The pup was found by a volunteer rescuer in the pair’s backyard late last month. The pup died hours later after an unsuccessful attempt to reunite it with its mother, said Doug Ross, a volunteer with the Marine Mammal Center.
Ross believes the pair carried the pup to their Seabright home after spotting it beside the San Lorenzo River mouth. Ross said he found the pup in a dog crate after receiving an early-morning emergency call the couple made to a 24-hour seal rescue hot line.’
`Staff at a Japanese convenience store got a shock when they asked an elderly gentleman to stop reading magazines without buying them, media reports say.
The man, 70, left the 7-Eleven store in the Ibaraki prefecture north-east of Tokyo – and returned with a chainsaw, police told AFP news agency.
After threatening to cut staff to pieces he left the chainsaw outside the shop and carried on reading.
“He was still reading when I called the police,” the manager told AFP.’
