ORLANDO, Fla. (UPI) -- A Florida man said he was shocked to discover he was "a billionaire for a minute" when his bank froze his account and flagged a $999.99 million deposit.
Otelo Vizcaino, 42, of Orlando, said he discovered after his card was rejected at a gas pump last week his account had been frozen by SunTrust Bank and a $999.99 million deposit had been flagged, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported Tuesday.
"That's right -- one penny short of $1 billion," Vizcaino said. I was a billionaire for a minute, and I have nothing to show for it but grief.
SunTrust Bank said Monday the account was frozen as the result of internal computer procedures and there were no security breaches. The bank said the $999.99 million deposit is an internal signal to bank workers that the account is currently frozen.
"We work to verify funds as efficiently and effectively as possible to limit any impact to a client's account," SunTrust spokesman Hugh Suhr said. Based on the feedback in this instance, it sounds like we could have done a better job communicating that process.
Vizcaino said the bank told him his account should be back to normal by Wednesday.
Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Friday, July 9, 2010
Too Hot Now?
Summer is here, no doubt about it. Temperatures here in Southern California are soaring, here in the desert it has been over the century mark the past few days as we head for the heat of the season.
Think it isn't hot here in the rest of Southern California as well? Think again:
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Southern California commuters can now say they've seen it all, including a naked man in the middle of Interstate 405. California Highway Patrol Officer Monica Posada said the first call came at the height of rush-hour Thursday - a man with no clothes was in the center divide of the freeway. Then came a rush of calls reporting the man in the buff.
Long Beach police detained the 21-year-old man and gave him a mental health evaluation.
Police said he was taken into custody and will be charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure.
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Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com
Think it isn't hot here in the rest of Southern California as well? Think again:
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Southern California commuters can now say they've seen it all, including a naked man in the middle of Interstate 405. California Highway Patrol Officer Monica Posada said the first call came at the height of rush-hour Thursday - a man with no clothes was in the center divide of the freeway. Then came a rush of calls reporting the man in the buff.
Long Beach police detained the 21-year-old man and gave him a mental health evaluation.
Police said he was taken into custody and will be charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure.
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Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com
Saturday, September 5, 2009
MANKATO, Minn. (AP) - It didn't take much work for two county sheriff's deputies in Minnesota to track down four burglary suspects.
In fact, the suspects pulled right into the Happy Chef restaurant where the Blue Earth County deputies were on a coffee break
Wednesday night.
The deputies had been investigating three residential burglaries that seemed to be related. When they were on their break at Happy Chef, a report of another burglary came in from another county, along with a description of the suspects' pickup truck.
A truck matching that description pulled right into the parking lot. The stolen goods, including laptop computers, other electronics and jewelry, were in the back.
Captain Rich Murry says it shows even a coffee break can be productive.
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Information from: The Free Press, http://www.mankatofreepress.com
In fact, the suspects pulled right into the Happy Chef restaurant where the Blue Earth County deputies were on a coffee break
Wednesday night.
The deputies had been investigating three residential burglaries that seemed to be related. When they were on their break at Happy Chef, a report of another burglary came in from another county, along with a description of the suspects' pickup truck.
A truck matching that description pulled right into the parking lot. The stolen goods, including laptop computers, other electronics and jewelry, were in the back.
Captain Rich Murry says it shows even a coffee break can be productive.
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Information from: The Free Press, http://www.mankatofreepress.com
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Never mind spam, beware of these emails LOL
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - You've got mail - and possibly an STD. The Brazilian Health Ministry has created a Web site to let people inform partners they've got a sexually transmitted disease via an e-mailed virtual postcard.
The official in charge of the ministry's STD and AIDs programs notes that many people have a hard time telling partners they're infected.
Mariangela Simao said in a statement this week that the e-mails may help people "to tackle these diseases directly and with minimum exposure."
One of the cards shows a young man reclining in his underwear. It reads: "Hi! I don't know if this is the best way to tell you, but I've learned that I have an STD."
The card suggests the recipient see a doctor.
http://www.aids.gov.br/muitoprazer/index.php?qdiganao
The official in charge of the ministry's STD and AIDs programs notes that many people have a hard time telling partners they're infected.
Mariangela Simao said in a statement this week that the e-mails may help people "to tackle these diseases directly and with minimum exposure."
One of the cards shows a young man reclining in his underwear. It reads: "Hi! I don't know if this is the best way to tell you, but I've learned that I have an STD."
The card suggests the recipient see a doctor.
http://www.aids.gov.br/muitoprazer/index.php?qdiganao
Friday, August 7, 2009
Expensive Kiss!
And a very lousy hypnotist as well! LOL
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A South Korean hypnotist has been fined for stealing a kiss on a blind date with a woman he thought he had successfully put in a trance, news reports said Thursday.
The 32-year-old man suggested hypnotizing his 27-year-old date during their first meeting arranged by a matchmaking agency
in August last year, according to the Dong-a Ilbo newspaper and Yonhap news agency.
The woman was eventually persuaded, and the hypnotist chanted: "Black hole! You will plunge deeper into a trance. You will feel thrilled all over your body and if my hand touches your body, you will feel intense pleasure."
When the man, identified only by his surname, Park, thought his technique had worked, he went to kiss her.
But the woman was fully alert, though her eyes were closed, and she pushed him away. Later, she filed accusations that he had sexually harassed her, the reports said.
The Seoul Central District Court fined Park 3 million won ($2,453), they said.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A South Korean hypnotist has been fined for stealing a kiss on a blind date with a woman he thought he had successfully put in a trance, news reports said Thursday.
The 32-year-old man suggested hypnotizing his 27-year-old date during their first meeting arranged by a matchmaking agency
in August last year, according to the Dong-a Ilbo newspaper and Yonhap news agency.
The woman was eventually persuaded, and the hypnotist chanted: "Black hole! You will plunge deeper into a trance. You will feel thrilled all over your body and if my hand touches your body, you will feel intense pleasure."
When the man, identified only by his surname, Park, thought his technique had worked, he went to kiss her.
But the woman was fully alert, though her eyes were closed, and she pushed him away. Later, she filed accusations that he had sexually harassed her, the reports said.
The Seoul Central District Court fined Park 3 million won ($2,453), they said.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Take the money and run!
GREENACRES, Fla. (AP) - Authorities caught a Lake Worth man running down the street with a stolen cash register. Greenacres police reported that a 32-year-old man entered a restaurant Thursday afternoon and asked for change for a $10 bill. When the cashier asked to see the bill, the man reportedly began screaming, "I want change!"
Police said the man then grabbed about $40 from a tip box, picked up the cash register containing nearly $300 and ran out.
The officers who arrested the suspect after a short chase had just come from reviewing surveillance footage at a nearby connivence store, where lottery tickets had been stolen a day earlier. By chance, the officers identified the man as the thief from the footage.
The man was being held on $21,000 bail for multiple charges.
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Information from: The Palm Beach Post, http://www.pbpost.com
Police said the man then grabbed about $40 from a tip box, picked up the cash register containing nearly $300 and ran out.
The officers who arrested the suspect after a short chase had just come from reviewing surveillance footage at a nearby connivence store, where lottery tickets had been stolen a day earlier. By chance, the officers identified the man as the thief from the footage.
The man was being held on $21,000 bail for multiple charges.
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Information from: The Palm Beach Post, http://www.pbpost.com
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Foul!
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Authorities said a man accused of money laundering was tripped up because he could have used a little cleansing himself. Court records show that during his trips to a Eugene bank a man drew attention to himself because of a foul odor, possibly linked to fertilizer. A teller vomited. Customers complained. Authorities investigated.
After an Internal Revenue Service investigation into a drug operation involving high-potency marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms, a federal grand jury indicted the man.
He does not face drug charges, but he is accused of laundering cash in dozens of transactions totaling nearly $500,000 in 2007 and 2008.
Court records show he pleaded guilty in 1999 to manufacturing and delivering a controlled substance.
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Information from: The Register-Guard, http://www.registerguard.com
After an Internal Revenue Service investigation into a drug operation involving high-potency marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms, a federal grand jury indicted the man.
He does not face drug charges, but he is accused of laundering cash in dozens of transactions totaling nearly $500,000 in 2007 and 2008.
Court records show he pleaded guilty in 1999 to manufacturing and delivering a controlled substance.
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Information from: The Register-Guard, http://www.registerguard.com
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
How Desperate
Hospital patients getting drunk on gels
LICHFIELD, England (UPI) -- Some patients in British hospitals have been using alcohol hand gels to get intoxicated, the National Health Service says.
The health agency has issued an official patient safety alert to hospitals and clinics throughout Britain, The Daily Telegraph reported. The gels have been used in patient care for more than four years.
Reported thefts of the alcohol hand gels by patients have already resulted in two hospitals in Staffordshire clearing their wards of gel dispensers.
The dispensers are typically placed around hospital wards for employees to use to fight the spread of infections.
Paramedics who have treated patients accused of stealing the dispensers claim desperate patients with addictions will consume the alcoholic solution despite the presence of a foul-tasting chemical.
The Telegraph said an unspecified number of deaths and serious incidents have been attributed to the consumption of hand gel.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
LICHFIELD, England (UPI) -- Some patients in British hospitals have been using alcohol hand gels to get intoxicated, the National Health Service says.
The health agency has issued an official patient safety alert to hospitals and clinics throughout Britain, The Daily Telegraph reported. The gels have been used in patient care for more than four years.
Reported thefts of the alcohol hand gels by patients have already resulted in two hospitals in Staffordshire clearing their wards of gel dispensers.
The dispensers are typically placed around hospital wards for employees to use to fight the spread of infections.
Paramedics who have treated patients accused of stealing the dispensers claim desperate patients with addictions will consume the alcoholic solution despite the presence of a foul-tasting chemical.
The Telegraph said an unspecified number of deaths and serious incidents have been attributed to the consumption of hand gel.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
More Bailout?
I wondered how long before someone came up with more bailout ideas for Congress. Why not keep bailing folks out? Pretty soon the government will have their hands in every businesses pockets LOL
LOS ANGELES
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt and "GirlsGone Wild" founder Joe Francis announced Wednesday that they have asked Congress for a $5 billion federal bailout to help the adult entertainment industry during the economic downturn.
"People are too depressed to be sexually active," Flynt said. "This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without sex."
"Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation's most important businesses," he said. "We feel we deserve the same consideration. In difficult economic times, Americans turn to entertainment for relief. More and more, the kind of entertainment they turn to is adult entertainment."
According to Flynt and Francis, adult DVD sales and rentals have decreased by 22 percent in the past year.
Francis said the money for the $13 billion industry would be "just to see us through hard times."
"With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind," Flynt said. "It's time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America. The only way they can do this is by supporting the adult industry and doing it quickly."
LOS ANGELES
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt and "GirlsGone Wild" founder Joe Francis announced Wednesday that they have asked Congress for a $5 billion federal bailout to help the adult entertainment industry during the economic downturn.
"People are too depressed to be sexually active," Flynt said. "This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without sex."
"Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation's most important businesses," he said. "We feel we deserve the same consideration. In difficult economic times, Americans turn to entertainment for relief. More and more, the kind of entertainment they turn to is adult entertainment."
According to Flynt and Francis, adult DVD sales and rentals have decreased by 22 percent in the past year.
Francis said the money for the $13 billion industry would be "just to see us through hard times."
"With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind," Flynt said. "It's time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America. The only way they can do this is by supporting the adult industry and doing it quickly."
Friday, November 14, 2008
Never Burgle When Hungry
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - A prosecutor says greasy fingerprints led police in Virginia to a suspect with sticky fingers. Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Bethany Harrison said Lynchburg police matched prints on an orange juice bottle left at the scene of a breaking and entering to 33-year-old Bernard Wood.
He was sentenced Friday to six years in prison after being found guilty of three counts of burglary and two counts of grand larceny.
Harrison said Wood stole appliances, jewelry and tools from several homes in June and raided his victims' refrigerators.
At one crime scene, police found the juice bottle and remnants of a chicken.
Harrison says police also recovered some of the 78 bags of popcorn also reported stolen when they went to Wood's home to arrest him.
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Information from: The News & Advance, http://www.newsadvance.com/
He was sentenced Friday to six years in prison after being found guilty of three counts of burglary and two counts of grand larceny.
Harrison said Wood stole appliances, jewelry and tools from several homes in June and raided his victims' refrigerators.
At one crime scene, police found the juice bottle and remnants of a chicken.
Harrison says police also recovered some of the 78 bags of popcorn also reported stolen when they went to Wood's home to arrest him.
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Information from: The News & Advance, http://www.newsadvance.com/
Monday, November 3, 2008
Feces confirmed in gelato
SYDNEY (UPI) -- An Australian hotel restaurant where a guest discovered feces in her gelato says its tests indicate the waste did not come from their gelato supply.
The New South Wales Food Authority announced Tuesday that the substance Jessica Whyte spit into her napkin while eating the dark chocolate gelato at the Coogee Bay Hotel in suburban Sydney tested positive for feces, the Sydney Daily Telegram reported Wednesday.
The authority said further tests will be conducted to determine whether the waste came from a human or an animal.
A spokeswoman for the hotel said the restaurant tested its tub of gelato and found no traces of feces, indicating it was added to the dessert during preparation or eating.
"The Coogee Bay Hotel has never disputed the substance the Whytes have held for three weeks could be fecal," the spokeswoman said. "The real question remains -- where did it come from?"
Whyte and her husband Stephen said they remain convinced the feces were planted in the dish by a Coogee Bay staff member.
The Whytes said they complained about the price of the food and the behavior of restaurant staff when they ate there early this month and were given the complimentary dessert.
General Manager Tony Williams said earlier he was "extremely suspicious" of the Whytes' claims.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
The New South Wales Food Authority announced Tuesday that the substance Jessica Whyte spit into her napkin while eating the dark chocolate gelato at the Coogee Bay Hotel in suburban Sydney tested positive for feces, the Sydney Daily Telegram reported Wednesday.
The authority said further tests will be conducted to determine whether the waste came from a human or an animal.
A spokeswoman for the hotel said the restaurant tested its tub of gelato and found no traces of feces, indicating it was added to the dessert during preparation or eating.
"The Coogee Bay Hotel has never disputed the substance the Whytes have held for three weeks could be fecal," the spokeswoman said. "The real question remains -- where did it come from?"
Whyte and her husband Stephen said they remain convinced the feces were planted in the dish by a Coogee Bay staff member.
The Whytes said they complained about the price of the food and the behavior of restaurant staff when they ate there early this month and were given the complimentary dessert.
General Manager Tony Williams said earlier he was "extremely suspicious" of the Whytes' claims.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Man allegedly helps renovate with 'hot' property
CHALMETTE, La. (AP) - A man may have won points with his girlfriend by offering to help renovate her home. Police weren't impressed, however. Authorities say the man stole some of the things he was using in the renovation
- including $10,000 worth of cabinets.
The 29-year-old man was booked with possession of stolen property.
The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office said he was helping renovate his girlfriend's home with items that had been reported stolen in at least three burglaries. The items included the cabinets removed from the walls of a home in Violet and carpet cut from the floors.
The sheriff's office said Thursday that the man could face additional counts of possession of stolen property.
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Information from: The Times-Picayune, http://www.timespicayune.com
- including $10,000 worth of cabinets.
The 29-year-old man was booked with possession of stolen property.
The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office said he was helping renovate his girlfriend's home with items that had been reported stolen in at least three burglaries. The items included the cabinets removed from the walls of a home in Violet and carpet cut from the floors.
The sheriff's office said Thursday that the man could face additional counts of possession of stolen property.
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Information from: The Times-Picayune, http://www.timespicayune.com
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Calif. man accused of driving stolen SUV to court
SAN ANSELMO, Calif. (AP) - Police have charged a man with stealing a Lexus SUV he drove to court the day a jury was to decide whether to convict him in a separate auto theft case.
The man, a 37-year-old San Francisco hairstylist, was arraigned Monday on charges of receiving a stolen vehicle and receiving stolen property after police saw him approach the stolen Lexus in front of the courthouse with its keys in hand.
Police were attracted to the SUV after bystanders noticed several Yorkshire terriers mulling around it.
The man was also charged with animal cruelty and leaving animals in an unattended vehicle.
Meanwhile, he was convicted in the other case. He was charged with possession of a $125,000 Porsche Carrera that had been stolen from a San Anselmo home.
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Information from: Marin Independent Journal, http://www.marinij.com
The man, a 37-year-old San Francisco hairstylist, was arraigned Monday on charges of receiving a stolen vehicle and receiving stolen property after police saw him approach the stolen Lexus in front of the courthouse with its keys in hand.
Police were attracted to the SUV after bystanders noticed several Yorkshire terriers mulling around it.
The man was also charged with animal cruelty and leaving animals in an unattended vehicle.
Meanwhile, he was convicted in the other case. He was charged with possession of a $125,000 Porsche Carrera that had been stolen from a San Anselmo home.
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Information from: Marin Independent Journal, http://www.marinij.com
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Man may be reimbursed for money mutilated by mice
JACKSON, Mo. (AP) - A bunch of mice turn out to be no match for the U.S. Mint.
A southeast Missouri man is expected to be reimbursed for about $1,000 in bills that had been munched on by rodents.
He had left the $20 bills in an unzipped vinyl bag on a desk at his home, and it was misplaced during the ice storm last winter and the flooding in March.
He eventually found the bag, and in August took it to First Missouri State Bank in Jackson in hopes of covering his losses.
Bank manager Michelle Johns said Wednesday she and two staffers picked through rodent droppings and bird feathers and reassembled the bills.
"With that mess, I didn't know if we could do anything with it," Johns said.
The U.S. Mint advised Johns that both sets of serial numbers printed on the bills must be complete to get reimbursement.
Johns said mint officials instructed her to send the reassembled bills - and the feces and feathers - to them in Washington, D.C.
The mint will then issue the customer a check for the exact amount the torn money is worth.
Moral: Always zip those zip lock bags!
A southeast Missouri man is expected to be reimbursed for about $1,000 in bills that had been munched on by rodents.
He had left the $20 bills in an unzipped vinyl bag on a desk at his home, and it was misplaced during the ice storm last winter and the flooding in March.
He eventually found the bag, and in August took it to First Missouri State Bank in Jackson in hopes of covering his losses.
Bank manager Michelle Johns said Wednesday she and two staffers picked through rodent droppings and bird feathers and reassembled the bills.
"With that mess, I didn't know if we could do anything with it," Johns said.
The U.S. Mint advised Johns that both sets of serial numbers printed on the bills must be complete to get reimbursement.
Johns said mint officials instructed her to send the reassembled bills - and the feces and feathers - to them in Washington, D.C.
The mint will then issue the customer a check for the exact amount the torn money is worth.
Moral: Always zip those zip lock bags!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Group nabbed after fine paid with marked bills
INYOKERN, Calif. (AP) - A group of suspected thieves in Kern County may need to learn the concept of "unmarked bills." A restaurant known as The Homestead in the high desert town of Inyokern had a tradition of customers hanging dollar bills on its walls, usually inscribing them with messages and other distinguishing details.
Last week a man used 10 of the bills, some with the word "Homestead" on them, to pay a court fine, and a clerk immediately recognized them, Sheriff's Sgt. Tyson Davis said Monday.
Donald Dejarnette, 34, and four others have been arrested on suspicion of lifting $8,000 worth of the bills from the restaurant's walls, authorities said.
About $1,000 from the now-closed restaurant has been recovered, some of it from banks where the bills were traded in for larger currency.
A sheriff's deputy reached early Tuesday did not know whether any of the suspects has hired an attorney.
The restaurant has been shuttered and for sale for over a year, but the owner has kept it intact with the remaining bills still on the wall.
Last week a man used 10 of the bills, some with the word "Homestead" on them, to pay a court fine, and a clerk immediately recognized them, Sheriff's Sgt. Tyson Davis said Monday.
Donald Dejarnette, 34, and four others have been arrested on suspicion of lifting $8,000 worth of the bills from the restaurant's walls, authorities said.
About $1,000 from the now-closed restaurant has been recovered, some of it from banks where the bills were traded in for larger currency.
A sheriff's deputy reached early Tuesday did not know whether any of the suspects has hired an attorney.
The restaurant has been shuttered and for sale for over a year, but the owner has kept it intact with the remaining bills still on the wall.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Maybe A Diet Would Help?
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) -- Police in Knoxville, Tenn., say a man has been arrested for burglary after he phoned authorities and told them he was stuck in a museum ventilation shaft.
Knoxville police said Anthony Smith, 25, called 911 shortly before 4:30 a.m. Wednesday and told the dispatcher he was wedged in the ventilation system at the Knoxville Museum of Art, WBIR-TV in Knoxville reported.
Police and firefighters arrived at the museum to find Smith wedged 40 feet down a ventilator shaft but investigators said they are unsure of how he could have gotten onto the building's roof.
Authorities said nothing was disturbed inside the museum. However, Smith was arrested on the burglary charge after being extracted from the tight space.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
Knoxville police said Anthony Smith, 25, called 911 shortly before 4:30 a.m. Wednesday and told the dispatcher he was wedged in the ventilation system at the Knoxville Museum of Art, WBIR-TV in Knoxville reported.
Police and firefighters arrived at the museum to find Smith wedged 40 feet down a ventilator shaft but investigators said they are unsure of how he could have gotten onto the building's roof.
Authorities said nothing was disturbed inside the museum. However, Smith was arrested on the burglary charge after being extracted from the tight space.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Woman finds 'Goldilocks' snoring in her son's bed
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A man was charged with burglary after he allegedly broke into a home, ate cheese from the refrigerator, made a mess in a bathroom and fell asleep on a child's bed. Tracy Mullins, 47, of Billings, was arraigned in District Court on Thursday by video from the county jail.
Mullins pleaded not guilty to burglary. Judge Susan Watters set bail at $5,000 after rejecting a request that he be released without bail. Public defender Richard Phillips, who made the request, said Mullins had been receiving mental-health counseling.
Court records indicate a woman awoke in her home Monday at 8:30 a.m. to the sound of snoring coming from her 2-year-old son's bedroom. Her son had slept that night with her and her husband.
The woman said she found a strange man sleeping in her son's bed. She woke her husband and left to call police from a neighbor's house. The husband confronted the man with an unloaded shotgun and held him until police arrived.
Mullins pleaded not guilty to burglary. Judge Susan Watters set bail at $5,000 after rejecting a request that he be released without bail. Public defender Richard Phillips, who made the request, said Mullins had been receiving mental-health counseling.
Court records indicate a woman awoke in her home Monday at 8:30 a.m. to the sound of snoring coming from her 2-year-old son's bedroom. Her son had slept that night with her and her husband.
The woman said she found a strange man sleeping in her son's bed. She woke her husband and left to call police from a neighbor's house. The husband confronted the man with an unloaded shotgun and held him until police arrived.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Busy Man
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) - A man acquitted a month ago of robbing a bank has been arrested in another robbery at the same bank. The man, 35, was accused of robbing Liberty Bank on Tuesday, police say.
The man was acquitted Aug. 21 of robbing the bank last October after employees could not positively identify him during his trial.
In another case, the man faces charges of aggravated assault and aggravated robbery in the beating of an elderly woman inside the downtown post office last fall. Police said he stole the woman's purse and her car.
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Information from: The Jonesboro Sun, http://www.jonesborosun.com
The man was acquitted Aug. 21 of robbing the bank last October after employees could not positively identify him during his trial.
In another case, the man faces charges of aggravated assault and aggravated robbery in the beating of an elderly woman inside the downtown post office last fall. Police said he stole the woman's purse and her car.
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Information from: The Jonesboro Sun, http://www.jonesborosun.com
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
He Did What???
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say they've arrested a man who broke into the home of two California farmworkers, stole money, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.
Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Ian Burrimond says 22-year-old Antonio Vasquez was found hiding in a field wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks after the Saturday morning attack.
He says deputies arrested Vasquez after finding a wallet containing his ID in the ransacked house.
The farmworkers told deputies the suspect woke them Saturday morning by rubbing spices on one of them and smacking the other with an 8-inch sausage.
Burrimond says money allegedly stolen was recovered.
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Information from: The Fresno Bee, http://www.fresnobee.com
Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Ian Burrimond says 22-year-old Antonio Vasquez was found hiding in a field wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks after the Saturday morning attack.
He says deputies arrested Vasquez after finding a wallet containing his ID in the ransacked house.
The farmworkers told deputies the suspect woke them Saturday morning by rubbing spices on one of them and smacking the other with an 8-inch sausage.
Burrimond says money allegedly stolen was recovered.
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Information from: The Fresno Bee, http://www.fresnobee.com
Monday, September 8, 2008
Fish flies out of lake, breaks Arkansas teen's jaw
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - It's a fishing tale that packs a wallop so strong it broke the jaw of a southeastern Arkansas teen and covered him in fish blood and guts.
Seth Russell, 15, of Crossett, was cruising Lake Chicot on a large inner tube towed by a boat when a Silver Asian carp leaped from the water and smacked him in the face. Seth was knocked unconscious.
"He doesn't remember anything at all," the boy's mother, Linda Russell, said last week. "He was laughing, and the next thing he remembers, he is waking in a hospital."
The teen has had oral surgery to wire several teeth together and still experiences back pain that doctors attribute to whiplash from the high-speed collision, his mother said.
He's not the only one who's has a run-in with the "flying" Silver Asian carp.
"They do not fly, but they are quite good jumpers," said Carole Engle, director of aquaculture and the fisheries center at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. "Over the past year, we have had some calls about fish jumping and causing injuries on Lake Chicot.
"Their jumping behavior is a problem, and their population appears to be growing there," Engle said.
Silver Asian carp were first imported to the United States in the 1970s. Catfish farmers brought them here to remove algae and other suspended matter from their ponds. The Environmental Protection Agency started a program allowing cities to use the fish to help clean the water in sewer treatment plant ponds.
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Information from: The Morning News, http://www.nwaonline.net/
Seth Russell, 15, of Crossett, was cruising Lake Chicot on a large inner tube towed by a boat when a Silver Asian carp leaped from the water and smacked him in the face. Seth was knocked unconscious.
"He doesn't remember anything at all," the boy's mother, Linda Russell, said last week. "He was laughing, and the next thing he remembers, he is waking in a hospital."
The teen has had oral surgery to wire several teeth together and still experiences back pain that doctors attribute to whiplash from the high-speed collision, his mother said.
He's not the only one who's has a run-in with the "flying" Silver Asian carp.
"They do not fly, but they are quite good jumpers," said Carole Engle, director of aquaculture and the fisheries center at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. "Over the past year, we have had some calls about fish jumping and causing injuries on Lake Chicot.
"Their jumping behavior is a problem, and their population appears to be growing there," Engle said.
Silver Asian carp were first imported to the United States in the 1970s. Catfish farmers brought them here to remove algae and other suspended matter from their ponds. The Environmental Protection Agency started a program allowing cities to use the fish to help clean the water in sewer treatment plant ponds.
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Information from: The Morning News, http://www.nwaonline.net/
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