FULL STORY: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/dope/dope-dope-bust-712038Protip: Do Not Make It Easy For The Cops By Hiding Your Meth Stash Inside A Box Labeled "Dope"
A Louisiana woman is behind bars on a felony drug possession charge after police discovered her methamphetamine stash in a small plastic container that was helpfully labeled “Dope.” ...
SOURCE: https://apnews.com/419682399c3603b364edd3d5b55e80dcPolice: Woman submitted dog urine during drug screening
A Kentucky woman gave her probation officer a dog urine sample during a drug screening, police said.
Julie Miller, 40, of Arjay, was arrested Monday on a charge of tampering with physical evidence, the Pineville Police Department said in a release on its Facebook page. She also was charged with a parole violation and trafficking in a controlled substance.
Miller admitted she tried to use the dog urine as her own sample given to officers at the Bell County Probation and Parole Office during a regular probation visit, the statement said.
Miller pleaded guilty in Bell County Circuit Court in November to a charge of first-degree possession of a controlled substance.
Miller was being held in the Bell County Detention Center.
SOURCE: https://apnews.com/148b32524148b52163f80016420c3835Man gets prison for stealing home deed without signing loan
A Florida man was sentenced to prison for trying to steal a new $219,000 home by snatching and filing a signed deed without signing loan documents.
Stanley Livingston, 45, was given a three-and-a-half-year sentence last month in Polk County court ... A jury convicted him in September of grand theft and filing a false document against real property. Livingston, who represented himself, had faced up to 30 years in prison.
In his closing argument at trial, Livingston said he had no intention of stealing the home. He said he believed that the seller, Starlight Homes Florida, already had been paid.
Livingston had contracted to buy a new house in a Haines City subdivision, trial witnesses testified. During a May 2018 meeting to close the sale, he had asked to delay signing the mortgage documents until the end of the meeting. His signature would have committed him to repaying the home loan. At some point, Livingston grabbed the deed, which Starlight Homes officials already had signed, and ran to his truck. A closing agent testified that she ran after Livingston but he quickly drove away.
The deed was filed with the Polk County Clerk of Courts two days after the meeting, according to testimony. He told workers he had paid $1 for the house and property, where he was now living, officials said. Later that day, he went to the subdivision sales office to tell the developer that he now owned the house and to leave him alone. They called police, and Livingston was arrested. ...
SOURCE: https://apnews.com/8cc2117791562ea9a4fbd5416841e11fChristmas crystal: Man charged with mailing meth to inmate
A man sent some illegal holiday cheer to a woman in jail and he ended up getting arrested himself ...
News outlets report 40-year-old Timothy Lee Snow sent the woman a Christmas card filled with drugs.
Bibb County Jail inmate Mary Beth Odum, 40, had told Snow over the phone how to put meth and other drugs into a card to send to her in jail ...
Deputies intercepted a contraband-filled card filled with methamphetamine and Suboxone and began investigating Snow. On Jan. 9, deputies followed Snow as he left his residence and found him with meth, Xanax and a revolver. When they searched his home, deputies found more meth, Suboxone, marijuana, steroids, packing materials, a shotgun and a rifle.
Snow was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and giving an inmate drugs ...
Odum, who was already in jail, now faces additional charges including attempt to commit offenses pertaining to the possession of drugs and use of communications facilities in a drug transaction. ...
Bank robber pillow case disguise had no eye holes
- 17 January 2020
A bank robber put a pillow case over his head to hide his identity - then had to take it off as he could not see.
Matthew Davies failed to create eye holes in the cover ahead of the armed raid at a bank in Dunfermline, Fife last September.
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SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/0...-in-road-in-front-of-home/5791579636108/?sl=6Clumsy burglar drops dishwasher in road in front of home
Police in Australia shared footage of a clumsy thief wheeling a pilfered dishwasher away from an under-construction home and dropping the appliance on the street.
South Australia Police said in a Facebook post that three under-construction homes were burglarized Monday morning in Wallaroo and the culprit was caught on camera using a dolly to carry a Vento dishwasher out of one of the homes.
The security camera footage shows the man wheeling the dishwasher out of the home and down a sidewalk.
The man goes over the curb into the road and the dishwasher falls off the dolly, landing on its side in the road. ...
SOURCE: https://apnews.com/285379ade50c5f713a42361d31e45e38Police: Man man asks gym mates to borrow guns for robbery
Police in Louisiana have charged a man with drug possession after he approached two people in a gym parking lot and asked to borrow their guns to commit a robbery, according to arrest documents.
West Monroe Police charged Landon Wayne Duke, 19, after two men flagged down an officer and informed him of Duke’s comments.
Duke had approached the men, whom he reportedly knew, in a Planet Fitness parking lot and noticed they had guns in their truck, according to a police arrest report obtained by The Monroe News Star. The men told investigators Duke said he wanted to borrow the guns to rob someone of enough money to leave town. The men said no and entered the gym, according to the report.
Duke allegedly followed and worked out with the men while continuing to talk about robbing someone, investigators wrote. Police later spotted Duke at nearby a gas station and found what they believed to be methamphetamine wrapped in a $100 bill in is pocket, the newspaper said.
Duke was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center on Sunday on one count of possession of a schedule II controlled dangerous substance. He remained in custody Monday, the News Star said.
FULL STORY: https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_farkDNA in sock leads to arrest of gang member in St. Pete shooting, police say
A suspect in a shooting ran away so fast that some of his clothes came off, including a sock. Inside: DNA.
When St. Petersburg police arrived on the scene of a shooting in November, they learned that a man had been shot multiple times and that the suspects had run away to an awaiting car, which took off from the scene.
One of the suspects had run away so fast, apparently, that some of his clothes came off while he was sprinting to the car. Officers found a pair of jean shorts, a sandal and a sock.
On Thursday, nearly three months after the shooting, police made an arrest in the case.
A key piece of evidence? The sock.
Arrest reports say that DNA pulled from that sock matches Octavius Jessie Henderson, 19, of St. Petersburg. He was booked at the Pinellas County jail Thursday on an attempted murder charge. ...
SOURCE: https://apnews.com/d4664d3ebf74a70c6e1844ed67f36976Prosecutors: Thief dropped journal with list of homes to hit
Authorities in Tennessee say they busted a well-organized burglar after he allegedly dropped a notebook during a break-in that contained a list of other places he planned to target.
Robert Shull Goddard, 49, is accused of smashing a glass door and breaking into a Nashville area home on Jan. 29, stealing a TV and a gun from the residents, according to records filed in Davidson County court.
But prosecutors said Goddard left something behind that allowed authorities to solve the case — a notebook that listed multiple addresses, including one for another home a few miles away that had been burglarized that same day, The Tennessean reported. Investigators were able to identify the suspect, in part, through notes his daughter left in the journal, along with her address.
Goddard was caught on video kicking in the back door of another house the next day, court records state.
He was arrested last week and was being held on a $15,000 bond for felony burglary and theft charges, jail records showed. ...
When you go out to burglarize someone's home, leave your thieves' journal at home, not at the crime scene ...
SOURCE: https://apnews.com/d34468bf498db4cc75b9b38b2dcfd961Man looking for auto parts store gets directions to jail
A 63-year-old Florida man who stopped a sheriff’s deputy to ask how to get to an auto parts store on Saturday night instead got directions to jail when the deputy arrested him on DUI and cocaine possession charges.
Juan Zamora was driving near Ocala when he flashed his headlights at a Marion County Sheriff’s deputy’s squad car, an arrest report said. Deputy Calvan Batts pulled over and Zamora asked him for directions to the auto parts store.
Batts wrote in the report that he could smell alcohol and observed Zamora’s bloodshot and watery eyes. The deputy also noted that Zamora was “unsteady on his feet.”
Zamora told the deputy he had two shots of bourbon hours earlier. He also said he was “legally disabled” but agreed to take a sobriety test, the Ocala Star-Banner reported.
The deputy wrote that Zamora had difficulty with the sobriety tests, which he blamed on his disability.
Batts wrote that he found a small bag with a powdery substance in Zamora’s shirt pocket that field-tested for cocaine.
Zamora initially declined a breath test, telling the deputy, “You didn’t pull me over. I pulled you over.” He later took the test, which registered blood alcohol levels of 0.137 and 0.136, which are higher than the 0.8 (*) which is considered legally impaired in Florida.
The arrest report said Batts also found a bottle of whiskey in the car. Zamora was traveling with a 15-year-old passenger. ...
SOURCE: https://apnews.com/6a2aa81a9866791282026074603fd8d0‘Perfume cloud’ helps German police sniff out drunk driver
He just didn’t smell right.
German police say they nabbed a drunk driver who tried to flee a traffic stop after finding him hiding behind a hedge “in a cloud of perfume.”
Police in the southwestern town of Speyer said Saturday that officers saw the 26-year-old man pass them at high speed Friday night with his car lights off and gave chase.
The suspect pulled over and ran away, but officers noted a strong smell of perfume in the car and followed the trail until they discovered the man hiding behind the hedge.
Police said “due to the cloud of perfume that was detected inside the car and on the man, it was possible to identify him as the driver.”
Police say a breath test showed the suspect was far over the alcohol limit.
Maybe he thought the perfume would disguise the smell of the alcohol?I wonder whether this failed escapee was drinking the perfume that pretty much guaranteed his capture ...
SOURCE: https://apnews.com/6a2aa81a9866791282026074603fd8d0
Maybe he thought the perfume would disguise the smell of the alcohol?
Burglarize is the correct form, because burgle, you know, just sounds funny. It's awkward, like gurgle. Over here we gurglerize in the evening after a post-dinner cup of coffee, and, as the dishwater runs down the drain, so do our kitchen sinks. Our kitchen sinks are made of aluminum, not that strange stuff you have, aluminium. It is not even a real element, aluminium. It must be an interloper from outer space.Thread diversion but this always strikes me as an ugly & clunky word & contains an unnecessary syllable. What's wrong with just burgle?
Are there any other similar examples in US speak? I'm strugglerizing to think of any.
Of course. We should really remove the 'i' from the other element names. Plutonum, Neodymum, cadmum, calcum, helum...Burglarize is the correct form, because burgle, you know, just sounds funny. It's awkward, like gurgle. Over here we gurglerize in the evening after a post-dinner cup of coffee, and, as the dishwater runs down the drain, so do our kitchen sinks. Our kitchen sinks are made of aluminum, not that strange stuff you have, aluminium. It is not even a real element, aluminium. It must be an interloper from outer space.
Maybe he thought the perfume would disguise the smell of the alcohol?
Yes, it's about as effective on that as it is on the stink of fag smoke!I’ve had at least one drink driver stuff his face with an entire pack of peppermint chewing gum between the blue lights going on, and me reaching the driver’s window of his car.
Note: lt doesn’t work; you just smell like the vile mix of stale beer and peppermint that a rational, sober person would expect.
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Yes, it's about as effective on that as it is on the stink of fag smoke!
Burglarize is the correct form, because burgle, you know, just sounds funny. It's awkward, like gurgle. Over here we gurglerize in the evening after a post-dinner cup of coffee, and, as the dishwater runs down the drain, so do our kitchen sinks. Our kitchen sinks are made of aluminum, not that strange stuff you have, aluminium. It is not even a real element, aluminium. It must be an interloper from outer space.
Frankly, Hunck, strugglerizing is good for you. It builds character. If more people strugglerized in their daily lives, and gurglerized after dinner to protect their oral health, and used kitchen sinks built of aluminum, then all the world's problems would be solved, ipso facto.
I hope you've found this instructive.
FULL STORY:They held up a Clearwater CVS. A trail of pill bottles led cops to their door, police say
The alleged robbers made off with garbage bags full of opioids worth about $320,000. But they shouldn’t have tossed the empty bottles out the car window.
The three men who held up a CVS Pharmacy on New Year’s Day planned their moves meticulously.
The robbers hit at 5 a.m. They wore blue surgical gloves so they wouldn’t leave prints. They waved guns at employees and bound several of them with zip ties. Detectives would later review store surveillance video that showed one of the suspects casing the place the day before.
And they made off with a boatload of drugs in white garbage bags — more than 10,000 pills that contained the opioids hydrocodone and oxycodone, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. It had an estimated street value of about $320,000. ...
But as detectives investigated the area around the store, ... they started noticing pill bottles, according to an arrest warrant. The robbers, it appeared, had emptied the bottles as they made their getaway, then tossed them out the window of their car.
Detectives started following the pill bottles like bread crumbs, eventually leading to a house ... There, they found the same White Chrysler 200 that had been recorded on surveillance camera fleeing the scene. White cotton and a pill bottle cap lay on the ground nearby.
The deputies detained the two men inside the Chrysler: ... They matched the descriptions of two of the robbers seen inside the store ...
Do NOT jettison evidence during escape that serves as a trail by which you can be tracked.