Man Stuffed His Cat Inside Bong
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 Stebbing said. “She was on the front seat of the cop car, wrapped in a blanket, and never moved all the way to the humane society.”
Schomaker told deputies 6-month-old Shadow was hyper and he was trying to calm her down. The contraption she had been stuffed inside was 12 inches by 6 inches. Shadow was timid but in good condition Monday at the Capital Humane Society, executive director Bob Downey said. “What the human mind doesn’t invent, huh?” Downey said. Schomaker, who was released from jail after paying a $400 fine on the arrest warrant, faces drug and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges. He did not immediately respond to phone messages left Monday seeking comment.
Source: AP
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Judge Orders Man To Pay “Idiot Tax”
A Reading man escaped time behind bars today for throwing a flaming gas can at cars, but will have to pay a special fine that the judge said properly describes his actions. “We’ll call that an idiot tax,” Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Norbert Nadel told Christopher Keim. Keim, 33, pleaded guilty Jan. 29 to attempted aggravated arson in exchange for prosecutors dropping a felonious assault charge stemming from a July 25 incident.
Keim threw a burning plastic gasoline container under a car as it passed his Reading home. The gas container stuck under Joshua Metcalf’s 1997 car as it drove by and destroyed it. Metcalf’s name also is spelled Medcalf in court documents. Metcalf was able to get out of the car with only burned leg hairs before it was destroyed. Initially, Keim denied any involvement. Then he said he was using the gas to burn bank statements and somehow the gas container caught fire and he panicked and threw it.
But assistant prosecutor Jeff Heile said another witness told police that she had a fireball thrown at her car as she passed Keim’s house and when she turned around to see what had happened, she saw Metcalf’s car ablaze. Keim paid Metcalf $3,000 for the car, hoping to avoid jail. Metcalf told officials he had to quit a second job he had because he lost the car, his only way to get to that job.
He did avoid jail, but it still cost him. Nadel placed Keim on probation for three years – telling him if he violated it, he would go to prison for five years – and ordered him to do 40 hours of community service. The judge also fined Keim $2,500 for an “idiot tax,” ordering it to go to Metcalf if his bills from the incident had not been covered by Keim.
Source: Cincinnati.com
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Car Thief Arrested After Calling 911 To Brag
A Minnesota man is behind bars after allegedly stealing a car and repeatedly calling 911 to brag to police that they would not catch him. Police in Duluth say the 23-year-old man stole the car Friday night, filled up at a gas station and then drove off without paying. After police received a report of the gasoline theft, an officer spotted the stolen car and tried to pull it over. But the man sped off, hitting a guardrail and turning off his lights. Police soon found the car abandoned. It was then that the man allegedly began calling 911 from a cell phone, telling dispatchers he would not be caught because he was “smarter than the police.” Two hours later, a man called 911 to report a prowler at his home. Police arrived and found the suspect hiding in a shed. They arrested him after a short struggle.
Source: AP
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Cop Car Taken For Joyride By Uncuffed Man
A man put in the back seat of a police car, without handcuffs, stole the car and took it for brief joyride in Palmerston North, police said today. The man had earlier been arrested for driving while forbidden about 9.15pm on Wednesday, the Manawatu Standard reported. A constable put the man in the back of the patrol car before going over to his car to take down its details, Senior Sergeant Brett Calkin said. “The offender got in the front of the car and drove… for a short distance…and then ran away from the scene.” Police are still looking for the man who would likely face charges of driving while forbidden, escaping police custody and unlawfully taking a vehicle, Mr Calkin said. The man was not restrained when he was put in the patrol car, he said. Offenders should probably be handcuffed, and police were investigating the incident, Mr Calkin said.
The latest incident came just five months after an unrestrained 18-year-old man escaped from a parked police car on Palmerston North’s Park Rd. Police found the man an hour later.
Source: nzherald.co.nz
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Police Find Drugs In Woman’s Bra
A 20-year-old woman faces drug charges after police found cocaine and marijuana hidden in her bra. Buffalo County police notified authorities in Winona Thursday that a car headed their way may have been involved in a drug deal. A Winona officer pulled over the vehicle and searched the woman. Deputy Chief Tom Williams said that turned up about 100 grams of marijuana and 4.25 grams of cocaine in her bra. He says she was also carrying about $600 in cash.
Source: AP
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Women Writes Bad Check For Fake Boobs
A local woman is under arrest on charges she used a bad check and then stolen credit card information to pay for her breast augmentation surgery. Julianne Marie Johnson, 44, is being held in lieu of $105,000 bail on charges of grand theft, passing a worthless check and fraudulent use of a credit card, Manatee County jail records show. Sheriff’s investigators say Johnson initially paid a plastic surgeon with a check the bank returned because the account was closed. She then used account information she stole from an acquaintance to pay the bill, they said. The acquaintance noticed $100 worth of flowers and champagne also had been charged to his account. Detectives traced those transactions to the PGA National Resort and Spa in Palm Beach Gardens.
They said they went there to take her into custody. When they found her, she was having a massage at the spa.
Source: Tampabays10.com
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