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Pilot Busted With 230 Pounds of Pot After 3-Airport Sting: Cops

It wasn't easy for Texas authorities to get Wayne Brunet to come down from the sky

(Newser) - If you fly your small plane solo from Medford, Ore., to South Texas with only one stop to gas up during the 2,000-mile flight, you're either going for some sort of endurance record or you're trying to get to your destination as quickly as possible for …...

Spring Breaker Sees His 210 Beers Go Down the Drain

19-year-old was traveling with a whole lot of Natural Light: cops

(Newser) - While his buddies were partying in Destin, Fla., an Alabama teen spent the start of his spring break in jail. Police in Okaloosa County, Fla., say they pulled over 19-year-old University of Alabama student Alden Whiteside on suspicion of reckless driving on Friday but soon discovered his alleged need for...

Guy Found Passed Out in Drive-Thru Lane Gets DUI

Police were called to the restaurant around 1am

(Newser) - Police say a Delaware man was picked up on his third driving-under-the-influence arrest after he was found passed out in the drive-thru lane of a McDonald's restaurant, the AP reports. Master Cpl. Mark Hoffman, a Dover police spokesman, said in a news release that 21-year-old Octavio Lopez-Hernandez of Dover...

Cops Investigating Robbery Make a Very Easy Arrest

Suspect in France was stuck in a hole in the window

(Newser) - Arrests can't come any easier than this. French gendarmes called to a robbery found the suspected thief stuck in a hole he'd made with a hammer in a shop window, per AP . The national gendarmerie on Sunday published a photo appearing to show the man half-in and half-out...

When Siblings Get Sexual: 5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

Including an epic tale of skipping out on the bill

(Newser) - It was a particularly weird week in the world of crazy crimes, from a story featuring a Ben Affleck film to a foiled murder attempt that allegedly involved a meeting at the Olive Garden.
  • Mushrooms, Pot, Making Out Don't Mix for Brothers : Sorry, Philly—Indianapolis gets to be the
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2 Women Charged in Snow Shoveling Fight

They argued over a parking spot

(Newser) - State troopers have charged two Pennsylvania women with disorderly conduct for a hair-pulling fight that erupted over a newly shoveled parking spot on a snowy street, the AP reports. Troopers in Schuylkill County say a 23-year-old woman claimed she shoveled the spot only to have her 43-year-old neighbor's husband...

Cops: Man With Sweet Tooth Robs Store 3 Times in 4 Days

In one case, Idris Allen returned the same day he'd robbed it, say police

(Newser) - Perhaps no one ever told him it was unwise to return to the scene of the crime. Again and again. Prosecutors say 38-year-old Idris Allen has admitted to robbing the same 7-Eleven store in Newark, NJ, on three occasions over four days in December. Each time, Allen grabbed candy, brandished...

Huge Group of Dine-and-Dashers Leaves Behind $13K in Unpaid Checks

The group of up to 200 revelers are targeting restaurants in Spain

(Newser) - All hail the new kings of the dine and dash. Authorities and restaurateurs in northwest Spain are on the lookout after a huge group of hungry people is suspected of skating out on massive bills around the region. One such incident happened Feb. 27 at the Carmen Hotel in Bembibre,...

Woman Arrested at Florida Stadium Claims to Be Tebow's Girlfriend

She even had the 'I heart Tim Tebow' sticker to prove it

(Newser) - On Feb. 26, the day Tim Tebow arrived for the New York Mets' Minor League Baseball camp at First Data Field in Port St. Lucie, Fla., a woman arrived at the stadium early in the morning, hung around all day, and asked lots of questions about Tebow. That prompted staff...

Ben Affleck Movie Helped Secure Robbery Convictions

Robbers emulated 'The Town,' prosecutors say

(Newser) - Watching a Ben Affleck movie in court? Seems weird, but prosecutors in a robbery trial showed jurors clips from Ben Affleck's 2010 film The Town, and the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals decided this week not to reverse the armed bank robbery convictions of the defendants involved. Akeem Monsalvatge,...

Mushrooms, Pot, Making Out Don't Mix for Brothers

It all happened in front of an Indianapolis dumpster, say police

(Newser) - Sorry, Philly—Indianapolis gets to be the City of Brotherly Love this week. That's thanks to Timothy Batz, 21, and his 24-year-old sibling, Noah Batz, both accused of involvement in a chaotic story featuring drugs, nudity, assault, and an intense makeout session in front of a dumpster, WISH and...

Poisoned Lucky Charms: 5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

Including a woman who allegedly let her 10-year-old drive

(Newser) - Among this week's accused criminals: a persnickety art lover, a police dispatcher who ended up a DEA target, and a woman who really, really tried to avoid having sex with her husband.
  • Cops: Woman Poisoned Husband's Cereal to Avoid Sex : A Nevada woman is still on the run
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Guard Gets Whacked on Head Over Tilted Painting

Visitor to the Met being sought by NYPD

(Newser) - An apparently persnickety art lover was so incensed about a painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art being askew that he whacked a security guard over the head with a bottle. The NYPD is searching for a man believed to be in his mid-20s with a long beard, DNAInfo reports....

Cops Find Hundreds of Pounds of Pot in Dispatcher's Cellar

Teneal Poole says it belonged to her boyfriend

(Newser) - A police dispatcher in Cincinnati was recently caught with "approximately a couple hundred pounds of marijuana" in her basement, police say. Teneal Poole, 36, faces two felony drug charges, but she told authorities the pot, which was found by the DEA per Fox 19 , actually belonged to her live-in...

High-Speed Chase Begins in Unlikeliest of Spots

Police say Kara Rene Deans got aggressive in a funeral procession

(Newser) - A woman weaved aggressively through a funeral procession in Virginia Saturday afternoon and ultimately led police on a chase hitting speeds of more than 100mph, authorities say. As deputies escorted the funeral procession, a woman not involved in the procession started changing lanes and passing cars in the procession, NBC...

10-Year-Old's Idea of 'Fun' Gets Mom Arrested: Cops

Police say Connecticut mother live-streamed son cruising around neighborhood

(Newser) - Not surprising: a 10-year-old boy proclaiming, "This is fun!" as he zips around town behind the wheel of his mom's Jeep Grand Cherokee. Even less surprising: the mom getting arrested for allegedly letting him do so. Per the Connecticut Post and Hartford Courant , that's what police...

Cops: Woman Poisoned Husband's Cereal to Avoid Sex

She's been a fugitive since 2015

(Newser) - A Nevada woman is still on the run almost two years after confessing to poisoning her husband's Lucky Charms cereal because she didn't want sex. The husband, now an ex-husband, tells WLOS that he has moved to California but he is still worried that Andrea Heming will resurface....

Happiest Jailbird: 5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

Including a man whose drone flying did him in

(Newser) - Some of the unusual things to land people behind bars this week: bad drone flying, laughter, a bucket list:
  • 99-Year-Old Woman Gets Arrested Intentionally : Cops handcuffed and arrested a 99-year-old grandmother who's never committed a crime, and yet there were no protests or outraged blog posts. That's because
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White Sox Player Ate His Passport on a Plane

Jose Abreu testified he had to get rid of fake doc before landing in US

(Newser) - Some people snack on the peanuts offered on airline flights; Jose Abreu scarfs down beer and pieces of his passport. That's what the first baseman for the Chicago White Sox testified Wednesday in Miami at a trial for a baseball agent and a trainer accused of smuggling Cuban baseball...

99-Year-Old Gets Arrested, Knocks Item Off Her Bucket List

Police say it was a 'day to remember'

(Newser) - Cops handcuffed and arrested a 99-year-old grandmother who's never committed a crime, the Telegraph reports, and yet there were no protests or outraged blog posts. That's because Annie, who lives in the Netherlands, wanted to "experience a police cell from within" as part of her bucket list,...

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