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41 Charged in Massive Deer Collision Insurance Scam

Cops: Philly body shop owner made an art of it

(Newser) - Insurance companies must have thought deer were overrunning the city of Philadelphia based on the number of accidents being reported. Turns out, those "accidents" were the work of a criminally imaginative body shop owner, say prosecutors. They charged 63-year-old Ron Galati and 40 other people—including his wife, his...

Cops: Woman Broke Into Shelter to Get Cats Back

Lee Ann Shore held cats in unsanitary conditions

(Newser) - A Wisconsin woman lost her 17 cats to a Humane Society shelter after her unsanitary apartment was condemned earlier this month. Now Lee Ann Shore, 46, has been arrested for allegedly breaking into that shelter to steal her cats back. Police say she removed 15 cats from the Coulee Region...

Guy Says He's Jared Leto's Stylist, Tricks Top Shops

Also claims to work for Johnny Depp

(Newser) - A pricey New York menswear shop generally asks for ID when phone orders are picked up. If you're a celebrity's assistant, however, you can sometimes get by without getting carded. That was handy for a man who recently visited Carven after placing orders by phone with a stolen...

Store Owner, 89, Fends Off Robber With Golf Club

Robber's sword didn't faze her a bit

(Newser) - Strange enough that a would-be robber of a small-town store in Washington state used a sword as his weapon of choice and a bicycle as his getaway vehicle. But what truly elevates the story is that the store's owner, an 89-year-old widow, just wasn't having it, reports USA ...

Cowboy Lassoes Gunman at Rodeo

He had run out of bullets by then, but still ...

(Newser) - Things got rowdy at a rodeo in Bartow County, Georgia, over the weekend when guests asked a drunk man to leave. Instead, police say Celestino Moras, 25, stood up and started shooting, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution . One other unidentified person also started firing, and four people ended up with...

High School Food Fight Ends Very Badly

Wilson Central High School students face misdemeanor charges

(Newser) - Yet another senior prank has gone awry. Eight Tennessee high school kids are facing misdemeanor charges—over a food fight. The four juvenile and four adult students from Wilson Central High School apparently didn't "back off" after the fight began on Friday, and were charged with vandalism...

Teen Hit Traffic Pole, Took It With Him: Police

19-year-old drove for miles with traffic camera in his truck

(Newser) - A 19-year-old drove into a pole, then hurried off with the red-light camera evidence, police say. Manuel Montano Herrera was arrested yesterday after the northern California collision, which resulted in the pole and camera falling into the back his truck, police say, per News10 . "The pole ended up flipping...

Guy Busted Driving Pantsless Blames 'Manzilian'

Washington state man said his skin was irritated

(Newser) - A Washington state man was busted for driving while ... pantsless, apparently. But the 24-year-old from Bremerton was not without an excuse: His "manzilian"—or as the AP helpfully explains, "Brazilian hair removal for men"—made pants uncomfortable to the point where driving in his underwear seemed...

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week
 5 Craziest Crimes of the Week 
May 23, 2014 8:56 AM CDT

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

Rob Ford makes an appearance, or at least his car does

(Newser) - An arrest in Texas that prompted a lot of head-scratching and several in Iran that prompted even more make this week's list:
  • Teen Faces Life Sentence Over Pot Brownies : A Texas teen is facing five years to life in prison for allegedly making and selling pot brownies because of
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How Teen Facing Life Over Pot Brownies Got Caught

Jacob Lavoro's neighbor smelled smoke and called police

(Newser) - The Texas teenager who is looking at a possible life sentence for whipping up a batch of pot- and hash-laced brownies got busted because his pregnant neighbor smelled smoke, reports KHOU-TV . The woman explains that she is five months' along, and she called police because the smell from the neighboring...

Bread Truck Thief Showers NYC With Bread

In his underoos, natch

(Newser) - Maybe he was shooting to be the Robin Hood of carbohydrates? Police in New York City have charged 29-year-old David Bastar with criminal possession of stolen goods and driving without a license, reports the Journal News , and this is how they say it went down: A driver for Grimaldi's...

Teen Makes Escape With Bed Sheets, Evades Arrest

Climbs out 4th-floor hotel window while police wait

(Newser) - What do you do when the police come knocking? If you're this teenage runaway, you fashion yourself an escape rope out of bed sheets and climb out a fourth-floor window. That’s what the unnamed 16-year-old did in the wee hours of Monday morning at a Colorado Hilton hotel,...

Cops: Man Tried to Have Sex With ATM

Then Lonnie Jackson Hutton allegedly tried to have his way with a picnic table

(Newser) - This may be the holy grail of weird sex crime stories: Police on Friday arrested a Murfreesboro, Tenn., man who was allegedly trying to have intercourse with a bar's ATM around 9:30pm, the Daily News Journal reports. Per the police report, 49-year old Lonnie Jackson Hutton "pulled...

Teen Faces Life Sentence Over Pot Brownies

Jacob Lavoro's use of hash oil is a big part of the problem

(Newser) - A Texas teen is facing five years to life in prison for allegedly making and selling pot brownies due to the particulars of the state's drug laws—and his recipe. Jacob Lavoro’s fateful mistake was allegedly adding hash oil to his batch. While possession of up to two...

Mom Banned From Ranting About Kids on Facebook

Appeals court finds the ban is constitutional

(Newser) - Lots of people go on Facebook to blow off steam—but one New Jersey mom took things too far, and has now been banned from using the social network to rant about her ex-husband and kids. The trouble began when the Flemington mother, identified in court records only by her...

Guy Killed After Friend Misses Bulletproof Vest

He asked friends to shoot him, and one did

(Newser) - Who needs enemies when you have friends like these? An 18-year-old woman faces an involuntary manslaughter charge after she allegedly fatally shot her friend in the chest Wednesday ... because he asked her to. Though 25-year-old victim Blake Wardell wore a Kevlar bulletproof vest during the incident, the bullet from the...

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week
 5 Craziest Crimes of the Week 
May 16, 2014 8:18 AM CDT

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

Including a pair of notable drunken-driving arrests

(Newser) - This week's list has a definite, and unfortunate, high school theme:
  • Teen Arrested in Stolen Tux ... at Prom : When a $600 tuxedo was stolen off a mannequin at a bridal shop in Prescott Valley, Ariz., police knew just where to look: They called around to local schools and discovered
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Cops: Woman, 31, Posed as High School Sophomore

And got away with it for a school year

(Newser) - A strange case of an alleged imposter out of Texas: A woman who is at least 31 and possibly older posed as a 15-year-old high school sophomore and got away with it for almost an entire school year, reports KLTV . Charity Johnson is behind bars and accused of duping an...

PE Teacher Stole Cash From Students' Lockers: Cops

Assistant coach got caught powder-handed

(Newser) - Someone was stealing money from lockers in the boys' locker room at New Smyrna Beach High School in Florida ... and it ended up being probably the last person you'd expect. By April 25, $950 had been stolen from nine students, so school officials used an ultraviolet theft-detection kit to...

Teen Arrested in Stolen Tux —at Prom

18-year-old faces felony charges

(Newser) - When a $600 tuxedo was stolen off a mannequin Friday night at a bridal shop in Prescott Valley, Ariz., police knew just where to look: They called around to local schools and discovered that one of them had its prom scheduled for the weekend. The store owner, whose front window...

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