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Cops Make 2 Drunk-Driving Arrests in Single Car

Iowa women help with some questionable choices

(Newser) - Police managed to make two drunk-driving arrests by pulling over a single car, reports the Iowa City Press-Citizen . Here's the trick: Cops say Jennifer Volesky was driving erratically on a local highway when she apparently realized she was unfit to drive and pulled into the parking lot of a...

Teacher Busted for DWI ... on Her Way to Work

Police in Texas make highway stop about 8am

(Newser) - In escalating order of badness: Police arrested a woman in Humble, Texas, on DWI charges; it happened at 8am on a weekday; and ... she's a middle-school teacher who was on her way to work when arrested. As Click2Houston reports, police say they pulled over a car driven by 48-year-old...

Guy Arrested After Driving to Police Station Drunk

Cops say Louisiana man, 31, smelled of alcohol when he arrived

(Newser) - Police say a 31-year-old man has been arrested after he drove to a Louisiana state police headquarters to file an accident report ... while drunk. Patrick Ruffner called state police Saturday, saying his vehicle was struck by a hit-and-run driver on Interstate 10 in Baton Rouge. He was told to come...

Ill-Advised Selfie Leads to Guy's Arrest

He was bragging about what a good drug dealer he was, and then...

(Newser) - Pro tip: It may not be a great idea to post selfies on Facebook that show you dealing drugs ... particularly if you were doing so next to sheriff's deputies. That's what Taylor Harrison, a 21-year-old South Florida man, allegedly did before he was arrested last week, First Coast...

Thieves Break Into Presidential Tomb, Steal ... Spoons?

But they left empty whiskey bottle at James A. Garfield's monument

(Newser) - Police in Ohio say thieves have broken into the monument of President James A. Garfield and stolen a set of commemorative spoons. Vandals shattered a window to get inside the 180-foot-tall monument at Lakeview Cemetery in Cleveland Heights. A cemetery worker discovered the theft Wednesday. The cemetery's website says...

Woman Has Neighbors' Home Bulldozed: Cops

That's one way to deal with a person you don't like

(Newser) - Authorities say a northeast Florida woman who didn't like her neighbors had their mobile home demolished. According to an arrest report, Ana Maria Moreta Folch of St. Augustine told a heavy equipment operator that she owned the trailer and wanted it and its septic tank destroyed. The Florida Times-Union...

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week
 5 Craziest Crimes of the Week 
May 9, 2014 9:16 AM CDT

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

Including a strange anti-military protest

(Newser) - A very pricey pair of running shoes and a very ill-advised YouTube video highlight the list:
  • Thieves Steal $34K Pair of Sneakers : A pair of Usain Bolt's orange cleats were on display in London—until someone stole the signed shoes, which are reportedly worth $34,000. The Jamaican athlete
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Dad Arrested After Protesting Daughter's School Novel

He thinks young-adult book is too racy

(Newser) - A New Hampshire father who thought his daughter's high school assigned a book too racy for young teens ended up under arrest at a school board meeting, reports CBS Boston . William Baer complained during the meeting that a particular passage in Jodi Picoult's young-adult novel Nineteen Minutes "...

Spain Cops Bust Guy With 'Cocaine Sandwich'

Ham, cheese, 100g of coke—you know, the usual

(Newser) - In other circumstances, lunch might consist of a sandwich and a Coke, but Spanish police say they have arrested a Colombian national living in a resort town for his variant on the theme—the cocaine sandwich. As Sky News reports, the concoction "contained ham, melted cheese, and nine cylinders...

90-Year-Old Drug Mule Handed Prison on Birthday

Leo Sharp is also a World War II veteran

(Newser) - Leo Sharp turned 90 yesterday ... while sitting in federal court in Detroit, where he was sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in a drug smuggling operation. The Indiana man, a World War II veteran, was convicted of hauling cocaine between Mexico and Detroit for a Mexican...

Florida Cops Break Into City Hall to Use Bathroom

One explained the department bathroom was too 'nasty'

(Newser) - Two Florida narcotics detectives have found themselves on the wrong side of the law after allegedly being caught breaking into Bradenton City Hall in order to ... use the bathroom. The investigation into the Feb. 7 incident was spurred by the city clerk, who handed over surveillance footage to the city'...

Woman Busted for Loud Sex on Plane
Woman Busted for Loud Sex
on Plane
May 7, 2014 10:30 AM CDT

Woman Busted for Loud Sex on Plane

Oh, and her parents were also on the Vegas-bound flight

(Newser) - A drunk British woman decided it would be a good idea to join the mile-high club with a man she'd just met on a Virgin Atlantic flight from London to Las Vegas last week ... and the monumentally bad idea ended up getting her in serious trouble. Possibly the weirdest...

Brilliant Teen Posts 'Me Driving Like an Idiot' Video

In stunning development, Robert Kelley has been arrested

(Newser) - A Florida teen faces a slew of charges after police say he hit four cars and put five people, including himself, in the hospital, reports UPI . It's not helping his case that the 18-year-old recorded it on video and posted it to YouTube under the title "Me driving...

US Army Base Broken Into, Covered in Pot Seeds

Protesters in Italy sowing the seeds of peace and love, apparently

(Newser) - Peace and love, man: A group of anti-war Italians opposed to a US Army base in their midst broke into said Army base last week, where they planted about 200,000 marijuana seeds, reports Stars and Stripes . The NoDalMolin protest group posted video of members cutting through the fence at...

Man Freed After Being Sent to Jail 11 Years Late

Judge orders Cornealious 'Mike' Anderson's release

(Newser) - A happy ending for the man who was sent to prison 11 years late—and after turning his life around : Cornealious "Mike" Anderson is once again a free man. A Missouri judge today ordered the state to release Anderson, who was convicted of robbery in 2000 but only sent...

Discovery of Dead Body Halts Bachelor Party

It was in a compartment of a rented RV

(Newser) - As far as crazy bachelor party tales go, this one will be tough to top. The plan was for 11 guys in their 20s to travel from Minnesota to the Kentucky Derby in a rented RV, but the group didn't even make it out of the state ... thanks to...

Cops: Driver on Drugs Hit by Driver on Booze

Both charged after hit and run on highway

(Newser) - These charges might explain why one driver sideswiped another and why the driver who got hit didn't have the reflexes to avoid the collision. After a man in upstate New York called police to say that his car had been hit by a driver who didn't stop, cops...

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week
 5 Craziest Crimes of the Week 
May 2, 2014 8:15 AM CDT

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

Including Vaseline put to an unfortunate use

(Newser) - This week saw one very misguided senior prank, and some twerking that may have been more obscene than Miley Cyrus' version:
  • Senior Prank Ends With 62 Students Arrested : Senior year may not be ending so pleasantly for 62 students at New Jersey's Teaneck High School. They were arrested in
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Senior Prank Ends With 62 Students Arrested

Teaneck High School seniors urinated, smeared Vaseline, say police

(Newser) - Senior year may not be ending so pleasantly for 62 students at New Jersey's Teaneck High School. They were arrested in connection with an ill-advised senior prank that involved them busting into their school around 2am today and allegedly doing the following: rubbing Vaseline on door handles, peeing in...

Heisman Winner Accused of Shoplifting Seafood

FSU's Jameis Winston says he forgot to pay

(Newser) - Florida State's Jameis Winston became the youngest-ever winner of the Heisman last year, but the 20-year-old has headlines of a different sort to contend with today. Police say the 20-year-old walked off with $32 worth of crab legs and crawfish from a Tallahassee supermarket, reports CNN . A store employee...

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