St Louis: Robert Puelo,
32, was being disorderly in a St. Louis supermarket. When the clerk threatened
to call police, Puelo grabbed a hot dog, shoved it in his mouth and walked
out without paying for it. Police found him unconscious in front of the store.
Paramedics later removed the six-inch wiener from Puelo's throat, where it
had choked him to death.
(Source: AAP-Reuters)
Boston: When Tomano Suma, 36,
visited his drug dealer's home and discovered a large-scale, very loud and
chaotic police raid in progress, he was still out of touch with reality enough
to insist on making a purchase from the officers. The officers invited him
to visit their downtown cells instead.
(Source: Washington Post)
Chicago: Adelio Vazquez, 50,
was arrested in Chicago and charged with attempting to rob the downtown Liberty
Bank. According to a teller, Vazquez presented a note saying a bomb would
go off unless he received $45,000. The teller told Vazquez that such a large
request required a manager's approval and that Vazquez should take a seat
until the teller could get the money. The teller then called the police,
who arrived to find Vazquez still seated in the waiting area, chatting with
a bank manager.
(Source: News Of The Weird)
New York: Police in New York
City charged salesman Joel Levy, 32, with assault. According to police, Levy's
live-in girlfriend arrived home unexpectedly after he'd just put in an order
for a call girl to come over. Levy improvised a plan to intercept "Brandy"
in his building's lobby, have a liaison and then dash back upstairs before
his girlfriend got suspicious. When he saw a good-looking woman in the lobby,
Levy assumed it was Brandy, nudged her into an elevator and - according to
police - pawed and fondled her while waving a $50 bill, saying, "You know
you want it.You know you'll do anything for it." The woman was not Brandy
but rather an assistant district attorney from Brooklyn.
(Source: NY Times)
California: Two boys, aged 15
and 16, were arrested outside a Santa Clarita bank and booked on suspicion
of attempted robbery. The boys had stood at the bank's front door at 8:55
am (five minutes before opening time), put on ski masks, and tried to open
the door. When they couldn't get it open, they'd walked back to their getaway
car to decide what to do next. Alert bank employees had meanwhile called
the police.
(Source: USA Today)
Connecticut: A Nevada fugitive
wanted on fraud charges was arrested when he applied to become a town police
officer. Alexander Ocasio, 30, of Las Vegas, was arrested in Connecticut
in August 1998 after the standard background check for applicants to the
police force turned up his fugitive warrant. Police quickly called Ocasio
in to get his fingerprints, saying it was part of the job application. When
he showed up, they pulled out the warrant with his name on it. "I think it's
hilarious," Matthew Dushoff, a Nevada deputy attorney general, said Thursday.
"It's one of the dumbest things he could have done. We never would have found
him otherwise, and he walked right into it." Ocasio is a former state corrections
officer in Nevada and a one-time security officer at a Las Vegas casino.
He had passed both the written and agility tests to become a police officer
before he was caught, said Lt. Colleen Smullen. The Nevada charges involve
allegations of fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits.
(Source: Associated Press)
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