Hey, these are tough times, so even the boogeyman, long known for his work scaring little kids, has had to take a second job.
A Florida man who crashed his motorcycle and is accused of being drunk at the time told police the boogeyman was responsible for the crash.
Some women carry gum or mints in their purse. Marie Chester carries dinner for a big family.
Police in Fort Pierce, Florida arrested the 40-year-old woman last week for shoplifting six full racks of ribs and two packs of oxtails from a supermarket. Somehow, she carried out the food in her pocketbook. The items she took were worth $57.60.
A New York man now faces a whopping $50,000 bail after police said he tried to rob a convenience store of 99 cents.
Christopher Tisley, a 34-year-old Brooklyn resident, sauntered into the store at about 3 a.m. on Saturday with a gun and ordered the clerk to hand over the change, according to police.
The high price of gas seems to have gotten to Karleena Kempf.
Police in Galesburg, Illinois arrested the 35-year-old woman Saturday on charges of stealing gas from the same service station on eight different occasions between May 19 and June 10.
Aaron Vera Morales is definitely more Vera than Aaron.
Prosecutors in Mexico City say Vera Morales underwent plastic surgery to appear as a woman so he could elude police who were trying to arrest him.
Florida...it's the Germany of the United States. That is to say, it seems like most of the dumb criminals, weirdos doing weird things kind of stories come from the Sunshine State these days. It seems like only yesterday, they mostly came from Germany. Here's a dumb criminal of the perverted variety, who ended up incriminating himself.
Getting a conviction is in the bag.
That may be what prosecutors in Spain are thinking after a man was arrested for theft by worming his body into a suitcase that was loaded onto an airport bus just so he could squeeze back out and steal from other luggage.
What is it with the strange stuff people steal? Here's one I've never heard of before. From Ft. Pierce, Fla. comes video of 2 women who stole deodorant from a Winn-Dixie store. Police said the women were taped taking sticks of deodorant off the store shelves, and putting them in a purse sitting in a shopping cart they were pushing around the store.
Drinking can cloud your thinking, which may explain why a Farmington, Connecticut man came up with a pretty boneheaded idea.
Authorities say Daniel Vagnini beat himself up to prove to police he had been assaulted to get out of being charged with drunken driving last Saturday.
If Jessica Ockman had designs on becoming a stage mother, it seems she planned on her little bundle of joy's first role to be in a new 'Weekend at Bernie's' movie.
Authorities in Louisiana's Jefferson Parish have booked the 33-year-old woman on various charges after she left her 20-month-old son in a car for over an hour. The boy wasn't by himself in the car, mind you. Nope - he was in the company of a woman who just so happened to be dead.
Actually, that headline is a little bit misleading, because it was the one with the most teeth that ended up in hot water this time. A 33 yr old Naples, Florida woman faces burglary with assault or battery charges, after allegedly breaking into a neighbor's home, and refusing to leave. It all started innocently enough, as Tina S. Gonzales was celebrating her son's birthday, as any loving, upstanding mom would, by getting tanked up on hard liquor and beer. No problem so far, right? Read on...
I love weird news stories, you know the kind of stories where people aren't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. I ran across this one while perusing newspapers from around this great nation of ours, and it made me chuckle. Dateline: Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A convicted felon is being held on $25,000 cash bail for allegedly carjacking a woman, along with other charges including receiving stolen property, driving while intoxicated, and disobeying a police officer. During his arraignment, Douglas Ellison said he was from the '5th dimension'.
