Thursday, September 25, 2014
Arrested woman accused of chewing up and spitting out back seat of police car
A North Idaho woman arrested on several felony charges chewed through the seat of a sheriff's patrol vehicle while en route to the Bonner County Jail.
According to court records, Spence was arrested on Thursday morning at her home after she pepper sprayed a couple as they slept in their van. When deputies arrived at Spence's home, she was immediately combative. Court records show she kicked at the two deputies, striking one of them in the groin.
Deputies finally got Spence under control and in handcuffs and put her on her stomach in the back of of the deputy's 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe. According to court records, "while en route to the Bonner County Jail, Spence, using her mouth and teeth, tore through the back seat cover and into the seat foam, removing large chunks of seat foam and spitting them onto the floor to the car."
Sheriff's deputies estimate the damage at $2,137. Spence was booked into the jail on charges of malicious injury to property, assaulting an officer and resisting arrest.
According to court records, Spence was arrested on Thursday morning at her home after she pepper sprayed a couple as they slept in their van. When deputies arrived at Spence's home, she was immediately combative. Court records show she kicked at the two deputies, striking one of them in the groin.
Deputies finally got Spence under control and in handcuffs and put her on her stomach in the back of of the deputy's 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe. According to court records, "while en route to the Bonner County Jail, Spence, using her mouth and teeth, tore through the back seat cover and into the seat foam, removing large chunks of seat foam and spitting them onto the floor to the car."
Sheriff's deputies estimate the damage at $2,137. Spence was booked into the jail on charges of malicious injury to property, assaulting an officer and resisting arrest.
Man fatally shot after being mistaken for squirrel
A 71-year-old man was killed on Tuesday night by a friend's son while squirrel hunting in Rush in Monroe County, New York, sheriff's deputies have said.
Vienchaleun Kettavong was hunting with a friend and the friend's son in a heavily wooded area in Rush at about 5:30pm, when the son shot his rifle at what he believed to be a squirrel and instead struck his father's friend, said Cpl. John Helfer.
The location of the incident made it difficult for emergency responders to access, Helfer said. Kettavong was hunting in the woods with his friend KT Kounnavong, 58, and son P. Kounnavong, 32. Kettavong was pronounced dead at the scene.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Police and firefighters from Rush and Henrietta also assisted at the scene. Deputies continue to investigate the incident. No charges have been filed in connection with death.
Vienchaleun Kettavong was hunting with a friend and the friend's son in a heavily wooded area in Rush at about 5:30pm, when the son shot his rifle at what he believed to be a squirrel and instead struck his father's friend, said Cpl. John Helfer.
The location of the incident made it difficult for emergency responders to access, Helfer said. Kettavong was hunting in the woods with his friend KT Kounnavong, 58, and son P. Kounnavong, 32. Kettavong was pronounced dead at the scene.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Police and firefighters from Rush and Henrietta also assisted at the scene. Deputies continue to investigate the incident. No charges have been filed in connection with death.
Manatee kept dog struggling to get out of river company before its rescue
A moment of kindness between two animals was captured by a Florida police officer just before a colleague rescued a stranded dog from the Hillsborough River.
Residents in Tampa's Seminole Heights neighbourhood heard a strange noise coming from the river this past Friday night and then saw the dog, named White Boy, struggling to climb out of the river the next morning.
Officers from the Tampa Police Department’s Marine Patrol unit responded to a resident’s call for help on Saturday morning. As they were setting up their equipment for the rescue, Officer Jodie Maxim snapped a fortuitous photo. The photo shows the dog clinging on to a cement wall at the river’s edge while a manatee appears behind him. The officer who rescued the dog, Randy Lopez, a 30-year veteran of the department’s Marine Patrol Unit, said both the fresh water and the commotion likely drew in the manatee.
“They’re curious by nature so I’m sure the the sound of the dog splashing in the water trying to get up the sea wall got his attention and he came over to investigate, maybe calm the dog and tell him it was going to be alright,” Lopez said. Lopez said the dog was “clinging” to the makeshift sea walls with his front two paws. The officer used a nearby resident’s extension ladder to climb in and grab the dog. “It probably took about 20 minutes from start to finish,” Lopez said of the rescue.
A police department spokeswoman said the dog was reunited with its owners after they came out of their house to see what all the commotion with police in their neighbourhood was about. The dog suffered bug bites and had bloody paws but was otherwise not injured. It is not known how long the dog was in the river, or how long the manatee was there beside him before help arrived. “Once I got in the water I could see it kind of turned away and gave one good little flutter with its tail and was on its way,” Lopez said.
Officers from the Tampa Police Department’s Marine Patrol unit responded to a resident’s call for help on Saturday morning. As they were setting up their equipment for the rescue, Officer Jodie Maxim snapped a fortuitous photo. The photo shows the dog clinging on to a cement wall at the river’s edge while a manatee appears behind him. The officer who rescued the dog, Randy Lopez, a 30-year veteran of the department’s Marine Patrol Unit, said both the fresh water and the commotion likely drew in the manatee.
“They’re curious by nature so I’m sure the the sound of the dog splashing in the water trying to get up the sea wall got his attention and he came over to investigate, maybe calm the dog and tell him it was going to be alright,” Lopez said. Lopez said the dog was “clinging” to the makeshift sea walls with his front two paws. The officer used a nearby resident’s extension ladder to climb in and grab the dog. “It probably took about 20 minutes from start to finish,” Lopez said of the rescue.
A police department spokeswoman said the dog was reunited with its owners after they came out of their house to see what all the commotion with police in their neighbourhood was about. The dog suffered bug bites and had bloody paws but was otherwise not injured. It is not known how long the dog was in the river, or how long the manatee was there beside him before help arrived. “Once I got in the water I could see it kind of turned away and gave one good little flutter with its tail and was on its way,” Lopez said.
Police search for the Binky Bandit
Police in Oklahoma City are looking for a man they say is responsible for a carjacking on Friday evening.
Police have dubbed the man the “Binky Bandit” because he had a pacifier in his mouth at the time of the carjacking.
He also stole the victim’s wallet while pointing a handgun at him. Sgt. Jennifer Wardlow said, “It’s something that we don’t see very often, a man who is our suspect in such a violent crime to have a pacifier but we can't forget the fact that it is a very serious crime.”
Police believe the Binky Bandit may have been using the teething tool to protect his teeth from the side effects of drugs. “There are certain drugs that people use that have certain effects.
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“One of them is them grinding their teeth,” said Wardlow. Police said the man is approximately 18 years old with a thin build and is between 5 feet 9 inches and 5 feet 11 inches tall.
He also stole the victim’s wallet while pointing a handgun at him. Sgt. Jennifer Wardlow said, “It’s something that we don’t see very often, a man who is our suspect in such a violent crime to have a pacifier but we can't forget the fact that it is a very serious crime.”
Police believe the Binky Bandit may have been using the teething tool to protect his teeth from the side effects of drugs. “There are certain drugs that people use that have certain effects.
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“One of them is them grinding their teeth,” said Wardlow. Police said the man is approximately 18 years old with a thin build and is between 5 feet 9 inches and 5 feet 11 inches tall.
Chinese restaurant sold 'opium-laced noodles' so addicted patrons would come back for more
A noodle shop owner in northern Shaanxi province was detained after he was discovered to have been adding parts of a poppy plant, from which opium is made, to food so that customers would keep coming back.
The noodle shop’s owner was held for questioning and confessed that he purchased 2kg of poppy shells (the bud of the plant in which poppy seeds are found) for 600 yuan(£60, $100) in August.
He secretly added it to the food to lure in more customers. The owner was detained for 10 days. Poppy shells used to be an ingredient in a popular hot pot sauce until the product was banned. The restaurant's activities came to light after one customer, Liu Juyou, 26, tested positive during a routine urine test under an anti-drink-driving programme. He said he never touched illegal substances, so was shocked by the test result.
Liu was detained for 15 days from September 3, unable to convince police that the drug, he suspected, might have come from the food from a noodle shop he frequented. Liu asked his family to help him test the theory, eating noodles at the restaurant and going home to take urine tests. When the relatives also tested positive for drugs, they alerted the police, who launched an investigation.
An anti-narcotics police agent said that chemicals from poppy, even poppy seed pods, could build up in the body – enough to get a positive for opiates on a drug test. If the food is ingested over a long period of time, it would have an addictive effect, he said. However, despite finding the restaurant culpable, Liu’s appeal against his detention was dismissed by police, who said their priority was to detect drugs and punish drug users. The mainland’s anti-drug law bans opium, heroin, morphine, marijuana and any other anaesthetic and psychotropic drugs which can be addictive.
He secretly added it to the food to lure in more customers. The owner was detained for 10 days. Poppy shells used to be an ingredient in a popular hot pot sauce until the product was banned. The restaurant's activities came to light after one customer, Liu Juyou, 26, tested positive during a routine urine test under an anti-drink-driving programme. He said he never touched illegal substances, so was shocked by the test result.
Liu was detained for 15 days from September 3, unable to convince police that the drug, he suspected, might have come from the food from a noodle shop he frequented. Liu asked his family to help him test the theory, eating noodles at the restaurant and going home to take urine tests. When the relatives also tested positive for drugs, they alerted the police, who launched an investigation.
An anti-narcotics police agent said that chemicals from poppy, even poppy seed pods, could build up in the body – enough to get a positive for opiates on a drug test. If the food is ingested over a long period of time, it would have an addictive effect, he said. However, despite finding the restaurant culpable, Liu’s appeal against his detention was dismissed by police, who said their priority was to detect drugs and punish drug users. The mainland’s anti-drug law bans opium, heroin, morphine, marijuana and any other anaesthetic and psychotropic drugs which can be addictive.
Estate agent fights poo in the post charge
If it looks like faeces and smells like faeces, it's still not necessarily faeces.
That's what 57-year-old New Zealand real estate agent Grant Campbell Tucker will argue in the Auckland District Court when he defends a charge of posting poo to a rival agent.
Tucker, of Freemans Bay, pleaded not guilty on Monday to the charge laid under the Postal Services Act and Telecommunications Act.
He also denied a charge of using a telephone to offend the same complainant, Jonathan Charles Wills, with obscene language. Tucker is a director of Netrealty. Mr Wills, of Westmere, is director of Custom Residential. Both sell homes in pricey neighbourhoods such as Mt Eden, Herne Bay and Grey Lynn. Mr Wills said the package was sent to his lawyer, David Beard, at the of his Legal Street law firm.
Mr Beard alleged a letter in the package was written on the letterhead of Tucker's company and the package also contained broken glass. The delivery was taken to the police. "We opened the package out on the steps at the Auckland Central station. I was gagging over the side." In court, police told Judge Grant Fraser they had not sent the package to experts for examination for "health and safety reasons". They will present witness statements and photos of the contents when the matter goes to judge-alone trial.
Tucker's lawyer, Larissa Mulder, said that without forensic evidence it could not be proved the item was a "noxious substance" on the inference of smell. She also said the allegedly obscene voicemail message left by her client did not meet the threshold "in today's world". The judge remanded Tucker on bail until next month. Posting a noxious substance attracts a maximum penalty of a $5000 fine, while the other charge could bring up to three months' jail.
He also denied a charge of using a telephone to offend the same complainant, Jonathan Charles Wills, with obscene language. Tucker is a director of Netrealty. Mr Wills, of Westmere, is director of Custom Residential. Both sell homes in pricey neighbourhoods such as Mt Eden, Herne Bay and Grey Lynn. Mr Wills said the package was sent to his lawyer, David Beard, at the of his Legal Street law firm.
Mr Beard alleged a letter in the package was written on the letterhead of Tucker's company and the package also contained broken glass. The delivery was taken to the police. "We opened the package out on the steps at the Auckland Central station. I was gagging over the side." In court, police told Judge Grant Fraser they had not sent the package to experts for examination for "health and safety reasons". They will present witness statements and photos of the contents when the matter goes to judge-alone trial.
Tucker's lawyer, Larissa Mulder, said that without forensic evidence it could not be proved the item was a "noxious substance" on the inference of smell. She also said the allegedly obscene voicemail message left by her client did not meet the threshold "in today's world". The judge remanded Tucker on bail until next month. Posting a noxious substance attracts a maximum penalty of a $5000 fine, while the other charge could bring up to three months' jail.
Police seek to identify mystery shopper caught urinating on stock in Marks and Spencer store
A man urinated over stock in a Devon store.
CCTV footage shows the man commit the brazen act on August 23 in Plymouth’s Marks and Spencer store. He caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage and police want to trace him.
He is seen in the footage wearing a light purple-coloured shirt, walking from one stand to another, loitering occasionally before moving on, as a host of female shoppers walk past.
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A police spokesman said the man caused £280 damage to stock, including damage to a number of scarves. The spokesman said: “We want to hear from anyone who may have seen this man in the store on that day, or who can identify him.”
CCTV footage shows the man commit the brazen act on August 23 in Plymouth’s Marks and Spencer store. He caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage and police want to trace him.
He is seen in the footage wearing a light purple-coloured shirt, walking from one stand to another, loitering occasionally before moving on, as a host of female shoppers walk past.
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A police spokesman said the man caused £280 damage to stock, including damage to a number of scarves. The spokesman said: “We want to hear from anyone who may have seen this man in the store on that day, or who can identify him.”
Henry the dog saved by doorbell after spending four days stuck down rabbit hole
A border terrier who got stuck down a rabbit hole has had a lucky escape thanks Knutsford Fire Station’s animal rescue unit and a doorbell.
Dog owner Beverley Leonard called on the service of the fire and rescue team last week after seven-year-old Henry went missing near his home in Prestbury, Cheshire.
Henry had run into a field and disappeared down a hole, but as he didn’t bark much, his owner found it extremely difficult to locate him.
After a three-day search, the animal rescue unit from Knutsford Fire Station were called to help. The crew used a ‘snake eye’ camera for confined spaces and spent several hours searching the fields where Henry went missing. The search was called off after the crew could find neither sight nor sound of Henry – but one rescuer’s remark proved a lightbulb moment for Beverley. A crew member said that if Henry would just bark they would have much more chance.
A distraught Beverley remembered that the one thing Henry did bark at was her doorbell. She raced home, ripped the door bell off her front door, grabbed the amplifier, raced back to the fields and played it into every rabbit hole they could find. “It must have been just about the last hole in the last field, and we were about to give up, when we heard him,” said Beverley. “I rang the fire service’s animal rescue unit again, they'd said they would come back if there were any developments, and they got her quickly.
“They had to saw through a holly bush and dig until they got to Henry. When they got him up it was like we’d won the World Cup. Everyone was cheering and so happy Henry was fine.” A healthy Henry is now back at home, safe and well, and Beverley is full of praise for his heroes. “Every one of them was incredibly sympathetic and they didn’t want to leave even when we though all was lost,” she said. “We couldn’t have saved him without everything those firefighters did.”
There's a news video here.
After a three-day search, the animal rescue unit from Knutsford Fire Station were called to help. The crew used a ‘snake eye’ camera for confined spaces and spent several hours searching the fields where Henry went missing. The search was called off after the crew could find neither sight nor sound of Henry – but one rescuer’s remark proved a lightbulb moment for Beverley. A crew member said that if Henry would just bark they would have much more chance.
A distraught Beverley remembered that the one thing Henry did bark at was her doorbell. She raced home, ripped the door bell off her front door, grabbed the amplifier, raced back to the fields and played it into every rabbit hole they could find. “It must have been just about the last hole in the last field, and we were about to give up, when we heard him,” said Beverley. “I rang the fire service’s animal rescue unit again, they'd said they would come back if there were any developments, and they got her quickly.
“They had to saw through a holly bush and dig until they got to Henry. When they got him up it was like we’d won the World Cup. Everyone was cheering and so happy Henry was fine.” A healthy Henry is now back at home, safe and well, and Beverley is full of praise for his heroes. “Every one of them was incredibly sympathetic and they didn’t want to leave even when we though all was lost,” she said. “We couldn’t have saved him without everything those firefighters did.”
There's a news video here.
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