Man Reports Own Parking Violation To Police

A Connecticut man was so upset about the lack of parking enforcement in his town that he parked his car illegally in a handicapped space and called police over a dozen times. When they showed up, they subdued him with a stun gun and arrested him.

Shelton police say they had to use the stun gun on Michael Andes Thursday morning after he became combative and screamed at officers that they weren't doing their job. He was charged with breach of peace, interfering with an officer and was given a parking ticket.

Authorities say Andes first called police at 2 a.m. and yelled at a dispatcher.

Andes posted $1,000 bail and is due in court Sept. 6. There's no phone listing for Andes. It's unclear if he has a lawyer.


ABC 13: Man reports own parking violation to Conn. police

Newlyweds Arrested For Shoplifting $1,000 In Food From Supermarket For Reception

A couple of Pennsylvania newlyweds are behind bars after police say they were caught shoplifting food from a supermarket for their wedding reception.

The Centre Daily Times reports 32-year-old Arthur Phillips III and his bride, 22-year-old Brittany Lurch, were arrested Saturday after taking more than $1,000 in merchandise from a Wegmans supermarket in State College.

Patton Township police say the couple was captured on surveillance footage loading a shopping cart and leaving the store without paying.

The Centre Daily Times report says the Centre Hall couple admitted taking the items when arrested. Police say the newlyweds told officers they’d been married a couple days earlier and took the food for their wedding reception that afternoon.

They are charged with misdemeanor counts and are being held on $2,500 bail.


Washington Post: Police: Pa. newlyweds shoplifted $1,000 in food from supermarket for wedding reception

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Woman Flipping Off Another Driver Causes Rollover

A Tacoma woman caused an accident on State Route 512 on Monday when she lost control of her vehicle as she was giving another driver “the bird,” the Washington State Patrol said.

The 23-year-old woman, driving a 2004 Taurus, was traveling eastbound next to a Subaru Outback, the State Patrol said.

She wanted to get over to the right lane, but it was occupied, so she flipped off the driver of the Outback. As she was doing so she lost control of her vehicle and hit the back end of the Outback, causing it to run off the road and roll over. She ended up in a ditch farther down the roadway.

Three people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
The woman faces charges up to reckless driving.


MSNBC: Troopers: Driver flipping off another driver causes crash

Bellevue Woman Drives Up Telephone Pole Support Wire

A Bellevue woman was unhurt Friday after accidentally driving up a support wire on Lake Washington Boulevard.

According to Bellevue Police, the woman was driving her SUV westbound, about to turn onto Overlake Drive.

Officers said she failed to yield to oncoming traffic, over-corrected, and drove the vehicle up a support wire.

The woman was taken to Overlake Hospital as a precaution.

Police said a crane will be needed to remove the teetering vehicle.

A witness told KING 5 News she stopped at the crash scene minutes after it happened. The woman told her she was okay, but didn't want to move around for fear of upsetting the car's delicate balance.


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Man Accidentally Shoots Himself While Driving Down Interstate 24

Justin Newberry, 23 was in a Nissan Altima driving westbound on I-24 when he had to apply his brakes to slow down for traffic. After he applied the brakes, a handgun known as “The Judge” slid out from under the seat.

When Newberry reached down to pick it up he grabbed it by the trigger at which time “The Judge” went off. The round, which was a 410 slug, went into right thigh, exited, and continued on until it hit him in the left leg just above the ankle. He was able to safely pull the car into the median area about mile marker 6 and call 911 for help.

He was transported by Lifeflight to Vanderbilt and is in stable condition. There were multiple forms of identification from different locations in the car so officers were not able to determine where he is from or where he was headed prior to be taken away by Lifeflight.

Additionally, officers on the scene found marijuana and drug paraphernalia inside of the vehicle. Charges are pending.


Clarksville Online: Man Accidentally Shoots Himself While Driving Down Interstate 24

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Woman Texts Police Chief To Buy Drugs

Authorities say a northern Idaho woman trying to buy prescription hydrocodone pills was arrested after she accidentally texted her request to a police chief in nearby Washington state.

The Lewiston Tribune reports 43-year-old Lewiston resident Stacy J. Tibbits has been charged with felony attempted possession of a controlled substance in nearby Asotin, Wash.

Tibbits is expected to enter a plea in Asotin County Superior Court on Aug. 22.

Police say Tibbits accidentally sent Asotin Police Chief Bill Derbonne a text message last month trying to buy hydrocodone.

Officers say they met her July 8 at a boat ramp, where she had arranged to pick up the pills.


Police: Woman texted officer to buy drugs

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Man Arrested For Popping Pimples Outside Of McDonalds

A Port Charlotte man was arrested by Cape Coral police Monday after an incident at McDonald’s in which he allegedly repulsed customers by squeezing pimples on his back.

Owen Lemire Kato, 23, was being removed as a trespasser from the restaurant at 2404 Santa Barbara Blvd. South after standing near the north entrance for more than 10 minutes and attracting the ire of customers, who had complained someone was popping pimples on his back, according to a police report.

When an off-duty officer tried to get Kato to leave, he asked for the suspect’s name. Kato initially told him it was John Smith, but then gave his real name and date of birth. The cooperation ended there as the suspect allegedly decided to flee.

Another officer nearby noticed Kato run past his cruiser as he heard the call go out over the radio about the disturbance.

After a foot chase, Kato was tackled and taken into custody.

While searching him, officers reportedly found a syringe in his pocket, which Kato’s girlfriend said he used to inject “blues,” or Oxycontin.

Kato told police he offered a fake name and ran because he had an active warrant.

He was processed for the Charlotte County warrant for driving without a license and was also charged with giving false ID to an officer, resisting arrest without violence and possession of drug equipment.


News-Press: Popping pimples outside Cape Coral McDonald's leads to Port Charlotte man's arrest

Police Officers Arrested For DUI While Driving To A Funeral

Two Aurora Police officers were arrested in Wyoming Wednesday night after deputies say they were drinking and driving in an Aurora Police car, 9Wants to Know has learned.

The officers were arrested in Goshen County about 6:30 p.m. They were heading to the funeral of two officers from another department who were recently killed in South Dakota, Goshen County Sherriff's Capt. Brian Morehouse told 9Wants to Know.

Morehouse stopped the officers' car after a volunteer firefighter called dispatch to say he saw a police car speeding, a passenger throwing trash out of the car and the officers using the vehicle's emergency lights to pass other cars.

When Morehouse stopped the police car, he said he could smell alcohol in the car and found beer in a cooler inside the patrol car.

He arrested Aurora Police Officer Bradley B. Bickett when he failed a roadside sobriety test and later blew a .07 on a breathalyzer machine.

Bickett was cited for DWUI-alcohol which is a misdemeanor, careless driving and speeding. Morehouse said he clocked Bickett traveling 57 mph in a 40 mph zone.

"It is a great embarrassment to not only our department, but to law enforcement across the board," Cassidee Carlson with the Aurora Police Department said. "The feeling here at the Aurora Police Department is disbelief again."

Bickett was taken to jail at 6:51 p.m. Wednesday and released at 12:46 a.m. Thursday.

Morehouse said an Aurora Police Department Commander picked up Bickett, who was required to have a BAC of .00 before he was allowed to leave the jail. Bickett's passenger, Aurora Police Officer Gerald Kirby, was cited for littering.

"Our chief extended a phone call to their sheriff to apologize for the actions of our officers and additionally to thank him and his deputies for their professionalism and action in the matter," Carlson said.

Morehouse says that when the volunteer firefighter called to report the erratically-driven patrol car, he said the patrol car had almost hit two motorcycles.

The volunteer firefighter told 9Wants to Know that he was concerned for the safety of everyone on the road.

The officers were not in uniform at the time they were stopped, Morehouse told 9Wants to Know.

"These officers will be placed in a non-uniform role when they arrive back to work next week, where they won't have contact with the public until this serious discipline is reviewed," Carlson said.

Morehouse says both officers were cooperative during their arrest.

"We have more than 600 officers that come here every day and do a great service for the City of Aurora," Carlson said. "Unfortunately, these officers made very poor decisions that now are causing us to get in front of the camera and [address] the embarrassment that they've caused."


9News: Police: Aurora officers heading to funeral were drunk in police car

Man Shoots His Own Penis With Fiancés Pink Gun

As Chandler residents Joshua Seto, 27, and his fiancée, Cara Christopher, walked over to a Fry's Food Store for refreshments, he tried securing her pink handgun in the front waistband of his pants.

The gun fired, striking Seto's penis and continuing through his left thigh. The bleeding started immediately and was heavy, according to police dispatch recordings released Sunday.

"He is still conscious, there is just a lot of blood," Christopher , 26, told 9-1-1 operators and dispatchers.

One operator told Christopher to apply direct pressure to the wound with a dry towel or T-shirt, but to avoid looking at the wound.

"I did look at it," Christopher said. "It's pretty bad."

The accidental shooting took place about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday on the 900 block of W. Elliot Road.

When the emergency call first went through, Chrisopher was asked if they needed paramedics, she said yes.

"He's still coherent and everything but he's bleeding quite a lot," she said.

In the wake the accident, police are warning armed residents to use holsters, not waistbands.

The movies and TV shows, like Sons of Anarchy, that show tough guys with guns shoved into their jeans are not realistic, Chandler Police Detective Seth Tyler said Sunday.

The cops and robbers of the silver screen most likely use rubber weapons, which weigh far less than the real things, Tyler said.

"Whenever you handle a firearm, whether you are a novice or experienced, always treat firearms as though they are loaded, said Tyler, a spokesman for the department. "If you are going to carry a handgun on your person, use a holster, not your waistband."

Meanwhile, it is not clear if Seto has been released from the hospital or suffered any permanent damage, Tyler said.

"He is recovering," Tyler said.

He may possibly face charges, too, Tyler said. "The case agent is still determining that," Tyler said Sunday.

Tyler was unsure of the type of gun, or whether it had a safety that was off.


AZCentral: Police urge holster use after man shoots his own penis

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Fullerton Man Jailed For Putting Semen In Co-Worker's Water Bottle

A Fullerton man was sentenced to 180 days in jail Friday on two counts of battery for twice secretly depositing his semen in a co-worker's water bottle.

Superior Court Judge Walter Schwarm also required Michael Kevin Lallana, 32, to register as a sex offender for life – because the jury found he committed the acts for sexual gratification – and to serve three years of formal probation.

Schwarm handed down that sentence after he listened to the victim explain that the ordeal damaged her emotionally and physically. "I've spent many days crying and not sleeping," she said with her voice cracking. "I feel it was a form of rape."

Deputy District Attorney Brock Zimmon argued during the jury trial last month that Lallana twice "set a trap" for his co-worker at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network by discharging his semen into a water bottle she kept on her desk.

Zimmon said sexual gratification was the only reasonable explanation for Lallana's behavior and that Lallana admitted in an interview with Orange police detectives that he placed the semen-laced bottle on the co-worker's desk knowing that her lips would touch the bottle.

The woman testified she worked at Northwestern for more than four years but rarely interacted with Lallana. She told the jury that she usually kept a bottle of water on her desk and refilled it during the day as needed.

The woman first became aware of something unusual in her water when she took a sip from her water bottle on Jan. 14, 2010, while she was working in Northwestern's Newport Beach branch. She testified that she immediately noticed an odd taste and then held the bottle away from her face and saw something in the water.

She said the same thing happened four months later in the company's Orange branch, where she had been transferred. She said she took the bottle to a private lab, which determined the foreign substance was semen.

Orange police then launched an investigation and interviewed six co-workers from the Orange office.

Lallana at first denied having anything to do with the semen in the bottle, but later admitted discharging into the bottle both times, according to a tape recording of the conversation.

A subsequent DNA test confirmed that the semen was Lallana's, Zimmon said.


OCRegister: Man gets jail for semen in co-worker's water bottle

Teen Shot While Trying To Steal Twinkies

An 18-year-old Jacksonville, FL man who tried to steal Twinkies from a convenience store Thursday afternoon was shot when the store clerk's gun accidentally discharged, according to Jacksonville police.

The teen, Joseph Williams, has since been arrested.

Police said Williams was trying to steal the snack cakes from Happy Jacks in the 1600 block of North Myrtle Avenue in Northwest Jacksonville just after 4 p.m. Thursday.

Police said the store clerk then displayed a handgun and chased Williams out of the store. Police said the clerk caught Williams outside the store and they got into a struggle.

The clerk had the gun in his right hand and told Williams to stop resisting, police said. They said the clerk told them that Williams looked at his gun as if he was going to try and grab it, so he struck him in the head to stop him.

The gun accidentally fired, and Williams was able to flee the scene, police said. A K-9 tracked a blood trail several blocks away, but police said they were not able to find Williams.

At 9 p.m., Williams walked into a local hospital for treatment for a gunshot wound to his arm, police said. They said Williams admitted to being in a struggle with the store clerk. He was then arrested.


MSNBC: Police: Teen shot in Twinkies theft at Happy Jacks

Dispatcher Attempts To Commandeer Hot Dog Cart

Heard the one about the police dispatcher accused of trying to steal a hot dog cart?

She was hot on a bad guy’s trail — at least that’s what 28-year-old Kayla Hogan allegedly claimed when a Colorado Springs hot dog vendor said she tried to drive off in the pickup to which his snack cart was hitched.

“I’m commandeering your truck,” the vendor said he was told. “I’m after someone.”

Hogan, a dispatcher in the Colorado Springs police communications center, was arrested June 26 on suspicion of attempted vehicle theft after a closing-time fracas outside the Copperhead Road Bar, 3330 N. Academy Blvd. Police say she pinched the hot dog vendor and twice punched a bar bouncer who came to his aid.

Her arrest apparently didn’t make it onto the Police Department’s online blotter, which records notable incidents and arrests.

Hogan, who has two previous convictions for drunk driving, earned a base salary of $48,619 in 2009, the most recent year for which records were available. The six-year veteran has been on paid leave since her arrest, said police spokesman Sgt. Steve Noblitt.

Hogan is the third police employee to be arrested since May.

Her attorney, Richard Radabaugh of Colorado Springs, declined to comment Thursday.

According to an arrest affidavit, a bar bouncer grew concerned when he noticed Hogan standing in the bar parking lot about 1 a.m.

But when Curtis Lille approached and asked if she needed help, Hogan ignored his questions, “kicked off her high heel shoes” and took off running through the parking lot, police said.

Four minutes later, police say, hot dog vendor Charlie Gast “saw a female wearing no shoes run up to his truck and get into the driver’s seat.”

Hogan pinched Gast and punched Lille during a scuffle that broke out as they tried to get her out of the truck, police said.

According to the court document, Hogan lashed out when Gast prevented her from turning the truck’s key, which was left in the ignition: “You’re really aiding and abetting a felon,” she said, according to the arrest affidavit.

Police listed the value of the 2006 GMC pickup at $15,000. The vending trailer hitched to the back is worth approximately $25,000, police said.

Hogan is due to return to court Aug. 22, for a dispositional hearing on attempted aggravated motor vehicle theft, a Class 4 felony that carries up to 12 years in prison.


Gazette: Dispatcher in hot pursuit "commandeers" hot dog cart

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Mayor Of Vilnius Crushes Illegally Parked Car With Tank

Drivers who park in cycle lanes would normally worry about receiving a fine or perhaps having their vehicle towed. They probably do not expect to have their car crushed beneath the wheels of an armoured personnel carrier which has the local mayor at the controls.

But car owners in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, may be choosing their parking spaces a little more carefully after the city's mayor, Arturas Zuokas, drove over – and wrecked – a Mercedes in a stunt to serve as a warning to anyone who thinks about parking illegally.

In a video released by the city government, Zuokas is seen beaming triumphantly as he rides roughshod over the car.

"In the past few days, expensive cars have been illegally parked in almost this exact place – a Rolls Royce and a Ferrari," says the mayor's narration to the video.

"What should the city do about drivers who think that they are above the law? It seems that a tank is the best solution."

The get-tough approach earned praise for Zuokas, who has been better known for his involvement in a bribery scandal while serving two terms as mayor until 2007. Vilnius voters re-elected him in April.

Zuokas had cycle lanes installed throughout the capital during his first term as mayor.

"Mayor Zuokas wanted his message to be loud and clear that the city will not tolerate brazen and disrespectful behaviour by drivers who disobey parking rules," said his spokeswoman, Irma Juskenaite.

"The mayor hopes that he will not have to repeat his performance to have drivers heed his message, although he says that he is prepared to do so," she added, with a smile.

The mayor cleans up the mess of crushed glass at the end of the video, before riding away on a bike.

The car, Juskenaite added, was bought specifically for the stunt.


Guardian: Vilnius mayor goes over the top in crackdown on parking violators

Government Employee Arrested After Camera Found Hidden In Urinal

A Lafayette Consolidated Government employee is without a job. After a co-worker makes a shocking discovery while using the men's room. It happened at the Department of Planning, Zoning and Codes in Lafayette, where Jefferey Larcade worked as a planner for 13 years.

Officials said Larcade hid a camera inside the bathroom, but they don't how long it's been there.
Fifty employees work inside the building and many are men. Officials said one of those men discovered a tiny hidden camera duct- taped inside a urinal.

Corporal Paul Mouton with the Lafayette Police Department said, "the investigators are going to go over the information that was on the camera and determine exactly how many employees that we actually have that were captured on the video.

According to an affadavit, after the employee discovered the camera, he took out the memory card and reviewed it along with other employees. They found photographs and videos of several employees penis'.

Mouton said it may have been going on for quite some time.

He explained, "even though the video may be limited from one day to the other. We have to assume it was happening over a longer period of time, but that will of course come out throughout the course of the investigation."

Investigators said the camera belonged to Jeffery Larcade, who admitted to his co-workers and police the camera was his. Mouton believes only employees were captured because it was an employee-only bathroom.

"Unless there was a customer or someone in the back that they were assisting that was allowed to use the bathroom," he said.

At this point in the investigation, police have no reason to believe any of the images were published online. A spokesperson with LCG said, Larcade was fired Monday morning for violating LCG policies.

Larcade is charged with video voyeurism, he bonded out this weekend.

Officials confiscated all the electronics he's been using and said if they discover he did publish any of those images online, he'll be facing more charges carrying much harsher penalties.


KATC: Officials Say LCG Employee Fired After Placing Hidden Camera in Bathroom

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