STRANGE CRIMES

MIRAMAR, Florida – Broward Sheriff’s deputy Arthur Reeves thought he was going to die when a shaky, masked carjacker held a weapon to his head in a predawn holdup on the side of Florida’s Turnpike.

Reeves, 32, thought maybe the red and blue lights that flashed in the mirrors of his Chevrolet Suburban — legally used only by police and firefighters in Florida — meant Florida Highway Patrol was attempting to slow him down on his way home to Miramar.

Not until he stopped his SUV and the robbers approached from a red Volvo sedan did he realize the danger he faced.

“This could have happened to anybody,” Broward Sheriff’s Robbery Detective Mark Copley said.

If an unmarked car is flashing red and blue lights and attempting to get you to stop or to move to the side of the road, but you aren’t speeding or violating other traffic laws, keep driving, authorities say.  Full Article

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PENN YAN, N.Y. – Police say an upstate New York woman passed drugs to her son while kissing him when she visited him in jail.

Sheriff's deputies in Yates County tell local media outlets 54-year-old Penn Yan resident Kimberly Margeson was visiting her son last week when she hid oxycodone pills and passed them from her mouth to his while giving him a kiss.

Police haven't said how the drugs were discovered.

Margeson pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of criminal sale of a controlled substance and promoting prison contraband. She's free after posting bail.  More

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Two women who were shot by Los Angeles police in Torrance early Thursday during a massive manhunt for an ex-LAPD officer were delivering newspapers, sources said.The women, shot in the 19500 block of Redbeam Avenue, were taken to area hospitals, Torrance police Lt. Devin Chase said. They were not identified. One was shot in the hand and the other in the back, according to Jesse Escochea, who captured video of the victims being treated.

It was not immediately known what newspapers the women were delivering. After the shooting, the blue pickup was riddled with bullet holes and what appeared to be newspapers lay in the street alongside.

Local, state and federal authorities are involved in a massive search for Christoper Jordan Dorner, 33, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer who threatened "unconventional and asymmetrical warfare" against police in an online manifesto, and was suspected of shooting three police officers, one of whom died, early Thursday in Riverside County.

Dorner also is suspected of killing a couple in Orange County earlier this week.

Sources said the Los Angeles police detectives involved in the Torrance shooting were on protective detail for a police official named in the suspect's manifesto.  More

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CHICAGO, Illinois – A young mother from Harvey was in trouble with police after lying about her baby being in her car when it was stolen on Chicago’s South Side.

Jeanette Holt, 25, has been charged with one count of felony disorderly conduct, police said.

CBS 2′s Dana Kozlov reports police rushed to a Chatham neighborhood daycare center around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, after Holt called 911 to report her 1997 Chevy Monte Carlo had been stolen with her 1-year-old son inside.

At least seven squad cars were put on alert to search the area.

Police conducted a massive search for the car, only to find out the child was not inside to begin with. He had been in daycare all along.

Police sources said the boy’s mother lied about the abduction because she wanted officers to look for her car.

“We arrested her as a result,” Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said. “And we need to do that when people make false claims like that, because it’s very serious, it endangers the public at large, and definitely our police officers who may be responding in a different fashion than just to take a report for a stolen vehicle.” Full Article

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BULLS GAP, Tennessee – An 86-year-old woman grabbed a gun in self-defense when police say an intruder broke into her home.

Louise Howard lives just off a busy highway in Bulls Gap.

She told us she’s been the victim of theft many times before, and she’s had enough and it was time to take a stand.

“I told different people if I ever catch them, I mean to kill them,” said Louise Howard.

Louise Howard may be 86 years old, but she isn’t afraid to defend her home or her life.

Howard said a young woman broke the glass on her door and forced her way inside.

Howard immediately grabbed her gun, but the two started to struggle down the hall. Full Article

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KANSAS CITY, Missouri – Authorities found a frail 17-year-old boy handcuffed to a pole in his parents’ Kansas City basement, where he said he’d been kept since his father withdrew him from school in September.

According to a police report, an officer and social worker who were acting on a phoned-in tip visited the family’s home on Monday. When they entered the basement, they heard someone cry out, “I didn’t do anything. I didn’t do anything. I didn’t do anything.”

“I then observed a thin frail looking male getting out of the fetal position on the concrete floor around a steel support pole,” Officer Jonathan Stone wrote in the report. The teen was handcuffed to the pole and looked very thin for his height, with a sunken face and eyes that “had a look of desperation.”

An adult in the home told police that the teen was “locked downstairs because in December they let him upstairs and he ate almost an entire bowl of fruit at one time.” Full Article

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A multi-agency manhunt is under way in California after police say the former Los Angeles police officer suspected in the murders of a college basketball coach and her fiancé last weekend opened fire Wednesday night on three police officers, killing one, KTTV.com reported.

The suspect has been identified as Christopher Jordan Dorner, 33, and he is considered extremely dangerous, authorities say. The killings appear to be retribution for his 2009 termination from the Los Angeles Police Department for making false statements, authorities say.

Details of the shooting involving the police officers remain unclear, but KTTV.com reported that one officer was killed and another is undergoing surgery. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department confirmed to Fox News that two Riverside officers were shot and possibly an LAPD officer in Corona.  More

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A Lake Mary bartender broke into her ex-fiance's Deltona home and attacked the new girlfriend she found in bed with him, Volusia deputies said.

Kelly Custis, 27, a bartender at Fourth Street Bar and Grille in Lake Mary, was arrested and charged with burglary with assault or battery, an arrest report shows.

Deputies were called to the Deltona home at 5:30 a.m. Monday to reports of a physical disturbance. At the home, deputies found Shelley Graham, 28, an employee of Shotz Sports Bar in DeBary, with scratches all over her chest, arm and face. Clumps of Graham's hair were on the bedroom floor, deputies said.

The ex-fiance, David Lewis, 31, an employee of the Seminole County Fire Department, told deputies he was lying in bed with his new girlfriend, Graham, when the lights in the bedroom suddenly came on. He saw Custis standing in the doorway and she began to attack Graham as they lay in bed, deputies wrote in the report.  More

California - A homeless hitchhiker in West Fresno, Calif., may have saved two people’s lives Friday after they were attacked by a giant, epithet-spewing racist who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

The bizarre series of events unfolded around 2 p.m. on Friday after 54-year-old Jett Simmons McBride drove his car into the back of a black electrical worker and pinned him to his utility truck.

“I’m Jesus Christ and I can do anything I f***ing want to do,” he supposedly told Kai, a hitchhiker he’d picked up, right before slamming into the man.

Apparently intent to finish him off, McBride stepped out of his truck and tried yank him out from between the two vehicles. All along, he spewed more weird racist rants: He was Jesus reborn, and he was here to remove “ni**ers” from the face of the Earth.

Tanya Baker, an eyewitness, ran over to try stop him. McBride responded by smothering her in a bear hug.  Full Article

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South Carolina – Jason Stoddard, a 32-year-old videographer and director, said the whole episode stemmed from a playful prank in which he pulled over a good friend while driving a prop car designed to look like a police cruiser.

The joke backfired when his friend got scared, bolted and called police in a panic, he said.

With her help, Stoddard said, he’s now trying to clear his name and get the criminal charge dismissed.

“It was the worst misunderstanding of my entire life,” he said Monday.

A Charleston police report, however, indicates that the woman positively identified Stoddard and the car as being involved in the traffic stop that frightened her.

The woman also told officers she did not know Stoddard, police spokesman Charles Francis said. Full Article

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Connecticut – Barbara Aiello, 71, was charged with two counts of risk of injury to a minor after booting the boys, ages 10 and 11, from her Middletown home early Sunday.

Police said it was 4:30 in the morning and the temperature outside was 23 degrees. Aiello claimed she didn’t realize how late it was when she kicked them out.

The Connecticut grandma – fed up with her grandson’s boisterous sleepover party – was thrown in jail after she booted two young boys from her home.

Police say Barbara Aiello, of Middletown, endangered the boys’ lives when she kicked them out around 4:30 a.m. Sunday and into the cold. The 71-year-old was charged with two counts of risk of injury to a minor and is set to appear in court Monday, according to NBC Connecticut.

Aiello told the station that she ousted the boys, ages 10 and 11, in a fit of rage when they became too rowdy.

“I said everybody out,” Aiello recalled. “I opened the door, not thinking, not realizing the time. I was angry and said, ‘Go home.’” Full Article

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Alexandria – The boy, a fifth-grader at Douglas MacArthur Elementary School whose name is not being released, was charged as a juvenile with brandishing a weapon, police said.

He was also suspended from school, and Alexandria City Public Schools Superintendent Morton Sherman said further action is being considered, including expulsion.

On Monday, the boy showed the plastic gun to at least one other student during a bus ride home from the school. The 10-year-old did not point it at anyone or threaten to shoot it, but he neglected to mention that the weapon was fake, said Alexandria police spokeswoman Ashley Hildebrandt.

When the boy arrived, authorities found the toy in his backpack. He was taken into custody, transported to a juvenile detention center for booking and then released to his parents, Hildebrandt said.

“A toy gun is no danger to anyone,” said Liane Rozzell, executive director of Families & Allies of Virginia’s Youth. “A 10-year-old is not a fully formed adult by any means. And that kind of situation should be dealt with outside the courts and the justice system.” Full Article

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GARDEN CITY, Idaho – Two Garden City men were arrested after police found them unloading a stolen Idaho Statesman newspaper box from a pickup truck.

Garden City Police say Henry Guntrum Jr., 40, and Chad Atwood, 30, were taken into custody without incident around 4 a.m. and later booked into the Ada County Jail after being interviewed by police.

Detectives say over the past three weeks 17 coin-operated newspaper boxes have been stolen in Boise and Garden City. Total losses from the thefts exceeded $12,000.

Guntrum and Atwood are each charged with grand theft. Full Article

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MIAMI, Florida – Penelope Soto was in bond court accused of possession of Xanax bars. She appeared in court laughing and when the judge asked if she was under the influence; she stroked her hair repeatedly and replied, “Actually, no.”

The judge ordered Soto held on $5,000 bond and as she walked away said, “Adios.”

The bond court judge asked Soto to come back and decided to increase her bond to $10,000. At that point, Soto stopped laughing and flipped off the judge as she walked away.

The judge asked her to come back again and asked her, “Did you tell me to (expletive) off?”

Soto replied, “Yes sir,” and the judge ordered her held in contempt of court and to be held for 30 days in the county jail.  Full Article   Video at Nutty News Videos

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