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5 Craziest Crimes of the Week
 5 Craziest Crimes of the Week 
May 23, 2014 8:56 AM CDT

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

Rob Ford makes an appearance, or at least his car does

(Newser) - An arrest in Texas that prompted a lot of head-scratching and several in Iran that prompted even more make this week's list:
  • Teen Faces Life Sentence Over Pot Brownies : A Texas teen is facing five years to life in prison for allegedly making and selling pot brownies because of
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How Teen Facing Life Over Pot Brownies Got Caught

Jacob Lavoro's neighbor smelled smoke and called police

(Newser) - The Texas teenager who is looking at a possible life sentence for whipping up a batch of pot- and hash-laced brownies got busted because his pregnant neighbor smelled smoke, reports KHOU-TV . The woman explains that she is five months' along, and she called police because the smell from the neighboring...

Bread Truck Thief Showers NYC With Bread

In his underoos, natch

(Newser) - Maybe he was shooting to be the Robin Hood of carbohydrates? Police in New York City have charged 29-year-old David Bastar with criminal possession of stolen goods and driving without a license, reports the Journal News , and this is how they say it went down: A driver for Grimaldi's...

Teen Makes Escape With Bed Sheets, Evades Arrest

Climbs out 4th-floor hotel window while police wait

(Newser) - What do you do when the police come knocking? If you're this teenage runaway, you fashion yourself an escape rope out of bed sheets and climb out a fourth-floor window. That’s what the unnamed 16-year-old did in the wee hours of Monday morning at a Colorado Hilton hotel,...

Cops: Man Tried to Have Sex With ATM

Then Lonnie Jackson Hutton allegedly tried to have his way with a picnic table

(Newser) - This may be the holy grail of weird sex crime stories: Police on Friday arrested a Murfreesboro, Tenn., man who was allegedly trying to have intercourse with a bar's ATM around 9:30pm, the Daily News Journal reports. Per the police report, 49-year old Lonnie Jackson Hutton "pulled...

Teen Faces Life Sentence Over Pot Brownies

Jacob Lavoro's use of hash oil is a big part of the problem

(Newser) - A Texas teen is facing five years to life in prison for allegedly making and selling pot brownies due to the particulars of the state's drug laws—and his recipe. Jacob Lavoro’s fateful mistake was allegedly adding hash oil to his batch. While possession of up to two...

Mom Banned From Ranting About Kids on Facebook

Appeals court finds the ban is constitutional

(Newser) - Lots of people go on Facebook to blow off steam—but one New Jersey mom took things too far, and has now been banned from using the social network to rant about her ex-husband and kids. The trouble began when the Flemington mother, identified in court records only by her...

Guy Killed After Friend Misses Bulletproof Vest

He asked friends to shoot him, and one did

(Newser) - Who needs enemies when you have friends like these? An 18-year-old woman faces an involuntary manslaughter charge after she allegedly fatally shot her friend in the chest Wednesday ... because he asked her to. Though 25-year-old victim Blake Wardell wore a Kevlar bulletproof vest during the incident, the bullet from the...

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week
 5 Craziest Crimes of the Week 
May 16, 2014 8:18 AM CDT

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

Including a pair of notable drunken-driving arrests

(Newser) - This week's list has a definite, and unfortunate, high school theme:
  • Teen Arrested in Stolen Tux ... at Prom : When a $600 tuxedo was stolen off a mannequin at a bridal shop in Prescott Valley, Ariz., police knew just where to look: They called around to local schools and discovered
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Cops: Woman, 31, Posed as High School Sophomore

And got away with it for a school year

(Newser) - A strange case of an alleged imposter out of Texas: A woman who is at least 31 and possibly older posed as a 15-year-old high school sophomore and got away with it for almost an entire school year, reports KLTV . Charity Johnson is behind bars and accused of duping an...

PE Teacher Stole Cash From Students' Lockers: Cops

Assistant coach got caught powder-handed

(Newser) - Someone was stealing money from lockers in the boys' locker room at New Smyrna Beach High School in Florida ... and it ended up being probably the last person you'd expect. By April 25, $950 had been stolen from nine students, so school officials used an ultraviolet theft-detection kit to...

Teen Arrested in Stolen Tux —at Prom

18-year-old faces felony charges

(Newser) - When a $600 tuxedo was stolen off a mannequin Friday night at a bridal shop in Prescott Valley, Ariz., police knew just where to look: They called around to local schools and discovered that one of them had its prom scheduled for the weekend. The store owner, whose front window...

Cops Make 2 Drunk-Driving Arrests in Single Car

Iowa women help with some questionable choices

(Newser) - Police managed to make two drunk-driving arrests by pulling over a single car, reports the Iowa City Press-Citizen . Here's the trick: Cops say Jennifer Volesky was driving erratically on a local highway when she apparently realized she was unfit to drive and pulled into the parking lot of a...

Teacher Busted for DWI ... on Her Way to Work

Police in Texas make highway stop about 8am

(Newser) - In escalating order of badness: Police arrested a woman in Humble, Texas, on DWI charges; it happened at 8am on a weekday; and ... she's a middle-school teacher who was on her way to work when arrested. As Click2Houston reports, police say they pulled over a car driven by 48-year-old...

Guy Arrested After Driving to Police Station Drunk

Cops say Louisiana man, 31, smelled of alcohol when he arrived

(Newser) - Police say a 31-year-old man has been arrested after he drove to a Louisiana state police headquarters to file an accident report ... while drunk. Patrick Ruffner called state police Saturday, saying his vehicle was struck by a hit-and-run driver on Interstate 10 in Baton Rouge. He was told to come...

Ill-Advised Selfie Leads to Guy's Arrest

He was bragging about what a good drug dealer he was, and then...

(Newser) - Pro tip: It may not be a great idea to post selfies on Facebook that show you dealing drugs ... particularly if you were doing so next to sheriff's deputies. That's what Taylor Harrison, a 21-year-old South Florida man, allegedly did before he was arrested last week, First Coast...

Thieves Break Into Presidential Tomb, Steal ... Spoons?

But they left empty whiskey bottle at James A. Garfield's monument

(Newser) - Police in Ohio say thieves have broken into the monument of President James A. Garfield and stolen a set of commemorative spoons. Vandals shattered a window to get inside the 180-foot-tall monument at Lakeview Cemetery in Cleveland Heights. A cemetery worker discovered the theft Wednesday. The cemetery's website says...

Woman Has Neighbors' Home Bulldozed: Cops

That's one way to deal with a person you don't like

(Newser) - Authorities say a northeast Florida woman who didn't like her neighbors had their mobile home demolished. According to an arrest report, Ana Maria Moreta Folch of St. Augustine told a heavy equipment operator that she owned the trailer and wanted it and its septic tank destroyed. The Florida Times-Union...

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week
 5 Craziest Crimes of the Week 
May 9, 2014 9:16 AM CDT

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

Including a strange anti-military protest

(Newser) - A very pricey pair of running shoes and a very ill-advised YouTube video highlight the list:
  • Thieves Steal $34K Pair of Sneakers : A pair of Usain Bolt's orange cleats were on display in London—until someone stole the signed shoes, which are reportedly worth $34,000. The Jamaican athlete
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Dad Arrested After Protesting Daughter's School Novel

He thinks young-adult book is too racy

(Newser) - A New Hampshire father who thought his daughter's high school assigned a book too racy for young teens ended up under arrest at a school board meeting, reports CBS Boston . William Baer complained during the meeting that a particular passage in Jodi Picoult's young-adult novel Nineteen Minutes "...

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