Hungry Burglar Breaks In Restaurant, Cooks Chicken and Rice, Leaves Without Cleaning Up

Burglar enters NJ sushi restaurant, cooks chicken, then flees

Mar 22 2010



HILLSDALE, N.J.— Police in a New Jersey town say someone broke into a restaurant and cooked a chicken and rice dish before fleeing _ leaving behind a pile of dirty dishes.

They say the hungry burglar on Saturday broke through an exhaust fan in the back wall of the Matsu Sushi Grill in Hillsdale, a town of 10,000 residents just northwest of New York City. The burglar got chicken from a freezer and cooked it with rice in a frying pan.

Detective Robert Francaviglia (frank-uh-VIL'-ee-uh) says the burglar ignored $200 in the cash register and took only the chicken and rice. He says the culprit may have been a homeless person searching for food.

Police say the break-in is similar to one at a nearby fried-chicken fast-food restaurant last year.

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Information from: The Record of Bergen County, http://www.northjersey.com

Brave Souls Come To Aid of Peanut Butter Eating Skunk

Colorado skunk's head freed from peanut butter jar

Mar 20 2010 04:52PM CST

Grand JUNCTION, Colo.— It was a sticky _ and potentially stinky _ rescue for a Colorado wildlife officer who pried a peanut butter jar off a skunk's head Saturday in Grand Junction.

The officer got a call that the animal was disoriented in someone's front yard, its head stuck in a jar of peanut butter.

State Wildlife spokesman Randy Hampton says the officer freed the skunk by tying a noose pole to the jar and pulling. The device is also called a choke stick and is a common tool used by animal control officers.

The skunk was freed without injury after about 10 minutes of pulling and then ran away _ without spraying anyone.

Hampton says it likely got trapped while rooting through someone's trash.

Vanity Ruins A Good Heist For Teenager

Police: Suspect updates Myspace page during burglary


March 19, 2010

KENNEWICK, Wash. -- Kennewick Police find a burglary suspect with help from the vane suspect himself. They say a 17 year old boy broke into Bella's Office Furniture on the 7400 block of West Clearwater on Saturday. During the commission of the burglary he paused long enough to update his own Myspace page on the store's computer. The cops were able to obtain the boy's name, address, phone number and the names and phone numbers of several attractive girlfriends in various states of undress. Two officers volunteered to track down the girlfriends and see what they could get from them.

Grandfather Who Whacks Kids In Wal-Mart For Fun Busted

Man who punched children in Wal-Mart faces more charges

Mar 16 2010

By Theodore Decker, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio


The 68-year-old grandfather accused of punching children's heads in a Northwest Side Walmart faces new charges that he twice assaulted a 2-year-old boy in the same store last month.

Ralph Conone of 5687 Shadowbrook Dr. on the Northwest Side remained jailed after appearing today in Franklin County Municipal Court on two more misdemeanor counts of assault.

Sgt. Rich Weiner, a Columbus Police Division spokesman, said Conone hit the victim in the store on Feb. 28, striking him two times in the head about eight minutes apart.

Sgt. John Hurst of the special victims bureau said investigators reviewed old incident reports connected to the store and found one from that night that warranted further scrutiny.

They spoke to the child's family and went through archived surveillance video at the store to confirm the child had been struck by Conone, he said.

"With the digital age, they can save (the recordings) pretty far back," Hurst said.

The new charges bring Conone's identified victims to three, police said.

He was charged last week with punching two brothers, ages 6 and 7, in the head with his keys sticking out of his fingers. The boys' mother, realizing something was amiss, followed Conone Wednesday night as he left the Wal-Mart at 2700 Bethel Rd. and detained him for security officers.

Police said last week that they had video footage of two other unidentified children being struck by Conone on the same night the brothers were assaulted.

Conone confessed to the assaults, police said. He told them he had been hitting random children in the store since January when their parents weren't looking. He said he did it because it excited him.

Colorado Do-Gooders Have Too Much Time To Think And Nothing To Think With

Four petty, small-minded individuals call Colo. police to complain about a topless gardener, according to equally petty and small-minded cops.
Mar 18 2010


BOULDER, Colo.— A nudist in Boulder who was threatened with eviction last spring for gardening outside wearing only pasties and a thong has caused another stir by gardening topless. At least four callers told police 52-year-old Catharine Pierce, who looks much younger (see photo insert) was in her yard topless on Wednesday. State law prohibits exposed genitals, but Pierce was wearing jeans and had gardening gloves and was not in violation of any law. Breasts are not considered to be genitals and any such law would severely restrict women's rights to breast feed in public.

Police spokeswoman Sarah Huntley said an officer told Pierce to consider wearing a shirt because children at the school across the street were playing outside.

According to an unauthorized school spokesman there were no complaints from any of the children. Pierce's husband then complained to police. Huntley said a police supervisor agreed with Pierce's husband that Pierce wasn't breaking any laws.

After the story broke on local news channels, an estimated 1500 individuals called police to complain about the original four complaining individuals. One caller told police he was being deprived of his constitutional right to view a topless woman in his neighborhood and threatened to sue the officer who suggested Ms. Pierce wear a shirt.

Boulder is considering expanding its anti-nudity law. Several thousand Boulder activists are considering mounting a recall election if it does. "It makes no sense for Boulder to criminalize nudity because four old biddies complained," according to Seth Bullingrad, who is President of Bare Boulder, a pro-nudist group that stages annual "naked-ins" in downtown Boulder. Last year's naked-in drew an estimated 20,000 participants and spectators and was closely monitored by the entire Boulder Police Department.

Man Pimps Wife On Craigslist

Sheriff: Man sold his wife for sex on Craigslist
Not the actual woman - a substitute used for advertising only

Mar 17 2010
CARLA K. JOHNSON - Associated Press Writer



CHICAGO— A woman feared she'd never see her young child again unless she complied with her husband's scheme to sell her sexual services on Craigslist, authorities said Wednesday.

After paid sexual encounters in eight states, the woman sought help by calling a national anti-sex trafficking hot line, said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, who was notified of the woman's plight on March 11.

Her desperate plea led to the arrest Sunday in Chicago of her husband, a 32-year-old Rockford, Minn., man. The Associated Press does not generally identify victims of sexual abuse and is not naming the man to avoid identifying his wife.

The man's arrest comes after Craigslist promised last year to screen all submissions to its "adult services" section before posting them. Dart and other law enforcement agents have repeatedly accused the online site of promoting prostitution in its ads.

In the latest case, the woman told investigators her husband regularly posted ads, promoting her for sex. She claimed he would arrange the encounters, then demand she immediately deposit the money she was paid into his bank account.

He was arrested at a downtown Chicago hotel when he arrived with the child to pick up his wife after what he assumed was her weekend of prostitution.

The man controlled his wife with threats to their child, convincing her she would never see their preschooler again if she didn't take part, Dart said.

"He used the threat of the child being kept away from her forever," Dart said. "They were legally married, her at a very young age. He had been some type of counselor to her at one stage when she was young. At some point, they had the child."

Rockford, population 4,000, has a small-town feeling even though Minneapolis is less than an hour's drive away. The town sits on the Crow River, surrounded by rolling farm fields and subdivisions. Headline-grabbing crimes are rare.

The man faces a felony charge of pandering and is being held on $150,000 bond. It isn't clear whether he has an attorney.

The woman and the child were being kept at a safe location. Dart said the woman hasn't been charged with any crime, but "that's being examined."

Authorities said the man had been in touch with his wife all weekend, arranging encounters for her. She told him she was sick and wasn't turning all the tricks he'd set up. The man then drove to Chicago to confront her, authorities said. Investigators followed the man after he left Florida, where he'd forced his wife to work last week.

Dart said his department has "had a long tortured relationship" with Craigslist. Last year, he filed a lawsuit alleging the Web site had become the "largest source of prostitution in America." A judge dismissed the lawsuit.

Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster reacted to the arrest Wednesday in an e-mailed statement to The Associated Press.

"Criminal exploitation is reprehensible, and craigslist works with law enforcement when called upon to apprehend and prosecute those responsible," Buckmaster said in the statement. "Misuse of craigslist for criminal purposes is extremely unwise, since an electronic trail to the perpetrator is inevitably created."

He didn't comment on the specifics of the Chicago arrest.

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Associated Press Writer Martiga Lohn contributed to this report from St. Paul, Minn.

Pot Thieves Strike in Washington: Shoot-Out Ensues

385 plants at Wash. pot activist's burgled home

GENE JOHNSON March 16, 2010

A spokesman for the King County Sheriff's Office in Washington says deputies found 385 pot plants at the home of a medical marijuana activist who was in a shootout with robbers.

Officers also found marijuana products such as butter, baked goods and paraphernalia at Steve Sarich's, and plan to forward their findings to the prosecutor.

Sarich suffered minor wounds when robbers broke into his home early Monday. One fired a shotgun at him, and pellets hit his face and arm. Sarich fired a handgun at one robber, sending him to intensive care.

Sarich runs CannaCare. Under Washington law, the presumptive limit of marijuana plants someone can have for medical purposes is 15 for each patient, but patients can have more if they demonstrate need. Sarich would need only 25 patients to conform to the law. It was not known how the pot butter and baked goods would factor in to the total equation, according to a former member of the police pot squad, who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution by local gang members.

His name is Henry Burgess and his home address and phone number are available on request. Our sole responsibility is to the news and we don't really care about Henry's problems.