Myrtle Beach police are searching for a man who borrowed a vehicle to buy crack cocaine then stole the car, according to a police report.
A woman told police she met the suspect in the parking lot of the Admiral Inn last week. After a 20-minute conversation, the victim allowed the suspect to take her 2008 Kia Spectra to buy crack cocaine, the report states.
The suspect told the victim he would give her some cocaine in exchange for letting him borrow the vehicle, the report states. The suspect told the victims he would return the car the following night but didn’t.
The victim told police that the suspect was from North Carolina and was accompanied by two prostitutes when he took the vehicle.
A SINGAPOREAN man with an armpit-sniffing fetish has been sentenced to 14 years in prison and 18 strokes of the cane.
Mohammed Ismail Ariffin, 36, was convicted of molesting 23 females ranging in age from nine to their 50s, The Straits Times reported today.
Community Court Judge James Leong imposed preventive detention, a jail term for prisoners with no chance of parole.
The court was earlier told Mohammed Ismail stalked his victims and followed them into lifts, staircase landings or their homes. In some cases, he restrained them.
He was also was guilty of fondling a 13-year-old and exposing himself to a 53-year- old cleaner, the court was told.
Following a report from a housewife that a man had smelled her armpit on January 3, police took a semen swab at the scene which led them to Mohammed Ismail.
WHEN Corio man Benjamin Baker sent an obscene video of himself on his mobile phone, he didn’t count on his victim being at the police station when she received it.
The video not only provided police with a first-hand glimpse of what the stalker had been up to, but all the evidence they needed to charge him.
Baker, 27, of Princes Hwy, Corio, pleaded guilty in Geelong Magistrates’ Court yesterday to charges of stalking and using a telecommunications device to harrass.
Police Prosecutor, Senior Constable Seaton Lillas said that between January 1 and January 7 this year Baker repeatedly tried to phone the victim, but she kept missing the calls. Continue reading →
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Police have charged an Asheville woman with trying to claim $1 million with an altered lottery ticket.
Michelle Ryans, 39, was arrested Tuesday night. She is charged with obtaining property by false pretense.According to the arrest warrant, Ryans used an altered Cash Spectacular lottery ticket to try to claim more than $1 million from the North Carolina Lottery on April 4.
Officials said Ryans cut and pasted numbers from non-winning tickets to match the winning number.Lottery officials said that the process for validating tickets is automatic and is based on barcodes, so the fraud was discovered immediately.Ryans is being held on a $5,000 bond at the Buncombe County jail.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - May 25, 2008 (WPVI) — Trenton authorities say anger over a failed romance fueled a Pennsylvania teen’s decision to set fire to the city home where her ex-boyfriend lived.
No one was killed in Thursday’s blaze on Hillcrest Avenue, which left the 10 people who lived there homeless. But two of them were treated for smoke inhalation.
Nineteen-year-old Shanta Dargbeh of Bristol Township was arrested the next day and now faces 10 felony charges, including aggravated arson.
Authorities say Dargbeh became angry after hearing that her ex-boyfriend had taken another girl to the Trenton High School prom last weekend.
A 32-year-old woman from northern Sweden has been indicted on a charge of aggravated rape after forcing another woman at knifepoint to perform oral sex.
Accompanied by a male relative, the 32-year-old forced her way into the woman’s apartment in Haparanda in January this year.
The pair stole 1,000 kronor ($165) from the victim before forcing her into sexual acts which, according to the indictment, were comparable to full intercourse. Continue reading →
TSU — A doctor accused of illegally possessing guns has been slapped with a new charge of manufacturing bullets without permission, law enforcers said.
Mie Prefectural Police have sent to the Tsu District Public Prosecutors Office additional papers accusing Kenji Abo, 58, a doctor from Tsu, of violating the Ordnance Manufacturing Law.
“I wanted to make (bullets) by myself,” Abo was quoted as telling police as he admitted to the charges.
Abo had earlier been indicted on charges of violating the Firearms and Swords Control Law after he was found in possession of 18 guns and 1,000 bullets at is home. Abo had been commissioned by local police for 15 years to conduct autopsies on victims of crimes or accidents.
Abo manufactured 58 bullets at his home sometime around Jan. 26 without obtaining permission from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, according to investigators. The .45-caliber bullets were capable to be fired from the two U.S.-made automatic handguns that were confiscated from his home.
When investigators told Abo that the bullets he made turned out to be capable of being fired during a police examination, he reportedly responded in a delightful manner, saying, “I knew they were practical.”
Abo reportedly produced the bullets at his home in 2000 after purchasing cartridges and warheads from a gun dealer in Tokyo and gunpowder and detonating caps from a gun dealer in Mie Prefecture.
Police have also found 385 additional hand-made bullets from his home, but the statute of limitations on the case has apparently expired.
Australia: 65-year-old Roy Frederick Francis Bird has been charged with manslaughter over the death of his neighbour, 33-year-old Wayne Smith, after he fatally injured him with a 12-tonne excavator.
The two had been feuding over a boundary dispute and that morning had been arguing over where to bury a dead cow. Bird swung the bucket and struck Smith who responded with stones, before being struck a second time, this time in the groin.
Smith died in hospital from complications resulting from severe injuries to his bladder, pelvis, and groin. Bird has pleaded not guilty, possibly intending to plead accident or self defence. The trial continues in the Cairns Supreme Court.
EUREKA, Calif. — Humboldt County authorities are holding a Eureka man with outstanding felony warrants in Virginia after he reported being robbed of marijuana and a shotgun.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested Daniel G. Jarrette, 21, early Wednesday after Jarrette and a women reported that three armed men had invaded their house, tied them up and locked them in a bathroom.
The victims said the suspects took 65 marijuana plants, two pounds of processed marijuana and four pounds of recently harvested marijuana along with the gun and some electronic equipment.
Humboldt officials said Jarrette has three outstanding felony warrants from Virginia for conspiracy to sell marijuana, larceny and money laundering.
ST. PETERSBURG - A Gibbs High School science teacher was arrested today on charges that he engaged in inappropriate behavior with a student, police said.
Darren Snieszko
The official charge against Darren Snieszko, 25, of St. Petersburg, is interference with custody, a felony.
According to an arrest affidavit, Snieszko encouraged a 16-year-old girl attending Gibbs High to go on what he called a field trip to Lowry Park Zoo, but there were no other students or teachers involved with the trip, the affidavit states.
Snieszko paid for the girl’s admission with his Pinellas County teacher’s discount card, said St. Petersburg police spokesman Bill Proffitt. The spokesman characterized the outing as a date.
He also sent the 16-year-old girl a variety of romantic messages, using MySpace, cell phone text messages, and e-mail messages, Proffitt said.
The girl and her mother went to the police station April 11 to complain. Another female student at the school also is claiming Snieszko took her on a trip, but Snieszko has not been charged in that incident, Proffitt said.
By Kurt Knapek 
A 32-year-old woman from northern Sweden has been indicted on a charge of aggravated rape after forcing another woman at knifepoint to perform oral sex.
Australia: 65-year-old Roy Frederick Francis Bird has been charged with manslaughter over the death of his neighbour, 33-year-old Wayne Smith, after he fatally injured him with a 12-tonne excavator.
EUREKA, Calif. — Humboldt County authorities are holding a Eureka man with outstanding felony warrants in Virginia after he reported being robbed of marijuana and a shotgun.
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