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Husband Clings To Hood As Wife Speeds Down I-80
Apr 16th
SACRAMENTO (KOVR) – It was a fight between a married couple that took a twist that even cops have never heard of. Call it going from zero to crazy in one second.
The fight reportedly started at the husband’s mother’s house, and eventually escalated to the wife grabbing the car keys from the husband. She got into the driver’s seat and he stood in front of the car, apparently to stop her from leaving.
It didn’t.
She hit the gas, and he jumped onto the hood. Cops say Deana Redd was on a joyride around Del Paso Heights, heading from Roanoke Avenue to Marysville Boulevard. She decided to take another turn, this time merging onto Highway 80.
She eventually got off the freeway on Norwood, striking another vehicle. That didn’t stop her either.
Redd drove into a field at Bell and Rio Linda, skidding around until the husband finally lost his grip and flew off the hood. That’s when Redd stopped the car and when cops finally caught up with her.
Redd is being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and driving under the influence, among other charges. Her husband only suffered minor injuries during the incident.
Man Gets 6 Years Hard Time For Stealing Girl’s (14) Underwear
Apr 16th
VISTA, Calif. — A man who broke into a Vista home and stole a 14-year-old girl’s underwear, then returned later and peered into her bedroom window, was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison and ordered to register as a sex offender for life.
Efrain Omar Cristobal, 29, pleaded guilty Feb. 27 to residential burglary of an occupied house. Vista Superior Court Judge Daniel Goldstein sentenced the defendant — a Mexican national — to the upper term of six years, said Deputy District Attorney Lisa Stark.
The 14-year-old girl testified at an earlier hearing that she returned from school to her Dorsey Way home around 2:50 p.m. on Jan. 16 and found her bedroom windows open, the curtains flapping in the wind.
A renter came to her crying and said a man had been in the house, the girl testified. When the girl returned to her bedroom, she said she looked out the window and saw a long-haired man outside looking at her. The girl said the man, who she identified as Cristobal, moved the blinds out of the way and put his head through the window. She testified that she screamed, grabbed her little sister and ran from the residence.
Sheriff’s Deputy Douglas Downes testified that Cristobal was apprehended a couple of blocks away. When the deputy patted down the defendant, he said he found two unused condoms, the girl’s panties and a human hair preserved in clear tape.
Alligator not the only weird find linked to suspect
Apr 16th
Brazoria inmate accused of trying to steal a TV also had a snake in his car, hair trimmer and video game device in pockets, authorities say
ANGLETON — When William Johnson made a couple of suspicious U-Turns at the intersection of Texas 35 and 288 early Sunday a state trooper pulled him over.
Then the trooper noticed a 6-foot alligator contentedly riding next to the back window of Johnson’s car. Johnson said he found the gator on the side of a road. But it was allegations that Johnson had been taking things out of a mobile home in the nearby town of Brazoria that sent him to jail on a burglary charge. Investigators found a hair trimmer and video game controller in his pockets.
Johnson, 30, and his fondness of reptiles, had already come to the attention of local police, Brazoria Police Chief Neal Longbotham said. On Friday an officer responding to a call about a man bothering people in the parking lot of a local drive-through restaurant gave Johnson a citation for public intoxication.
Johnson said he was from Tennessee and was on his way to Corpus Christi. He said he’d stopped in Brazoria to work briefly for a tree trimming service. Johnson advised the officer that there was a water moccasin snake in his car and that the snake had already bitten him on the hand. An animal control officer found the snake and removed it, Longbotham said. Johnson refused medical treatment for his hand.
Early Sunday a resident of a local mobile home park said Johnson knocked on his door and asked for help hauling a big television out of a mobile home, Longbotham said. “The neighbor told him that’s not your house,” the chief said. Then the neighbor noticed the alligator in the back seat of Johnson’s car, Longbotham said. Johnson left the television in the yard and drove away. A few minutes later he was arrested by the trooper. He is now in the Brazoria County Jail, held on $25,000 bail on a burglary charge.
A game warden took the alligator away. Johnson told investigators that he found the snake and the alligator on the sides of roads and picked them up because he has an interest in reptiles, Longbotham said.
“Just a typical day in Brazoria,” the chief sighed.
Why suspects should be handcuffed BEHIND their backs before being shoved into vehicles
Apr 15th
A HANDCUFFED man arrested on suspicion of a crime in Brisbane drove off in a police car today as two officers inspected evidence outside the vehicle.
Mark Robert Nolan, 29, was arrested about 10.45am (AEST) today by the two officers at a residence in Spring Hill in relation to break and enter charges.
He was handcuffed and placed in the back of an unmarked police car, Deputy Commissioner Ian Stewart told reporters in Brisbane.
“Police then began examining the contents of a bag found in his possession,” Mr Stewart said.
“They did that at the rear of the police car.
“During that time, it appears Nolan has got into the front of the police car and turned the police car on and driven off in the police car.”
The police vehicle was found in Stafford, on Brisbane’s north, about an hour later, however, Nolan remains at large.
Man steals car, shows victim where it is, calls police devil worshippers
Apr 15th
A 29-year-old man may have thought he was being a saint when he told a woman he had stolen her car and wanted to show her where it was. But he changed tunes when he realized he was being arrested.
Kingston Police went out to Owens Crescent behind Frontenac Mall around 11:30 p.m. Saturday after a woman called about her car being stolen from her driveway. She had gone inside the home with her son, police said, and left the car running in the driveway. Moments later, the woman saw someone drive away in the car. She called police while her son and daughter jumped into another car and raced around the neighbourhood looking for the stolen vehicle. The siblings found the car parked in a driveway around the corner from their home. Police arrived at the scene.
While this was going on, a man walked over to the home on Owens Crescent and spoke with the woman outside. Police said he told her that he stole her car and would lead her to it if she followed him. She did. They walked over to the car and to the officers who were at the scene. The man then started hollering at the police, told them they were devil worshippers and pushed one of the officers who was investigating. The man was arrested and charged with one count of theft over $5,000. He is currently being held in the Quinte Detention Centre after appearing in court for a bail hearing yesterday.
Man faces fines for obscene graffiti
Apr 14th
An act of frustration may cost business owner Kevin Brannigan hefty fines.
Brannigan admitted he wrote “LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE” on the garage door of his Pond Street car detailing business after Bristol police cited him in mid-March for parking his car on the sidewalk. The car blocked the way for pedestrians, who had to walk in the street.
He’s facing a total of $2,112 in fines, said a clerk in District Judge Frank Peranteau’s office. Borough police cited Brannigan $352 each day that the graffiti was displayed, forcing him to remove it on the seventh day.
Brannigan aimed the message at borough officials and the police because he said they constantly harass him.
“I got a threatening letter a few days after I put [the graffiti] up, but other than that [the general public] cheered me on because they know I get harassed,” he said Thursday afternoon. “I’ve had a few other citations in the past and I paid them, but I’m tired of the harassment. This time I plead not guilty and have the judge set the final fine.”
Burned rape victim to reunite with attacker
Apr 14th
A WOMAN whose house was set alight while she lay unconscious after being raped has blamed herself for the attack.
The woman’s husband drugged and raped her three times in about two weeks. But the victim says she would do anything to make things right with her attacker. She has not provided a victim impact statement to authorities and yesterday gave evidence in support of her attacker.
“I was a real bitch, I know that,” the woman told a Victorian court yesterday. “It’s taken something as bad as what’s happened to snap me out of what I was. I think he deserves a lot more than what I’ve given him in the past.”
After the third rape last year, the man set fire to her bed and bedroom. When the woman came to, she had to jump out of a window to escape the flames. She went to hospital with burns. The court heard yesterday that the couple would restart their relationship when he was released from jail.
Man Jailed For Breaking Girlfriends Leg In Bid To Sue Council
Apr 10th
A man who broke his girlfriend’s leg at her own request, and had it filmed on a mobile phone, in a bid to sue Plymouth City Council has been jailed for three years.
Gordon Thomson, 32, of Bampfylde Way, Southway, jumped two footed onto Elizabeth Hingston’s leg, which was propped up on house bricks as she lay on the floor, a court heard. friend filmed the whole sickening incident on a mobile phone – a 20-second film which was watched in court.
David Gittins, prosecuting, said that the pair had claimed that the injury had been caused by her garden wall falling on Miss Hingston, 27, at his council home. The incident came to light on November 24, 2006 when police officers executed a drugs warrant at the defendent’s home and seized a mobile phone, which they examined for evidence of drugs offences.
Woman hangs upside down from tree following confrontation at McDonalds
Apr 10th
FORT PIERCE — A woman seen hanging upside down from a tree in a McDonald’s parking lot before lying on her car’s hood following a confrontation inside the fast food eatery remained Tuesday in the St. Lucie County jail, according to an arrest affidavit and a jail official.
Amity Joy Doss, 24, on Sunday afternoon told an assistant manager at the restaurant in the 4800 block of North Kings Highway to fire a cashier waiting on a customer in front of her.
Thinking Doss, who hadn’t spoken to the cashier, was joking, the assistant manager ignored the comment, the affidavit stated.
Officials reported Doss then proceeded behind the counter and pulled the juvenile cashier by her shirt and waist, saying the service was “not acceptable.” The manager told St. Lucie County sheriff’s investigators he told the cashier to go in the back until it was safe to return.
That, he said, is when Doss “exited the store and began hanging upside down on a tree in the store parking lot before laying on the hood of her car.”
Doss came back inside to see if the cashier had been fired and pushed a customer. Deputies found her standing in the parking lot next to her beige Ford Escort.
Doss got “very combative” en route to the jail, according to the affidavit.
School Principal Charged With Pot and Sexual Abuse (2 Girls 15 + 16)
Apr 10th
CHICAGO — The Nippersink school board took about an hour’s worth of questioning from angry parents on Wednesday night concerning the arrest of Spring Grove Elementary principal.
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The principal was in a Wisconsin jail Tuesday night on charges of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl. Daniel Markofsky, 47, of Richmond, was caught over the weekend in Glendale, Wis., at a Super Motel 8 with two teen sisters, 15 and 16, according to police.Parents wanted to know why Markofsky was allowed around their children. Police alleged Markofsky and the two girls were smoking marijuana, drinking alcohol and watching pornographic material.”They need to be drug tested,” said Spring Grove parent. “I guarantee this is not the first instance this guy smoked marijuana.”
Patty Anderson of Nippersink School Board stressed to parents that Markofsky showed no sign of ill behavior at the time of his hire.”I just want to assure everyone that at the time Mr. Markofsky was hired, we never in a million, millon years could have anticipated that this would have happened,” said Anderson.Other parents were upset about not being informed until three days after the arrest.”It would have been nice to have a phone call;they have an all district phone call,” Becky Johnson, a Spring Grove Parent. “But in hindsight, you can’t have a plan for everything.”The board voted unanimously to suspend Markofsky without pay. They also promised to inform parents immediately if Markofsky posts bond.The sisters were from the Milwaukee area, according to police.The Chicago Tribune reported that on Saturday a Glendale police officer knocked on the door of his room after smelling marijuana, according to the report. The report said Markofsky answered wearing a shirt and boxer shorts.Neighbors near the school in Spring Grove were shocked by the news and feel Markofsky should not remain as the principal.”You wonder how long that kind of stuff has been going on with the kids,” said Jamie Mason, a neighbor in Spring Grove. “I don’t think any man should have the authority to be around kids when he does stuff like that.”A meeting was scheduled for next Tuesday to vote on his permanent dismissal.