Missouri's Dustin Burns faces charges for posting a how-to video on Facebook. This video, allegedly by the Springfield man himself, seems to show him using a butter knife and screwdriver to remove the ankle monitor that he'd been ordered to wear in connection with a restraining order. In the video, the viewer is cautioned to take care not to damage the tracking equipment, because of the large fines that would incur. Indeed, Burns, 33, is accused of tampering with but not damaging or destroying electronic monitoring equipment.
After 28-year-old Nancy Huitron and her two-month-old baby vanished in
the Mexico City suburb Ecatepec, the police stopped a pram-pushing couple who had
recently sold clothing to Huitron. It was soon obvious that the pair,
identified for now as Juan Carlos N. and Patricia N., had been
wheeling human body parts to customers from locations such as their
flat's fridge. Juan Carlos is reported to have confessed to killing
20 local women in all, many of them single mothers.
As for more typical pram contents, Huitron's baby has been recovered
relatively unscathed from the purchaser and placed in a grandmother's
care.
According to police, Juan Carlos requested to shower and don a suit
before being taken into custody, explaining that 'I'm not a dirty
criminal'.
Another baby, Cadien Scott Gaffney, was not so fortunate. His parents
wanted everything to be just right for the 17-month-old boy when
eating at an Applebee's restaurant in Queens, so they requested a cup of water
to sterilise the child's utensils. A server complied, and soon the
family needed help again: for the second-degree burns caused by the
child pulling the water onto himself.
The family are suing Applebee's, which their attorney, Sanford
Rubenstein, emphasises 'is a family restaurant'.
Peter Barclay is a Virginia man who was involved in some hardcore mediaeval re-enactment - an equestrian competition to put one's lance through a paper plate on the ground. According to John Fulton, a representative of the event organiser, Barclay's metal-tipped lance flipped upon hitting the ground and flew back upward, into the 53-year-old's chest. Barclay died while being airlifted to hospital: 'Master Terafan Greydragon' is no more.
The BBC report that six armed men entered an e-cigarette shop in
Charleroi, Belgium, and told the owner to hand over the money.
Proprietor Didier Willot told the men that he didn't have much in the till but could
give them 2,000-3,000 euros if they were to wait until the end of the
work day, a more sensible time for a hold-up. After about 15 minutes
of back-and-forth, they left empty-handed, and he rang the police.
An hour before the vape shop's posted closing time, Willot saw one of the
would-be robbers loitering near the door, whereupon he pointed out
that it wasn't yet the end of the business day.
On the gang's third visit, an hour later, the police were waiting at
the back of the shop. They were able to arrest all but one of the
six.
Virginia's Roanoke Times reports on a series of break-ins to a
local shoe shop, the last of which netted the perpetrator seven right Air
Jordans (to add to the 13 taken earlier), a 'Call My Lawyer'
sweatshirt, and a charge sheet that lists crimes such as grand
larceny. Shop manager Rob Wickham explained that the left mates
remained safely behind the counter while the rights on display were
stolen.
We know the thief's identity because a backpack behind the
building, abandoned next to a till, contained merchandise and the student
ID card of 21-year-old Manuel Carlos Ramirez-Godoy.
No, we haven't forgotten about Florida. This time, it brings us a
drink-driver named Effrain Nunez-Alcantar, who started things rolling with
an early-afternoon hit and run on Interstate 275. He followed this up
by hitting several other vehicles, even sideswiping a state trooper's
patrol car. Having racked up a total of 11 wounded vehicles in 8 km
of road, the 43-year-old Nunez-Alcantar turned off for downtown St.
Petersburg, where he immediately became caught in a traffic jam and
hence handcuffs.
He faces various charges, on top of some from earlier in the
year for grand theft auto, possession of methamphetamine, and
attempting to enter a detention centre with contraband.
In Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia, a homeowner left the door unlocked so that a friend could walk the dog. Two strangers entered the home instead, prompting a neighbour to raise the alarm. The worried homeowner returned home to find that the house had fallen prey to cleaners. After the police tracked one of the cleaning women down, Dal Hutchinson, of the district RCMP, said: 'These ladies showed up, cleaned up, and left without knowing it was the wrong house.' He stressed that, however good a free house-cleaning might sound, it's still best for residents to lock their doors.
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