Members of Spain's Civil Guard were pursuing suspected drug traffickers in a high-speed chase off the coast of Málaga when the police boat collided with the speedboat being chased. Three police officers fell overboard, leaving their vessel unmanned and the officers in fear for their lives. The four occupants of the speedboat pulled them to safety and soon were arrested for smuggling drugs. More than three tonnes of hashish bundles were later found in the relevant portion of the sea.
Police have confirmed that 22-year-old Reece Ramsey-Johnson was fatally shot in 'non-suspicious circumstances' in the aftermath of a confrontation outside the Lloyds Bank in Sydenham, London: According to a high-street shopkeeper there, 'a big guy' with a shotgun approached a car containing several people, who swiftly fled. This suspected carjacker, Ramsey-Johnson, then attempted to smash the vehicle's windows with the butt of the gun, at which point his weapon discharged. Apparently, a round ricocheting/glancing off a car window ended up in his chest.
After a chase that wound through local streets, Flippin,
Arkansas, police officer Kenneth Looney pulled over a vehicle
with an expired registration, whereupon the driver, Jessica
Bernice Kropp, volunteered that her licence had been suspended.
The conversation soon turned to her hairdo, with Looney's
'Are you serious? You have a bow in your hair made from a bag of
meth' earning a reply of 'I didn't know
that was there - someone else put that there, and I didn't
know what it was'. The baggie, with a rubber band around the
middle, was secured in place with a bobby pin.
Asked whether she was carrying anything else illegal, Kropp
successfully pleaded for the - borrowed - car not to be
towed away, and she directed him to her handbag, containing
several bags of meth, a vaping pen loaded with meth, and other drug paraphernalia. Though Looney
agreed to lump the drug paraphernalia together under a
single charge, her lack of driving licence and insurance and
here five outstanding warrants pose further issues.
When authorities in Vernon Township, New Jersey, posted a
warning to 'anyone who has farm-like property' about hand-crafted
tyre-deflation devices left on or near farm roads, the numerous
responses helped them uncover a link between the tyre spikes and an
extended campaign of letters from a self-described 'animal lover who
is open to experimental dating', requesting farmers to arrange a meeting
and a sexual relationship with their livestock in exchange for
care costs.
The New Jersey Herald reports that 31-year-old
Richard Decker has now been arrested for asking to 'stud for' facilities such as stables and then, when his
romantic forays were ignored, retaliating by such means as negative
online reviews and his stash of caltrops. For instance, one woman
reported someone having 'reviewed over 50 barns with 1 star reviews
because we did not answer his email', and animal-rescue worker Caitlyn
McCurdy described finding her car's oil filter removed shortly after
she'd ignored a series of requests for a 'longer term relationship'
with one of her horses.
Decker remains in custody despite his attorney's argument that the
hand-crafted firearms found in his home might not even work and that
his improvisations with dismantled fireworks weren't intended for
use against anyone else.
Kenya's Moses Wanyoike, from Murangua County, woke up without a penis
after a drinking binge with friends. In a panic, he rang another friend, who summoned
county assemblyman Joseph Karanja to assist. After Karanja 'found the man in a pool of blood and [...]
put him in my vehicle' for a trip to hospital, Wanyoike, 51, recollected
the events at the end of the previous evening: while he'd been
following friend Gerald Mbugua home from the bar at about 2am, the latter 'kept on saying he would
circumcise me a second time'.
Mbugua was found in a 'hideout' elsewhere in the village, while the penis
could not be located.
A native of Simpsonville, South Carolina, stole his brother's
car and set off for Charleston to live with a man he knew only
on Snapchat. Although our 11-year-old intrepid adventurer was
using his father's tablet computer for GPS guidance, the trail
ran cold a little over 300 kilometres into the journey: when
the device lost its signal, the boy failed to recover the
destination address, and the relevant Snapchat message
had expired. Therefore, he drove up to a nearby police cruiser
and sought assistance.
His father, who'd been in the process of filing a
missing-persons report, was soon on the road to collect him.
The father returned home without his tablet computer, however,
which the Charleston police's Charles Francis said has been
retained for forensic investigation.
After admitting to creating at least 369 Instagram accounts to
threaten at least six former colleagues, Florida 'fitness influencer' Tammy
Steffen has been sentenced to roughly five years in federal prison.
Alongside threats to 'slice you up into little pieces' etc., she
made a claim that a former business partner had stuffed a 'new toy for the
kids' note inside a headless doll left on her porch. Five days after the doll incident, an attempt
to frame the same person with attempted kidnapping was thwarted when
Steffen's 12-year-old daughter, during police questioning, asked
what would happen to Steffen were she to tell the truth. Apparently, Steffen had
coached the girl to take the blame for devising a fake kidnapping if
cornered.
Steffen's case was not aided by records of her recent purchases
of items planted at the crime scenes or by the testimony of someone
who described overhearing her discussing the doll plan with a friend.
A Russian man identifying himself in court papers as D. Razonilov has charged Apple with moral harm and damage to mental health in connection with a cryptocurrency-related iPhone application. In his lawsuit, he explains that he's expected to receive Bitcoin but instead had bought 69 GayCoin units, accompanied by an English-language comment meaning 'don't judge without trying'. He contends that he took the message to heart and therefore 'decided to try same-sex relationships', which left him 'mired in intimacy with [...] a steady boyfriend'. Finding that his life has 'changed for the worse and will never be normal again' on account of Apple-sanctioned homosexuality-encouraging manipulative tactics, he and lawyer Sapizhat Gonsnieva are seeking the equivalent of 18,000 euros in compensation.
Florida pilot Walter Gray hired a single-propeller aeroplane for a private flight from the Key West airport. Unable to get the Cessna 1725 to move along the runway, he stepped out of the cockpit to check whether the wheel chocks were still in place. He claims that he told wife Rebecca Lynn Gray, 45, to stay put at this point but she did not, then told her not to step in front of the aircraft. When she did this to remove a wheel chock, the propeller came in contact with her arm, removing part of it. She lost two toes also. The FAA are investigating.
Claiming not to be suffering any pain, a 22-year-old man in Saudi Arabia nonetheless decided to consult medics about something he did four years ago. One of the outcomes is an article in Urology Case Reports on the delicate procedure required for removing a particularly tricky foreign object from the male urethra under general anaesthesia: applying pressure to opposite sides of the penis to keep the pair of tweezers closed while they were squeezed out. According to the write-up, all went well except that the man refused the recommended psychiatric evaluation to address his history of inserting metal objects in his urethra.
Kaylene Bowen-Wright has been sentenced to six years in prison for seriously injuring her son, now age 10, by subjecting him to nearly a decade of unnecessary medical attention. According to court documents, Christopher was first abused via medical procedure when 11 days old, was seen by physicians 323 times over the next eight years, and underwent 13 major surgeries at her behest. While Bowen-Wright's husband, who now has custody of him, had raised concerns before, the authorities first took an interest in the case in 2017 when claimed seizures couldn't be substantiated. They then learned that the Texas mother had told people Christopher had cancer and that she'd attempted to add his name to a lung-transplant waiting list.
An unkempt twenty-something man in the Netherlands caught the attention of
Ruinerwold bar-owner Chris Westerbeek by ordering and quickly downing
five beers, mentioning that he hadn't 'been "outside" for the last
nine years', and stating that he'd never attended school. Staff rang the police when
the confused-seeming man explained that he needed help for his
younger siblings back on the homestead. Officers retraced his 13-kilometre walk and found a farmhouse with a hidden
staircase leading down to the basement where the man, his five brothers
and sisters, and his now-bedridden 56-year-old father had been awaiting the end of
the world.
The birth of several of the children, ages 18-25, had never been
registered, as the family remained under the watchful eye of the
small-time cult leader who rented the farmhouse - Josef B., a
58-year-old fallen-away Moonie who runs a carpentry business in a nearby town.
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he Lestinas, a family in Bagley, Iowa, never had a problem with their
neighbours - until a recent issue with a shared drainage
system left the Lestina basement flooded with waste. That waste consisted of fat, bone fragments, and blood
produced next door by Dahl's Custom Meat Locker. Owner Kaitlin Dahl stressed
that the meat-processing business had been following established procedure as always and had no
idea that the material rinsed from their slaughter room would end up
in the family's basement. She has apologised for the blood flood and
promised to help clean it up if the meat locker's insurance company
continue to refuse.
In 2014, a Florida family hired nanny Marissa Mowry to look after their 11-year-old son. She ended up doing a bit more than that, and she gave birth to his child later in the year. The family found out only in 2017, after the boy reported the abuse and a DNA test proved his claim. Pleading guilty to various sexual crimes, Mowry was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison. Meanwhile, the victim looks after the resulting child when the two young men aren't both attending school.
During training for a dog-sledding competition in Montana, Jen Mignard's sled tipped over. She was jettisoned, while the dog team and sleds kept going. A neighbour soon rang her to report that her dogs had just led two police cars on a chase. The Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter released the team the next day, with a police officer noting that the cops' bonding experience with them was definitely 'one for the books'.