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Naked Man Arrested in Florida Parking Lot Screaming, ‘I Only Had One Beer!’

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This guy was busted while naked and screaming

VERO BEACH, Florida — A naked man wearing only a pair of shorts around his ankles and screaming “I only had one beer!” kicked trash cans and punched cars in a supermarket parking lot before being placed under arrest for public drunkeness.

Florida cops found Jonathan Boettcher, 46, swinging his arms and yelling in a Publix parking lot in Vero Beach while wearing no shirt and no underwear, but with basketball shorts around his ankles, the Miami Herald reported.

Officers said Boettcher was sweating uncontrollably and shouted “I only had one beer!” and “I only wanted to smoke some pot.”

Earlier, Boettcher had kicked over a cigarette disposal bin and then ran into the store naked and shouted, “You’re not the one!” Before that, he had been spotted stopping traffic and punching cars before stripping off his clothes.

Boettcher told the deputy he’d had one beer and smoked part of a marijuana joint in a homeless camp behind Publix. As for dropping his pants, he claimed to be responding to a friend mooning him.

Boettcher was sentenced to 45 days in county jail.

2nd Mistrial in Rape Case Where Woman Told Navy Commander to Stop 90 Times

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Former Navy Commander John Neuhart said he thought he had permission to enter the woman’s home and have sex

SAN DIEGO — A second mistrial has been declared in the trial of a former Navy commander accused of raping a junior officer who was captured on tape telling him 90 times to stop trying to have sex with her.

John Neuhart, 41, was accused of forcing his way into the woman’s San Diego home in 2016 and attacking her. He fled when her screams attracted the attention of a neighbor. He was later caught after he fell into a canyon and broke his leg while trying to get away.

The judge declared a mistrial after the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the top three counts against Neuhart, An earlier trial also ended with a hung jury in December. Prosecutors said they would review the case before deciding whether to try again.

Neuhart was relieved of his command following his arrest but is still in the Navy. He testified at the first trial but didn’t take the stand during the retrial.

Neuhart had testified in the earlier trial that the woman, a helicopter pilot who had been a lieutenant under his command in Guam, had given him permission to come to her home and have sex.

The two had repeatedly hugged and kissed each other earlier in the night, according to surveillance footage from a hotel they visited and testimony from a taxi driver that took them to the woman’s apartment, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

He said the woman told him earlier in the night that if she said “no” to him, she meant “yes.” During the encounter, Neuhart turned his cellphone’s camera on, he said to record the episode in case she later accused him of rape.

Jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked 10-2 for guilty on the charge of attempted rape. They split 7-5 for guilt on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape during a burglary and 2-10 for guilt on a charge of resisting or delaying an officer.

 

Secret Service Agent Held Up at Gunpoint in Phony Money Sting

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Two forgers discovered the hard way that they were shaking down an undercover Secret Service agent

LOS ANGELES — Two California money forgers were arrested for an alleged gunpoint robbery of an undercover Secret Service who was working to bust up their counterfeit cash ring.

Federal prosecutors say Richard “Profit” Taron Henderson, and Tyre “Reckless” Jordan Simmons, both 22, had been under investigation for months for forgery when an undercover agent for the Secret Service arranged to meet them in late March to buy $40,000 in bogus notes.

On March 26, Henderson arrived at a rendezvous spot in South Los Angeles with a bag stuffed with clothes to stand in for a sack of money, prosecutors said. When the agent showed up, Simmons allegedly pulled out a 9mm handgun and pointed it in the officer’s face.

The pair then made off with $4,500 the agent had brought along for the bogus deal. They also stole the agent’s secret service vehicle.

Simmons had served time after being convicted of robbery in the Los Angeles in 2016.

 

Woman Shoots Husband in Fight Over Her Refusing to Make Breakfast

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Rachel Eutsey wasn’t down to cook breakfast for hubby, John Maki, prompting him to attack her and her to shoot him

NORMALVILLE, Pennsylvania — There isn’t enough marriage counseling in the world for this pair.

A Pennsylvania woman called police to say she had shot her husband in the head after he started choking her because she refused to cook him breakfast, cops said.

Rachel Aarold Eutsey, 36, told cops she and her husband, John David Maki, had been smoking crack for several evenings in a row leading up to the fatal altercation.

When the couple woke up Thursday morning, Eutsey said they got into an argument because she wouldn’t cook him breakfast.

She says he then began to choke her, but she got away and got a gun from her father’s bedroom and loaded it. She said Maki had a baseball bat, and was walking down the hall yelling when she “pointed the gun at him to scare him,” according to a police affidavit, the Uniontown Herald Standard.

“She related that she fired the gun, but didn’t intend to strike the victim,” the affidavit said.

He was hospitalized in critical condition.

John Maki

Eutsey is charged with criminal attempt to commit homicide, aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of children, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person. She is being held on $100,000 bond.

Drunken Wannabe Arsonist Wags Tongue at the Law

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Amber Legge — and her tongue — do not seem to be taking being arrested very seriously

HUBER HEIGHTS, Ohio — Take your law and shove it.

That’s the attitude Amber Legge had on display when she was arrested in Ohio for allegedly threatening to burn a woman’s house down and driving drunk.

Legge, 32, had gotten into a fight with the owner of a Huber Heights home after going there at 3:15 a.m. Friday to demand money she believed she was owed.

“(The victim) indicated that Legge then returned to her residence…began calling her a ‘dope friend’, threatened to beat her, burn her house down, and contact Children’s Services,” the police report read, according to the Dayton Daily News.

As police arrived at the scene, Legge took off, but was pulled over later when officers determined she was under the influence.

Man Facing 16th Drunk Driving Conviction Demands Trial Instead of Plea Deal

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Peter Anketell is facing his 16th trial for drunk driving

SALEM, Massachusetts — Here’s a guy who is really pushing his luck.

A Massachusetts man with 15 drunk driving convictions under his belt — including one in which he killed a passenger in a wreck — is demanding a jury trial in his latest case rather than accept a plea deal.

Peter Anketell, 56, was busted in July after police say he narrowly missed hitting two pedestrians outside a gas station with a car he had stolen from his girlfriend.

He then fled from cops who found him nearby sipping a 25-ounce can of Natural Ice beer and reeking of booze, the Salem News reported.

Anketell has drunk driving busts dating back to the 1970s.He has 10 drunk driving convictions in Massachusetts, three in New Hampshire and one open case in Florida.

He served 14-years for a 2002 drunken wreck in which his passenger was killed. He had just completed his parole in that case when he was arrested on the new charges.

Prosecutors had offered Anketell six years in jail in the later case, but earlier this week, he declined and insisted on going to trial.

His lawyer had asked for a term of two- to four-years in prison, arguing that his client had not been afforded the best opportunities in the past to receive treatment for alcohol abuse.

In a trial, jurors would not be told of Anketell’s history.

 

Naked Car Thief Attempts to Get Away From Cops in Helicopter

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Travis Smiley thought climbing in helicopter was the perfect getaway

BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky — This getaway was never going to make it off of the ground.

A Kentucky man was taken away in cuffs after he drove a stolen car into a Bowling Green lake, then tried to escape from cops by stripping naked and hiding in a helicopter, police said.

Travis Smiley, 36, told cops he thought someone was trying to kill him and that he had been using methamphetamine for about a week when he drove off  a boat ramp into the lake, the Warren County Sheriff’s office said.

A witness dove in to help, but Smiley climbed out of the lake and made a beeline to a maintenance hanger at a nearby aviation park where a helicopter was being restored.

When cops arrived at the building, they found wet footprints and pile of wet clothes in the trash. And then they found Smiley hidden in the tail of the chopper and had to take him out by force.

When he was later taken to an area hospital for observation, Smiley attempted to get away by climbing through the ceiling tiles in a bathroom, only to have his plan foiled when a paper towel dispenser he climbed on, broke away from the wall.

In Some Cases, Man Really Does Bite Dog

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Leland O’Malley flipped the script, taking a bite out of a police dog that took him down for resisting arrest

DOVER, Wisconsin — It’s a story of man bites dog.

Officers had to sic a police dog on an intoxicated man who charged at them, but had the tables turned when he bit the dog.

The Racine County Sheriff’s office says deputies were called to a house in Dover after 44-year-old Leland O’Malley refused to leave and began banging on windows demanding to be let back in so he could sleep.

When the officers arrived they found O’Malley outside an yelling. They say they told him to stay put but he began advancing towards them and not following directions.

When O’Malley got too close, police dog Murphy, leapt into action, knocking him to the ground. But that’s when O’Malley placed the dog into a chokehold and tried to bite him.

Officers then jumped in and subdued O’Malley and the freeing the dog, who was not hurt.

O’Malley was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and attacking a police dog.

 

Cops Seek Shoeless Man in Toothy Moose Stabbing

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Police say the stabbing suspect darted out of the Toothy Moose with no shoes on

HALIFAX, Canada — Police in Canada are on the hunt for a shoeless man who allegedly stabbed two men during a drunken fight at The Toothy Moose bar.

Cops say the bloody brawl broke out at the Halifax watering hole early Sunday morning with the suspect pulling out a knife and slashing two others at the bar before running out into the frigid night with no shoes on.

One victim, a 38-year-old man, was hospitalized but is expected to live. The second victim, a 27-year-old man, suffered a minor stab wound.

Halifax initially arrested a man at the scene but later let him go after determining he was not the suspect. Investigators have described the man they are looking for as being around 30-years-old, standing 5-foot-11 and sporting slicked-back black hair.

He also was apparently wearing black socks, but no shoes, as well as black pants and a light-colored plaid shirt that would likely be splattered in blood.

 

Woman Busted After Trying to Order Breakfast Sandwich at Jail Security Booth

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Lizabeth Ildefonso was busted after cops saw white powder on her nose while she tried to order a breakfast sandwich

RIVERHEAD, New York — Let me get a bacon, egg and cheese with a side of jail time.

Guards at a New York jail were stunned when a woman drove up to a security booth and tried to order a breakfast sandwich.

Suffolk County police say Lizabeth Ildefonso, 44, drove up to the Riverhead Correctional Facility Friday morning and attempted to place an order for a “bacon, egg and cheese.”

When told she was at the front gate of a jail, cops say Ildefonso insisted that she “really wanted a sandwich.”

The deputy manning the booth then noticed that Ildefonso’s eyes were dilated and glassy and that she allegedly had white powder residue on her left nostril.”

A further check revealed that she was also driving without a valid license. Ildefonso was arrested after failing to adequately perform a field sobriety test, and was charged with DWI.