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Florida Crackhead Busted in Theft of Donation Jar for 7-Year-Old Shooting Victim

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Tammy Crews was caught on camera swiping the donation jar

JACKSONVILLE, Florida  — A cold-hearted thief who stole a collection jar containing $600 for the family of a 7-year-old girl killed in a stray-bullet shooting, has been arrested, police say.

Tammy Crews, 46, was  arrested on Saturday, after getting caught on surveillance video grabbing the donation jar of the counter at Tapatio Restaurant in Jacksonville, shoving it in her bag and swiftly walking out.

The restaurant was collecting money for the family of Heydi Rivas-Villaneuva, who was shot while sitting in a parked car after a gun battle erupted between two men standing on either side of the vehicle.

Police say the restaurant had collected about $600 in donations when Crews nabbed the container.

According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office, Crews “admitted that she took the donation jar and used the money to support her crack cocaine addiction.”

Once cops posted the surveillance video to Facebook, they were flooded with tips and caught up to Crews the next day, just a few blocks from the restaurant.

Tammy Crews

After cops began speaking to her, she admitted carrying a crack pipe for which she was detained. Once back at the precinct, she admitted she had stolen the jar and spent much of the cash on drugs.

Three people have been arrested in connection with the little girl’s shooting.

 

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88-Year-Old Florida Man Arrested for Setting Racoon on Fire for Eating His Mangoes

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Ezra James had had enough of a racoon eating his mangoes

PALM BAY, Florida — An 88-year-old Florida man was arrested for allegedly setting a live racoon on fire for eating his mangoes.

Ezra James told cops  in Palm Bay, Florida that he initially trapped the animal as a nuisance. But then he sprayed it with gasoline and set it on fire.

“I throw some gasoline on him and light a match,” James told WKMG-TV. “Eighty-eight-years-old, first time I ever have to go to jail. I never thought about killing nobody in my lifetime. No man, no woman, no kid.”

A neighbor who saw what was going on, called cops and James was charged with animal cruelty and later released on $2,000 bond.

“She’s a wicked woman,” James said.

When the officers arrived, they put the animal out of its misery by shooting it.

James said that he is originally from Jamaica and did not know authorities would have humanely euthanized the raccoon, so thought he had to take matters into his own hands.

“I’m not going to catch no more because I learned my lesson,” James said. “No, I’m done with that.”

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Thief Makes Off With $100,000 Worth of Ramen Noodles in Truck Heist

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It’s possible the thief made off with 300,000 packs of ramen

FAYETTEVILLE, Georgia — Go big, or go hungry.

Cops in Georgia are hunting a crook who drove off with a tractor trailer stuffed with more than $100,000 worth of ramen noodle packs.

The Fayette County Sheriff’s office says the owner of the truck had left it on the grounds of a friend’s Chevron gas station for about a week in late July, but when he returned the trailer was gone.

Police didn’t specify the brand of ramen the truck was carrying, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. But a packet of  the freeze-dried noodles can be as cheap as 30 cents (or even less if bought in bulk), so the 53-foot trailer could conceivably have been carrying over 300,000 packs.

Cops think the theft may have been part of a string of car break-ins and a motorcycle heist in the area around the same time.

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Cruel Crook Tells Mom ‘Spare Me the Sob Story’ as He Steals Cash For Baby Shower Cake

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Antonio Ivey wanted coke, not cake

MACON, Georgia — A heartless thief was sentenced to 15 years for a robbery spree in which he told a woman shopping for a baby shower cake to “spare me the sob story” when she begged him to let her keep some cash to buy it.

Prosecutors say Antonio Dewayne Ivey Sr., 33, whipped out a gun as he walked up to Laquesta Mitchell in a Walmart parking lot in Macon, Georgia last July and demanded cash.

Mitchell offered to hand over her bank cards, but Ivey insisted she give up her cash, prosecutors said.

“She told him that the money he was taking was for her daughter’s cake,” prosecutor Nancy Scott Malcor said at Ivey’s sentencing, according to the Macon Telegraph. “The defendant said, ‘Spare me the sob story.’ “

Authorities said Ivey, who was hunting for cash to fuel his cocaine habit, then went on to steal another woman’s purse in a parking lot of a  Kroger. He then stuck up the Advance Auto Parts store.

In court on Monday, Ivey apologized to the victims and said the gun he used was a pellet pistol. He pleaded guilty to the three robberies and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

 

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Domestic Dispute Ends With Husband Crashing Plane Into Home To Kill Wife

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Duane Youd was killed after he slammed the stolen plane into his own front door

PAYSON, Utah — That’s plane crazy.

An angry husband was killed when he slammed a stolen plane into his own home in an apparent bid to kill his wife after spending a night in jail for domestic abuse, police said.

Duane Youd, of Payson, Utah had been jailed Sunday following the dispute with his wife on Sunday evening. A few hours later he was released and escorted back to the family home to collect some belongings, the Payson police said.

Early Monday morning, two hours after leaving the home, Youd stole a Cesna 52 citation jet from a company where he had worked, and flew it into the front door of the home and burst into flames, police said.

Youd was killed in the crash, but his wife and one of their children who was home at the time, escaped from the burning house unharmed.

The plane narrowly missed some power lines on the way down and clipped another home before crashing.

Duane Youd hours before his fiery death

“It’s a lucky thing for us, if anything in this whole situation, is we have the destruction of property and one male deceased, but it could have been so much worse,” Payson Police Sgt. Noemi Sandoval told KSL-TV.

Police say they are aware of one other domestic violence incident in which Youd was arrested within the past year.

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Maryland Wig Store Robbery Quickly Becomes Hair-Raising Brawl

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This wig store quickly turned to chaos as three thieves rumbled with employees

SILVER SPRINGS, Maryland — A hair-raising robbery attempt turned into a full-scale rumble at a wig store when two employees tried to stop the thieves.

Authorities in Silver Spring, Maryland say three robbers attempted to run out of Esther’s Beauty Salon/Supplies with wigs in tow when the employees intervened. The three women tried to blast their way out of the shop with pepper spray.

Surveillance camera footage shows the scene erupt into a wild melee with fists and wigs flying, mannequins being knocked to the floor and one of the female suspects almost losing her shirt.

One employee, a 74-year-old man, tried to the lock the door to keep the women inside, but two of the suspects manage to force their way outside, leaving the third inside.

The 59-year-old female employee then wrestled with the remaining thief, attacking her with a piece of a mannequin, but the woman managed to force her way out the door as well.

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In the struggle, police said the male employee suffered a cut on his head. The robbers managed to get away with one wig.

 

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Two Cops Hurt in Accidental Shooting By Fellow Officer at Police Funeral

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Two officers were hurt at the funeral of Massachusetts police officer Michael Chesna who was killed in the line of duty

BRAINTREE, Massachusetts — Two cops were injured at the funeral of a slain police officer when a butter-fingered sergeant’s gun went off after he accidentally dropped it, officials said.

The incident occurred as thousands of cops gathered to lay Weymouth, Massachusetts Police Officer Michael Chesna to rest on July 20 after he had been fatally shot while investigating a car crash.

As Cranston, Rhode Island Police Sgt. Michael Patnaud, was removing his honor guard uniform aboard a police bus, his .40 caliber Glock 22 fell from his holster and went off when he tried to catch it, cops said.

“It was accidental,” Braintree Police Chief Paul Shastany told the Patriot Ledger.

The bullet passed through the side of the bus and ricocheted off the asphalt on the street below, sending debris flying which stuck two officers with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology police force.

One officer was hit on the hand and the other just above the eye, although neither was seriously hurt. Both refused medical attention.

Because no one was hurt, Patnaud remains on duty, the Cranston police said.

“Obviously, we feel terrible. I know he does, too,”  Cranston Police Col. Michael J. Winquist told the Providence Journal. “He’s a person that’s never had an incident like this, ever. He’s very proficient with firearms and has had a lot of training over the course of his career.”

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Arrest Made in Baby Stroller Shark Theft at Texas Aquarium, Shark Recovered

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These three folks allegedly stole a shark and wheeled it out of a Texas aquarium in a stroller (bottom left)

SAN ANTONIO — That’s one way to take a bite out of crime.

A Texas man was arrested after he helped steal a shark right out of a tank at an aquarium and then wheel it out in a baby stroller, cops said.

The brazen burglary occurred Saturday afternoon at the San Antonio Aquarium when two men and a woman walked up to an open-topped tank amidst a crowd of people and lifted a one-and-a-half foot long gray horn shark out of the water with a towel, Leon Valley police said.

Surveillance video showed the three suspects then take the animal into a back room, where they placed it in a bucket and then put the bucket into a baby stroller which they wheeled out the front gate unnoticed, the cops said.

The heist was so bizarre that cops initially thought it was a hoax when aquarium staff called to report it.

“When we first got the call, we thought it was kind of a hoax being that it was Shark Week last week,” Leon Valley police Chief Joseph Salvaggio told KSAT-TV.

Late Monday, cops said they had picked up one of the suspects and had recovered the shark and were zeroing in on the other two culprits. Staff at the aquarium said the shark appeared unhurt.

According to the San Antonio Express, the 38-year-old man in custody — whose name had not been released — faced a charge of theft between $750 and $2,500.

 

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Driver Miraculously Survives Being Ejected From Car in Wild Police Chase

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The driver narrowly survived being ejected from the vehicle

FLORENCE, South Carolina — A woman who led police on a lengthy high-speed chase, miraculously escaped with her life when she was ejected onto the road after her SUV flipped over.

Shocking dashboard camera footage reveals how Brittany Nicole Jeffords, 24, rammed numerous police cars, tore through yards and weaved through oncoming traffic before losing control of her vehicle.

The episode unfolded on July 12, when South Carolina cops attempted to pull Jeffords over for a traffic violation. As it turned out, Jeffords had a bench warrant for failure to appear in court for armed robbery charges and her license had been suspended for an earlier DUI, so she refused to stop.

She eventually pulled into a parking lot, where a passenger got out and was arrested, but as cops slapped cuffs on the man, Jeffords sped off, sparking the long chase. The man told cops Jeffords ran because she didn’t want to go back to jail.

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Eventually cops were able to bring the chase to an end when they used a maneuver to hit the back of Jeffords’ vehicle, causing it to spin out. But instead, she lost control and flipped over.

As the car tumbled wildly out of control, Jeffords can be seen being thrown out of the vehicle.

Brittany Nicole Jeffords

Miraculously she survived and remains in jail on charges of fleeing police as well as the charges from her earlier cases.

 

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Wife Says She Gunned Down Husband Because He Watched Too Much Porn

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Patricia Hill was infuriated by her husband Frank’s porn habit

WHITE HALL, Arkansas — A 69-year-old Arkansas woman has been charged with capital murder after shooting her husband for watching too much porn, cops said.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s office said Patricia Hill called 911 Saturday afternoon to report that she had fatally shot her 65-year-old husband, Frank Hill, in a utility shed on their property.

When authorities arrived at the house, they found Frank dead with a gunshot wound to his head and another to his leg. They detained Patricia and took her in for questioning.

There, she admitted that she went out to the shed to confront her husband over pornography he had ordered from their television provider.

“Mrs. Hill stated that she disagreed with her husband’s purchase of video pornography via the television guide, which she cancelled upon discovering the purchase but Mr. Hill managed to place a subsequent order,” Major Lafayette Woods, Jr., of the the Jefferson County Sheriff’s office said.

She said she demanded her husband leave the shed, but when he refused, she went back to the house to get a .22 caliber pistol. She then returned to the shed and shot her husband, cops said.

Patricia Hill went back to the house and then called police. She told investigators that there had never been any physical abuse between her and her husband.

Hill is currently being held without bound in Jefferson County’s detention center on capital murder charges, and will stay there until her court date next week.

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