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Man Busted After Trying to Pay Waitress With Credit Card Stolen From Her

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Credit card fraudster Shamon West apparently doesn’t know the meaning of laying low

PINE BLUFF, Arkansas — It’s sort of like returning to the scene of a crime.

An Arkansas waitress was dumbstruck when a customer tried to pay for a meal using the credit card that had been stolen from her wallet two days earlier.

Police say 58-year-old Flora Lunsford’s car had been broken into Sunday outside a gas station, and her purse was stolen.

Two days later, she was working a shift at Shannon’s restaurant when a customer handed her a credit card that had her name on it, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.

“Having no desire to pay for the fellow’s meal,” Lunsford called the cops.

When cops arrived they discovered that 21-year-old, Shamon also had Lunsford’s driver’s license, social security card and other credit cards.

Police were puzzled as to why West thought he could pull the stunt off.

“As a side note, the driver’s license, as all do, had her picture on it,” law enforcement officials said. “You would think he should have known what she looked like. Yet, he still handed her own credit card to her.”

 

West was charged with forgery and theft by receiving, police said.

 

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Angry Nail Salon Customer Drags Employee With Car After Refusing to Pay

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Charley Fowler thought the nail salon did a bad job

VALAPARAISO, Indiana — The claws really came out on this one.

An Indiana woman unhappy with the manicure she got from a nail salon has been charged with dragging an employee across the parking lot with her car as she tried to leave without paying, cops said.

Charley Fowler, 28, has been accused of walking out the Diamond Nails & Spa in Valaparaiso, after refusing to the $30 fee for a manicure. Fowler said she thought they had done a lousy a job and rejected on offer to do it again, reported the Times of Northwest Indiana.

But as she left the store, employees followed her while calling police. Cops say Fowler then hopped behind the wheel. When she started to pull out, a male employee of the salon was knocked down and dragged across the parking lot.

He was not seriously hurt.

Fowler was charged preliminarily with misdemeanor theft and criminal recklessness. Her attorney argues that the altercation is a civil matter and belongs in civil rather than criminal court.

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Sisters Busted After Getting in Knife Fight in Front of Kids

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The Tate sisters were going to let a little thing like family get in the way

MADISON, Wisconsin — This is taking sibling rivalry to a whole new level.

A pair of sisters in Wisconsin were arrested after stabbing each other while engaged in “mutual combat” in front of five little kids, police said.

Madison police say the fight erupted between Abria Tate, 24, and her 23-year-old sister Alyssa Tate, “after a heated family argument regarding child care.”

When cops arrived at the home where the fight erupted they found “two uncooperative adult female sisters with stab wounds to their arms.”

Cops say there were five small children in the house at the time that witnessed the stabbing.

Alyssa was allegedly armed with a knife, a scissors and pepper spray. A man who was in the home at the time was arrested after cops found a gun in his bag. He was initially accused of instigating the fight.

Both women were treated and  released with non-life threatening injuries. They were both charged with domestic reckless endangering safety, and children’s protective services are trying to figure out what to do with the children.

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Ozzy Osbourne Sentenced to 30 Years In Barbershop Shooting

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It’s the Ozzy on the left we’re talking about

MONTGOMERY, Alabama  — A totally different crazy train all together.

A man named Ozzy Osbourne has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a fatal barbershop shooting three years ago, authorities said.

Osbourne, 27, of Montgomery, Alabama, was convicted in May of shooting 30-year-old Rodrekas Ziegler in the neck as he walked into the barbershop on Sept. 11, 2015, prosecutors said.

Last week, a judge sentenced Osbourne to 359 months in prison — or 29 years and 11 months.

“Our community is tired of these senseless murders and it is my hope this conviction and the sentencing will reinforce the message that there are extreme consequences to violent actions,” Montgomery County District Attorney Daryl Bailey said.

Osbourne’s namesake, the former singer of Black Sabbath, couldn’t be reached for comment.

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Topless Shoplifter Sparks Manhunt, Manages to Evade Police

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The skin went flying when employees at a Walmart spotted the topless woman stealing clothes

ATHENS, Georgia — What a boob!

A topless shoplifter at a Georgia Walmart proved harder to identify than cops thought, sparking a wide search that ended when the woman got away.

“Units are responding to a report of a topless female shoplifter running from Walmart. No further description was given, but we presume she’ll be the only topless woman running down Epps Bridge Road,” the Oconee County Sheriff’s office wrote on its Facebook page.

The white female, who was in her early 20s, was spotted by a loss prevention officer  inside the store, pulling off her shirt and bra in the women’s section. She then put on a shirt she yanked off the rack and a pair of shorts, which she slid over another pair she was already wearing, the Athens Banner-Herald reported.

Store employees confronted her as she tried to leave, kicking off a struggle during which she pulled off her shirt, kicked off her sandals, and fled barefoot and without a shirt in the direction of the nearby Kohl’s store, deputies said. She still had on the pair of stolen shorts.

Cops searched the area, but were unable to find the woman.

“The only description we had is she was topless. If she was in the area, we would have found her,” Sheriff Scott Berry said.

 

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New York Cop and Wife Busted in Planned Casino Heist

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The couple planned to knock over this casino in Pennsylvania,

ISLANDIA, New York (June 14, 2018) — A cop and his wife have been busted in a plot to knock over a Long Island casino where she worked, prosecutors said.

Nassau County Police Officer Bruce Moeller and his wife, Christina Moeller, had allegedly been scheming since March to commit an armed robbery at Jake’s 58 Hotel and Casino in Islandia. Christina worked as a cashier at the casino, prosecutors said.

Bruce Moeller was busted as part of an ongoing grand jury investigation in Suffolk County, that has already nabbed two other Nassau cops, Newsday reported. It is not clear how the other arrests connect to the planned casino heist.

The three police officers have been suspended without pay.

The Moellers have pleaded not guilty and Bruce was released on $30,000 bond. Christina Moeller was released on $50,000 bond.

“We plan to strongly defend against these allegations,” said Bruce’s attorney, William Petrillo “[Moeller] served the country in the Marines for four years, including two tours in Afghanistan where he received approximately nine medals for heroic combat.”

Christina Moeller’s lawyer said she began working at Jake’s about a year ago — after her father died — and has a clean record.

“She’s never been arrested,” said attorney Thomas Spreer. “We have to explore what the district attorney’s allegation is. She has never been in trouble.”

Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder called the arrests “disappointing and disheartening” and said the officers will remain suspended while an internal affairs investigation is conducted.

“We hold our members to an exceptionally high standard and these individuals do not represent the professionalism and honesty exhibited by the men and women of the Nassau County Police Department,” he said.

 

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Cops Believe Teen’s ‘Suicide’ Was Game of Russian Roulette Gone Bad

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Witnesses claimed the teen had committed suicide but evidence pointed to a game of Russian roulette

BIG SPRING, Texas — A teen who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound was playing Russian roulette, and Texas police are expecting to make arrests after witnesses claimed the boy had committed suicide.

Police in Big Spring, Texas say they were called to a home on Friday after receiving a report of a gunshot victim. When they arrived, they found the unidentified teen dead with a bullet wound to his head.

“The initial reports from various witnesses at the residence indicated this was a suicide although physical evidence indicated otherwise,” read a statement posted to the department’s Facebook page.

“As a result of this investigation, it is now believed the juvenile was shot as a result of a game of ‘Russian Roulette’ and although this is believed to be an accident, the Big Spring Police Department expects arrests to follow,” the statement continued.

Cops said an investigation had determined that two guns had been recently stolen from vehicles in the area and they asked residents to check the cars to see if anything was missing.

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Driver Who Killed 5 Cyclists While High on Drugs Sentenced to 40 Years

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Charles Pickett Jr. was high as a kite when he plowed through a pack of cyclists

KALAMAZOO, Michigan — A stoned driver who plowed through a pack of cyclists, killing five of them, was sentenced to at least 40 years in prison after the judge dismissed his tearful apology as not good enough.

Charles Pickett Jr., 52,  had taken methamphetamine, muscle relaxers and pain medication at a cousin’s funeral two years ago when he got behind the wheel and tore through a pack of nine cyclists on a rural road in Cooper Township.

Five of the cyclists — three women and two men ranging in age from 42 to 74 — were killed and four others seriously injured.

“I’ll live with this the rest of my life,” Pickett said, as he broke down in tears in court, according to MLive.com. “I would give my life for the people I murdered, killed and maimed and I just want to say I’m sorry.”

But Judge Paul Bridenstine called Pickett’s apology ”woefully inadequate,” as he had many opportunities to stop driving before the fatal crash and he had narrowly avoided killing others along the road that day.

“You selfishly and unnecessarily murdered five people and altered the lives of four others,” Bridenstine said before handing down the sentence. “The loss is massive and immeasurable.”

Pickett was hit with a to 40 to 75 years sentence and will be 90 years old before he is eligible for parole.

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Teen Loses Hand in Sword Fight, Is Then Slapped With Severed Limb

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What started as a road rage incident quickly escalated into a full-on sword fight

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — Well, that certainly got out of hand.

A teenage motorist lost his hand after a road rage incident in the United Arab Emirates sparked an out-of-control sword fight, authorities said.

To add insult to injury, the man who chopped the teen’s hand off, picked up the severed extremity and used it to slap the victim across the face, Gulf News reported.

A criminal court heard this week how the road rage incident in January led to the sprawling, bloody sword fight in a park in the UAE’s third largest city of Sharjah.

The rumble involved two groups of teens, a dozen in all and all of them under the age of 16, prosecutors said.

The victim who had his hand chopped off had been trying to protect himself from a sword blow and had put his hands up in front of his face, his lawyer, Abdullah Salman, told the court.

After his hand hit the group, his attacker allegedly picked it up and began beating him with it, the court heard.

The victim’s pals were able to rush him and his severed hand to a local hospital where doctors were able to reattach it.

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Drunk Narrowly Avoids Being Squashed After Passing Out on Texas Road

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Cops fortunately spotted this woman passed out drunk on the road before she was run over

FULSHEAR, Texas  — Drunk and stupid is no way to live, and for this woman it was almost the way she died.

Texas police were shocked to discover a drunken woman passed out in the middle of a country road in the dark, forcing motorists to swerve unexpectedly to avoid running her over.

“We all make mistakes, however, this mistake almost cost this young woman her life,” the Fulshear, Texas police department wrote on its Facebook page.

Cops say the woman appeared to have “bedded down” on the road after driving into a ditch about 200 yards from where she was found.

Dashboard video shows the stunning moment when officer on patrol happened upon her prone body after noticing a motorist swerve to avoid hitting her.

“Sergeant Scott immediately realized that ‘the object’ in the road was a person and quickly stopped to render aid,” the department said.

The woman was charged with public intoxication and given a lift to jail.

“However, this unfortunate mistake could have ended tragically and the ride could have been to the morgue,” police said.

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