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Ohio Man Calls Cops to Report He is Being Chased by a Pig

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Cops were convinced the man reporting the pig was dead drunk and hallucinating but they were wrong

ELYRIA, Ohio — Now, if he said it was six-foot rabbit named Harvey, that would be a different story.

An Ohio police department thought they had a drunk with a wild imagination on their hands when they received a call from a man who claimed he was being followed by a pig.

But when officers responded, they discovered a completely sober man who was indeed being followed by a pig.

The North Ridgeville Police Department says they got the call at 5:26 a.m. on Saturday from a man who said he spotted the porcine pursuer as he walked home from the train station in Elyria.

“Night shift responded to the obviously drunk guy walking home from the bar at 5:26 in the morning. He was at least drunk enough to call the police on himself while hallucinating,” the department wrote on its Facebook page.

But when they go there, “they found a very sober male walking … from the actual Amtrak train station in Elyria, not the bar. Oh, and he was being followed by a pig.”

After wiping egg off his face, a patrolman “managed to wrangle (I think this is the correct word to use) said pig into his cruiser and he is currently secured in our pig pens…..er, dog kennels. Whatever.”

The cops weren’t too ashamed to make themselves the butt of their own joke in the end.

”We will mention the irony of the pig in a police car now so that anyone that thinks they’re funny is actually unoriginal and trying too hard,” the department wrote. “Have a great day.”

The following day, the department said the pig had been returned to its owner.

 

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Quick-Thinking Good Samaritan Lays Gunman Flat for Cops to Pick Up

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The brave bystander was happy to lend a leg to trip up a gunman cops were pursuing

COLUMBUS, Ohio — That’s some fancy footwork.

A Good Samaritan is being credited by cops with helping take an armed gunman off the streets when he stuck his leg out and tripped up the crook as he fled from police.

The brave bystander, identified only as Bill, was standing outside a public library in Columbus, Ohio when the suspect darted by with cops giving hot pursuit.

“I figured OK, this is a chase,” Bill said of watching officers chasing the man and yelling, “Gun, gun, gun!”

“I saw who you guys were chasing and I could see he was holding something in his waistband but he had a pretty good lead,” Bill said. “So I got in his way to slow him down.”

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As the man passed, Bill craftily stuck out his leg, which sent the teenage suspect flying and allowed cops time to catch up.

Police said the teen was armed with a Glock 9mm pistol with an extended clip, which he dropped as he fell to the ground. The department thanked Bill “for sticking your leg out for us” and added that the move may have saved the 18-year-old’s life in the process.

“Community involvement, be it by courage, bravery and/or fancy footwork, helped take a criminal off the streets of Columbus,” said the Columbus police, according to WCMH-TV.

 

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Urine Trouble: Woman Jailed for Failing Drug Test With Someone Else’s Pee

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Kiana Wallace asked the wrong person for their urine sample for a drug test

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio — If you are going to fail a drug test, better to do it with your own piss.

A red-faced Ohio woman admitted in court that she used someone else’s pee for a drug test, but then shockingly tested positive for drugs.

“Let me get this straight,” Belmont County Common Pleas Court Judge Frank Fregiato said, according to WTOV-TV. “To avoid the positive test with your own urine, you used someone else’s urine which turned out to be positive also. That’s bizarre.”

Fregiato accused Kiana Wallace of making a mockery of the court and its drug and alcohol testing system. He then threw the book at Wallace, sentencing her to 1 1/2 years in prison.

Wallace was sentenced to six months in jail last January 2017 for drug possession.

 

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Radical Professor at Kent State University Charged With Lying to FBI in ISIS Probe

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Kent State University history professor Julio Pino has been under investigation about alleged ties to ISIS

CLEVELAND — A radical professor at Kent State University has been charged with lying to the FBI during a probe into his possible connections to the Islamic State.

Julio Pino, 58, who has taught history at the Ohio university since 1992, is charged with falsely telling investigators he didn’t know a man he messaged with online and egged on as he discussed killing people, including a judge involved in his custody case.

“I’m playing the game backwards.  and winning! . . . I will kill 100s of people if they take my rights as a father away!” the man, identified in court papers only as J.E. said.

“Devour them, [J.E.],” Pino replied.

In January 2016, the man was charged with threatening a judge. Around that time, the FBI launched a probe into Pino, questioning his students about whether he attempted to recruit any of them to join ISIS. At the time, Pino called the allegations preposterous.

A Muslim convert, Pino has long been a lightning rod for controversy. In 2002, he wrote a newspaper column, eulogizing a suicide bomber in Jerusalem. Nearly a decade later, he shouted “Death to Israel” at a lecture by a former Israeli diplomat.

There have been calls to revoke his tenure, but the school always refused on first amendment grounds. The school has suspended him following the filing of charges on Monday. His attorney told Cleveland.com, that his client is planning to retire.

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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.

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Man Gets 27 Years For Impregnating Twins, 14, and Their 12-Year-Old Sister

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Rapist Arnold Perry abused his friends’ trust by impregnating their three daughters

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — A twisted child rapist was sentenced to 27 years in prison for impregnating a pair of 14-year-old twins and their 12-year-old sister.

Arnold Perry, 34, had been a friend of the girls’ family and would periodically stay at their home when he had nowhere else to go, prosecutors said.

One of the twins had an abortion after her pregnancy was discovered, but the other two victims ended up having their babies because they were too far along when it was discovered they were pregnant, prosecutors said.

“These girls will suffer the rest of their lives because of this,” Assistant Prosecutor Jennifer McLaughlin said, according to the Youngstown Vindicator.

Perry pleaded guilty in November to two counts of first-degree felony rape and a third-degree felony count of sexual battery for the attacks, which took place in 2015 and 2016. He had faced 25 years in jail, but the judge gave him two years above the recommended sentence.

Prosecutors say Perry had been convicted of similar crimes as a juvenile.

 

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Facial Tattoos Likely to Be Dead Giveaway for This Fugitive

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Michael Mann’s distinctive facial tattoos definitely make him stand out

CINCINNATI — Well, he shouldn’t be too hard to find.

Police in Cincinnati are looking for a man with rather distinctive tattoos covering his face, including a dollar sign over his left eye.

Michael Mann, 34, is wanted on aggravated burglary and domestic violence after allegedly climbing into an unlocked window of his ex-girlfriend’s house on Jan. 9 and choking and slapping her several times. Cops say the victim has a child with Mann.

Mann is described as 6-foot-3 inches and 185 pounds. Cops say he has a history of domestic violence, aggravated robbery and drug charges.

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Dealer Who Declared Himself ‘El Chapo Jr. During Police Standoff Gets 12 Years

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Daniel Jones burned his stash on Facebook Live, boasting ‘No evidence on me buddy!’

DAYTON, Ohio — A man who called himself “El Chapo Jr.” and brazenly boasted that he as the biggest drug dealer in the Dayton area on Facebook Live while holed up in a house surrounded by cops has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison.

Daniel Jones, 29, had engaged in an hours-long standoff with cops in March 2016 at a Harrison Township apartment complex and even tried to burn his stash of three kilos of fentanyl to get rid of the evidence.

But in the meantime, police watched as Jones flashed wads of cash and talked about his drug-dealing prowess while streaming video live on Facebook, even declared, “No evidence on me buddy,” as he burned the drugs, prosecutors said.

Ultimately, SWAT Team officers and federal agents stormed the apartment, arresting Jones and recovered a handgun as well as the remnants of the burnt fentanyl. They also found $3,000 in cash on Jones and more than $100,000 cash throughout the apartment.

He pleaded guilty last April to one count of possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl and one count of possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony.

Jones has 16 prior felony convictions and is awaiting trial in an assault case and for being found with marijuana in his rectum while in a county jail.

Jones had sought leniency from the judge, saying he took responsibility for what he had done and asking for chance to turn his life around.

“I’m not glorifying or excusing my behavior,” Jones wrote in a letter to the judge. “But I don’t need a decade or two to realize what I did was horribly wrong.”

U.S. District Judge Walter Rice said he while he believed Jones was being sincere, he “totally lacks tools and ability to carry those promises into reality.”

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Motorist Critically Hurt as Teens Toss Sandbag Off Highway Overpass

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Teens tossed the heavy sandbag from this overpass

TOLEDO, Ohio — A motorist was critically injured when a sandbag tossed from an overpass by a group of young teens smashed through his windshield and struck him on the head, cops said.

Marquise Byrd, of Warren Michigan, was in the passenger seat of a pal’s car when the sandbag crashed through the windshield late Tuesday, the Toledo police said.

He was taken to a local hospital in critical condition with head injuries, police said.

Pedro Salinas, 13; Sean Carter, 14; Demetrius Wimberly, 14; and William Parker, 14, were arrested and charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony, and was booked in the Lucas County Juvenile Detention Center.

Authorities said that if Byrd died, the boys would face much steeper charges.

“If that would happen then the state would be bringing forward some sort of homicide charge against all four who were involved,” Lori Olender, deputy prosecutor of the juvenile division, told the Toledo Blaze.

Investigators said they believed the teens had thrown other things at other cars that night but no one else was hurt. Typically, highway overpasses have high fences to prevent objects from being thrown onto the roadway, but the particular overpass is under construction and currently has no fence.

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400-Pound Man Charged With Crushing His Autistic Step-Grandson

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Dylan Davis (l) died after 400-pound Donald Martin Crushed Him

MT. ORAB, Ohio — A 400-pound Ohio man has been charged in the death of his autistic step-grandson after pinning the boy down when he started acting up, cops said.

Donald Martin Jr., 58, was charged with reckless homicide in the death of 11-year-old Dylan Martin Davis on the family farm in rural Ohio last Friday, the Brown County Sheriff’s office said.

“It appears that the 11-year-old was deceased as a result of positional asphyxiation or compression,” Sheriff Gordon Ellis told WLWT-TV. “There was some type of altercation between the 11-year-old and his grandmother and the step-grandfather stepped in and restrained the juvenile.”

Prosecutors said the boy was held down for several minutes, after which he became unresponsive.

Police said the boy had had some kind of temper tantrum before the incident, and his father told the station his son had grown more prone to outbursts.

“He was getting older. Sometimes his anger was getting stronger and sometimes he had to be physically restrained,” Sam Davis said.

Davis said his son and Martin had always gotten along, so he was shocked by what had happened.

“I feel sad. I feel angry. I feel confused. I wish it never would have happened,” he said.

 

Martin was released on $100,000 bond.

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