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Pennsylvania Motorist Busted For Pooping on Man in Road Rage Incident

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This driver was pooping mad!

HEIDELBERG TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania — That’s one hell of a way to end a fight.

A Pennsylvania motorist has been arrested for allegedly pooping on another man during a heated road rage incident, cops say.

“The accused and the victim got into a road rage argument, leading the accused to defecate on the victim,” Pennsylvania State Police said in a press release, according to LehighValleyLive.com.

Henry George Weaver of New Tripoli, was charged with harassment for the incident which occurred Friday morning in Heidelberg Township.

Police did not give further detail on what led to the episode.

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15-Year-Old Student Driver Runs Over and Kills Two Men in Parking Lot

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The student driver got a lead foot at the worst time

PHILADELPHIA — A 15-year-old student driver accidentally killed two homeless men in a shopping center parking lot where her mother was giving her a lesson behind the wheel, cops said.

The incident occurred Monday evening in the parking lot of a Dollar Tree store in Philadelphia.

Witnesses say the two men were trying to help the teen navigate into a parking spot when the SUV suddenly lunged forward, pinning them against a wall.

“She was navigating into a parking spot and made a mistake. The vehicle lunged forward, striking two men who were seated at the wall of the dollar store,” Philadelphia Police Capt. Mark Overwise told WPVI-TV.

“My heart is ripped out. I lost two of my best friends,” pal Tim Stewart said.

Cops haven’t filed charges against the girl. Student drivers must be 16-years-old to receive their learner’s permit. The girl was in the car with her mother and two others at the time of the accident.

 

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University Love Triangle Ends in Dramatic Murder-Suicide With ‘Blood Everywhere’

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Murder-Suicide: Jennair Gerardot (l) shot Meredith Chapman (r) in the head after discovering she was having an affair with Mark Gerardot (c),

RADNOR TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania — An illicit extramarital affair ended in a blood-soaked murder-suicide when the enraged wife of a University of Delaware official broke into his lover’s house, then shot her in the head when she came home, before turning the gun on herself.

Police say the bloodshed appeared to the result of a well-planned out murder-suicide plot hatched by 47-year-old Jennair Gerardot, after she discovered that her husband, Mark, had been carrying on with a younger woman he used to work with.

Cops discovered the two women’s bodies Monday night in the quiet suburban home of Meredith Chapman, a 33-year-old assistant vice president at Villanova who had, until recently, worked as a communications officer at the University of Delaware with Mark Gerardot.

In a 911 call, police were told “there’s blood everywhere,” by a person who had initially found the scene, according to the Wilmington News Journal.

Investigators believe that the scorned wife had broken into Chapman’s home earlier in the evening, wearing a wig and carrying a Taurus Tracker .357 revolver. She then lay in wait until her husband’s lover came home.

When Chapman opened the door, police say Jennair shot her once in the head, and then shot herself.

“You had a man who was married that was having an affair with this other woman. The wife knew about it. And this was a calculated, planned attack,”  said Bill Colarulo, superintendent of the Radnor Township police. “She broke into the house. She was lying in wait, and she shot her as soon as she walked in, and then she shot herself.”

He said investigators had uncovered “emails and text messages indicating what she planned to do.”

“We believe the husband was in the area under the belief that he was meeting the other woman for dinner, and when she didn’t show up, that’s when he got concerned and showed up at the house,” he said.

In the weeks before the shooting, Jennair said on an online forum that her husband wanted a divorce and asked for advice finding a good divorce lawyer or marriage counselor.

Chapman was married to a city councilman  in the Delaware city of Newark, but the two were no longer living together, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Chapman ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for a state Senate seat in Delaware in 2016. In her bio on her campaign website Chapman said she had worked as a communications manager for former Congressman Mike Castle, R-Del.

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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.

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Woman Fakes Pregnancy to Get Lift Home From Ambulance

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Leeann Armstrong needed a lift home so called an ambulance, faking a pregnancy

GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania — A woman is accused of faking a pregnancy and being in medical distress to get an ambulance to give her a lift back to her hometown.

Leeann Armstrong, 25, was at a home in the Pennsylvania town of Latrobe when she called 911 complaining of having complications from her pregnancy, police said.

When an ambulance arrived, Armstrong and a male companion were driven to Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg and brought to a room to wait for her to be be examined.

“Before Armstrong could receive treatment, she walked out of the hospital,” Patrolman Kerry Dieter wrote in a criminal complaint, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Cops then went to Armstrong’s home where they found her hiding in the attic. They also detected the strong smell of marijuana in the apartment and saw what appeared to be a bag of pot and pipe laying on a table, police said.

Upon questioning, Armstrong admitted that she wasn’t pregnant, but that her ride had left her in Latrobe the night before and she needed a lift back to Greensburg.

She was charged with theft of services, which carries an $800 fine, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

 

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Man Who Stole Pot of Meatballs Caught With Sauce All Over Face

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The pot of meatballs was too hard to pass up for one hungry thief

HAZLE TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania — This gives a whole new meaning to getting caught red handed.

Police were easily able to pin the theft of a pot of steaming meatballs on a Pennsylvania man when they found him with red sauce smeared all over his face.

Leahman Potter, 48, was charged with burglary, criminal trespass and theft for swiping the pot from a man’s garage.

Cops in Luzerne County say the victim reported the missing meatballs on Monday  and told officers that he saw Potter standing in front of his house with red sauce on his face and clothes.

The empty pot was found on the street.

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Woman Shows Up Dead Drunk to Court for Public Drunkenness Hearing

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Showing up drunk in court is a good sign of a drinking problem

NEW HOLLAND, Pennsylvania — It might be time to admit you have a drinking problem.

A Pennsylvania woman was arrested after showing up dead drunk to a court hearing for a earlier public drunkenness arrest, police said.

New Holland police say Jennifer Amanda Jones, 36, was under the influence when she arrived for a hearing at a district judge’s officer on did Feb. 9.

Jones was in court for a public drunkenness hearing and also has an open DUI case against her. She has had numerous arrests over the years for drunk driving and public drunkenness, court records show.

She was later hit again with a public drunkenness charge for her tipsy appearance in court.

 

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Philly Knucklehead Steals Thumb From Priceless Statue, Snaps Selfies With It

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The stolen thumb came from a famed terracotta warrior statue on loan from China

PHILADELPHIA — It was only a matter of time before they fingered their man.

Federal agents have tracked down a knuckleheaded thief who snuck out from an after-hours party at a Philadelphia art museum and managed to steal the thumb from a $4.5 million, third-century statue of a Chinese warrior.

The FBI says Michael Rohana, 24,  of Bear, Delaware, was a guest at an “Ugly Sweater Party” at the Franklin Museum in December, when he made his way into an exhibit on loan from China of some of the country’s famed terracotta soldiers.

He then walked out with the snapped-off finger in his pocket. Museum staffers didn’t notice the missing digit for a week, but the whole episode was captured on surveillance video, which showed Rohana in a fuzzy, green sweater and Philadelphia Phillies go in and out of the room, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

An investigation revealed that he sent  Snapchat messages to friend the next day featuring pictures of the finger. And the friends he as with that night told investigators he had talked about stealing the finger.

When agents showed up weeks later at Rohana’s house where he lives with his parents, he fessed up and produced the finger he had kept in a drawer. He was charged with art theft.

The museum said the thumb has been reunited with the statue and will be reattached. Meanwhile, the museum says it is reviewing its security protocols.

 

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Cartoon Sketch Draws Laughs Online But Still Helps Cops Name Suspect

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It didn’t take a master sketch artists to help nail Hung Phuoc Nguyen

LANCASTER, Pennsylvania — The crime was in the eye of the beholder.

Police in Pennsylvania were somehow able to zero in on a suspect working off a laughably bad eyewitness sketch that made the man look like a cartoon stick figure.

But it turns out the bad sketch was good enough.

“While the sketch provided by the witness may have appeared amateurish and cartoonish, it, along with the distinctive physical descriptors, jogged the memory of at least one investigator to provide a potential suspect name,” the Lancaster police said in a statement. “This was not done in jest.”

When investigators showed a photo array to the witness, they immediately picked the suspect, Hung Phuoc Nguyen, 44, a homeless man who allegedly pretended to be an employee at a vendor’s stand while a real employee was away and then made off with a wad of cash.

Nguyen has been charged with 2 counts of theft by unlawful taking and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Cops have checked the last known addresses for Nguyen, but so far haven’t been able to locate him.

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Bumbling Thief Busted After Accidentally Calling 911 During Break-In

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Alleged thief Brendan Weaver had an accidental pang of conscience when he butt dialed 911 on himself during burglary

EPHRATA, Pennsylvania — Here is an early entry for the dumbass criminal of the year contest.

Police in Pennsylvania say they caught a stark naked and high as a kite thief ransacking an office building after he accidentally called 911.

The Ephrata police say they responded to the building after getting a 911 hangup from inside early Tuesday morning. When they arrived, they found a smashed glass door at the side of the building.

Once inside they encountered Brendan Weaver, 28, wandering around the building wearing no clothes “and clearly under the influence of a controlled substance.”

Cops say the office area of the building had been ransacked causing more than $5,000 worth of damage.

Investigators say they suspect Weaver accidentally called 911 from an office phone when he was ransacking the building.

He has been charged with burglary.

 

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