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Dope Gets Ticket for Blasting ‘Cops’ Theme Song After Police Gave Him Noise Warning

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SHIPPENSBURG, Pennsylvania — There’s dumb, and there’s dumberer.

A pea-brained partygoer turned a noise warning from police into a formal citation when he decided to blast the theme song to the TV series “Cops” as the officers were pulling away.

“Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do?  The police changed the warning to a citation because of you,” the Shippensburg Police department joked in a press release

Cops say they had responded to a small party in the backyard of a house due to complaints from neighbors and warned the host, Daniel Czerpak, 21, to keep it down.

He agreed, but as the officers were driving away, Czerpak thought it would be funny to blast the Inner Circle hit, “Bad Boys.”

The joke was on him as the officers didn’t find it funny and turned around to write him a ticket.

Woman Charged With Setting Boyfriend Ablaze, Dousing Flames With Urine

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Leigh Ann Sepelyak

PENN HILLS, Pennsylvania — Talk about adding insult to injury.

A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with attempted homicide for setting her boyfriend on fire as he slept and then dousing the flames with a bucket of piss.

Penn Hills police said Leigh Ann Sepelyak, 38, had argued with her boyfriend, Grady Spencer III, and then poured gasoline on him as he slept and dropped a lit cigarette on him, setting his body ablaze.

She then grabbed a bucket of urine the couple used as a toilet and tossed it on him, putting the flames out.

“I can’t see how that’s an accident when it happens at 4:40 a.m. and the gas was 25 to 30 feet away from the bed. It had to be carried,” Penn Hills Police Chief Howard Burton told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Sepelyak’s parents, who live upstairs from the couple, were awoken by yelling and drove Spencer to a local hospital. Officials there contacted police.

“The parents, when they heard screaming and smelled the smoke, helped put him out — I think with the same urine — and went to the hospital. They never called the police, the hospital called,” Burton said.

He said Spencer suffered serious burns to 25% to 35% of his body but was expected to survive. The house was not damaged.

Sepelyak was held without bail.

Spencer later told the Tribune-Review that Sepelyak wasn’t responsible and that he had accidentally spilled gasoline on himself while trying to fix a weed-whacker while drunk and had caught fire when he lit a cigarette.

“If she didn’t use urine, it would have been a lot worse. My crotch would have been melted if she didn’t,” he said. “I can only thank her for that.”

Burton said the charges remained pending against Sepelyak and that he would let a court decide what the truth is.

Philly TV Reporter Fired After Video of Her Berating Cop Goes Viral

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PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia TV reporter found herself out of a job after an embarrassing video of her drunkenly berating a seriously calm cop outside a comedy club went viral.

Colleen Campbell, 28, said she had little memory of the incident outside the Helium Club on Sunday and only became aware that she had been filmed after human resources at WPHL-TV telling her she had been terminated.

“I feel awful. That’s not me or how I speak or how I talk or how I was raised,” Campbell told Philadelphia Magazine. “I don’t know what to do. I feel ruined and embarrassed.”

The  cringe-worthy rant spread across the internet when New York comedian Wil Sylvince posted a video on Facebook page showing what happened after Campbell was kicked out of the club for “loud whispering” throughout the show.

 

About last night: this very obnoxious lady, who wasn’t drunk (nor high I think) was disturbing the show with her “loud whispering”. After 3 warnings and other customers were complaining she was asked to leave.

When she got kicked out she assaulted (kicking, punching, and eye poking) 3 of the employees in bar area right outside the showroom and then outside she mock spit in the mangers face when a cop came. She verbally abused this poor cop who was trying to keep the peace at first.

The show was great though! Love me some Philly! Thank you

#philly #Philadelphia #kickedout #phillycops #whiteprivilege #toddrexx #craigrobinson #wilsylvince #helium #heliumcomedyclub #comedy #getyourassout #lickmyasshole

Posted by Wil Sylvince on Monday, June 5, 2017

As the officer calmly asked her to leave, Campbell grew increasingly belligerent.

 

“Or what? Or what, mother f–ker? Lick my a–hole,” Campbell says on the video, which has been viewed more than 2.8 million times as of Wednesday. “How about that? F–king piece of s–t. That’s why nobody likes f–king police…idiots in this f–king town.”

 

Campbell, who said she also lost a side gig she had as a bartender, said she had only had a few drinks prior to the episode and thought that someone may have slipped something into her cocktail as she remembers little of what happened.

She said she felt particularly awful about how she treated the unidentified officer.

“I wanna apologize to the officer. I don’t remember the whole altercation at all. I remember feeling attacked. I would never talk like that. It was like watching a whole different me,” she said.

 

 

 

Dad Shot Dead After Scuffle Among Kids at Kindergarten Graduation Party

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Devon Brown was shot dead during a kindergarten party

HANOVER TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania — A scuffle between two kids at a kindergarten graduation party turned deadly when the fight spread to a group of adults and a man was fatally shot, cops said.

Investigators say Devon Brown, 29, was shot and killed by Tremaine Jamison on Wednesday after their kids got into a fight at the party.

“An altercation between two 6-year-old boys is the reason why I don’t have my kid’s father with me today,” Brown’s wife, Antionette Nimmons told WNEP-TV. “They were just rough playing like boys do.”

Cops are hunting for the 27-year-old Jamison, who hails from New York City. He has two prior robbery convictions in New York, records show.

According to the criminal complaint, Brown and Jamison got into a heated argument with several other adults after another resident of the complex accused Brown’s son of punching Jamison’s son, according to a criminal complaint.

Cops are on the lookout for Tremaine Jamison

The fight escalated when someone pulled a knife on Brown, the complaint said. He then retrieved a knife from his apartment, and Jamison pulled out a gun and fired a single shot at Brown, the complaint read. He was declared dead at the scene.

 

Dumbass Wearing ‘Drunk Lives Matter’ Shirt Busted for Drunk Driving

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This guy.

NEWVILLE, Pennsylvania — If there’s one way to guarantee a drunk driving arrest.

Police in Pennsylvania picked up this knucklehead wearing a “Drunk Lives Matter” t-shirt while driving drunk.

The Newville police said they spotted Elwood Gutshall III “committing multiple traffic violations,” in his green Ford pickup early in the morning of March 19 and pulled him over.

After a short conversation, it was clear to officers that the 44-year-old Gutshall was drunk as a skunk, so they placed him under arrest.

Blood tests done at central booking revealed that Gutshall had a blood alcohol level of .217 — nearly three times the legal limit.

Gutshall was charged with DUI highest rate, driving under a DUI suspension and other traffic violations.

Man With the Word ‘Evil’ Tattooed on His Hand Wanted for Luxury Watch Con

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EAST LAMPETER TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania — At least the guy believes in truth in advertising.

Pennsylvania cops are hunting for a man with the word “EVIL” tattooed on his fingers who allegedly scammed a Kay Jewelers out of two luxury watches.

The East Lampeter Township police say the man walked in the shop in the Tanger Outlets on Feb. 28 and opened a house credit card account under a false name.

He then bought a $7,150 Rolex and a $375 Bulova watch, as well as a $550 extended warranty with the card.

It was only after the walked out with the merchandise and the shop tried to track him down for payment that they realized the info he had given them was bogus, cops said.

They say they believe the same man has pulled similar stunts at other area shops.

He was described as Hispanic, 30-35 years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall, with a husky build, a bald head, and the very noticeable letters spelling out the word “EVIL” tattooed on his left fingers.

 

Wife Charged With Shooting Hubby in Fight Over Burned Casserole

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Teresa Drum said the fatal fight was sparked by a ruined dinner

FRAZER, Pennsylvania — A woman is accused of fatally shooting her husband in a drunken fight over a burnt casserole and then trying to stage the scene to make it look like he killed himself, police said.

Pennsylvania authorities say the deadly encounter began Monday night when 38-year-old Teresa Drum took her husband, Dennis’s last beer and he began berating her for burning dinner the night before.

According to court documents Dennis Drum, 42, pulled a handgun from his holster. Teresa later admitted that she grabbed it while it was in his hands and it went off striking him in the forehead and killing him, the Valley News Dispatch reported.

But instead of calling for help right away, police say Teresa hopped in the shower to wash off the blood, and then snapped a photo of her dead husband and texted it to a friend for advice about what to do.

The friend told her to call 911 and when paramedics and police arrived they found Dennis curled up on the floor with the gun in his right hand and Teresa told them he had shot himself. She then showed them the photograph which showed no gun in her husband’s hand, leading them to question her further.

She eventually admitted her hand had been on the gun when it went off but said she did not know how the gun ended up in his hand after she had taken the photograph.

Teresa was charged with homicide and held without bail. Police said the couple’s two kids, who were in the house at the time, have been taken to stay with relatives.

Cops said they had responded to one call for a domestic disturbance at the couple’s house in the past but that that episode had not been violent and no charges were filed.

 

 

 

Drunk Mom Gets 8-Year-Old Daughter to Blow into Car Ignition Breathalyzer

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CHAMBERSBURG, Pennsylvania — A drunk Pennsylvania mom has been charged with having her 8-year-old daughter blow into an ignition breathalyzer lock to start her car and then crashing it once she was out on the road.

Pennsylvania State Police say 36-year-old Angela Daywalt, of Waynesboro fled the scene after the one-car crash, but that witnesses reported seeing her urge her daughter her car’s interlock device, which was installed after a previous drunk driving conviction.

Daywalt was charged with drunken driving, corruption of minors and other charges for the 11 p.m. crash on Feb. 13 in Quincy Township with her daughter in the car. The girl was not hurt.

Delicious Pot Pie Sparks Bloody Family Feud in Pennsylvania

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Kevin Blanch let his stomach get the best of him

SPRINGETTSBURY, Pennsylvania — It must have been one hell of a pot pie.

Pennsylvania police say a family argument over how much pot pie had been eaten led a son to try to slash his father’s throat with an ax.

Cops say Kevin Blanch, 30, blew his top on Sunday after his 61-year-old dad Dennis demanded to speak to him about eating too much pot pie the night before.

According to Pennlive.com, the younger Blanch refused to discuss the matter of the pie with his father and tried to walk past him. When the old man wouldn’t let him through, the son grabbed his throwing ax and threatened his father with it.

Police records say the father taunted his son by saying “Do it!” several times leading Kevin to take a swing at his father’s neck with the ax. A struggled ensued and the father  was hit in the chest with the weapon.

Kevin Blanch then tried to pull a knife out of a sheath on his belt, his father grabbed it.  When asked what he had planned to do with the knife, the younger Blanch told cops he was “going to end things quickly by slicing his father’s throat.” He told officers that he wanted to “neutralize the threat,” and that he “wanted to kill” his father, court records showed.

“K. Blanch said that one thing he remembered from his training in the military was how to neutralize the threat,” police said in court records.

When cops arrived at the house, they found Kevin Blanch standing outside with blood on his hands, neck chest and shirt. His father suffered wounds to his chest, neck and wrist and was expected to live.

The son was charged with aggravated assault and held on $75,000 bond.

Bigamist Bounty Hunter Married to Mother and Daughter at the Same Time

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Christopher Buckley is accused of marrying 18-year-old Kaylee Durovik while still being married to her mom

SHAMOKIN, Pennsylvania  — A shady bail bondsman and bounty hunter has been charged with being married to a 43-year-old woman and her 18-year-old daughter at the same time, and covering up that he is a convicted felon so he could carry a gun.

Authorities say they initially caught on to Christopher Hauptmann, 43, of Shamokin, Pennsylvania over the summer when he applied for a concealed weapons permit.

But a background check revealed that his fingerprints matched those of Christopher Buckley, who had spent nine months in prison in New Jersey in the 1990s on a felony narcotics rap.

 

An investigation discovered that Hauptmann had been carrying a firearm for nearly two years as part of his work running PA Bail and Recovery in Coal Township, which he is not legally allowed to do as a felon.

As prosecutors looked further into Hauptmann’s background , they determined that he had married Shannon Dietrich-Durovik, 43, in November 2015 and then wed her daughter, Kaylee Doruvik, 18, in September 2016.

 

 

Court records showed no sign that Hauptmann had ever divorced the mother and she told cops that she was still married to him, meaning he was a bigamist.

Hauptmann was arrested on Tuesday and charged with four felony firearms possession violations as well as a count of bigamy. He was held on $300,000 bond.

Northumberland County District Attorney Anthony Matulewicz says the investigation is ongoing and additional charges are expected to be filed.