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Time Traveler Warning of Upcoming Alien Invasion is Arrested for Public Drunkenness

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CASPER, Wyoming — This explains everything.

A slobbering drunk Wyoming man was arrested after stopping people in the street claiming he had been sent from the future to warn people that aliens are coming to town next year and that they should leave while they had the chance.

Bryant Johnson insisted that he had been sent from the year 2048 and that he needed to speak to the president of the town, KTWO-AM reported.

He told cops that in order  to time travel, the aliens had to fill his body with alcohol and have him stand on a giant pad in order to send him back in time. Unfortunately, they sent him back to 2017, as he supposed to be sent to 2018.

Officers noticed that Johnson’s eyes were watery and bloodshot eyes, that his speech was slurred speech and that he reeked of booze, so they arrested him for public intoxication.

A preliminary test showed Johnson had a blood alcohol content of .136, nearly twice the legal limit.

Pennsylvania Couple Charged With Waterboarding 12-Year-Old Daughter

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ALIQUIPPA, Pennsylvania — A sick couple has been charged with allegedly punishing their 12-year-old daughter by waterboarding her, police said.

Dion and Malissa Stevens allegedly admitted to cops that they had used the technique, which is viewed by many as a form of torture, to punish their daughter and that they had learned how to do from a movie.

Police began investigating after learning about the April incident from an anonymous tipster who reported that a child was being abused.

When interviews, the girl told detectives that her parents had dragged her into a basement, bound her to a chair using packing tape, and shoved rags into her mouth. Police said the couple then put a wet towel over her face, tilted her backward so that her feet lifted off the ground and poured a bucket of cold water onto her.

The couple were both charged with strangulation, aggravated assault, unlawful restraint, child endangerment and reckless endangerment.

Florida Man Busted For Stealing Uncle’s Police Uniform and Car and Playing Cop

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Isael Ibrain Lima

OCALA, Florida — A dopey 18-year-old Florida man is charged with dressing up in his uncle’s police uniform and stealing his patrol car to pull over unsuspecting motorists in an bid to impress his girlfriend, police said.

Isael Ibrain Lima waited until his uncle, Marion County Sheriff’s Deputy Yoandy Miranda went out of town last weekend, and then allegedly broke into his locked room and stole a uniform from his closet, the sheriff’s office said.

On Saturday night, officers with the Belleview police department encountered Lima at a convenience store, breaking up a fight between two men. Lima identified himself as Deputy Miranda to another Marion County Sheriff’s deputy named Bobby Levay, who had never met Miranda before.

The following day, the real Deputy Miranda returned home and discovered someone had broken into his room and had moved his car and called police. When Deputy Levay arrived at the home, he realized that the man he had spoken to the night before was an imposter.

It then became clear that Levay had, in fact, encountered Lima, who lives with his uncle. When detectives confronted Lima, he admitted he had stolen his uncle’s uniform “and drove to his girlfriend’s home because he wanted to ‘impress’ her,” police said.

He also admitted that he had conducted a traffic stop using his uncle’s car, which a friend videotaped as a joke.

“I don’t think this man realized the danger he put himself in by trying to impersonate a deputy sheriff. Our deputies undergo extensive, ongoing training to be able to do their job safely,” said Chief Deputy Robert Douglas.

Lima was charged with grand theft auto, theft of a firearm, burglary, and impersonating a police officer among other charges, and was held on $33,000 bond.

‘Angel of Death’ Nurse Convicted in Numerous Patient Deaths, Dies in Prison

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Orville Majors during his trial in 1999

MICHIGAN CITY, Indiana — A diabolical Indiana hospital worker who became known as “the angel of death” for intentionally killing as many as 150 mostly elderly patients, has died while serving a 360-year sentence, officials said.

Orville Majors, 56, was convicted in 1999 in the death of six patients at Vermillion County Hospital who had been administered heart stopping drugs. But he had long been eyed in dozens more suspicious deaths during a 22 month period between 1993 and 1995.

Indiana prison officials said Majors had collapsed in his cell on Sunday at Indiana State Prison and later died at a nearby hospital. An autopsy determined he had died of natural causes, WANE-TV reported.

Majors’ reign of terror was relatively short after hospital officials soon detected an alarming spike in unexplained deaths. In total, the hospital had typically recorded an average of 26 deaths annually in the years before his arrival. But the number shot up over 100 ater Majors began working there as a nurse.

During his sentencing, the judge called Majors “a paragon of evil.”

His earliest projected release date had been July 1, 2177.

Teen Hospitalized After Dad Orders Him to Fight Local Bully

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CLEVELAND — That’s one bad dad.

A Cleveland father has been charged with child abuse after driving his 16-year-old son to confront a bully triggering off a fight that left the boy badly hurt, cops said.

Police say Carlos Conner, 35, had insisted his son confront his tormentor, but that the teen landed on his head on the pavement when the bully picked him up and threw him down on the sidewalk.

Doctors say the boy suffered bleeding on the brain, but is expected to live.

Relatives say the boy’s beef with the bully has been simmering for years

“This has been going on for a year and half, you don’t think my brother could’ve forced him to get out the car a year and a half ago? Here, here he is, I’m going to bring you right to him, fight him. My brother’s not a bad guy,” Conner’s sister Cynthia told WKYC-TV.

Day Care Operator Charged With Trying to Kidnap Infant to Put Up for Adoption

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JOPLIN, Missouri — It’s every parent’s worst nightmare.

A woman running a Missouri day care center has been charged with plotting to kidnap a 5-month-old baby in her care and give her to another family in Arkansas in an illegal adoption, authorities said.

Lasonya Poindexter, 30, ran the daycare out of her home with her younger sister and began taking care of Ashley and Christian Still’s daughter a few days a week in April, federal prosecutors said.

In June, Poindexter allegedly contacted a couple in Lincoln, Arkansas and began making arrangements for them to adopt the little girl she was caring for even though her parents had no intention of giving her up, prosecutors said.

Over the coming months, authorities say Poindexter made at least four 100-mile trips to Arkansas to bring the baby to meet the prospective new parents, who were unaware that she had no authority to do so. The duped couple went so far as to build a nursery in their home.

Lasonya Poindexter

Investigators say Poindexter told the couple that the baby had been the product of a rape and that the mother had left the child with Poindexter asking her to find it a home. She told them that the mother wanted a “closed adoption” and didn’t want to meet them.

But the couple eventually grew suspicious as Poindexter’s story about who would pay for the adoption changed and she repeatedly declined the couple’s offer to drive to Missouri to see the child.

The plot unraveled in July when the prospective mother spotted a photo of Ashley Stills with the baby through Poindexter’s daughter’s Facebook page. Further review of other photos revealed that Stills appeared to be the baby’s mother. When the woman messaged Stills, she discovered the baby had not been put up for adoption and the Stills contacted authorities.

When confronted by the prospective mother, Poindexter later told authorities that she considered offering them another child in her care.

She has been charged with attempted kidnapping.

Man Calls Cops After Finding Nude Woman Sleeping in His Bed

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Michelle Watkins turned out to be an unhappy finish to a California man’s day

ANDERSON, California — In most instances, coming home to find a naked woman in bed would be considered a good thing, but not this time.

A California man called cops when he came from to work and found a completely nude woman that he had never seen before sleeping in his bed, police said.

When the man arrived at home, he first discovered a package that had been delivered for him had been opened. Then he spotted a half-eaten sandwich on the kitchen counter next to an open can of beer, the Anderson police said.

He went upstairs and saw signs that someone had taken a shower. Then he spotted a pile of women’s clothes and a wet towel next to the bed, where Michelle Irene Watkins, 33, of Junction City, was curled up asleep.

Watkins woke up and tried to leave the house, but the homeowner followed her out as he called police.

When officers arrived, they found she had stolen a pack of the man’s smokes. They then returned her clothes and took her to jail on burglary charges. She was held on $50,000 bond.

Youngest Manson Family Cult Member Granted Parole

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Leslie Van Houten admitted stabbing Rosemary LaBianca in the spate of murders that stunned L.A.

CHINO, California — The youngest member of the Manson family cult that was responsible for seven ritualistic slayings in 1969 that terrorized Los Angeles and shocked the county has been granted parole by California authorities.

Leslie Van Houten, 68, had similarly been granted parole last year only to have the board’s decision overruled by California Gov. Jerry Brown, who decided she still posed a threat to society.

Van Houten, was 19 when she took part in the stabbing deaths of Los Angeles grocer Leno La Bianca and his wife, Rosemary, in their home on Aug. 9, 1969. She was not present for the killings of actress Sharon Tate — director Roman Polanski’s pregnant wife — and four others the night before by other member of Charlie Manson’s murderous cult.

She has admitted helping hold down Rosemary La Bianca while another Manson follower stabbed her repeatedly and then taking a knife and stabbing her a dozen more times.

She was initially sentenced to the death penalty, but had her original conviction and sentence overturned on appeal. She was retried  and in 1978 sentenced to seven year to life in prison.

None of Manson’s murderous band has ever been paroled. Manson, who is now 82, is serving a life sentence. Another family member, Susan Atkins, died in prison in 2009.

Van Houten was the youngest member of the group and an unlikely one. A high school homecoming princess, athlete and cheerleader, Van Houten had dropped out of school and gotten into drugs before joining the ragtag hippy cult who considered Manson to be a Christ-like figure.

Since she was incarcerated more than 40 years ago, Van Houten has been a model prisoner and earned college degrees. This year’s hearing marked the 21st time Van Houten had appeared before the parole board.

It is unclear what Gov. Brown intends to do although he has several options. He could uphold, reverse or modify the decision or send the matter to the full Board of Parole Hearings, or take no action, in which case the decision to set her free would stand.

Relatives of Tate and the LaBianca’s have been vocal in their opposition to her being set free.

Pa. Cops Ask ‘It’ Prankster Leaving Red Balloons Tied to Sewer Grates to Stop

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Cops admit they were terrified after finding this balloon

EPHRATA, Pennsylvania — As if Stephen’s King’s books weren’t scary enough on their own.

Police in Pennsylvania are asking a local prankster to stop tying red balloons to storm grates in one small town like the murderous clown in the movie “It” that comes out Friday..

“We give points for creativity, however we want the local prankster to know that we were completely terrified as we removed these balloons from the grates and we respectfully request they do not do that again,” the Lititz Borough Police wrote in a message on Facebook.

“If you’re not sure what we’re talking about, search “It” and watch the preview, but we suggest watching the preview with a friend or coworker with all the lights on and the sound down low,” the message counseled.

The film is based on the 1986 Stephen King horror novel in which a supernatural clown that lurks in a town’s sewer system, terrorizing children.

Good Samaritan Attacked With Axe After Offering to Help Shoplifter Pay For Stolen Items

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Cops are hunting for this man in an axe attack on a Good Samaritan

WEST HOLLYWOOD, California — They say no good deed goes unpunished.

A Good Samaritan who offered to pay for the items he saw another trying to steal from a 7-11 found his overture rejected with prejudice when the suspected thief flew into a fit of rage and hit him over the head with an axe.

The Los Angeles Sheriff’s office says the suspect was stuffing items into his pockets at the convenience store on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Holywood when the kind-hearted shopper offered to help him pay for them.

But the suspect grew upset, cops say, and not only refused the offer of help, but began struggling with the other man.

As the man tried to flee, police say the suspect pulled out an axe and struck him several times on the head. The suspect then fled.

The victim was taken to a local hospital to be treated for unknown injuries.