Tag: Stupid crimes and misdemeanors
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Banks are great places to leave valuables, like jewelry, birth certificates, cash -- and pot.
Adrian Hilton, 26, was accused of depositing a marijuana stash in a Pizza Pit deposit bag and slipping the bundle into a night deposit box at American Bank and Trust last fall.
According to a criminal complaint, Hilton, a delivery driver for Pizza Pit, admitted the marijuana was his and that he had inadvertently deposit it.
Hilton was charged with possession of marijuana, but Assistant Johnson County Attorney David...
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(CBS) COVINA, Calif. Three teenage boys were arrested for allegedly tagging a Covina wall after police were tipped off by pictures of their graffiti posted on their Myspace pages.
Two 16-year-olds boys were arrested Tuesday, and a 17-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of felony vandalism, said Sgt. Gregg Peterson of the Covina Police Department.
The three minors are accused of tagging a wall in the 1100 block of Badillo Street over the weekend, Peterson said.
Police linked the three boys to the crime after finding...
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SUFFOLK - An accused drug dealer learned the hard way what child safety advocates have preached for years:
Be careful what you put on the Internet.
A MySpace page boasting photos of homegrown marijuana sparked a police investigation into Michael Wayne Pilkerton and his brother, according to a search warrant filed last week in Suffolk Circuit Court.
Pilkerton, 20, of the 300 block of Delaney Drive in Suffolk, was charged with felony distribution after police said they used an informant to make three marijuana buys from him in recent...
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SARATOGA, Calif. (AP) — Who was that undressed man?
That's the question startled hikers, bikers and horseback riders are asking about a jogger seen streaking through an open space preserve wearing nothing but sneakers, glasses and a black tam hat.
"He passed me and said `Good evening,"' said Sue Bowdoin, who spotted the naked man -- middle-aged and sporting a pale paunch -- while riding her horse on a trail in Fremont Older Open Space Preserve last summer. "I thought: Ugh!"
Although numerous park users have reported seeing the...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A judge ordered a new trial in a case in which a juror sipped vodka throughout the trial.
Jefferson County Circuit Judge Geoffrey Morris said in his order that new trials may be granted only in the most extreme circumstances.
But he said "the inexcusable, disruptive behavior of this juror was so extraordinary as to render this relief appropriate."
The case involved a lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed she was injured when a garbage truck ran into her car.
The jury foreman told Morris that the juror had...
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