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Case dropped against Ohio man seen with rubber ax

AKRON

Ohio prosecutors have dropped an inducing-panic charge against a man who carried a rubber prop ax into a bar before Halloween.

Akron City Prosecutor Doug Powley says he reviewed the case against 42-year-old Bill Morrison and determined that, in his words, the “situation did not warrant a criminal conviction.” The Akron Beacon Journal reports paperwork dismissing the case was filed Monday.

Morrison was arrested Oct. 16 and spent a night in jail after a woman saw him with the ax under his coat and called 911.

The ax had red paint on it to simulate blood. Morrison has been a Hollywood makeup artist and has worked on Halloween haunted-house attractions. He told police he was taking the costume ax to sell to a friend.

Woman tried to smuggle drugs in hollow Bible, police say

LANCASTER, S.C.

Deputies in South Carolina say a woman used two hollowed-out Bibles to try to smuggle weapons, drugs and a cellphone to a prison inmate.

Sheriff Barry Faile said Monday authorities began investigating 28-year-old Shareca Latoya Jones earlier this month after a package mailed to Lieber Correctional Institution was returned to a post office in Lancaster. Inside the package were two Bibles containing razor knives, a cellphone, ecstasy pills and more than 28 grams of cocaine.

Deputies identified Jones as the person who mailed the package from a Kershaw post office. In her car, authorities found a loaded handgun, drugs, cellphones and cash.

Jones is facing drug and contraband charges. She was released from jail on bond, and it wasn’t known if she had an attorney.

Associated Press