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Shopper arrested with live lobsters in shorts

D’IBERVILLE, Miss.

A man in southern Mississippi is accused of trying to walk out of a D’Iberville grocery store without paying for food items he’d stuffed into his cargo shorts, including live lobsters.

Police Chief Wayne Payne says 35-year-old Nathan Mark Hardy was arrested Saturday after reportedly being caught stuffing food into his cargo shorts — two bags of jumbo shrimp, a pork loin and two live lobsters.

Payne says Hardy, of Biloxi, tried to escape by throwing the pork loin at employees at the local Winn Dixie but fell while running away. He was arrested at the scene.

The shoplifting charge is a misdemeanor, but Hardy remained jailed Wednesday in the Harrison County jail with no bond pending a hearing on a probation violation.

Washington trooper shovels fish heads off freeway

SEATTLE

A Washington State Patrol trooper dispatched to check out a report of a lost load slowing traffic on northbound Interstate 5 in north Seattle found a pile of bloody fish heads spilled across several lanes of traffic.

KOMO-TV reports that Trooper Jaime Arnold grabbed a shovel and set to work Tuesday evening.

A state Transportation Department camera shows him scooping the fish heads and moving them off the highway, even dodging cars entering from an on-ramp as he makes repeated trips to the side of the road.

About 10 minutes of shoveling cleared the road, and Arnold headed back on patrol.

State Patrol spokeswoman Julie Startup says it’s not clear where the fish heads came from.

Man found butchering cow in Utah driveway

OGDEN, Utah

Authorities are considering charges after a Utah man was found butchering a cow in his driveway.

The Standard-Examiner of Ogden reports that authorities received a call Sunday afternoon from an Ogden resident who reported a neighbor cutting up a cow in his driveway.

The caller told authorities they heard what sounded like a gunshot shortly before the butchering began.

Police say when officers arrived, the man was removing the cow’s head.

He denied shooting the animal and told the officers it had been delivered dead.

Prosecutors are reviewing the case for potential charges, including possible health- code violations.

Associated Press