Monday, February 20, 2012
oddly enough
NM woman heads to trial in theft of $2 pumpkin
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.
A 23-year-old college student from New Mexico is scheduled to go to trial for reportedly stealing a small pumpkin worth $2.
KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, N.M., reports that Lauren Medina will go before a jury and Moriarity Magistrate Judge Steve Jones on Tuesday. She is accused of taking the pumpkin in October 2011 from McCall’s Pumpkin Patch in Moriarty.
Her sister, Annette Atencio, says Medina spent $75 on food that day but forgot to pay for the pumpkin she picked up as she was leaving. Atencio says her sister offered to pay but was refused and then handcuffed.
Atencio says she’s in disbelief that the theft charge against her sister was not dropped.
She says her sister could have pleaded guilty and received probation, but refused.
Dad plays porn instead of ‘Smurfs’ at kid’s party
TREMONTON, Utah
Police aren’t filing charges against a father who briefly played a pornographic video instead of “The Smurfs” at his child’s birthday party.
Tremonton Police Chief Dave Nance told the Standard-Examiner of Ogden the man had rented a copy of “The Smurfs” from a Redbox kiosk and loaded the disc into his laptop. But when he turned the projector on for the children, pornographic images flashed on the screen.
Authorities got involved when the father complained that somebody had tampered with the DVD. Police found nothing wrong, saying the porn was probably on the laptop.
Nance said officials aren’t pursuing charges because the incident apparently was an accident.
“The Smurfs” was released in 2011 and features animated blue creatures that are chased into New York City by an evil wizard.
Police: Mumbling Pa. suspect had a mouthful of crack
AMBRIDGE, Pa.
A western Pennsylvania man was jailed on drug charges because police said something other than a confession came out of his mouth when he was hit with a stun gun.
The Beaver County Times reported that 56-year-old Frank Lee Turner was mumbling when Ambridge police stopped a car in which he was a passenger Feb. 5.
Police said Turner was mumbling before he struggled with police and was hit with the stun gun — only to have 23 individually wrapped pieces of crack cocaine fall out of his mouth.
Online court records don’t list an attorney for Turner, who faces a preliminary hearing on drug possession, resisting arrest and other charges.
Associated Press