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Police: Woman disguised to steal from neighbors

SALT LAKE CITY

Police say a Salt Lake City woman wore a fake mustache to disguise herself as a man while stealing from her neighbors.

Salt Lake City police say the 31-year-old was charged with two counts of burglary and one count of theft last week.

The Salt Lake Tribune reported the woman’s neighbors noticed thousands of dollars in cash went missing from their home on several occasions.

Court documents state the couple then set a trap with security cameras and planted cash as bait. The cameras showed a woman wearing a very large men’s suit, a beanie hat and a fake mustache.

Authorities say the victims recognized the woman as their neighbor, to whom they had given a key to their house.

Police say they later found the disguise in the woman’s home. The woman’s name wasn’t reported.

Police: Pa. man posed as woman to get painkillers

ALTOONA, Pa.

Police say a central Pennsylvania man dressed as a woman so he could get a pharmacy to fill a stolen painkiller prescription issued to a female.

Michael Greene, 34, of Tyrone, is charged with forgery, acquiring a controlled substance by deception and other crimes in the Nov. 16 incident at an Altoona pharmacy.

The Altoona Mirror reported last week that Greene faces a preliminary hearing next Wednesday because Altoona police eventually determined the prescription for 450 oxycodone pills had been stolen in a burglary. Police also traced the license plate on the vehicle Greene drove — while dressed in a large hat, sunglasses and women’s Ugg boots — to his wife.

Greene’s attorney, Joel Peppetti, tells The Associated Press he’s “aggressively planning to defend against this case of mistaken identity.”

Horse left at Ohio Amish-area Walmart needs home

SOUTH RUSSELL, Ohio

Wally the Walmart horse is looking for a new home.

That’s the nickname given to a 9-year-old standardbred horse that a humane society says was left at a Northeast Ohio store by an Amish teenager more than two months ago. Humane Officer Christian Courtwright in Geauga County says the teen apparently unhooked the horse from a buggy, tied it to a rail at the Walmart in Middlefield and never came back for it.

He says store employees noticed the horse the next day and tended to it until police took it to a caregiver.

He says the humane society now has control of the horse and expects it to be available for adoption soon.

Associated Press