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Woman gets prison for mistaken-name jail escape
UNIONTOWN, Pa.
A western Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to nine to 24 months in state prison for taking advantage of county jail guards who were confused by her similar-sounding name and released her to a bail bondsman looking for another inmate.
The (Uniontown) Herald-Standard reports 29-year-old Evelyn Grace Campbell was sentenced by a Fayette County judge Wednesday.
The Uniontown woman signed herself out of the jail June 6 when a bondsman showed up to post $500 bail on behalf of another inmate, Maretta Ruth Gambel.
The warden says Campbell stepped forward when guards called for Gambel, then escaped after telling the bail bondsman she didn’t have identification before he let her sign the release papers.
Campbell returned the next day and confessed, then pleaded guilty to an escape charge in September.
Texas man impersonates cop to real police detective
MIDLAND, Texas
A 41-year-old Midland, Texas, man got a surprise when he tried to impersonate a police officer and berate a fellow driver. The driver he chastised was a police detective.
Eleazar Cisneros confronted a driver, said he was a police officer and complained about being cut off in the parking lot of a burger joint.
When Cisneros was asked to show his police identification, he said he was working undercover. Cisneros subsequently said he was in a police academy, then acknowledged that his connection to policing was limited to taking some criminal-justice classes, according to an arrest affidavit examined by the Midland Reporter-Telegram.
He was jailed on $25,000 bond and now could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the third-degree felony charge of impersonating or exerting the functions of a public servant.
Fired Dublin worker wins $25K over snack
DUBLIN
An Irish cinema may have just bought the world’s most expensive hot dog for an unfairly fired worker.
Ireland’s employment appeals court on Thursday ordered Dublin’s Cineworld to pay Carl Meade $25,640 for canning him over his illicit discount on a workplace snack.
Cineworld said it used surveillance footage to show Meade buying an extra-large hot dog, but paying only for a regular, and taking a slightly pricier brand of candy than what appeared on his signed receipt.
The total difference in cost between what he bought and what he consumed was $1.28.
A three-judge panel found that the employer should have considered Meade’s contention that he’d made an innocent mistake.
Meade worked three years for Cineworld before his 2012 dismissal for gross misconduct.
Associated Press