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Bank robber who stopped for biscuits gets state prison
GREENSBURG, Pa.
A man who was arrested for robbing a western Pennsylvania bank when he stopped to eat biscuits at a nearby restaurant will spend two to four years in prison.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports 32-year-old Shane Lindsey, of Arnold, was sentenced by a Westmoreland County judge Wednesday after pleading guilty.
Lindsey was arrested about 20 minutes after he robbed the Citizens Bank in downtown New Kensington on Jan. 14.
That’s when witnesses saw a bald man matching Lindsey’s description run toward a restaurant after the heist. Police knew the business had surveillance video and went inside to view it hoping for clues as to where the suspect went – only to find Lindsey eating at a booth.
Police say Lindsey used the restaurant’s bathroom to discard a coat and hood he wore during the robbery.
Man sneaks marriage proposal into newspaper crossword
LONDON
It’s a case of two down: the aisle.
A crossword-loving British lawyer hid a marriage proposal in The Times newspaper’s daily puzzle. Matthew Dick thought of the cryptic way of popping the question to girlfriend Delyth Hughes and persuaded the newspaper to agree.
Tuesday’s Times crossword opened with one across: “Pretty Welsh girl widely thought not to be all there.” The answer: Delyth.
Other clues included “‘Will you marry me,’ say, that’s forward also rude.” The answer was proposal.
Dick, 38, told Wednesday’s edition of the newspaper that he showed Hughes the crossword at breakfast, with some key words underlined, then “reached into my pocket to reveal the ring.”
“She looked so surprised and didn’t say anything for about 30 seconds, before then saying ‘No’, which she thought was hilarious,” he said. “But she did then say ‘Yes,’ and I had to tell her this was the real Times crossword, not something I had printed out myself.”
Ohio man pleads not guilty to accepting teen’s stolen cash
MEDINA, Ohio
A 70-year-old Northeast Ohio man has pleaded not guilty to a charge of receiving stolen property for purportedly accepting cash from a 13-year-old boy accused of stealing $25,000 from his grandfather.
The charge accuses the man of accepting less than $7,500. He pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Medina.
Prosecutors say the man and his wife received the cash from their 14-year-old grandson, who accepted it from the 13-year-old. The man’s wife and a 31-year-old woman also have been charged with receiving stolen property and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Associated Press