Wednesday, October 28, 2015
oddly enough
Cops: Indiana Jones arrested after 100 mph chase in NY
RUSHVILLE, N.Y.
Indiana Jones couldn’t outrace his pursuers this time.
Authorities said a 21-year-old man named Indiana Z. Jones led police on a chase that topped 100 mph on a road in New York’s Finger Lakes region.
Yates County Sheriff Ronald Spike said the chase started late Sunday when Jones tried to evade a traffic stop in his hometown of Rushville, 35 miles southeast of Rochester.
Spike said spike strips were used to puncture Jones’ tires after several miles, and he was taken into custody.
The charges include unlawfully fleeing police, speeding and having an unregistered, uninsured and uninspected vehicle.
Jones posted $1,000 bail and was released.
Court officials said Tuesday that he doesn’t have a lawyer. A call to a phone number associated with Jones rang unanswered.
85-year-old jewel thief arrested at upscale mall in Atlanta
ATLANTA
Ten years ago, when she was 75 years old, Doris Payne swore she was done with a lifetime of pilfering jewels across two continents. Several arrests later, in 2013, she said again that she was leaving that life behind.
Police say Payne, now 85, is at it again: She recently was arrested and charged with pocketing a $690 pair of earrings from a Saks Fifth Avenue department store at a mall in Atlanta’s upscale Buckhead neighborhood.
Payne is said to have committed countless thefts over six decades in the U.S. and Europe and has discussed her exploits in media interviews over the years.
A store security guard watching surveillance video saw Payne enter a Christian Dior boutique inside the department store and take the earrings from a standing shelf before quickly leaving, the police report says. She was arrested in the mall, and the earrings were found in her pocket, the report says.
She faces a charge of theft by shoplifting and was booked into the Fulton County jail. She is also wanted on a warrant for a similar offense by the sheriff’s office in Mecklenberg County, N.C., and will face extradition, police said.
It was not immediately clear Tuesday whether Payne has a lawyer.
The daughter of an illiterate coal miner, Payne was born in Slab Fork, W.Va. When she was 23, she walked out of a Pittsburgh jewelry store with a diamond valued at $22,000, kicking off a criminal career that would land her behind bars multiple times, including a nearly five-year prison stint in Colorado, she told The Associated Press in 2005.
Associated Press