ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Police search for missing saucer in Roswell, N.M.

ROSWELL, N.M.

Police say a spaceship – or at least a fiberglass and metal version of one – is missing in Roswell, the New Mexico town that still stirs debate about extraterrestrials seven decades after the 1947 crash of a flying object.

Police say the model flying saucer was stolen from the UFO Museum in Roswell early Saturday and remained missing Tuesday.

Some on social media suggested in jest that “men in black” or “aliens” were to blame. But police say surveillance video shows three thieves hauled away the spaceship in a pickup truck.

The spaceship is a fixture in downtown Roswell, where it was long mounted outside the UFO museum before a recent snowstorm damaged it. Police say the suspects stole it from behind the museum, where it was being stored.

Diners scatter when man drops giant python in restaurant

LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles police say diners scattered when a man dropped a 13-foot python on the floor of a sushi restaurant.

Officer Drake Madison says the man had argued with an employee and stormed out of Iroha Sushi of Tokyo in Studio City on Sunday evening. Madison says a short time later, the man returned with the giant snake, threw it into the dining room and walked out again.

Police responded, and the man was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats. Nobody was hurt. The python was taken by animal control officers.

Madison says it wasn’t immediately clear where the man got the snake but that he likely was the owner. The man has not been identified.

Deputies: Man steals car he tried to buy with food-stamp card

STUART, Fla.

Authorities in Florida have arrested a man they say stole a BMW after trying to buy it with a food-stamp debit card.

The Martin County Sheriff’s Office told news outlets in a statement that 36-year-old Nicholas Jackson was arrested Friday and charged with grand theft auto.

Deputies say Jackson was turned away at the Pompano Beach auto dealership after trying to buy the $60,000 car using his EBT card and a credit card.

However, deputies say the suspect returned the next night and stole the car along with keys from 60 other vehicles.

Deputies say they later found Jackson with the car and the keys after he ran out of gas because he didn’t have money to fill the tank.

It isn’t immediately clear if he has an attorney.

Associated Press