ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Man armed with sword spurs motel standoff

NEWPORT, Maine

Authorities say a man armed with a sword held off police for several hours at a Maine hotel.

Police were called to Pray’s Motel in Newport on Oct. 11 after 60-year-old Louis Irish threatened a housekeeper and the motel owner with a knife.

Police say the man was highly intoxicated, and pulled out a sword when officers knocked on his room door.

Newport Police Chief Leonard Macdaid says officers backed off, secured the scene and then entered the room only after failed attempts to get him to surrender.

Irish was hospitalized for evaluation and later taken to Penobscot County Jail. It is unclear if the knife motel staff saw was the sword Irish brandished to police.

He was due to appear in court Oct. 12. Irish could not be reached to comment.

Roundup over: Last cow caught weeks after crash

ATLANTA

Officials say a cow that hoofed it for two weeks on the lam after a livestock truck overturned on a busy interstate junction north of Atlanta has been caught.

News outlets report 89 cows initially escaped when the tractor-trailer wrecked before dawn Oct. 1 on a cloverleaf linking Interstate 75 with Interstate 285. Eleven cows died in the crash.

The Georgia Department of Transportation’s metro Atlanta district tweeted a photo of the runaway cow standing in some woods the morning of Oct. 15. Department spokeswoman Natalie Dale says it was safely captured by the afternoon.

Officials had said they called in real cowboys to round up the escaped cattle Oct. 1, closing some roads as police dealt with four wrecks caused by the wandering animals. No one was hurt in those accidents.

Naming rights: Orlando’s new police chief happens to be named Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla.

Orlando’s newest police chief is already making a name for himself. His name? Orlando.

Mayor Buddy Dyer announced Orlando’s newest police chief during a ceremony Oct. 11. Orlando Rolon will also be the city’s first Hispanic police chief.

The Orlando Sentinel reports Rolon previously was a deputy chief overseeing the agency’s patrol services bureau.

Associated Press