A woman said she kept the dead body of
her companion in a chair in their southern Michigan house because she
didn't want to be alone.
Linda Chase, 72, said she kept the remains of Charles Zigler clean
and dressed and talked to the body while watching NASCAR on television.
"It's not that I'm heartless. ... I didn't want to be alone. He was
the only guy who was ever nice to me," Chase told the Jackson Citizen
Patriot.
Jackson police discovered Zigler's body in a living room chair last
week. Authorities believe he died of natural causes at age 67 in
December 2010, although Chase said it was last December. She said there
wasn't a bad smell.
She has not been arrested but is being investigated for financial
fraud. Chase admits cashing Zigler's benefit checks after his death.
Police are investigating after an employee at the 7-Eleven on Nicol
Street in Nanaimo reported that a man stole two plastic breakfast
sandwiches.
Around 3 a.m. today, police report that a man went
into the store and attempted to steal two breakfast sandwiches. However,
he had inadvertently taken two plastic sandwiches, valued at more than
$70 each.
Once outside, the thief realized his mistake and threw
one away but kept the other. He was found by police at a nearby hotel
and returned the sandwich without further incident.
Investigators with the Parker County Sheriff’s Office are searching
for suspects who tortured and injured a pug-mix breed female dog.
The animal has since been named Hope. A concerned resident spotted
the dog wandering in the 6900 block of Baker Road on Monday morning,
hurt and frightened.
Animal Control officers on horseback and a group of about 10
residents worked for hours to detain the dog, before finally catching up
with Hope late Monday afternoon. According to Animal Control supervisor
Karen Kessler, officers found Hope with a severely swollen tongue.
Someone had pulled it out of her mouth before using electrical tape to
secure the snout shut.
“I see a lot of horrific stuff, I have never seen anything to this
magnitude,” said Karen Kessler, Parker County Sheriff Department’s
animal control supervisor. “Somebody should recognize this dog, somebody
should know where this dog came from. We need them to call to find
leads to find out who did such a crime to this animal.”
“This is horrendous,” said Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler in a
statement. “I can’t imagine what would bring a person to such an evil
act. We are fortunate to have found her when we did. Our investigators
have seen some pretty terrible things in their careers, but this case is
deeply disturbing and leaves us shocked.”
“If they’ll do this, what [else] will they do? This is crazy,” Fowler added.
Kessler said she felt “somebody cared for her at one point” because the animal is kind to humans.
Rodney Gene Lewis allegedly drank a beer outside of a Winter Haven
Walmart before going inside the store, placing his pistol on the counter
and telling the clerk he needed ammo, reports News Radio WFLA 970 in Tampa.
Lewis became argumentative after the clerk explained to the
24-year-old man that it was a no-no to sell him ammo for a weapon
brought into the store.
When deputies responded, Lewis became even more irate, screaming that
it was his First Amendment right to carry his firearm — and threatened
the arresting officer with bodily harm when he gets out of jail,
according to the report.
A Maine man found himself in deep doo-doo after allegedly going on a tear at a local disc golf course — before he was apprehended by cops.
That's because they found him in the bottom of a port-a-potty.
When police at Enman Disc Golf in
Brunswick in response to complaints that a naked man had been rolling in
the mud, overturning trash cans and sitting in the disc goals, the
suspect was nowhere to be found, The Times Record reported.
For a while, a backpack full of clothes was all they could trace — until they spotted him in the bottom of the portable toilet, according to the Times Record.
The 29-year-old didn't respond to
cops' commands, the deputy police chief said, but eventually cops fished
him out, sprayed him down and cuffed him.
The man was taken into protective custody and hospitalized.
Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico say burglar Thomas Molina was caught on Sunday when he became tangled in window blinds.
Molina, 38, was found stuck in blinds at Central New Mexico Community College after someone called police to report a break-in.
He later told police he had been looking for computer hardware to
steal and was attempting to escape when he got tangled in the window
blinds. KRQE-TV has reported Molina has been charged with breaking and entering and burglary. He is now being held on $10,000 bond.
A married couple were denied entry into the UAE on Friday, when
airport security officials spotted a five-month-old baby hidden in their
luggage during a routine bag scan.
The Egyptian couple arrived at
Sharjah International Airport with their new born hidden in their
luggage as they did not have a visa for the baby.
They hid the
child in a bag before putting him though a luggage scanner, and were
quickly stopped when officials spotted the infant.
‘They were risking the life of the baby’ said a Sharjah Police spokesman.
The desperate couple were arrested at the airport and charged with
endangering the baby’s life. The pair had previously lived in the United
Arab Emirates as illegal immigrants, but left when the wife became
pregnant and wanted to give birth in their native Egypt.
It is not known how the child was put on the aircraft without a passport.
Three thieves battered through a wall, crawled close to the floor to
dodge motion detectors and stole six duffel bags filled with human hair
extensions from a Chicago beauty supply store.
The Chicago Tribune reported Saturday that the hair extensions were worth $230,000.
Store owner Don Shin says the criminals took his best merchandise. He
thinks the culprits will try to sell the extensions on the street or to
salons. The thieves broke through a wall from an attached empty
storefront at about 2 a.m. Saturday.
Green Bay Police removed an unattended 10-week-old boy from a locked car Friday and arrested his mother.
Officers
answered a call to Walmart on West Mason Street, where the boy was
found in the car. The windows were up and the doors locked in 98-degree
temperatures. The boy was not moving and was feared not breathing,
police said.
An
officer broke a window and removed the infant, who was taken by
ambulance to an area hospital, and later released to a family member.
The child’s 24-year-old mother was jailed after questioning and faces child neglect charges, police said.
Amazingly,
DiDonato remains mostly composed as the cat climbs up the back of her
leg, then comes to rest on her shoulder. When the camera cuts back to
the news studio in Grand Rapids, Mich., the Fox 17 anchors note that
they heard meowing off-screen while DiDonato was preparing to go live
with her report.
After the report, DiDonato took to her Twitter
account, noting that she's a cat owner ("I actually already have two
strays I took home from the last two cities I worked in!"), which may
have encouraged the stray to jump into the show:
"Learned my lesson: Never making eye contact with a cat before a live tease ever again," she wrote.
