Transient man skinned and ate cat

A transient man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of skinning and eating cat while he camped in a warehouse in Phoenix, according to Maricopa County Superior Court documents.

The owners of a warehouse in Phoenix that was often used as a music venue reported a burglary after they opened the building and heard blaring music, according to the documents.

Police found Russell Christopher Hofstad, 24, inside of the building with a painted face and wearing the tail and intestines of the cat around his neck, according to the documents.

Hofstad said that he killed the cat because he was hungry. He also said he was going to taxidermy the cat and use the skeleton as party decorations, according to the documents.

Hofstad was released from jail Jan.10 and said that he had no where else to go so he decided to go to the building because he had been there before for raves, according to the documents.

According to court documents, Hofstad deployed a fire extinguisher and left empty alcohol bottles throughout the building.

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Couple Tries to Blow Up Car With Flaming Tampons

A man and a woman used tampons in an attempt to blow up a car after they vandalized it outside a bar in Pennsylvania. Patricia Deshong, 25-years old, and Quentin Deshong, 22-years old were arrested with charges of attempted arson, two counts of felony criminal mischief and public drunkenness and Patricia Deshong is also charged with making terroristic threats and theft.

Police were called to the scene around 2:50 a.m. on January 7, 2012 outside of Hillside Tavern, 19359 Fannettsburg Road West in Pennsylvania after a report that a man and woman were vandalizing a green 2006 Ford Fusion car in the bar parking lot. Police officers noticed the hood of the Ford Fusion was up and numerous hoses were disconnected.

The Ford Fusion was in pretty bad shape. The windshield and the driver’s side window were cracked and the rear window was busted out. Police spotted blood on the front passenger seat, but it’s unknown who’s blood it is. There were dents on the body of the car. Damage to the Ford Fusion are estimate to be about $7,000.

Ashes were found by the gas cap and the oil cap and after investigating, police officers reported, “It was discovered that the gas cap was removed and tampons were used to possibly ignite the gas tank.”

The owner of the Ford Fusion, Falon Clark, 25-years old, arrived at the scene with a second driver, Gary Boogs who fled. Gary Boogs was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. Later, he reported that Patricia Deshong had earlier thrown a beer bottle through his Ford F-150 truck’s back window.

When Patricia Deshong was arrested police officers found her in possession with a license plate and registration card that belonged to Gary Boogs Ford F-150 truck.

While at the police station, Patricia Deshong “made threats stating that she was going to f***ing kill” a trooper after her release. With those threats, she was charged with making terroristic threats on top of her other charges.

The Deshongs each posted a $25,000 bond and were released January 10, 2012, according to a representative of Franklin County Jail. Officials did not indicate any relationship between the Deshongs.

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Michael West Says Ghost Punched His Wife -- Not Him

A Fond du Lac man was arrested after he told police a “ghost” punched and strangled his wife.

Michael F. West, 41, of 281 Fond du Lac Ave., was charged Wednesday with strangulation and misdemeanors of battery, disorderly conduct and resisting or obstructing an officer.

At about 8 p.m. Jan. 15, police arrived at West’s home to find the woman crying and bleeding from her nose.
According to allegations contained in the criminal complaint:

The woman was upset after West blamed her for the house being foreclosed. When the woman pointed out that she works while West sits on the couch, he became angry.

West strangled the woman twice. He then told her to call the police. As she went to grab the phone, West punched her repeatedly in the face.

West told police the woman got her injuries from falling. When asked specifically about the neck injuries, West responded, “A ghost did it.”

Officers had to struggle with an intoxicated West to place him in handcuffs after he made the ghost comment.
The woman said West has made comments about killing her.

West is being held in the Fond du Lac County Jail on $1,000 bail. He was ordered to stay sober while the case is pending.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Jan. 27.

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Teacher allegedly poured hot tea on students to quell fight

Police in southwestern Michigan are investigating a claim that a teacher dumped hot tea on a two students after they refused to stop fighting at school. 

The Grand Rapids Press and television stations WOOD and WWMT report the dispute happened this week at Hastings High School, about 30 miles southeast of Grand Rapids.

Police say the students had been texting each other before the older student, who is 18, confronted the younger one, 15, in a hallway. Police say they were told the teacher threatened to dump the tea if they didn't separate.

Minor burns Police say the younger student had minor burns. The teacher was placed on paid administrative leave.

School Superintendent Michelle Falcon issued a statement, reported CBS Detroit, saying, “We are always very concerned for the safety of our students and staff. We are currently in the process of investigating this situation.”

Police plan to forward the results of their ongoing investigation to Barry County prosecutors for review, the station said.

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Calif. man arrested after driving SUV into subway tunnel

By msnbc.com staff

SAN FRANCISCO – Police arrested the driver of an SUV after he headed straight down a tunnel into San Francisco subway system, causing massive delays during Thursday morning’s commute.

Muni Metro spokesman Paul Rose told NBCBayArea. com in San Francisco the vehicle drove into a tunnel on Church Street shortly before 6 a.m. Thursday and headed east toward the Van Ness Station.

The SUV stopped when it got stuck on the tracks, police said.

Police say 40-year-old Scott Mitchell of Sebastopol, Calif., was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, failure to obey a stop sign and driving on train tracks.

"It appears he just drove into the tunnel and his vehicle got stuck when it hit a concrete step," Officer Albie Esparza told The Associated Press. "We believe he was under the influence of alcohol. It's very fortunate that nobody was injured."

No trains were involved, police said.

Witnesses said the driver was traveling about 40 mph when he drove into the the tunnel.

"The whole thing was very surreal," Randall Gerstbacher told the San Francisco Chronicle.

All underground train lines were shut down for hours while crews removed the vehicle and inspected the system, according to San Francisco newspapers.

Trains resumed service by 8:15 a.m., but service was slow moving.

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Teacher limits kids' bathroom trips: 3 per week

By NBC News and news services

Parents at a Brooklyn elementary school are furious over a fifth-grade teacher’s bathroom policy that prohibits students from jetting to the john more than three times a week.

The stringent policy is limited to the Coney Island classroom of PS 90 teacher Stephanie Warner and is not school wide, reports The New York Post.

However, the teacher’s in-depth e-mail explanation of the program to school principal Greta Hawkins earlier this month did not appear to meet with any resistance on the part of the school administrator, according to the paper.

Under Warner’s potty policy, students are given three vouchers a week that entitle them to bathroom visits. A poster hanging on her classroom wall outlines the bathroom rules and explains that students who do not use all three of the vouchers may hand in leftover ones at the end of the week in exchange for tickets they can redeem for small prizes.

The potty policy came to light when one of Warner’s students mentioned the vouchers to his mother.

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Parent Sandra Leon told the Post she was outraged by the rules, which her son said were imposed because Warner thought students’ frequent bathroom breaks disrupted class.

Warner did not respond to the Post’s request for comment.

Hawkins did not respond to a Post e-mail inquiry either, but a Department of Education spokeswoman told the paper Hawkins planned to put an end to the program and reiterated it had never been enforced school wide.

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Casey Anthony Offered Strip Club Job

Rumor has it that Casey Anthony has resettled in southeastern Florida's Treasure Coast and she's already getting job offers and special -- yet unfriendly -- deals from the locals.

Anthony's whereabouts have been a mystery since she was acquitted of murdering her daughter, Caylee, in July.
In recent days, however, reports indicate that the 25-year-old moved to Port St. Lucie or nearby Palm City.

The welcoming management of strip club Body Talk in Port St. Lucie put a message on the nudie bar's marquee saying "Hey Casey We Are Hiring," according to TV station WTSP.

It's a serious opportunity, said the manager, adding that Anthony seems to be qualified, perhaps a reference to infamous photos of her competing in a hot body contest while her daughter was allegedly missing.

A travel agent also has a standing offer for Anthony too, but it's because he's unhappy that she's supposedly surfaced in the area. Go With God Travel agent Brian Scheuble will book a free, one-way ticket to anywhere in the world for Anthony if she agrees not to return to Florida, according to The Orlando Sentinel.

As an alternate option, Scheuble told news outlets that if Anthony agreed to attend the March for Life rally in Washington, D.C. he'd pay for an airline ticket and hotel room.

Speculation over Anthony's new address shifted to Palm City following a Daily Beast article claiming that a church there is giving her sanctuary and that its pastor has become her spiritual counselor.

Cross Church pastor Steve Camp didn't confirm or deny that Anthony joined his flock, but the article's reporter said it was "conspicuous" that "no trespassing" signs ringed the property.
 
Mild demonstrations from opponents materialized near the church, according to WPTV, with people brandishing signs saying "Hide Your Kids." Passersby who support Anthony yelled from their cars that she's innocent, the station said.

Anthony, who was convicted separately of check fraud in Orlando, must live in Florida while she serves probation for a year.

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Man Marries Dead Girlfriend

A man recently married his deceased girlfriend in a combination funeral and wedding ceremony.

Chadil Deffy, also known as Deff Yingyuen, placed a ring on the finger of Sarinya "Anne" Kamsook, his girlfriend of 10 years, during the ceremony in Thailand's Surin province.

The couple had planned to get married in the future, but Yingyuen wanted to focus on his studies before tying the knot, the Thai-Asean News (TAN) Network reported.

Unfortunately, Kamsook unexpectedly died in an accident before the couple could set a date.

According to the Pattaya Daily News, the couple met at Thailand's Eastern Asia University nearly a decade ago, and wreaths were placed around campus in memory of Kamsook following her death.

Photos and footage of the ceremony were posted on Facebook and YouTube.

And while some thought the service a bit strange, others expressed their sympathy for the groom.

"...I didn't know her, but in your photos, she looks young and full of life. I can't image the impact her death has caused in the lives of her loved ones. It was a very moving gesture of love, very moving. It makes you rethink a lot of things in life, things you take for granted," Facebook user Alejandra Yanez wrote in spanish on Yingyuen's page.

Onsiri Pravattiyagul, a friend of the groom, wrote an opinion column addressing Yingyuen's intentions and the media speculation his story has prompted.

The piece, featured on the Bangkok Times, included the following:

Chadil wrote matter-of-factly online -- and would later give interviews in the same vein -- explaining that the motivation for this display was guilt, pure and simple: He felt he hadn't done enough for his girlfriend of 10 years while she was alive. Before her sudden death in a road accident, she had suggested that he marry her. But he had demurred, putting the idea on hold.
The "wedding" was his attempt to right a wrong, however belated the gesture might have been.

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Woman Offered Sexual Favors for Chicken McNuggets

This couldn't have been a very happy meal.

Police arrested a woman outside a McDonald's in Burbank, Calif. after she allegedly offered sex to a customer in exchange for his chicken McNuggets, The Burbank Leader reports.

Khadijah Baseer, known as a local panhandler to police, supposedly opened customers' car doors near the drive-through window on Jan. 11, The Associated Press says.

One man called police after Baseer said she'd have sex if he gave up the breaded and fried pieces of poultry that he'd just purchased, according to KTLA. The man allegedly turned down the proposition.

Police arrested Baseer for suspected prostitution, media reports say.

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Body was in drain for 30 hours

Body was in drain for 30 hours 

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A man who died retrieving keys from a stormwater drain in central Wellington had been in it for about 30 hours before his body was found.

A member of the public found 43-year-old Peter Black's body in a car park near national museum Te Papa, close to the central Wellington waterfront, about noon on Sunday.

Detective Inspector Paul Basham said preliminary results of a post-mortem examination carried out yesterday and police inquiries indicated the Johnsonville man's death was accidental.

Police had initially been treating the death as unexplained and suspicious.

"Whilst the Coroner will determine the exact cause of death, it appears Mr Black dropped his car keys down the storm water culvert and had attempted to retrieve them.

"Police recovered a set of keys in the storm water culvert belonging to the deceased, as a result of a thorough scene examination.''

A police spokeswoman said police believed Mr Black entered the drain about 6am on Saturday morning to get his keys and was unable to get out.

Flowers have been placed at the drain, which has been covered and cordoned off by road cones.
Mr Black worked at Metal Construction in Wellington's Ngauranga suburb.

Police would continue inquiries into his death on behalf of the coroner, who would then rule on cause of death.

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Woman accused of bringing 5-year-old son on bank heist

 Woman accused of bringing 5-year-old son on bank heist 

BY FRANK MAIN Staff Reporter/fmain@suntimes.com

State child welfare officials said Saturday they are investigating a report that a Lake County woman brought her 5-year-old son with her while she accompanied her boyfriend on a bank robbery.

Lauri L. Ruble, of Antioch, and Brandon Stancliff have been charged in federal court with robbing Wauconda Community Bank in Island Lake on Dec. 29. Ruble was ordered released on $5,000 bail Thursday.

Ruble allegedly told the FBI she was upset with herself for putting her son in danger. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is investigating allegations of abuse and neglect against the couple, a spokesman said.

The spokesman said he could not comment on the boy’s status.

Ruble allegedly told the FBI that Stancliff grabbed a bandana and butcher knife from her kitchen and they both left her home with her son to rob the bank. She put her son in a car seat and they drove to the bank, she said.

Ruble went into the bank asking whether there was a change-counting machine — a ruse to learn how many tellers were there, according to an FBI affidavit. Stancliff then went into the bank with the orange bandana covering his tattooed face, authorities said. He allegedly displayed the knife, demanded money and fled with $4,800. An informant seeking a reward identified Ruble and Stancliff as the suspects, the FBI said. They were arrested Dec. 30.

It wasn’t the first time a woman allegedly brought a child with her to a robbery in the Chicago area. In 2007, Lyndsey Tucker was charged with robbing a Lake in the Hills bank with a knife while her 4-year-old daughter sat in the SUV she was driving. Tucker was sentenced to 53 months in prison.

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Cops Believe Inmate Hid 10-Inch Revolver In His Rectum.

A man arrested this week in North Carolina may have stashed a .38 barrel revolver in his rectum, according to police, who reported that the unloaded 10-inch weapon was not discovered until after the suspect had been booked into a cell in the county jail.

Michael Leon Ward, a 22-year-old Georgia resident, was arrested Monday after a trooper spotted him speeding. Ward, who resisted arrest, was subdued with the help of a stun gun. A subsequent search of his vehicle resulted in additional charges for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

But it was only after Ward--who is a fugitive on a murder warrant out of Atlanta--entered the Onslow County jail that sheriff’s investigators discovered what else he possessed.

According to cops, Ward, pictured at right, summoned jailers to his cell, claiming that someone was trying to kill him, and that he discovered a gun inside his cell. The weapon was found in the toilet, where Ward claimed he tossed it after finding it in his bunk.

The recovered gun is pictured in the above police evidence photo. 

Sheriff’s investigators say they are investigating how Ward got the weapon into the jail, since he had been “strip searched prior to being booked into a cell block.” The inmate, a press release notes, was taken today to a local hospital “for possible injuries that may have occurred to Ward’s rectum where it is believed Ward may have concealed” the revolver.

The gun, deputies reported, was test fired and found to be operational.

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Hospital mistakenly sends man $44 million bill

NEW YORK — Patients don't normally get sick once they've returned home from the hospital, but one New York resident said he almost became ill when he received a whopping $44.8 million bill from the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center.

“I almost had an asthma attack,” Alexis Rodriguez, 28, told The New York Daily News.

Rodriguez, a doorman who is currently unemployed, is one of several hundred patients getting billed for tens of millions of dollars because of a computer error at the New York City hospital.

He told The Daily News that initially, he thought the bill was legitimate because he had received a large bill last spring when he was hospitalized for pneumonia for three weeks — although that bill was in the tens of thousands of dollars, not millions.

This hospital visit, again for pneumonia, was for outpatient services, reported The Daily News. The $44,776,587 bill should have amounted to no more than $300.

The error occurred beceause the company that prepares the bills had mistakenly put the invoice number in the space where the invoice amount should go.

"We are sending an apology letter to everyone who received" the multi-million dollar bills, PHY Services representative told The Daily News, adding that the company will send out corrected invoices.

The hospital didn't immediately respond to requests for comment on Monday, The Associated Press reported.

Rodriguez told The Daily News that while he was glad he wouldn't be charged more than his actual bill, he was still upset with the company's carelessness.

“I think they should have somebody look over the bills before they send them out," he said. “I understand manpower may be down, but to send out a lot of bills with numbers that big — someone could have had a heart attack.”

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Man poisoned wife’s Rice Krispies with chemicals in attempt to kill her!

Snap, Crackle, Murder?

Police say a California man slipped enough chemicals into his wife's Rice Krispies cereal last week in attempt to kill her.

Fernando Porras, 43, is being held on $1 million bail and is expected to be charged with attempted murder for filling his wife’s bowl of breakfast cereal with Goof Off.

Porras's daughter Fernanda, 17, called 911 after her mother said the cereal smelled and tasted awful.

“She goes ‘something’s in it, something’s in it,’" Fernanda told KCAL-TV. “So I went and picked it up and when I saw what was in the cup, I could smell it and I was like ‘oh my gosh, this is a chemical.’”

Porras became a suspect when he excused himself to smoke a cigarette after they arrived at the hospital, and never returned.

"He walked away from the hospital," Cpl. Randy Schmidt told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.

Officers tracked him down and arrested him roughly two miles away.

“It is an unusual case,” Sergeant Dewayne Eldridge told KCAL. “We normally don’t get cases such as this."
The victim, 51, was released Friday morning in good condition, according to police. Porras is due in court on Tuesday.

His daughter expressed shock over the incident.

“It’s my dad,” she told KCAL on Saturday. “It’s hard not to think about, you know, why would he do it?”

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Woman loses arm to flesh-eating bacteria from bath salts

By JoNel Aleccia

A New Orleans woman’s experiment with the illicit drugs dubbed “bath salts” cost her her arm -- and nearly her life -- after she was ravaged by flesh-eating bacteria that invaded an injection site. 

The 34-year-old woman showed up at a Louisiana hospital complaining of pain and redness on her right forearm, where there was a puncture wound the woman admitted was a needle stick. She said the symptoms started two days after she injected bath salts at party, according to a case report published online in the journal Orthopedics.

Doctors gave her strong antibiotics for a skin infection and she seemed to get better. Two days later, however, the patient was still in pain. On closer examination, doctors discovered growing redness, sloughing skin and a smelly drainage, the report said.

Suspecting a growing infection, doctors immediately sent the woman into surgery. They quickly discovered dead muscle surrounding the injection site in her forearm, and an infection moving so fast doctors could see it killing healthy tissue in its path, the report said.

Fearing for the woman's life, doctors removed her right arm and shoulder and stripped away the dead muscle. They also performed a radical mastectomy and cut away more unhealthy skin. 

The final diagnosis was necrotizing fasciitis caused by streptococcus bacteria. Such flesh-eating infections can kill quickly, with victims requiring surgery within an average of 25 hours of admission in order to survive, according to one study.

Dr. Russell Russo,  a third-year orthopedic resident at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, was the lead author on the paper. He and the other authors worried that the growing popularity of illicit bath salts could spur a rise in the deadly infections.

The drugs, which are powerful synthetic stimulants, became popular in Western Europe in 2009 and showed up in the U.S. in Louisiana and Kentucky in August 2010. They’ve been smoked, snorted, taken orally and, now, injected. 

In 2010, the American Association of Poison Control centers received about 300 calls about bath salts. Last year, the number climbed to more than 6,000, records show.

At least 16 states have enacted emergency bans on bath salts and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency banned three chemicals used to make them last fall. But Russo and his colleagues are warning other emergency department health workers to be vigilant when patients show up with skin infections after injections. 

“The best treatment is prevention with public, street-based education and early detection,” Russo wrote.

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