Curses, foiled again
Police pursuing a bank robber said they caught up to the suspect after he made a wrong turn and wound up in a police station parking lot in Southfield, Mich. WXYZ News reported the 24-yearold Detroit man gave himself away by drawing a mustache and beard on his face with a Sharpie marker to disguise himself.
Geek of the week
When a State Patrol trooper stopped a car on Washington’s Mercer Island after clocking it going 110 mph, the driver, James Garrett, told the trooper he had to get home to bid on an item he wanted on eBay before the auction closed.
Garrett “didn’t say what he was bidding on,” Trooper Dan McDonald told the Seattle Times, “but the trooper said his car was filled with Star Wars stuff.”
Force play
Nicole Mary Scarpone, 26, beat down the door of an apartment in Gaston, N.C., and demanded the three men inside pay her $10 to have sex, the Gaston Gazette reported, indicating Scarpone’s “aggressive prostitution” led to a burglary charge. “Defendant stated that she was dropped off over there and had been there before and performed sexual acts,” Officer B.H. Carr wrote in his warrant affidavit, “but stated that she was not invited over there tonight and indicated she just showed up to make some quick money.”
Slightest provocation
Police arrested Ryan Scott David, 24, after they said he hit another man in the face with a 16-pound bowling ball during a fistfight involving six bowlers at a bowling alley in Rocklin, Calif. The blow knocked out one of the man’s teeth, according to police Sgt. Terry Jewell, who told the Sacramento Bee the melee began when two of the bowlers approached the lane at the same time, and they failed to agree which one should go first.
An argument between brothers Joseph Giampetro, 31, and Anthony Giampetro, 23, ended when Anthony killed Joseph with three shots from his revolver, according to police in Palm Bay, Fla. “They were arguing over a Coke,” police official Yvonne Martinez told Florida Today. “One brother had drunk it, and the other was upset.”
Compiled from the nation’s press by Roland Sweet. Submit items, citing date and source, to P.O. Box 8130, Alexandria VA 22306.
