RACINE, Wisconsin (AP) — An accused child molester in Wisconsin cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet, then took a limousine to Chicago to appear on “The Jerry Springer Show,” authorities said.
A judge set bail Friday at $50,000 for Mario Sims, 21, who had been awaiting trial on 2004 charges of child enticement and first-degree sexual assault of a child.
Defense lawyer Margaret Johnson argued against the bail amount, but Racine County Circuit Judge Emily Mueller stood firm.
“A significant bond is legally necessary given the fact he absconded, admittedly for one of the more unique reasons I’ve heard in my time on the bench,” the judge said.
According to court records, Sims had been out of jail about three weeks when he cut off the bracelet and missed a court date September 6. His defense attorney at the time, Domingo Cruz, told the judge his client was seen getting into the television show’s limousine.
Sims appeared on an episode of the show that aired last fall.
A TV.com Web site teaser for it said: “Outrageous nuptials! Returning guest Mario is a proud father and is ready to marry his baby’s mother — who’s also his half-sister.”
A message left for Johnson was not returned Friday. A message left for a producer of the “Jerry Springer Show” was not immediately returned Saturday morning.
ABC News 20/20 Featured a story tonight (Friday, March 9th 2007) about this Nigerian con called the “Black Money” scam. He was busted by ABC News 20/20 while trying to pull the con off and gave them all of the information about how the scam works and who he works with. It seemed very interesting and easy enough to pull off, although we do not recommend trying it.
Here is a video clip for anyone who missed the story or hasent heard about this scam:
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STEVENS POINT, Wis., March 7 (UPI) — A man called police in Stevens Point, Wis., and claimed he was unsuccessful in trying to break into St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.
Officials told the Stevens Point Journal the 24-year-old caller said he needed help after trying Saturday night to bash his way through the door with a metal shovel. Police officers met the man in the church parking lot.
Police reports said the man told officers he wanted to get married at the church. Officers searched the man and said they discovered marijuana in a “prescription bottle.”
The man then reportedly showed police his house, pointing out more marijuana. He allegedly stated he was also storing stolen prescription muscle relaxants.
Police arrested the man. The paper said “tentative charges” were filed, alleging criminal property damage and possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and prescription drugs.
Capt. Kevin Ruder told the Journal the case is “definitely a weird one.”
Orangeburg, SC (AHN) - A man carrying 43 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of his Chevrolet Malibu was arrested Sunday after crashing into a South Carolina police cruiser. He had been driving about 70 mph on northbound Interstate 95 when he hit a cruiser parked in one of the lanes.AP reports that Highway Patrol Capt. Chris Williamson said the officer whose vehicle was hit had minor injuries.
The driver, 54-year-old Howard R. Fisher, had two large duffel bags in his trunk packed with plastic bags of marijuana worth more than $150,000, according to Orangeburg deputy Warren Pendry.
The officers also found marijuana joints and cocaine in Fisher’s car.
He was charged with driving under the influence, cocaine possession and trafficking marijuana.
What is this guy thinking? I dont understand it, hes acting like giving marijuana to a 2 year old and 5 year old is no big deal! Check out the video of the interview with this guy:
WATAUGA, Texas — A 17-year-old faces a felony charge of injury to a child after police found a videotape that appears to show him and another man teaching his 2- and 5-year-old nephews to smoke marijuana, police said. The video shows two children being taught to smoke marijuana and the men encouraging them to “get high,” police said. A man can be seen placing a marijuana cigarette into a baby’s mouth and, in another part of the video, a different boy is shown smoking on his own.
“The video contains disturbing images of the young children being badgered into smoking a marijuana cigar, commonly referred to as a ‘blunt,’” according to a release from the Watauga Department of Public Safety.
The bail for Demetris McCoy, 17, was set at $150,000. He remained in jail Friday night, police said.
Police found the video Feb. 22 while investigating McCoy and Vanswan Polty, 18, in connection with some area burglaries. Polty faces burglary charges and is free on $22,000 bail, according to court records.
The children have been in the custody of Child Protective Services since last week, a spokeswoman said.
A man in Hobart, Indiana, discovered that attempting to cash a check from God is much harder than taking candy from a baby. Twenty-one-year-old Kevin Russell was arrested on February 26 after he tried to cash a check for $50,000 at the Chase Bank there that was signed, “King Savior, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Servant,†according to Hobart police Detective Jeff White.
Russell was charged with one count of attempted check fraud and one count of intimidation, which are both felonies, and one count of resisting law enforcement, which is a misdemeanor. He could face time in the slammer.
The cops were called to the bank after Russell attempted to cash the supposedly-divine check, which was written on an invalid Bank One check with no imprint, White said. Russell had several other checks with him that were signed in the same manner but made out with different dollar amounts, including one for $100,000.
Russell struggled with police as they tried to arrest him, White said, and then threatened them as they transported him to the Hobart Police Department.
“I’ve heard about God giving out eternal life, but this is the first time I’ve heard of him giving out cash,†White said.
A court date has yet to be set for Russell. As of this writing, he is being held at the Lake County Jail on $1,000 bail. Here’s hoping that he gets the money from someone besides God.
ACWORTH, Georgia (AP) — Georgia authorities Wednesday were searching for two young women, possibly teenagers, who robbed a supermarket bank branch, laughing as they held up a teller with nothing but sunglasses to disguise their faces.
The two handed a Bank of America branch teller a note demanding cash, smiled as they waited and then walked out with stolen money Tuesday, police said.
It wasn’t clear if they had a weapon, police said.
Their images, captured on bank surveillance video during the 12:15 p.m. robbery Tuesday, were released by police and already had led to several tips, Cobb County police spokesman officer Wayne Delk said.
Authorities have not said how much money was taken, but Delk said it is “considerable.”
Police said the two could be as young as 16. Witnesses were unable to tell investigators whether they left in a car.
The store is in a strip mall in an upscale west Cobb residential neighborhood, about 28 miles north of Atlanta.
Delk said one of the girls appears to be laughing in a bank surveillance camera image — as though “it’s all fun and games to them.”
Wow, i found this article on CNN.com and had to post it! Unbelievable.
Police didn’t have much difficulty arresting two teenagers Friday who are accused of phoning in a bomb threat at Southwest Middle School.
That’s because the two teen boys - along with a third still being sought - used the telephone at the house they were burglarizing, but they didn’t call the school, police said.
They delivered the threat by dialing 911.
“This indicates they would have been better off in school rather than burglarizing someone’s house,” said Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police spokesman Sgt. Mike Wilson. “Clearly that was not the brightest plan.”
Two of the boys were in jail Friday night. Police were searching for the third.
Around 9 a.m. Friday, 911 dispatchers received the call reporting a bomb in the cafeteria at Southwest Middle School. As with any 911 call, those receiving it trace the call to its source. Officers rushed to the location of the call at The Oaks at Brandlewood apartment complex on Garrard Avenue.
They arrived to find the apartment had been broken into. Officers searched the neighborhood and spotted the three teenager boys, whose arms were full of jewelry, video game systems, DVDs and other electronics, Wilson said.
Officers attempted to stop the boys, but they ran back to the apartment complex.
Police chased and apprehended two of them - Pierre Brown, 17, and a 14-year-old Southwest Middle student. Police did not identify the 14-year-old because of his juvenile status.
As officers were searching the neighborhood for the third suspect, they found a second apartment burglarized, Wilson said. Moreover, there had been a break-in at a house on Sandlewood Drive.
Police believe the teens pried open the doors and ransacked the homes for anything of value.
The two boys who were arrested are charged with three counts of burglary. Campus Police plan to charge both with transmitting a false public alarm, which is a felony, said Bucky Burnsed, spokesman for the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System.
Pierre was being held in the Chatham County jail. The 14-year-old was taken to the Savannah Regional Youth Detention Center.
K-9s tracked the third suspect, but the dogs were unable to locate him. No description of the third boy was available.
However, the dogs did find more of the items stolen in the burglaries, which were returned to their owners, Wilson said.
Police said the two teens, who live in the neighborhood where the burglaries occurred, are being investigated in a string of other crimes in the area.
“We’ve seen a sharp increase in burglaries in West Chatham County within the last week,” Wilson said. “Both of the individuals caught (Friday) have extensive records for these types of crimes.”
Brown is not a student in the public school system. He was released from the detention center last month.
“This goes right to the heart of truancy,” Wilson said. “School-age children who are out and about during normal school hours are typically engaged in criminal activity. That’s why we take truancy so seriously.”
The phony bomb threat caused middle school students to miss almost three hours of classes while bomb-sniffing K-9s combed the hallways, Burnsed said.
Police found no evidence of any explosives.
Besides these teens, Campus Police have arrested 10 people so far this year on bomb threat charges.
Haha.. Perhaps these kids should stay in school. It couldnt hurt.
RACINE, Wisconsin (AP) — An accused child molester in Wisconsin cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet, then took a limousine to Chicago to appear on “The Jerry Springer Show,” authorities said.
STEVENS POINT, Wis., March 7 (UPI) — 
Orangeburg, SC (AHN) - A man carrying 43 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of his Chevrolet Malibu was arrested Sunday after crashing into a South Carolina police cruiser. He had been driving about 70 mph on northbound Interstate 95 when he hit a cruiser parked in one of the lanes.AP reports that Highway Patrol Capt. Chris Williamson said the officer whose vehicle was hit had minor injuries.
WATAUGA, Texas — 
A man in Hobart, Indiana, discovered that attempting to cash a check from God is much harder than taking candy from a baby. Twenty-one-year-old Kevin Russell was arrested on February 26 after he tried to cash a check for $50,000 at the Chase Bank there that was signed, “King Savior, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Servant,†according to Hobart police Detective Jeff White.
ACWORTH, Georgia (AP) — Georgia authorities Wednesday were searching for two young women, possibly teenagers, who robbed a supermarket bank branch, laughing as they held up a teller with nothing but 
Police didn’t have much difficulty arresting two teenagers Friday who are accused of phoning in a bomb threat at Southwest Middle School.
