Topic: POLICE REPORT - on April 8, 2007 at 2:09:00 PM CEST
Police bust tomato grow operation in Pullman apartment
A Pullman landlord notified police about a grow lamp in a closet, and police got a search warrant for a drug raid.
Eight officers with guns drawn surprised three roommates in the apartment last weekend and discovered they were growing tomatoes.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on April 5, 2007 at 11:22:00 AM CEST
Firefighter caught in bikini
A Wayne Township volunteer firefighter is scheduled to appear Thursday in Mason Municipal Court on drunken driving and other charges after he was found wearing a woman’s blond wig and bikini in a public park.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 23, 2007 at 10:26:00 AM CET
Malaysian pirates slap bounty on DVD-sniffing mutts
Malaysian DVD pirates have slapped a bounty on the heads of sniffer dogs which earlier this week helped seize around $3m* in fake DVDs, Reuters reports.
According to The New Straits Times, "syndicate bosses" are none too happy about the olfactory abilities of black Labradors Lucky and Flo, who on Tuesday were involved in the location of "a cache of around a million pirated game and movie discs in the southern city of Johor Baru".
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 23, 2007 at 10:22:00 AM CET
Malayische Piraten setzen Kopfgeld auf Labradore aus
Wie kann man! Nur weil Lucky und Flo, die beiden DVD-Schnüffelhunde der Anti-Piraterie-Taskforce für 3 Millionen Bootlegs gefunden haben… WWF to the rescue!
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 22, 2007 at 11:28:00 AM CET
Austria’s Five-Star Prison
If you look at these figures comparing crime in Austria and crime in the U.S. you’ll notice something odd: although the U.S. has higher crime rates in virtually every category (murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, etc…) the Austrians triumph in one category: burglary. But why? Why is the rate of burglaries in Austria a whopping 40% higher than in the U.S.? I’ll tell you why: because Austrian minimum security prisons are fucking awesome! If you’re in Austria, and have a working brain, you should be trying to get into one right now!
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 20, 2007 at 5:29:00 PM CET
Man charged in arson of 6 million wine bottles
U.S. prosecutors charged a California man Monday with stealing fine wine he stored for upscale clients and then burning down a warehouse holding 6 million bottles worth $200 million to $250 million to hide the scam.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 20, 2007 at 1:11:00 PM CET
Burglars steal 220-pound gold bar
A group of burglars stole a massive block of gold worth over $2 million from a Japanese museum in a heist that police said could have been prevented - if only the curators hadn't left the showcases wide open.
The Ohashi Collection Kan museum in Takayama, in central Japan, kept the 220-pound gold bullion unguarded by sensors or even by a case because it wanted visitors to be able to touch it, local police officer Shinji Kurake said Monday.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 15, 2007 at 1:00:00 PM CET
The girl whose hair was too big for her mugshot
Anna Clifford's brush with the law proved a hair-raising experience for all concerned. Particularly the police photographer.
He had to take several steps back to incorporate the full extent of her 18in-high Mohican.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 14, 2007 at 4:09:00 PM CET
Police rescue 91-year-old man glued to roof
Passers-by were so shocked to see the elderly handyman working on the roof they first thought he was planning to commit suicide, according to police in the eastern city of Magdeburg.
"In fact he was just re-coating the roofing with bitumen. But then he slipped," said a spokesman for police.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 14, 2007 at 10:53:00 AM CET
Man steals $28 million in diamonds from bank
Prosecutors say the suspect broke into safety deposit boxes in an ABM Amro bank in the city’s diamond quarter last week. He made off with diamonds weighing 120,000 carats, police said.
Police believe he may have carefully planned the robbery, becoming one of several trusted diamond traders with access to the vault. The suspect had been a regular customer at the bank for the past year, giving the name Carlos Hector Flomenbaum from Argentina.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 9, 2007 at 11:07:00 AM CET
Skype founder's high-flying hanky-panky
As an entrepreneur, Janus Friis fancies himself a disrupter. But that term could just as aptly apply to his high-flying hanky-panky aboard a recent transatlantic flight with the stepdaughter of one-time 007 actor Roger Moore.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 9, 2007 at 10:05:00 AM CET
‘Happy Slap’ Crackdown Sparks Row
A new law in France makes it a crime — punishable by up to five years in prison — for anyone who is not a professional journalist to film real-world violence and distribute the images on the Internet.
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