You’re doing it Wong
A Tampa, Fla., man who tried to set his estranged wife on fire wound up getting burned himself.
Hillsborough sheriff’s deputies said Matthew Wong staked out her apartment to wait for his wife to show up.
When she did, he tried to douse her with a flammable liquid, but she was able to get away and ran into a neighbor’s apartment. Wong tried to ignite bushes near the building but wound up setting his clothes on fire.
“It was like instantly,” neighbor Amy Jo Akert told NBC affiliate in Tampa. “Literally, he was instantly engulfed in flames.”
He was badly burned and taken to a hospital.
Smoke screened
A suburban Chicago teen visiting a juvenile detention center was arrested when he put marijuana through a metal detector.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that 19-year-old Devante Saxton was going through security at the River Valley Juvenile Detention Center in Joliet when he took five bags of marijuana from his jacket and put them in a bin to be scanned by the metal detector, police said.
Saxton was arrested and charged with possession of cannabis.
Dress for the job you want, not the one you have
A 43-year-old man was charged with trying to rob a Key West, Fla., bank — while wearing shorts on his head.
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says Eli Escalera handed a teller a note that said: “Give me what are 20s and 50s.”
The teller asked, “What do you want?” Escalera allegedly responded, “Never mind,” and walked out.
The bank manager called police who were nearby and witnessed the suspect pull the shorts off his head and hop on a bike.
Escalera was charged with felony robbery.
Teacher, leave those kids alone
Hours after he signed a contract to become a teacher, a New Jersey man was arrested for exchanging explicit text messages with a law enforcement officer posing as a 12-year-old girl, reports the Bergen (N.J.) Record.
Richard D’Amato Jr., 24, was charged with two counts of attempted sexual assault of a minor, two counts of attempted lewdness to a minor and three counts of attempted endangerment of a child.
D’Amato told investigators that he had signed a contract earlier Wednesday morning with the Rutherford school district to teach at its high school.
