A Loudoun County middle school orchestra teacher was charged with possession of marijuana.
In his car. On campus. At 2 in the morning.
A deputy found Thomas Earl Doss Jr., a teacher at Sterling Middle School, asleep in the parking lot of Rolling Road Elementary. The deputy found a “green leafy substance,” which tested positive for marijuana.
He’s charged with misdemeanor possession.
Ask and you shall receive
Drag racers zipping 100 mph through traffic along the Long Island Expressway had a message for police.
They had an answer.
One of the license plates of the 10 cars that sped past Nassau Highway Patrol Officer Joseph Fernandez read “HEYOFFCR.”
Fernandez flipped his emergency lights, but the cars kept going. Fernandez radioed ahead, and police nabbed four of the cars.
Three of the cars had windshield stickers that read, “Place Ticket Here.”
So police did. They wrote up more than 40 traffic violations and arrested Anil Isaac, 22; brothers Ziad, 21, and Riad Mohamed, 19; and Rajesh Prashaud, 21, on charges of second-degree reckless endangerment, reckless driving, fleeing a police officer and participating in an illegal speed contest. The cars were impounded.
Dim bulb needs a flashlight
A thief trying to siphon gas from a van in Mokwonago, Wis., couldn’t see what he was doing, so he flicked his lighter to shed a little more light on his subject.
You guessed it. A blast of fire burned his hands and caused nearby residents to call police, who found the injured man in a store parking lot.
‘Love thy neighbor’
Arizona prosecutors say John LaVoie should be forever barred from the massage business because he ran a house of prostitution camouflaged as a church.
But the Tucson man says he hired women at Angel’s Heaven Relaxation Spa not to sell sex but to comfort the afflicted through the religious act of “laying on of hands.”
He is now citing constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion.
“This offer of comfort by this means is based on several biblical passages,” his attorney wrote.
The Angel’s Heaven Web site displayed portraits of young women. “Oriental Angel,” described as 5 feet 2 with dark brown hair and hazel eyes, invited visitors to discover “Far East delight.” And brown-eyed “Passion Angel” peered out over this message: “Come to Angel’s Heaven now and be touched by an angel willing to take you to heaven and back.”
Pilots don’t like being taken for a ride
When two JetBlue pilots got a $9 cab ride from a Miami strip club to a fast food joint, they failed to pay the fare and got angry when the cabbie demanded payment.
“Who do you think we are? Tourists?” one of the pilots asked. The men, William Hart Smith, 40, and Brad Leopard, 38, both of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., allegedly hit the cabbie in the head, and then kicked and punched him in the head and face. The cabbie suffered a concussion, a broken ankle and bruises to his elbow and knee.
Both men were arrested after a surveillance camera caught the incident on tape.
