Man with unfortunate nickname sent to jail
A Nebraska man dubbed the “Butt Bandit” for making greasy imprints of his nether parts on windows was sent to jail this week.
Authorities said Thomas Larvie, 35, used lotion or petroleum jelly to make imprints of his naked behind — and sometimes his groin — on the windows of stores, churches and schools in Valentine, Neb. The townspeople began calling the unknown culprit the “Butt Bandit.” Larvie was sentenced to more than a year in jail on eight misdemeanor counts of public indecency.
… and that’s how reindeer fly
A Christmas tree merchant known as Santa Bob pleaded guilty Wednesday in Baltimore County to growing marijuana and possessing psychedelic mushrooms. Authorities found 19 marijuana plants, more than a pound of packaged marijuana in freezers and about 33 grams of hallucinogenic mushrooms at Robert C. Chance’s 7-acre Harford County farm. Chance, 62, a former Bel Air commissioner, faces up to six months in prison.
’Tis the season
Santa aside, that trip down the chimney doesn’t work so well after all. So a man in St. Louis found out Wednesday. Police say he was a burglar, and he was arrested after a harrowing three hours inside the chimney. Authorities were called to a pawn shop, where the man was wedged in, unable to move. After about three hours, rescuers were able to knock away bricks and free him.
It’s the cops! Everybody heckle!
Fifteen teens at an Illinois drinking party were arrested after they refused to open the door for police.Police saw several teens inside the home near Peoria with beer and liquor. After the officers announced their presence, the teens scurried to clean up the party, but they didn’t answer the door or phone, and then turned off the inside lights.
Some even “heckled and taunted” officers, telling them they couldn’t do anything because they couldn’t get inside the home, police said. Officers got a warrant and forced their way inside, arresting the teens for underage drinking.
The thief next door
Deputies investigating a West Virginia woman’s stolen television followed a trail of extension cords to solve the crime.
The cords led to an adjacent apartment, where Kanawha County deputies were greeted by William Willis Estep II. Police said Estep, 21, admitted that he took the TV, and said that he also took his neighbor’s washing machine a few days earlier.
He was using the extension cords to power them. Estep was arrested for burglary.
Roadkill
A Florida driver was arrested after he stopped in the middle of the road to chase an armadillo. A sheriff’s volunteer saw the Honda sport utility vehicle swerve across the road in New Port Richey and stop abruptly. The driver jumped out and scurried after the armored animal.
When the volunteer told Stephen Wilomovsky to move the SUV, the armadillo chaser gave him “the finger,” yelled obscenities, got back in his car and drove so closely to the sheriff’s volunteer that he struck him with the driver’s side mirror.
Wilomovsky, 64, later got a visit by two state troopers. He answered his door, stared wildly for a moment, then attempted to run away.
He was handcuffed and arrested on charges of aggravated battery and resisting an officer without violence. The report said Wilomovsky and his house smelled strongly of alcohol.
A sobering lesson
A blood alcohol tester at a Nevada sheriff’s department is accused of driving drunk to a jail to test a DUI suspect.
A Carson City sheriff’s deputy smelled alcohol on his colleague, who explained that she had one margarita before driving to the jail.
The 53-year-old phlebotomist, Kathleen Cherry, then failed a field sobriety test and registered a blood alcohol content over the state’s legal limit of 0.08 percent, police said.
She was booked on a misdemeanor drunken driving charge.
– Compiled from wire services
