Tats for Tots? Twenty-year-old Lee Deitrick, of Louisville, was sentenced to three years in prison after he tattooed the letter “A” on a toddler’s bottom.
The mother left her 19-month old girl at Deitrick’s home for few hours late in the evening. Deitrick had tattoo equipment and someone got the idea to try it on the toddler. A 17-year-old relative of the girl held her across her lap while Deitrick tattooed the initial of the girl’s first name on the child’s rear end. Deitrick couldn’t explain why he did it.
Cruisin’ with the top down
A tipsy and topless woman was arrested after she stole a bottle of wine from a Nevada grocery store and nearly drove her Corvette into a fast-food restaurant in the midst of a raging snow squall.
Brandi Smith, 41, walked into the store naked from the waist up and sauntered out without paying for a $20 wine.
Smith drove to a Burger King, stopping at the drive-through entrance after bouncing her car over a curb and into some landscaping.
Smith had two prior convictions of driving under the influence in California in 2008 and 2009. She also is on probation for a theft of beer from a 7-Eleven.
Wal-Mart Alone
A mother of 15 children left her 3-year-old in a Cincinnati Wal-Mart and didn’t realize the girl was missing until the next morning, when a relative told her she had seen the child on the news.
The little girl, named Binah, followed shoppers around until store security got involved. Store employees made a series of announcements over the loudspeaker before calling police.
Authorities took temporary custody of the little girl and her 10 minor siblings.
Their mother, Moriyyah Israel, 43, was charged with one count of child endangering.
Police: Can I see your rolling papers?
A Texas man was arrested during a traffic stop after police found marijuana wrapped in his court papers for a previous marijuana arrest.
Santa Fe, N.M., police pulled the man over for a defective headlight and determined that the suspect was driving on a suspended license.
When the officer searched the vehicle, he found a small amount of marijuana concealed in a folded piece of paper.
Upon further investigation, the officer noticed that the paper was actually an official court document — the man’s deferred adjudication order for a possession of marijuana charge.
– Compiled by Scott McCabe
