A Connecticut middle school administrator told a student he could get out of detention if he bought drugs from another student.
When the kid said he only had $2, Assistant Principal Amy Watson gave him more cash and passed along the plans to buy the marijuana, East Hartford police said.
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It was all part of an amateurish, and illegal, sting by Watson and a school security officer. The adults, who were targeting a student suspected of dealing drugs in the boy’s bathroom, were charged with risk of injury to a minor and lying to police about the plot.
The sting fell apart when the boy bought the drugs on his own, police said.
Man in the Ironic Mask
An armed robbery of a KFC restaurant in Memphis, Tenn., failed after the man cut too-large eye holes in his mask that allowed the manager to recognize him as the person she had fired the previous day.
The manager and the not-so-masked robber struggled after she called out his name. The robber fled and police arrested him hours later.
The suspect peeled off
A North Carolina cafe owner said he tackled a robber who claimed to be armed but was only carrying a banana.
The owner and a customer grabbed the man and held him down on a chair.
“If he had had a gun, he would’ve shot me,” owner Bobby Ray Mabe said. “But he had a banana.”
The suspect ate the evidence before sheriff’s deputies arrived. The police took a photo of the banana peel instead.
They’re ready for their strip-search
Troopers in Washington arrested a man and woman suspected of damaging 14 vehicles by dropping rocks from a railroad trestle as a part of a dangerous game of stripetease.
Amanda Madison, 18, and Joshua Sizemore, 23, shed a piece of clothing for every busted headlight.
One of the vehicles struck was a state patrol cruiser.
When police arrived, Madison was down to her underwear.
Hydro-plane
Two people were injured when a boat flew out of a Maine pond and landed in some trees.
The Maine Warden Service Sgt. Tim Place said four people, all from Massachusetts, were aboard the boat when it crashed around 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
Alcohol was probably involved, he said.
What if she had said ‘Eat my shorts’?
An instructor at the Connecticut Police Academy was charged with disorderly conduct after he responded literally to a co-worker’s retort.
Police said 51-year-old Francis Woodruff was taunting the woman and she responded, “Bite me.”
So he did, apparently leaving teeth marks and bruising on the woman’s left triceps.
