One time at band camp …
A 53-year-old middle school teacher in Minnesota was caught leaving sexually suggestive notes in the lockers of two female students and was typing a third lewd letter when school officials confronted him, police said.
The seventh-graders reported the notes to administrators who reviewed surveillance video showing Martin Bartels leaving items in the lockers.
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School officials remotely accessed Bartels’ computer and caught him in the act of writing the third note, police said.
When the principal walked into Bartels’ classroom, the band teacher had just printed out the explicit letter to a girl, commenting on her short skirt.
Bartels was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct and the school placed him on administrative leave.
Sticky fingers
Police in Ohio arrested a man they say tried to take their candy bars. Police said Derek Kidd, 32, and his girlfriend had just been released from custody after disorderly conduct arrests.
While the girlfriend distracted officers, Kidd snuck into the detectives’ breakroom and started pilfering the officer’s belongings.
As they left, another officer spotted his blue knit “MPD” logo cap under Kidd’s cap.
Police found two of their Whatchamacallit brand candy bars and two used syringes taken from a disposal container.
Surpassingly, somebody noticed
The owner of a downtown Green Bay bar was cited after selling old Milwaukee’s Best brew out of beer taps labeled as other, more expensive brands.
Jason Michaletz faces charges of buying beer from an unlicensed wholesaler, failing to label beer taps and refilling or diluting liquor bottles.
Police said the Turtles II bar sold Mr. Boston vodka as both Grey Goose and Absolut and Mr. Boston whiskey as Crown Royal.
Agents also found that the Miller Lite, Budweiser or Bud Light tap handles were hooked up to barrels of Milwaukee’s Best, the cheapest keg available, police said.
Liver failure
A liver transplant recipient in Wisconsin was given a public intoxication warning after police said he registered a blood-alcohol level nearly five times that at which drivers in the state are considered legally drunk.
The 34-year-old man was found falling-down drunk on a curb. He could not stand or walk unassisted, police noted. He was taken to a hospital for detoxification.
Shoplifter? More like shophauler
It took 418 times before drugstore employees caught on to a shoplifter.
Sioux Falls, S.D., police said a 51-year-old woman allegedly took 418 items, worth $2,200, by hauling stolen merchandise to her car in bags and then returning to the store for more.
Items ranged from books to jewelry.
— Compiled by Scott McCabe
