Bambi on rye
Two New Jersey deli workers face charges of hunting deer from a moving van and taking the animal parts to the deli kitchen.
It happened near the Rutgers University campus in Piscataway.
Rutgers police received reports of gunshots coming from a white van bearing the name Big Belly Delly.
Investigators watched as the duo carried deer parts into the business. Investigators then went inside and purchased chili and raw ground meat. A search warrant turned up 300 pounds of venison and found 10 antlers.
Authorities have not determined whether the deer meat was sold to customers.
Gerard Kirk, 25, and Peter Ward, 45, were charged with hunting with the aid of a motor vehicle, having a firearm on university property, and other charges. Kirk was also charged with driving while intoxicated.
Fake for the cure
A Denver woman pleaded guilty to faking cancer to bilk her friends and her husband’s co-workers out of $60,000.
Crall, 31, the wife of a Lakewood police officer, told people that she had stage-four cancer and was beginning treatment in 2005. There is no evidence that she ever had cancer, police said.
Friends gave money, time and food. Supporters at a benefit wore T-shirts that read: “Run, Ride, Walk or Crall.”
An investigation began in 2009, after she showed no effects of the terminal cancer.
Gator bait
Two college students on spring break have been arrested for allegedly trying to steal the live alligators at a Florida restaurant’s pond.
The Panama City News Herald reported the two 20-year-olds went to a hunting store to buy ropes and hooks and used raw chicken on a rope to taunt the animals.
The University of Alabama and University of West Georgia students were charged with felony burglary.
I’m with stupid
Police in Florida didn’t have to look very hard or very long for a couple of men suspected of robbing a popular bar and restaurant.
Police found the business had been robbed of T-shirts, beer and other property.
Officers quickly spotted the duo wearing Chicken Shack T-shirts with several more in a bag. The suspects also still had some of the stolen beer — minus what they had already drank.
Scott McCabe
