A Frosty reception
A Wendy’s restaurant manager turned a would-be thief in when she realized it was her own son who was robbing the place. Jason Zacchi, 27, is accused of going to the restaurant in Dearborn Heights, Mich., with a sawed off shotgun. Zacchi, who wore a bandanna over much of his face, threatened workers and demanded money. But the manager recognized the face under the bandanna as her son and shouted, ‘What the hell are you doing?'” police said. Zacchi fled and his mom helped police track him down.
Murder rap
Putting up a YouTube video about your involvement with gangs and violence isn’t the best defense to murder charges. A judge in Portsmouth, Va., certainly wasn’t impressed. Circuit Judge Kenneth R. Melvin sentenced Jah-Youth Sutton to 25 years in prison shortly after watching a video in which Sutton bragged about violent acts and jeeringly mentioned mothers crying in a morgue. The video was posted on YouTube while Sutton was released on bail on charges that he beat another man with a gun so badly that his skull caved in. Sutton denied killing the man and said the video was “like art.”
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Is it like a stabbing pain?
A California inmate had a homemade knife surgically removed from his body cavity last month after he complained about a pain in his rectum. Hospital surgeons in Modesto pulled out a 5-inch “shank” that Rance Johnson said had been inside his body for three weeks. The item was wrapped inside tissue paper and placed in a sandwich bag before it was inserted, deputies said. “The taxpayer money does cover actual stupidity,” said Sheriff Mark Pazin. “It’s unfortunate, but it’s a mandated surgery.” Johnson, 19, now faces concealed weapons charges.
Hallmark was sold out
If setting your ex-boyfriend’s truck on fire doesn’t get his attention, try ramming it into his house. A southern Illinois woman faces charges after police say she intentionally rammed a burning pickup into the front porch of a man’s home. Flames from the truck ignited the wooden front porch and spread to the rest of the house. A relative of the home’s owner rescued the woman from the burning truck. She was being treated at a hospital.
That old time religion
A Washington man wanted to spread religion in a Skamokawa tavern parking lot. Jack Sebade, 73, told deputies he had been drinking when he decided to give a religious pamphlet to a woman. Instead, he got into a scuffle with her and a group, and he ended up shooting a man with a .22-Magnum handgun.
— Compiled by Scott McCabe
