Top Chef: Buffalo edition
Police in Buffalo, N.Y., arrested a man after they found a live cat “marinating” in oil and peppers in the trunk of a car.
Officers heard the cat meowing when they stopped Gary Korkuc, 51, for allegedly running a stop sign.
They checked the trunk and found 4-year-old Navarro in a cage, his fur covered with oil and crushed chili peppers.
Police say Korkuc told them he was going to cook Navarro because the cat was ill-tempered. Korkuc also told officers a number of things that didn’t make sense, including that his neutered male cat was pregnant.
From the Cartoon Drug Network
An Oklahoma couple was arrested for hauling a rolling meth lab in their daughter’s Dora the Explorer backpack.
Police in Broken Arrow, Okla., said they stopped a vehicle carrying parents Cecil and Melissa Martin, both 34, and their two young children. In their daughters pink backpack, police found all the ingredients to make methamphetamine, including dangerous materials like Drano and lighter fluid. The couple were charged with manufacturing methamphetamine. The children were placed in state custody.
Not that kind of poison
A Florida woman who told police that her boyfriend put rat poison in her Kool-Aid was charged with making a false police report when tests found no poison in her system.
Instead, Kylie Sue Lunsford, 31, tested positive for methamphetamine.
Lunsford told police she was poisoned while they arrested her for allegedly throwing a metal pipe, nails, a bowl and other items at her husband.
An emergency room doctor immediately tended to Lunsford when she pretended to have a seizure. A doctor ran a series of tests, including a CT scan of the woman’s brain, and blood and urine tests, and all were negative for poison or signs of a seizure.
This is the fourth time Lunsford has been arrested on a charge of domestic battery.
Road rage turns into skid marks
Pennsylvania police said a woman wiped a dirty diaper on the window of another woman’s vehicle during a dispute in a traffic jam.
Jessica Hollis, 23, has been charged with harassment after police said she smeared the diaper on the rear window of another vehicle.
Police said the women began arguing while they were stuck in traffic leaving the Fayette County Fair.
Let’s give her the Bronx cheer
A Bronx juror sitting for a burglary case stole another juror’s credit card — and then went on a brazen shopping spree, authorities said.
According to the New York Post, Jennifer Mercado stole fellow juror John Postrk’s plastic and bought more than $500 worth of shoes and clothing at stores near the courthouse, authorities said.
She faces up to four years in prison. – Compiled by Scott McCabe
