Police in Bensalem, Pa., say 43-year-old Susan Finkelstein took out an ad on Craig's List seeking tickets and wrote: "I'm the creative type! Maybe we can help each other!" according to Lehigh Valley Live. Unfortunately for Finkelstein, the person who answered the ad was an undercover cop. Police say she offered sex for the tix, and arrested her on prostitution charges.
A homeless man was arrested in East Naples on Saturday after deputies say he was sitting outside a coin-operated laundry with no pants on, claiming it was because the pants were being cleaned inside.
James T. Lowe, 59, was arrested by Collier County Sheriff’s deputies at 6000 Radio Road and charged with indecent exposure in public, trespassing, having an open container of alcohol in a public area and resisting an officer without violence.
The report indicates that Lowe had been removed from the property and charged with trespassing once before, and had returned, so the deputy made contact with an employee at the Naples Meat Shop. That employee, whose name was crossed out, told deputies Lowe sits outside the shop and harasses customers, asking for money.
Another witness, whose name was also removed from the report, told deputies that she walked out of the Circle K gas station next door and passed Lowe, who lifted up one of his legs as she walked by, exposing his genitalia to her. She said he was not wearing any pants.
Police say former police chief Michael Meissner posed as a woman to get teenage boys to send him nude photos of themselves. The 39-year-old former police chief of Caney City, Texas, is alleged to have set up a MySpace page, from which he solicited the photos, according to a report in the Star-Telegram. I know one place they really appreciate men who dress as women: Prison.
The girlfriend of a missing North Carolina man has been charged with murder after police found the man’s body stuffed in a freezer in their home. Investigators are trying to locate the couple’s missing son.
Wendy Edmond Green, 41, is being held without bond in the Wake County Jail on charges of first-degree murder in the death of her live-in boyfriend, 52-year-old David Reuben Green Jr.
Investigators had been looking for David Green since early September, when family members reported him missing. On Sept. 7, authorities conducted a search of the couple’s Raleigh home but were unable to locate him, Wake County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Phyllis Stephens said.
“They continued to investigate, and went back out there [Wednesday] to do another search,” Stephens told AOL News. “[Investigators] were looking around, and they saw a freezer. They opened [it up], and there he was.”
Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison told The News & Observer that investigators detected a “powerful smell” during their second search of the home. The power inside the home had been shut off in August.
On Thursday, authorities found found Wendy Green living at a home in nearby Robeson County. She was arrested and taken into custody without incident.
Jury selection began today in the trial of the alleged mastermind of a bizarre Pennsylvania bank robbery that claimed the life of a pizza deliveryman who was wearing a bomb around his neck.
Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, 61, is the final defendant to go to trial in the case, which made headlines around the world seven years ago. She is charged with criminal conspiracy, bank robbery and using a firearm in relation to a violent crime.
The defense and prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office started questioning a pool of 46 potential jurors at about 10 a.m. today in federal court in Erie, according to the Erie Times-News. The Associated Press reported that Diehl-Armstrong’s court-appointed lawyer, Douglas Sughrue, said his client would likely testify during the trial.
The strange case began on Aug. 8, 2003, when Brian Wells walked into a PNC Bank branch with a sophisticated homemade shotgun that had been disguised as a cane. Wells, a 46-year-old pizza deliveryman, demanded a quarter of a million dollars in cash but, according to court documents, received only $8,702.
After collecting the money, Wells ran toward his getaway car, but he didn’t make it far. Alerted by a silent alarm, Pennsylvania state troopers had already surrounded Wells’ green Chevrolet Metro. Wells surrendered without incident, but when troopers handcuffed him he said that a group of men had forced him to commit the robbery. Wells also said the men had placed a bomb around his neck.
