Ohio governor says he'll push for exotic-pet regs
(10-21) 12:11 PDT Columbus, Ohio (AP) Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY'-sik) says he'll push for a moratorium on exotic animal auctions and a crackdown on unlicensed auctions.
The governor announced an executive order Friday, a few days after an owner of exotic pets in Ohio set dozens free this week and committed suicide. Kasich had let an order that banned buying and selling exotic animals expire this spring, arguing it lacked legal authority. Kasich's order says he'll............READ MORE>>> Burger burglar gets stuck in ventNot actual Picture
A Cleveland burglary suspect was caught in the act after getting stuck in a restaurant's rooftop air conditioning vent.It happened at Burger Haven on Broadway Avenue.
Police at the scene said Edward Lawson scaled the brand new Burger Haven restaurant early Thursday morning and noticed an old AC unit cover. "They ripped it off and got halfway in the store and they couldn't go anywhere else. So he was just hanging there," said owner George Nakhle. The man was stuck in the vent. "I mean, that's hilarious to me. Wouldn't you feel the same way? That's funny," said Nakhle. Someone spotted Lawson on the roof and called 911. When officers arrived, they couldn't find the guy at first. Then, they saw his legs dangling from the ceiling. The man was rescued and arrested in a matter of hours and booked into jail. Burger Haven will install a surveillance system and add a more secure cover on the vent. 'Vampire' arrested after she bit wheelchair-bound man, police say
A self-proclaimed vampire attacked an elderly wheelchair-bound man outside a Florida Hooters Restaurant just before midnight on Thursday, leaving him bloodied and in need of stitches, police said.
Milton Ellis, 69, had fallen asleep on the porch of the deserted Hooters in St. Petersburg when he woke up to find Josephine Rebecca Smith, 22, on top of him, he told police. Smith told Ellis she was a vampire and then proceeded to bite him, tearing off chunks of his face and a part of his lip, St. Petersburg police spokesman Mike Puetz said, according to The St. Petersburg Times. "After he fell asleep on the ground, he claims that she attacked him, started yelling that she was a vampire, that she was going to eat him and started biting him by his face and body," Puetz said. Blood dripping from bite marks on his neck and face, Ellis managed to scramble back into his motorized wheelchair and reach a nearby Shell gas station, where he called police...... Click to read more Neighbor asks permission to dump body in trash canTACOMA, Wash. – A man who aslked his neighbors if he could dump a body in their trash can was arrested Wednesday night, Tacoma Police said.
It happened around 4 p.m. at an apartment complex in the 500 block of East 36th Street. Tacoma Police spokesman Sgt. Mark Fulghum said it was unclear if the neighbors actually gave the man permission to dump the body in their trash, but he allegedly did it anyway. Police said the body was that of a 16-year-old Tacoma boy who had been shot in the head. No other information was immediately released by police. Lyle Monroe Bensley, Self-Described Vampire, Accused Of Biting Woman, Telling Cops 'He Needed To Feed'A self-described vampire broke into a woman's home and bit her, according to law enforcement officials in Texas. Police in Galveston arrested 19-year-old Lyle Monroe Bensley early on Saturday on charges of burglary with intent to commit assault, The Galveston County Daily News reports. Bensley -- clad only in boxer shorts -- forced his way into the victim's apartment, entered her bedroom and began to make growling and hissing sounds, investigators told The Houston Chronicle. The suspect allegedly attacked the woman in bed, biting and hitting her. Police believe Bensley then tried to force the victim to leave the apartment, but the woman was able to break free and seek protection in a car driven by neighbors. The suspect allegedly struck the car's windows as it drove away, The Daily News notes. After receiving a call at around 6:50 a.m., officers arrived at the victim's apartment. While searching the crime scene, they heard yells and growls coming from the parking lot, where they say they spotted Bensley. Police reportedly took him into custody after a brief pursuit."He was begging us to restrain him because he didn't want to kill us," Galveston Officer Daniel Erickson told The Houston Chronicle. "He said he needed to feed." The suspect also allegedly stated: "I'm a vampire, and I've been alive for over 500 years." This isn't the first time a man claiming to be a vampire who has lived for more than a century has threatened police. Last year, police in Ohio arrested an allegedly intoxicated 21-year-old who said he was immortal and claimed he wanted to drink the blood and eat the kidneys of law enforcement officials. lCrash throws marijuana into the streetSAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 2
Police in California said a truck crashed and many of its bags of illegally carried marijuana were snatched up by bystanders before officers arrived.San Jose police said the truck, which crashed at about 12:50 a.m. Wednesday and wound up on its side near Oakridge Mall, was abandoned by the time police got there and many large bags of marijuana were taken by pedestrians and motorists, the San Jose Mercury News reported Friday.
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Men Caught With 260 Baby AlligatorsJACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers say they surprised two Sumter County men early Thursday morning when the men came off Lake Apopka with a couple of sacks full of recently hatched alligators.
Robert “Bo” Martin Duval, 32, and Christopher Cork Scroggins, 22, both of Bushnell, were booked into Lake County jail early Thursday on felony possession/capture of hatchling alligators along with misdemeanor conspiracy charges. Duval had additional felony charges of possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon. The firearms were concealed under some vegetation in the airboat boat. FWC Officer David Straub and FWC Reserve Officer were on surveillance at the Montverde boat ramp when the two men returned from the night on Lake Apopka. “You have got me, and I have a lot of alligator hatchlings,” Duval said as the officers approached him and Scroggins. “Unfortunately, there is an illegal market for hatchling alligators, and people who participate in this type of poaching have no regard for our resources or the laws that protect them,” Straub said. Officers returned the hatchlings to the lake alive. Duval and Scroggins later bailed out on $13,000 and $3,000 bonds, respectively. Charges are pending against a woman who assisted the two men at the boat ramp, and the incident is still under investigation. Possessing/capturing hatchling alligators is a third-degree felony, which, on conviction, carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is a second-degree felony, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Man stakes claim to tube steak statueThe case of the mysterious Hot Dog Man statue has been solved.
The statue, which appeared on a Council Bluffs, Iowa, street corner near a school,prompting a call to police by a citizen who thought it was a man in costume , has been claimed by its rightful owner, The Daily Nonpareil reports.. What proof of ownership did Curtis Wennhold offer that the statue, which was missing its arms, was his? The arms, said police Capt. Terry LeMaster, according to the Nonpareil. “(Wennhold) has the arms; to me, that’s enough proof that it is his,” LeMaster laughed. “We’ll be glad to give it back to him.” Wennhold told police he found the statue in California and brought it to his Council Bluffs yard, LeMaster told the Nonpareil. The captain said a group of teenagers saw the statue and decided to take it. In lifting the 400-pound hot dog into a vehicle, the teens managed to break off the arms, one of which was applying ketchup to the wienie's head, the other holding mustard. The statue-nappers took Hot Dog Man home, LeMaster told the Nonpareil, but they soon became "creeped out" by its leering expression, took it to the corner of Harmony Court and Benton Street, and left it. LeMaster told the paper that the teenage culprits had been identified but that no one involved in the case wanted to press charges. After some paperwork is taken care of, Hot Dog Man will return home with Wennhold, LeMaster told the Nonpareil. And then the widespread attention the statue's appearance attracted is likely to die down — police said they received tips and offers to take it from as far away as Australia. Take a bough! Rescuers free drunken moose stuck in tree
An inebriated moose trying to get more fermenting apples apparently lost its balance and ended up stuck in an apple tree in Sweden, The Local website reported.
After returning home from work Tuesday evening, Per Johansson of Saro heard bellowing from his neighbor’s yard, The Local reported. “I thought at first that someone was having a laugh. Then I went over to take a look and spotted a moose stuck in an apple tree with only one leg left on the ground,” Johansson told The Local. Johansson called the police, he told The Local, but while waiting for a response, he and neighbors began to saw off limbs to try to help the entangled, thrashing moose. Responding firefighters managed to bend the tree down far enough for the animal to slide off the branches, The Local reported. Drunken moose are common in Sweden in autumn, when apples are abundant on the ground and in trees in homeowners’ yards, according to The Local. Johansson surmised the moose had been indulging for quite a while. “My neighbor recognized it as the animal that almost ran into her car earlier in the day,” Johansson told The Local. “She was pretty sure the moose was already under the influence." Steven Seagal killed my puppy, says man raided in police reality show
Jesus Llovera wants $25,000 in compensation and a written apology from Seagal after the action star burst into his home to hunt down an illegal cockfighting ring. The raid in March was part of an episode of Seagal's reality show "Steven Seagal: Lawman" in which Seagal appears as a deputy sherrif.
Mr Llovera claims that during the raid deputies from the Maricopa County sheriff's office shot and killed his 11-month-old pet. He is also seeking $25,000 from the sherrif's department. But officers have denied killing the dog. "That's a fabrication. That is just a bunch of ****," chief deputy David Trombi told ABC News' Phoenix affiliate. Mr Llovera said the raid on his home was unfounded and that he only raises birds "for show". His lawyer told TMZ that he wants the actor to compose a written apology for his kids "for the death of their 11-month-old puppy, a beloved family pet." Man Arrested In Ohio For Having Sex With Neighbor's Pool Raft: PoliceIt's one thing to feel romantic with a partner in a swimming pool, it's another to treat a pool toy like an inflate-a-mate -- especially in public.
That's a lesson Edwin Charles Tobergta is learning the hard way. Police in Hamilton, Ohio arresting the 32-year-old man for allegedly getting nasty with a neighbor's pink inflatable raft in an alley on Sunday,The Cincinnati Enquirer reported. The neighbor allegedly spotted Tobergta on top of the floatation device with his pants "down around his ankles," according to a police report obtained by The Smoking Gun. Yells from the upset neighbor interrupted Tobergta's passionate moment, but it didn't totally deflate his lust for the defenseless object. He pulled up his trousers and fled, taking the pool raft with him, the police report said. When police caught Tobergta, he allegedly admitted to the dirty deed, but begged for mercy, claiming that he "has a problem," and "needs help," the police report said. The discarded raft was found marooned in a backyard, TV station WCPO reported. Tobergta's grandmother told The Enquirer that he has a history of mental problems. He's diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder and has abused his medication, she said. |