Drugs and alcohol found in blood of father charged with five deaths

By Calvin Palmer
The Houston father whose car went out of control into a flooded bayou, killing five children, had traces of PCP, marijuana and alcohol in his blood.
Prosecutors had already revealed in court that Chanton Jenkins’ blood alcohol level was 0.079 and 0.082 some 2½ hours after the crash on April 18, when he veered off [...]

Bank robbery suspect breaks leg, drops the cash and ends up with just $2

By Calvin Palmer
A man and woman arrested yesterday in connection with a bank robbery in Connecticut were certainly no Bonnie and Clyde.
Jason Durant, 32, of Millerton, New York , and Crystal Eyler, 27, of Sharon, were charged with a hold-up on Tuesday at the National Iron Bank in Cornwall Bridge, said Connecticut State Police.
Durant allegedly [...]

Oranges packed in man’s suitcase found to contain cocaine

By Calvin Palmer
An elderly Dutch man with a suitcase full of oranges told custom officers in Rome today he needed to keep up his vitamin C level.
Closer inspection revealed that the oranges had been stripped of their pulp and contained more than 13 pounds of cocaine.
Police arrested the 76-year-old on international drug trafficking charges.
The man [...]

Ohio cancer scam woman on the run arrested in Utah

By Calvin Palmer
An Ohio mother-of-six accused of stealing $800,000 from friends and family by claiming her husband had cancer was arrested yesterday.
Delaware County sheriff’s office said 29-year-old Melanie Chen, of Columbus, was arrested at a Salt Lake City hotel after being on the run for seven weeks.
Chen failed to turn up for an arraignment hearing in [...]

Police hunt for gunman after taco hell

By Calvin Palmer
Police are hunting for a man who opened fire with a rifle last night on a group of people eating at a taco truck in the Los Angeles area, killing one man and wounding five others.
The gunman got out of a white sedan about 10: 40 p.m. in Inglewood Avenue, Lennox, and began [...]

Japanese mother accused of keeping body of four-year-old son in fridge

By Calvin Palmer
A Japanese woman suspected of keeping the body of her four-year-old son in a refrigerator for nearly two years was arrested yesterday.
Miyuki Otsuka, 33, turned herself in to police in western Hyogo prefecture.
A decomposed body was later found in a plastic bag in her fridge, a police spokesman said.
“We believe it was the [...]

Georgia man convicted of stalking Tyra Banks

By Calvin Palmer
A Georgia man was convicted today at Manhattan court of stalking the supermodel-turned-TV host Tyra Banks.
Supermarket worker Brady Green, 39, of Dublin, Georgia, was convicted by Manhattan Criminal Court Judge James Burke, who heard the case without a jury, of stalking, harassment, criminal trespass and attempted aggravated harassment.
Green faces up to 90 days [...]

Car plows into crowd waiting to see Dutch queen

By Calvin Palmer
A speeding car plowed into a crowd waiting for Queen Beatrix of Holland today, killing five people and injuring 14 others.
The black Suzuki Swift appeared to target an open bus carrying Queen Beatrix and her family in the town of Apeldoorn, as people celebrated Queen’s Day, a national holiday.
People were seen flying through the [...]

Usain Bolt escapes with minor injuries after crashing his BMW M3

By Calvin Palmer
The fastest man in the world, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, escaped serious injury yesterday when he wrote off his BMW M3 Coupe.
The world 100 and 200-meter record holder and triple Olympic gold medalist sustained a minor injury to his feet when he stepped on thorns leaving the wrecked car.
He was taken to Spanish [...]

FBI raids Parente’s Manhattan office

By Calvin Palmer
The FBI raided the Manhattan office of tax attorney William Parente yesterday as part of an investigation into his investment business.
Agents removed about 40 boxes of files and a computer hard drive from the Lexington Avenue office, said spokesman for the FBI’s Manhattan field office James Margolin.
An FBI source said agents have spoken [...]