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Man arrested 101 times - 102nd is pending

101 arrests - his 102nd is pending

By Jennifer Baker

Cincinnati Enquirer

May 18, 2009

 

Timothy Akers should be a familiar face for law enforcement – the 40-year-old man has been arrested 101 times, according to Cincinnati police.

Investigators hope to make his 102nd arrest soon, said Detective Tamar Skelly with Crime Stoppers.

Akers, a parole violator whose last known address was Cheviot, remains at large on April 2 charges of misuse of a credit card and receiving stolen property, Hamilton County court records show.

Cincinnati police accuse him of using an 81-year-old woman’s credit card March 18 to make several purchases at the CVS Pharmacy on Seventh Street downtown. The credit card was taken during a recent burglary offense, records state.

Akers served about 3½ years in a state prison in London, Ohio, after he was convicted of an April 2005 robbery offense at a Rally’s Hamburgers in Hamilton County during which he threatened a female clerk, records show.

 

When he was released from prison in March 2008, he was put on parole for three years, said JoEllen Culp, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehbalitation and Correction in Columbus.

 

Prison records show Akers has been in and out of Ohio prisons and on parole at various times over the past 21 years for several offenses out of Hamilton County:

 

• May 1988 after he was convicted of theft. He served six months and was released on Aug. 12, 1988.

 

• November 1997 on a domestic violence charge in violation of a protection order. He was sentenced to nine months in prison and released in July 1998.

 

• December 2001 for assault and harassment by an inmate. He was given a one year sentence and released in Aug. 9, 2002.

 

• March 2003 for vandalism. He was released in October 2003.

 

• Akers also has been in and out of the Hamilton County jail at least 36 times since 1997, said Steve Barnett, spokesman for the county sheriff’s office.

 

Some of the more recent charges are for offenses such as grand theft auto, disorderly conduct, intoxication, obstruction of official business and possessing drug paraphernalia.

 

Akers has not been convicted on all of the various crimes he has been charged with over the years, Barnett pointed out.


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Entry #491

Bored juror gets an arrest warrant

'Extremely bored' juror gets an arrest warrant

May 19, 2009
Duty - Grant Faber, 25, faces a charge of contempt of court for leaving after lunch
HILLSBORO --Midway through a slow day of jury duty, Grant Faber of Hillsboro "just couldn't take it" anymore. So, after lunch, the 25-year-old man left. Not surprisingly, that didn't sit well with Washington County Circuit Judge Gayle Nachtigal, who issued a warrant for his arrest. On May 7, police found Faber near his home and asked why he skipped out on jury duty. Faber told the officers he left because he was "extremely bored," according to a police report. Following the judge's orders, the officers arrested Faber on a charge of contempt of court.
Nachtigal wouldn't talk about her runaway juror but said jury duty is a critical part of a fair trial. Juries must comprise a balanced cross section of the U.S. population in order to be fair and impartial. "It think it is one of the most important civil responsibilities that citizens . . . have," Nachtigal said. Courts try to work with people to minimize the inconvenience of jury duty, Nachtigal said, and can try to reschedule the date a person can serve.
Teachers, for example, usually serve jury duty during the summer so as not to disrupt their classes. Potential jurors will serve for one day or one trial, Nachtigal said. If they aren't picked for a jury the first day, they are dismissed. If they are selected for a jury, trials usually last less than two days. Nachtigal said the maximum penalty for missing jury duty is six months in jail. Usually, however, penalties are waived if the person will agree to show up for jury duty. Faber is scheduled to be arraigned this morning.
Entry #490

Man eats pot to avoid charges

Updated May 18. 2009 12:56PM

Cedar Rapids man eats pot hoping to avoid charges

By Carla Keppler
The Gazette


University Heights Police in Iowa City charged a Cedar Rapids man with preventing apprehension and obstructing prosecution and third-offense drug possession after he ate marijuana to avoid criminal charges.

David I. Pledge, 25, of 1624 D Ave. NE, Cedar Rapids was pulled over at 12:52 a.m. Sunday for a traffic violation at Melrose Avenue and Emerald Street in Iowa City. Officers noticed a strong marijuana-like odor coming from Pledge's breath when they approached the vehicle, they said. A green, leafy substance was also found scattered down his shirt.

"It was all over," University Heights Police Chief Ron Fort said.

Police soon discovered Pledge had a partially eaten plastic bag of marijuana in his mouth.

"He threw the whole bag, plastic and all, in his mouth and tried swallowing," Fort said.

Pledge eventually gagged and the "medium sized bag" came out of his mouth, Fort said.

In his 40 years with the department, Fort has seen this only once or twice.

"Throw it out the window, hide it under the seat or drop it out the door, yes," he said, "But it's not common to have someone eat drugs."

Officers could not determine how much marijuana Pledge ingested or the effect the act had.

Preventing apprehension and obstructing prosecution and third- or subsequent-offense possession of marijuana are aggravated misdemeanors and are punishable by up to two years in prison and a maximum $5,000 fine.
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Entry #489

Bowl of Chili Used to Stop Robbers In Home Invasion

Bowl of chili used to fend off robbers in Claiborne County

By Rebecca Ferrar

Knoxville News Sentinel
Thursday, May 14, 2009

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When two men broke into her home, Wanda Bray defended herself with what she had - a bowl of chili and some household objects.

"The woman fought them off," said Capt. David Honeycutt of the Claiborne County Sheriff's Department, of the 58-year-old Bray. "She threw a bowl of homemade chili and got after them with a broom."

Authorities later arrested three men in connection with the home-invasion robbery, and two of them were also charged with a convenience store heist.

The robbery occurred at about 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Arthur community of Claiborne County.

After Bray threw "household objects" at the robbery suspects, they fled the scene, a Sheriff's Department press release states.

The victim told deputies the robbers ran into her home and demanded her medication.

"They probably got away with some blood pressure pills," Honeycutt said.

Claiborne County Sheriff David Ray said that while Honeycutt was investigating the home-invasion robbery, his investigation took him to a location where authorities discovered a vehicle used in another robbery last week of the Tiger Ma

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Entry #487

Man convicted of robbing bank returns to same bank to rob

Police: Convicted bank robber returns
to scene for second failed crime

By JOHN GALLAS
Staff Writer

If at first you don't succeed, rob the same bank again.

 

But Shawn Carl Bullock failed -- again, Ormond Beach police said Tuesday.

Bullock, 35, already served 3 1/2 years in prison for robbing the Bank of America at 299 N. Nova Road in Ormond Beach in 2003. Police say he presented a note to a teller at that same bank on March 6. The note implied he had a gun and he got away with cash -- just as he did six years ago.

The next day during a traffic stop, Daytona Beach police found $1,000 in 50- and 100-dollar bills along with drugs on Bullock, police said. But it was Bullock's family who recognized him from bank surveillance photos police released, and on Monday he was charged with the bank heist.

Bullock of Ormond Beach was charged with robbery and grand theft, and was held Tuesday at the Volusia County Branch Jail on $52,000 bail.

Entry #485

Craigslist ad leads police to stolen GPS'

Internet ad leads cops to stolen property

PATRICIO G. BALONA
May 12, 2009

DELAND -- An Internet ad for GPS units police say were stolen attracted more than customers for a DeBary man accused of burglarizing cars.

A DeLand detective checking out Web sites selling stolen merchandise tracked down the navigating systems, too.

But before DeLand police could pick up Timothy Mulroney for the 4 a.m. April 16 car burglaries, he was arrested by sheriff's deputies four days later for breaking into several mailboxes and a van in a DeBary neighborhood, according to a Sheriff's Office charging affidavit.

On Thursday, DeLand police interviewed the jailed Mulroney, 18, and charged him with burglary of a conveyance, dealing in stolen property and grand theft, DeLand police Sgt. John Anderson said.

On April 16, DeLand police responded to reports of three cars broken into in the neighborhood of Bent Oaks Boulevard. Three cars in the subdivision had the driver's side windows smashed and GPS instruments were removed from the cars, a DeLand police report states.

According to the report, a crime-scene analyst for DeLand police found an ad for the stolen satellite gadgets on craigslist.com. The person advertising left a number for a cell phone. Police called Mulroney and tried to set up an undercover purchase, but Mulroney did not call back.

And then, on April 20, deputies arrested Mulroney and two others, Jared Toledo, 20, and Majin Toledo, 22, addresses unknown, when a neighbor called to complain that someone had broken his mailbox.

Jared Toledo told deputies Mulroney kicked down about 10 mailboxes while driving through the Glen Abbey subdivision looking for cars to break into, a sheriff's charging affidavit states. The trio left after getting into an unlocked van and stealing a stereo, the affidavit states.

The Toledos and Mulroney were arrested and charged with felony unarmed burglary of an unoccupied structure/conveyance for the April 20 incident.

When DeLand police spoke to Mulroney in jail Thursday, he admitted committing the burglaries and assisted detectives in recovering the stolen goods, Anderson said. The GPS units were in a bedroom closet in the DeBary home of Mulroney's mother, the DeLand police report states.

Entry #484

Man calls 9-1-1 to report robbery of drug money

Port Orange man calls 9-1-1 to report robbery of drug money

By JULIE MURPHY
Staff Writer

 

The men even called 9-1-1 to have deputies help them recover the money.

"Yeah I was scared," said Wesley Fehl of Port Orange. "I had two guns pointed at my head."

Fehl, 22, said Tuesday by phone that he and Kenneth Jones, 20, South Daytona, drove to a house on Sunset Boulevard near Holly Hill about 6:30 p.m. Monday to buy marijuana from two acquaintances of Jones.

"They invited me inside the house so they could do this," he said. "They both jumped me. My buddy had walked outside. When he came back in they threw him to the ground."

By then, Fehl had already been relieved of the $12,000, his wallet, and cell phone. Jones' acquaintances ran out of the house and drove off.

Fehl and Jones jumped into their own vehicle, drove after their assailants and called 9-1-1 to report the robbery, sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said in a written report.

"I was just held at gunpoint trying to buy drugs. We're following the dude right now," the caller told a Sheriff's Office dispatcher


The dispatcher urged the men not to follow the car and put themselves in further danger, Davidson said.

"But he's got my money," the caller said. "I don't want him to get away with my money."

Fehl still feels that way.

"I don't think police have gone back to the house yet," he said. "As far as they know, they aren't in trouble. And, I want my money back."

But investigators followed up, Davidson said. Suspects were identified and after warrants were issued for their arrest, the home was raided.

Craig Anthony Williams, 34, who lives in the house, was arrested and charged with one count of armed robbery. He was being held at the Volusia County Branch Jail with no bail allowed Tuesday night.

Investigators continue to look for Lavarus Peterkin, 29, Daytona Beach. He is described as about 6-foot-1, 175 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes and a tattoo on his right hand.

Because the investigation is ongoing, Davidson would not say if deputies found marijuana in the house when it was searched. He didn't know if the guns had been recovered.

While all of the men have criminal records, Fehl's is the longest and includes drug-related arrests, according to court records.

Pending the completion of the investigation, charges could be filed against the victims -- including a third man, Patrick Marsh, 22, Lake Helen, who was not with Fehl and Jones but reportedly supplied the money, Davidson said.

"We're still evaluating everyone's actions," he said Tuesday.

Entry #483

Boy, 11, in Court fight with mother over passport to appear on Talent Show

YouTube schoolboy in court fight with mother

An 11-year-old schoolboy who has been asked to appear on a television talent show in New York has taken his mother to court in a bid to force her to hand over his passport.

 

By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent
Last Updated: 10:59PM BST 15 May 2009

Brendan MacFarlane: YouTube schoolboy in court fight with mother over passport
Brendan MacFarlane

Brendan MacFarlane's singing has attracted more than 200,000 hits on YouTube, leading to an invitation to appear in America on the Maury's Most Talented Kids show.

He was spotted by talent scouts who were impressed by his version of Ray Charles's I Got A Woman, but is unable to fly to the US because his mother has his passport and is refusing to hand it over.

The schoolboy from Perth is at the centre of a dispute between his mother Angela White and his father George MacFarlane, who separated last year.

Lawyers were hoping to persuade Perth sheriff court yesterday to order Ms White to hand over the passport, but the schoolboy will have to put his ambitions on hold for at least a month after she failed to turn up.

The court was told that Ms White was unwell and she has been asked to bring a medical certificate to court for the next hearing.

Brendan previously claimed that he wanted to "be a star" and had "begged" his mother to hand over the passport. Mr MacFarlane, who has custody of his son, added: "She said it was because I'm going to make money out of him but that's just not true. We just want to go places and sing."

The singer was booked on chat show host Maury Povich's prime-time show, which has an audience of over three million people, and has been told he is still welcome to come to appear if the dispute can be resolved.

Ms White claimed recently that she did not want to stop the trip but wanted Brendan's father to discuss the issue with her.

Entry #482

Thief dodges bullet but not police

THIEF CAN'T HIT ESCAPE KEY IN Bronx

DAN MANGAN and MURRAY WEISS

Last updated: 3:14 am
May 17, 2009
Posted: 2:04 am
May 17, 2009

A brazen thief snatched a laptop from a US marshal in a Bronx park yesterday and dodged a bullet when the marshal shot at him -- only to be caught red-handed by the NYPD, law-enforcement sources said.

The marshal, who is assigned to Puerto Rico, was in a Jeep at a parking lot next to Van Cortlandt Park when a man approached just before 9 a.m. and grabbed the computer through an open window.

The marshal, whose name was not released, jumped out and fired a round at the thief as he darted off, a police source said.

Police did not charge the marshal, who admitted to firing the gun.

Christian Cepeda, 30, of Yonkers, was allegedly carrying the computer when he was captured not far from the scene. He was charged with grand larceny and possession of stolen property.

But things got even worse for Cepeda when his cellphone rang while he was being questioned and the caller told the cops that the phone, too, had been stolen -- during a meeting arranged over Craigslist.

Entry #481

Woman arrested for drug paraphernalia -and a Brillo pad

Woman arrested for drug paraphernalia - including a Brillo pad

May 12, 2009 - 11:39 AM
Sean Flynn
Daily News

FORT WALTON BEACH - A woman driving down Lovejoy Road was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia - including a Brillo pad.

An Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputy watched the suspect drive a white van down Lovejoy Road and stop for 10-15 seconds. The deputy followed the van and pulled it over.

According to the report, the driver admitted to using crack cocaine in her vehicle in the past few days. The officer searched her van and found a brown bag with a Brillo pad, which the driver said was used for smoking crack cocaine.

The deputy also found a small black pouch containing a crack pipe and a wooden poker. The driver denied ownership of the pouch, but based on her previous admissions, specifically regarding the Brillo pad, she was arrested for drug possession. 

Entry #480

Man Tries To Rob Store Using A Banana

It's a jungle out there - would-be robber slips up

Two subdue him, but he disposes of evidence

 

Dan Galindo

Journal Reporter

Published: May 16, 2009

 

If he had thought about it, Bobby Ray Mabe probably wouldn't have attacked the man trying to rob his store early Thursday.

But when a man holding something under his shirt asked for a Mountain Dew, then demanded money, Mabe and a patron grabbed the man.

"If he had had a gun he would've shot me," Mabe said yesterday. "But he had a banana."

Mabe owns 109 Biz Center off Thomasville Road, a computer cafe that features sweepstakes games. Patrons buy sweepstakes cards, and then find out on a computer whether they have won a cash prize.

When a man came in just after 1 and asked for the Mountain Dew, Mabe had just paid out $2,000 to a winner. Now someone was trying to take what little money he had left.

"It just flew all over me, and before I knew it, I had my hands on him," he said.

Mabe and the patron held the robber in a chair while they waited for Forsyth County sheriff's deputies to arrive. Meanwhile, the would-be robber ate the banana.

"And the deputy said, ‘Aha! He ate the evidence,'" Mabe said. "But we had the banana peel, and they took a picture of it."

John Steven Szwalla, 17, of 340 Yukon Trail, Wallburg, was charged with one count of attempted armed robbery.

Deputies joked about charging him with destroying evidence, said Major Brad Stanley, a spokesman for the sheriff's office.

Szwalla is in the Forsyth County Jail, with bond set at $50,000. He also was charged yesterday with common-law robbery by the Davidson County Sheriff's Office.

Maj. Brian Grubb of the sheriff's office said that the robbery was at the Kangaroo Express on Hickory Tree Road and happened just before the attempted robbery at Mabe's store.

Grubb said he had no other details about the incident.

 

Sheriff's office: Man tries to rob store using a banana

Forsyth County Sheriff's Office

John Steven Szwalla, 17, was charged with common-law robbery after he tried to rob a store using a banana tucked under his shirt to look like a gun, according to the sheriff's office.

Entry #479

Attorney arrested at courthouse for possession of marijuana

Attorney gets arrested at courthouse for possession of marijuana

Deputies say they found pot and pipe in her bag

06:08 PM CDT on Friday, May 15, 2009

 

Attorney gets arrested for having pot and pipe in court - An attorney was arrested heading into the Bexar County Courthouse after deputies found marijuana and a pipe in her purse. She claimed it wasn't hers, but it didn't matter.

Amanda Stanzilis, Reporter

May 15th, 2009

Attorney Regina Criswell was arrested at the Bexar County Courthouse after deputies say they discovered two ounces of marijuana and a chrome-colored marijuana pipe in her bag.

Deputies say Criswell was heading into the Courthouse to go to work. As is standard, security guards went through everyone's bags including Criswell's. That's when they say they found the baggie and pipe. Deputies were called over, and questioned Criswell. The 50 year old woman admitted she knew the drugs were in her bag, but said they belonged to a client.

Deputy Ino Badillo said, "It doesn't matter who you are. You can't be in possession of narcotics. Period."

Badillo says this is the first time he can remember an attorney being arrested for drug possesion at the Courthouse.

 

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Entry #478

Deputy Catch "Bad Hair Day Bandit's"

MCSO: Deputy's actions foiled 'Bad Hair Day Bandit's' plans

Reported by: Brent Roulier
abc15
Last Update: 5/12 8:06 pm
 
Surveillance video captured the suspect robbing this Chase Bank at 8200 E. Via Paseo Del Norte in Scottsdale on April 9, 2009.
A Maricopa County Sheriff's reserve deputy is being credited for foiling a Valley bank robber known as the "Bad Hair Day Bandit."
 
On Monday, Scottsdale police arrested three people, one of whom investigators believe is the serial bank robber.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix, 38-year-old Blair John Daehling and his wife, 32-year-old Brandy Heidrick-Daehling have been charged for their roles in several bank robberies committed throughout April and May.

Blair earned the name because surveillance images show him wearing different wigs during different robberies that have taken place in Scottsdale, Chandler and Phoenix.
 
At about 12:15 p.m. Monday, a man robbed the First Fidelity Bank located at 74th Street and Camelback Road in Scottsdale.
 
As the suspect entered the bank, off-duty Maricopa County Sheriff's reserve deputy Jim Jeselun noticed something strange.
 
"It was a gut feeling I had from being a sheriff's deputy for 10 years," Jeselun said.  "The guy was just out of place wearing a long sleeve shirt on a super hot day and a big afro wig. I just sensed he was going to rob that bank."

According to an MCSO press release, Jeselun, who retired from the sheriff's office in 2007 and became a reserve deputy in 2008, was working nearby when he noticed the suspect in a black Jetta outside the bank.
 
The press release stated, "Jeselun immediately went to the vehicle, copied down the plate number and waited nearby for the man to exit.  When the suspected robber came out, Jeselun said the robber took off at a high rate of speed."
 
Jeselun called police after people at the bank confirmed that it had been robbed.  He secured the bank building and later provided the information to police needed to apprehend the suspect, according to the press release.
 
"Actually, it was kind of fun," said Jeselun.
 
Scottsdale police officers found the suspect vehicle on the southbound Loop 101 at Indian School Road and followed the car until it arrived at Dobson Road and Mesa Riverview Drive in Mesa.
 
As officers prepared to make a traffic stop, the suspected robber ran from the vehicle but was captured a short distance away.  Another man was arrested along with the Daehlings, according to Scottsdale Police.
 
Detectives located a wig in the car and believe the suspect robbed a Scottsdale Desert Schools Federal Credit Union on Wednesday May 6. 
 
A recent press release stated that the "Bad Hair Day Bandit" also committed the following robberies:
  • Tuesday, April 7, 2009 – First Fidelity – 7401 E. Camelback Road, Scottsdale
  • Thursday, April 9, 2009 – Chase Bank – 8200 E. Via Paseo Del Norte, Scottsdale
  • Wednesday, April 15, 2009 – Chase Bank – 3970 W. Ray Road, Chandler
  • Wednesday, April 22, 2009 – Wells Fargo – 10651 N. 51st Street, Phoenix
  • Thursday, April 23, 2009 – Bank of America – 6501 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale

The press release also stated, "The Bad Hair Day Bandit has threatened a weapon in three instances and in every occurrence he brandished a blue bank bag, which he used for the money."
 

Link To Photo  Of Bad Hair Bandit and Slide Show:

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