Sat, 28/08/2010 - 09:51 by Prince damin
Athens, Ga. -- Running back Washaun Ealey, who led the Georgia Bulldogs in rushing last season, was arrested Friday following an alleged hit-and-run accident.
Ealey, 21, was allegedly driving with a suspended license when he was involved in an accident in which a parked vehicle was hit on campus, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. He was released from the Clarke County Jail Friday after posting $3,480 bail.
Police told the newspaper the no one was injured in the incident and alcohol wasn't involved.
The newspaper also said Ealey had been charged with speeding and tag violations in May, allegations that led to a failure-to-appear charge and his driver's license being suspended.
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Sat, 28/08/2010 - 02:27 by Prince damin
Jeffersontown, Ky. -- Police in Jeffersontown, Ky., say a man charged with burglary robbed a woman he befriended on Facebook who posted the news she was going to a concert.
Shaun South, 31, of New Albany, Ind., was arrested Wednesday, the Jeffersonville (Ind.) Evening News reported. He faces charges that include burglary and theft.
Keri McMullen of New Albany said she and South, who lived in the same neighborhood as children, had been Facebook friends for about six months before the burglary in March. After she posted the information she and her fiancee planned to attend a concert March 21, two men broke in and removed their television, computers and other electronic equipment.
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Thu, 26/08/2010 - 04:08 by Prince damin
Rome -- Twelve people have been arrested for allegedly selling on the Internet hundreds of counterfeit works of art allegedly by modern masters, Italian police said.
The forgeries, which sold for an estimated $9 million, were attributed to Matisse, Magritte, Prampolini, Burri, Fontana, de Chirico, Guttuso, Sironi, Rotella, Capogrossi, Gentilini and Boccioni, ANSA reported.
"Buyers thought they were really making a bargain," a member of the Carabinieri's Cultural Heritage Protection Unit told the Italian news agency.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Mon, 23/08/2010 - 23:14 by Prince damin
Iowa City, Iowa -- Police in Iowa said they arrested a woman who allegedly allowed a 12-year-old to drive her and her three children in a van.
Iowa City police said Melissa Garcia, 21, was charged Saturday night with three counts of child endangerment and one count of operating a vehicle with no consent after she allegedly allowed the 12-year-old to drive a van containing Garcia and her children, ages 3, 2 and 1, from Nichols to Iowa City, KCRG-TV, Cedar Rapids, reported Monday.
Garcia, who is 7 months pregnant, told officers she took over driving because the 12-year-old was weaving around the road and nearly drove into a ditch.
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Mon, 23/08/2010 - 22:33 by Prince damin
Tehran -- A Swedish cosmetics company, Oriflame, said five of its staff members in Iran have been arrested, presumably on charges related to its sales strategy.
Swedish news agency Tidningarnas Telegrambyra reported Monday authorities in Tehran arrested two members of Oriflame's sales staff and three others on "undisclosed charges." The firm's Chief Financial Officer Gabriel Bennet said, "We presume that the actions of the authorities has something to do with our business idea. Our business idea is to sell cosmetic products and to give 40,000 Iranians, principally women, the chance to earn money on the direct sales."
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Fri, 20/08/2010 - 01:45 by Prince damin
Hudson, Fla. -- Authorities in Florida said they arrested a man who allegedly tried to sell his wife's parents' home without their permission.
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office said Louis Dunbar, 28, collected $1,000 in payments for the Hudson home from June 16 to July 29, the St. Petersburg Times reported Thursday.
"The money was from the victim to the defendant to secure the residence for a final sale," the sheriff's office report states.
Dunbar was arrested and booked into the Pasco County jail on a charge of scheme to defraud. Bail was set at $10,000.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Fri, 20/08/2010 - 01:41 by Prince damin
Panama City, Fla. -- Police in Florida said they recovered $45 that fell out of an arrested man's anus during a strip search at the Bay County Jail.
Officers said Nicholas Ryan Harris, 19, told officers there was nothing hidden on his body following his arrest on charges of driving under the influence, possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia, the Panama City News Herald reported Thursday.
However, the incident report states "several dollar bills fell from Nicholas' buttocks area" during a strip search at the Bay County Jail.
Harris is now facing a charge of introducing contraband into a county facility.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Thu, 19/08/2010 - 23:14 by Prince damin
Port Angeles, Wash. -- Police in Washington state said they arrested a banana-suited man who allegedly exposed himself in a Wendy's before brandishing a shotgun near a golf course.
Clallam County Sheriff's deputies said Carlton Jeffery Kohnert, 21, was dressed in a child's banana costume when he allegedly exposed himself to a woman at a Wendy's in Port Angeles shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday, the Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, reported Thursday.
The same Dodge Stratus witnesses reported seeing the costumed man leaving in was reported to police a short time later by witnesses who spotted the vehicle doing 360s in a store parking lot.
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Tue, 17/08/2010 - 22:16 by Prince damin
Waresboro, Fla. -- Authorities in Florida said they arrested four men accused of stealing an aluminum roof off the top of a house.
Lt. Jody Ponsell of the Ware County Sheriff's Office said a man called deputies Friday about noon and reported about 30 of the approximately 4-foot-long aluminum sheets were missing from atop his house near Waresboro, and 15 more were in his yard, the (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union reported Tuesday.
"It appears he interrupted the burglars and they took off when they heard him coming down the road," Ponsell said.
Deputies en route to the scene pulled over a pickup truck hauling aluminum roof panels and arrested four men inside the vehicle.
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Tue, 17/08/2010 - 13:18 by Natalie James
The bodies of two toddlers have been recovered from a car submerged in a South Carolina river, the Orangeburg County, SC, police authorities said Monday.
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Tue, 17/08/2010 - 00:21 by Prince damin
Keystone Heights, Fla. -- Florida authorities said a woman who posted a picture of her baby with a bong to Facebook was arrested on a drug paraphernalia charge.
Rachel Stieringer, 19, of Keystone Heights, who said the picture was a joke, was charged with a first-degree misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia, WFTV, Orlando, Fla., reported Monday.
The state Department of Children and Families said a drug test on the infant came back negative and the woman is not being charged with child abuse.
The baby boy was turned over to the custody of his grandparents.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Mon, 16/08/2010 - 15:05 by Rakhi
New York -- Rookie Indiana Pacers guard Lance Stephenson is facing charges for allegedly pushing his girlfriend down a flight of stairs in New York.
Stephenson, 19, was charged with third-degree assault for allegedly pushing Jasmine Williams down a stairwell in her apartment about 5 a.m. Saturday, the New York Daily News reported. She was reported to have fallen down 10 steps, requiring treatment at a hospital for head and neck injuries.
Stephenson, who was arrested later Saturday, was the 40th selection of the 2010 NBA draft after playing one year at Cincinnati where he averaged 12.3 points in 34 games.
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