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After golf-cart rampage, NYC worker arrested
A 45-year-old employee of the New York City Parks Department was arrested on Friday evening after police witnessed him joy riding in a city-issue golf cart. After driving erratically around a park in lower Manhattan, the man left five birds dead and faced charges of reckless endangerment and intentional injury to an animal. Three pigeons and two seagulls were killed.
Colorado town ruins Valentine’s Day for wanted persons
In the town of Northglenn, Colorado, undercover police officers posing as flower deliverymen ruined Valentine’s Day for 23 people with outstanding arrests last week. The officers traveled in a van marked “Flower Delivery” and knocked on the suspects’ doors bearing long stemmed roses. The Associated Press quoted one man, Ronald Madden, who had been fooled as saying “Honestly it didn’t click with me until I heard, ‘Northglenn police’ and then he pulled out the badge and I thought, ‘Damn you guys are good.’”
Authorities put an end to 911 calls from prankster
Police have arrested a man in Hayward, California for making 27,000 911 calls from his cell phone since last May. The calls had overwhelmed the emergency call system used by the Hayward Police and the California Highway patrol. The man, 45-year-old John Triplette, would make bodily noises, mutter and press beep tones when his calls were answered. Abusing the 911 emergency line is a misdemeanor offense.
Former prisoners abandoned on bus as work day ends
A driver who was transporting 40 persons who had been paroled or released from the custody of the Texas State Prison in Huntsville parked her bus in front of a convenience store and left bus because her requisite number of hours for the day had been fulfilled last week. When police officers arrived at the scene, the former prisoners were standing around the bus awaiting the arrival of a second driver. About three hours after the first driver had left the bus, a second bus arrived to finish transporting the former prisoners to Dallas.
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