At around 1:20 a.m. on Monday, police were called to the home of a teenage girl who called after a classmate reportedly broke into her family’s Volusia County home, entered her room, and grabbed her.
]]>Police arrived at a Phoenix convenience store after Rozenna Luna, 36, called them to say she could no longer take care of her 6-month-old daughter, Elena.
Before she called authorities however, witnesses say Luna had attempted to give the child away at the store. They told a cashier, who called police.
Police spokesman Tommy Thompson said that when officers arrived, they learned Luna was intoxicated and had smoked methamphetamine two days earlier.
]]>Gary Cole is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for “delaying interstate commerce, conspiring to do so, and using and carrying a firearm in relation to a crime of violence,” so he’s had quite a bit of time on his hands.
Cole claims that in 2006, he sent a list of ideas to his lawyer, one of them being a “Tacos (sic) shells of all flavors (made of Doritos.)
So in 2012, Cole was shocked to read articles in USA Today and Time magazine about Taco Bell’s new Doritos Locos Tacos. Believing his udder had been stolen through the mail, Cole said he wrote to the FBI and demanded an investigation. He also wrote to the IRS, stating, “A check was made out to a person for a large amount by Taco Bell, Frito Lay, and Pepsi Co. Inc. for an idea or invention that was submitted to them by theft and fraud.” Cole says he did not receive a response from either.
Cole is now going after Taco Bell’s parent company Yum Brands as well as Pepsi and Frito-Lay, having filed a federal lawsuit against them in Dallas on Wednesday.
Cole will be representing himself in the case, but has reportedly enlisted the help of a Denver law firm.
]]>The Waffle Taco is pretty much what it sounds like - a waffle is used in place of a tortilla and is filled with eggs, sausage, and syrup.
At $.89 people will surely be tempted to try it out, the tricky part will be finding it, as it only appears to be available in Southern California for now.
]]>Colombian authorities have recaptured a man who escaped from jail last year after being convicted of kidnapping, robbery, and extortion during his involvement with the Los Topos gang.
Giovanni Rebolledo, a Bogota native, was recaptured on Saturday, but something was different about the escaped con, or rather two things were different.
After his escape in 2012, Rebolledo got breast implants in an attempt to disguise himself. He has reportedly been working as a prostitute in Barranquilla’s Viejo Prado district.
Still, his disguise as “Rosalinda” was not enough to fool police, as he was still recognized over the weekend during a routine stop-and-search.
Rebolledo was sentenced to 60 years in jail back in 2012, but will likely
*On a side note, “Rosalinda” is not a bad looking lady, so we tip our hats to the officers who recognized who “she” really was.
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George Rodriguez, 50, was arrested by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office after allegedly breaking into his ex-wife’s house, throwing her 65-inch flat screen television out of her window and then running it over with his truck before heading to her place of business in Rockland Key, Fla.
Once he arrived at his ex-wife’s office, Rodriguez, of Key West, found the woman, grabbed her by her hair, and hit her.
The woman’s boyfriend was also at her place of business and attempted to intervene. Rodriguez also attacked the boyfriend and attempted to slam the man’s head on the metal bumper of his truck.
Deputies arrived after another employee had already separated the men.
Rodriguez was arrested and changed with aggravated assault, battery, criminal mischief, and burglary.
It is unclear what set Rodriguez off.
]]>Was it Jihad or Jesus?
On Sunday, a disturbed Jimenez Martinez drove his 2007 Chevy Tahoe through a security gate at Dallas Love Field airport. When authorities attempted to take him into custody he was yelling something, but Dallas police and the FBI heard two different things.
The Dallas cops heard, “Jihad! Jihad!” repeated over and over again, while FBI agents believe they heard him yelling, “Jesus! Jesus!”
Martinez was arrested for illegally entering a “critical infrastructure facility,” one which was “readily accessible to planes and fuel.”
Read more odd new here.
On Friday, Portland’s Hugo Avalos-Chanon was cleaning a meat blender in Clackamas, Ore. at Interstate Meat Distributors. At around 11:45 a.m., Avalos-Chanon fell into the running blender, and though another worker triggered the emergency stop it was too late.
His official cause of death was blunt-force injuries and chopping wounds.
]]>Andrea Benitez, daughter of Mexico’s federal attorney general of consumer protection, was reportedly so angry about being denied her regular seat at popular restaurant Maximo Bistrot on Friday, that she ran to her father.
After leaving the restaurant and tweeting, “Dreadful service. They have no manners,” Benitez reportedly exaggerated what happened and her father, Humberto Benítez Treviño, ordered an investigation into the restaurant and had it closed.
]]>Beatriz and Iker recently moved to the small, and shrinking, village of Los Giles in Spain’s Almeria province.
Los Giles had not had a birth in 45 years, primarily due to the fact that the village of only 60 is mostly elderly men and women.
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