Offbeat News

A woman pleaded no contest last week to prostitution charges, accused of agreeing to be paid for services with a box of chips by a man who said he was a Frito-Lay employee. According to the police report, undercover officers noticed Smith “trying to catch a date” by flashing her headlights at SE 33 and Robinson. Officers said they followed Smith’s car and found her with her blouse open and found a man in the passenger seat pulling his pants up…Source

Police in Tustin arrested a man for drug possession after they found him dressed in a miniskirt and watching porn inside the gym at his apartment complex. Police were responding to a report of suspicious activity when they found 45 year old Stephen Murdoch wearing women’s clothing, stockings and heels, according to Tustin police Sgt. Jeff Blair…Source

A casket minus a cadaver yielded nearly 100 pounds of marijuana after a traffic stop in Dallas. William Dale Crock of Cave City, Ark., was in jail Friday on a marijuana possession charge, plus traffic and seat beat violations. Dallas police say Crock was arrested Wednesday when bundles of marijuana were discovered under the casket’s cover and pillow…Source

A German police detective faces charges of armed robbery after he allegedly walked into a bank without a mask, held up tellers with his police-issued pistol and made his getaway in an unmarked patrol car. Juergen Richter got away with close to $12,000 before a closed circuit TV recording led police to the 55-year-old man who they say robbed the Baden-Wurttemberg bank, Ananova reported. ..Source

Police said a customer fired one or two shots into a Salt Lake City McDonald’s after the driver of the car he was in was told the restaurant was not serving lunch yet. Police said the female driver of a white Dodge Intrepid pulled up to the drive-thru and ordered from the lunch menu early Sunday but was told only breakfast was available…Source

A retired police chief said he was robbed by “probably the dumbest criminal in Pennsylvania,” at a police officers’ convention on Friday morning. John Comparetto said as he came out of a stall in the men’s room, a man pointed a gun in his face and demanded money. There were 300 narcotics officers from Pennsylvania and Ohio at the gathering…Source

A woman was arrested Friday afternoon after she reportedly agreed to perform oral sex on an undercover deputy for $10, according to an affidavit released Monday. Linda Marie Vines, 35, of the 1100 block of Buckskin Trail, has been charged with solicitation of prostitution and resisting an officer with violence. Vines tried to run and both the deputy and Vines fell onto a glass door as the deputy apprehended her…Source

When Carroll Township Police pulled up to a vehicle sitting at a traffic light Saturday night, they found its driver asleep at the wheel, his foot on the brake, and a beer in the console next to him, Sgt. David Smith said. The officers, who arrived just after 8 p.m., had to yell at the man — who had sat through six red lights while at Route 15 and Orebank Road — to wake him up, Smith said…Source

A Waukesha man was charged Friday with attempting to start a methamphetamine lab, a plan that authorities say was thwarted because an astute hardware employee saw instructions he was carrying in the store. Derek J. Haines, 24, told police that he was glad he was stopped because he was afraid he might blow up himself or someone else while trying to manufacture the drug, according to the criminal complaint…Source

Would-be robbers take note: Don’t use your debit card during a holdup. A West Virginia man who police say attempted to rob a convenience store instead ended up buying a soft drink with his debit card — ultimately leading to his arrest. Shawn Thomas Lester, 33, told the store clerk Monday he had a gun and wanted all the money in the register, police said. But the suspect got flustered when a customer walked in and the clerk told him to pay for the soft drink…Source