Unconscious man rode on car’s trunk for miles
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — When police pulled over a Tennessee couple and told them a body was lying on the trunk of their car, they thought it was a joke — until they got out to look.
They found an unconscious man who had somehow remained on the trunk for about 23 km.
Driver Carl Webb told reporters he had left the Memphis in May barbeque festival before the officer pulled them over last Thursday evening.
Memphis police say in a statement that Officer Benjamin Huff noticed what appeared to be a man on the black Ford Taurus travelling about 104 km/h down an expressway and pulled the car over. After alerting the couple he woke the man, who was disoriented and did not remember leaving the festival.
No charges were filed.
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. — A quick-thinking Florida sheriff’s deputy used Facetime to track down a stolen cellphone.
In a Facebook posting, Okaloosa County Sheriff’s officials said 18-year-old Chandler Ridge Carlyle took the cellphone from an acquaintance during a party last month.
The victim told deputies Carlyle asked to use his phone to call for a ride home, then left with it.
The deputy sent a text message to the phone, but didn’t get a response. He then made a Facetime call. When Carlyle answered the call, the deputy snapped a screenshot. He showed the victim, who identified the person in the photo as the one who took his phone. The deputy then compared the photo to Carlyle’s driver’s license.
He was arrested May 21 and charged with grand theft. Court records don’t list an attorney. ANKARA, Turkey — A leading advocate for press freedoms says a French photographer who was taken into custody in Turkey has started a hunger strike to protest his detention.
Reporters Without Borders, citing the photographer’s lawyer, said Wednesday that Mathias Depardon, began his hunger strike on May 21.
The photographer, who was based in Turkey, was on assignment for the
magazine when he was detained in the mainlyKurdish province of Batman on May 8. He was being held at a deportation centre in the province of Gaziantep.
Turkish officials have not commented on the reasons for his detention.
Johann Bihr, the head of the group’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk, said the “ordeal to which Mathias Depardon is being subjected is unacceptable and has lasted for too long.”
Facetime cracks a crime French photographer detained in Turkey starts hunger strike Police: Gunman said neo-Nazi roommates were planning terror
TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida man told police he fatally shot his neo-Nazi roommates because he wanted to prevent a planned act of domestic terrorism.
Court documents filed Tuesday show that 18-year-old Devon Arthurs made the comment to police on Friday after leading officers to the bodies.
Arthurs, who told police he was a recent convert to Islam, said his roommates had disparaged his new religion and that their behaviour also spurred his actions.
Investigators found bomb-making materials, Nazi propaganda and a framed photograph of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in the apartment with the bodies.
Also arrested was a fourth roommate, Brandon Russell, an active member of the Florida National Guard who police say admitted to being a neo-Nazi and who gathered the explosives.
A court hearing for Arthurs was postponed Wednesday. The Associated Press