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Chelsea Guerra, 21, was arrested on an indecent-exposure charge and Michael Warnock, 64, was charged with solicitation and other counts after police in Monroeville, Pa., got calls about a man at a shopping center taking photos of a woman wearing only thigh-high black stockings and heels.
Rich Edmonds, a police officer in Clearwater, Fla., is being praised on social media after a woman snapped a picture of him walking hand in hand with a crying 6-yearold girl who had gotten lost at the beach.
David Bales, a judge in Chattanooga, Tenn., on leave as he is treated for cancer, was escorted out of the courthouse after, witnesses said, he threw what they described as a tantrum in an office that he once occupied, turning over furniture and tossing another judge’s belongings out the door.
Wesley Dicus, 27, a waiter in Pensacola, Fla., faces grand-theft and stolen-property charges, accused of trying to sell a $3,000 diamond ring that a woman had reported losing at a restaurant when it slipped off as she put lotion on her hands, police said.
Geneva Robinson, 51, of Oklahoma City, who pleaded guilty to five felony childabuse counts for dressing up as a witch and terrorizing her 7-year-old granddaughter by scratching the girl’s neck, cutting her hair as she slept and other abuse that went on for months, was sentenced to three life sentences, prosecutors said.
Conrad Jackson of the Prescott, Ariz., Fire Department, said a 7-year-old boy sent to find help when his grandmother fell and broke her leg while on a hike proved to be “a capable, self-assured fellow who remained calm” as he found other hikers who called 911.
Freddie Garrison, 43, of Reeds, Mo., was sentenced to five years in prison for throwing a hunting knife at a state conservation agent and then running into the woods when the officer tried to take him into custody, prosecutors said.
Brittney Roy, 22, of Massapequa, N.Y., who was 7 when her father, police Sgt. Timothy Roy, died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, is now a New York City police officer after being sworn in Thursday.