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Tim Johnson, police chief in Flint, Mich., said that when officers arrived in response to a call about a man having trouble with his 12-year-old son who had locked himself inside his father’s vehicle, the boy jumped out of his dad’s car and into a police SUV, driving about a mile before being stopped by officers.
Barbara Jiron, 71, and husband Patrick Jiron, 80, were sentenced to three years’ probation after the California couple told police that the 60 pounds of marijuana they were hauling through Nebraska was intended for Christmas gifts for relatives in Vermont and Massachusetts.
Vincent Palozzolo, a sheriff’s deputy in northeastern Arizona, responded to a call for help by a woman who was pinned to the ground by a large black cow, using his stun gun to get the cow to release the woman, which caused the animal to charge Palozzolo and force him to the ground before the deputy again used his stun gun to drive the cow away.
Jaylon Kerley, 20, a food service worker at Comerica Park in Detroit, faces felony and misdemeanor charges after a video was posted online that appeared to show him spitting on pizza intended for customers during a major league baseball game.
Erick Betancourt, 24, a Florida man who pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in a crash that killed three people, including his sister, was sentenced to 10 days in prison, with one day to be served on each of the next 10 anniversaries of the crash.
David Prejean, a former K-9 sergeant with a Louisiana sheriff’s office, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for beating a jail inmate and ordering a police dog to bite him while the inmate was lying on the ground.
Lynn Boak resigned from the board of Cheyenne Animal Shelter in Wyoming after the board suspended CEO Bob Fecht for 60 days, saying she felt he should have been fired for ordering a dog to be pepper sprayed after it bit a shelter employee.
Ryan Keith Taylor, 24, a soldier from New Llano, La., was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for making bombs that released chlorine gas that injured two Army investigators near Fort Polk in Louisiana.
Donna Sue Hudgins, 69, was arrested after North Carolina police accused her of keeping the dead body of her mother, Nellie May Hudgins, 93, at home for several months, saying she wanted to see the stages of death.