Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Terry Wright, 65, a woman from Grants Pass, Ore., is being sought by police in Galveston, Texas, who issued a warrant accusing her of resisting arrest and criminal trespass for refusing to wear a mask inside a bank, telling an officer: “What are you going to do, arrest me?”

■ John Kelley, 20, of Vienna, Va., a former Old Dominion University student who pleaded guilty to joining other white supremacis­ts in a swatting conspiracy that targeted a Black church and his own university, was sentenced to 33 months in prison, prosecutor­s said.

■ Foogiano, 27, a Georgia rapper whose real name is Kwame Brown, was captured in Memphis, authoritie­s said, after he was accused of violating his probation by melting off his court-ordered ankle monitor and disappeari­ng.

■ Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, France’s culture minister, announced that a Nazi-looted Gustav Klimt landscape painting titled “Rosebushes under the Trees” is being returned to its rightful owners more than 80 years after it was stolen from an Austrian Jewish family in 1938.

■ Aaron Barnes-Burpo, 29, of Crestview, Fla., who pleaded guilty to wire fraud for claiming to work in the rap industry and to have ties to the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan in order to scam stays and luxury services from a hotel in Augusta, Ga., was sentenced to seven years in prison.

■ Kevin Baroni, 35, a former St. Louis undercover narcotics officer, faces both misdemeano­r kidnapping and stealing charges as well as a civil lawsuit after being accused of illegally searching a man and stealing about $200 from him while off-duty.

■ Kelly McKin, 51, of North Palm Beach, Fla., accused of spitting on a security officer at Walt Disney World after she asked him to put on a mask as he entered a resort property, was charged with battery, an Orange County sheriff’s deputy said.

■ Patrick Giblin, 56, a New Jersey man who has twice served prison terms for using dating services to defraud women, is facing more time behind bars after failing to show up at a halfway house in Newark and spending eight months on the lam before being recaptured, authoritie­s said.

■ Roshanda Bowens, a jail inmate in Holly Springs, Miss., accused of escaping by assaulting a guard and stealing a patrol car to ram through a gate, was quickly recaptured when she was spotted by a worker at a nearby business who led officers to the escapee.

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