TRUCKER THREAT
Snake fan’s pet a killer
A LORRY driver accused of killing 39 migrants has received death threats.
Eamon Harrison, 22, faces extradition from Ireland after appearing in court in Dublin last week.
Harrison, from Co Down, Northern Ireland, has been warned by police that his life is in “serious” danger. A family member said: “We are talking about serious death threats and it has now escalated.”
Harrison was charged with 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to commit human trafficking and assist unlawful immigration after 39 Vietnamese people were found in the back of his refrigerated container.
He is said to have driven the container to Zeebrugge in Belgium before it was shipped to Purfleet in Essex, where the bodies of 31 men and eight women were discovered on October 23. AN Indiana woman was found dead with an eight-foot python wrapped around her neck by the snake-breeding cop who owns the home.
Laura Hurst, 36, was discovered by Don Munson inside his Oxford house, which contained about 140 snakes.
Munson, a snake breeder who lives next door to the home, was able to free the snake from Hurst’s neck, but it was too late.
DRUG runner Manuel Paz Sanchez Jr made a “Boo Boo” when he was caught by police trafficking methamphetamine. After being pulled over by a Montana state trooper, the 32-year-old said he had just come from Yellowstone National Park “where he was visiting Yogi Bear”. Sanchez, left, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after almost four kilos of the drug were found in the spare tyre of his car.
A MOCK funeral in Salt Lake City celebrated the end of the low 3.2% beer alcohol limit in Utah. As of yesterday, it was raised to 4%.
A JURY has just handed £8.5million to a heroin addict who allegedly dragged a cop along a busy New York street while fleeing a traffic stop, forcing another officer to shoot him.
Raoul Lopez, who has 20 arrests to his name, took the city to court over the harrowing 2006 run-in that left him partially paralysed on his right side. Who said crime doesn’t pay?
BARTENDER Taylor Russey received the tip of a lifetime when a customer gave her a lottery ticket that ended up winning nearly £40,000.
The regular gave out a Powerball ticket as part of his tip for her excellent service that evening at Bleachers Bar in O’Fallon, Missouri.
POLICE in Nebraska are hunting for a man who walked into a bank in Lincoln and tried to open an account with a fake $1million bill.
SECURITY at Newark airport detained a passenger after an X-ray of his bag revealed he was packing a gun – only to discover it was a gunshaped toilet roll holder, right.
“This most unusual revolver was not designed to spin bullets,” the Transportation Security Administration said of the New Jersey find.
I’VE been away in Vietnam this week and was left laughing by some of the business names in Hanoi. Pho, a soup, is a national dish that lends itself to several restaurant names, including one I saw called “Pho Keene Great”.