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Dan Lang, 37, a former sheriff’s deputy in Rockdale County, Ga., was arrested on charges of stealing guns and violating his oath of office after being accused of taking firearms from the evidence room and pawning them for cash.
David Macy, an Oklahoma City Fire Department spokesman, said two city workers were cleaning up brush and trees when they disturbed thousands of bees that swarmed them, stinging one worker about 15 times and the other just a few times as they ran for cover.
Steven Orr, 53, was sentenced to almost six years in federal prison on wire-fraud offenses and other counts after attempting to sell cranes and other construction equipment that he did not own to companies in New Hampshire and Illinois.
Ciara Schultz, 31, a New York woman who police said breached security at a New Jersey airport by following an authorized vehicle through an open gate and drove her car across two runways, was charged with criminal trespass and other counts.
Fatima Khan, 21, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for orchestrating the stabbing of her sometime boyfriend, Khalid Safi, 18, and taking a video of him as he lay dying on a west London street, later posting the video on Snapchat.
Curtis Campbell, 63, of Mountain Grove, Mo., was charged with animal abuse, driving while intoxicated and other counts after a witness said she had to block his path to stop him as he drove his pickup while drunk with a horse dragging behind it.
Ruben Lopez, 27, and Jonathen Aguilar, 31, both of St. Charles, Mo., face federal charges of possessing and intending to distribute fentanyl after investigators intercepted a suspicious mailing that led to the discovery of 2 kilograms of fentanyl, or about 1.5 million doses of the drug, according to authorities.
Yanette Rodriguez Acosta, 35, of Houston was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for her role in what investigators called a “virtual kidnapping” extortion scam in which callers from Mexico falsely tell parents that their children have been abducted and demand ransoms.
Kim Olson, a Wyoming game warden, said she got a call about two bull elk fighting for herd dominance that got more than they bargained for when their antlers became entwined, prompting Olson and biologist Patrick Burke to tranquilize the elk and saw off some antlers to free the animals.