THEY’RE NEVER TOO YOUNG: According to a Nevada newspaper, 37-year-old Alredo Martinez was charged with a felony count of child endangerment after allegedly letting is 7-year old son drive because he was too intoxicated.
ARE YOU SURE THIS IS THE RIGHT BANK? A gang of Romanian robbers allegedly staged a daring, overnight raid into a bank’s headquarters in Constanta, Romania last week, only to find the vault completely empty. A police spokesman said the robbers then tried to steal pipes off the walls but were unsuccessful, according to Ananova.com.
– Ryan Knutson
I THOUGHT YOU WOULDN’T NOTICE: Police have arrested a Burlington County, N.J., man for using a lawn mower to cut a racial slur in the grass in an open field.
Dennis E. Westphal, 19, of Edgewater Park turned himself in to the Edgewater Park Township police on Thursday, a day after authorities issued a warrant for his arrest, according to a statement from the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office.
Police were initially alerted to the incident on Aug. 31 when a local resident called them, said Jack Smith, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office.
The racial slur, which was cut into a field of tall grass on township-owned property, was also spotted by someone in a plane flying overhead who then alerted police.
Westphal was charged with bias intimidation and harassment and released on his own recognizance pending a court hearing on Nov. 15.
No telephone listing could be found for Westphal.
– Associated Press