Dallas tow truck driver Fidel Retana Jr. apparently didn’t look inside the illegally parked car he hooked up and hauled away from a fire lane.
It wasn’t until he stopped a short time later to check the hookups that he noticed a 7-year-old boy sleeping in the car. Retana high tailed it back to the fire lane where the child’s panicked parents watched him hurriedly unhook the car and flee.
Dallas police pulled Retana over a short time later and arrested him on child endangerment charges, but police said they expect to drop the charges because the tow truck driver did not intend to take the child.
“I hate the way towing people run the business," the boy’s father said.
- Investigators in Magnolia, Ark., say it wasn't the fried chicken in Savalas Vantoli Stewart's car that gave off a funky smell.
Instead, officers who pulled over Stewart on Friday night say they found a side dish of marijuana hidden in a recently purchased box of chicken.
Police say officers smelled marijuana coming from the car and found it after Stewart consented to a search. Officers say they also found several Ecstasy pills in Stewart's pockets.
The 33-year-old man now faces a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge and felony drug possession charge.
- And this one from suburban Detroit:
Police in Commerce Township said a man dressed as a woman repeatedly crashed his car into a lingerie store that refused to hire him.
Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe says Jeremy McIntosh, 27, was arrested Saturday outside Intimate Ideas. Damage to the store was estimated at $3,000.
McCabe says McIntosh was wearing "facial makeup, lipstick, blue Capri pants, red flip-flops, a flowery blouse and a matching flowery women's bra."
McIntosh told deputies he is homeless and wanted to go to jail because he had nowhere else to go.
- Finally from Bucharest:
Romanian media say a man was rearing a lion in his back garden until neighbors decided they had heard enough roaring and called police.
Rompres state news agency says police found a caged 3-year-old lioness, as well as two deer, a stag and two peacocks roaming the garden of the man's home in the southern village of Pietrosita.
The agency's report Wednesday says the 28-year-old man is being charged with illegal possession of wild animals and could be sentenced to up to a year in jail.
The lioness will be taken to the Bucharest zoo, but that police will let the man keep the peacocks. Fortunately, they don’t roar.
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Bloomsburg Fair roars back after 2012 flooding shutdown
BLOOMSBURG — The 157th annual Bloomsburg Fair was canceled for the first time last year because of flooding but organizers said the tradition is returning.
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Single mom from Danville discovers she just became a millionaire
DANVILLE — A single mother of three and Danville State Hospital employee reportedly learned she’s a $1 million lottery winner while visiting a local store Monday.
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Methamphetamine lab busted in Dalmatia
DALMATIA — A specialized drug team was called in after state police broke up a working methamphetamine lab and arrested two people.
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2 stabbed, 4 in custody after city melee
SUNBURY — One man was hospitalized with stab wounds, four people were in custody and arrest warrants were issued for two others following a violent confrontation early Monday morning on South 11th Street.
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Trial starts for alleged Penn State serial flasher
STATE COLLEGE — A trial is getting under way for a man police say is a serial flasher who assaulted women inside Penn State residence halls and off-campus apartments over two years.
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Groups urge Pennsylvania lawmakers to retain aid for disabled adults
HARRISBURG — Faith-based and community aid organizations from across Pennsylvania are urging state lawmakers to undo plans to kill a Depression-era program that provides about $200 a month for tens of thousands of disabled adults who can't work.
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Students seek smoke reprieve
Eleven-year-old Brendan Calvert stands far from his bus stop so he can get away from the cigarette smoke.
“I usually stand way back,” he said.
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Year-long drive nets 30 packages
Primary school students kept soldiers in mind throughout the year with a donation drive that has sent more than 30 packages to local service men and women by the end of the school year.
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Special 'Fish for Free' day gets bites
MIFFLINBURG — Lee Tyson and his son, Walter, spent a leisurely Memorial Day fishing off the pier at Halfway Lake in the Raymond B. Winter State Park in western Union County.
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Flood-damaged covered bridge to be repaired
MONTANDON — Only 25 cars a day crossed the Rishel Covered Bridge before raging flood waters from Tropical Storm Lee pushed the 181-year-old span six inches off its foundation in September.
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Storms pound region
A series of thunderstorms prompted flash-flood warnings across the Susquehanna Valley Sunday night.
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