A friend with weed is a friend indeed
A man in Manatee, Fla., admitted to police that a bag of marijuana hidden in his buttocks was his, but swore that the lodged bag of cocaine belonged to someone else, the Bradenton Herald reports.
During a traffic stop, police searched Raymond Stanley Roberts, 25, and “felt a soft object in his buttocks,” the newspaper says. Roberts volunteered to retrieve the object, and pulled out a plastic bag of marijuana weighing only a fraction of an ounce.
But when a bag of 27 pieces of rock cocaine also fell to the ground, Roberts allegedly said: “The white stuff is not mine, but the weed is.”
He said the cocaine belonged to a friend who had borrowed his car earlier.
Weed whacker arrested
A Florida man used water guns and water balloons to spray weed killer on his neighbor’s plants because he was owed money for drugs, police said.
Bradenton police said Paul Ewing, 35, admitted that for weeks he used water guns filled with Roundup to spray plants in the front yard and threw water balloons with them into the back yard.
Ewing said it was a revenge killing: He told police that his neighbor owed him money for drugs, but refused to pay.
The reason why God made Oklahoma
An Oklahoma homeowner wearing nothing but his underwear fought off two gunmen, leaving one robber with several fingers blown off.
Larry Ryan said the bandits yelled “Gimme the money” and pointed their guns directly at his head, he told the Tulsa World.
Ryan, 59, grabbed one of the weapons and a struggle ensued, he said. While being pistol-whipped by the second gunman, Ryan was able to pin the first assailant to the ground. The gun he was struggling for fired, shooting off two of the robber’s fingers.
Ryan said he then took the gun, placed it behind his assailant’s head and pulled the trigger.
“It didn’t discharge,” Ryan said. “I was going to kill him.”
Ryan said he then fired five shots at the other gunman and believes he may have hit him, too.
“Some people have that fighting spirit in them, some don’t,” Tulsa police Cpl. Scott Anderson said. “It’s not the safe thing to do to tell someone to fight back like that, but I can’t blame people for doing it.”
A piano lesson
Police in Grand Rapids, Mich., found a man wanted for home invasion right in front of their headquarters — playing a piano.
Officers said Xavier Ross, 19, was in front of the Grand Rapids police headquarters playing “Chopsticks” repeatedly on a piano placed there for an art festival.
A sergeant was about to arrest the man for creating a disturbance when another officer recognized the piano player from “wanted” photos.
