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Thieves switch Mexican police dog for mongrel puppy
A top police sniffer dog working for an elite Mexican drug squad was stolen during an airport transfer by thieves who left a mixed-breed puppy in its place, the attorney general's office said. Rex IV, a highly trained Belgian Malinois sheepdog with a string of drug hauls behind him, was checked on to a flight from Mexico City this week with seven other police dogs bound for an operation in the northern state of Sinaloa. But when the dogs arrived at Mazatlan airport, Sinaloa, their police handlers discovered a small black mongrel puppy inside Rex IV's cage, with the sniffer dog nowhere to be seen. "It's like kidnapping an intelligence agent", he said.

Passenger Arrested After Trying To Open Door During Flight
A passenger tried to open a plane door during a Frontier Airlines flight on Saturday morning but was subdued by airline staff and passengers, an airline spokesman said. Police and Transportation Security Administration staff met Flight 514 after the plane landed in New York City and took the man into custody, said Frontier spokesman Joe Hodas.
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Fake Calls For Aid Lead To Teenager
The teenager's mom became suspicious when she found radio equipment in his room. Equipment she hadn't bought. She called Largo police. What she didn't know was that her son, a 15-year-old Clearwater High School student, was already wanted by the U.S. Coast Guard and the Federal Communications Commission.
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81-Year-Old Fights Off Teen Robbers
A couple of Sampson County teenagers are behind bars after trying to rob a well-known hardware store in Dunn, and family members are calling the store's 81-year-old owner a hero.
He got quite a scare Thursday when a gunman tried to rob him, but Carr fought back and one of the 15-year-old teenagers fled.
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