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Man Arrested For Online Pot Sale
"420" shrubs for sale, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, bust, bust.
Four-hundred-twenty is, of course, stoner's code for pot. And the cops know it.
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Dealer Calls Cops After Pot Stash Stolen
A marijuana dealer telephoned police after armed thieves stole his quarter-pound stash of pot. The 19-year-old Felton man told police that two men, one of them armed with a handgun, robbed him at gunpoint as he sat in his car on Tuesday night.
"It was unique to have people who were dealing drugs calling us when they've been ripped off," police spokesman Zach Friend said.
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Police Find Meth Lab After Man Misdials
A man trying to call a news station to complain about not getting a FEMA trailer after Hurricane Katrina accidentally dialed 911 and was charged with making methamphetamine after police arrived, authorities said.
Curtiss Randall Coleman was trying to get the number for Biloxi's WLOX-TV on Wednesday just before the 6 p.m. newscast, investigators said. He misdialed when trying to reach directory information and called 911 instead of 411.
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Man Attempts Bank Robbery While Standing An Near Officer
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An off-duty police officer had plenty of time to get a look at a man who attempted to rob a Metropolitan Bank branch when the suspect first walked right past the uniformed officer - three times.
Langston Robins, 21, faces multiple charges for allegedly handing a bank clerk a note and a gym bag and then fleeing as Officer Chad Herndon tried to arrest him.
"I just don't know why he didn't see a uniformed police officer standing basically right in front of him," Little Rock police spokesman Lt. Terry Hastings said. "My guess is he's just not the brightest of people."
Information from: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, http://www.arkansasonline.com

Man Found Nude After Clothes Stolen
OELWEIN, Iowa (AP) - Two men have been arrested for stealing a man's clothes and leaving him to wander around naked, officials said. The victim, a 19-year-old Hazleton man, was taken by two men to a rural area west of Oelwein where the men took his clothes at gunpoint, officials with the Fayette County sheriff's office said.
The investigation began after the sheriff's office received a report of a naked man walking down a county road early Sunday morning.
Deputies searched an Oelwein home later in the day and found the victim's clothes and several guns. Billy Ray Staton Jr., 36, and Arthur David Thomas, 53, both of Oelwein, were arrested and charged with first-degree robbery.
Information from: The Gazette, http://www.gazetteonline.com/