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Police recover 123 stolen parking meters from man's home
Cambridge, Mass. police have arrested a man after finding 123 stolen parking meters stashed away in his home. Police say they went to Thomas Gannon's apartment on Plymouth Street to arrest him on Monday night because he was wanted for larceny in Everett.



As they were about to handcuff him, officers say they noticed the parking meters. The meters were allegedly stolen from streets in Cambridge and Somerville in the last year.
Gannon, 38, was arraigned in Cambridge District Court and ordered held on $5,000 bail.

Prostitute takes kids on the job and snorts coke off her baby
Albany NY. Wendy Nolton-Cooke had her 5-year-old daughter and 2-month-old son with her as she took drugs and performed sex for money, New York police said.
Wendy Cook, 37, of Saratoga was arrested along with four other women during a prostitution sweep early Monday, according to Schenectady Police Lt. Brian Kilcullen.



Cook was arrested when she offered to perform a sex act on an undercover officer for money, Kilcullen said. While Cook's children were in the car with her, she performed oral sex acts on at least two men for money, smoked crack cocaine in the car and even snorted cocaine off the infant's stomach while she was breastfeeding, Kilcullen said.
Cook is in Schenectady County Jail without bail on charges of prostitution and child endangerment, pending a court appearance Tuesday. Her children were turned over to family members.