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Man tries to cover up his mistake
The four-time drunken driver who drank White-Out to try to mask his breath from police was sentenced to 18 months to two years in prison for felony drunken driving.
Juan Briceno, 33, and his attorney, David Nich Jr., had begged for probation, saying that Briceno realizes he has a drinking problem and had entered an outpatient treatment program. But Douglas County District Judge Thomas Otepka said he had no choice but to send the correction fluid guzzler to a correctional facility.
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Lost New York Man Crashes Into Map Store
Losing your way in New York City is no fun, especially when you get so confused that you crash into the one place that can help you — a map store.
That's what happened to a Bronx man this week, when he became befuddled as he left a West 43rd Street parking garage at about 8 a.m. and made a right turn into the front of a Hagstrom Map shop next door, smashing the plate glass to smithereens.
Rodney Bailey's green Ford Expedition clipped two women as it careened into the Hagstrom's window. Both were hospitalized with injuries that police said were not critical.
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Waitress Places Order: "Freeze, Or I'm Going To Shoot"
An unarmed coffee shop waitress in Hillborough County, Fla., tackled and subdued an alleged armed robber after he hit the Valrico State Bank on Friday.
The Da Silva’s Coffee Shop employee had been trained in Germany as a police officer, but she was only half the size of the suspect she took down.
Local police said suspect Jeffrey Merritt, 44, ran past Da Silva’s on the way to his getaway car after robbing the bank.
The waitress — the Tampa Tribune reports she wished to remain unidentified — reportedly saw Merritt running with something and looking behind him. She chased him down, yelling, "Freeze or I’m going to shoot" and then tackled him.
She did not have a gun, but the bluff worked, and the suspect surrendered.
Bystanders then helped the waitress sit on Merritt until police arrived.
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