May 19, 2008, 11:43 pm
I include this mainly because I have a funny mental image of a couple of guys crashing the plane and then wandering off to a bar for a drink:
A single-engine plane has crashed near the airport in Bagdad, a
remote community northwest of Wickenburg, but the pilot apparently
walked away and has not been found, authorities said Monday.
The wreckage of the downed plane, a Beech Model B23, was discovered
early Sunday about 100 yards south of the Bagdad Airport runway, said
Dwight D'Evelyn, a spokesman for the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office.
May 15, 2008, 5:50 pm
Yavapai County Sheriff Steve Waugh tells motorists that may be concerned with the authenticity of a police officer asking them to pull over at night in a deserted area that they should continue on to a more public, well lighted place. Sgt. Jeff Newnum of the same police department says that he would give his wife the same advice. There have been several well-publicized incidences in Arizona of people being attacked by criminals impersonating an officer making a traffic stop.
But when Dibor Roberts attempted to follow this advice, officer Newnum ran her car off the road, broke the window of her car with his nightstick, and grabbed the cell phone she was using to call 911. Now, it is, incredibly, Ms. Roberts who is on trial for her actions. All because she was driving 15 miles an hour over the limit on a deserted rural road. The post title comes from the Sgt Newnum's explanation in court of his aggressive tactics.
May 7, 2008, 9:51 am
Sorry, no big idea in this post. I just thought that this definition of "victim" was kindof stretching the term a bit:
Authorities in Yavapai County say they're looking for additional
victims of a nude hiker who allegedly told women he encountered that he
was "getting close to nature."
Yavapai County Sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn says deputies
were called to a trail in Sedona on April 28 by two women who had been
confronted by the nude man. The man offered to take pictures of the
women.
