Illegal aliens delivering drugs to Wal-Mart

CEDAR CITY, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Three men are in jail telling a strange story about drugs and Wal-Mart. It started with a routine traffic stop. Iron County Sheriffs also found boxes of prescription medication in the car. The driver says he was delivering them to the chain store in Cedar City.Iron County Deputy Wade Lee says Diego Jimenez, Maricio Jimenez, and Kyle Gutierrez were on their way to the Cedar City Wal-Mart. They were stopped on Northbound I-15 at mile marker 45, where Deputy Lee clocked them driving 96 miles per hour. Lee says he grew suspicious when he saw a marijuana pipe in the glove compartment. After searching the car, he found two boxes of prescription narcotics. The stock invoice found with the drugs shows the retail value is over $30,000. Lee says two of the men admitted to being illegal aliens. The driver said he's been delivering prescription drugs for a company called "Nevada Courier" for several months. Lee explains, “He said ‘I was sitting at home and somebody called me and paid me $150 and a tank of gas to drive these medications down here and drop them off.’” Police say the men are from Las Vegas. They had made a delivery in Mesquite, two in Saint George, and their fourth delivery would have been in Cedar City. Lee says, “I called Wal-Mart and they said yeah they were expecting a delivery and the driver was late.” more

Iowa Issues Marriage Licenses To Gays

Same-sex couples in Iowa began applying for marriage licenses on Monday after a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay unions took effect. The court issued an order early in the day confirming that the appeals process in the case has officially concluded. Iowa county clerks were to begin processing same-sex marriage applications Monday, following the Iowa Supreme Court's ruling on April 3 that legalized same sex-marriage. Iowa typically requires a three-day waiting period for marriages, but judges can waive that and allow immediate weddings. In Des Moines, about a dozen gay and lesbian couples waited in the rain for the Polk County administrative building to open. more

Domino Pizza employees loose job and faces felony charges after posting a video to you tube.

When two Domino’s Pizza employees filmed a prank in the restaurant’s kitchen, they decided to post it online. In a few days, thanks to the power of social media, they ended up with felony charges, more than a million disgusted viewers, and a major company facing a public relations crisis.
In videos posted on YouTube and elsewhere this week, a Domino’s employee in Conover, N.C., prepared sandwiches for delivery while putting cheese up his nose, nasal mucus on the sandwiches, and violating other health-code standards while a fellow employee provided narration.
The two were charged with delivering prohibited foods.
By Wednesday afternoon, the video had been viewed more than a million times on YouTube. References to it were in five of the 12 results on the first page of Google search for “Dominos,” and discussions about Domino’s had spread throughout Twitter. more

"Youtube" Domino's Pizza Workers arrested, charged.

"Youtube" Domino's Pizza Workers arrested, charged.

Man is fighting $24,000 dollar phone bill, after he lost his phone

A Shuswap, B.C., man is fighting a $24,000 bill after losing his cellphone while on vacation in Peru.
Alex Dobson, 18, told CBC News he didn't mean to bring his phone on an extended backpacking trip through South America with some friends last fall.
"When I went through airport security, I realized my cell phone was still in my pocket," Dobson said on Thursday. "And I thought, well, that's dumb, because I'm never going to use my cell phone, and I just threw it in the bottom of my backpack."
Then halfway through the trip, his backpack was stolen while on a bus in Peru.
"They pulled a fast one on me," he admits, but he didn't think about the phone until he arrived back home in the B.C. Interior in December.
"That's when we saw they had just been adding in these three-month-old charges, and so at that point it was a $13,000 bill," said Dobson. Apparently someone in Peru had been using the phone at $3.49 a minute, and Dobson was getting the bill. more

Man accused of stabbing man because the man let his girlfriend use the bathroom

FORT PIERCE — A 26-year-old man accused of stabbing another man after that man let his girlfriend use the alleged stabber's bathroom is facing a felony charge, according to an arrest affidavit released Monday.
Juan Diaz, of the 600 block of Texas Court, was arrested on an aggravated battery with a deadly weapon charge in connection with the 3:36 a.m. Saturday incidents.
The victim told police that he and his girlfriend went to Diaz's home. When the girlfriend headed to the restroom, Diaz ”got upset at him for letting her use his bathroom” and stabbed the victim's arm and face.
The victim, who had a small cut on the face and a big slash on his right arm, tried to use a plastic chair to defend himself and took the knife from Diaz. more

Man arrested on a misdemeanor false report, claim he was robbed at gun point

PALM CITY — A Palm City man was accused of fabricating an armed robbery last week to try to make his girlfriend feel bad for leaving him. He was arrested after deputies unraveled the ruse, according to recently released reports.
Derick A. Culberson, 22, initially told officials late Friday night that two men robbed him at gunpoint, the reports stated. He said the men took his vehicle GPS device and bound his hands and ankles before leaving in an older black Chevrolet Impala.
Investigators found Culberson, of the 1600 block of Southwest Sunset Trail, sitting next to his truck near Leighton Park, his ankles and wrists bound with plastic “zip ties.”
At least a dozen Martin County Sheriff’s deputies searched the area to find the supposed suspect vehicle. Culberson said the robbers wore black shirts, and one had dreadlocks and the other an afro. He described the weapon as a 9 mm or .40-caliber silver pistol, the reports stated.
Investigators, however, said they found inconsistencies in Culberson’s version of events and turned up zip ties in Culberson’s vehicle of the same type that bound his hands and feet.
Culberson eventually acknowledged making up the entire incident “in an attempt to make his girlfriend feel bad for leaving him,” reports states.
“Culberson admitted to tying his own hands and feet, and further inventing the suspects’ vehicle and weapon descriptions he gave to Sheriff’s Office dispatch and deputies,” reports state. more

Meter repairman arrested for stealing $170,000

Alexandria police say William J. Fell stole $170,000, in quarters and nickels and dimes. From his job as a parking meter repairman over about a year.
A supervisor became suspicious of Fell and began following him during his morning rounds, watching him steal the coins.
Alexandria officials called police, who hid a surveillance camera in his city truck. When police searched his Stafford County home last week. They hit the jackpot. They found much of the cash there -- in a bucket, in rolls and in a cup, court documents said.
Sgt. Shahram Fard said "It's pretty bold," , who oversees the city's property crimes unit, said yesterday. "I've never recovered that much money in a search warrant."
The 61-year-old city employee did it, police say, by going to work at 3 a.m., well before his shift started. He would jump in his city truck and, under the cover of darkness, empty into bags the contents of coin canisters from parking meters all over Old Town, according to court documents.
Then he would drive back to his personal car, stash the bags in his trunk and go about his normal workday fixing meters, a search warrant affidavit said.
By the time police caught up with him, his house looked a bit like a Las Vegas casino, documents show. There were coins in cups, coins in canisters, coins in a silver box. Police said they found paper money in a safe and in zip-lock bags. They also found the top of a parking meter in the house.
Fell, who worked for the city for 16 years before his promotion in June in the Department of Transportation and Environmental Services, faces two counts of embezzlement by a public officer and is being held at the city jail. He told an Alexandria judge that he needed a public defender because he did not have enough money to hire a lawyer. more