Mexican soldiers yesterday raided a 300-acre marijuana farm in Baja California — a find that authorities say is the biggest in the country's storied drug-growing history. General Alfonso Duarte told Reuters, "This is the biggest marijuana plantation we have found in the country," and guessed that it was staffed by as many as 60 people.
Anthony Garcia, a 32-year-old grocery clerk from Albuquerque, will be indicted Friday for having talked a Sunflower Market customer last January into eating a yogurt sample. But this was not just a yogurt sample.
Remember "E-cigarettes," the electronic cigarettes of the future that we're all smoking now, thanks to the marketing genius of some rich guy? Sure, you remember. You're smoking one right now. As you know, nobody better mess with our e-cigarettes? Or else we will throw peanuts at you, or whatever else may be handy at the time in question!
48-year-old Catherine Kieu — better known as the woman who cut off her husband's penis and tossed it in the garbage disposal because "he deserved it" — appeared in court yesterday, where she was charged with torture and aggravated mayhem. And we now might finally know why the man "deserved it." Prosecutors claim that "an argument over houseguests" at their Garden Grove, California condo drove Kieu to drug her husband, tie him up, pull out a 10-inch knife and, well, you know. Damn, that's a little harsh, no?
What would you do after murdering a priest? Would you... take your ex-wife, your stepson, and your daughter to Disney World in the guy's car? Because that's what Jeremy Wayne Manieri allegedly did!
All you aspiring screenwriters out there, crank up your keyboards, cause here is a "quirky" romantic comedy waiting to be written. A man in Russia broke into a hair salon and the owner of the salon beat him up, tied him to a radiator and kept him as a sex slave for three days.
Tacoma residents are still scarred by an incident from six years ago, when a man named Dominick Maldonado strolled into the local mall and started firing indiscriminately, then took four hostages in a standoff with police that lasted several hours. Miraculously, no one was killed, but seven were seriously wounded. Maldonado — who had planned the rampage for weeks and told a police dispatcher minutes before to "follow the screams" — was sentenced to 163 years in Clallam Bay Prison. He's back in the news because of a botched escape attempt earlier this month, during which he held a guard hostage with a pair of scissors while his friend and fellow inmate, Kevin Newland, plowed a forklift through the wall of the prison garment shop where they worked. Newland was shot to death, but Maldonado, somehow, made it out unscathed once again. Basically, not too much to like about this guy — but not according to Quynh Maldonado!
The bassist for progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria was arrested Sunday for walking into a Massachusetts Walgreens and telling a worker he had a bomb, and would detonate it if he wasn't given Oxycontin. The clerk gave Michael Todd, 30, six bottles of the drug, and he hopped in a taxi and sped away.
Emmett DeFrisco became Chicago's most famous cosplay kid yesterday after someone found his homemade, duct-taped, bricks-and-wires contraption in a public park, determined that the unusual object was a Suspicious Package, and called law enforcement. The whole park got shut down because of this thing!
A "butchered torso" was found at a recycling plant in Seattle over the weekend, apparently just "rolling by on a conveyer belt." It's unclear where the body had been separated from its other parts, but it was apparently "mixed in with materials from a construction site." We appreciate that everyone, including murderers, is "going green," but be aware that human bodies are not, in fact, recyclable. (They can be composted.) [Seattle Post-Intelligencer via NYDN]
Attention, residents of Strongville, Ohio! A possibly-violent banana (-costumed person) is on the loose, having assaulted a man wearing a gorilla costume outside a cell phone store. "I noticed a kid in the bushes. Then he just emerged, dressed up as a banana, and sprinted as fast as he could at our gorilla," manager Brandon Parham, told WJW-TV. "He just looked like a Spartan from that movie 300, except he was a banana." How does such a thing happen? Who is responsible? When will WJW reporter Melissa Reid get an award for this sentence: "Police say the person dressed up as a banana split and headed south on Pearl Road"? We may never know. Police, we are told, "believe it was a prank." [WJW-TV]
