Brave local man makes it to work on time - after heroically saving man sprawled on No. 6 track

An East Harlem man was being hailed as a subway hero for pulling a straphanger off the tracks Sunday, saving him from being crushed by a train.
Lifesaver Carlos Flores, 36, said a combination of benevolence and not wanting to miss an overtime shift at his grocery store job prompted his derring-do.
"I was thinking, if he gets hit I can't go to work. It's Sunday. I can't miss out. It's a time-and-a-half day," Flores told the Daily News.

Love is blind: The man who lost his sight every time he had sex

man was forced to seek medical help after going temporarily blind every time he had sex.
The unnamed patient would lose his sight every time he climaxed during intercourse.
Bafflingly, the blindness would never occur while performing any other strenuous exercise, the NCBI ROFL blog claimed.
The original report, published by the Department of Ophthalmology at Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, revealed the cause of the condition to be vasoconstriction, where the muscle walls contract around a blood vessel, restricting the flow of blood.
Vasoconstriction is the same condition that causes erectile dysfunction.
Doctors had earlier speculated that an embolism was causing the man’s blindness.
The report said: ‘Hypothetical mechanisms of transient monocular visual loss in our patient include vasoconstriction or embolism in the arterial blood supply of the eye.
‘The repeated and completely transient nature of our patient's symptoms supports the fact that embolism was not involved.’
The patient was eventually treated using drugs to widen his blood vessels

Woman Allegedly Throws Beans, Cologne at Husband During Argument

FLORIDA – Police say a woman was arrested after she allegedly threw a bowl of beans and a bottle of cologne at her husband.
The incident happened Wednesday shortly before 11:00 a.m. at a home in Boca Raton.
35-year-old Yanet Barreto Carter was arguing with her husband about a juvenile female when she allegedly threw the beans and cologne. She was taken into custody and faces charges of Simple Battery.
The juvenile female was also taken into custody and faces charges of Simple Battery.

Elderly N. Florida man accused of whacking deputy with cane

CALLAWAY Authorities say an irate 84-year-old man hit a deputy in the stomach with his cane when the officer warned him to leave a clinic where he had been cursing at an office manager.
The News Herald newspaper reports that the northwest Florida man was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting an officer.
Bay County sheriff's deputies were called to Callaway Clinic on Wednesday night because the man was yelling and cursing at an office manager.
According to a police report, the office manager asked authorities to remove the man from the clinic. Once outside, the man's rant grew louder. When the deputy warned the man he would be arrested if he didn't leave, the man allegedly hit the officer in the stomach with his cane. Deputies say the man also hit the officer in the leg as he was being handcuffed.

Report: 'Ugly Betty' actor slays mom with sword

NEW YORK — An actor who appeared on "Ugly Betty" was arrested early Tuesday after allegedly killing his mother with a samurai sword, according to a report.

New York-based TV station WPIX said that Michael L. Brea was tasered by police after taking his mother hostage at an apartment in Brooklyn.

A neighbor told WPIX that he heard a man shouting Biblical passages "like repent, repent, repent." Brea, 31, was later taken into custody, WPIX said.
The New York Daily News reported that Yannick Brea, 55, was stabbed repeatedly with a sword. WPIX reported that she was found decapitated.
"I had just dozed off to go to sleep and then I woke up to somebody screaming," neighbor Bernard Bent told WPIX. "It sounded like lady's voice and after a while I just didn't hear the woman's voice again."
The newspaper said the suspect was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation at Kings County Hospital. Citing website BelFim.com, WPIX said Brea had appeared as a dancer in film "Step Up 3-D".
He appeared in a 2009 episode of "Ugly Betty," the website said.
"I remember growing up and my mother was always feeding people who were less fortunate," Brea is quoted as saying on BelFim.com. "My parents raised me to always share and to give charity in the name of God."
According to the Daily News, it was not clear what had provoked the attack.

Portsmouth man faces pot charge after reporting theft

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. -- Something seemed suspicious, then ridiculous.
Two young men were seen carrying a safe. They took it out of a house, down a driveway and into a car.
This was at 2:40 p.m. Thursday on Martens Road, just before a resident on the street decided he had seen enough, and called the police.
Officers spotted the car and pulled it over on East Main Road near the intersection of Sandy Point Avenue.
"In the back of the vehicle was a safe," said Lt. Brian Peters of the Portsmouth Police Department.
The two men, both 19, were brought to the police station for questioning. And while they were being questioned, the police received a call from a man reporting his safe was stolen.
Come on down, the police said.
So, Sean Riley, 45, of 33 Martens Road got in his car and drove to the police station to retrieve his safe.
The police were able to open the safe with Riley's assistance.
"He gave us the code," Peters said. "He wanted to prove it was his safe."
"When the officers opened it up, they got quite a surprise," Peters said.
The safe contained more than $5,000 and about two pounds of marijuana, according to Peters.
This discovery fascinated the officers, who wondered what else Riley might possess. So they went to his house.
"We found 14 marijuana plants growing in a shed at the rear of his property," Peters said. "And we found additional marijuana inside the home."
Riley was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.
The two burglary suspects were arrested, too.
David Nicholson of 602 Black Point Lane, Portsmouth, and Ryan Souza of 24 Eric Court, Portsmouth, were both charged with breaking and entering and larceny over $500. In addition, both were charged with possession of marijuana.
No, the marijuana possession charge has nothing to do with the marijuana that was in the safe in the back of the car.
"When they were stopped, they were found to have marijuana under their seat," Peters said.

Doctor who turned down patient alarms because noise annoyed him

A doctor who turned the volume down on intensive care patients' alarms because the noise annoyed him has been struck off.
Christopher Burrows was working at the Derriford Hospital in Plymouth when he interfered with the alarm systems.
When challenged by a nurse, Dr Burrows said the buzzers 'irritated' him and if he wanted to switch them off he would do so, the General Medical Council heard.
The specialist registrar in anaesthetics had also admitted altering the volume of alarms on another occasion on June 30, 2005, while working at the hospital's Neuro Intensive Care Unit.
He had previously been caught altering or switching off alarms, and told a nurse they were a waste of time if the nursing staff ignored them.
Burrows was also found to have been repeatedly rude to colleagues and failed to cope with stress or team working, the panel found.
The doctor's suspension was extended at two review hearings after the doctor failed to convince the GMC he had taken steps to deal with the issues.
He was struck off at a third review hearing after the panel found there was no evidence had had addressed 'serious and wide-ranging deficiencies'.
Panel chairman Harvey Marcovitch said: 'A further direction suspending Dr Burrows' registration would not be sufficient to protect the wider public interest and would be unlikely to lead the change in his attitude which would be necessary for him to address his deficiencies.
'His misconduct is fundamentally incompatible with his being registered as a medical practitioner.'
In November 2009, Burrows was suspended for 12 months to deal with 'remediable deficiencies'.
He was told to provide evidence of improved anger management and communication skills.
But the doctor did not attend his resumed hearing in central London nor did he give any evidence that he had taken steps to deal with the issues.
Dr Marcovitch said: 'The serious and wide-ranging deficiencies identified in Dr Burrow's fitness to practice by the panel in 2007 and 2008 remain unaddressed.
'The panel has received no information which suggests that he has shown any insight into his shortcoming or taken any steps to address his anger management.'
Dr Marcovitch said the doctor showed a 'persistent lack of insight' into his failings.
He said: 'The panel has determined the only sufficient and proportionate sanction in this case is that of erasure.'
If the doctor does not appeal the decision, the order will take effect in a month.

Meth lab found in port-a-potty

Iowa — Cedar Rapids police say a suspicious smell coming from a port-a-potty turned out to be leftovers from an illegal meth lab.

KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids says police discovered the remnants on Saturday after responding to a call about the smell.

Officials say someone dumped noxious chemicals into the potty.

Police called a lab clean up company to clear up the hazardous materials.

No injuries were reported and no arrests have been made.

Man Arrested Less Than 15 Minutes After Inn Break-In

Police said it didn't take them long to locate an Idaho man suspected in the robbery of a Cedars Inn -- he was next door at The Alibi bar.
Lewiston police said 40-year-old Donald Mosley Jr. was arrested less than 15 minutes after he walked into the hotel and demanded cash from the desk clerk late Wednesday.
Police found Mosley at The Alibi, a bar located next to the hotel. Mosley was booked into the Nez Perce County Jail early Thursday and faces possible felony robbery charges.
The Lewiston Tribune reports this is the second time Mosley has been arrested in recent weeks.
In late October, police say he called in a fake fire report from a pay phone after he was declined a cup of coffee at a Lewiston fire station. It was unclear if Mosley had hired an attorney Thursday, when various state and county offices were closed in observance of Veterans Day.

Barbie Power Wheel Jeep jacked

There’s taking candy from a baby.
Then there’s taking a Barbie Power Wheel Jeep from a little girl.
Someone’s granddaughter, no less.
A Crestview woman was arrested recently after city police determined she had slipped an acquaintances granddaughter’s Barbie Power Wheel Jeep into her car, on the advice of her boyfriend.
The boyfriend then sold the little girl’s toy, valued at $75, for $20, according to a Crestview police report.
Notified of the theft by an in-law, the victim offered to not go to the police if the thief would return the Barbie Power Wheel Jeep within 24 hours.
The Barbie Power Wheel Jeep had already been sold, according to the police report.
The victim went to the police.

Man tries to steal turkey sandwich, Halloween costume

A man who tried to leave Walmart without paying for his sandwich or Halloween costume was arrested.
The 27-year-old man was spotted by employees trying to walk out of the store with a turkey and provolone cheese sandwich, a doctor costume and a “Nightmare on Elm Street” DVD, according to the Notice to Appear.
The Destin man was arrested and charged with retail theft.
All the items, which were worth $36.98, were recovered

Graffiti tagger who urinated on transformer gets shock of his life

But a potentially lethal shock of up to 22,000 volts has left the man, 22, with injuries so severe that police are in no rush to press charges.
He remains at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital with third-degree burns to 40 per cent of his body after a midnight mission to ``bomb'' Coomera station last month went catastrophically wrong.
Panicked companions, allegedly in an effort to disguise their October 15 expedition, told ambulance officers the man had urinated on a high-voltage transformer.
But investigators concluded he was scaling the transformer to spray his tag ``Wino'' when he touched a highly-charged ``bush head'' and was thrown on to the concrete below. The fact it was raining may have saved him.
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QUT Professor Birlase-karan Sivaswamy said the current might have largely bypassed the man's body because his clothes were wet.
It is believed the man and three associates entered the substation by cutting through two wire fences, one of them surrounded by signs reading ``Danger: High voltage''.
The cost to taxpayers for the incident ran well into hundreds of thousands of dollars, a well-placed QR source said.
Services on the Gold Coast line shut down for most of October 17 after the damaged transformer was tripped and a crew called to replace it.
The QR source claimed the man was a prolific Gold Coast tagger but a Taskforce Against Graffiti source said the man was not known to them.
A police spokesman said the man was expected to be in hospital ``for a while ... (with) very, very serious injuries''.

Chelsea diner slay suspect Earle Barranco nabbed after he's caught on JumboTron camera at NBA game

If only all murder suspects were as stupid as Earle Barranco - a Brooklyn fugitive who waltzed past a JumboTron camera at an NBA game in the same gaudy bling he wore when he allegedly pulled the trigger.
As if that weren't bold enough, the dopey 24-year-old showed up at the same arena days later, where cops promptly nabbed him and replaced his bling with shiny steel handcuffs.
Barranco is being held in Charlotte, N.C., but will soon be on his way back to New York to face charges in the Oct. 23 slaying of Corey Scott, 28, at Chelsea's Good Stuff Diner.
Scores of customers witnessed the execution, and it wasn't long before cops had identified Barranco as the gunman who sported a diamond-encrusted moneybag hanging from a gold chain.
The NYPD put out a nationwide arrest warrant and even notified authorities in the Bahamas, where the suspect's father lives.
Their big break came when Barranco showed up to a Charlotte Bobcats game Oct. 29 and made the mistake of walking into the view of the JumboTron lens as it zoomed in on a couple.
"He was walking behind them, but someone who knows him spotted him," a police source said. "After the game, that person learned he was wanted and then reported seeing him."
Charlotte authorities reviewed the tape and confirmed that Barranco had been there - with his telltale pendant.
When he showed up to another Bobcats game at the Time Warner Cable Arena on Saturday night, North Carolina cops and FBI agents swooped down and arrested him.
He asked for a lawyer and gave no statements, sources said. He is expected to appear at an extradition hearing in North Carolina today.
Police believe the murder stemmed from a money dispute.
Scott, also known as Young Classik, frequently posted YouTube videos boasting about his wealth. Sources said he confronted Barranco at the diner about money he was owed.
Security video showed Scott and several friends walking into the restaurant and confronting a group in the back, police said.
One of those men - believed to be Barranco - stood up and Scott got in his face. Moments later, shots were fired, out of camera range.

Suspect Who Stole Cell Phone, Sent Photo Of Himself To Friend

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (970 WFLA) - A man who stole a cell phone snapped his photograph, and send the photo to a friend, thus giving a clue to his identity.

The phone had been stolen Oct. 25 from a pick-up truck parked on 40th Street North. Because the phone was the only item stolen, the owner did not initially report the theft to police.

But while reviewing his account several days later, the phone's owner saw that three text messages had been sent from his account to someone he didn't know. Police said it appeared that after stealing the phone from his truck, the suspect used the phone to send the messages to an acquaintance by the name of Jewls.

When he reviewed the messages, the phone's owner found that at least one had a picture attached which showed a close-up facial view of the apparent suspect. With this new evidence, he decided to call to the police and make a report.

Teen burns bum as Halloween prank backfires

An Austrian teenager burned his own bum when a Halloween prank went wrong - then he claimed he'd been mugged to spare his blushesRead more The 13-year-old and his ten-year-old pal, from Kraubath, Styria, had poured petrol on a playground slide and then set it alight.
Our bum-burning friend then proceeded to slide down it in an attempt to extinguish the flames, incurring second-degree burns after his trousers and underpants caught fire.
According to police, the boy - who had to be hospitalised in Leoben - initially claimed he'd been attacked by masked youths before coming clean and telling them the truth.
While neither of the boys can be charged for the offence because of their ages, their parents are expected to be ordered to pay for the damage to the playground.Read more

Man arrested after exposing self to deputy

A 48-year-old man parked his car in the front row facing the courthouse midday Thursday, pulled down his shorts in front of a Pasco County Sheriff's Office detective and began masturbating, according to a report.
When arrested on a charge of indecent exposure in public, the man — Richard M. Garcia of San Antonio — proclaimed his innocence and said he was just applying hemorrhoid cream to himself, authorities said.
"Upon looking at the bottle the defendant was holding, it was not hemorrhoid cream, but K-Y Warming Jelly," the report states.
Garcia was released later that day from the Pasco County jail on $150 bail.

Keys cops: Teen burglar leaves himself logged into Myspace

MONROE COUNTY — A Florida Keys teen was arrested Sunday evening after a home that was burglarized was found to have a computer logged into the young man's Myspace account, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.The Sheriff's Office says a caretaker for the home on Sugarloaf Key reported the burglary when the caretaker was preparing to remove hurricane shutters from a door and saw someone sitting on the living room couch.Deputies arriving at the home found no one inside, but they did find a back window open, empty soda and food containers, and some marijuana on a coffee table. The deputies also found a bedroom computer turned on and logged into the Myspace account of Robert Rupp, 18, of Big Coppitt Key, the Sheriff's Office said The Sheriff's Office says Rupp was found a short time later walking around the neighborhood, with two screwdrivers in his pockets. Rupp later told a deputy that he had been in the house because it was cold outside, authorities said.Rupp is charged with burglary, possession of burglary tools and theft

Driver tries to avoid arrest by jumping seats in moving vehicle

OKALOOSA ISLAND — A man who tried to avoid arrest by vacating the driver’s seat while his car was still moving was arrested for driving without a valid license.
The incident began around 3:40 p.m. when an Okaloosa County deputy initiated a traffic stop on the 1990 Cadillac sedan near the Coast Guard station on U.S. Highway 98, according to a sheriff’s report.
Before the vehicle pulled over, the deputy observed the driver “jump over the back of the driver’s seat into the rear seat area as the car was still traveling. The front seat passenger slid over to the driver’s seat and stopped the car,” the report stated.
A search of the original driver’s license revealed the 33-year-old’s license had been suspended after he didn’t pay traffic fines. During the course of the stop, the deputy also found four grams of marijuana inside a package of cigarettes.
When questioned, the driver said he had left the driver’s seat to avoid arrest, but said the marijuana was his and that the passenger was unaware of its pres-ence, the report stated.
The man was charged with driving with his license suspended and possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana.

Fla. woman tried to sell grandson for $30k

A Florida woman and her boyfriend have been charged with trying to sell her infant grandson for $30,000.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents arrested 45-year-old Patty Bigbee and 42-year-old Lawrence Works on Friday in Daytona Beach after they met with an agent posing as a buyer. Both were charged with illegal sale or surrender of a child, and Bigbee was also charged with communication fraud.
FDLE agent Wayne Ivey said an investigation began last month after an informant told authorities the woman was trying to sell the baby. Authorities say the woman originally wanted $75,000 but was talked down to $30,000.
The child's mother is currently incarcerated on unrelated charges.
The infant has been turned over to child welfare officials.
Authorities said they didn't know if Bigbee or Works had an attorney.
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Speedway H.S. Teacher Accused Of Being Drunk In Class

A teacher at Speedway High School was arrested on a charge of public intoxication at the school Friday morning.
Speedway Public School Superintendant Kenneth Hull told police he had received reports from staff members that Greg Fedroff, 51, was sleeping at his desk during class.
Hull said he smelled a strong odor of alcohol coming from Fedroff and he noticed Fedroff to have poor dexterity and slurred speech.
Hull found a Gatorade bottle in Fedroff's classroom which had a strong smell of alcohol.
The officer smelled a strong odor commonly associated with an alcoholic beverage coming from Fedroff. The teacher was administered a portable breath test and his blood alcohol content tested .21%.
Fedroff was placed under arrest and transported to the Speedway Police Department to await transportation to the Arrestee Processing Center.

Italian Police Investigating Break-in…of a Virtual Home

Just when you thought it was safe to leave your computer.
A Palermo, Italy woman alleges that someone has stolen items from the “house” she owns and maintains on a Facebook game, “Pet Society,” a social pet simulation game where players decorate virtual houses and shop (with real money) for stylish virtual clothes for their virtual pets, describes MSNBC.
“I don’t think it matters that the flat only exists in Facebook, it is real to me and I have suffered a real loss,” said Paola Letizia, the victimized digital homeowner. She claims to have suffered a loss of around $139.
Regardless of the laughable nature of this story and the miniscule scale of Paola’s loss, it’s nonetheless interesting to consider where our possessions, laws, and ultimately everything we value might be headed in the future. Sounds like the beginning of a real-life Inception to me.
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'She doesn't have a brain, sir,' says Hollywood Lakes man charged with killing his mother, scattering her organs

On Halloween Eve, Beau Henri Bruneau woke up and decided to kill his mother, he told police.
When the cops found the partially gutted body of Nancy Bruneau face down on the lawn of her upscale Hollywood Lakes home, they also found a cinder block, a knife, and a hammer -- all covered in blood -- nearby.
Human organs -- presumably Nancy Bruneau's liver and brain matter -- were scattered about.
On Monday, Bruneau was at the Broward County jail, charged with the murder.
Bruneau, 29, had a long history of mental illness, violence and threats against himself, his mother and others. Police reports date back to 2001, when he jumped off the Hollywood Bread building, breaking both his legs. He has been Baker-Acted at least 10 times over the years -- including as recently as Sept. 30 after he allegedly threatened to cut his mother's throat.
According to Saturday's arrest affidavit, Bruneau told detectives he decided to kill his 62-year-old mother because he was upset that she was ``trying to kill him by neglecting him and yelling at him.''
At first, he tried to poison her by putting lithium in her drink. But, he said, she caught him and yelled at him.
Then he hatched a second plan that involved interrupting her shower by fondling himself. Finally, he began hitting her lightly on the back.
Nancy Bruneau began to hit back, so her son hit her harder. When Nancy Bruneau then tried to wrestle her son to the ground, he grabbed a hammer from a tool box and slammed into into her skull.
At one point, he said he tried to cut out her heart, just to make sure she was dead, the report said.
Afterward, Bruneau called 911, telling the dispatcher: ``I just tried to kill my mom. I hit her. Then I hit her with a hammer, and then with a brick.''
When the 911 dispatcher asked Bruneau if his mother was conscious, he responded ``No, she doesn't have a brain, sir.''
When police found her body, in front of her home at 1452 Van Buren St., a ``portion of her skull above her nose was completely shattered.''
The Broward County Medical Examiner formalized the ruling of homicide on Monday, declaring Nancy Bruneau's cause of death to be blunt force trauma.
According to the affidavit, neighbors described Bruneau as a loner who strolled the neighborhood talking and singing to himself.
Police reports reflect his family's struggle to care for Bruneau, who suffered from manic depression. On Sept. 30, his sister Amber called 911, telling police her brother had threatened to kill himself and his mother. At the time, she told authorities that Bruneau had not been taking his medications for three months