Former Elvis impersonator helps catch thief
Published 9:00 pm Thursday, November 10, 2005
LAS VEGAS – A retired Elvis Presley impersonator helped police nab a man suspected of stealing more than $300,000 worth of memorabilia from the Elvis-A-Rama museum, authorities said Wednesday.
Duke Adams, a 62-year-old “older-era Elvis,” said he was waiting in line at a pharmacy when a man offered to sell him items once owned by Presley, including jewelry, clothing and a revolver.
Remembering the March 2004 burglary, Adams said, he asked the man to stop by his business the next day. Adams went home and called police.
Authorities arrested Eliab Aguilar last week after the Las Vegas man brought all but one of the stolen items to Adams’ employment agency, police said.
Among the items recovered were a 41-carat ruby and diamond ring worth $77,000, a $65,000 gold and black onyx medallion with “Elvis” on it in diamonds, and a gold-plated Smith &Wesson .38 special.
Scavenger hunt at police station ends in arrest
FRUITPORT TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A man on a scavenger hunt entered a police station hoping to get a photo of an officer eating a doughnut. Instead he was thrown in jail.
Officers Bryan Rypstra and Jon Durell heard a knock at the station’s back door Saturday evening. A man and a woman said they were on a scavenger hunt with another woman who had gone to a nearby store to buy a doughnut.
“Part of the scavenger hunt was to get a picture of a cop eating a doughnut. They wanted to know if one of the officers would be willing to get their picture taken,” police chief Paul Smutz told The Muskegon Chronicle.
The officers chatted with the man and woman while waiting for the doughnut run. The man, Louis Jasick, recognized Rypstra, a high school classmate.
Durell then remembered seeing Jasick’s name on a flier that had been posted in the station only a day earlier. Jasick was wanted on two felony warrants for failing to pay $5,000 in child support.
Jasick was listed as a flight risk, so the officers invited him inside and arrested him.
Flock of birds shuts down radar system at airport
ST. LOUIS – A large flock of migratory birds shut down the radar system at Lambert Airport Wednesday, forcing Kansas City to temporarily pick up the slack.
The Federal Aviation Administration said about 3,000 birds passed over the airport about 7 a.m., but the airport’s radar perceived them as 3,000 aircraft.
That caused the radar system to overload and fail, FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said.
The airport tried to resort to a backup system, but that system had its own problems. Radar at the FAA’s air traffic control center in Kansas City took over until the St. Louis backup system was up and running, she said.
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