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A Florida man is facing a misdemeanor charge after he went to a Democratic Party headquarters and threw a penny at workers there, claiming that the change was "all he has left after being taxed by Obama," cops report.
The protest Friday evening ended with the arrest of Gary Root, a 71-year-old Naples man (and registered Republican). Root, was charged with trespassing at the Collier County office where he offered his impromptu donation.
According to a Collier County Sheriff's Office report
, Root explained to deputies that he "tossed in a penny as a contribution as that's all he has left after being taxed by Obama."
Root, who bonded out of jail yesterday after posting $1000 bond, had received a trespass warning in mid-May following an incident at the same Naples
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The average student-loan debt of borrowers in the college class of 2011 rose to about $26,500, a 5 percent increase from about $25,350 the previous year, according to a report by the Institute for College Access and Success’s Project on Student Debt.
The project said that about two-thirds of those who earned bachelor’s degrees last year had loans. About one-fifth of the debt was from private student loans, which have fewer consumer protections and repayment options than federal loans.
Although federal data show that graduates of for-profit colleges are far more likely to borrow, and borrow more, than those who attend other types of colleges, the report’s findings focus only on public and nonprofit colleges, because only nine for-profit colleges (less than 2 percent) reported the necessary figures.
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Rebecca Rachelle Hill told police she and her pre-teen daughter regularly liked to do the same things.
Their shared interests included a heroin habit that left the 12-year-old so addicted she was hospitalized for drug withdrawal last week, according to felony charges against Hill. She told police she regularly gave the girl heroin and marijuana and brought her along on shoplifting trips.
"I've been working narcotics for two years, and this was one of the worst ones I've dealt with," Bloomington Police Detective Christopher Yates said Monday. "I've seen cases with kids involved, but never where the mother was ever actually getting the kid high."
Hill, 37, of Maple Grove, is charged with three felonies, including child endangerment, second-degree drug sale and motor vehicle theft in an investigation that began Oct. 14 when she was arrested for shoplifting at the Mall of America with her daughter at her side. The next day the girl, who was placed in her father's care, told him she regularly smoked heroin and marijuana with her mother. She was hospitalized for withdrawal
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The weekend just couldn't come soon enough.
A Texas woman is accused of faking her own abduction because she wanted more attention and a day off from work, according to authorities.
Police in San Antonio found
Sheila Baley Eubank , 48, bound by rope in the back seat of her car. Eubank told authorities that an unidentified man kidnapped her at knifepoint as she drove up to an ATM machine, KENS-5 reports. Eubank insisted that the man forced her to chauffer him around the city for apparent drug deals.
The police uncovered a different story.
Thinking it was her lucky day,
Eubank in fact spent her time off purchasing a lottery ticket from a gas station . Her fortune was unfavorable, however, as surveillance footage later revealed a "healthy, unhurried and pleasant" Baley withdrawing cash from the ATM and purchasing lottery tickets, the San Antonio Express News reports.
When police showed her the tapes of the Oct. 10 incident,
Eubank confessed to fabricating the story , according to the Associated Press. Detectives also found a lottery ticket in her purse, bought at approximately the same time and date when Eubank claimed she was abducted.
Local reports do not specify what Eubank does for a living. She is charged with aggravated perjury.
