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A man not identified in newspaper accounts was arrested in Memphis after robbing a bank when he sought refuge in a building nearby that, unknown to him, housed the Memphis police department. Police had heard of the robbery on the radio and watched from an upper floor as the man fled the bank, ducked into an alley, hid the money, and innocently approached the front door of their building, where a phalanx of officers was waiting for him. When the man opened the door, he froze and asked, “This isn’t the police department, is it?”
In May, two boys, ages 15 and 16, were arrested outside a bank in Santa Clarita, California, and booked on suspicion of attempted robbery. The boys had stood at the bank’s front door five minutes before it opened, putting on ski masks and trying, unsuccessfully, to open the door. They then walked back to their getaway car to decide what to do next, and bank employees called police.
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In March Michael Beaudin, 36, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in Montreal for negligently causing the death of his five-year-old son Jonathan. Beaudin, a member of the Rose and the Cross religious sect, thought his son needed to be “purified,” and gave him enemas with over 400 times the recommended amount of water.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
