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In March security guards at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, along with local police and a helpful eyewitness, apprehended a man who’d grabbed a $1,400 gold chain from the neck of another man. Police arrested the suspect, then arrested the witness when a computer check revealed that he had several outstanding warrants, then arrested the victim when they found crack cocaine in his pocket.
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The New Haven Register in Connecticut reported in May that Joanne Kamerling, 48, had transferred the title for two acres of land she owns in Weber County, Utah, to a group of people that includes a physical therapist, a prominent local attorney, the former Louisiana Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, and O.J. Simpson. The four are strangers to each other and had not sought the land. Kamerling, who will continue to pay the taxes, gave no explanation.
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