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Police in Mineola, New York, filed child-endangerment charges against school bus driver Robert Horton, 22, and his friend in September. Their only offense was telling scary stories to their five- and six-year-old passengers.
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Frank Edward Gould, 48, was jailed in November in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, for 45 days on a DUI charge. A police officer spotted Gould’s truck weaving on the highway, and as Gould pulled into a gas station the officer drove in behind him. According to the officer, Gould got out, walked over to the patrol car, leaned in, and told the officer, “Fill ‘er up.”
According to Albuquerque police officer Gene Marquez, one of the local credit-card fraud arrestees he had just picked up in October expressed excitement when told that a unit from the TV show Cops was in town and might be along in a few minutes. According to Marquez, the man said, “My mama always told me someday I’d be on Cops.”
Louisiana resident Laurie Wilder Maschek, 32, Saint Tammany Parish teacher of the year in 1992, was arrested in October for growing marijuana.
