Priest accused of stealing butter
WEST CITY, Illinois: A Roman Catholic priest was accused of shoplifting butter and a sofa cover at a Wal-Mart in southern Illinois. Police arrested 41-year-old the Rev. Steven Poole on Friday. He’s charged with two felony theft counts. Investigators said Poole failed to scan a $3.22 container of butter and a $60 sofa cover at a self-checkout. Poole then allegedly went to the store’s bedding section, picked up a memory foam mattress and switched the pricing bar code. That caused the $145 item to be scanned for $31. Allegedly, Poole also possessed a stolen laptop computer power pack. He’s the priest for St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Christopher and St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Sesser. Poole does not have a listed home telephone number, and messages left for him at the churches were not returned.
What dope? It came from the doughnut!
MARYVILLE, Tennessee: East Tennessee police said a Knoxville woman who was later arrested for cocaine possession initially told an officer that she had been eating a powdered doughnut. The Maryville Daily Times reported that a 21-year-old woman was arrested on Thursday and charged with possession of a Schedule II substance with intent to sell or deliver. She was also cited for driving on a suspended driver’s license, driving without proof of insurance, failure to maintain her lane of traffic and possession of drug paraphernalia. According to an Alcoa police report, a field test on the substance indicated that the white powder she put in her mouth as an officer approached the car was cocaine, not a sugary pastry. She was being held in the Blount County Jail on a $12,250 bond pending a court hearing on Monday.
Bid to break into Oregon jail foiled
MEDFORD, Oregon: Police said a man climbed over a fence and tried to break into the Jackson County Jail. Medford Police Lt. Bob Hansen said that at about 4:10 a.m. Monday, jail officials spotted a man scaling the fence around an area where officers unload potential prisoners and take them inside. The officials called police. Officers said the 28-year-old man was distraught and said he had been drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana. He told officers he was trying to get help at the jail and that when he didn’t get an answer at the front entrance, he decided to go around back. The Mail Tribune reported that police cited the man for disorderly conduct and trespassing. He was taken to the county’s sobering center and referred for mental health services.
Oh deer, this is unbelievable
BELLEVILLE, Illinois.: An Illinois man says it didn’t take him long to decide not to mess with the uninvited, antlered guest he found in his kitchen. Belleville resident Mark Page and his wife were sleeping Saturday when the sound of breaking glass and — was that hooves? — woke them up. Page went downstairs to find a 10-to-12 point buck in the kitchen with its head in the sink. He says he looked at the animal for “not even a fraction of a second” before turning tail and heading back upstairs. He says he doesn’t mess with deer, especially big ones. The animal also was spooked and barreled through a closed window to escape. Page says the deer jumped through a different window to get into his home. He says the animal was injured, but police couldn’t find it.
— Compiled from agencies