COTTONWOOD - Three people in the central Arizona community of Cottonwood were attacked by a bobcat, including two men who were bitten by the animal after it wandered inside a bar.
Officers called to the Chaparral Bar on Main Street arrived to find the bobcat in the parking lot, and they shot and killed it.
Tests were ordered to determine if the animal was rabid.
Cottonwood police say about an hour before the bar attack the animal attacked and scratched a woman who had gotten out of her car after thinking she had hit it.
A short time later, police got a report of a bobcat acting aggressively toward a woman outside a Pizza Hut.
About 11 p.m. Monday came the call from the bar that a bobcat was inside attacking people as patrons climbed atop bar stools to get away.
News today from Michigan:
Man gets 90 days for sex with car-wash vacuum
Mar. 26, 2009 06:28 AM
Associated Press
SAGINAW, Mich. - A man police caught performing a sex act with a car wash vacuum has been sentenced to 90 days in the Saginaw County Jail.
Jason Leroy Savage must also submit to drug testing.
The 29-year-old Swan Creek Township man was sentenced Wednesday in Saginaw County Circuit Court. Savage pleaded no contest to indecent exposure last month.
Police say Savage was arrested after a resident called officers early on Oct. 16 to report suspicious activity at a car wash in Thomas Township, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit.
Savage's attorney, Philip Sturtz, didn't immediately return a message seeking comment.
CLALLAM BAY, Wash. (AP) - An inmate hankering for hot sausage got in hot water when the cooking fire he set in his toilet forced the evacuation of a prison wing.
Clallam Bay Corrections Center spokeswoman Denise Larson says smoke was spotted about 9:25 p.m. Wednesday coming from a sewer vent pipe. She says 130 inmates from the close-custody unit of the prison near the tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula were evacuated to a dining hall while local firefighters and prison staff responded.
The smoke was traced to the inmate's cell, and he admitted trying to heat up snack sausage bought from an inmate store in the stainless steel toilet, Larson says.
The toilet chef was placed in segregation pending discipline, while the other prisoners were returned to their cells by midnight.
NM man saw "economic warfare"
BETSY BLANEY
Associated Press Writer
LUBBOCK,Texas (AP) — A New Mexico man who admitted to sending threatening letters containing suspicious powder to dozens of banks and federal offices across the country says he did so as part of "economic warfare."
In a letter to The Associated Press, Richard Goyette wrote that he was responding to government incompetence, corruption and "illegal acts by corporate insiders" that contributed to the financial meltdown.
"I saw this as economic warfare with one side not taking any retaliatory hits," he said.
Goyette faces 15 years in prison after pleading guilty this month to mailing 65 to letters last fall to the banks and offices.
No one was injured from exposure to the letters and the powder was found to be calcium carbonate, a major component of blackboard chalk.
In a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, Goyette, 47, pleaded guilty March 16 to one count of threats and false information and one count of threats and hoaxes. His sentencing could be sometime in May.
Officials have said Goyette was apparently upset about losing more than $60,000 in Washington Mutual Bank stock he held when the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took it over in late September. The next day, the FDIC sold the bank's deposits, branches and loan portfolio to JP Morgan Chase & Co. for a small fraction of their combined value.
Goyette had been indicted on one count of threats and false information and 64 counts of threats and hoaxes after mailing letters from Amarillo to 52 offices and banks in 11 states and the District of Columbia in October.
Had he gone to trial, Goyette writes, he wanted to subpoena federal officials, including former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, the heads of the FDIC and the Office of Thrift Supervision, and the chief executive officer of Washington Mutual.
"It was my intention to have them testify under oath, but the potential risks of obtaining a lengthy sentence versus a set sentencing range in a plea agreement will most likely result in not having a trial," his handwritten letter states. "The acts I took were the result of a culmination of events that took place over the past 5-6 years in the market."
"It has been a one sided transfer of wealth the past 4-5 years at the detriment of the average investor and pension funds."
Goyette was accused of sending some of the 64 letters to Chase Bank locations in Colorado, Arizona, Illinois, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Ohio. He sent others to the FDIC's offices in Arlington, Va.; Washington, D.C.; and Dallas; and to thrift supervision offices in Chicago; Daly City, Calif.; Jersey City, N.J.; Irving, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
Each letter contained a threat that the person breathing the white powder inside would die within 10 days.
A 65th letter, sent to the headquarters of JPMorgan Chase in New York City, contained no powder but threatened to the "McVeighing of your corporate headquarters within six months," prosecutors said. Timothy McVeigh was the domestic terrorist executed for bombing a federal building and killing 168 people in Oklahoma City in 1995.
Goyette, who years ago attended community college in Amarillo, was working for a New Mexico energy provider at the time of his Feb. 2 arrest. He remained in the Randall County Jail on Thursday.
Man wearing an "I Heart My Marriage" t-shirt arrested for choking wife
Tampa, Florida - An Apollo Beach man wearing an "I ♥ My Marriage" t-shirt was arrested Monday night, charged with choking his wife during an argument.
Hillsborough deputies booked 32-year-old Bradley Gellert into jail on charges of a felony domestic battery by strangulation. According to the arrest report, Gellert works for Ameriprise, a financial consulting company.
The arrest report says that the couple were arguing over drugs, and during the fight at their home, Gellert screamed in his wife's face, threw things, grabbed her neck and strangled her, and knocked her to the ground.
Gellert followed the victim as she fled the home and reported the incident in person at the closest sheriff's office.
I tell it like a true mackadelic.
Founder of Ixtlan - the SCUM of Veeshan.
FM 812 wreck sends 9 people to the hospital
Updated: 3/28/2009 3:21 PM
By: News 8 Austin Staff
Fire and emergency rescue crews responded to a two-vehicle collision at FM 812 southeast of Austin Bergstrom International Airport at around noon Saturday.
Officials said one vehicle rolled over and caught fire, and witnesses said they saw people ejected from one of the vehicles.
Police said three of the nine people involved are suffering from life-threatening injuries. Three others transported to the hospital are children, two of which are believed to be under the age of three.
"We believed that one of the occupants of a vehicle was deceased, they turned the patient over and the person spontaneously started breathing," Millie Zapata, with Austin-Travis County EMS, said. "Medic crews took her to STAR Flight."
No one suffered burn injuries as a result of the fire. All were transported to University Medical Center and Dell Children's Hospital.
The crash is still under investigation, and it's not yet known what caused the two vehicles to collide.
The person already had a sheet covering her body after being checked, and later they found that she was still alive. Scary.
If The Chopper's A-Rockin, You'll Lose Your License
GARDENA - A judge says a commercial helicopter pilot videotaped in a sex act while flying over San Diego committed gross negligence and cannot have his license back.
After a three-hour hearing Tuesday, National Transportation Safety Board administrative law Judge William R. Mullins upheld a Federal Aviation Administration order revoking the license of David Martz.
Martz had no comment after the ruling.
A passenger was videotaping when Martz let an adult film actress perform a sex act on him during the May 20, 2005, flight, and an edited version eventually became public.
The judge watched the unedited tape in chambers and took testimony before his decision.
Martz testified that his actions weren't bright and he's much more responsible now.
For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression, but for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance.
