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Archive for May, 2006

No doubt she’ll get a job working for the New York Times after she gets out of the pokey…

NEW YORK CITY — A city traffic agent has been charged with writing dozens of fraudulent parking tickets — sometimes while sitting in her car miles away from the bogus violations she cited. Queens prosecutors said Nivea Cloud is accused of writing 27 tickets in three hours in seven locations on May 12. They said she invented infractions just one to four minutes apart in the same place. Cloud was seen sitting in her police car — parked in a handicapped spot — more than a mile away from where the vehicles cited on her tickets supposedly were illegally parked. Cloud was arraigned Tuesday on charges including official misconduct and falsifying business records. She could face up to four years in prison if convicted.

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BOSTON (Reuters) – A man charged with murder in Massachusetts was so angry with his lawyer’s performance he attacked the attorney in court, trying to strangle him as a shocked judge looked on, Boston radio reported on Wednesday.”I think he just didn’t like the way some of the rulings the judge was making was going yesterday morning,” attorney Bruce Carroll told WBZ Radio of the Tuesday morning attack by defendant John Gomes in Boston’s Suffolk Superior Court.

“He eventually stood up, started saying something and reached over and grabbed me by the throat,” said Carroll.

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I’m stunned speechless.

SIDNEY, Neb. – A judge said a 5-foot-1 man convicted of sexually assaulting a child was too small to survive in prison, and gave him 10 years of probation instead.

His crimes deserved a long sentence, District Judge Kristine Cecava said, but she worried that Richard W. Thompson, 50, would be especially imperiled by prison dangers.

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A man who became enraged when he saw a hickey on his girlfriend’s neck admitted he shot and killed his rival.

Oscar Garcia-Gual, 29, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in the shooting of Pedro Figueroa, 46, in October.

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A 23-year-old man was killed when he fell off a highway cleaning truck and was struck by several vehicles on Interstate 80 about 2 a.m. Sunday, the California Highway Patrol reported.

Juan Jimenez, 23, of Vacaville, climbed onto the vacuum truck’s bumper in the parking lot of Stars Recreation Center bowling alley in Vacaville and held on as the truck left, according to a manager at the recreation center.

When the truck entered the freeway and accelerated to 70 mph, however, he quickly lost his balance, the CHP said. As soon as Jimenez fell, he was struck by three or four vehicles, the CHP reported.

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