Lead Stories
In August, debtors Norman and Melissa Cameron of Hartford, Connecticut, said in court documents that God told them they didn’t have to pay their mortgage. In January in Baltimore, Dean William Trammel, 22, charged with assaulting a flight attendant, said in court that God told him he didn’t have to remain seated during the landing. And in Aurora, Colorado, in June, Priscilla Lee Jansma, 44, arrested for killing her husband, told police, “Jesus told me it was OK to do it.”
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Ex-marine Stanley Heiserman, 41, pleaded guilty in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in May to six convenience-store robberies, four of which he pulled off naked. Heiserman told police that after a previous robbery he had been identified by his clothing and that he was determined not to let that happen again.
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People who should have kept a lower profile: In July, Bobby Lee Allison, 26, who habitually carries a live snake around his neck, escaped from police in Tennessee, where he’d been held on suspicion of DUI. He was arrested six hours later in Athens, Alabama, after people reported seeing a guy with a snake around his neck. And Dorothy Joyner, 57, who evaded a warrant for burglary in Baltimore, was spotted by a police officer as she was being interviewed on TV in connection with her candidacy for mayor of Baltimore. The subject of the interview was crime prevention.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
