A mental-health caseworker became an unwitting getaway driver for an Oregon bank robber.
Nicholas Theodore York, 35, claimed to need help moving from one Medford motel to another, police said, so the caseworker gave him a ride and agreed to stop at a Chase Bank branch “to withdraw money.”
Instead, York got a teller to empty a till of cash before he and the caseworker drove off to his new place — where York was busted a short while later.
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Here’s one way to beat the high cost of dying.
Apple Valley, Calif., cops found a 63-year-old man buried in a shallow grave in his family’s back yard Wednesday.
His “distraught” wife said she couldn’t afford a decent burial when he died weeks ago, so she did the best she could. The body bore no sign of trauma, cops said.
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A West Kendall, Fla., car thief got the ride he wanted — with help from the Bible.
Surveillance video shows him checking several cars’ doors before he found an unlocked Acura SUV, got in and burned a Bible — creating one helluva diversion.
Then he broke into a Honda Pilot and rode off, cops said. The Honda was found Tuesday ditched at the Tamiami Airport.
The thief? Gone like a puff of smoke.
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This factory’s name proved tragically ironic.
Authorities in the Dutch city of Oisterwijk say a pre-dawn fire yesterday at the Fire-up factory lasted for hours and destroyed virtually the entire building — and all the firefighting equipment made there.
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A drunken dentist in Radomsko, Poland, extracted the front tooth of man who had come in for a crown — then barricaded himself in his office to fend off police.
Polish radio said cops eventually broke into the office and quickly determined that the dentist, 50, had been operating under the influence of alcohol.