Jethro
03-16-2006, 10:52 AM
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Kimberly Du landed in a grave situation after police say she tried to avoid traffic charges by faking her death. Du, 36, of Des Moines, faked her death in December, court records show.
Someone claiming to be Du’s mother used a pair of forged documents, including a death notice printed on a newspaper Web site and a letter purported to be signed by Du’s mother, to persuade court officials that Du had died, records show.
WILLISTON, N.D. - A man wearing a ski mask walked into a bank and demanded money, then told tellers, “just kidding,” authorities said.
Ryan Wright, 20, surrendered to police Monday night, said Sgt. Mark Hanson, a Williston police detective. Wright was formally charged Tuesday.
NICOSIA (Reuters) - You might have the best forgery skills in the world, but it is not much use if you cannot spell.
A Cyprus court jailed Pakistani national Fazal Ur Rehman for eight months for forgery after police spotted spelling mistakes on stamps on an Afghan passport he was carrying — otherwise it was a near-perfect copy, the Cyprus Mail said Wednesday.
CARSON CITY (Las Vegas Review-Journal) — A Reno man who voluntarily submitted DNA evidence to support his claim of innocence in a robbery case could not later prohibit the same sample from being used to convict him of a separate murder charge, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The opinion by a three-judge panel upholds the 2004 murder conviction of Willie Herman. However, Herman will get a new sentencing hearing because of an unrelated error in that phase of his trial. Herman was sentenced to life without the chance for parole for the murder of Leslie Carter in a Reno park in 1997.
KSL News — A driving mistake helped Salt Lake Police arrest two teens.
A Neighborhood Watch reported people riding in a car, shooting at another car. Police found one of the cars, but the driver wouldn’t stop. Officers didn’t have to hurry to stay on their trail.
The driver forgot to release the parking brake, and could only drive about 35 miles an hour.
Someone claiming to be Du’s mother used a pair of forged documents, including a death notice printed on a newspaper Web site and a letter purported to be signed by Du’s mother, to persuade court officials that Du had died, records show.
WILLISTON, N.D. - A man wearing a ski mask walked into a bank and demanded money, then told tellers, “just kidding,” authorities said.
Ryan Wright, 20, surrendered to police Monday night, said Sgt. Mark Hanson, a Williston police detective. Wright was formally charged Tuesday.
NICOSIA (Reuters) - You might have the best forgery skills in the world, but it is not much use if you cannot spell.
A Cyprus court jailed Pakistani national Fazal Ur Rehman for eight months for forgery after police spotted spelling mistakes on stamps on an Afghan passport he was carrying — otherwise it was a near-perfect copy, the Cyprus Mail said Wednesday.
CARSON CITY (Las Vegas Review-Journal) — A Reno man who voluntarily submitted DNA evidence to support his claim of innocence in a robbery case could not later prohibit the same sample from being used to convict him of a separate murder charge, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The opinion by a three-judge panel upholds the 2004 murder conviction of Willie Herman. However, Herman will get a new sentencing hearing because of an unrelated error in that phase of his trial. Herman was sentenced to life without the chance for parole for the murder of Leslie Carter in a Reno park in 1997.
KSL News — A driving mistake helped Salt Lake Police arrest two teens.
A Neighborhood Watch reported people riding in a car, shooting at another car. Police found one of the cars, but the driver wouldn’t stop. Officers didn’t have to hurry to stay on their trail.
The driver forgot to release the parking brake, and could only drive about 35 miles an hour.