ROBERT Franklin Devoe,
' 33, was arrested and charged
in Toronto with bank rob-
bery after arousing the suspi-
cion of shopkeeper Zuk
Khan.

According to police,
Devoe had stopped by dur-
ing his getaway to inquire
about purchasing an elec-
tronic scale. Khan showed
him one, and Devoe pro-
ceeded to weigh two bundles
of $100 bills.

That behavior, plus the
gun Devoe had in his waist-
band, led Khan to notify
police, and Devoe was cap-
tured after a brief chase.

Philippe Delandtscheer,
60, was jailed in Lille,
France, for stealing a bottle
of a certain anise-flavored
aperitif.

Authorities believe it is
the Slst time that he has
been arrested for stealing
“that same product. (As with
Otis Campbell in Andy
Griffith’s’ Mayberry jail, a
_ Special cell in Lille’s jail is
reserved for him).

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Florida state Rep. Marvin
_ Couch, R-Oviedo, resigned
in February, a week after he
was arrested cn three misde-

* meanor sex charges.
Couch, a member of a
_ legislators’ _ prayer-meeting
. group that called itself the

my: God Squad, was caught by

police in his car in a shop-
ping centre parking-lot at
noon receiving ora! sex from
a prostitute. .
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rimonial vows -in February
by Haitian President Jean-
Bertrand: Aristide and his
bride... lawyer © Mildred
Trouillot: “When you
Mildred) see this ring, think
of ‘me and remember that
‘you are’ the attorney of the
‘Haitian ‘pecpic.”

‘Mildred: responded . that

Aristide should think of his
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her love and also a reminder
that it was better to fail by
the side of his countrymen
than to succeed alone.

The village council of
Bruntingthorpe. England,
recently began consideration
of an elaborate plan to
reduce the amount of dog
excrement in the town of 200
people (and 30 dogs): The
village would DNA-test the
dogs and keep the results on
file for the purpose of
matching the DNA to that on
any unscooped dog poop
lying around the village. so
as to punish scofflaws.

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The candidates for
Oregon Senate, District 8,
include Thomas Wilde, a
Democrat who, if he wins
this ‘month's primary, will
face his wife, Republican
Melinda Wilde, in the gener-
al election. (Thomas started
nut as Melinda’s campaign
manager but discovered that
the two hardly agreed on
anything.)

And running for the
Missouri Senate seat from
Concordia are husband Al
(Democrat) and wife Janette
Hanson (Republican), who
both face challengers in the
August primary.

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Christopher Norling, 28.
was jailed in Milwaukee
recently oa a charge of fraud
after running up a big bill at
the Pfister Hotel by pretend-
ing to be a National Football
League official.

He has # long record of
similar charges — in a 1996
jailhouse interview. Norling
said: “The only thing | know
how to do is con people. To
be honest with you, it's
probably going to happen
again.”

James Hogue, 36, was
arrested as he tried again to
poss himself off as a
Princeton University  stu-
dent, less than five months
after his release from prison
on a charge of passing kim-
self off as a different
Princeton student.

(In 1990, Hogue studied
and ran on the track team as
Alexi Indris-Saatana until he
was exposed by a former
high-school classmate.)

According to a report in
The Oregonian, Republican
U.S. Rep. Wes Cooley now
says that biographical infor-
mation he submitted in the
1994 official state voters’
pamphlet might not have
been exactly right.

The line “Army Special
Forces, Korea”. he said, does
not exactly mean that he
served a tour in Korea, but
only that the Korean conflict
was going on at the same
time he was in the Army.

(Cooley had previously said,
via a siaff member. that since
Special Forces performed
secret missions, he was not
at liberty to comment.
Furthermore, _ military
historians mentioned by The

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Oregonian doubted — that
Special Forces units were
operating during the Korean
conflict, and Cooley said his
own Army records were
destroyed in a 1973 fire.)
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