42 — Friday, December 6, 1996 — North Shore News

~Gops finger suspects

IN Amsterdam in August and
Miami in June, men were
arrested based on fingerprints
from their own severed (bit-
ten off and shot off, respec-
tively) fingers that chey aban-
doned at crime scenes.

And Victor Arreola, 23,
was arrested at the Scripps
Hospital in California last
month, where he had gone
after losing his finger in a
slammed door in what police
say was a carjacking.
(According to the San Diego
Union-Tribune, the police
asked Arreola if the finger
they had was his. When he
“said yes, they arrested him.
Arreola then asked to rake
another look at the finger
and decided, no, came to
think of it, it does not look
like his finger — thus allow-
ing the time to expire when
the finger could have been
grafted back onto his.hand.)

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US. District Judge
Howard McKibben ruled
that lawyers would not be
able to use nicknames in the
presence of the jury in the
case against Joseph Martin
Bailie for attempting to blow
up the Reno, Nevada IRS
building.

Bailie is well-known local-
ly as “Crazy Joe” and
“Psycho Joc.” He was con-
victed anyway.

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* + Kathleen Chang, 46, biki-
ni-favoring world-peace
activist, died in Philadelphia
of self-immolation on Oct.
22, hoping her death would
spread her message to a larg-
er audience.

Suresh Kumar, 25, died
similarly on Nov. 14 in
Madurai, India, protesting
his country’s hosting the
Miss World beauty pageant
tater in the month.

And Clinton Warner, 22,
miscalculatedly shot himself
to death in California on Oct.
14 because he was despon-
dent over a predicted lengthy
prison term under the state’s
three-strikes faw. (Actually,
his was oniy a misdemeanor
drug charge, and he didn’t

even have the required num--

Ber of “serious felony” predi-
cates for three strikes, any-
way; he would most likely
have received a short sen-

tence.)
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Ina procedure denounced
by the Association of
Professional Piercers,
Phoenix piercer’s apprentice
Joe Aylward recently had a
plate implanted just under
the skin of his skull so that he

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can screw decorative spikes
into his head, which Aylward
believes will improve his
appearance.

Another man _ reportedly
plans to have devil-type
horns made of coral similarly
implanted.

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Los Angeles County
authorities decided not to
charge Texan Robert Salazar
in the death of his employee
Sandra Orellana, who fell
trom the cighth floor balcony
at’ the Industry Hills
Sheraton, where the, nwo
were staying during a busi-
ness conterence.

Salazar said Orellana fell
accidentally as the two were
having sex braced on a
handrait and she changed
positions.

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ustoms agents
stopped an Arizona man
coming from Mexico at the
border town of San Luis
because he had an ice chest
containing 12,700 dead scor-
pions.

Customs didn’t know
immediately whether import-
ing dead scorpions was illegal
and so turned over the cache
to another agency.

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Twelve men were arrested
near Szczecin in northern
Poland as they were digging
up a road because they had
heard a rumor that it was
built with a large stockpile of
police-confiscated hashish.

The hashish had been sold
to a chemical plant to be
incinerated into ash for road
construction.

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Hallsville, Missour
Three teenage boys were
arrested for allegedly writing
ulgar graffiti on several
buildings.

Police chief Pete Herring
said the crimes were particu-
larly serious because they
frightened the elderly, and
city attorney John Whiteside
agreed, saying that the slurs
were “mean-spirited”
because one of the targets,
Casey’s convenience store,
was the “psychic center” of
Hallsville.

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