WILLIAM JAMES Silva, 44, was arrested in San Jose, California, when he allegedly robbed a police decoy posing as a street-corner drunk, [t was the 550th time Silva had been arrested, and bis record Stretches for 127 feet (38 metres) On computer paper, (According to police, before robbing the decoy, Silva had argued with a friend about whether the man was a police officer, with Silva insisting he wasn't.) In April, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation uscd laser light tech- nology to identily: the prime sus- pect in a hit-and-run injury in rural Johnson County. Although wit- nesses suid only that the hit-and- run vehicle was a black hatchback, bureau investigators found that the collision was so hard that the first two numbers of the license plate. and the month of expiration were imprinted on the victim's pants, and the only black hatchback with those nuinbers belonged to‘a 51- _year-old man, who was subse- quently arrested. 2.8.6: Assault. and indecent exposure charges; were . filed against Shakespearean aciress Barbara ~ Kinghorn ‘in St: Joseph, Missouri, in April after she, naked, allegedly “attacked a 52-yeyr-old woman on the indoor track at Northwest Missouri. Staie University. Kinghorn: allegedly, had first thrown herself. at the woman’s ~ husband, asking him, “Can I give it to you?” and when the woman objected, Kinghorn attacked her. Kinghorn was in town.to. play Lady Macbeth, in @ Jocal produc- fon, | MT&T Technologies, Compiled by A J McCredie In February, customs officials in Taiwan seized 11 tons of chick- en testicles, which they said had been smuggled in from Hong Kong. The Chinese delicacy, said to be an aphrodisiac, was dis-. guised as frozen shrimp. oaeae According to a police affidavit . (uncovered by The Oregonian) in support of two prostitution arrests in Portland, Oregon, last summer. a confidential informant was given enough police department money that he was able to procure mas- turbation services six times from the A-| Massage Studio, which “was operated by two sisters, ages 73 and 70, In Enumclaw, Washington, in _ November, a woman summoned police to her home when. she . thought she had found a mysteri- ous supply of drugs, but police determined the substanee to be faulking material In Oakland, California, Louis C. Clark tiled a lawsuit against the city in December for their roughhouse behavior in arresting him for pos- sessing cocaine, which turned out to be only his denture adhesive. Last July, in Kawasaki, Japan, Hidekazu Watanabe, 36, was arrested by a store security guard as he attempted to shoplift a handbag and 16 other items. A search of his home turned up about 1,700 more stolen items, and accordiag to a police officer, Watanabe said he had hoped to steal enough goods to open a dis- count shop. Roberto Carlos da Silva, 21, confessed to police in Sorocabia, Brazil, in February that he was so consumed with grief over the death of his fiancée that, three months after her burial, he dug up her body, which still had her wed- - ding dress on, and had sex with il. He told the Estade news agency, “Twas desperiite and needed her.” Fort Worth, Texas, police arrested Philip G. Rojo, 24, in April after they had stopped his car at a roadblock because he was not wearing a seat belt. 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