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In July, New York City police
arrested a 16-ycar-old boy named
Eddie and charged him with sexual
assault and attempted murder of his
stepmother, but then released him
two days later when an investiga-
tion revealed that it was his twin
brother, Jesus, who should have
been charged, The stepmother said

‘she could not tell the boys apart and

therefore was not sure which one
assaulted her, and DNA testing of
accused rapists was useless since
both Eddie and Jesus have the same
DNA.

In response to a citizen com-
plaint, a San Diego. police vice

"squad officer last year persuaded

the owner of DeRay’s, a sexy-cos-
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In July, the Cook Islands, which
gained independence from New
Zealand in 1965 and is home to
18,000 people, reported its very
first armed robbery. A local man
took about $24,000 from a hotel,
but was quickly captured,:

In separate incidents in March,

police in Washington, D.C., and
South San Francisco, California,
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ning down the street who aroused
suspicion beause they happened to
be carrying cash registers, One was
charged with robbing a convenience
store and the other with burglariz-
ing a bakery,

In November, Andre Guay. 34,
was arrested in Dickson, ‘Tennessee
and charged with various traffic
violations. Guay has black wavy
hair and was dressed in black, with
black chrome-tipped boots, and a
black jacket with the words “Elvis
Lives” on it. Guay, who is from
Quebec, told police he was dis-
traught oyer marital problems and
decided to visit Graceland, but that
that made him even more
depressed.

In July, a 17-year-old boy sitting
atone on some steps in Manchester,
N.H., was approached by a police
officer on patrol who stopped to
chat. According to the officer, the
boy evaded several questions and
then began coughing violently, As
the officer rubbed his back to cuse

the coughing, the boy finally spit ,

out about $200 worth of cocaine
that he had swallowed when he saw
the officer approaching.

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