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December 20, 2006

SYDNEY – An Australian driver threatened police with a live snake after he was pulled over for a breath test for driving under the influence of alcohol, police said on Monday.

The driver in the outback Northern Territory was stopped on Saturday night by police just outside the city of Darwin after they saw him swerving, police said in a statement.

After registering a blood alcohol level well over the legal limit, the man ran onto the road and picked up a live snake.

“The driver allegedly armed himself with a live snake, pointed the head of the reptile at them and threatened them,” said police.

Police told the man to drop the snake, but he ran into bushland still carrying it. The man has been charged with drunken driving and will appear in the Darwin Magistrates Court.

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November 18, 2006

Police in the border city of Tijuana said they arrested a U.S. man with heroin hidden in his shoes.

Martin Galvan, 19, arrived in Tijuana’s airport from the western state of Michoacan when police said they saw he was having difficulty walking. On closer inspection, police found 21 ounces of heroin in the soles of his shoes, Mexico’s Attorney General’s office said. It did not give Galvan’s home town.

The heroin had a street value of about $20,000, the office said.

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November 16, 2006

NANAIMO — He sold it for $37, now he has to pay $800 to replace it.

Parksville resident Robert Makkonen was sentenced to one year probation in Nanaimo provincial court after pleading guilty to heisting a custom-made garbage can from a park.

Judge Doug Cowling also ordered the 34-year-old to pay $800 to the City of Parksville to replace the garbage can.

Cowling heard that after removing the metal container, Makkonen took it to a recycling centre where he sold it for $37.

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September 28, 2006

FBI agents in Jacksonville, Florida, arrested brothers Robert, 54, and Kenneth, 49, Alberton, accusing them of talking dentist John Rende into letting them chop off his finger with an ax so they could claim it was an accident and collect a fortune in insurance money. Rende at first agreed to the scheme, then changed his mind. The Albertons forcibly cut off his right index finger anyway. Unable to continue practicing dentistry, Rende collected $1.3 million. He paid the brothers $45,000. Later, they tried to extort $500,000, so he notified the FBI.

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