Why Student, 20, named Mexico police chief

Why Student, 20, named Mexico police chief

A 20-YEAR-OLD female criminology student has been named police chief of a northern Mexican border town plagued by drug violence because no one else wanted the job. Marisol Valles became director of municipal public security of Guadalupe "since she was the only person to accept the position", the mayor's office of the town of some 10,000 people near the US border told local media yesterday.Ms Valles is studying criminology in Mexico's most violent city of Ciudad Juarez, some 60km west of Guadalupe.Raging turf battles between rival drug gangs have left some 6500 people dead in Ciudad Juarez alone in the past three years.Much of Chihuahua state has suffered from the spiral of drug violence, including in Guadalupe, where the mayor was murdered in June and police officers and security agents have been killed, some of them beheaded.

Nice Robber-Gave back everything he stole

YORK — Police say an armed robber gave back everything he stole from a homeless man after learning he lives at a shelter. The York Dispatch reported Thursday that 22-year-old Larry Sanderson was outside the York Rescue Mission on Wednesday night when a man displayed the handle of a revolver and told him to empty his pockets. The paper says Sanderson turned over his wallet, cell phone, MP3 player and cigarettes.When the armed man asked Sanderson if that was all he had, Sanderson explained he lives at the shelter.Police say the robber replied, "I can respect that," returned the man's property and walked away.

LOL Dumb-Man arrested with drugs after asking cop for ride

REDWOOD CITY — Authorities say a 19-year-old Northern California man was arrested after he asked a police officer for a ride, agreed to be searched and was found to have cocaine in his pocket. Ongley Raymond Ocon III was charged with felony possession of cocaine.

San Mateo County prosecutors say Ocon left a party in San Carlos early Sunday morning, walked up to a Redwood City police patrol car and asked for a ride home to Danville.The officer asked Ocon whether he was carrying anything illegal.Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe says Ocon initially responded "yes" before pausing and saying "no." Wagstaffe tells the Contra Costa Times Ocon then agreed to be searched, and the officer discovered the cocaine.

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Naked hairdressers offer Hotcuts with topless trims

Naked hairdressers offer Hotcuts with topless trims

The idea for Hotcuts came from Polish-born owner Wojtek Wasilewski, 26.

But it took him 18 months to find four girls, hairdressers, who were willing to go semi naked as they randished their scissors.Wojtek said: 'I wanted to make the salon like a gentlemen's club.'Business is booming. The phone has been ringing off the hook.'I'm not surprised. They are stunning girls.'

Sexy Spy Anna Chapman in Maxim photoshoot

MOSCOW - Russian spy Anna Chapman posed in the Russian version of Maxim magazine in the most provocative photographs yet to appear of the secret agent who was deported from the United States in July.

A photograph on www.maximonline.ru shows red-haired Chapman dressed in nylon and lace and posing with a handgun. Nine other spies were deported from the United States with her. The Kremlin has seized on the Cold War aspects of the case to try to boost the prestige of its intelligence services and avert what has widely been seen as a major disgrace for Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), a successor to the KGB.

Man gets stuck in toilet

BEIJING - A Chinese man who got his arm stuck in a toilet pipe in an attempt to retrieve his dropped mobile phone was freed by rescuers, state television reported on Tuesday.When rescue workers arrived on the scene in Jiangsu province in eastern China, they found the man crouched over the toilet in a bathroom stall, his entire arm submerged up to the shoulder in the drain.Workers broke the porcelain bowl with crowbars and hammered the pipes, taking care not to injure the man, CCTV reported.After 10 minutes of work, the man was able to slowly remove his cut and bruised arm from the bowl and retrieve his waterlogged phone.

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