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A Fort Worth, Texas police officer dressed as Spiderman for the funeral of a five-year-old boy. Family members of Joshua Garcia say officer Damon Cole was a superhero to them, so they asked him to dress as Spiderman for the young boy’s funeral. Officer Cole was the first officer on the scene after the boy was reported missing in Fort Worth earlier this month. The officer went into a backyard swimming pool, which was filled with murky water, to search for him, says a Fort Worth police department spokesman to CNN. The spokesman says the water was almost black and […]

Toronto Police Service officers have shaved their heads for a good cause, raising money and awareness of cancer. It was the 20th annual Cops for Cancer Toronto fundraiser at the Yorkdale Mall on April 16. Officers pledge to raise money and do so by telling their donors they will be shaving their heads for the money. “My uncle succumbed to prostate cancer last year, and I lost a good friend to the disease the year before,” Constable Errol De Abreu said in a news release by the TPS. “But, even before they lost their battles, I knew of the seriousness of […]

A would-be drug smuggler is caught in the act, US Customs and Border officers say. They say a woman appeared to have bags of coffee with her at an airport, but she was really concealing cocaine the officers said. Authorities say that she was trying to smuggle the drugs into the United States. Authorities say the woman, Sherese Lee Ann Drake of Jamaica, arrived at the John F. Kennedy Airport from Montego Bay Jamaica Airport. They say during an inspection CBP officers looked in the woman’s suitcase. They say they found a coffee bag which was filled with a white […]

It sounds like a classic joke: A man walks into a bar and lets out a massive, smelly fart. But in this case police took 20-year-old Blake Zengo into custody, accusing him of unleashing a foul-smelling fart spray at an Athens, Georgia bar known as Whiskey Bent. Police on the scene told USA Today College that patrons complained that he was spraying people with fart spray. Police say the man denied the accusations, but was slurring his speech and had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath. Police say they identified the man with his ID and that another […]

An Arkansas man is facing felony charges after an incident involving a free water cup and some not free soda. According to a police report sent to 40/29 News, 18-year-old Cody Morris was arrested Monday. Police accused him of putting soda inside a water cup at a Springdale McDonald’s and then refusing to return the soda. Police say the manager he tried to stop the suspects from driving away, but he was hit by their car. The manager at the McDonald’s at 520 S. Thompson Street called police Monday to report a robbery, the report says. Police say the manager […]

A 10-year-old boy in Arkansas gets a big surprise from a group of Arkansas State Troopers after inviting children to his birthday party earlier this month, but nobody showed up. What happened two days later is something he’ll always remember. A group of state troopers came to his home, and they brought cake and celebrated his birthday with him. Ten-year-old Toxey’s mother says that she posted on Facebook that her son was disappointed that no one came to his party. The day the troopers came by she wrote, “This afternoon, after Toxey got home from school, a caravan of five […]

Two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to kill their friend as a sacrifice to the horror fiction character Slender Man are seeking their release. They’ve been in custody nearly two years in custody, and say they’re not dangerous and can return to family. An attorney for one of the girls adds that his client is a vulnerable inmate. He says she was sexually assaulted last year at a county detention center where she is being held. CBS reports that a judge will consider the girls’ requests Friday. The prosecutor had no comment on Wednesday. The girls were 12 years old when […]

A Utah mom has been sentenced to serve up to 15 years in prison for lying to police after her boyfriend brutally beat her 2-year-old son – a reaction to failed attempts at potty training, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Jasmine Ruth Bridgeman, 24, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony in March. On Monday, 2nd District Judge John Morris said her prison time was an appropriate punishment for her withholding from police the truth about what happened to her son. “Your actions were as abhorrent as they are heartbreaking in light of the care expected as […]

A Florida man gave police the wildest explanation for vandalizing property following his arrest. He told police he had “listened to too much music and masturbated too much and he felt like going out and destroying stuff,” the incident report states, obtained by The Smoking Gun. Police arrested 25-year-old William Thomas on Friday after causing more than $2,000 in damages to a Clearwater home and boat that belonged to Davor Jerkovic, arrest records show. According to Tampa, Florida station, WFLA, someone reported seeing a man on the property smashing mailboxes. Police found Thomas at the residence shirtless and covered in […]