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Groundskeepers at the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison were tasked with removing some invasive plants from a tulip bed on May 16, The Associated Press reported. It seems someone planted cannabis amongst the blooms, according to Shelby Ellison, a botanist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“It was just a large number of plants for it to be anything accidental,” she said.
She was unable to determine whether the plants were marijuana or hemp; marijuana is still illegal in Wisconsin.
Are tacos sandwiches? Martin Quintana, 53, has hoped to open a second The Famous Taco location in Fort Wayne, Ind., for a few years. However, businesses in the development he was eyeing are limited to “sandwich bar-style restaurants whose primary business is to sell ‘made-to-order’ or ‘subway-style’ sandwiches” — so Quintana was shut out. He sued, the Associated Press reported, and on May 15, Superior Court Judge Craig Bobay laid down the law: “(T)acos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches.” Quintana said the new location should be open in two to three months.
Police in Pasadena, Calif., arrested Art Leon Berian, 63, on May 16 after an investigation revealed he had been setting off explosions in his neighborhood, KABC-TV reported. Berian is believed to be responsible for more than 150 unidentified booms over nearly two years, police said. Most happened in the middle of the night, but while collecting evidence, police heard a loud explosion and saw a white BMW drive through the resulting cloud of smoke. Evidence from that explosion was found in Berian’s car. No injuries have resulted from the bombs; Berian is charged with three felonies, and bond was set at $1.5 million.
The Escambia County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Office, on the lookout for David Jerome Jackson, 31, found him in a heated situation on May 17, the New York Post reported. Jackson was wanted for a March 15 shooting in Pensacola.
“After an extensive search,” police said, “deputies … finally discovered Jackson, folded, not so neatly inside a remarkably small dryer drum. He was pulled from the dryer one limb at a time.”
Jackson is being held on $120,000 bail at the Escambia County Jail.
“Priest Accused of Biting Woman During Communion,” Click Orlando announced on May 23. On May 19, an unnamed woman attended Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in St. Cloud, Fla., where she attempted to take Communion. Father Fidel, however, allegedly refused to give her Communion bread because he said she had not confessed her sins. The priest said the woman pushed him and grabbed the tray of Communion bread, which is a no-no, and “the only way he thought to extract her from it was to bite her arm,” according to police. The priest has not yet been charged.
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