A tenacious police dog and a telltale mullet haircut left no doubt among sheriff’s deputies in Kitsap County, Washington, that a 28-year-old South Kitsap man was the person who walked into a neighbor’s home uninvited the morning of June 21.

A 22-year-old resident of Port Orchard dialed 911 just after midnight to report that “a man with a mullet” had entered his home uninvited and refused to leave, according to reports.

The resident told deputies that he had invited some friends over to his new place along the 900 block of Retsil Road East. The man with a mullet, whose name was not released, and his friend walked up to the house with a case of beer and asked if they could party with them.

The homeowner said no and the men left on foot. Ten minutes later, the man with the mullet came back and forced his way into the home. He pushed the homeowner aside and went into the living room, trying to mingle with the people inside, reports state.

The group of people pushed out the man, who the report alleges was drunk. He returned, saying he was a sheriff’s deputy in an attempt to be allowed into the house. The homeowner locked all of his doors and windows to prevent the man from coming inside.

When deputies arrived, they used a police dog to track the man’s scent. They found him sitting outside his home along the 2500 block of East Third Street.

The man said that he wanted to say “hi” to his new neighbors, but did not admit to going inside the house. He later said that he went inside, but didn’t push anyone. Then he recanted, saying that he never went inside, according to reports.

He was arrested on suspicion of burglary and taken to the Kitsap County jail. As of this writing, he’s being held on $25,000 bail.

Police in Jacksonville, Florida, say that they found a man who stole 10 pistols and six rifles from a gun store there hiding in a trash bin behind a Taco Bell.

When officers responded to a burglary at Shooters of Jacksonville in the early morning hours of June 22, they reported seeing a Ford Mustang quickly pull away from the business with its lights off. The vehicle eventually pulled into the Taco Bell parking lot where it crashed into a pole. A security guard saw the driver, identified as Rodwick Jewing Dowston, jump into a trash bin behind the restaurant, where police eventually caught Dowston.

Dowston has been charged with burglary, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and resisting arrest. As of this writing, bail has not been set.

An escape attempt from the Alton, Texas, city jail failed miserably when one inmate crashed through the ceiling and into the police chief’s unoccupied office.

As of this writing, two inmates accused of escape are being held in the Hidalgo County Jail on bail totaling $105,000.

Police say that the two males, identified as 17-year-old Jesus Albert Suarez Chavez and 22-year-old Roman Orozco Martinez, tried to flee through the air conditioning system around 3:00 AM June 21, but a dispatcher monitoring surveillance footage spotted them.

Alton Police Chief Baldemar Flores told The Monitor, a newspaper in nearby McAllen, that the vent is small. The second inmate was trying to get into the vent, according to police.

Chavez and Martinez are in jail on charges of burglary of a vehicle, evading arrest, resisting arrest, assault on a public servant and making a terrorist threat.

A man in Bristol, England, has been captured on tape stealing a navigation system from an undercover police car — for the third time!

The man, identified as 21-year-old James Milsom, was videotaped breaking into the cruiser, just six weeks after he was freed from prison for stealing a similar device from another unmarked police car.

As mentioned above, this was the third time that he had been caught in identical thefts in a mere four months.

Footage showed that it took him only six seconds to smash the window and grab the navigation system from a cruiser before escaping in daylight. (Some guy running through the streets with a satellite navigation system in broad daylight is likely to attract attention, isn’t it?)

But Milsom’s face was caught on camera as he leaned through the smashed window, giving the cops a clear image of their suspect.

Avon and Somerset police came up with the idea of “covert capture” vehicles, which contain hidden cameras the size of a pinhead, after a string of high-value thefts from cars.

Superintendent Ian Wylie said, “Some of the photographs we have got from the cars have been excellent images.

“There is no doubt who the thief is and what they are doing. When faced with such evidence there is no other way to go than ‘guilty’.”

The cars are now parked around the high-crime areas of Bristol in an attempt to catch the most prolific criminals.

Magistrates there have sentenced Milsom to 14 weeks behind bars.

Police in Riverside, California, say that a man sought by cops on a felony charge accidentally fell right at their feet.

The Riverside Police Department said in a news release that when officers were at a home trying to find the man, identified as 48-year-old Henry Gabriel Pereyra, to speak with him, he fell through a ceiling and landing right in front of them, the Riverside Press-Enterprise, a newspaper there, reported in its June 21 edition.

Pereyra had been suspected of violating a restraining order and police were alerted to his presence in the home by a civilian process server. The server told police officers that Pereyra was in the home of his estranged wife despite the court order.

According to police, Pereyra fell to the floor while hiding in the attic. He suffered only minor injuries and the newspaper reported that he was booked after a brief visit to the hospital.

A man in DeLand, Florida, held up a store there in a crime that police described as one of the most bizarre that they have ever seen. His weapon of choice? A palm frond.

Police there say that the man, identified as Gelando Olivieri, attempted to rob the V&F Discount Beverage store by threatening harm with a spiked Spanish bayonet, a palmetto-like plant with sharp points on its leaves.

“The man came in with the branch. I have never seen anything like this,” owner Goutam Sarkar told the DeLand-Deltona Beacon, a newspaper there, June 19.

Surveillance video showed Olivieri wildly waving the palm frond right in front of a worker’s face.

According to investigators, Olivieri threatened to use the leaves to stab if he wasn’t given $50.

“(The plant) was sharp,” Sarkar said.

Before Olivieri got any money, he was chased out of the store by a man armed with a barstool.

Olivieri was arrested a short time after the crime and charged with armed robbery. (Maybe that should be “palmed robbery”.)

A police official said that the leaves of the Spanish bayonet are like knives and that people often plant them under windows to stop people from breaking in.

It’s bad enough when the police catch you with marijuana. It’s even worse when that marijuana is wrapped around your penis.

That’s exactly what happened to a man in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The man, identified as 34-year-old John Christopher Williams, has a lengthy criminal record and had failed to show up to arraignments on more than one occasion, leading to a warrant for his arrest. When police tracked down and handcuffed him, they didn’t find any drugs on his person and he said nothing.

That is, until he was being booked into prison. That’s when guards discovered the nine grams of penile pot. Williams says that it was all a misunderstanding. Yeah, try telling that to the judge.

He appeared yesterday in Dartmouth Provincial Court to answer charges of smuggling drugs into prison.

His lawyer said that Williams now realizes that he should have told police about the marijuana on his male member sooner. He was sentenced to thirty days in prison.