Calgary - If you’re a suspected bank robber fleeing from the United States into Canada there are three things you should do first.

You should leave your gun behind.

Definitely lose the woman’s wig. And, under no circumstances, should you still be carrying your robbery hold up note.

A suspected bank robber had all three items with him in his vehicle as he tried to come into Canada through the Coutts Alberta border crossing Sunday.

The 39-year-old suspect was carrying a .380-calibre handgun, the wig and clothing, and the holdup note written on the back of a bank cheque.

He was arrested, held and turned over to the U.S. Authorities.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Dorothy Marie Livingston has been accused of passing a fake $1 million bill at a bank — and the teller, apparently, didn’t see anything strange about the transaction.

Livingston, 24, allegedly used the phony note to start an account at the First National Bank of Newport on July 15. She later withdrew some of the money and transferred it to her husband’s account, police said.

Livingston has been charged with 16 counts of theft by deception and was being held on $25,000 bail, police said.

The fake $1 million bill is about 10 times the value of the largest bill ever printed by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and 10,000 times the value of the largest bill still being printed, the Treasury Department said.

The $100,000 bill existed for about three weeks in the 1930s, when it was used to transfer funds between Federal Reserve banks. It was never publicly circulated.

Remaining notes in denominations larger than $100 are being withdrawn from circulation as they come into banks for transactions.

An Akron man died Saturday night when he was hit by a car while fleeing a video store with a stash of stolen DVDs, police said.

Charles S. Woodard, 31, of East Avenue was pronounced dead at the scene of the 11:13 p.m. accident on state Route 18, just west of Cleveland-Massillon Road in the Montrose shopping district.

Bath Township police Lt. Mike Zorena said several witnesses saw Woodard steal eight DVDs from the Blockbuster Video in the 3800 block of Medina Road, or state Route 18, and then run into traffic. He was struck by an eastbound car, according to the State Highway Patrol post in Cuyahoga Falls.

Summit County Medical Examiner Lisa Kohler performed an autopsy on Woodard yesterday. No funeral information was available.

Zorena said Bath police have arrested Woodard twice before on shoplifting charges at Montrose-area stores — in April 1999 at TJ Maxx and in May 2000 at the now-closed HomePlace. The patrol is continuing to investigate the crash.

TAMPA — The sign outside the Bank of America building told customers that the night deposit drawer was out of service and to use the alternate box provided.

But that box was actually an overnight mail bin stripped of its identifying stickers and placed outside the bank by a would-be thief sometime between Friday and Sunday, police say.

Tampa police were summoned to the bank at 3439 W Hillsborough Ave. by a suspicious Little Caesars Pizza restaurant manager shortly before 4 p.m. Sunday

“He figures, “Hey, this doesn’t look right,”‘ Cpl. Barry Moscowitz said.

Bank management was summoned and recovered about $35,000 deposited in the phony bin, though police aren’t sure if earlier deposits were made and stolen. The deposit bags were replaced with dummies filled with fake money and undercover officers with the Tampa Police Street Anti-Crime Squad set up surveillance.

About 7 p.m. Sunday, police say Leroy Clark Jr., 29, of 15827 Glenarm Drive, arrived to pick up the loot, wearing a ski mask. He was arrested with the fake money, the mask and a 9-mm handgun in a nearby apartment complex, after a foot chase.

Clark was being held without bail late Monday at the Orient Road Jail on charges of grand theft, carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony, obstructing arrest and escape from police custody.

Kiev - Police arrested a Ukrainian cat burglar after he became stuck in a garbage chute, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The suspect and an accomplice had abseiled down the side of a building to enter neighbours’ flats at night, but on Monday a watchman spotted them.

Police took one man into custody but the second burglar, aged 20, evaded searchers by hiding in the building’s ninth-floor rubbish chute.

He attempted to escape by using the chute to get down to the basement, but became stuck on the sixth floor where the chute narrowed to less than half a square metre.

It took a rescue team with jackhammers and metal shears four hours to open a hole in the reinforced concrete wall to extract the suspect.

WORCESTER– Leslie Ronayne, summoned for jury duty, left the Worcester Courthouse late yesterday morning when prospective jurors were excused for lunch.

She’ll be back in the hall of justice today, although under considerably different circumstances.

Police Capt. Keith D. Benway said an informant’s tip led undercover Vice Squad officers to keep an eye on the Harding Cafe on Millbury Street. While there, some suspicious activity by two people inside the restaurant led officers to arrest them.

The captain said Mrs. Ronayne, 50, and her husband, John Ronayne, 45, of 29 Davenport St., were carrying a total of 181 packets of heroin, with an estimated street value of $3,500. He said Mrs. Ronayne also had four ounces of cocaine.

They were charged with possession of heroin with intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute within 100 feet of a park. Mrs. Ronayne also was charged with possession of cocaine.

The two are to be arraigned today in Central District Court.

Edwin V. Gaynor always wanted to be a police officer, but a few armed robberies might get in the way of his dreams.

Gaynor showed up at Baltimore’s police headquarters promptly at 9 a.m. yesterday to fill out an application to join the city force, officials said. Then, he came across a simple question: Have you ever committed a crime?

Gaynor checked “yes,” police said - and a few hours later, he was spending the night with the type of people he once hoped to arrest.

City police were told in vivid detail that he had carjacked a woman and then robbed five people in two incidents this year in Texas, said Maj. George Klein of the city’s warrant apprehension task force.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Klein said. “I guess something spooked him and he wanted to clear his conscience.”

Gaynor, 21, was discharged from the Army in July, his family said, and moved from Fort Hood, Texas, to Baltimore, where he had grown up and graduated from Carver High School in 1998.

After Gaynor’s “yes” to the application question, and a brief description of the carjacking, the police applicant investigator left the room and called the warrant apprehension task force, Klein said.

For the next few hours, Klein said, detectives questioned Gaynor, who told them of carjacking a woman in February in Killeen, Texas, using a .380-caliber, chrome-plated handgun while wearing a green-and-white bandana.

But nothing was said to have been taken from the car, which Ganor told detectives he had parked five miles from the crime scene, Klein said.

Police also were told of two earlier alleged robberies - one in which a jogger was accosted while entering a 7-Eleven store, the other of a group of four people in which a robber got “junk jewelry,” and a pager, Klein said. After questioning Gaynor, Baltimore detectives called police in Killeen, who said they did not have any suspects in the carjacking. But Killeen police said the crime was committed by a man wearing a green-and-white bandana who used a chrome-plated handgun, Klein said.

Baltimore detectives obtained search warrants and raided Gaynor’s house, his mother’s house and a storage center in Jessup, Klein said.

Police found a green-and-white bandana in Gaynor’s house in the 4700 block of Dunkirk Ave., Klein said. Detectives also found several weapons, including rifles, at his mother’s home on West Caton Ave., and a chrome-plated .380-caliber handgun at the storage center in Jessup, Klein said.

Police found five handguns and two rifles in the searches, Klein said. Killeen police got a warrant for Gaynor’s arrest, charging him in the carjacking, and filed extradition papers yesterday afternoon, Klein said.

Gaynor has not been charged in the street robberies, pending further investigation by Killeen police, Klein said.

The suspect was being held at the city’s Central Booking and Intake Center last night.

Gaynor’s mother said she couldn’t believe her son would rob anyone, and that police must have arrested the wrong man. “He has never been violent,” said Alice Gaynor, 50.

He had been looking for a job during the last few weeks, his mother said, but was especially interested in becoming a police officer. “He always wanted to be one,” the mother said. “But police work is dangerous, and I was trying to persuade him to become a businessman. His pursuits were well-meaning.”

Said Klein: “I guess he got a case of the guilts and wanted to come clean. … I’ve never seen one as easy as this. We have people confess to crimes when they get caught for something. This guy was just applying for a job.”

Copyrighted story used with permission of the Baltimore Sun.