Some advice for anyone thinking of attending Livestock next year: Don’t wear a bright orange jail uniform. Especially if you stole it. And especially if you are supposed to be on house arrest.

Just ask 25-year-old Korey Bradd Henderson of Lakeland.

Pasco County sheriff’s detective Mark Morrison was working the hard rock festival Sunday, wearing his uniform, when he spotted Henderson walking his way dressed in a bright orange shirt and pants.

As the man got closer, Morrison could make out black letters across the back of the shirt and the leg of the pants: Polk County Jail.

“He stood out in the crowd,” sheriff’s spokesman Jon Powers said. “(Morrison’s) keen police mind said, “Something ain’t right here.’ ”

When Morrison approached, Henderson took off running. “That was his second mistake,” Powers said.

He ran straight into two other deputies, who stopped him. Henderson at first told them the getup was a Halloween costume.

The deputies decided to check that story with the Polk County jail. The jail ran an inventory search and called back with the result: one uniform was missing.

Turns out that Henderson had taken the uniform when he was released from jail in January, Powers said. But that marked only the beginning of his troubles.

A warrants check told deputies that Henderson was supposed to be on house arrest in Lakeland as part of his probation on a charge of illegal possession of Alprazolam, also known as Xanax.

They gave him a trespass warning, confiscated the jail uniform and escorted him from Festival Park. On Monday, deputies called Henderson’s probation officer in Lakeland.

The probation officer said he had visited Henderson at home early Monday, and Henderson said he had stayed around the house all weekend.

By Monday night, Henderson was back behind bars, accused of violating his probation.

Records show he has been arrested four times since 2000, on charges ranging from marijuana possession, to possession of narcotics equipment, to possession of a controlled substance, to driving with a suspended license.

Powers said he still can’t understand what motivated Henderson to wear the jail uniform at an event swarming with deputies.

“If you’re violating your probation,” he said, “the last thing you want to do is draw attention to yourself.”

Henderson remained at the Polk County Jail on Thursday without bond. He was issued a jail uniform.

A Canadian man’s attempt make off without paying a prostitute for her services failed miserably on Friday when he left behind some crucial evidence — his employer’s truck and, inside it, much of his finger, police said.

“There’s a lot of lessons here and they’re all really apparent,” Edmonton police spokesman Wes Bellmore said.

Residents of an Edmonton neighborhood alerted police just after daybreak with reports of a man and a woman fighting and yelling in and around a pickup truck, saying the man was bleeding from his hand.

Witnesses reported the young blonde woman eventually jumped out of the truck, pulled up her pants and ran to a nearby home, police said.

When officers arrived on the scene, they found the pickup with bloodstains on the door, clumps of blonde hair in the cab and a 3/4-inch (2 cm) piece of a finger.

Police also found the woman after a door-to-door search, and said she explained that she was working as a prostitute and that the fight broke out when the man refused to pay her for services rendered.

Officers believed she bit the man’s finger off.

It did not take police long to locate the man, described as heavy-set and in his 50s.

“It was a company truck with the big name and phone number on the side, so that helped — our investigators are pretty smart,” Bellmore said.

“Our investigators got in touch with him at the hospital, where he’s having what’s left of his finger put back together.”

Bellmore said the man was not arrested but may face assault charges in coming days.

The case of the naked burglar was easily solved when the suspect left his pants at the scene of the crime. Inside a pocket: his Oregon driver’s license.

“Thankfully it had his current address,” Eugene police Sgt. Scott McKee said.

The man sneaked into an apartment on Payne Street last Saturday, stripped off his clothes and crept into a sleeping woman’s bedroom, McKee said. The woman awoke, saw the man and screamed, prompting her boyfriend to jump out of bed and chase the nude intruder.

The man got away, but police had the evidence they needed. On Tuesday, they arrested 20-year-old David Spencer Clark Jr. of Eugene on a charge of first-degree burglary.

A Queens man tried to set a rookie cop on fire with a makeshift blowtorch using foot spray and a lighter but the officer pulled out a can of his own and doused his attacker with pepper spray, police said yesterday.

The spray duel unfolded in Washington Square Park on Sunday about 11 p.m. when Officer Michael Bonanno told Craig Warner he couldn’t ride his bike in the park, cops said.

Warner, 33, of Far Rockaway, Queens, cursed at the officer and rode away only to return about a half-hour later on foot with three other men, police said.

When Warner spotted Bonanno, he yelled, “You better call for backup because I’m going to — you up,” a police source said.

Warner then pulled an aerosol can of Tough Actin’ Tinactin (a medication for athlete’s foot) out of a backpack, pointed it at the officer’s face and ignited the alcohol-based anti-fungal foot-spray several times with a cigarette lighter, police said.

“He was using it as a blowtorch,” said the source.

The uninjured officer used pepper spray to disarm the flamethrower as several cops arrived and subdued Warner after a brief struggle, police said.

Warner was charged with attempted aggravated assault on a police officer and menacing, among other offenses.

ALBUQUERQUE - Imagine getting a phone call saying, “I’m the guy who hijacked your car, and I need to know how to hook up your stereo amplifier.”

Police in Albuquerque say that was the gist of a phone call received at the home of a man who’d been among three people carjacked at gunpoint.

The victim’s cell phone recorded the number , and police traced it to a man who lives across the street from the carjacking scene. He’s now been arrested and he faces charges that include robbery, aggravated assault and receiving stolen property.

The car was found minus the stereo and the amplifiers. Also missing were some CDs, which police say were found at the suspect’s home.

Police say the suspect denies committing the carjacking or making the phone call, but they say it definitely came from his phone.

TYLER, Texas - A burglary attempt by two men dressed as sheriff’s deputies was foiled when the homeowner - a law officer - interrupted the would-be thieves on his lunch break.

Gregg County Sheriff’s Deputy Kenneth Freeman returned to his Gladewater home around noon Tuesday to find two men dressed in fatigues parked outside his house.

One man ran out of Freeman’s garage and ripped open his camouflage shirt to display a black T-shirt with “Sheriff’s Department” printed on the chest.

“He said, ‘I’m with the sheriff’s department,’ and I said, ‘You wouldn’t mind me calling to check you out?’ ” Freeman told the Tyler Morning Telegraph.

Freeman said the thief grew nervous and insisted he and his partner, who remained in the car, never entered his house. Then they bolted.

“He said, ‘we gotta go, we’ll see ya,’ ” Freeman said.

The two would-be thieves had to plow their car through a barbed-wire fence to escape since Freeman had blocked his driveway with his vehicle when he arrived.

Both men were later captured and charged with burglary of a habitation and evading arrest. One of the men was also charged with impersonation of a police officer.

By MATT BURGARD, Courant Staff Writer

Don’t you hate it when the cellphone rings when you’re right in the middle of something - like stealing a purse?

That’s what police say happened Wednesday to Larry Drummond, who is accused of snatching a purse from a Hartford shelter for girls and planning to use stolen credit cards to buy clothes at a nearby store.

When police learned that there was a cellphone in the purse, they dialed the number and couldn’t believe their luck.

They say Drummond, 42, of Hartford, fumbled with the ringing phone, punching buttons until he thought he had turned it off. But he’d actually left it on, turning it into a homing beacon for Officer Robert Russell.

Russell, keeping his own phone to his ear, said he could hear Drummond enter a clothing store and start shopping.

“He was saying things like, `I’d like that in yellow’ and `I’ll need some pants to go along with that,’” Russell said. “So we knew he must’ve gone into some store close by.”

Russell kept listening for the sounds coming over the cellphone and stopped at four stores near the shelter. When he walked into the Above Us clothing store on Main Street, he noticed that the music in the store matched the music coming over the phone.

“I was like, `OK, he’s in here,’” Russell said. “And sure enough, I saw a guy who fit his description behind a rack of clothes.”

Russell said he looked right at Drummond, who tried to charge past him.

Russell, who wasn’t sure if Drummond had a weapon, sprayed the man with pepper spray, sending a plume of the noxious liquid across the store.

Drummond still managed to get out of the store, but detectives who were arriving as backup apprehended him.

Drummond was charged with sixth-degree larceny, interfering with a police officer, criminal impersonation, breach of peace and criminal mischief, police said.

About noon Wednesday, Drummond had gone into the shelter pretending to show up for a business appointment, police said. But when shelter workers turned their backs, Drummond allegedly took the purse belonging to Sandra Sunderland, the shelter’s executive director.

Sunderland, who got her credit cards and cellphone back, said police did a great job.

“I was kicking myself for letting my purse out of my sight, and the odds were that I’d never see anything returned,” she said. “So when they came back an hour later with my credit cards and my money and my phone, I was really happy.”

Russell, a 19-year veteran of the force, said it wasn’t too tough to catch the alleged thief.

“I’ve had a few names in my book of dumb criminals, but this guy goes right to the top,” Russell said.