Two city of Rochester sanitation employees — one full time, the other seasonal — were terminated Wednesday after an investigation concluded they had sex with a prostitute in a garbage truck while on duty.

According to Rochester Mayor William A. Johnson Jr., the alleged incident occurred on Aug. 5.

The two men were immediately suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.

“There is a presumption of innocence and you have to abide by that,’’ Johnson said. “ But during the course of the investigation, it’s my understanding that one of the men admitted to what happened. Initially, there was some discrepancy but in this case, we ruled in favor of the citizen making the complaint.’’

Johnson said operations director Richard Saltrelli initiated the investigation. Once it was concluded the incident did take place, the process to terminate the two employees began.

Johnson, who didn’t know the identity of the two workers, said that their actions would not be tolerated.

“This was probably the most expensive sex act that they’ve ever committed.’’

An escaped prisoner has been recaptured in Brazil after he got a job - driving a prison bus.

Leandro Luis Sao Pedro escaped Valparaiso prison in Sao Paulo after he failed to return from an authorised day out.

He then got a job driving a mini bus which takes friends and relatives to visit prisoners at another Sao Paulo prison, but was arrested after a routine inspection, reports Folha de Sao Paulo.

A police spokesperson said: “How dumb can you be? You escape prison and then get a job where you drive inside another prison every week?

“He was bound to be recaptured, but he’s so unlucky he was caught on his first day at his new job.”

Police pulled over a man on a bar stool - after a slow speed pursuit on one of Reno’s busier streets.

It started Monday when an officer saw a man riding the motorized bar stool at 35 mph. He was being followed closely by a woman in a Mustang.

Both driver and rider were pulled over.

The woman told police she had been on the phone with a dispatcher reporting the bar stool stolen.

The owner of the bar stool confirmed that the stool, powered by a small engine, had been taken three weeks earlier.

Jarrett Orcutt, 22, said he had bought it a little over a week ago, thinking it was a toy and added that he had driven it between Reno and nearby Sparks several times. Police estimate its value at more than $1,000.

Orcutt faces Reno charges of possession of stolen property, possession of drug paraphernalia and numerous traffic violations.

Sparks police are handling the stolen vehicle report.

A fit of anger is costing a NASCAR fan plenty.

Michael Melo has pleaded guilty to flooding Fox Entertainment with angry e-mails, after a Boston Red Sox game pre-empted an auto race.

He has already paid $36,000 in restitution and has to fork-over another $2,000 in fines.

Melo admitted that he wrote a computer program that blitzed Fox with more than 500,000 e-mail messages.

Melo has also been sentenced to six months of home detention for his May 2001 stunt.

Some things air freshener just can’t cover up. Like 100 pounds of marijuana, as one alleged dope dealer discovered yesterday when Boston police showed up at his Mattapan door.

“It’s my understanding that the individual had numerous room deodorizers in an attempt to conceal the aroma,” said Lt. Kevin Foley. “As you can see, it was unsuccessful.'’

Police found stick-up air fresheners, cans of Lysol and bottles of Windex throughout Sean Senior’s apartment on Belnel Road in Mattapan, police said.

“You could not smell them because (the marijuana) was so powerful,'’ Foley said.

Investigators also found the weed - with a street value of between $1,300 to $2,200 a pound - in the middle of the 30-year-old’s bedroom, divided into pound bags.

“He was making a lame attempt to conceal it by covering it with a rug,'’ Foley said.

Officers from the Youth Violence Strike Force, MBTA and Housing Authority noticed the distinct aroma coming from the premises while seeking a suspect wanted on 10 warrants ranging from distribution of cocaine to indecent assault and battery on a minor, Foley said.

The scent led police to apply for a search warrant. Along with the heady stash, police also found a 9mm handgun, bullets, two scales and some money.

Senior will be arraigned today in West Roxbury District Court on charges of trafficking marijuana and unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Two teens who drove around Pittsburgh shooting passers-by with paintball guns were shot with real bullets for apparently targeting the wrong group, police said.

Tracey Smedley, 19, was treated at UPMC Presbyterian hospital’s emergency room and released Tuesday, said spokeswoman Jocelyn Uhl. She could not provide a condition for an unidentified 17-year-old.

Smedley, the 17-year-old and an 18-year-old man drove around a city neighborhood armed with paintball guns and wearing helmets and paintball vests, Pittsburgh police Lt. Philip Dacey said.

During their drive, the teens pelted children at a playground and shot at another group down the street, Dacey said.

When the teens turned around to tell the group on the street they were only shooting paintballs, someone returned fire with a gun, peppering the driver’s side of the car with more than a dozen bullets, Dacey said.

Smedley was shot in the left arm, while the 17-year-old was hit in the buttocks. The teens then drove themselves to the hospital, Dacey said.

Anthony McClain was clutching $1,760 and just steps from a clean getaway last week when he became the second Pennsylvania bank robber in 10 days to be gobbled up by a security system dubbed the “man trap,” FBI agents said.

After passing a note to a teller demanding money, police said McClain was headed for the exit of a Citizen’s Bank in West Philadelphia, cash in hand, when an alert clerk pushed a button, automatically locking the 36-year-old between two bulletproof doors in the bank’s vestibule.

Days earlier, a similar scenario played out at another Citizen’s Bank in Pittsburgh. Police arrested Louis Pack, 42, after he was locked inside a chamber at the bank’s exit as he tried to flee with an envelope stuffed with cash.

The two arrests are the latest in a string of captures that have been made at Citizen’s branches since its predecessor, Mellon Bank, began installing “man traps” - or Access Control Units - in 1994.

“When it’s been used, it’s been quite effective,” said bank spokeswoman Pamela A. Crawley. “It’s a great protection for our employees and customers.”

The traps, which are widely used in Europe but still rare in the United States, work like this: Patrons entering the bank pass through one door, which closes and locks behind them. In many units, they then pass through a metal detector, and if they aren’t carrying any large metallic objects, a second door unlocks and allows them to enter the bank. In other setups there is no metal detector, and they must be buzzed in by a clerk.

On their way out, customers pass through a second set of double security doors. Generally, the second door will automatically open once the first one has closed, but bank employees can lock both doors with the flip of a switch.

For the average law-abiding patron, the system poses only a slight inconvenience, Crawley said.

Only one person can enter the security vestibule at a time, meaning that there can be delays of a few moments if several people want to enter a bank at once, but “Customers know that they’re there, and they don’t seem to mind,” Crawley said. “We have installed more of them as time has gone on.”

Nova Comm, a Puerto-Rico based security company, said it has sold about 300 of its version of the trap since 1995, and has never seen a successful robbery at a bank with one of the systems.

“It prevents the gang-type takeover robbery,” said the company’s general manager, Plinio Rodriguez, former security director for Puerto Rico’s Banco Popular. “If you see somebody coming with a mask, or a gun, there is no way they can go in.”

The Gilbertson Group, a security firm based in Coatesville, said it has installed a brand of the system made by Hamilton Safe at inner city banks and at branches in Pennsylvania’s Amish country that have more parking spots for horse buggies than they do for cars.

Company spokesman Matt Gilbertson said the systems, which cost $40,000 to $75,000, have gained slow acceptance, but might become more popular as the number of bank robberies rises after years of decline.

The FBI reported 7,905 bank robberies in 2001, a hike of more than 20 percent since 1999.

American Bankers Association spokesman John Hall said “bank employees aren’t expected to catch the criminals,” but that the systems have been seeing some wider use in the past five years.

“They are another tool, and banks always welcome new tools when it comes to the safety of their customers,” he said.