A man in Evansville, Indiana, who led police on a high-speed chase after a bank robbery in May says he was driven to commit the robbery because he missed his mother. Terrence Lee Mackey, 63, during a sentencing hearing Wednesday, blamed the crime on the federal prison system, saying officials refused to jail him near his mother in Florida after he violated parole in 1982. “I wouldn’t be standing here today if I’d been sent to Florida like I asked,” Mackey said. U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young sentenced Mackey to 29 years in prison. He said he didn’t trust old age to stop Mackey from committing more crimes. Mackey and William “Ricky” Herrell were arrested after the white Corvette they were driving crashed into a river levee as they fled from police. During the sentencing hearing, Mackey said he was leaning out of the window of the getaway car, firing two handguns at police. He claimed he did it in self-defense. “The police were shooting at me,” Mackey said. Herrell, 26, is awaiting trial in the case.

A woman in Medford, Oregon, bought a winning lottery ticket worth $1 million with a stolen credit card and could wind up with nothing if convicted, police said. Christina Goodenow, 38, of White City in southern Oregon faced numerous theft-related charges, forgery and possession of methamphetamine, said authorities, who searched her home Thursday. The card belonged to a deceased relative, they said. If convicted of any of the charges, Goodenow will not be able to collect prize money from the winning ticket, said police Lt. Tim George. Oregon Lottery officials refused to discuss specifics of the case because an investigation is still under way. “I’ll be fascinated to see how this shakes out,” Lottery spokesman Chuck Baumann said. “In my 12 years with the Oregon Lottery, this is the first time I’ve encountered something like this.” Goodenow purchased the winning ticket Oct. 9 using a credit card that had belonged to her mother-in-law, who died more than a year ago, police said. Goodenow traveled to Oregon Lottery headquarters in Salem on Oct 12 to accept an installment payment of $33,500. The $1 million grand prize is paid out over 20 years.

A guy walked into a corner shop and asked for all the money in the shop whilest holding a knife to the guy behind the counter. After he put all the money in his bag he asked for the whisky on the counter. The guy behind the counter said that he was too young and the robber replied saying that he was old enough. He was so stupid that he got his drivers license out of his pocket and showed the other guy! The guy behind the counter managed to get all the info on the robber and he was put in jail the next day!! How stupid is that?!

Two men were arrested Sunday after police said they tried to buy drugs with a grenade, Philadelphia television station WCAU reported. It happened Sunday afternoon in Camden, N.J. Authorities said the men were looking for drugs, but when they tried to pay with a grenade, the drug dealers called the police. The bomb squad was called in and safely removed the explosive.

The driver knowing he was wanted by the U.S. Marshall’s Service fled and a foot chase ensued. The criminal knowing his bright yellow jacket would make him easily recognized decided to ditch the jacket. Later he was located and was identified by the Polaroid photo he had taken of himself in front of U.S. Capitol that same day in the same clothes he was arrested in. He forgot to take it out of the jacket before throwing it down and fleeing the scene. Dumb criminal!!

A Miami County woman who allegedly used stolen credit cards to get cash to pay her husband’s bail has ended up in jail herself. Katrina Hyde’s husband, Todd Hyde, was being held on $25,000 bond in Miami County Jail on charges of dealing methamphetamine and illegal possession of anhydrous ammonia, a chemical used to make the drug. State police said the woman stole three credit cards from her parents’ home, then used them to obtain a cash advance and used the money to pay the 10 percent surety bond required for her husband’s release. Katrina Hyde also used the credit cards to hire a lawyer for her husband, state police said. According to a state police news release, the couple lived in an apartment behind Katrina Hyde’s parents house. Her parents reported the cards missing in July. The woman was arrested Friday. She was being held Saturday in the Miami County Jail on $9,000 bond on theft charges. Her husband remains free on bail.

By Andrew Ryan Staff Writer Posted October 21 2005 Davie — Police say a man who broke into an apartment and raped a woman at gunpoint Wednesday night was so brash he forced his victim to write him a check for $1,400 — in his own name. Officers arrested Anthony R. Roberts minutes after the crime at a check-cashing store two miles from his victim’s home. He had ordered the woman to make out a check to “Anthony Roberts” and write on the memo line that it was “for electrical work, “according to a police report. “I don’t know what the guy was thinking,” said Davie police spokesman Lt. Bill Bamford. “I don’t know if he thought that he put her in that much fear… [but] to walk into a check-cashing store like nothing happened, like she paid him for a job. That’s one of the lowest forms of life.” When Roberts, 25, presented the check at the Check Cashing Store on South University Drive, a clerk got suspicious. The clerk called the phone number on the check to make sure it was legitimate. A police officer investigating the rape answered the call at the woman’s apartment. Police cruisers swarmed the Check Cashing Store, and Roberts was taken into custody after a short foot chase.