A 57-year-old man was arrested for the 75th time for a barcode manipulation scheme targeting Lowe's stores. Mark Brents switched barcodes on items or scanned cheaper products to avoid paying full price. He defrauded Lowe's of over $4,500 in merchandise across ten incidents. Brents was apprehended after driving recklessly and was already on probation for Felony Fleeing to Elude. He has been accused of organized schemes to defraud, retail theft, and felony petit theft. Brents has been in prison eleven times and has been to jail 74 times since 1985.
Since 2022, over 45 injuries have been reported in Wasaka Bay, 200 miles west of Tokyo, with a male bottlenose dolphin identified as the troublemaker believed to be acting out of sexual frustration. The dolphin's behavior includes “pressing its genitals against humans,” which could be an attempt at mating, but because of its strength, people assume it’s attacking them.
What in the fresh hillbilly heck is going on in Indiana? Alfred W. Ruf, age 71, pleaded guilty on Monday in Wayne County Court to a charge of aggravated battery posing a risk of death. His wife was hospitalized several times starting in 2021 and tested positive for several illegal drugs she said she didn’t take. The mystery was finally solved when Ruf admitted to police that he had been poisoning her Coca-Cola with MDMA, cocaine, and benzodiazepines because his wife’s daughter had told him to. The daughter was sleeping with Ruf. He was sentenced to four years in prison and five years of probation; the two women have not yet been arrested. Sigh.
