Woman charged for abduction lie
A woman who sent text messages to her family claiming she had been abducted was charged Sunday afternoon with making a false police report after she was found unharmed at an acquaintance’s house.
Debra Robertson, 28, also had an outstanding felony warrant for violating the terms of her probation from a forgery conviction.
Robertson went missing Friday after dropping her three children off at a baby sitter’s home. The police search began Saturday after she sent text messages to her sister, reporting she was with people she didn’t know in a red sport utility vehicle with Virginia license plates headed to Virginia.
Officers found Robertson around 1 p.m. Sunday in St. Joseph, said Sgt. Matt Rock, a spokesman for the St. Joseph Police Department. Cell phone providers were able to triangulate her position to within 16 meters.
NEW YORK
Bouquet bandits steal thousands
Robbers posed as flower deliverymen to get into an 80-year-old woman’s apartment and steal at least $60,000 in savings her husband kept in cash, the victims and police said.
Two bouquet-toting bandits persuaded Carmen Nieves to open her door to them, she said Saturday.
“How can I not open the door? They have flowers, they say (my husband sent) them to me, and, besides, they were young kids,” said Nieves, whose husband was out at the time of the Nov. 3 robbery. Police estimated the suspects were between 20 and 30 years old.
FREDERICKSBURG, Texas
Pancho Villa guns sell for $29,000
Three guns linked to Pancho Villa were auctioned for nearly $29,000, apparently less than what organizers expected the firearms traced to the Mexican revolutionary to fetch.
The prize of the auction – Villa’s Remington single-action revolver with his real name, Doreteo Arango, engraved on the barrel – sold for $18,000 at the auction Saturday near San Antonio.
A rifle that Villa reportedly dropped in the Rio Grande during a skirmish with opposition forces sold for $7,500, and a pistol owned by Villa’s bodyguard sold for $3,450.
A pocket pistol that once belonged to “Calamity Jane” sold for $11,000. The gun, among about 1,000 Old West items in the auction, bears the moniker Martha Jane Cannary, the frontierswoman’s real name.