LAGOS – Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.
Vigilantes took the black and white beast to the police saying it was an armed robber who had used black magic to transform himself into a goat to escape arrest after trying to steal a Mazda 323.
“The group of vigilante men came to report that while they were on patrol they saw some hoodlums attempting to rob a car. They pursued them. However one of them escaped while the other turned into a goat,” Kwara state police spokesman Tunde Mohammed told Reuters by telephone.
“We cannot confirm the story, but the goat is in our custody. We cannot base our information on something mystical. It is something that has to be proved scientifically, that a human being turned into a goat,” he said.
Belief in witchcraft is widespread in parts of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation. Residents came to the police station to see the goat, photographed in one national newspaper on its knees next to a pile of straw.
Source: Reuters via Yahoo News Link filed under Weird World News.
PORT CHARLOTTE, FL. – A Port Charlotte man was released from its County Jail at 6:30 a.m. this morning and arrested a short time later after he was caught burglarizing a vehicle and “carhopping” in the jail parking lots.
28-year-old Bryan David Dudenhefer was first arrested Wednesday shortly after 10:00 p.m. and charged with Burglary, and Possession of Burglary Tools for breaking into the Army-Navy Fashion Store in Port Charlotte. Deputies found him outside the store next to a broken window. They found a bag with a brick inside the window and broken glass in his shoes.
After posting bond this morning, Dedenhefer was observed by a Corrections Deputy checking car doors in the jail parking lot and appeared trying to locate an unlocked vehicle. The deputy contacted another deputy in the jail and when they came out they saw Dedenhefer get into a Ford F-150 pickup truck in the parking lot next to the jail. The deputies told Dedenhefer to get out of the truck but he refused several times; deputies then physically removed him.
When road deputies arrived, Dedenhefer admitted to looking for unlocked vehicles in the parking lots. He stated he could not find his wife so he looked for an unlocked vehicle with a cell phone inside so he could call his wife to pick him up from jail after he was released. He also said he could not find an unlocked vehicle in the jail parking lot so he went next door to the Public Safety Building and found the unlocked pickup. He said he searched the truck for a cell phone but couldn’t find one.
Dedenhefer was taken back inside the County Jail on the new charges. His bond on the new charges was set at $3,500.
