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According to a San Antonio home owner’s November court testimony, a group of men continued over several months to throw used tires into his yard until there were about 10,000 of them, to a height of eight feet. They came back night after night, and when the owner, Johnny Crawford, 57, would try to stop them, they would beat him up.
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Latest poor disguise: Eugene “Butch” Flenough Jr. of Austin, Texas, an accused hit man who was sought in the robbery of a pizza restaurant, disguised his identity during the robbery with a motorcycle helmet that had “Butch” and “Eugene Flenough Jr.” printed on it.
Robert Chambers, New York’s convicted “preppie” murderer, twice caught with marijuana since being imprisoned, filed a lawsuit claiming that prison rules impede his enrollment in a college program that would allow him to train as a drug counselor.
