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Randall Marlow, 20, escaping in January from California highway patrolmen who wanted to ticket him for deficiencies in his motorcycle, commandeered a golf cart at the nearby Valencia Golf Course and led officers on a five-mile-an-hour chase across the links before being captured.
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Three criminal-justice majors from Prairie View A & M University in Houston wearing stocking masks were arrested in February and charged with the armed robbery of a restaurant.
A bank robber on the loose several months ago in Greensboro, North Carolina, used as his trademark a pair of colored bikini underpants that he pulled over his face during jobs. A police officer said he believes the man had a different color for every day of the week, giving as examples black for Tuesday and aqua-striped for Thursday.
Wade Hardison, 38, received no prison sentence and ten years’ probation in Houston in December after shooting his wife to death. He explained that he was overcome with emotion over her affair with a younger man. Though the wife was found with a knife in her hand, the prosecutor pointed out that it must have been planted there because the gunshot surely would have knocked it out of her hand.
