Yahoo! News - Missing Girl Found Asleep Under Toys: "Thu Jul 17, 8:40 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A panicked mother sparked a police search when she reported her three-year-old daughter missing, only to find the girl asleep under a pile of cuddly toys in her bedroom, German police said on Thursday.
Three squad cars began searching the area around the family home in the northern town of Luebeck before the unit assigned to the house found a way through the toys several hours later.
'The child was a bit surprised at all the commotion,' a police spokesman said. 'Then she got into bed and went back to sleep.' "
22:40 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Lawyer charged with mailing deadly snake: "Tue Jul 8, 9:18 PM ET
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - An Arkansas lawyer and his son have been charged with using the U.S. Postal Service to send a man 'nonmailable matter' in the form of a deadly poisonous copperhead snake, federal prosecutors say.
Lawyer Bob Sam Castleman and his son Robert Jerrod Castleman were charged last week on suspicion of mailing the snake to a fellow resident of Pocahontas, a small town 140 miles northeast of Little Rock, 'with the intent to kill or injure' the addressee, the prosecutors said.
The pair face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
The 3-foot snake arrived alive at the recipient's home but no one was injured in the incident.
'I am not at liberty to speak about motive at the moment. That will come out in due course,' said Bud Cummins, a U.S. attorney in Little Rock.
The copperhead survived its trip through the postal system and arrived very much alive in September 2002 at the home of Albert Staton, who was considered the target of the attack, according to court documents.
Staton's wife opened the package containing the snake and called police, who arrived and killed the creature.
The snake will likely be used as evidence in a trial.
'I assume we have the corpus frozen somewhere,' said Cummins. "
22:37 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Taking Mum's Car for a Spin: "Tue Jul 8,10:21 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - The 14-year-old sister of Formula One driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen took a joyride in her mother's car while her parents were watching Sunday's French Grand Prix.
Nicole-Nadine Frentzen was detained by police after she was caught driving the car with her 11-year-old sister and a 12-year-old friend as passengers, a Moenchengladbach police spokesman said.
'We got a call from a driver who saw the under-aged girl driving and a police car was dispatched to investigate,' the spokesman said Tuesday.
'She was stopped and faces charges of driving without a license. Thank God nothing happened.'
Her father, Heinrich-Harald Frentzen, picked up his daughter at the police station in the western German town.
He was quoted by Munich's Abendzeitung newspaper as saying: 'She was born to race and wants to get her license as fast as she can. On the go-kart track she's too much for the boys her age.'
Germans must be at least 18 to obtain a license. Frentzen, who drives for Sauber, finished 12th in the French race. "
22:35 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - For Sale Car with Cocaine -- Apply with Customs: "Tue Jul 8,10:26 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - German customs unwittingly auctioned a car containing 22 pounds of cocaine, the Customs Investigation Authority (ZFA) in the northern city of Hamburg said on Tuesday.
The Chevrolet estate was originally imported from Mexico and impounded in 1997 after an X-ray revealed it was carrying 120 pounds of the drug. But that wasn't all.
'The software used to scan the car in 1997 was not sophisticated enough to pick up the other 10 kilograms,' said Hamburg ZFA spokesman Robert Duetsch.
The car sat in storage until being auctioned off last month, whereupon the new owner discovered 11 bags of the white powder stashed in the boot, each weighing around 900 grams.
The man immediately returned to customs with the drugs, which Duetsch said would have had a street value of some $564,000 in 1997. "
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