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No winner steps forward, $77 million Powerball ticket expires
Joel Provano
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Somebody left $77 million on the table.
A winning Powerball ticket, sold in west Georgia last summer, expired Monday after no one came forward to claim the jackpot, a Georgia Lottery spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Kimberly Starks said it was "the largest unclaimed ticket in Georgia" since the lottery began in 1993.
The winning ticket, with the numbers 24, 30, 45, 57 and 59 and the “Power Ball” of 26, was sold June 29 at the Pilot Travel Center truck stop along I-20 in Tallapoosa. Players have 180 days to claim their prize.
The unclaimed money will be returned proportionately to each participating state based on that state’s sales for the particular drawing, lottery spokeswoman Tandi Reddick said. Powerball is played in 32 states and the District of Columbia.
Reddick said that in Georgia, unclaimed prize money goes back into the prize pool for future games and for special prize promotions, and is ultimately paid out to players.
The current estimated jackpot for Wednesday's drawing is $20 million after a winning ticket was sold Saturday in Maryland.
The other multi-state lottery, Mega Millions, currently has a $206 million jackpot for Tuesday night's drawing.
http://www.ajc.com/news/no-winner-steps-forward-1276582.html
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Cops: Skokie woman can't 'hallucinate' away drug charges
Elina Sarkisian was charged with a felony count of drug possession and a misdemeanor drug charge as well as drug paraphernalia charges. (Skokie Police Dept. / December 20, 2011)
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6:16 p.m. CST, December 20, 2011
Officers responded to a possible home invasion at 1:30 p.m. in the 9500 block of Leamington Street, when resident Elina Sarkisian told authorities there were two unwanted people inside her home, according to Skokie Police Sgt. David Pawlak.
Sarkisian, 22, came outside while officers surrounded the home and searched it, Pawlak said.
No one was inside, but police did discover an off-white powdery substance suspected to be heroin on her kitchen counter, divided into three lines. A pipe and cocaine was also found, Pawlak said.
When she reentered the home, she told police that there had been ten people inside the home that she didn’t recognize and confessed to using drugs.
“She said she’d smoked crack cocaine earlier in the day and used heroin to bring her back down,’’ said Pawlak. “She said she believed she 'hallucinated' the two subjects and they were not real.’’
She was booked into Cook County Jail on Dec. 17 after a judge ordered her held on $50,000 bond.
Police: Man robbed bank with glue gun
Updated: Tuesday, 20 Dec 2011, 12:28 PM EST
Published : Tuesday, 20 Dec 2011, 12:28 PM EST
Staff Reports
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Police arrested a man they say robbed a bank with a glue gun on Monday.
Around 1:40 p.m. Monday, an armed robbery was reported at PNC Bank, 3003 Kentucky Ave. Bank employees said the man displayed what they thought was a gun and told them he had a bomb, while showing them something taped to his leg.
The man got away, but officers from Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI Safe Streets Task Force identified him through surveillance video.
Officers tracked down their suspect, Aaron Randolph, in the 3300 block of South Lockburn Street. They found all the money, along with the suspected “firearm” that was used — a glue gun. They also determined Randolph wasn’t armed with a bomb, as bank workers said he threatened.
Randolph was arrested but had not been formally charged as of Tuesday afternoon.
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Robots ready to roll out as prison guards in South Korean jail
Five-foot, four-wheeled robots will roam the halls at night to monitor prisoners
Larry Mcshane
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, December 6 2011, 1:05 PM
The electric chair is just so 20th century.
Think battery-powered prison guards, the 21st century technology for correctional facilities — with a South Korean jail rolling out its robot security force this March.
The wide-eyed guards stand just 5 feet tall, travel on four wheels, and don’t complain about working overtime. Three of the bots are set to join the staff in the city of Pohang for a month-long tryout.
The angular robots cost about $860,000 to construct, and come equipped with cameras and sensors to detect suspicious actions or signs of violence.
The creators — members of the Asian Forum for Corrections — said the robots will likely appear less menacing than the stereotypical prison guard or a cyborg-styled Terminator.
“As we’re almost done with creating its key operating system, we are now working on refining its details to make it look more friendly to inmates,” said Prof. Lee Baik-Chu the chief designer, to the Yonhap News Agency.
The robots will start out working the night shift, rolling through prison halls. Human guards can use the machines to keep an eye and an ear on inmates via the robots’ two-way audio and video feeds.
Robber tussles with martial-arts expert, gets beaten and shot
Anthony Miranda ((police photo))
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1:57 p.m. CST, December 5, 2011
Girlfriend 'Tasered then buried alive': Victim was left to die in shallow grave, jury told
Chris Brooke
Last updated at 8:02 AM on 6th December 2011
Accused: Accomplice Patryk Borys allegedly buried his friend's girlfriend alive in a shallow grave
A terrified mother was buried alive in a cardboard box by the boyfriend who wanted rid of her, a court heard yesterday.
Michelina Lewandowska, 27, was shot with a 300,000-volt Taser stun gun by Marcin Kasprzak, 25, who was allegedly bored with her and thought she was not pretty enough.
She was bound and gagged with parcel tape and put in a box with two small air holes, a jury was told.
She was put in the boot of a car, driven to a wooded area and buried in a ‘shallow grave’.
Kasprzak and a friend, Patryk Borys, 18, used shovels to pile soil on the box and then put a tree branch weighing more than six stone on top of it, Leeds Crown Court heard.
Fearing the consequences of crying out, Miss Lewandowska kept quiet throughout the ordeal and as far as the men were concerned she could have been unconscious, the jury was told.
They ‘simply left her there’ and drove to a supermarket cashpoint where they used her bank cards to withdraw £500 of her money.
Over the next hour their victim, ‘with great difficulty’, managed to get out of the box and escape from the makeshift grave.
She stumbled to a nearby road and raised the alarm by flagging down a motorist.
The court heard that Miss Lewandowska and Kasprzak – who met six years ago in their native Poland before moving to work in England – have a three-year-old son, Jakub.
However, Kasprzak was ‘bored’ with his partner. He told her she was not as good-looking as the girls he saw at the gym.
He would go out with friends, sometimes staying out all night, rather than spending time with her.
He allegedly wanted her removed from the scene so he could look after Jakub without her and pursue a relationship with another girlfriend.
Both Kasprzak and Borys deny attempted murder in May this year.
Prosecutor Jonathan Sharp told the court that Kasprzak had changed his Facebook status to ‘single’ about two weeks before the attack and developed a plan of killing his partner.
He recruited his Polish friend Borys to help and spent the night before the incident with another girlfriend.
The following day Kasprzak arranged for his mother to take his son out and, the jury heard, put his plan into action at the family home in Huddersfield.
'Left for dead': Michalina Lewandowska was allegedly buried alive near Woodsome Hall Golf Club, Huddersfield
Using the stun gun he tried to ‘immobilise’ his girlfriend by twice discharging 300,000 volts into her neck. Mr Sharp said the two men bound her at the wrists and ankles and gagged her.
‘Michelina was not paralysed,’ said Mr Sharp. ‘But nevertheless, as you can well imagine, she was terrified and she agreed to do whatever he wanted.’
The men emptied the house of her clothes, which they dumped outside with the rubbish, and put their victim into a cardboard box just 22in deep which had contained a computer.
She would probably have been curled up inside with her knees tucked up towards her chin, the jury was told.
They carried the box up steps and into the boot of Kasprzak’s Vauxhall Astra.
Mr Sharp said the defendants dug a hole big enough to take the box in woodland on a hill near Huddersfield.
Terror: Michalina Lewandowska, 27, was allegedly shot with a Taser at her home in Huddersfield (pictured)
‘They carried Michelina, sealed in the box, up the hill, placed her in the hole, and then piled earth both around and on top of the box,' he said. 'They found a large branch and placed it across the box.’
By the time they finished, the airholes on the box were obscured by earth, the jury heard. Mr Sharp added: ‘When they put Michelina, who was not making a sound, in a shallow grave and put earth around and on top of her, they intended to kill her.
But by great good fortune, they failed to kill her.
‘To bury somebody alive has very well-known consequences. After a very short time that person will die from lack of oxygen.
‘The Crown says it is plain not just that Kasprzak and Borys well knew that, but they intended her to die from lack of oxygen.’
Tasered: Michelina Lewandowska, 27, was initially shot with a 300,000 volt Taser stun gun (similar to the one pictured) by her boyfriend
Both men returned to the car and drove a short distance to a Morrisons supermarket, where they were captured on CCTV using a cash machine at 11.01pm.
Miss Lewandowska was spotted by a motorist at 11.55pm and police arrested both suspects later that night at Borys’s house in Huddersfield.
Mr Sharp told the court both men would admit being involved, but claim they did not intend to kill their victim.
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