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Cocaine stash found in used car, cops say San Jose Used Car Buyer Finds $500K Cocaine Stash-A San Jose man was stunned to see what a previous owner of his minivan apparently left behind: $500,000 worth of cocaine jammed in the door panels. San Jose, California's Police say a big stash of cocaine man finds $500k cocaine minivan, was found in a used minivan a man purchased in 2010.  Owner Charles Preston says he recently took the van to a mechanic for a window problem when the drugs were discovered ($500k cocaine door panels). Police were immediately called. The previous owners of the van reportedly have not been identified. Psychologist Charles Preston said the cellophane-wrapped cocaine was found when he took the van to a mechanic. Police were immediately notified. Preston said he noticed the driver’s side window wouldn’t go down all the way, but he figured he would live with it because the Town and Country van had a good air conditioning system.Preston paid $14,000 to Thrifty Car ...

Mom locked teen in closet, cops say Police say they arrested a mother for allegedly locking her 13-year- old daughter in a closet mother locked girl in closet 6 hours the girl allegedly in there. The mother, whose name was withheld, is also accused of hitting the girl with a stick, police say girl locked closet stick bad grades .Mother locked girl in closet for 6 hours over bad grades. A Costa Mesa woman is accused of hitting her daughter and locking her in a closet because the child earned bad grades, according to court records. The 32-year-old woman is charged with one misdemeanor count of child abuse, Costa Mesa police told the Daily Pilot, which has decided not to name the mother to protect the identity of her daughter, a minor. Authorities alleged that on Oct. 29 the mother hit her 13-year-old daughter three times with a stick and then locked her in a closet for six hours as punishment for "bad" grades, said Costa Mesa Police Sgt. Phil Myers. girl locked in closet gr...

Break-in suspect in car, cops say Mounties in North Vancouver , B.C., say they found a break-in suspect in the car that had been broken into. mounties suspect  window, Mounties find car break-in suspect locked in trunk.The 18-year-old unnamed suspect allegedly broke a window to get into the car.  North Vancouver Mounties had an unexpectedly easy arrest early Monday morning when they found a suspect locked inside the trunk of a car he had allegedly broken into. Police arrived in the 300-block of West Fifth Street at about 3:30 a.m. after a witness reported seeing a man smash the window of a vehicle. The officers examined the car but found no trace of the suspect. They brought in a dog team to search the area, but again came up empty-handed. A licence plate check led officers to a home nearby, where they found the owner. They brought the person down to see the damage, then asked the owner to pop the trunk. To the surprise of everyone there, they found an 18-year-old man hiding i...

Unfriended woman arrested, cops say Police say Jennifer Harris , 30, was arrested after she was unfriended on Facebook   police say she did to get arrested, unfriended facebook burned down home . Harris' former friend, Nikki Rasmussen, says the pair had a fight about failed party facebook unfriend arson and Harris began posting horrible things about her. Rasmussen says she unfriended her to avoid seeing what she was posting.A 30-year-old woman is in jail on charges she allegedly burned her friend's house down after the woman " unfriended " her on Facebook, reports the Des Moines Register. Jennifer Christine Harris , an elementary school teaching associate, was charged with first degree arson and is being held in the Polk County Jail on $100,000 bond. The fire reportedly broke out around 1 a.m. on Oct. 27. People were asleep inside the house but everyone was able to escape. The home was damaged and a detached garage destroyed in the blaze. According to the Register, ...