Associated Press
NORTH COLLEGE HILL, Ohio (AP)—Two Boy Scouts and their fathers selling Christmas trees were knocked to the ground by three men with sawed-off shotguns who took about $350, police in this Cincinnati suburb said. Both adults and one boy also were punched.
"At first I thought it was just a little joke, but then, when I saw the gun, I was terrified," said John Hancock Jr., 13, of Troop 393. "And after I saw the gun this guy just punched me right here and it knocked me down," the boy said, pointing to his face.
The men were last seen running down a nearby street after the robbery Monday night.
"They were gutsy enough to not have masks and stupid enough to hit a kid," said police Sgt. Robert Kidd. "What kind of man hits a kid?"
A business owner has offered to replace the boys' money.
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LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (AP)—Deputies said a man left his three-month-old baby home alone for six hours while he robbed a grocery store. Police said Tony Doden and his accomplice, James Schmidt, were arrested after their getaway car was spotted by a witness.
A teenage employee told police a man wearing a Halloween style 'Jason' masked robbed them at gunpoint and then took off.
Deputies said Doden had left his three-month-old son at home to fend for himself while he and Schmidt robbed the store.
The child's mother was arrested in October.
Police say the baby was found with a severe case of diaper rash. Doden's grandmother is now taking care of the baby.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP)—A man accused of stealing several blow-up dolls from an adult novelty store says the burglary was a "drunken, stupid thing."
A criminal complaint filed in Dane County says Jose Sandoval, 26, of DeForest, smashed through the front door at Naughty Novelties in Burke last month and stole a talking love doll with a $270 price tag, along with other dolls and items.
Video surveillance tape gave investigators a look at the car outside the novelty shop, which they pulled over about ten days later.
The complaint says Sandoval denied committing the burglary, then began to cry and led detectives to an abandoned semi behind a motel where the stolen items were recovered.