Woman does karate, son gets nude, dog steals cornbread mix from Walmart, police say

[JimNasium]

Just another Wednesday night in Eau Claire.

http://www.cleveland19.com/2019/04/1...rt-police-say/

EAU CLAIRE, WI (Gray News) - A mother and her son are in custody after causing a ruckus at a Walmart Wednesday night, police said. Their dog chipped in, too.

The Eau Claire Police Department identified 46-year-old Lisa Smith and her 25-year-old son Benny Vann as the suspects. Investigators said the dog is named Bo.

Responding officers said they found Smith yelling in the doorway trying to summon Bo.

Smith allegedly brought Bo into the store without a leash, so he easily ditched his owner and started running up to unsuspecting customers.

While Bo was doing that, Smith began tearing apart store displays and placing them in her shopping cart, police said.

Walmart staff asked her to leave, and she complied. Police said she left the store to perform karate moves in the parking lot.

Bo, on the other hand, had not been brought to heel. By the time anyone found him, he was on his way out of the store with a box of Jiffy cornbread muffin mix in his mouth.

Police arrested Smith, but it wasn’t without a fight. She allegedly kicked out a patrol car window when they finally got her in custody.

Meanwhile. police said Vann was running amok inside the store. He allegedly took off all of his clothes in the rear of the Walmart and exposed himself to everyone around him.

Fortunately for them, he tried to cover himself by putting on the clothes Walmart had on the racks. Even so, police said he didn’t try to purchase them, so that is also a crime.

Officers approached and commanded him to end the madness, but he refused. Authorities said Vann even used a scooter in an attempt to run over an officer.

But law enforcement physically stopped the scooter and took him into custody.

Vann faces charges for lewd and lascivious behavior, disorderly conduct and retail theft. Smith is charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and misdemeanor bail jumping.

Bo, however, was not charged. Police issued him a warning for the theft.

[Simply Red]

They post here.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Clearly not meth.

[Simply Red]

[Simply Red]

I'm thinking Flakka or salts.

[BigRedChief]

How in the **** did this happen and not occur in Florida?

[JimNasium]

Originally Posted by Simply Red

They post here.

Hopefully you are referring to the dog. Bo obviously has the most sense. Hot Jiffy cornbread muffins with butter are bombass.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Simply Red

I'm thinking Flakka or salts.

Ruhhhhnnn?!?!



Mrreeeowwwww!!!

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by JimNasium

Hopefully you are referring to the dog. Bo obviously has the most sense. Hot Jiffy cornbread muffins with butter are bombass.

Bo knows cornbread!!

[Rain Man]

Bo seems like someone I could have dinner with. We're both into Jiffy. Lisa and Benny, probably a no.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Simply Red

This woman is ten years younger than me. That's sobering.

[JimNasium]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

This woman is ten years younger than me. That's sobering.

Karate obviously has an aging effect.

[displacedinMN]

That low pressure system clearly ****ed people up.

Guy at Mall of America THREW a 5 year old over a 3rd floor balcony.
What the **** is wrong with people.

Spoiler!

A Twin Cities man accused of throwing a child over a third-floor railing at the Mall of America has a history of mental health problems and had twice been ordered to stay away from the mall, court records show.

In a previous criminal case, Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda told police that “he has some anger issues” after being arrested for smashing computers at a Minneapolis public library.

Aranda, 24, is being held by Bloomington police on suspicion of attempted homicide after he threw or pushed a 5-year-old boy from a third-floor balcony at the mall Friday morning, police said.

Aranda was arrested in the mall transit station after fleeing the scene.

The boy was taken by ambulance from the mall to Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis. No further information on his condition was available Friday.

Bloomington Police Chief Jeff Potts said that there doesn’t seem to be any connection between the victim, his family and Aranda. Potts said he didn’t know whether the victim’s family is from Minnesota or elsewhere.

Aranda has a long string of arrests and convictions for misdemeanor criminal offenses in recent years, court records show. At the time of Friday’s attack, there was an active warrant for his arrest stemming from a 2017 assault case in Hennepin County.

In 2015, Aranda was issued a trespass notice ordering him to stay away from the Mall of America. He ignored the order and in October of that year was arrested after harassing and panhandling two women diners at a restaurant and throwing drinking glasses at diners, according to a criminal complaint.

He was convicted of fifth-degree assault, trespass and interfering with a police officer. Aranda was sentenced to 30 days in the Hennepin County workhouse and ordered to get a mental health evaluation. He was also ordered a second time to stay away from the Mall of America.

Aranda was at the mall Friday, police said, when he threw or pushed the boy over the railing, sending the child some 30 feet or more onto a stone floor two levels below.

Tina Hailey of Burnsville was walking with her husband and had just rounded the corner on the mall’s first floor near Macy’s when she heard screams.

“Oh, my God! Pray for my son!” she heard the boy’s mother yell.

The mother screamed uncontrollably and appeared to be in shock, Hailey said. “She didn’t know what to do. Nobody was helping her,” Hailey added.

Hailey, who has a 4-year-old grandson, said the screams and the sight of those working to revive the boy will haunt her.

“I won’t forget it. It was horrific,” she said. “I hope he survived.”

Police were called to the mall at 10:17 a.m. on a report of a child falling over a railing, but witnesses said the child had been “pushed or thrown,” Potts said.

The child fell to the first floor, where several witnesses and passersby tried to perform CPR on him, Potts said. Initial accounts over emergency audio indicated that the child wasn’t breathing.

Blue Line light-rail service to the mall was suspended for about 45 minutes as police responded.

Previous charges

In the past six months, Aranda was charged a half-dozen times with riding public transit without paying, court records show.

In August 2015, he was arrested for smashing computers at the Sumner Library in north Minneapolis.

According to a police statement, Aranda told officers that he became angry after reading something on Facebook and smashed five computers.

“He said he has some anger issues and told the officer that it does not happen all the time,” the police statement said.

A month later, in September, Aranda was back at the Sumner Library, harassing a female library employee. According to a police statement, the woman called police from her car in the library parking lot because Aranda had been bothering her, trying to ask for a date.

According to the statement, Aranda admitted he was stalking the woman and knew where she lived. He also admitted that he knew he was breaking an order to stay away from the library for a year.

Aranda’s case was assigned to Criminal Mental Health Court. He was discharged from custody six months later and placed on probation.

Aranda also has a felony conviction for first-degree damage to property.

In his most recent court cases, Aranda gave his address as a Minneapolis shelter home for those recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. In other court cases, he gave his address as the Salvation Army Harbor Light service center in Minneapolis.

Police check security cams

Small portions of the mall’s southeast court on the first and third floors remained cordoned off Friday afternoon as lab technicians processed the scene.

Businesses in the area of the incident were closed as police collected evidence. Potts said police are looking at security video from inside the mall to gather more information.

The mall, which opened in 1992, has been the site of occasional crimes. In 2012, dozens of young people were involved in a melee that led to heightened security. In November 2017, two men were wounded when they were stabbed by a 20-year-old man who claimed he did it on behalf of ISIS.

[JimNasium]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Ruhhhhnnn?!?!



Mrreeeowwwww!!!

I want to meet this guy Baby Lee. He’d be fun to grab a beer and barbecue with.

[Munson]

Originally Posted by Simply Red

That woman is 46? She looks closer to 66.

Let this be a lesson to everyone. Don't do drugs!!!!