Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Police: Burglar took shower, cut hair EASTON, Pa., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania authorities said they arrested a man who allegedly broke into a home, took a shower, cut his hair, prepared fried chicken and refused to leave. Advertisement Police allege Jose DeGracia broke into Grace Kraus's Easton home Sunday by using a large rock to break a window on the front door. Kraus allegedly returned home later to find the suspect sitting in her living room and watching TV, The Express-Times, Lehigh Valley, Pa., reported Wednesday. Kraus said she did not know the man and he dismissed her demands for him to leave. Police said DeGracia had apparently showered and cut his hair in the kitchen of the home before Kraus arrived. He was also preparing fried chicken when she found him, police said. Officers took DeGracia to the Northampton County jail. He was charged with burglary, criminal trespass, theft and criminal mischief. Bail was set at $15,000. Advertisement Brick seller arrested during MLK parade ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Police in St. Petersburg, Fla., said they arrested a man during Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations for selling bricks "for the festivities." Police said Leroy McKinney, 56, was seen among the street side vendors during Monday's parade attempting to sell bricks, which each measured about 1 foot long and 3 inches wide, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported Wednesday. A police officer who spotted McKinney at about 4:30 p.m. said the vendor was shouting phrases including "get your bricks early," "get 'em now for the festivities" and "buy your bricks here." The officer wrote in his arrest affidavit that McKinney "was causing a safety concern." The affidavit said the suspect created a breach of peace among the "hundreds, if not thousands" of people lining the streets. McKinney was charged with disorderly conduct. He was taken to the Pinellas County jail and bail was set at $250. St. Petersburg Police officer Chip Wells said past incidents involving bricks include property damage and injuries from the objects being thrown. Robbery foiled by lack of victims JOLIET, Ill., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Police in Illinois say they arrested a trio of would-be robbers allegedly stymied when they couldn't find any victims inside their targeted store. Advertisement Joliet Police Deputy Chief Mike Trafton said the suspects -- Sanjuan Reyes, 22, Jose Torres, 17, and a 16-year-old boy -- met up in an alley near the Supermercado Viva Mexico store about 7:30 p.m. Monday, the Joliet Herald-News reported Wednesday. "They'd decided to rob the grocery store and put on ski masks and bandannas. The 16-year-old went inside with an air pistol while the other two acted as lookouts," Trafton said. However, Trafton said the teenager came back out of the store a moment later and told the lookouts he couldn't find anyone inside. "All three of the suspects admitted to trying to rob the store," Trafton said. The trio lingered nearby and were arrested by police after a neighbor reported men in masks carrying weapons near the store. The juvenile was taken to the River Valley Juvenile Detention Center. Reyes and Torres were arrested and charged with attempted robbery. Reyes also faces charges of obstructing justice and failing to appear on three outstanding warrants. Torres was also charged with resisting a police officer for allegedly scratching paint from a cell door. Girl, 12, drives grandpa to help RAMSEUR, N.C., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- A North Carolina man says he will reward his 12-year-old granddaughter with her own car for driving him more than a dozen miles for help when he fell ill. Advertisement George Scheuering of Ramseur, who has diabetes, said his granddaughter Anna, who he had given driving lessons, insisted on taking the driver's seat when he began feeling dizzy and faint during a drive through the mountains of West Virginia with the girl and her brother Zak, WGHP-TV, Greensboro, S.C., reported Wednesday. "So we got halfway up the mountain and I told him to pull over and I was gonna drive, and he let me drive," Anna said Tuesday. Anna said she and Zak were eventually able to raise their father on their phone and he helped them find a gas station about a dozen miles away from where she began driving. The station clerk called an ambulance for Scheuering. The grandfather, who spent six days in a hospital, said doctors told him he might have slipped into a diabetic coma if he hadn't gotten help so quickly. Scheuering said Anna will receive her reward when she is old enough to legally drive. "Well, when she starts high school, I told her she would have a car," he said.
