Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Suspect: Drug sale was April Fools' joke OCALA, Fla., April 5 (UPI) -- Police in Florida said an alleged drug dealer who fled with $525 from undercover agents claimed the incident was an April Fools' Day joke. Advertisement The Marion County High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force said undercover agents arranged through a confidential source to purchase 40 oxycodone pills from Sara Medeiros, 30, and they met with her Friday at an undisclosed location, the Ocala Star-Banner reported Tuesday. The task force said Medeiros told the agents she had to take the money to another location to get the drugs from a third-party dealer and she left the scene with $525. Agents said the woman never returned. Medeiros was later located inside a vehicle in Ocala and she told officials during an interview she had taken the money, which was recovered, as an April Fools' joke. Advertisement "It may have been an April Fools' joke for her, but for drug agents, we take any sale of narcotics very seriously," task force commander Lt. Donnie Winston said. Agents said they had information on previous drug sales allegedly committed by Medeiros and she was charged with grand theft, three counts of sale of a Schedule 2 narcotic and three counts of possession of a Schedule 2 narcotic. Man refused access, called 911 on bar NAPERVILLE, Ill., April 5 (UPI) -- Police in Illinois said they arrested a man who called 911 to report he had been removed from a bar and was not being allowed back inside. Naperville Police said the 25-year-old Chicago man, whose name was not released, called 911 at about 1:05 a.m. Saturday to report he was being refused admittance to a downtown bar after being removed from the facility earlier in the evening, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday. "In his frustration he decided to call police," police Sgt. Gregg Bell said. "I don't know if he had gotten cut off or what the deal was." Bell said officers arrived and explained to the man the bar had the right to refuse service and the man admitted he knew the situation did not warrant an emergency call. Advertisement The man was arrested and charged with making a false 911 report. Colon cleansing course was short toilets ANGERMANLAND, Sweden, April 5 (UPI) -- Organizers of a colon cleansing course in Sweden were ordered to refund a woman after she was forced to empty her bowels outside due to a toilet shortage. The Swedish National Board for Consumer Disputes ordered organizers of the Hawaiian colon cleansing course in Angermanland to refund a woman $158 after a shortage of toilets during the course forced her to relief herself outdoors, The Local reported Tuesday. "The board assumes that the vast majority would prefer, and even take for granted, the possibility to defecate in private, unless otherwise apparent from the event's information," the board wrote in its decision. The woman had also complained the course was too short and too expensive. Man nearly drives car off wharf DARWIN, Australia, April 5 (UPI) -- A fisherman authorities said was drunk escaped serious injury when he left his car teetering on the edge of a Darwin, Australia, wharf Sunday night. Police say the 30-year-old fisherman from Queensland had been drinking when he attempted to move his car just after midnight at Fisherman's Wharf. Advertisement He drove into a rubbish bin and a parked vehicle, and narrowly avoided a sleeping man, before running over the wharf railings -- leaving wheels of the car dangling 23 feet above the harbor. "Fire and Rescue attended and pulled the vehicle to safety," Watch Commander Daniel Shean told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. Sunday. The driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries. "Definitely alcohol was a contributing factor to that one," Shean said.
