Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Delivery robber recognized at restaurant SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Police in Massachusetts said a man who robbed a delivery driver was arrested after apparently gaining a taste for the food and visiting the restaurant. Advertisement Springfield police said Edward Blatch, 23, and a second man armed with a shotgun robbed a driver from the Fu Wong restaurant Sept. 20 of $200 cash, a food order, a cellphone, a Bluetooth device, a school ring and car keys, the Boston Herald reported. Sgt. John Delaney said the driver recognized Blatch when the suspect stopped by Fu Wong at 1:30 p.m. Monday for lunch. Restaurant employees surrounded the suspect in a booth and prevented him from leaving until police arrived. Blatch was charged with armed robbery and ordered held in lieu of $2,500 cash bond. Police are still searching for the second suspect. Panhandler charms $100 from Oprah Advertisement NEW YORK, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A New York panhandler said talk show host Oprah Winfrey gave him $100 after he made her laugh with a joke. Julio Bazan, 49, said he spotted the billionaire media mogul sitting in her limousine outside of the Soho House hotel Sunday night and he asked her for money, the New York Post reported. Bazan said Oprah initially told him she had no money but changed her mind after he told her a joke. "Hey, Oprah, why is it good to date a homeless man? (Because) when you're finished, you can drop him off anywhere," Bazan recalled telling the TV host. "She laughed," he said. The panhandler said Oprah handed him five $20 bills, which he spent on underwear, alcohol and a steak dinner. Job application leads police to suspect WEST HOMESTEAD, Pa., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Police in Pennsylvania said a man who carried out a gunpoint robbery outside of a Subway sandwich shop had filled out a job application moments earlier. West Homestead police said the man, whose name was not released, used his real name and address when he filled out an application at the restaurant only moments before carrying out an armed robbery outside the facility Tuesday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported. Advertisement Investigators said they went to the man's home and spoke with his mother, who told them he had taken a bus to Pittsburgh. Police said they arrested the man as he got off the bus. Man looking for drugs calls Crime Stoppers BUFFALO, N.Y., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Police in New York state said a wrong number call to the Crime Stoppers hotline by a man seeking drugs led to the arrest of a supplier. Senior Detective Alan Rozansky of the Erie County Sheriff's Office said he always answers the phone with, "Crime Stoppers," but the man who called at noon Monday apparently didn't hear the identification and said he was looking to buy drugs, WVIB-TV, Buffalo, N.Y., reported. The sheriff's office said undercover officers met with the suspect and he offered them information in exchange for not being arrested. Investigators said the information led to the arrest of Tracy Tarsey, 35, while she was allegedly attempting to sell prescription medication Suboxone, which had been prescribed to her. Tarsey was arrested on a charge of felony possession of a controlled substance and one of her alleged customers, Hank Salisbury, 27, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge.
