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Craig Stevens, 45, clenched his fists with joy when the pristine, unopened bounty hunter toy was sold at auction house Vectis last month.
He will return to the sale room in Thornaby, Teesside, to witness the sale of the remaining items, which have an estimate of £28,000 to £42,000. The most highly valued item is a Palitoy FX-7 medical droid from The Empire Strikes Back. A similar item sold last year for £8,400 including commission.
A metro Atlanta man told police that a spider thief snuck into a space under his home and stole five of his 18 pet tarantulas. Austell police say they’ve issued an arrest warrant for a man.
Dwayne Melton told WSB-TV the spiders live beneath his Austell home in individual containers, where they hibernate during the winter until spring arrives.
Melton said he didn’t know his spiders were missing until he got a phonecall from Animart Pets in Austell, where employees said someone had just sold five tarantulas to the business.
Melton then identified the spiders as his and police began investigating.
Scientists have got their hands on part of the crown jewels, by making their own.
Leading physicists have grown a replica of the Imperial State Crown, a key element of the world famous jewels held in the Tower of London. They have also managed to reproduce the duchess of Cambridge’s engagement ring.
Scientists, working with the Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair, grew their jewels from ingredients included in common household items such as drain unblocker, sandpaper, and antiseptic cream.
Police arrested a man suspected of robbing a bank in New Jersey after they say he stopped for a cup of coffee.
Police say a man wearing a fedora approached a teller at the Hudson City Savings Bank in Lodi yesterday, placed a gun on the counter and demanded money. The man fled with $4,000 (€3,500).
Maywood Police Chief David Pegg said an officer spotted a man matching the description of the suspect near the entrance of a coffee shop drinking coffee.
Pegg says after talking to 38-year-old Michael Cassano, officers discovered the gun and the cash.
The Oakland Gardens, New York, resident is charged with robbery and two weapons offences.
A scalp damaged by bullet holes and a floor on which a murdered man was discovered are on display in a new grisly exhibition on crime.
The spring exhibition runs at the Wellcome Collection, which has previously shown displays on the study of sex, the brain and death.
Forensics: The Anatomy Of Crime features sketches from the site of a murder attributed to Jack the Ripper, murder weapons and the brain of a suicide victim.
In one installation, visitors will be confronted with the sounds from an autopsy of a murder victim.
A US man whose body was left in a state crime lab after a mix-up has finally been buried in Augusta, Georgia. A coroner says the mistake at the lab in Atlanta, led the family of Johnny Morgan Lowe III to bury the wrong man during a funeral in December. Burke County Coroner Susan Salemi is reported to have said the lab failed to return Mr Lowe’s body after an autopsy. The body of Louie Caldwell of Clayton County was mistakenly returned and buried by relatives who thought they were burying Mr Lowe.
A convicted child molester has agreed to plead guilty to sending a threatening letter from jail to US President Barack Obama but to the wrong address.
The plea deal was revealed at a status conference on a federal indictment returned last February against 35-year-old Joseph Savage.
Savage was in the Fayette County Prison awaiting trial in 2012 when he sent the letter threatening to “torture and murder” the president and harm an unspecified relative. The letter was sent to 1400 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington. The White House, at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, received it anyway.
The return of Louie the Clown, the mascot of the Joyland amusement park, has been announced.
Wichita police say officers found the statue at a home of Damian Mayes, who is serving a prison sentence for a 2010 conviction for aggravated indecent liberties with a child and aggravated criminal sodomy.
Mayes built and repaired organs at the park before he was charged. Louie disappeared from Joyland in 2005 or 2006, but wasn’t reported stolen until 2010.
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