Police authorities guised as FedEx delivery staff seized 400 pounds of marijuana in Baltimore, Maryland. Police learned of the illegal shipment when FedEx mistakenly delivered 200 pounds of pot to the wrong recipient in Baltimore last week. This led police to conduct a drug bust operations. Reports said that the marijuana was from Pembroke Pines, Florida.

To further illustrate the way rising gas prices are effecting people all over the world, police say a woman arrested in Northern Kentucky for soliciting prostitution was trading sex for gasoline. A sex sting operation by police was in effect at a Days Inn Hotel when Angela R. Eversole, 34, was arrested along with four other women for selling sex. After further investigation, police found that rather that trading sex for cash, Eversole bartered her body for $100 gas card and other gifts.

Three people are in U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on charges they stole ATM PIN numbers enabling them to grab at least $2 million from Citibank checking and savings accounts. Although the extent of the breach is unknown, the alleged crooks pilfered the PINs between October 2007 and March when bank customers used ATMS inside an unknown number of 7-Eleven stores. Around 5,700 Citibank ATMs are located in U. S. 7-Elevens. However, the bank neither owns or operates the automatic tellers.

It's been a hot summer so far in the city. Perhaps the heat motivated a Brooklyn restaurant cook to steal frozen lobster tails from his restaurant by stuffing them down his pants. Raymundo Flores was arraigned by the Brooklyn District Attorney on charges of petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. Police, responding to a 911 from restaurant workers, said they found lobster tails that Flores allegedly stole hidden in his pants and in bandages on his legs.

An Italian man was arrested after police said he kidnapped his ex-girlfriend from a pub and took her home, forcing her to wash the dishes and iron clothes. Police said the man dragged the woman out of a pub in Genoa, shoved her into a car and took her home where he threatened her if she didn't do his dishes and ironing.