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December 16, 2005
A woman who made an anthrax threat to the Broward County, Florida property appraiser's office was sentenced to 90 days of house arrest and two-years probation Friday. Michelle Ledgister, a former National Institutes of Health employee, was also fined $1,000, in addition to the $2,200 in restitution she paid for the county's cost in responding to the threat.
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December 12, 2005
Months after a Connecticut man disappears from a cruise ship during his honeymoon, the victim's family is convinced foul play is to blame. George Allen Smith IV vanished July 5 from a Miami-based Royal Caribbean ship in the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey. His body was never found. Smith's sister, Bree Smith, says, "We have no closure, as we have no answers. George has not surfaced, so we have no body to bury and we have no grave to pray at. "
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December 11, 2005
A Mexican man is behind bars in federal custody after witnesses said he lunged toward the cockpit during a flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu Saturday night. Passengers arriving on Saturday night's Northwest Airlines flight told authorities they were scared when Santiago Lol Tizol, 37, raged through the aisles, ignoring the flight crew and threatening to kill a baby.
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December 5, 2005
The tale of a man who can be considered DC's most unlucky bank robber ended when he plead guilty. On October 14 Michael Donahoe robbed a teller and got away with $2,000 from a downtown bank he robbed. However a witness followed him out of the bank blocked his escape when he tried to get a taxi.
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November 15, 2005
Topics fbi, virginia, car, people, mexico, banks, texas, led, security, charges, house, woman, phone and bank
FBI agents arrest a woman Tuesday who is suspected of robbing four banks in suburban Virginia while appearing to be talking on a cell phone. Candice Martinez, 19, is arrested just before 4am at a home in nearby Centreville, Virginia after an FBI agent saw a car nearby with license plates matching the ones they had been looking for. The FBI had issued a bulletin a few hours earlier saying Martinez and her boyfriend could be fleeing to Texas, New Mexico or New York. "It was a wonderful stroke of luck that [the agent] happened to spot that license plate, and everything unfolded safely and without incident," says Debbie Weirman, a spokesperson from the FBI. Martinez was filmed by security cameras walking up to tellers and demanding cash while appearing to be chatting on her cell phone. FBI Special Agent Ron Chavarro, who spotted the car agents were looking for, ordered two people out of the vehicle and they led investigators to a house nearby where Martinez was staying. Her boyfriend had been arrested a little while earlier. And it was not immediately clear whether charges would be filed against some other people who were with Martinez at the time of her arrest
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