A 76-year-old woman accused of producing and selling heroin from her home has been arrested. Esther Gomez had allegedly been selling black-tar heroin out of her home for years. On Thursday, Gomez was arrested after authorities received information that led to a search warrant. She was charged with possession with intent to deliver and released on a $20,000 bond.

Russian police are looking for two mystics who persuaded a student at Moscow's elite State Institute for International Affairs to part with more than $160,000 in exchange for lifting a curse, RIA news agency reported Sunday. "Two unknown women, on the pretext of lifting a curse, stole $150,000 and some jewelry by means of deception. The total amount stolen is estimated at 4. 48 million roubles ($161,800)," the agency quoted a police source as saying.

An Indiana woman charged with hiding shoplifted goods in her motorized wheelchair fled a hospital on foot a few hours later. Jacqueline Ward was charged with misdemeanor shoplifting.

A Canadian man who lost his wife's Louis Vuitton designer purse with $1,000,000 worth of jewelry and cash is out of the doghouse with his wife. News reports of the good Samaritan turning in the valuable purse to police after he found it on a park bench speaks volumes and has made headlines worldwide.

John Suhrhoff found a Louis Vuitton bag on a Sausalito park bench, but what he found inside was more of a shocker: a 12-carat diamond ring, pearl and emerald jewelry, a Cartier watch and about $500 in cash. In total, the contents were worth $1 million. Suhrhoff decided to take the bag to the police Monday afternoon. The bag is now on its way back to the hands of a Toronto family, who visited northern California for a wedding.