On September 18, 2003, Jaime Chilberg was arrested after she attempted to smuggle drugs into the U. S. from Canada. Legal papers posted on The Smoking Gun detail the events:

Police found the man wandering near the beach in Kent, England. His suit was soaking wet, as if he'd just been swimming in the water and he refused to speak to anyone, offering no clues to his past. He was taken to a psychiatric hospital where he was given pen and paper. He drew a picture of a grand piano and a Swedish flag. When authorities escorted him to the hospital's chapel, he sat at the piano and played classical musical for hours.

Police in South Carolina are on a citywide "wiener-hunt" after a giant hot dog goes missing. A sign featuring a giant wiener disappeared from the Ebenezer Grill, but investigators are skeptical the suspects will go unnoticed for long.

A meteor shower Sunday night resulted in frantic phone calls to police departments all over New England. Calls were made from people who mistook the bright lights of the shower for crashing planes. The lights came from the Lyrid Meteor Shower, which was scheduled to be visible to the naked eye between April 20 and April 25. Reports indicate the shower was seen as far north as Portland, Maine and far south as Long Island. "Some witnesses apparently mistook the meteor shower for a plane crashing in Connecticut," the FAA's Holly Baker said. Firefighters in Branford, Conn. , responded to several reports of a possible plane crash in Long Island Sound in the Thimble Island area, but a search did not turn up anything and was called off a short while later.

An Arizona police department seeks capuchin monkey for SWAT team operations. A Special Weapons and Tactics veteran from Mesa, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, has researched the possibility of landing a $100,000 federal grant to fund a pilot program to train one monkey. Sean Truelove, the man behind the monkey proposal, told a local newspaper that the idea for the SWAT monkey came to him in a dream 18 months ago. Paramilitary SWAT teams are used by major police departments in the U. S. in hostage situations and others involving heavily armed criminals. According to Truelove, the monkey could be trained to unlock doors and search buildings for police on command. The capuchin monkey is considered one of the smartest primates, known by many for its decades-long association with organ grinders. The monkeys weigh three to eight pounds and live for 15 to 20 years. Capuchin monkeys, native to southern central America, have been used to help disabled people, and are able to perform such tasks as retrieving items, serving food and opening and closing doors. The Mesa, Arizona police department issued a statement saying: "We have always encouraged our department members to seek creative and innovative ways to improve public safety in our community. " But the department also said the idea of training a capuchin SWAT monkey had not been cleared by the department's executive ranks.