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A 17-year veteran of the New York Police Department was suspended and four other men were arrested after a ransom phone call was traced to the detective’s home in Queens.

Austrian police did not need sniffing dogs to locate this suspected heist - 9.5 tons of garlic. The Austria Press Agency says police stopped three overloaded and sagging vans about to cross into Hungary from Austria on Wednesday and found them packed to the roof with the pungent cargo. After questioning the five men in the vehicles they charged them on suspicion of receiving stolen goods.

A Chicago-area man who allegedly was clocked driving 111 mph through a 45 mph forest preserve told a patrol officer he was in a hurry to “try to go have sex with a girl he liked.”

A blind British writer failed to notice her pen had run out of ink while writing 26 pages of a book, but her lost words were recovered by police forensic staff.

A Dallas man told police that his neighbor punched him in the face Tuesday while he mowed his lawn then stole six gold teeth that he knocked out. The attack happened about 3:30 p.m. in the 3800 block of Cauthorn Drive, near Hatcher Street and Second Avenue in South Dallas. The neighbor, who was not identified, confronted the 46-year-old victim yelling and cursing as he mowed, according to a police report.

A small group of people attempted to hold a pillow fight in Shanghai, China, Saturday. They were taking part in International Pillow Fight Day, held on April 7.

A Minnesota waitress has sued after police confiscated $12,000 she says was a tip but that authorities suspect came from a drug deal.

A northwest Arkansas teenager thought it would be funny to text a random phone number saying she hid a body, but the joke backfired.

A mother of 10 who threw a birthday party for her 5-year-old daughter at a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in suburban Houston, Texas, apparently forgot about the girl, went home without her and failed to realize her mistake until the next day, police said Friday.

An armed man barged into a Florida motel room, scuffled with his victims, and then dropped his gun -- only to return later to try to buy back his own firearm for $40, according to published reports.