An Alberta woman whose stolen car was located by police said it came back from impound containing drugs and contraban. Courtney Pickering said her car was stolen last week and police contacted her a couple of days later to say the vehicle had been recovered and she could pick it up when forensics was finished investigating. Pickering said she went to the impound lot to pick up the car and she immediately discovered a knife in the front passenger door, a lead pipe on the floor mats with other garbage, four stolen IDs in the glove compartment, a baggie of cocaine in the cup holder, and a gun on the floor. Pickering filed a complaint with the Professional Standards Section of the Calgary Police. The Calgary Police Service said officers don’t always search the interior of a stolen car, but it is unusual to have victims find drugs and weapons left behind in the vehicles.
A Michigan prosecutor said an 87-year-old man accused of soliciting a prostitute is getting “a pass” due to his age and will not be prosecuted. Howard Klein, who was busted in Grand Rapids on allegations of soliciting an undercover police officer posing as a prostitute, will not be prosecuted on the charge. The judge said, “What would be the purpose in prosecuting him? He wouldn’t and shouldn’t go to jail and 87 years without involvement in the criminal justice system has, in my opinion, earned him a pass. He has absolutely no criminal record. In addition, I am told he struggles to some degree with dementia.” Klein said he had approached the undercover police officer because he thought he recognized her from church, adding, “I thought that I knew her. I didn’t say nothing to her. I just said, ‘Hi,’ and nothing else and I left.”
