Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 4022 AMERICAN POLICE BEAT: SEPTEMBER 2016 N ewman, you mag- nificent bastard – you did it!” For non-Sein- feld fans, that’s a line from Kramer after Newman real- izes the deposit on bottles in Michigan is 10 cents instead of 5 and hustles a mail truck so the two neer-do-wells can strike it rich. It turns out that just like the Japanese woman that died trying to find the bur- ied loot from the film Fargo, some dude hatched a plan recently to do the Seinfeld thing and drive cans and bottles from New York to Michigan. Unfortunately, he forgot that this ain’t the good old 90’s, when stuff like this wasn’t considered worthy of a RICO count. These days, if you want to sell loose cigarettes or drive halfway across the conti- nental USA to return Coke cans, you better brush up on criminal law. Returning bottles pur- chased outside of Michigan to capitalize on the refund is illegal under the state’s bottle deposit law. And this is serious stuff – the state is deadly serious about making sure no one gets rich off of empty bottles of Snapple. Brian Everidge of Michi- gan stands accused of at- tempting to return more than 10,000 bottles from other states. He’s looking at five years. Last April a Michigan state trooper pulled over Everidge for speeding. The officer, Clifford Lyden, testified in court that Everidge’s truck was filled with plastic bags holding thousands of aluminum cans from Kentucky and other states. “I don’t think you could have put another five or 10 cans in here,” Lyden said. “It was packed.” William J Vailliencourt, the prosecutor for Livings- ton County said his office “has never had a case like this.” Here’s the kicker: The kid never got the chance to make his fortune ($1000 minus gas, food and lodging.) The state wants its money, Newman Authorities nab a nefarious, genius criminal mastermind So the question for prose- cutors will be is there enough “intent” to make the charges stick for a jury when the guy never returned the bottles? The prosecutor says jail time’s a long shot, but these days you never know. It’s entirely possible that we’ll lock a guy up for trying to return bottles and stick the taxpayers with the bill – at a cost of $35,500 per year. There’s a lot of crap that cops hate about the job. Some of them are things like having to kick a bunch of kids off a basketball court because some old bat called in suspicious activity. But when cops have to shut down a kid’s lemonade stand, it starts to feel like the serving and protecting might not be entirely for the benefit of the citizenry. Georgia court says it’s legal to film video up a woman’s skirt – CBS News. Meanwhile, Meanwhile, in Georgia... in Georgia...