National Roundup . . .

Maine
Owner puts dog into truck, dog sends it into lake
ELLSWORTH, Maine (AP) — Police say a dog alone in a pickup had to be rescued after it caused the truck to go into a lake in Maine.

Ellsworth Police say a man was walking the dog near Branch Lake on Saturday afternoon in Ellsworth. He put the dog into the truck after an encounter with another dog.

While the man spoke to the other dog’s owner, the Yorkshire terrier managed to bump the Chevrolet Silverado into gear, causing it to roll about 75 feet into the lake, and bounce off a rock before sinking in roughly 10 feet of water.

Police say a family friend immediately swam into the lake and saved the trapped dog. A towing company was called in to remove the truck. No humans or dogs were injured.

Pennsylvania
Man who ran over girl had 3 drinking citations
GLENSHAW, Pa. (AP) — Court records show a man accused of being drunk when he ran over a 6-year-old girl standing with her mother in a suburban Pittsburgh driveway had three previous citations for underage drinking.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports 20-year-old Millvale resident Travis Grayson was first busted for drinking at a party when he was 18. He was cited again less than six months later and a third time this past July.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for Grayson.

He’s charged with homicide by vehicle, driving under the influence and other charges for losing control of his vehicle and killing Ava Campbell on Saturday night.

Police say Grayson told them he had 10 beers, had smoked marijuana and “was driving like a stupid idiot.”
He’s being held on $200,000 bond.

Kansas
Man arrested for using jumper cables on teen
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 58-year-old man has been arrested after police say he attached jumper cables to the ears of a 15-year-old Kansas boy to get information about a robbery.

Wichita police Lt. James Espinoza says the boy was walking early Sunday when he said someone placed a gun at his back. Espinoza says the suspect took the teen to a garage, tied him to a trailer hitch, then attached jumper cables to his ears and shocked him repeatedly while questioning him about a recent robbery.

Police say the man’s wallet had been stolen and he believed the teen knew who was responsible.

The suspect eventually released the boy, who ran home and told his father what happened. He was taken to a hospital.

The man faces charges of aggravated battery and kidnapping.

Florida
Probation sought for ex-banker in tax evasion case
MIAMI (AP) — A former executive at Swiss bank UBS AG might avoid jail time and end up with probation because of his extensive cooperation in a long-running U.S. investigation into tax evasion using secret accounts.

Prosecutors asked a judge to order five years’ probation and a $150,000 fine for Hansruedi Schumacher in a sentencing memo filed Monday. Schumacher pleaded guilty in April to conspiring to defraud the U.S., which could send him to prison for nearly six years.

Schumacher admitted in court helping wealthy U.S. citizens evade the Internal Revenue Service using secret Swiss accounts. He later became a key U.S. witness.
Several other bankers and dozens of customers have been prosecuted. UBS itself paid a $780 million fine to the U.S. in 2009 and agreed to disclose names of thousands of its American customers.

California
Man arrested for lewd acts with child, child porn
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say an Orange County photographer and children’s exercise class instructor is suspected of lewd acts with a child and possessing child pornography.

The Orange County Register reports that investigators are searching for more potential victims of 42-year-old Christopher Brown of Orange, who was arrested Friday. He is being held on $500,000 bail.

Investigators executing a search warrant confiscated a computer and external hard drive from Brown’s hotel room in Irvine. They found several photos and videos of teenage girls.

The alleged victim of the lewd acts was a teenage girl who came forward during the investigation.

Brown was convicted for child pornography possession in Virginia in 2005. He didn’t register as a sex offender when he moved to California.

Oregon
Kidnapping  fugitive arrested after 24 years
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man accused of kidnapping and torturing two women in suburban Portland has been arrested in Mexico after being on the run for nearly 25 years.

Paul Erven Jackson, 45, was arrested Monday by Mexican immigration authorities at a hotel in downtown Guadalajara, Deputy U.S. Marshal Eric Wahlstrom said. He will have court proceedings in Mexico before he is brought back to Oregon.

Police said Jackson and his older brother, Vance Roberts, kidnapped prostitutes and drove them to Roberts’ home in Hillsboro, west of Portland. The brothers were arrested in 1990, but vanished early the following year after their mother bailed them out of jail.

Roberts surrendered in September 2006 and was convicted the following year of kidnap, rape, sodomy, sexual abuse and sexual penetration with a foreign object. The 61-year-old is serving a 108-year prison sentence.

Jackson appears to have been living in Mexico for several years under the name Paul Bennett Hamilton, Wahlstrom said. He said Jackson denied his identity when contacted by Mexican authorities at the hotel. The details of his life in Mexico were not immediately known.

The first victim was 20 in September 1988 when she was kidnapped after agreeing to perform a $30 sex act on Roberts in his pickup, according to details from the older brother’s trial. She said Roberts kept her in a locked closet when she wasn’t chained to a bed. She was sexually abused for a week and forced to call him “Master X.”

The second victim was pulled off the streets in June 1990, when she was 17. After a day as a sex slave, she slipped out of handcuffs, jumped through a window and reported the men to police.
Jackson was most recently featured on CNN’s John Walsh’s “The Hunt,” and was profiled several times on “America’s Most Wanted.”