Buster Archive

Apparently tired of asking strangers if their refrigerator was running (or if they had Prince Albert in a can), an unknown man yesterday called a South Carolina salon and asked a female employee if she had “an opening,” according to cops.

As detailed in an amusing Myrtle Beach Police Department report, the caller continued asking questions until the 32-year-old Encore Salon worker realized that he “just wanted to talk dirty to her.”

The responding officer (“RO”) dialed the New Jersey number from which the man appeared to be calling, but nobody answered.

The Ukrainian man who admitted groping a flight attendant while traveling recently from London to New York has been sentenced to probation and ordered not to drink “on any airline flight” for the next five years.

Iurii Chumak, 53, was arrested by FBI agents in April after he placed his hand up the skirt of a British Airways employee, grabbed the woman’s “genital area,” and “began to run his fingers back and forth.” Chumak, pictured at right, pleaded guilty last month to the misdemeanor airborne assault.

U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Joan Azrack Tuesday sentenced Chumak--who has been in custody since his late-April arrest--to time served. As part of Chumak’s probation terms, Azrack ruled that, “Defendant may not consume alcohol on any flight for five (5) years.”

Which means Chumak will have a long, sober flight home to Kiev after his release from Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.

The Brooklyn man arrested for the grisly murder of an eight-year-old Hasidic boy is named Levi Aron, a 35-year-old who worked recently as a licensed security guard in Tennessee.

Aron is pictured at right (and can be seen here in a photo from his Facebook page).

According to New York City police, Aron allegedly suffocated Leiby Kletzky before chopping the boy into pieces that he stuffed into a suitcase and placed in a dumpster outside a car repair shop.

Tennessee state records show that Aron moved to the state in early-2006, and was first licensed as an unarmed security guard in March 2007. On his initial license application, Aron reported that he was charged in New York with drunk driving in 1996, but claimed he was “falsely accused” and that the count was later dismissed.

Aron renewed his two-year license in 2009, but let it expire earlier this year, by which time he had returned to Brooklyn, where he was born on July 13, 1976.

In profiles on two online dating sites, Aron describes himself as divorced, “attractive,” and seeking women between ages 18 and 35. He apparently met his ex-wife via an online Jewish dating and matchmaking service.

Aron's ex-wife filed for divorce in January 2007, and a decree was granted two months later in a Memphis court.

The woman, the mother of two young children, cited "irreconcilable differences" in her Chancery Court complaint. Documents show that the couple’s marriage lasted a year and the divorce decree stipulated that before Aron left Memphis, “he will return to Wife the children’s mattresses, and the master bedroom furniture.”

At the time of the divorce, the woman worked at Pizza Hut, while Aron was employed at a Kroger supermarket.

In the “in my own words” section of one dating profile, Aron wrote, “this is the part I don't like about creating a profile. :-)  I work for a building supply warehouse. music is a big part of me. listening/playing. I play the piano, can't read notes though. for now I just play by ear. I enjoy movies, music, pool, bowl, horseback riding, beach, boardwalk, etc.”

Included in the “Activities and Interests” on Aron’s Facebook profile is a link to a page for a non-profit organization that offers tips on how to find sex offenders in your neighborhood. The page is headlined, “IS YOUR FAMILY SAFE? Find out who really lives in your area!” Aron’s MySpace page, from which the above photo was taken, is set to private. His last login there was on June 11.

Meet Patrick Brooks.

The 21-year-old Californian was arrested today for burglary, forgery, and receiving stolen property. Not to mention violating parole from a prior case.

Collared by the Redding Police Department, Brooks is being held without bail in the Shasta County lockup. Where that forehead greeting will no doubt endear him to fellow inmates.

A trio of intoxicated thieves allegedly stole a 14-foot stuffed alligator from a Michigan man’s home, strapped it to their pickup truck, and then went mud bogging with the flattened reptile.

The accused men were nabbed after the owner of the burgled barn followed foot and tire tracks to an area where the suspects were spotted racing through the mud with the $5000 alligator in tow. As a result, cops arrested John Sanborn, 53; Douglas Ward, 55; and Roy Griffith, 60, on a variety of criminal charges.

As seen above, police recovered the alligator, which did not appear worse for the wear. Besides, of course, already being dead, stuffed, and flattened. The alleged thieves, pictured below, are due in court July 29 for a preliminary hearing.