Alleged Wal-Mart shoplifter dies after fight with store security

1. Alleged Wal-Mart shoplifter dies after fight with store security An alleged Wal-Mart shoplifter died in the hospital following an altercation with store security, authorities say. Jose Marcos Picazo, 41, of Azusa, walked out of a Covina store Friday afternoon without paying for merchandise and was tracked to the parking lot by loss-prevention officers, according to Sheriff’s Lt. Holly Francisco.“They went outside to detain him, and basically, the fight was on,” Francisco said. “He resisted them and they began fighting. They were able to get him down on the ground and that’s when the Covina police officers arrived.”

2. Car crashes into day care on northeast side Indianapolis - A vehicle involved in a police pursuit has crashed into a day care on the northeast side.The accident happened shortly before noon at the Stepping Stones Child Care near 46th and AllisonvilleRoad.Police say two men in an SUV were wanted for the robbery of the Family Dollar store at 5135 North Keystone. Officers recognized the red Jeep Grand Cherokee and began pursuit. The driver of the SUV lost control at a high rate of speed and crashed through a brick wall into the day care facility. The vehicle left no skid marks at the scene of the crash."The officer was in the process of turning the police car around to begin to catch up with it, to see if it was indeed the vehicle involved. At some point, that vehicle began to accelerate, the officer did turn the lights on, for safety reasons," said IMPD Chief Michael Spears. "The chase lasted a very short period of time. It probably isn't even - based on the information I have at this time - appropriate to refer to it as a lengthy chase."

3. Train hits truck in Kings Mtn It’s happened again in Kings Mountain -- a tractor-trailer hit by a train at the Battleground Avenue crossing.For the third time this year, and the fourth time in the past 11 months, a truck got stuck on the crossing Friday morning and was struck by a train.In this case, a truck carrying a load of cotton got stuck on the high-angle crossing around 6:30 a.m. The driver was able to get out of the cab a short time before the train struck, smashing into the trailer and leaving a field of debris. No injuries were reported.Trucks are not permitted to cross the tracks at that point, but that hasn’t stopped drivers from trying. According to police reports, trucks have been hit by trains at the same crossing last June 13 and this year on Jan. 3 and March 14.Truckers have been cited by police in past cases

4. Texas girl, 13, nabbed in Nashville after stealing brother’s car to visit Xbox boyfriend A 13-year-old Texas girl was picked up in Nashville while driving to see her boyfriend in Kentucky, whom she met playing Xbox games online.HARRIS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICEBefore running off, Elizabeth Robinson, 13, had been asking about her brother's car and its gas mileage, her parents said.A 13-year-old Texas girl snatched her brother's car and drove across three states to visit a boyfriend she met playing Xbox games online, authorities said.Elizabeth Robinson, of Cypress, near Houston, was pulled over by police in Nashville — 800 miles away — and taken into custody on Thursday, local station KHOU reported.Her parents said she was headed to Hodgenville, Ky., to meet a 12-year-old boy named Dylan, whom she met playing Xbox."She had mentioned that she was talking to a boy online and said he was her boyfriend," her mother, Tressa Robinson, told the station."She started staying in her bedroom more, isolating herself where she was always with the headset, always talking. That's how they communicated through the Xbox."The Robinsons discovered the girl missing Thursday morning, along with her brother's car and Tressa's ATM card.The lovestruck teen tried to throw her folks off her scent with a note saying she was upset about being bullied at school and headed to a girlfriend's house.But her parents later checked her email account and found a message with Dylan's address, the station reported.The couple suspected Elizabeth might pull a stunt like this after her father took her Xbox away and she started asking about the gas mileage on her brother's car, KHOU reported.Authorities tracked the girl though her use of her mom's ATM card, and the little outlaw was picked up by a Tennessee Highway Patrol officer who recognized the car from an Amber Alert.Dylan, meanwhile, didn't leave home during his online squeeze's cross-country trek.Elizabeth's father was on his way to pick her up from police, the station said.

5. Police arrested a man in downtown Davis on Sunday after reports that he was “carrying a handbag in a strange manner while walking past females.”Responding officers contacted Peter Johnson in the area Third and F Streets around noon on June 3. They determined that he had been using a camera to film up girls’ skirts as they passed by. Davis Police Lt. Paul Doroshov said the following in a release: 

Officers located a hidden digital camcorder inside the bag Johnson was carrying. The camera was concealed in a container in an upright position. Based on their preliminary investigation, officers suspect Johnson was using the digital camcorder to obtain a recording angle under women's skirts in order to film that portion of their body. One 27 year old female victim was identified by officers. Her name and identity are not being released at this time. 

6. Man sought in SW Houston gas station robbery HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A man police say threatened a store clerk with a gun, then robbed a convenience store remains on the loose. But police are hoping newly released surveillance video will help identify him.RelatedContentRAW VIDEO: Surveillance of robbery at gas stationMORE: Turn in suspects for cash rewardsIn surveillance video from about 1:15am on July 26, you can see a man wearing a blue bandana as he walks into the Valero gas station on 9710 Beechnut. It looks like he acts like he's shopping around. He waits for customers to leave and then points a gun at the cashier.Police say the cashier feared for their life, so the clerk handed over money. Police believe there is at least one witness who was shopping in the store when this robbery happened. If you know anything at all, you are urged to come forward."The way that he conducted himself during this robbery, he's done this before. He didn't seem nervous. He seemed very nonchalant like he would definitely, in my opinion, do it again," said HPD Sr. Officer Kimberly Miller.Police say he ran away from the gas station on foot northbound on Corporate Drive, so he is believed to live in that area.The suspect is described only as a Hispanic male, 26 to 28 years of age, about 5-foot-8 and weighing 170 to 180 pounds.