THE 12:30 REPORT: Your News Update
“Maybe on 10 acres … this might be pretty. But not like this”: Two twin brothers living together in Paulsboro, N.J., are annoying their neighbors with the more than 100 bronze statues they have crammed onto their 50-foot-wide concrete front yard — including a 12-foot bronze Neptune statue. The yard went from unsightly to annoying when the brothers fired a small bronze canon during a Fourth of July celebration. One of the brothers allegedly screamed at a neighbor that he would kill her if she complained to the police about noise. The pair are charged with maintaining a nuisance, fireworks violations and harassment. Couldn’t get any weirder? No such luck: The Hubbs’s 82-year-old mother, Ethel, went missing six years ago, and a body has never been officially recovered. Hmmmm. [Inquirer]
Cop radio mess figured out: Motorola said today it has nailed down the problem that wiped out the Philadelphia police department’s radio system for 50 minutes on Tuesday night. No word yet on when the problem will be fixed, however. [NBC 10]
On both sides of the law: The Delaware County District Attorney’s office plans to announce this afternoon the arrest of a Pennsylvania state trooper in connection to a cyber-sting. Trooper Albert Silveri III, of Aston, faces charges of criminal solicitation to rape of a child, among other offenses. [CBS 3]
Drug raid uncovers all kinds of scary things: Yesterday’s 24-hour drug sweep across Northwest Philadelphia landed nearly 100 people in jail and netted almost $200,000 in drugs, guns and — you guessed it — exotic animals. The city Police’s Narcotics Unit and Strike Force, along with the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration, confiscated heroin, Oxycontin, AK-47s and three-foot-long alligators. [Daily News]
