HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) -- Sheriff's deputies responding to a burglary call say they found a 20-year-old man sawing Z's on the kitchen floor of a home in Oregon.
The Washington County sheriff's office says the homeowner discovered the sleeping stranger early Friday. Deputies arrived to find Cristian Villarreal-Castillo, who had in his pockets small electronic devices believed to be removed, without their owners' permission, from unlocked vehicles.
Deputies say many items in the home in the Rock Creek neighborhood of Hillsboro had been ransacked in an apparent attempt to find things that could fetch a pretty penny when fenced. They believe Villarreal-Castillo entered the home through an unlocked door and was in the process of gathering items when he fell asleep.
Clearly not one of those lazy criminal types. He has that going for him, anyway.
Cristian Castillo, the narcoleptic burglar...
He is charged with burglary, attempted theft, trespassing and criminal mischief. Investigators also linked him to a burglary that happened a few hours before his trip to the Gray-Bar Hotel.
Follow up on yesterday's story. No worries, go back to sleep.
FIVE people in isolation in a Danish hospital are suffering from a typical influenza strain and not a new SARS-like respiratory illness as feared.
"The five have tested positive for Influenza B and because of their general state we are sure that they do not have the new coronavirus," the hospital's chief physician Svend Stenvang Petersen said.
The five, three adults and two children, had been isolated at the hospital since Tuesday amid fears they had contracted a new virus in the same family as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) after they experienced fever, coughing and influenza-like symptoms.
Two of the five had recently been to the Middle East, with the father of the two children having travelled to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... and an unrelated man in Qatar.
The new virus was recently identified by the British Health Protection Agency in a Qatari man transferred to London after apparently picking it up in Saudi Arabia.
A Saudi national died earlier this year from a virtually identical virus, the World Health Organisation has said.
The WHO confirmed in a global alert on Monday that the new virus was in the coronavirus family which causes the common cold but can also include more severe illnesses including SARS.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) -- Sheriff's deputies responding to a burglary call say they found a 20-year-old man 
