News of the Weird: Drug dealer’s drone delivery scheme crashes

A drone crashed into a home in Hillsborough County (Florida) around 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 19, Fox5-TV reported. The homeowners retrieved the drone from the backyard before the drone’s owner, Jason Brooks, 49, knocked on the front door, at which point they called police. Sheriff Chad Chronister said the homeowner found a cloth bag attached to the drone, with four other bags inside. “Three bags with fentanyl powder and one bag of methamphetamine,” Chronister said. “Each bag has a person’s name written on the bag.” When deputies arrived, they found Brooks outside. He told them he was flying his drone and “I believe it crashed in this area, and I’m going in the backyard trying to find my drone.” Brooks, a 15-time convicted felon, was charged with possession with intent to sell or deliver, among other charges, and held without bond.

Aug. 16 was just another happy Saturday at the Northeast Elementary School playground in Vernon, Conn., until a 40-year-old man became trapped in a tube slide and had to be rescued by the Town of Vernon Fire Department, WKRC-TV reported. When first responders arrived, the unnamed man was stuck in the middle of the slide. He was provided oxygen, and ventilation was set up to cool the space. After about 30 minutes of taking the slide apart, the man was rescued. He refused medical care. Wisely, he also refused to give his name to the news media.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department took a missing person report on Aug. 12 in regard to Sheylla Cabrera, 33, KTLA-TV reported. The next day, as detectives viewed video from a neighbor’s Ring doorbell, they spotted Cabrera’s husband, 36-year-old Jossimar Cabrera, struggling to pull a heavy sack out of his house. Three days later, a sack containing Sheylla’s body was found in the Angeles National Forest. Her husband fled to Peru, where local authorities picked him up.

David Hampson, 54 — known to locals as “Silent Man” — has been arrested again in Swansea, Wales, for standing in the middle of busy roads, the Telegraph reported on Aug. 12. By “again,” we mean for the 12th time. Hampson, who has no fixed address, has been repeating his strange behavior since 2014, but he won’t explain himself to law enforcement or health officials. He’s not mute, his brother said: “He never stops talking. He’s a spoilt brat. He just does it to have a comfy life inside prison.”

The Wynn Encore resort in Las Vegas got punked when Justin Bieber impersonator Dylan Desclos, 29, showed up at the venue, Huff Post reported on Aug. 19. The pseudo-Bieber danced and partied, allegedly racking up a $10,000 bar bill, before his “team” alerted the resort that he wanted to perform on stage. As soon as he started to sing, the con was revealed, and the resort banned him for life.

Visitors to Judong No. 3 Park in Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea, may rub their eyes when they see the new squad of park policemen, Oddity Central reported on Aug. 15. The officers are 3D holograms that patrol between 7 and 10 p.m., assuring people that “in emergencies, the police will respond immediately” and “there are surveillance cameras everywhere.” The specterlike officers have had an impact on crime in the park, decreasing incidents by 22%.

Firefighters with the Doolittle (Missouri) Rural Fire Protection District responded to a truck fire on Aug. 18, Fox5-TV reported. Inside the trailer was 40,000 pounds of rib-eye steaks — which, while a total loss, reportedly smelled amazing.