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It was the case of the sword, the blind black cat and a pair of Chinese meditation balls. In fact, it was two cases with those same clues. So it didn't take police too long to figure out that the two crimes were connected.
At the scene of the first crime, at a home in the Easy Living mobile home park, 3323 Iowa St., a burglar apparently entered while residents were out, sometime before 5 p.m. Sunday, and made off with a medium-length Japanese-style sword, a blind black cat and the Chinese meditation balls, among other items, according to Sgt. Trent McKinley, a Lawrence Police Department spokesman.
Shortly after, the burglar struck again at another residence in the same neighborhood, McKinley said. About 5:20 p.m., the man terrified the residents of a nearby mobile home by barging in through their front door. He had no shoes or shirt on, but he was wearing the stolen sword on his waist in a scabbard, and was carrying the meditation balls and the cat.
The residents fled to a neighbor's house to call police, McKinley said, afraid for their lives, as the man entered their home and began eating their food.
About 90 minutes after police arrived at the home and arrested Blake Robert Hurd, 31, of Lawrence, the earlier crime was reported. Among the items reported missing in that first theft? The cat, the sword and the Chinese meditation balls. Connecting the two incidents, police arrested Hurd on suspicion of both crimes and returned the property and the cat, who goes by the name "Freddie."
Douglas County prosecutors charged Hurd Monday with aggravated burglary, burglary, and two counts of theft. He remained in Douglas County Jail Monday with bond set at $25,000.
Comments
Pete_Schweti 1 year, 5 months ago
Fantastic. That is all.
midwestmom 1 year, 5 months ago
okay - you win! too hilarious!!!
irvan moore 1 year, 5 months ago
freddie is lucky to be home, heck of a story to tell i bet
Termcd4 1 year, 5 months ago
He's probably from Topeka or Redbud Lane!
ksrover 1 year, 5 months ago
"... Blake Robert Hurd, 31, of Lawrence ..."
fearthephog512 1 year, 5 months ago
You dream to write headlines this bizarre!
riverdrifter 1 year, 5 months ago
A blind black cat, a sword and Chinese meditation balls: memo to News Of The Weird...
JustNoticed 1 year, 5 months ago
Here's a real headline about a guy named Cokie in a Georgia jail: Cokie Okey Dokey in Okefenokee Pokie
avarom 1 year, 5 months ago
Arrested for too Much Smokie!!!!! Okie Dokey Articokie...lmao
Katara 1 year, 5 months ago
Chinese meditation balls.... yeah, that's what they are for.
Catalano 1 year, 5 months ago
LOL, my thoughts exactly.
feetup 1 year, 5 months ago
oh h. no. you cannot make this stuff up!
Bob Forer 1 year, 5 months ago
Time to get this guy an appointment with The Samurai Psychiatrist.
Bob Forer 1 year, 5 months ago
by Bob Forer
overthemoon 1 year, 5 months ago
Reality makes the folks at the Onion have to work really hard to come up with kookie strange parody!
Pepe 1 year, 5 months ago
That would be a slow news days in Wichita.
frankfussman 1 year, 5 months ago
Chinese meditation balls...on a Chinese Zen master?
JayhawkFan1985 1 year, 5 months ago
Example of why mental health funding needs to be restored to pre-Graves levels...
Armstrong 1 year, 5 months ago
Wow, sounds like an every day event if this were Topeka
Joe Shaw 1 year, 5 months ago
I have some major concerns with the timeliness of the response from the Lawrence PD. A lot can happen in the 90 minutes that it took for them to arrive on the scene.
Except for those key concerns, the rest of the story seemed pretty normal.
bad_dog 1 year, 5 months ago
Come on! Joe! Don!t no ya except is spellt axcept?
Tomato 1 year, 5 months ago
You misread that.
The first crime was reported 90 minutes after the police arrested him at the location of the second crime.
Bob Forer 1 year, 5 months ago
Hard to tell how great of a threat he is. But I certainly have some concerns. Guy appears to be seriously mentally ill.
weeslicket 1 year, 5 months ago
life imitates fiction
Matthew Del Vecchio 1 year, 5 months ago
brilliant
Fred Whitehead Jr. 1 year, 5 months ago
Steal a cat?? Somebodies kitty??Gads, shat next!
There are ,many cats available at the shelter and on Thursday, the adoption fee is waived.
Who the hell would stea lsombodies kitty??
Lock them up and thro wawy the key.
Katara 1 year, 5 months ago
The Governor will now pass a law permitting people to carry concealed samurai swords.
Remember! Only a good guy with a samurai sword can stop a bad guy with a samurai sword.
pace 1 year, 5 months ago
What is sad is these actions are't as stupid as what Brownback does.
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