WhiteBoard News for Wednesday, June 25, 2003

Uniontown, Ohio (The Repository):

A man who stole thousands of dollars from his family and used the money for partying and prostitutes was arrested after he called 911 to report that some of the money had been stolen from him, Uniontown police reported.

John A. Beresh III, 20, of Uniontown faces one felony grand theft charge for allegedly stealing $20,000 from a safe in his family's home on Basswood Avenue NW.

"He (Beresh III) admitted to taking $14,000, and apparently he used it on prostitutes and bought them clothing at Victoria's Secret, cell phones and everything," said Uniontown Police Chief Steve Wolf. "He was really good to them, and he took cabs back and forth from Canton and Alliance. He used up all the money except for a little bit."

The rest was stolen from Beresh early Friday at the Super 8 Motel at 3950 Convenience Cir. NW in Plain Township. He called 911 to report the robbery. When Stark County sheriff's deputies arrived, he reportedly told them he had taken thousands of dollars from his father and had just been robbed of the remainder.

So the deputies contacted Uniontown police, who picked Beresh up after the deputies worked on investigating the robbery.

Wolf said when Beresh was asked why he took the money, he told police he tired of living at home and fighting with his mother and father.

"He was tired of all that, and just wanted to get out," Wolf said.

According to a Uniontown police report, Beresh took the money between 2 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. June 10, then walked to the Uniontown Post Office and called a cab to take him to Alliance. Ultimately, he ended up at the Super 8 _ and as of Monday night, in the Stark County Jail.
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Nice, France (Reuters):

Colombian Formula One driver Juan Pablo Montoya has been handed a four-month driving ban and $1,400 fine after he was caught speeding in the south of France, court officials say. 

Police cameras filmed Montoya, tipped as a future world champion, driving his four-wheel drive BMW at 204 kph (127 mph) last month along a stretch of motorway near the town of Frejus. 

The speed limit on French motorways is 130 kph. 

"In future, my behaviour as a private road-user will be exemplary," Montoya, who was not present for the verdict, promised the judge in a letter read out to the Frejus court. 

The ban only applies to France and will not stop Williams driver Montoya, who lies sixth in this year's world championship standings, from competing professionally. 

With among the highest rates of road deaths in Europe, France has launched a crack-down against speeding and dangerous driving, with jail sentences possible for the worst offenders. 
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Baghdad, Iraq (Independent Online):

United States authorities in Iraq have been forced to change the name of the planned Iraqi armed forces after learning that the orginal title they came up with created an unfortunate acronym in Arabic.

The planned force was originally entitled the New Iraqi Corps, the initials of which in Arabic produce a colourful synonym for fornication.

"I am told reliably but unanimously that that acronym is not a nice word in Arabic," a senior official from the Coalition Provisional Authority said on Tuesday. "Therefore we had to come up with another word."

The force is to be known as the New Iraqi Army.
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