EPISODES IN INCOMPLETE THINKING (II) Teresa Jones Smith, 44, was charged in Lexington, N.C., with trying to spring her incarcerated boyfriend. Deputies, alerted by smoke, said they found her with a mini blowtorch and other tools as she attempted to cut through the Plexiglas shield that separates prisoners from guests in the visitors' room.
-- Greensboro News & Record, Jan. 21
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THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX (II) Thieves broke into the First Integrity Bank on Excelsior Road in Baxter, Minn. -- and then smashed through a common wall into the adjacent Lakes Area Eyecare store, making off with numerous pairs of sunglasses.
-- Brainerd (Minn.) Dispatch, Aug. 7
THE CLASSIC MIDDLE NAME (ALL NEW FOR 2004!)
• Charged with murder: Edward Wayne Bryant (Ardmore, Okla., arrested in Houston); Michael Wayne Carter (Indianapolis); Matthew Wayne Ferman (Waverly, Ohio); Keith Wayne Graham (Merced, Calif.); Jerald Wayne Harvel II (Pawhuska, Okla.); Timothy Wayne Johnson (Raleigh, N.C.); Kenith Wayne Sherrill (Yakima, Wash.); Jessie Wayne Walker (Greensboro, N.C.); Chadwick Wayne Wallace (Alton, Ill.)
• Escaped from jail while awaiting trial for murder, recaptured: Jerry Wayne Wright (Monroe County, Tenn.)
• Already serving a life sentence for murder but charged again: Alexander Wayne Watson Jr. (a Maryland inmate serving time for a 1994 murder who, based on DNA evidence, was charged in July with murders from 1986, 1988 and 1993)
• Convicted of murder, awaiting sentencing: Jonathan Wayne Larrabee (Wakpala, S.D.);
• Sentenced for murder: Estell Wayne Buck (Monroe, Ohio); Billy Wayne Cope (York, S.C.); Charles Wayne Green (Pocahontas, Ark.); Kenneth Wayne Gregory (New Port Richey, Fla.); Mark Wayne Hauseur (Joshua Tree, Calif.); David Wayne Mears (Ludington, Mich.)
• Sentenced to death for killing another inmate while serving a life sentence for murder: Shannon Wayne Agofsky (Beaumont, Tex.)
• Death sentence upheld by a jury after deciding the defendant was not mentally retarded: Robert Wayne Lambert (Sapulpa, Okla.)
• And acquitted of murder: David Wayne Marsh (Hagerstown, Md.)
-- Bryant: Daily Oklahoman, Aug. 12; Carter: Indianapolis Star, Oct. 4; Ferman: Chillicothe Gazette, Dec. 7, and Pike County News-Watchman, Oct. 6; Graham: Merced Sun-Star, Aug. 26, Nov. 27; Harvel: Bartlesville (Okla.) Examiner-Enterprise, Feb. 26; Johnson: Associated Press, Sept. 5; Sherrill: Yakima Herald-Republic, July 10; Walker: Greensboro News & Record, Dec. 6; Wallace: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Aug. 30; Wright: WLTV (Knoxville, Tenn.), March 24, Marysville (Tenn.) Daily Times, Nov. 4; Watson: Baltimore Sun, July 13; Larrabee: Associated Press, Sept. 10; Buck: Cincinnati Enquirer, Nov. 24; Cope: The Herald (Rock Hill, S.C.), Sept. 23; Green: Associated Press, May 27; Gregory: St. Petersburg Times, Oct. 14; Hauseur: Hi-Desert Star (Yucca Valley, Calif.), May 29; Mears: Associated Press, Nov. 8; Agofsky: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 17; Lambert: Associated Press, May 21; Marsh: Baltimore Sun, Sept. 11
