Crime Blotter: Wedding Arrest, Aquarium Fishing
— -- ‘Does Anyone Object to this Marriage?’ ‘I Do!’
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — When the minister said, "Speak now or forever hold your peace," Marie Salomon apparently wasn't about to let the opportunity slip by.She was arrested Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Bridgeport, Conn., where police say she repeatedly interrupted and shouted during a wedding. "She would not heed several warnings from the reverend to be quiet," said Mark Patterson, a police department spokesman.Eventually church officials called police, who sent two officers to the scene at around 5 p.m. Saturday. They found the 41-year-old woman standing up and yelling in the middle of the ceremony."Officers asked her what bothering her and she was unable to explain," Patterson said.It was unclear if Salomon, a Bridgeport resident, was a guest at the weddingShe was charged with breaching the peace and trespassing, and released on $500 bond.After Salomon was removed, the service proceeded without further ado.
Spearfishing the Easy — and Illegal — Way
KEY WEST, Fla. —
Catching a 20-pound grouper or trout is normally hard work, but for one enterprising burglar it was as easy as shooting fish in a barrel — literally.
When Key West Aquarium curator Bob Cerkleski came to work last Tuesday, he found several dead fish in his tanks. He quickly discovered several others with new puncture wounds.
"Right away I could tell something was screwy with them," he said. "There were holes in them."
Apparently, somebody had broken into the facility and gone after the animals with a spear gun. In total, about 20 fish were missing, dead or injured — mostly grouper and snapper — as well as several lobsters.
"Also a speckled trout," he sighed. "That was a nice animal. We've had it for quite a while."
In some, Cerkleski could see the X-shaped hole left by the spear, and there were also spear marks in the concrete in the tank.
He was grateful that the thief didn't touch some of the harder-to-replace creatures at the facility, such as tarpon, bonnet-head sharks, and turtles.
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