The Gun Bunny sends in our first contestant for the week.<\/p>\n
\n\n<\/p>\n\nA candidate for the Georgia Senate was arrested after reportedly breaking into her own home and moving back in after being evicted from it. The woman, however, claims she never should have been evicted in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\n\nLinda Pritchett, who is running to represent District 39 in a special Democratic primary Nov. 3, was arrested at the home in South Fulton on Friday. She is charged with first-degree burglary, obstructing an officer and criminal property damage, Fulton County Jail records show.<\/p>\n
According to a South Fulton police report obtained by AJC.com, an officer was \u201cflagged down by a citizen\u201d on Aug. 31 “in reference to an owner versus tenant dispute.\u201d Four days later, the police department took the Senate candidate into custody.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\n\nPritchett said she was \u201cmaliciously prosecuted and charged excessively\u201d when South Fulton police arrived at her home Friday afternoon. She said the incident stems from a dispute over who owns the property.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a situation where my house was wrongfully foreclosed,\u201d she told AJC.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The case started back in 2018, so naturally she’s also saying she can’t be evicted because of COVID.<\/p>\n
Source; AJC<\/a><\/p>\n
Missing hiker shows up at press conference held to find him<\/h3>\n
Not really a criminal, but I think it fits the spirit of the weekly column (which is to make you facepalm).<\/p>\n
An 80-year-old hiker missing for three days may have been just as surprised to learn that people were looking for him as they were when he showed up at his own press conference Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Harry Harvey, an experienced hiker, was walking in North Yorkshire, England when a \u201creally heavy hailstorm\u201d and \u201chowling gale of wind\u201d separated him from his group Sunday, according to the\u00a0BBC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The man had a plan though, so he just found a spot of safety, popped his tent, and roughed it for a few days.<\/p>\n
Harvey said he saw search teams Sunday afternoon, but had no idea they were looking for him, the BBC reports. Police even used a helicopter to comb the countryside for the missing retiree.<\/p>\n
After \u201cthree good nights wild camping,\u201d Harvey approached a wildlife photographer who recognized him as the missing man in photographs posted at a local pub, the Tan Hill Inn. She gave him a ride to the Tan Hill Inn, and he showed up just in time for a press conference organized on his behalf.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n