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Bank robbery couple sentenced to prison

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - A husband and wife who robbed a bank together and led police on a wild chase were sentenced today to federal prison.

Adam Quincy Jones was ordered to spend 13 years in prison for the Sept. 28 robbery at the Comerica Bank branch at 857 Four Mile Road NW. He had pleaded guilty to bank robbery and using a firearm.

Then, just minutes after he left the courtroom, his wife Tammy Jo Jones was sentenced to 6.5 years for helping with the robbery. She drove the getaway Budget rental truck.

Adam Jones had nothing to say before U.S. District Judge Gordon Quist sentenced him, but his wife told the judge she was sorry.

"I'm not going to make any excuses," she said. "What I did was wrong. I put a lot of people in danger."

Adam Jones used a gun he bought on the street to rob the bank, getting away with nearly $76,000. He got away on a bicycle, then rode to where his wife was waiting in a Budget rental truck. They led police on a chase through the Grand Rapids area, tossing cash along the way.

Police finally caught up with them behind a Grandville Avenue SW school.

In a sentencing memorandum, Adam Jones' defense attorney painted a picture of a man driven by desperation.

In mid-August, the couple scraped up enough money for a bus trip from Florida, where they were living, to Grand Rapids, where his stepdaughter was in the hospital with a life-threatening blood clot, the attorney wrote. They stayed in a cramped apartment infested with bed bugs and slept on the floor, the document states.

In desperation to return to Florida, they came up with the plan to rob the bank, the attorney wrote.

Judge Quist wasn't impressed by the story of desperation.

"No amount of desperation ... can either justify or mitigate" the robbery, or the chase that endangered the public and police, he said.

The judge also today admonished members of the public who pocketed some of the bank money that littered the getaway trail. The feds say more than $16,000 is still missing.

"It just continues the crime," Quist said. "They know the money's not theirs and they should return it."
 

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Don’t let bed bugs bite, Region says

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Don’t let bed bugs bite, Region says. People who travel this winter are being urged to be careful not to bring home bed bugs, amid a surge of infestations of the blood-sucking bug. File photo

Niagara residents are being cautioned by the Region’s public health department to take precautions to avoid bringing bed bugs into their homes.
The Region, which issued an alert about a surge in bedbug infestations last August, said on Feb. 8 that people need to be aware of how to avoid having their own infestation.
The same week that the Region issued the alert last summer, the U.S. National Pest Management Association issued sobering statistics from a new survey, showing explosive growth in the number of exterminators’ calls regarding infestations everywhere from buses and taxis to nursing homes, office buildings, schools and hotels/motels in the last year.
For many people, bed bugs are a relic of a bygone era, conjuring up images of filthy tenement housing in big cities like New York City back in the Depression.
But the tenacious little bloodsuckers hung on, and now in a world where people travel more than ever before, they’re back with a vengeance, hitching rides on things such as suitcases and clothing and establishing new colonies in homes, businesses and anywhere else where there’s human blood to gorge on.
Peter Jekel, with the public health department, said the presence of bed bugs doesn’t reflect a lack of cleanliness: they can be found in five-star hotels, buses and gleaming cruise ships. People opting to take a break from winter this month and next months can take the following steps to protect themselves from bed bugs, he said:
• Try to avoid booking a hotel with a bedbug problem.
• Use luggage with hard, smooth plastic without inviting pockets, since bed bugs struggle over smooth surfaces and polished metal.
• Pack clothes into oversized, sealable plastic bags and leave them inside luggage during the trip, or hanging in the closet – never on the bed or floor.
• Leave luggage outside the room and perform an inspection around the bed: peel back the bed sheets and check the mattress for blood stains and bed bug feces. Run your fingers along the upper and lower seams of the mattress and make sure to check the headboard.
• Check the bedside table. Look for signs of bed bugs in the drawers and along the wall on the side of the bed that is less likely to be disturbed by cleaning staff and guests.
• If you detect bed bugs, be sure to inform hotel management and request another room. But just moving to a different room may not be the total answer: You should repeat the inspection of any new or different room you are offered.
• When you pack to leave, inspect your luggage carefully and inspect every item as you pack to help detect any bugs or signs.
• After your trip, unpack luggage outdoors, re-inspect clothing and then put everything into the dryer on the highest setting possible for at least 30 minutes or steam clean (for delicates). Vacuum your luggage thoroughly.
• If you find bed bugs or their droppings, if you have bites or know that you have spent time in a room with bed bugs, vacuum your suitcases and dispose of the vacuum bag. Washable items should be laundered in the hottest water possible and dried on the highest setting possible for 30 minutes.

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Don’t let bed bugs bite, Region says

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Don’t let bed bugs bite, Region says. People who travel this winter are being urged to be careful not to bring home bed bugs, amid a surge of infestations of the blood-sucking bug. File photo

Niagara residents are being cautioned by the Region’s public health department to take precautions to avoid bringing bed bugs into their homes.
The Region, which issued an alert about a surge in bedbug infestations last August, said on Feb. 8 that people need to be aware of how to avoid having their own infestation.
The same week that the Region issued the alert last summer, the U.S. National Pest Management Association issued sobering statistics from a new survey, showing explosive growth in the number of exterminators’ calls regarding infestations everywhere from buses and taxis to nursing homes, office buildings, schools and hotels/motels in the last year.
For many people, bed bugs are a relic of a bygone era, conjuring up images of filthy tenement housing in big cities like New York City back in the Depression.
But the tenacious little bloodsuckers hung on, and now in a world where people travel more than ever before, they’re back with a vengeance, hitching rides on things such as suitcases and clothing and establishing new colonies in homes, businesses and anywhere else where there’s human blood to gorge on.
Peter Jekel, with the public health department, said the presence of bed bugs doesn’t reflect a lack of cleanliness: they can be found in five-star hotels, buses and gleaming cruise ships. People opting to take a break from winter this month and next months can take the following steps to protect themselves from bed bugs, he said:
• Try to avoid booking a hotel with a bedbug problem.
• Use luggage with hard, smooth plastic without inviting pockets, since bed bugs struggle over smooth surfaces and polished metal.
• Pack clothes into oversized, sealable plastic bags and leave them inside luggage during the trip, or hanging in the closet – never on the bed or floor.
• Leave luggage outside the room and perform an inspection around the bed: peel back the bed sheets and check the mattress for blood stains and bed bug feces. Run your fingers along the upper and lower seams of the mattress and make sure to check the headboard.
• Check the bedside table. Look for signs of bed bugs in the drawers and along the wall on the side of the bed that is less likely to be disturbed by cleaning staff and guests.
• If you detect bed bugs, be sure to inform hotel management and request another room. But just moving to a different room may not be the total answer: You should repeat the inspection of any new or different room you are offered.
• When you pack to leave, inspect your luggage carefully and inspect every item as you pack to help detect any bugs or signs.
• After your trip, unpack luggage outdoors, re-inspect clothing and then put everything into the dryer on the highest setting possible for at least 30 minutes or steam clean (for delicates). Vacuum your luggage thoroughly.
• If you find bed bugs or their droppings, if you have bites or know that you have spent time in a room with bed bugs, vacuum your suitcases and dispose of the vacuum bag. Washable items should be laundered in the hottest water possible and dried on the highest setting possible for 30 minutes.

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IFC discusses conference, character campaign

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Interfraternity Council met Tuesday evening to discuss the recent Association of Fraternal Leadership & Values Conference, attended by executive officers in St. Louis.

About 2,800 greek organizations, all representing either the IFC, the Panhellenic Council, the National Pan-Hellenic Council and the Multicultural Greek Council attended the conference held Feb. 9-12.

"It was a cool glimpse at how unified the greek community can be," said Jack Christie, a junior advertising and public relations major and secretary of UNL's IFC. "The conference was great motivation to unify all four councils (in Lincoln) into one greek experience."

President Tyson Johnson, a senior economics and political science major, mentioned similar experiences and described "incredible diversity."

In addition to working with other greek councils, the IFC met with its Big Ten counterparts for the first time. Johnson said they left with many good ideas, including methods to possibly poll outgoing freshmen in an effort to understand why those not involved with the greek system decided against it. The council hopes polling could lead to better recruitment strategies and translate into increased enrollment.

Also in attendance was Chris Devlin, a graduate student working toward his master's in higher education and administration. Devlin appeared on behalf of the vice chancellor of Student Affairs to present a new character campaign called "Show Your Red." Launched in August, the campaign aims to identify and promote positive character attributes campus-wide.

"‘Show Your Red' identifies the core characteristics of what it means to be a Husker," Devlin said.

The campaign establishes six core values branded as "building blocks of integrity." While not intended to be all-encompassing, the program will promote "caring, citizenship, commitment, dependability, open-mindedness and respect." By building a relationship with campus events and organizations like the greek community, the campaign hopes to establish a program that rewards good character throughout the campus.

The council announced that the bedbug informational session for the greek system, originally scheduled for March 1, has been moved to Feb. 29 at 6 p.m., and the council noted that, to date, two cases of bed bugs have been confirmed at greek living units.

The council announced plans to schedule luncheons between members of the council and representatives from each fraternity.

"We want you to know that we will be there for you," Johnson said. "The council wants to establish a really good relationship between the IFC and each chapter and this is a good way to start."

The next IFC meeting is scheduled for Feb. 28.

jacobfokken@DailyNebraskan.com

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