Burgler Gets “Hot Seat”

An alleged burglar was rescued Thursday after he got stuck overnight in the oven vent of the convenience store he was trying to rob, the fire department said.

Investigators said Lonnie Shields, 37, climbed into a small vent on the roof of the New City Mart at about 2 a.m. and wasn’t found until store employees arrived at about 8 a.m.

Shields, who faces charges of burglary of a structure, was treated at a nearby hospital and booked into Orange County Jail on $1,000 bond.

“He was banged up and crunched up and uncomfortable from being in that pipe for about six hours,” Orlando fire chief Greg Hoggatt said.

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Do Ya Think He Might Need a Suicide Watch?

GREELEY, Colo. — A man who tried to commit suicide by sailing through several interections at 90 mph was sentenced Thursday to 35 years in prison after he crashed his pickup truck and killed a young mother last year.

Matthew Kyle Campbell, 35, was originally charged with first-degree murder based on extreme indifference to human life.

Last November he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and as part of the plea agreement, Campbell faced between 16 and 35 years in prison instead of life in prison.

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