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An Oklahoma City man punched and tackled a city bus driver causing the bus to crash into a building. A 23-year-old suspect, Tihron Harrison, was arrested and charged with assault and battery. Police said Harrison became enraged when the bus driver wouldn’t stop the bus at an earlier stop. “The suspect asked to be let off at the intersection of Britton and Western. The bus driver told him he couldn’t do that,” said Lt. Jeff Cooper with the Oklahoma City Police Department. Video shows the suspect punch through the plexiglass covering around the driver and attempting to pull him out. He was able to pull the driver from his seat and tackle him while the bus was still moving. A passenger tried to help and get the suspect off the driver. This gave the driver time to get free for a moment before the bus ran into the Britton Lumber building. When cops arrived at the scene, Harrison then ran and tried to scale a fence. The bus driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

Saleem Chaudhri, who was arrested for smuggling cocaine in blocks of gouda cheese during a raid on an industrial unit in Blackburn in May 2023, has been sentenced. The cocaine had a street value of more than £17m. Chaudhri has been jailed since police found the drugs hidden in the cheese and trash bags. Chaudhri, 46 years old, from Blackburn, had worked with courier Rieadul Mohabath, from South Shields in Tyne and Wear, to make more than £70m between 2022 and 2023. Both admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine at Preston Crown Court. Chaudhri was sentenced to 27 years and six months, while Mohabath, 28, was given 16 years. Lancashire Police said “minutes before his arrest” back in May of last year, Chaudhri was seen taking “possession of a Toyota Estate from a drugs courier” and driving it to the Old Fire Station in Blackburn. Officers then ordered him to open the shutters on his unit and found 478 lb of cocaine, estimated to be worth more than £17m, inside. The authorities said Chaudhri had arranged to hand 148 lb to one courier and 139 lb to another on the day of his arrest.

Gunmen killed 11 people in two separate attacks in the Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, April 13. This province borders both Afghanistan and Iran. Police were searching for the assailants who killed nine people after abducting them from a bus on a highway on Friday. The same attackers also killed two people in a car they forced to stop. The gunmen stopped the bus and began going through the passengers’ belongings. They took nine people off the bus. Police later found the bodies of those nine people under a bridge.

A man stole a semitrailer in Texas on April 12 and crashed it into a state government office where he had been denied a commercial driver’s license the day before. The crash occurred after a police chase. The accident killed one person and injured 13, according to authorities. Clenard Parker stole the truck, and after a police pursuit drove the vehicle into the office in Brenham, Texas, a small city about 75 miles northwest of Houston, Sgt. Justin Ruiz of the Texas Department of Public Safety said at a news conference. Parker, 42, of Chappell Hill, Texas, was taken into custody by officers at the scene. Parker tried to renew his commercial driver’s license at the location the day before. Fourteen people were inside the office when the truck slammed into the exterior wall about 10:30 a.m. Three were airlifted to hospitals, three others were transported to a hospital, and eight more were treated at the scene for their injuries. One person died of injuries from the crash after being transported, Sergeant Ruiz said. Parker was charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle, evading arrest and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Additional charges may be filed.

Ervin Lee Bolling was arrested and charged with interference with government property, Dekalb County Police spokesperson Officer Elise Wells said after he rammed his vehicle through an entrance gate at the FBI’s Atlanta field office. He was also charged in federal court with destruction of government property, according to a criminal complaint. Bolling is a Navy veteran from South Carolina, law enforcement said. He was arrested after trying to enter the facility. Bolling crashed into a final denial barrier, a piece of steel that goes flat as each authorized car enters the secured area and then lifts back up again, according to an affidavit in support of the complaint.

Thieves accessed a storage facility and removed around $30m on Easter Sunday in one of the biggest such robberies in LA history, according to local media. The Los Angeles Police Department and FBI are jointly investigating the case. No alarms were tripped and no one knew thieves had entered the facility, located in the San Fernando Valley, where cash from local businesses is processed and stored in a vault. A crew of sophisticated burglars is believed to have come in through the roof, according to local media. Only a small group of people were aware so much cash was held in the building. It took until Monday for the company to realize the money was missing, when facility employees opened the vault. The safe did not show any outward sign of a break-in. Details about how the money was transported away from the facility were not given.

Thousands of live salmon accidentally died when they were released into the wrong river in the U.S. state of Oregon. A truck carrying 102,000 of them crashed, causing the salmon to be thrown into the wrong river. The young Chinook, also known as King salmon, were being taken to the Imnaha River, where they are listed as threatened. Roughly 25,000 of the fish died during the crash and the wildlife employee behind the wheel suffered minor injuries. King salmon, which are often used in sushi or cooked with garlic and lemon, spend much of their life in the ocean but return to freshwater to spawn.

Two horses escaped their enclosure and ran wild down a busy highway in Cleveland, Ohio, in March. The horses got out of a police stable, according to an official release from Ohio Department of Transportation. The police managed to recapture the horses and reported there were no injuries.

A March 1 crash on the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge that connects southern Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky, prompted a dramatic rescue as a Louisville firefighter rappelled off the bridge to rescue the driver of the tractor-trailer as it dangled over the river. The trailer ended up between the bridge’s girders, balanced on the edge with the cab hanging over the water, and there was constant fear during the rescue that the truck could shift at any moment, Louisville Fire Chief Brian O’Neill said at a press conference after the rescue. The semitruck driver was rescued unharmed, but three other vehicles were involved and two people were taken to the hospital, Louisville Metro Police said. “We’ve certainly done some crazy things but this tops it so far.” Firefighters said the driver was pulled from the truck and back safely on the bridge using ropes and ladders.

Investigators say two shootings left one dead, and a youth injured after two shootings at the Toronto bus stop that occurred in one 24-hour period. The Toronto Police Service said the same car was also seen fleeing the scene after the shootings on February 17.