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KAUA‘I MIDWEEK 11
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When police of- ficers in Orem, Utah, pulled over Victor Chavez-Zuniga, 27, for a broken headlight on Feb. 9, they discovered that he had several outstanding warrants, The Smoking Gun reported. As a result, they searched him and found something “extra” in his wallet: a severed finger in a cloth wrap, which had “what appeared to be pus and blood on it” and “was beginning to turn green and the fingernail appeared to be decayed.”
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Despite the presence of a “foul smell,” the mystery lives on. The court filing does not say who the finger be- longed to or why Chavez-Zu- niga had it, but he was held on a charge of desecration of a dead human body, among other charges.
A Very Considerate Criminal
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In other Weird happenings:
Armed And Courteous
When a couple returned home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Jan. 30 after a few days away, they were shocked to find a messy
“He was extremely embar- rassed and apologetic,” the husband told sheriff’s officers.
kitchen and a young man with a gun inside, The Wash- ington Post reported.
on a table to help pay for the window he had broken to get in. None of the couple’s items had been stolen, including jewelry that was left on a counter, but he had cooked some of their food, slept in a bed and bathed in a bathroom. Investigators figured he owed the couple $15 for beers and shrimp he consumed.
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But even more stunning was the intruder’s behavior: He explained that his family in east Texas had been killed and he was on the run from someone. He told the husband that his car had broken down about 100 miles away.
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