Police

The knife-wielding man who was shot and killed by El Cajon police Friday when he refused to surrender and advanced toward several officers was a longtime methamphetamine user with a lengthy arrest record, police said Monday. Jeromiah Paul Davis, 32, ran a mile up a steep hill in 13 minutes while being chased by police. Three bean-bag shots and a Taser shot failed to halt him as he ran toward businesses and homes, police said. Davis had been arrested for drunken driving, vandalism and being under the influence of a controlled substance, police said.

Police say a 71-year-old Canadian woman has pleaded guilty to drug smuggling charges after customs officials found 8 pounds of marijuana hidden in her luggage at a Jamaican airport. Montego Bay Police Constable Ulet Lewis-Green identified the woman as Margueritta Lancaster-Reid of Ontario. Authorities did not disclose a hometown for the woman, dubbed "Ganja Granny" by local news media. She is scheduled to be sentenced Friday and could face up to a year in prison.

An explosion caused a factory building to collapse north of Manilia, the Philippine capital, killing at least 12 workers and injuring three. Police, firefighters and rescue workers were looking for one missing worker after the steam boiler exploded at the factory, which produces Styrofoam packaging materials. It ignited a brief fire. Police said five workers were immediately found dead at the site. Three more bodies were recovered overnight, and four of seven injured workers died at a hospital.

A Detroit woman avoided serious injury when her underwire bra deflected a bullet, police said. The woman, 57, who was not identified, saw a group of men breaking into a neighbor's house Tuesday morning, police said, and one took a shot at her. The bullet struck the underwire on her bra. "It did slow the bullet down," police spokesman Phillip Cook said. "She sustained injuries, but they're not life-threatening."

Two unemployed, hungry men stole a calf from a neighbor's barn, shot it with an arrow, slit its throat and roasted it, police said. David Lochner, 21, and Timothy Welch, 18, were camping outside Palmyra, 20 miles southeast of Rochester, several weeks ago when a dairy farmer reported his calf missing, said police. The two were arrested and arraigned Wednesday on burglary charges. Police said more charges are pending, including cruelty to animals.

Police tightened security around Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after an American man was reportedly arrested for swimming across a lake and sneaking into her home. More than 20 officers entered Suu Kyi's compound, neighbors said. Security is tight, but police rarely enter the site where she has been under house arrest for more than 13 of the last 19 years. The Myanma Ahlin newspaper said today that police fished an American man out of Yangon's Inya Lake early Wednesday as he was returning from a visit to the home.

A freight train smashed into a minivan stuck on railroad tracks, injuring a police officer and a man who scrambled to pull his wife and young son to safety. The woman and 2-year-old boy were unhurt, said Jim Gage, Elm Grove's police chief. Officer John Krahn, 41, was in satisfactory condition after surgery, said Kim Wick, a hospital spokeswoman. Scott Partenfelder, 47, remained in surgery after more than seven hours, she said. It wasn't clear why the van driven by Monica Ensley-Partenfelder, 40, was on the tracks.

Police in Lincoln, Neb., are looking for a man who stole cigarettes while disguised with a beer carton. The bandit walked into a Kwik Shop convenience store before dawn Monday wearing an empty Bud Light box on his head, police said, and left with nine packs of smokes valued at nearly $50.

Police said they captured a man who received a large ransom after kidnapping a millionaire's daughter. Until the police announcement, the public had not been told that Minna Nurminen, 26, had been missing since May 27. Det. Chief. Supt. Kari Tolvanen said the family paid "a very large ransom" for her release, but declined to disclose the amount. Finnish Channel 4 said it was almost $14 million. Tolvanen said Nurminen was found unhurt in a forest. She's a member of the Herlin family, which owns elevator maker Kone Corp.

The brother of actress Mia Farrow has been found dead in his Vermont art gallery, and police said Tuesday that his death is suspicious. Sculptor Patrick Farrow, 66, was found late Monday by police responding to an emergency call from the Farrow Gallery in Castleton, Vt., a small town near the New York border. A woman there had called asking for help. An autopsy was planned to determine the cause of the sculptor's death. Police said they wouldn't release additional information until it was complete.