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Socksy Suspect

Detectives were suspicious when they saw a man arrive on a bicycle and enter a Hollywood, Fla., drugstore: he was wearing a stocking cap on his head and socks on his hands. In Florida. In the height of summer. They followed him inside. “Soon after,” a police spokesman said, “they observed the suspect approach the cashier, pull down a stocking cap to completely cover his face,” and told the cashier, “Give me everything you got and don’t press any buttons.” They took Paul Preston Lopez, 39, into custody and charged him with armed robbery — and resisting an officer, and is held on $25,000 bond. The judge ordered that if he was released he would be required to wear a GPS monitor and stay away from that store. (MS/WPLG Miami, South Florida Sun Sentinel) ...To get Lopez through his trial, his lawyer plans to stuff the socks in his client’s mouth.