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The Honeymoon’s Over

“I guess you could call it a love story,” offered Officer Mark Aragon of the Albuquerque, N.M., Police Department. Officers spotted Caleb Rogers, 28, who was wanted for “a serious probation violation,” at a gas station, and surrounded him. When Rogers complained that he was on his way to his own wedding, the cops cut him some slack: they set up a wedding right there on the spot, at the gas station, even calling in a Justice of the Peace so it was legal. “Obviously they had the compassion to go ahead and allow the ceremony,” Aragon said, “but we were also safe about it. He was under arrest and handcuffed.” Once the vows were completed, Rogers was taken to jail, where he was held without bail. (RC/KOAT Albuquerque) ...“Anything you say can and will be used against you.” “I do.”