Suspect nicknamed 'Oscar the Grouch' makes run for it after hiding in trash bin. But his escape attempt stinks.



Police in Huber Heights, Ohio, said an officer initiated a traffic stop Monday, but the driver fled on foot.

Police said the officer briefly lost sight of the suspect but quickly established a perimeter in the area.

Police told the station the suspect actually made it several apartments away before officers caught up to him and arrested him.

"As luck would have it, 'Oscar the Grouch' — as we've nicknamed our suspect — appeared at just the right place and the right time," police added.

True enough. Police video shows an understandably freaked-out sanitation worker backing off and pointing at a just-opened trash bin behind a garbage truck.

The object of the worker's shock was the suspect in question, and video shows him popping up and jumping out of the container — and then making a run for it.

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Police said "thanks to the impressive athletic ability and swift response" of a second officer, the "suspect was safely apprehended."

Police added that "the suspect was taken into custody without injury to anyone involved."

WHIO-TV reported that the suspect has since been identified as 27-year-old Jonathan McMillan.

Police told the station the suspect actually made it several apartments away before officers caught up to him and arrested him.

WHIO said McMillan was booked into the Montgomery County Jail on obstructing official business and resisting arrest. The station added that he also had a warrant from Miami County.

As for the original traffic violation that sparked the cartoonish ordeal?

WHIO said police gave McMillan just a warning for it.

How's that for a "Sesame Street" episode in the making?

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Famous MAGA garbage truck, heroes from Butler shooting to appear at Trump's inauguration: Report



Some people and images that helped boost the 2024 campaign of President-elect Donald Trump will feature prominently in the events celebrating his upcoming inauguration.

Among those who will lead the inauguration parade on January 20 will be some of the first responders to the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, that nearly cost Trump his life. Following a contingent of the U.S. Army, members of the Pennsylvania state and local police, an emergency services unit and SWAT team, fire and rescue, and EMS as well as county sheriffs, 911 radio dispatchers, and hospital personnel — all of whom assisted during the July shooting — will march in the parade, ABC News reported.

Many of them will be marching in honor of former fire Chief Corey Comperatore, who was murdered in the Butler shooting. He died protecting his family.

"We hope all Americans will pause today to remember the bravery and sacrifice of their own first responders and police, the expertise of their 911 dispatchers, and the skill of their local hospital emergency and medical staff and emergency management agencies," Butler County first responders said in a statement.

Two others who were critically wounded in the shooting — 74-year-old Jim Copenhaver and 57-year-old David Dutch — will also attend the inauguration. Copenhaver suffered "life-altering" injuries, while Dutch had two surgeries and was induced into a coma after being struck by a bullet in the chest and liver, Trending Politics reported.

'We just got a few feet, and the Secret Service just glaring at me, waving their hands, telling us to knock it off.'

Another iconic campaign item will also reportedly participate in the inaugural parade: the garbage truck in which Trump rode around in late October after President Joe Biden referred to Trump supporters as "garbage." In response to a joke at a Trump rally about garbage in Puerto Rico, Biden quipped: "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters."

Trump took advantage of Biden's insult of his supporters by donning a reflective vest, hopping into a garbage truck with his MAGA logo emblazoned on the side, and riding around on the tarmac at the airport in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

The truck was manufactured by Loadmaster, a Michigan company headquartered not in the Motor City but in the Upper Peninsula, according to the Midwesterner.

Andrew Brisson, vice president of Loadmaster, drove the truck with Trump as passenger. "[I] started up the truck, blew the air horn, and then Trump looked over at me and said, 'Can you take me for a ride in this thing?'" Brisson recalled.

"I released the parking brake, put it in drive and started driving forward. ... We just got a few feet, and the Secret Service just glaring at me, waving their hands, telling us to knock it off."

A clip of Trump in the garbage truck can be seen here.

Whether the actual truck used on the tarmac back in October will appear in the augural parade or one similarly outfitted is unclear. The Midwesterner reported only that "a truck from Loadmaster ... will be Michigan’s contribution to President Donald J. Trump’s inaugural parade next week."

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Woman survives trash compactor after she fell into a dumpster and was thrown into a garbage truck
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Woman survives trash compactor after she fell into a dumpster and was thrown into a garbage truck



A woman survived a lengthy but unknown amount of time in the back of a garbage truck when she was flung into the vehicle after falling into a dumpster while allegedly throwing out her garbage.

The Manchester, New Hampshire, woman "fell into a dumpster while she was throwing away her garbage and was scooped up and driven away during trash pick-up," reported WMUR-9's Arielle Mitropoulos.

The driver of the garbage truck said that he only saw the woman in the back of the truck because of a camera located inside the vehicle.

Local witnesses also said they could hear the victim screaming.

"They came to pick [our garbage] over here, and [the driver] heard screaming, so we thought something really bad was out there happening," one man said.

By the time the driver noticed the woman was inside the vehicle, the garbage truck had already compacted its components four times.

"In 32 years, I've never seen anything like this my whole career," said fireman and Battalion Chief Bob Beaudet. "It's alarming, because you don't really think it's true."

The chief's comments seemed to allude to the idea that the woman was possibly searching for items in the trash.

"You don't think it really happens, but in this day and age, times are tough, and people do different things," he added.

City officials didn't know exactly how long the woman been in the dumpster, but the fire chief said she's very lucky the driver noticed she was in there.

Shockingly, Beaudet said that when he spoke to the garbage truck driver he noted that this had happened before.

"I talked to the driver, he seemed to be okay. He said this wasn't the first time that this happened to him. So, that was definitely one for the books," Beaudet said in disbelief.

The woman was pictured being lifted out of the back of the trash-collecting vehicle on a stretcher by fire crews. Rescuers had to use a crane in order to complete the rescue. She was taken to nearby Elliot Hospital, where she was reported to have suffered only minor injuries, despite the trash compaction.

The woman reportedly lives in the neighborhood.

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