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Sign of the crimes Members of a citizens anticrime group in Linesville, PA., have a new mystery to solve Who take their crime watch signs? Five signs and poles were removed from roadsides around Linesville in Crawford County. "We dont know if it was somebody trying to get even," said Ed Barker, chairman of the North Shenango townsfolk Crime Watch chapter. "We dont think it was kids, because the signs were gone, post and all."Youre under abreast Michael Copp, 18, Sheffield Lake, Ohio, was charged with stealing his mothers credit card to pay for his 18-year-old girlfriends breast enlargement surgery. According to a police report, Copps mother, Gaelene Pakrandt, told officers she had closed the account because her son charged $2,100 in car repair bills. Police said Copp reopened the account without his mothers knowledge after he plunge the card in a drawer. He charged $2,496 to the card to cover the surgery. Most items purchased with a stolen credit card are confisca ted and returned by police. But this wooing is a little different.Death race 2000 PHILADELPHIA, PA - Tamika Ross, 26, is being held for trial on charges of the murder of Nathaniel Davis. Apparently Ross ran over Davis hat with her car. When Davis confronted the driver a remainder erupted and Davis allegedly hit Ross. Thats when the mother of five took matters into her own hands and ran him over with her car, killing him. When questioned, police quoted Ross as saying, "He hit me so I ran him down." dead man gets 2 years A man was sentenced last week to two years in prison for faking his death three ms to bilk drunk driving charges. Peter C. Gentry was first arrested in 1991, but an official looking death certificate sent to authorities said he had died in a Los Angeles auto crash, and the case was dismissed. In 1994, he was arrested once again and sent in another death certificate. A year later, Gentry was again arrested and supposedly died this time of "denzor hemor rhagic fever" in Africa. There is no such disease. Soul-mate not cellmate Karim Lackey, Philadelphia, PA was acquitted last week of fatally guess Phillip Shirdan, 42, after his lawyer claimed that Lackey had been the victim of "mistaken identity." Two of Lackeys alibi witnesses claimed they were with him watching the "Soul Train Music Awards" on TV at the time Shirdan was killed in a lounge.