Woman
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SAN JOSE — Noree Renee
Parillo says she is innocent of
robbing a bank of $57,000 and
plotting another robbery, but
police say they have a film in
which she discusses the crimes.
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Parillo, 23, whose aliases in
clude Dusty Parillo and Dusty
Boggs, pleaded innocent this
week in Superior Court to two
counts of grand theft and one of
soliciting an undercover officer
to commit a robbery-.
Police Sgt. James Emmons
says he disguised himself as an
ambitious robber and secretly
taped a conversation with Paril
lo, in which she told him she
stole two bank deposit bags, with
a total of $57,()00, from the
Bank of America branch whei e
she had worked.
In police reports filed with
the court, Emmons said she also
asked for his assistance in rob
bing either a bank depositor or
the bank itself.
United Press International
KNOXVILLE — A woman awarded
$50,000 because a bank’s mistake led her to
being jailed for bouncing a $17.61 check
says she has doubts she’ll ever get the
money.
“I’ll probably be retirement age before I
see any money at all,” Gina Pera, 25, an
associate editor at a Knoxville publishing
house, said Tuesday.
“After what I’ve been through, I don’t
assume anything. I think I deserve the
money, but I’ll believe it when I see it.”
It took a Knox County Circuit Court jury
15 minutes Monday to decide Valley Fidel
ity Bank made a mistake two years ago and
must pay the money to Pera, who sued both
the bank and the Kroger grocery store
chain.
“I am pleased that ajury understood what
happened to me,” Pera said.
United Press International
Charlotte King has another
headache. So what? you ask.
Well, you may have to pack up
Kroger charged Pera with “fraudulently
obtaining merchandise by means of a worth
less check” after the bank told the store it
could not find her account.
The Knox County district attorney’s
office offered to dismiss the charge at a pre
liminary hearing if Pera would pay $12 in
court costs.
She refused, saying she had done nothing
wrong, and the judge jailed her.
“It’s a tragedy what happened to her,”
said Herbert Moncier, Pera’s lawyer. “Be
cause she wouldn’t pay $12, they marched
her off to jail, booked her and fingerprinted
her. Those records will be with her the rest
of her life.”
Pera was released two hours later when
her employers paid a $200 bond.
After a grand jury indicted her, prosecu
tors dismissed the charges. But Pera’s trou
bles weren’t over. Kroger gave her name to
local and national credit bureaus and
check-verification companies, saying s
had written a bad check, the suit charge;;,
Pera said her checks have been turn j
down at other stores because of the incidet
Bill Wilson, the bank’s lawyer, saidTi
day the bank was unable to find hercht
ing account because it was new. He s.
clerks could not read her signature.
Wilson said the bank will ask fora
trial.
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jppenedi:
the young lady, but we don’t feel like ini
our mistake,” Wilson said. “If Krogerk
sent the check back through we would ha#
paid it.”
Judge T. Edward Cole dismissed ada I
against Kroger, saying the store had gof
reason to prosecute Pera after the
would not honor her check.
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Headaches erupt into disasters
your things and leave town,
that’s what.
In 1980, the 35-year-old Ore
gon resident, a chronic
headache sufferer, noticed that
her head pain grew very severe
immediately before the erup
tion of Mount St. Helens. Since
then, reports the current issue
of Science Digest magazine, she
has related her frequent twinges
and pains to other impending
geological events.
Biologist Christopher Dodge,
who has written of animals with
similar sensitivity to earth
quakes, is now doing an inde
pendent study — dubbed Pro
ject Migraine — to determine
whether King’s throbbing brain
is a reliable indicator of seismic
events.
So far, says Dodge, King has
predicted earthquakes and vol
canic eruptions “with extraor
dinary accuracy.”
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