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Houston, TX. - A Cleveland High School teacher, in Houston, Texas was charged with prostitution after meeting a man in an online chat room and soliciting him in a downtown Houston hotel.

Police said Laurie Ann Lewis, 38, was arrested Tuesday at the Four Seasons in an undercover sting.

Investigators said Lewis agreed to meet her client at the hotel as an escort.

She was arrested after asking for $300 to perform a sexual act, police said.

"We opened up a discussion with her in the chat room. She agreed at some point in that discussion for sex for money," said Capt. Bruce Williams of the Houston Police Department. "When she entered the room, the deal was done."

Police would not elaborate on the prostitution sting or on Lewis' alleged role as a prostitute.

"I don't know to what extent she did this job. As far as I'm concerned, she's a teacher that got arrested for prostitution. I don't know that she was a career prostitute," Williams said.

The Cleveland Independent School District said Lewis was "placed on paid administrative leave pending resolution of the matter."

The school board is expected to decide on her teaching status with the district on Aug. 25th.

See more of this story and a video at KARE 11.

NICEVILLE - A 20-year-old Niceville man was arrested for driving while intoxicated after he was found asleep at the wheel by the side of the road. The man was discovered in his car at about 5 a.m. Saturday morning by a Niceville Police officer, according to his arrest report.

When the officer woke him up and asked him where he was, the man answered that he was in Destin, although he was actually on College Boulevard in Niceville.

When asked to produce his driver's license, he handed the officer two different pairs of sunglasses and an empty box of condoms. Then, he gave the officer a half full cold Fosters beer from the center console, telling him that he'd opened it earlier but hadn't drunk much of it.

The man was wearing a bar band and said he'd had "a few" drinks.

He is due to appear in court September 9th.

Information from NWF Daily News.

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Cinderella, Snow White, Tinkerbell and other fictional fixtures of modern day childhood were handcuffed, frisked and loaded into police vans Thursday at the culmination of a labor protest that brought a touch of reality to the Happiest Place on Earth.

The arrest of the 32 protesters, many of whom wore costumes representing famous Disney characters, came at the end of an hour long march to Disneyland's gates from one of three Disney owned hotels at the center of a labor dispute.

Those who were arrested sat in a circle on a busy intersection outside the park holding hands until they were placed in plastic handcuffs and led to two police vans while hundreds of hotel workers cheered and chanted.

The protesters were arrested on a misdemeanor count of failure to obey a police officer and two traffic infractions, said Sgt. Rick Martinez of the Anaheim police. They were cited and released, Sgt. Chris Schneider said.

Read more on this story here.

SPENCER, Iowa - A northwest Iowa man accused of leaving two children in his car while he picked wild asparagus along a busy highway south of Spencer has been charged with child endangerment. The Clay County sheriff's office says the man was arrested Wednesday night after a passer by spotted the children.

Authorities says the man's 5 year old niece was outside the car crying when the passer by stopped to help. The man's 2 year old son was asleep in the back seat.

Chief Deputy Duane Bates said the man was in a ditch about a half mile from the car. He didn't have any wild asparagus when the deputy found him.

After searching his vehicle, Bates says deputies found marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

The man, who also was charged with drug possession, was released from the county jail after posting bond.

More on this story available at The Sioux City Journal.

Leslie J. "Bomber" Marr learned this the hard way when he was arrested on Memorial Day in Whitehall, NY and charged with DWI and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle after police saw him swerving around the streets and driving on the sidewalk, on a cooler.

Marr was driving around town on a Cruizin' Cooler, which puts a seat on top of a three wheeled cooler and attaches an electric motor similar to those found on electric scooters. It even has a hatch so you can pull out a icy cold drink while driving. The hatch also has a cup/can holder on top, suggesting that this sort of activity is exactly what the designers had in mind.

Under state law, however, the cooler is still considered a motor vehicle so sobriety is a must, and a license is highly recommended.

Story sent to Slow & Bacon by our friend, Christie.

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