Police blotter

. Police in Dortmund, Germany, arrested six Romanian men in June and charged them with stealing from trucks on the open highway. Allegedly, the thieves would drive their own truck carefully up behind a tractor-trailer at highway speed, and a man on the hood would reach out and open the back of the rig with a bolt cutter. He would climb in and loot the rig of computers and cell phones by passing them out to a partner sitting on the hood of the trailing truck.

. Motorist Michael Mills Jr., 38, was making a getaway from police in Chesapeake, Va. (who wanted him on identitytheft charges) when he broke through a drawbridge warning arm and tried to jump, "Dukes of Hazzard"-style) onto the span that was being lowered (but that wouldn't be completely down for another several minutes). He missed, and the car plunged into the Elizabeth River, where it sank (but Mills was rescued and arrested).