OSSINING, N.Y. – A bald man went into a pharmacy and stole five bottles of a hair loss treatment but was caught while running away, police said.

Mark Hoousendove, 42, was arrested on misdemeanor charges of petty larceny and resisting arrest, Detective Lt. William Sullivan said.

Ex-casino worker discovers planner book six years later

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – For six years, Avis Kirk had been wondering what the heck she had done with her small leather planner book that held her checkbook, credit cards, ID and about $60.

The planner had vanished without a trace after the former Sands Casino Hotel food service worker set it down near the buffet for a few moments in 2001.

“I couldn’t even imagine where it went,” she said. “I thought it had been stolen. So many people helped me look for it.”

But it wasn’t until Ed Ensman, a demolition crew supervisor tearing down the former Sands building spotted it in the rubble on Aug. 30 that the mystery was solved.

“We were doing interior demolition, tearing down some inside walls, and one of the Bobcat front-end loaders we use was right next to a wall,” he said. “I was watching it pretty closely, and as soon as the Bobcat moved away, I saw it on the ground.”

He speculated that the planner fell behind a low wall when Kirk put it down, and was simply overlooked as new walls were put up.

Pinnacle Entertainment, the Las Vegas-based company that will build a new $1.5 billion casino on the Sands site, used personnel records to track Kirk down by contacting an reference she had listed on her application, and with whom she had fallen out of contact.

“The most exciting part is that I’m back in touch with my friend after almost seven years,” said Kirk, who lives in State College, Pa. “We plan to get together again very soon. Life is amazing.”

Last spring, Pinnacle workers also discovered $17,000 that had fallen under or around the casino’s 2,350 slot machines.

From Associated Press reports