Odds and Ends: Man suspected of sausage, spice attack in Calif. let go

Last updated on May 13, 2016 at 01:54 p.m.

SANGER, Calif. – A man suspected of breaking into the home of two California farmworkers, rubbing spices into the face of one man and smacking another with an 8-inch sausage has been set free.

Prosecutors say they do not have enough evidence to file criminal charges against 21-year-old Antonio Vasquez. He was released from Fresno County Jail on Tuesday.

Sheriff’s Lt. Ian Burrimond says Vasquez was found hiding in a field wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks after the Saturday morning attack. Vasquez is also accused of stealing $900 from the home.

There is no listed phone number for Vasquez.

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Lewd vandal leaves greasy imprint on town windows

VALENTINE, Nebraska – People in Valentine, Neb., wish their busiest vandal would find another way to make his mark.

Beginning more than a year ago, some man has been skipping from one business to another at night, pressing his naked behind – sometimes his groin, sometimes both – on windows. Store owners, church workers and school janitors have had to wash lotion and petroleum jelly off the windows he selects.

“This is the weirdest case I’ve ever seen,” said police Chief Ben McBride.

Some residents of Valentine, a remote central U.S. town of about 2,650 people, find some humor in the strange vandalism and have taken to calling the perpetrator the “Butt Bandit.” But they also can’t help but cringe when finding his marks.

“We were completely grossed out,” said Kalli Kieborz, who works in a downtown building. “One day I walked into the office and an employee said, ‘Oh, my God, we’ve been struck!'”

McBride said no one has reported seeing the vandal in action. The only clue is a blurry picture of him caught by a surveillance camera at the middle school last year.

From Associated Press reports