Crime Time

Houston mom jailed after toddler gets drunk on Four Loko

A Houston mother was behind bars Thursday after her toddler was discovered to be drunk from a popular alcoholic drink. 

The Houston Chronicle reports that Lashawnda Evette Allen, 32, was arrested after her 18-month-old daughter drank Four Loko and was found to have a blood alcohol content of 0.09, which is an amount that makes it illegal for adults to drive.

Allen told police that she was drinking while her two children were asleep in the bed next to her when she fell asleep and set the can beside her. When she woke up, Allen told police she saw her daughter stumbling around an empty can of Four Loko on the ground.

The popular alcoholic drink have been the subject of controversy for allegedly being marketed to minors with its mix of caffeine and alcohol.

In November 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned Four Loko along with other alcoholic energy drinks. Since then, Four Loko's makers reformulated the drink to cut out the caffeine and other stimulants.

-Chance Welch

Gross pizza restaurant pranks lead to criminal charges

Two former employees of a North Carolina pizza restaurant have been charged with "distributing prohibited foods," by authorities after a YouTube video showed one of them stuffing cheese up a nostril and waving salami under his rear end.

Officials say the gross conduct was done by Michael Anthony Setzer while he was being videotaped by Kristy Lynn Hammonds. Needless to say, both of them have been fired from their jobs with Domino's.

While the video seems to show some of the tainted ingredients actually going onto a sandwich, the company said none of the food was actually sent out to customers.

-- Lance Murray

Woman injected foul-smelling liquid into baby food, police say

Police have arrested a woman in Tamarac, Fla., after she was spotted injected a foul-smelling liquid into baby food at a supermarket.

Employees at a Publix store saw her and reported it to police. The black liquid had an ammonia smell, authorities said. She apparently had not tampered with baby food at any other stores, police said. She's been sent for a mental evaluation.

-- Lance Murray

Police: Burglar woke Calif. men with spice rub, sausage attack

A Fresno man was beaten with an eight-inch sausage Saturday morning during an apparent burglary attempt, shortly after the the burglar rubbed spices on the victim's roommate, according to police.

Fresno police arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with the incident shortly after the attack.

"It seems the guy ran out of the house wearing only a T-shirt, boxer shorts and socks, leaving behind his wallet with his ID," Fresno County sheriff Lt. Ian Burrimond told the Fresno Bee.

The spices and the sausage both came from the victim's kitchen, according to the report.

As for the weapon -- a dog ate it after the suspect threw it out.

This isn't the only violent sausage-related incident in recent history. Don't forget the Florida woman whose son hit her with three pounds of Polish sausage and the Milwaukee Brewers' '03 Sausagegate scandal.

--Andrew Chavez