Police: Conn. man stole flag, put up hippo toy
WATERBURY, Conn. – Call it the case of the flying hippo. Connecticut police said a man stole an American flag from Waterbury's Town Plot Park and hoisted a stuffed hippopotamus toy in its place. Twenty-three-year-old Jeffrey Kovic, of Waterbury, was arrested and was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail on misdemeanor larceny, criminal mischief and conspiracy charges.
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Good thing he didn't fly the hippo from a pole in Privatopia or he would have faced both public and private prosecution.
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$100,000 bail? There must be more to this story than has been relayed in the article.
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