They say that there's a bright side to any situation, and it turns out that's apparently true even if you get arrested. A 19-year-old who was apprehended for possession of marijuana (a cheeky two grams she was planning on smoking with friends later that night) might've landed herself a night in jail, but it looks like she's also landed herself a promising career path.

Former Texan university student Marshala Perkins took her time to apply her makeup before heading out to meet her friends. But while she was sitting in the car, the 19-year-old was approached by two Hunt County police officers.

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"[One officer] asked me for my handicap sticker because I was in a handicap spot," Marshala told As/Is, explaining that her mother has a disability and she often drives her around. "I gave it to him and he brought it back, said everything was clear."

But unfortunately, one of the officers had his nostrils on high alert. "It smells like weed in here," he reportedly said, before asking her to step out of the car so he could search it. Lo-and-behold, they found the little bag of devil's lettuce.

"And so I went to jail for it with my beat face," Marshala stated, referring to (wait for it)... this:

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Yup, Marshala's mugshot ended up on the internet on the rather questionable "Mugshot Baes" Twitter account. As you can see, she looks bangin', and people were very impressed to learn that her makeup skills are completely self-taught.

The picture soon went viral, and people began requesting tutorials from the 19-year-old.

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She was arrested back in February but the photo appeared on the Twitter page more recently, earning her a lot of attention.

“My phone started going crazy,” the Dallas local told the Star-Telegraph. “I was still kind of embarrassed about it because it was something I didn’t want people to know. But then when I started reading the comments I was like, besides me being in jail, people are really noticing my talent and what I can do.”

It seems the embarrassment turned into inspiration, with Marshala saying "makeup is something that I really wanted to do—I was like 'Okay!' I wasn’t feeling too bad about it."

Her Instagram follower count rose enormously once people found her public profile, and she's had countless requests for video tutorials. And it doesn't end there! Marshala said that she's also been contacted about starting her own makeup line.

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“Someone has reached out to me about starting my own makeup line. It’s crazy. My mind is blown,” she revealed. “Now it’s turned into something so positive so I’m just going to embrace it and see where it takes me.”

Marshala has made a YouTube channel with makeup-brushes featured in her profile's imagery, so it seems she is planning to upload a few tutorials. Despite the fact that she has no videos yet, she has close to 1,000 subscribers already.

We're looking forward to see what's still to come!

Although with every passing second I get a little bit older, I can't imagine what it's like to be known as a senior citizen. In life, we're so focused on moving forward and looking to the future, so how do you cope when the future more likely than not won't involve you in any shape or form? Whatever the answer is to that question, it looks as if the elderly population on the whole aren't too fussed. When I picture a typical old person, I picture someone who might be struggling with a world that has somewhat passed them by, but someone with an otherworldly knowledge who sometimes performs Breaking Bad-levels of drug smuggling. Wait, what? Yes, you read that right. This drug dealing couple could probably give Walter White and Nancy Botwin a run for their money, if they hadn't been arrested for carrying more than 60 pounds of weed in their car while driving from California to New England earlier this week. So how exactly did 80-year-old Patrick Jiron, and his wife Barbara, 70, get into this decidedly strange situation? It all started with what the York County Sheriff’s Department in South Carolina thought would be a routine traffic stop. Noticing their pickup truck drive over the central lane without signalling, they decided to pull the truck over, and according to Paul Vrbka with the Sheriff's Department, that's when the strong smell of raw marijuana started to waft through the airwaves. As you might do as a law enforcement official in that situation, an immediate probable cause search was initiated, and canines were brought on just to make sure the Sheriff's Department weren't barking up the wrong tree. Sure enough, underneath the pickup's topper was the offending green, in bags upon bags upon bags, with an estimated street value of over $330,000. the Jirons were immediately brought in. "They said the marijuana was for Christmas presents," Vrbka said. Patrick Jiron was jailed on charges of possession of marijuana with the intent to deliver without a drug tax stamp (in the state of Nebraska, marijuana dealers are required to purchase a stamp from its Department of Revenue, in order to prove that the state’s drug tax has been paid). [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/yorknewstimes/status/943526249032568833]] His wife Barbara remained out of jail "due to some medical issues", Vrbka says, and after posting 10 percent of a $100,000 bail bond, Patrick was released as well. At this moment in time, it's not clear whether this was an epic drug scheme nipped in the bud or simply an elderly couple who wanted to spread some Christmas cheer in an extremely unique way, but I've got to be honest, I don't know how you'd be able to procure that much weed without shaving your head, adopting a fake name and declaring to whoever will listen that you are the "one who knocks". Either way, you kind of have to admire the sheer audacity shown here by Patrick and Barbara Jiron, who drove across the country with the kind of blithe indifferent you'd expect from an elderly couple who just want to blaze.

An Arkansas police officer has been hit with a lawsuit after a pregnant woman alleged that he flipped her car because she didn't pull over fast enough.

Nicole Harper had been driving at 84mph in a 70mph zone, according to Officer Rodney Dunn, who wanted her to pull over immediately.

The lawsuit alleges that the incident - which took place in July 2020 - saw the officer "negligently perform" a Pursuit Intervention Technique (PIT) maneuver that led to Harper's car flipping over on the highway, the Independent reports.

Dashcam footage of the incident in Jackson, Arkansas, has been released and shows how Officer Dunn hit Harper's back left bumper, which sent her car crashing into a concrete barrier and ultimately overturning.

"I thought it would be safer to wait until the exit," Harper is heard telling the cop after the car had been overturned.

"No ma'am, you should pull over when law enforcement stops you," Dunn responded as helped the pregnant lady out of the vehicle. "We call that a PIT maneuver. When people flee from us… that's what happens."

"I wasn't fleeing," Harper replied.

As per the lawsuit, Harper had clearly indicated that she was trying to pull over safely before the car was flipped over.

Harper later told FOX16: "In my head, I was going to lose the baby. What if I had kids in the car? He wouldn’t have known. Did that matter? What was going through his head? What made him think this was okay?"

State Police Director Colonel Bill Bryant said in a statement:

"There’s a fundamental state law none of us should ever forget. All drivers are required under Arkansas law to safely pull-off the roadway and stop when a police officer activates the patrol vehicle emergency lights and siren. The language of the law is crystal clear.

"Should a driver make the decision to ignore the law and flee from police, state troopers are trained to consider their options.

"Based on the totality of circumstances a state trooper could deploy spike strips to deflate the tires of the vehicle being pursued, execute a boxing technique to contain the pursuit slowing the driver to a stop, execute a PIT maneuver or terminate the pursuit.

"Most Arkansas State Police pursuits end without a PIT maneuver being utilised."

Per Fox News, Harper's lawyers said she wants the Police Department to review its policies around the PIT maneuver and "re-evaluate the use of them."

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If you watch as many Netflix crime documentaries as I do, you'll know that there have been some pretty smart criminals in the past. I'm not endorsing or condoning them in any way, but some individuals just seem to have a talent for pulling off complex cons or elaborate fraud schemes, and it's almost impressive at times. However, on the other end of the spectrum, you've got the sort of bumbling felons that end up ridiculing themselves in the process of trying to make a quick buck. Think Harry and Marv - otherwise known as the Wet Bandits - from Home Alone, or literally any bad guy from Scooby Doo. Far from being works of fiction, though, these types of clueless criminals exist among us. And, boy, is it funny when they get caught. Earlier this week, the police department in Copenhagen, Denmark, got an early Christmas present when a drug dealer accidentally handed himself over to them. The man, who has not been named, was in a rush to get home, and jumped into what he believed to be a taxi. Unfortunately for him, the vehicle was a police car. Not only that - but it was occupied by officers who were in the Christiania area in order to enforce a crackdown on drug use. Caught 0ff-guard, the officers decided to search the man, and found that he was in possession of approximately 1,000 cannabis joints. The area has been under strict surveillance over the past few months, as drug dealing rates are at a dangerous high. It's not exactly surprising, then, that someone with that quantity of joints happened to be in close proximity to the cops. What is shocking, however, was his complete lack of thought as he jumped into the back of their car. Understandably, the whole department was astounded - firstly, at the man's stupidity, and, secondly, at their amazing luck. "Last night a cannabis dealer from Christiania who wanted to get home quickly got into a taxi. He received a big surprise when he realised it was actually a police car he was sitting in," the police wrote on the Copenhagen Twitter account. "The police officers were happy to see him," they added, "since he was carrying around 1,000 joints." Police Chief Jesper Bangsgaar, a member of the Copenhagen department, said in a separate statement that the man couldn't really make any excuse, as he'd been caught red-handed. Or green-handed, I guess, depending on where exactly he'd been hiding the spliffs. Like many areas of Europe, marijuana is illegal in Denmark. Now, as a result of his foolish mistake, the drug dealer faces up to eight years behind bars. His sentence may seem harsh, given that the drug is permitted in some other nations around the world, but perhaps he should have thought twice before practically gift-wrapping himself for the police officers. If it's any consolation to him, he's not the only one to have been caught out in such an amazing way. Just this week, a police force in the UK caught nearly two dozen criminals after copying a sting operation used by Chief Wiggum in The Simpsons.

An Oklahoma woman has made a wild break for freedom after being arrested by police.

In crazy dash and bodycam footage released by state authorities, suspect Rachael Zion Clay can be seen slipping out of her handcuffs, picking up a police rifle, and opening fire out the back of the patrol car she was locked in.

The shots struck a civilian and a deputy, and created what authorities described as a barricade situation

According to a report by Fox News, the Grady County Sheriff's Office was responding to a wellness check at a home in Blanchard when the incident took place.

Just before noon on August 12, deputies took Zion Clay into custody. They handcuffed Clay and locked her in the back of a police SUV, thinking that these precautions would be sufficient to detain her.

However, dashcam footage from inside the vehicle shows the suspect wriggling around on the backseat until she manages to get one hand out of the cuffs - then retrieving a police rifle.

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After loading the firearm, Zion Clay takes aim out the back window and starts firing - seemingly at random.

Footage from officers' bodycams shows the moment they hear the shots fired. At the same time, a civilian who is talking to the police is struck in the chest, and they all dive to take cover behind another law enforcement vehicle.

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As the wounded man's son rushes to help with first aid, one of the officers notes that he too has been injured by a deflected bullet. They call in backup and - according to a police report - eventually manage to get the suspect to surrender.

Both victims were rushed to the hospital, but thankfully their injuries were not considered life-threatening.

As for Zion Clay, jail records show that she is currently being held at the Grady County jail on $1 million bond and a charge of "shooting with intent to kill."

Grady County Undersheriff Gary Boggers told BBC News that her attack had come completely out of the blue. "This is something you never think would happen," he said.

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