it's not a choice. it's not a political statement. we had to use whatever heads we had lying around. that's not true, come on. you didn't just happen to have a head of george w. bush laying around and put it on a spike. the fact of the matter is, you probably did it because you thought you could get away with it. i also suspect had it been president obama's head on that stick, it would have been a different response. probably wouldn't have done it. the fact of the matter is, we've got to respect the office of the president, even if you don't agree with or like the person. that goes for the left and the right. "a.c. 360" starts now. we begin with charities that collect millions but end up spending little, if any, of that money they raise helping anyone. so far, we've discovered charities that claim to help disabled veterans. others that claim to help abandoned animals. the money trail leads somewhere

else entirely. tonight's story is going to make you especially angry because this is about a charity program that has raised millions to reunite military dogs, service dogs, with the personnel they served with overseas. as far as we can tell, however, they don't do that at all. drew griffin will have that. first, there's one thing that ties together all these cases we found so far. last time, we told you about another charity called the montreal spca. canadian charity that helps aband donned cats and dogs. it entered into a deal with an american private fund-raising company to solicit donations. after three year, the montreal spca received about $13 million in donations. but despite all that money, they've still ended up in the hole more than $4.5 million, owing money. the bills from that fund-raising company were so huge that nearly every penny, every dollar that

came in went to pay those bills. now, the montreal spca is so in debt, actually holds a lean ien the group's animal shelter. the manager who put together that deal and was fired he went to a new u.s.-based animal charity called spca international. its signature program is baghdad pups. here's drew griffin with part two of his investigation. >> reporter: the televised appeal on cnn's sister network hln in 2011 was heart warming. >> actually live in the studio with retired army sergeant jerry barns who has nugget with him. and then sitting right beside nugget is terry with the spca. and ivy's down at my feet. >> reporter: terry with spca international was telling our viewers ivy and nugget were two

bomb sniffing dogs that worked for a u.s. contractor in iraq and had been essentially abandoned by the company. she rescued them and was trying to find them homes. >> how is it they fall through the cracks and get stranded there? that's unthinkable to me. >> it is unthinkable. >> reporter: it turns out ivy and nugget weren't abandoned at all. it also turns out the person telling us so, terry chris has been accused in similar situations before. begging for money to save animals that weren't being saved. the military contractor in iraq actually says ivy and nugget had been retired and the company had found them good families who were going to adopt them in kurdistan. good homes, the contractor told cnn. that's when terry came along and asked if the dogs could be

donated to spca international. the contractor agreed. but terry chris didn't tell the viewers that. what she did tell us is if we just gave her money, spca international would be doing something few americans could resist. saving the pets of our vets. and that's where peggy comes in. what did you think? >> i opened it up. this is what i saw. i thought this was fantastic. i mean, i was on board because i thought saving animals and supporting the troops, you know, what two things could be better. >> what peggy got in the mail was a plea from the sbca international and operation baghdad pups. a direct mail package from the fund-raising powerhouse. the guilt package, as they are called in the business. included, this t-shirt, a tote bag and letters of thanks. peggy decided to do a little

research. >> 6 cents out of a dollar approximately would have gone to actually saving soldier's pets. >> that's what you figured out? >> yes. based on what they spent in 2010 on the operation baghdad pups. >> according to these tax filings, spca international has taken in more than $126 million in donations over the past three years. $23 million of that money has gone right into the coffers of the direct mail company quadie ga art. spca international is still in dead to quadriga art. what's would the spca international admits it hasn't rescued any military dogs, just 26 contractor's dogs, including ivy and nugget. the bulk of the animals, a total of 477, have been strayed befriended by the troops. $26 million to rescue less than

500 pets? how is that possible? that's what we wanted to ask the group's founder. >> what can you tell us? where is the money going? >> we have different programs. the side covers it all. i'm not trying to hype or avoid any questions. we have a spokesman. she has answered for you. >> can you tell us how -- >> absolutely, all you have to do -- >> we did that. and asked the president of the charity watchdog group about the documents we found. >> what worries me about this one is the numbers don't compute. i can't understand how to connect the dots between how much money is spent on

fund-raising to how much money is spent on programming and what the sources of those revenues are. i also can't really measure the impact of this organization. what difference are they really making? >> reporter: a spokesman for spca international told cnn by e-mail yes, although our investment is not being returned in the time frame we projected, the investments will pay for themselves within just a few more years. peggy scholely admits it is successful for quadriga art and perhaps even the spca international but the vets and their pets and anyone who gave money, she says were duped. >> what is frustrating is it's millions of dollars that just go to a business. a for profit business. it's not going to charity at all. >> unbelievable. drew griffin joins us. you were not able to track down this woman, terry crisp who brought those dogs into the hln

studios. where is she? >> we're told she's in thailand. something else we learned about terry. she's done this before. after hurricane katrina, crisp staged media campaigns, asking for donations to save pets that were stranded by the storm. she collected $8 million. for a charity called noah's wish. well, guess what, the state of california began investigating to see if any of those $8 million actually did save any katrina pets. the investigation ended with a settlement agreement. noah's wish agreed to return half the money, $4 million, and promised that terry crisp would not be an officer, a director, a trustee of a charity for five years. based on what we told them, the state of california is now investigating whether terry crisp violated that agreement. >> i don't understand how these people can sleep at night. i remember this woman after katrina. we did a profile of her on this program. she told us she was saving thousands of dogs. is there evidence she saved any? >> the settlement agreement

really stopped that investigation in california right in its tracks. there wasn't a real finding of fact on if any of the animals were saved. there's certainly no mention in the agreement pointing to any animals that were saved. and now this is the woman going around telling us we need to give her money to save these stray animals in iraq and afghanistan. >> what she said on hln was clearly not the case based on what you covered. drew, appreciate it. we're going to continue on this. if you at home are wondering whether you can trust your favorite charity, we don't want these reports to be an indication that all charities are bad or you shouldn't give to charity. that would be a terrible outcome. that's what makes it so bad. what these -- some of these charities are doing. because it kind of casts a pall on charities across the board. if you want to know, go to charitynavigator.org. they've rated more than 5,000 of america's nonprofits. the web address is

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now, we also heard from a policeman who investigated sandusky back in 1998 when one boy's mother called authorities when her son came home with his hair still wet apparently from a shower with sandusky. that boy is known as alleged victim number six. authorities said they found photos of sandusky with children from his second mile charity including his alleged victims in his home recently and former office. police also found lists of second mile members in some of those had asterisks and check marks next to their names. the officer told the court he felt charges should have been filed then, 14 years ago. jason carroll is outside courthouse. we heard from three alleged victims today. really, the most graphic testimony come from the man identified as victim number nine. >> reporter: he recently graduated from high school. he told a disturbing story of

how he says sandusky sexually assaulted him over a period of three years. saying he firsted him to have oral sex and he prerepeatedly sodomized him. he came into the room, pulled his pants down, laid on top of me and kind of forced it in. at that moment, as i looked to my left, his mother was sitting beside me. she gripped the bench. she put her head in her hands as her son went on to say, then he got real aggressive and just forced me into it. and i just went with it. there was no fighting against it. at the conclusion, prosecutors asked this young man to point out jerry sandusky in the courtroom. he couldn't even look at him. he just said, he's the one sitting right over there. >> for the first time, jason, we're starting to get a sense of what the defense is going to talk about next week, how they're going to steer their case. what did you learn in the court? >> well, i think what the

defense is partly going to go for is an issue with the time line here. because when you listen to the testimony of those like the one who's identified as alleged victim number nine and another one, victim number one, they both seem to be saying that the abuse occurred about the same period of time. but each one basically saying that they were basically in the basement by themselves. so i think what's going to happen is you're going to have a time line issue that probably most likely be raised as the defense begins its case next week. >> you also had the opportunity to speak to alleged victim number six after he was in court. what did he say? >> well, anderson, it was actually a little strange. i was standing not far from where i am standing now. the one identified as victim number six was standing out here. wearing a baseball cap, just sort of hanging around. not many people seemed to notice him. we walked up to him.

he was very shy. i asked him now that the testimony was over how he felt about that experience. he basically said he felt disassociated from the whole thing. it was one of those types of things he was still trying to get his head around. asked him why he was standing around here. he was curious about the media attention to the case. saying at one point, he looked out over at the courtroom and noticed all the people who filled courtroom and really just could not believe it. >> appreciate the reporting. criminal defense attorney mark geragos here. along with attorney marcia clark, author of the book "guilt by degrees." we heard from a former police officer. i want to just get the quote right. he said former penn state police investigator. he apparently hid in the home of accuser number six's mom when she confronted sandusky about inappropriate behavior.

he said sandusky said, i wish i could ask for forgiveness. i wish i were dead. >> in some ways, that's probably some of their best evidence. jurors always want to hear -- their question is what did the defendant have to say. it doesn't matter what the prosecution's case is. if you've got either a tape or the defendant takes the stand, that's where all the focus goes. that's what the jurors are going to talk about. things like that, they'll want an explanation for. potentially, that's a big piece. >> the same officer testified when he talked to sandusky, sandusky said his behavior was, quote, maybe inappropriate, and he used what sandusky called bad judgment and he wouldn't do it again. that was back in 1998. if these charges are true, it's pretty brazen and it's kind of unbelievable he would continue to do that of the ann after bei fronted by law enforcement. >> it is so typical of these

types of offenders. they don't really believe they're doing anything wrong. they have a complete denial system in place. it doesn't matter what you confront them with, they're always in the right. i've never yet handled a child molestation case in which one of them ever confessed or admitted to wrongdoing. no matter what or how compelling or how graphic the testimony. so i'm not surprised by it. what pains me greatly is that they had the goods on him in 1998 and yet let him go out there. how many more children were arrested as a result of that. is just an incredibly painful thing to think about. >> a lot of the accuser's stories have a similar arc. it began with tickling. then sandusky talked about cracking their backs. the fact there is consistency across many accusers, what does that tell you about the strength of the prosecution's case? >> there's two ways to look at that. one is, okay, it's great, it's consistent, it's a pattern. grooms people. that's kind of nomen calculate ur they use in these cases. or the defense argues this is

coached, rehearsed, the same script they're reading from. then i think that fits into the piece you did. which is, well, now we're going to take a look at the facts. this is what they said. now, what are the facts. who was living -- actually living there at the specific period of time. if you can show and peel away from the story itself, the fact that if somebody wasn't living there then, they had to have been in some other state at that time, that can be pretty persuasive. >> what do you think of the prosecution's case? >> i'm surprised by kind of how quickly they presented it. it was tight. i think that's more of a tribute to the judge than the prosecution in this case. but it is not as strong as i thought it should have been once i saw the grand jury -- >> marcia, you agree with that? >> no, i really don't. i think it was a very compelling case. i think it was very -- it was tight. and the witnesses came through with exactly with what happened

to them. i think this is important to emphasize. bei of course the defense is going to say all these witnessed colluded. and that's why they sound so similar. if i was the prosecutor, i would certainly argue that. as well as the fact these witnesses have been accused by the defense of coming forward because they want some payoff -- >> right, and that's why -- >> -- these civil lawyers, but i have to tell you -- you have a victim here who was being -- who saw -- who was being seen by mcqueary as being sodomized in the shower. that victim never came forward. i think that's compelling -- >> we got to go, we got to go. >> i was going to say, i think it's premature to -- >> no way sandusky's going to take the stand, your opinion? >> you want to know, i would not be surprised if he does. >> appreciate it. coming up, raw politics. romney and obama talking about

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welcome back. raw politics now. president obama in new york for two fund-raisers. essentially the battle of the messages. in cleveland, president obama said the economy has been growing under his watch but acknowledges it has a long way to go. >> of course the economy isn't where it needs to be. of course we have a lot more work to do. everybody knows that. the debate in this election is about how we grow faster.

and how we create more jobs. and how we pay down our debt. that's the question facing the american voter. >> earlier, a speech in cincinnati, mitt romney tried to preempt the president's remarks. >> president obama is on the other side of the state. and he's going to be delivering a speech on the economy. he's doing that because he hasn't delivered a recovery for the economy. and he's going to be a person of eloquence as he describes his plans for making the economy better. but don't forget, he's been president for 3 1/2 years. and talk is cheap. action speaks very loud. >> romney said the president's record is long on words but short on creating jobs. first, i spoke with the romney campaign's communications director. the big focus today was jobs. something romney had to say about public sector jobs.

got a lot of attention a few days ago. i want to remind viewers. >> he wants to hire more government workers. more firemen, more teachers. didn't he not get the message of wisconsin? the american people did. it's time for us to cut back on government and help the american people. >> now, you know, the obama campaign has hit those comments hard, saying he wants to fire firemen, police and teachers. governor romney pushed back with these comments. >> of course, teachers and firemen and policemen are hired at the local level. and also by states. the federal government doesn't pay for teacher, firefighters or policemen. obviously, that's completely absurd. >> the federal government, though, does provide billions of dollars every year in essential funding for schools and first responders and a big percentage of that aid goes to pay for personnel. like more than $14 billion i think under title 1 this year. billions more programs for

improving education. hiring special education teachers. community teaching support. without that fell aid, many of those positions would disappear. would romney want to cut those federal programs? >> first of all, what the obama campaign is doing, they're trying to distract from president obama's comments on friday that the private sector is doing just fine. and i think what you heard governor romney say is it's absurd to think that he would slash any jobs for teachers or firefighters or first responders. states and the local governments are the ones that hire them. what you have here -- it's two competing visions -- >> money is provided by governor romney. saying money is not provided -- the federal government doesn't provide money for -- >> governor romney -- >> but they do. >> governor romney is saying the funds are provided to the state and the local level who then they apply the moneys to where they see fit. >> i guess i just don't understand why he is saying specifically the federal -- i want to get his quote right.

the federal government doesn't pay for teachers, firefighters or policemen, when billions every year is spent by the federal government on these programs. >> that's just some of that money. you remember that a lot of this came in the form of a stimulus that failed to get this economy back on the right track. some of that money does go to those entities you just described. it's up to the folks at the local level to decide where that money goes and who is hired because of it. >> for the record, the title 1 and the americans with disabilities act, that's not stimulus related. some of your surrogates suggested we should focus on the governor's record on the job creation in massachusetts after his policies had time to go into effect, not the first year when they obviously hadn't yet. you inherited, you know, a bad economy. and that's a fair point. is that a standard that should be applied to president obama's record as well? >> well, i think what needs -- what people need to look at is the end result here. you've got -- we're happy to compare these records. you've got president obama where

we have 40 straight months of unemployment above 8% and he promised with the stimulus it would be below 8%. even -- >> he did promise them that. >> his cbo reported that. his cbo said that in a report -- >> right, but you guys keep saying he said that when he actually didn't say that. >> well, it's his administration. it's his report that came out because of his stimulus that he put into place. but, look, if we're happy to compare these economic records, if you take a look at what massachusetts was when governor romney took office, you had unemployment at 5.6%. when he left office, it was at 4.7%. obama's record is just terrible. you have 40 straight months of unemployment above 8% when he said that it's supposed to be below 6%. and this cbo report. so we're happy to compare those records. if you want to just take a look at those two record, it's 8.1% and above or 4.7%. those are the two numbers that really matter.

>> isn't the cbo nonpartisan? you're saying -- your campaign, governor romney, says this all the time. obama said. obama did not say that. the cbo puts out a report, that's not the president's -- >> well, it wasn't a cbo -- well, it's still a report that came out of his stimulus that came out of his administration, sure. >> well, but, i mean, he doesn't control the congressional budget office. he's not the one saying this stuff. >> right, but -- anderson, let's just look at the facts here. this economy is on -- is not on a road to recovery which is what he has promised. in fact, three years ago, president obama said if he did not fix this economy, he would be looking at a one-term proposition. today in ohio he's asking for a do-offer. >> gail, appreciate you being on. you heard what the campaign had to say. what's your take? >> on the one hand, gail is right when she says under a romney administration you wouldn't have as much direct aid to the state for specific

things. he prefer morse of a block grant approach. washington sends money to states and the governor and mayor decides specifically how to spend it been that report, keep the unemployment rate down, the president's economic advisers did in one report put a ghart that suggested a big stimulus program would keep unemployment below 8%. so they did make that mistake. they'll be held accountable for that. the bigger question, the competing economic vision, you could criticize both candidates. you could find essentially what they said today. we've had three months in a row, perhaps four, of tepid jobs growth. the european crisis. both candidates seem stubborn. they want to stick to their plans. say, you know what, times are changing. governor romney wants austerity. cut spend. a lot of economists tell you it's a dangerous time to do that. >> both candidates were in ohio today. how critical is that state? >> it could be the decisive state. this is the 2008 map.

president obama carried ohio in 2008. the candidate who won ohio in the last ten elections has been elected president of the united states. that's how important ohio is. where was the president? he was up in the cleveland area. you see the blue up there. turnout up there is critical. african-american voters. independent voters. blue, that's hamilton county. john mccain lost that county. republicans have to win that county to win ohio. that gives you the sense of what the state looks like. it is right now one of our toss-up states. we list it this way. advantage obama, 247. solid or leaning obama states, 206. for romney, solid or leaning. you've got to get to 270. if president obama were to take ohio, it gets him to 265. if nothing else changed and he just won ohio, he would need just one more of these states. so governor romney has to win this. no republican in modern times has won the white house without winning ohio. if romney wins it, then the map becomes a lot more favorable. if he's winning ohio, maybe

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another crime and punishment report tonight. a development in the fight to free this american. he's locked up in one of nicarag nicaragua's most dangerous prisons. despite really any evidence he committed any crime. he first moved there in 2002 when he was in the peace corps and he decided to stay. he even started a successful real estate business. everything changed in november 2010 when nicaraguan police arrested him for money laundering and having links to organized crime. he was convicted in a trial where prosecutors presented no evidence of his guilt and the judge refused to allow evidence that could prove his innocent. he's now serving a 22-year

sentence. tonight, we've just learned a court has scheduled an appeal for him later this month. that's something his family had been fighting for for over a year. something the government refused up till now. we managed to reach him on the phone behind bars to discuss his situation before learning about the appeal. listen. jason, how are you holding up? >> i'm hanging in there. >> do you have any idea why the authorities think you committed these crimes? why they focused on you? because i don't see any evidence they actually presented. >> i don't know the reason that i'm here. that's been a mystery from the very beginning of what the motives behind the police and the prosecution have been. >> when they first came to you, i mean, when they first showed up at your house, were you surprised? had you had any connection with the police in the past? >> i was shocked. i had donated to the police

department. i had interacted with them open the positive basis previously. when guys with masks and assault rifles came into my office, i thought i was being robbed. i didn't know what was going on till a plainclothes guy with a badge around his neck came in. he still didn't tell me till the next few days. after they arrested me why i was being arrested, what it was all about. >> the u.n. has now issued an pin saying you should be free. saying you're being held in vie laf violation of international law. >> i would hope so. the administration of nicaragua would value the independent u.n. opinion about my case.

it's been a couple weeks. and about a month since nicaraguas an received that. yet i'm still sitting here. >> what is the prison like? we're showing videos. what are the conditions like? >> it's basically a hellhole. there's concrete cells c -- that are overcrowded. i've been in a cell with anyone from 9 to 12 people in a 12 x 15 foot cell. it's hot, dirty. dusty. lots of insects including chica chiggers and ants and mosquitoes. there's no running water. i have to fight every day to get two buckets of water. there's no good food. you get rice and beans three times a day. there's ba bicarbonate added to it. i can't even eat the stuff. i survive on crackers and

peanuts and raisins. >> you say your cell is how big and how many people are in it? >> there's -- 12 x 15 with -- there's nine people in it. >> where do you sleep? >> we makeshift beds, one on top of the other. people are in hammocks. just back on top of each other. other cells i've been in, everybody's just on the floor. basically just sit in one spot all day long. >> you said you've been assaulted there. do you feel in danger every day? >> the guards are telling me i have to go now. >> is there anything you want people to know before you go? >> i am 100% innocent of the crimes i've been accused of. i can't wait to see my family again. i thank everyone for all their support and their effort. >> jason, i know you have to go, stay safe. i want to bring in someone who knows something about jason's situation. eric spent more than a year in the same prison after he was wrongly convicted of killing a

former girlfriend. he was sentenced to 30 years. a panel finally released him after that year. also joining us is senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. you were in the same prison. how bad is it? especially, what's it like to be in a prison like this when you know you're innocent? >> yeah, i mean, prison is without a doubt a journey to the farthest reaches of despair and loneliness. a man really gets to know himself. you can see from the images where jason is just horrific. i know for myself, you know, just knowing that my friends and family were tirelessly fighting and advocating for me really was a secret source of hope. i know that's helping buoy jason now as well. >> we're seeing pictures of all these people milling around. what are they doing? where do you go in that? how do you protect yourself? >> well, it's a constant struggle to navigate this -- the

very intricate terms of this multilayered economy. you know, as an american, you stick out. jason has spent a lot of time in nicaragua and speaks very good spanish and i know that's helped him greatly. in fact, we actually learned that jason's conditions have been improved since the ones he described in that telephone call. we believe it's a result of a letter written to the nicaraguan president by 33 members of the u.s. congress. so the family's incredibly grateful for that gesture. >> jason was basically convicted without any evidence in this trial. he says he's never really seen them before except for one guy he read about. how does this happen? what can be done about it? >> how it happens, you know, the nicaraguan judicial system is not famous for its accuracy or fairness. what can be done about it unfortunately is not a great deal. our embassy, counsnsular offici

have met with him. we can appeal to the nicaraguan government. his appeal in the nicaraguan judicial system is really his best and, probably, only hope. because we, as americans, have no authority. and our relationship with nicaragua is not particularly close or warm these days. >> yours was a highly publicized trial in nicaragua. there was a lot of sentiment against you which made it all the more difficult for you. that's not the case with jason it seems like. there's no murder victim. there's not a lot of emotion apparently surrounding this case so far. do you think that means he has a better chance of getting released? >> i believe the common denominator is the prisoner gets to come home. the moment they are converted from being an asset into a liability. i think there are a lot of things that can be done and a lot of things are being done. jason is fortunate there isn't a victim. there isn't an emotional sentiment layer to this case. and that's why we're very focused on the judicial and

legal process at this time. >> we learned there's going to be an appeal. what is the appeal process, eric? >> it's similar to the process here in the united states. jason's attorney appealed the wrongful conviction, you know, and basically went point by point and argued the reasons why, you know, there wasn't legally enough evidence for jason to be convicted. like you mentioned, there's going to be a hearing actually where the defendants and the attorneys will come into a room and they'll actually probably argue it out for probably four or five days. it's a very complex case. there's 11 defendants. three different kinds of charges. we'll just have to see how this place out. right now it really is in the appellate court's hands. >> i appreciate you being on. jeff toobin as well. we'll continue to follow this. lance armstrong banned from competing in the ironman triathlon. armstrong's first interview since the new investigation came to light. we have detailed ahead.

susan hendricks is here with a bulletin. >> new anger in the chaos in the streets of cairo today. coming after egypt's highest court declared parliament invalid. that led to cries of a coup from critics. attorney general holder is offering to release more records on the botched gun running operation in mexico.

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time now for the riduculist. mr. cleanup is accused of recently dumping large chunks of wood in the middle of a street in detroit. this is what the street looked like after he passed through. a witness told our affiliate he saw the man brazenly tossing the wood. the witness claims he confronted him but he took off. a reporter tracked him down at his home. what kind of person dumps wood into the middle of the road and leaves it there? as it turns out, a dreadful, dreadful person. >> it's a little illegal to leave the wood in the street -- >> you don't have to ask me and i don't take no orders from no woman, by the way. by the way, i don't take no orders from no woman. >> the guy's clearly awful. if there were a list more severe than the riduculist, we would put him on it. we're not making light of his appalling behavior. we just think it's important you

know even in 2012, there are people like this guy out there. >> somebody said they tried to yell at you to come back and you kept going and -- >> it must have been a woman and i don't listen to women yelling, i tell them to shut up. >> a nightmare. the guy also pulled the old "the wood fell off my truck" and i meant to go back and pick it up excuse. >> so you were saying that you were going back to clean up -- >> oh, yes, oh, yes, i'm mr. cleanup. i'm not mr. clean, i'm mr. cleanup. >> he's a card, this one. he also told the reporter the whole incident stems from him just wanting to help people remove wood from their property. >> i lift them all by myself with nobody else's help. old guys, disabled guys, black guy, white guys, polish guys, ukrainian guys and guys from mars also. >> oh, okay, from mars? >> from mars, yeah, that's where i'm from, from mars. >> he liked to help out the guys. if you're thinking there might be bigger problems with

mr. cleanup than just being from mars and those ridiculous glasses he apparently refuses to take off, you're right. he was taken into custody today on unrelated charges of malicious destruction of property and indecent exposure. the man's neighbors who claim he's threatened them with violence say he pulled down his pants in front of their entire family. >> see, my mom bought me pants that were ten sizes too big for me, so i put my belt on as far as it would go, then i went outside as a nice warren resident -- >> i can't. i really just can't. by the way this guy was several hours late to his hearing today. he told the judge he was chasing a stolen car down interstate 94. in case you're wondering, he has been ordered to undergo a co competency exam. clearly, least of mr. cleanup's problems is being on the riduculist. that's it for us. we'll be back one hour