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Show Thursday, September 4, 2008 OREM TIMES Page 15 P ixsfit m fasted! Mart Sow Janice Peterson DAILY HERALD Pleasant Grove police arrested ar-rested five people Wednesday for their suspected involvement involve-ment in a ring of burglaries around Utah and Salt Lake Counties. According to a press release, re-lease, the individuals have been involved for some time in residential and vehicle burglaries, credit card fraud, check forgeries, identity theft and drug crimes. Lt. Michael Smith of the Pleasant Grove Police Department said the ring came to light after a man reported a burglary of his shed. The man identified individuals in-dividuals in his neighborhood who he believed may have been involved, and subsequent investigations turned up several sev-eral additional crimes. "It appears that they've been doing it for some time 1 1 iiaste Emily Marlowe NORTH COUNTY STAFF Yesterday morning as our youngest daughter walked up the stairs for school, she looked beautiful. Her eyes were shining; her hair was curly and looked as though she had just been at the most expensive salon on the block. Her cheeks were rosy and she had innocence written all her face. I could not take my eyes off of her smile, as I knew she was so proud of the way she looked. My eyes dropped to the outfit she had on, and the only thing I could think of was, how am I going to tell her that there is no way, not even on the darkest night that she would be allowed to wear the outfit she had on out of the house. The patterns were off, the colors did not compliment each other, and the socks looked like something that I would wear to bed. But, in her mind she thought she looked perfect. How do you shoot someone down when they have spent the morning building themselves them-selves up? As I am playing out in my mind how I will break her heart, and debating if matching clothes is really all that important, my husband walks around the corner and savs, "You look beautiful!" fc:,. h 4itigflWlsf" jBPMffll il I, cii f?irl n,i, V, ,mm .... " J 1 - JW . ,m.. Brandon Behunin Matthew Mercer now," he said. Smith said Brandon Behunin, Be-hunin, Ricky Martinez, Matthew Mercer, Elizabeth Hayden and Kimberly Carter were arrested on suspicion of several burglaries amounting to thousands of dollars of stolen sto-len goods. The car and home burglaries often resulted in stolen credit cards and checks, which the group then used to buy clothing and electronics, including a 32-inch LCD televi- I shot him a look of "You are going to make this so hard for me aren't you?" As my husband smiles at me, kisses us goodbye and leaves for work, I am wondering if this simple task that 1 have to do of breaking my little girl's heart is all worth it. I decide that it really is not. We move about our morning morn-ing and then our oldest daughter daugh-ter says to her sister, "Your clothes do not match, and you can't leave the house looking like that." I wasn't sure whether wheth-er to kiss and praise our oldest daughter for breaking her sister's sis-ter's heart, or reprimand her for the comment. I let it go and told our daughter that I would take her shopping right after school, and we would find her a shirt that matches her skirt a little better. That worked and the day was saved. How simple this situation could have been, if I would have thought more like our oldest daughter and just said it like it was. I believe we do this same thing that I did with our daughter with food. People will show up at our door with a plate full of food and maybe it looks a little questionable. We think, "How am I going to tell them the food is wonderful, won-derful, when it does not even look appealing?" We try and choke down food at dinner parties that tastes awful, we spit it out in napkins nonchalantly; we swallow down one bite with a full glass of water, smile and say. "It tastes as wonderful as it looks." There is no way of getting around this. We just I. f C n 1 I i In if ' ' I' Ricky Martinez Elizabeth Hayden sion. They also had equipment to make fake identification to help sell the items at various pawn shops. Police are still looking for more people that may have been involved in the ring, which Smith said often looked for unlocked cars and dimly lit homes from which to steal. "These types of people, they go for the easy target," he said. Smith said the discovery of smile and swallow. This week's recipe you will not have to choke down, because be-cause of the taste or the look. It is just delicious and beautiful. beauti-ful. Thank you to Evets from Lehi, for sharing this recipe. You will find it is a breeze to make and even easier to eat. The only thing I found wrong with the recipe was that one bite was just not enough and it will show on my hips tomorrow. tomor-row. I would love to share your recipes with our readers. I can be contacted at emilymar-Ioweconnect2.com. emilymar-Ioweconnect2.com. Until next week's batter chatter, may you smile at the little things that don't really matter. Evets Corn I 2 boxes Fiddle Faddle popcorn or Crunch and Munch I 2 cups mini marshmallows I I cup sliced almonds (optional) I Vz cup milk chocolate chips I Vi cup dark chocolate chips I I block vanilla almond bark Directions: 1. Place popcorn in a large bowl with almond slices. 2. Melt almond bark in microwave stirring often. 3. Stir almond bark in with popcorn pop-corn and almonds coat well. 4. Spread waxed paper over a cookie sheet and then spread popcorn over the waxed paper. 5. Melt chocolate on low in microwave mi-crowave stirring often. Drizzle melted milk chocolate over popcorn pop-corn and then drizzle melted dark chocolate over the popcorn. .iiii.mf.it.. - -1 Vis U -f,V r i V. f, I Animal Dental Special All Denial Procecfvref A Rovtine Cleanings Inclsdett . IV Catheter -Holds Anesthetic Cleaning . Polishing Infectabf Pain Medication Iniectohte Antibiotic 1 (Ndt hdvded: Exfradions,Pre-cpercflive I Blood Work, Joke Home Medication) Kimberly Carter the crimes all stemmed from one burglary report, which eventually led to a long paper trail. The group was heavily involved in credit card fraud and forged checks, and their spending sprees left a lot of receipts behind. "We found a whole bin of checks and receipts that they shredded before we got to it," he said. 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Much of the merchandise and materials stolen will never be returned to the rightful owners own-ers because police reports have not been filed. After the ring was discovered, discov-ered, Smith said a man came forward whose weed eater had been stolen six months earlier, but a report had not been filed. Items can still be claimed if the owner proves it is theirs, but Smith said filing a police report would make the investigation inves-tigation and subsequent prosecution pros-ecution easier. "That we can prove, I think we'D probably see about 20 counts of theft," he said. friUp&ftrraU) 020 minim tramsahsswnsJ 4J & 1' I s 1 4f 0 m i |