Safe and Secure

Odd news story from Chattanooga, TN station WTVC:

Bizarre Story of Woman, Safe, Crack, Guns and Boyfriend
Early Thursday morning, an Athens officer spotted Terrina Bates lugging a metal SAFE while walking along Highway 39.

After changing her story multiple times, she finally told officers she stole it from her boyfriend, Gregory Bell. Police say Bell came to the police station and opened the safe. Listen to what officers found inside.

Detective Scott Webb said, "He (Bell) gives consent to search the safe, they open it up and find about eight grams of crack cocaine, two pistols with the serial numbers filed off and approximately 25 hundred dollars cash."

Bell made his six thousand dollar bond Thursday while Bates went to court this morning saying she wanted to go back to jail out of fear of Bates.

Just yesterday she said in court the crack cocaine was hers.

The guy wanted to go back into jail because he was afraid of this woman, this sweet flower of motherhood, this apple of his eye. I am thinking two things. #1) strange bedfellows and #2) he should flee the county if not the state...