Janitor gets lock in courthouse cell for two days

It’s not a weekend retreat Harold Jones would recommend to anyone.

Jones spent 21/2 days without food, water or access to a restroom when he was accidentally locked in a secure room at the Dutchess County Courthouse Friday night.

“I was just going crazy in there,” the LaGrange man said Monday afternoon. “I was banging on the door so someone could hear me.”

But no one heard Jones, 32, a janitor who works an evening shift at the Market Street courthouse and other county buildings.

He was stuck for nearly 60 hours, until a Dutchess Department of Public Works employee found him Monday morning.

Now, Dutchess officials and Occupations, Inc., the Middletown-based company through which Jones was hired, are investigating why no one realized Jones was missing.

“I’m just thankful the gentleman wasn’t hurt,” said Ken Monahan, a Public Works building administrator.

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Woman buys sack of potatoes – one potato turns out to be a grenade

ROME (Feb. 28) – A woman in a town near Naples got an unwelcome surprise when she bought a sack of potatoes at a nearby market, put them into water to peel and discovered one of them was a hand grenade apparently left over from World War II.

Olga Mauriello had put the potatoes in a vat of water and had just begun peeling them Tuesday when she found the explosive, covered in dirt, police said Wednesday.

An alarmed Mauriello, 74, called neighbors, who in turn called police.

Officers detonated the grenade in a park on Wednesday, state police said.

The grenade was believed to have traveled with the potatoes from France, the ANSA news agency reported.

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