Crime / crime 5 Craziest Crimes of the Week No, officer, it's soap, not cocaine By Newser Editors, Newser Staff Posted Dec 20, 2013 5:55 AM CST Updated Dec 20, 2013 8:27 AM CST Copied Homemade soap. (Shutterstock) Lessons this week: Beware driving with soap and don't report a bomb threat to get out of a test: Pair Spends Month in Jail for Having Bag of ... Soap: Soap and cocaine are easy to confuse ... right? A young man and woman just spent a month in a Pennsylvania jail for carrying two kilos of what police thought was cocaine. It most definitely wasn't. Harvard Student Caused Bomb Scare to Dodge Exam: Calling in a bomb threat is a really, really bad way to try to get out of your final exams, a Harvard student has discovered. The FBI says Eldo Kim, 20, has confessed to sending an email warning of "shrapnel bombs" on campus. Kim now faces much bigger problems than a lousy grade. 'Pippi Longstocking' Busted in Triple Hit and Run: Things seem to have gone downhill for Tami Erin since she played Pippi Longstocking in the '80s: The actress was arrested this week for felony hit and run ... and the specifics of the alleged crime are pretty nuts. Chinese Spy Stole Iowa Corn Seeds: Feds: Corporate espionage ... in an Iowa cornfield? Federal agents caught an alleged Chinese spy last week trying to smuggle something highly valuable out of the country. And he wasn't alone. Police Use Fake Dating Site Profile to Nab Suspect: Virginia police get points for creativity in rounding up a court no-show. A lieutenant created a fake profile of "Sasha" on the online dating site OKCupid, then set about wooing 24-year-old Ryan Covington. His heart did him in. Click for more crazy crimes. (More crime stories.) Report an error