ampro – Memphis Flyer

Lisa Marie Dowell is having a bad hair day after she was indicted on Tuesday for allegedly stealing $100,000 worth of hair gel from Ampro Industries, Inc., the company she worked for.

Dowell, 46, faces felony charges of theft over $100,000 for reportedly stealing 24 pallets of gel between July and October 2013. She was one of four employees who worked at the Ampro warehouse and one of two employees with a key and alarm code to the building.

In November 2013, a DeSoto County Sheriff’s detective discovered one of the pallets of gel at a flea market in Olive Branch. A jar of Ampro Pro Style Styling Gel was covertly purchased by investigators, and they were able to link it to the stolen pallets.

City CAO Jack Sammons serves as the president of Ampro Industries.

Parallelvis

“Could Elvis Presley Be Alive in a Parallel Universe?” That’s the question asked by the BBC (yes, the BBC) in the Elvilicious headline to an online story tagged “Science & Environment.” The burning hunka question topped an article about subatomic particles that can appear to be in more than one place at a time because they may, possibly, “fit into existence in other universes too.” According to the post, “There could be a parallel universe in which dinosaurs are not extinct, one in which you were never born, and one in which Elvis Presley is still alive.” And hopefully riding a dinosaur. With Bruce Lee. In Atlantis.

Hot Hair

Is the Mid-South in the grips of a glamour crime wave? Lisa Dowell of Millington was arrested last week after stealing 24 pallets of Ampro hair gel valued at $100,000 from the factory where she worked. This news comes after a series of bold beauty-supply heists involving the theft of human hair, some of which was smuggled from stores by hair mules who stuffed the front of their pants with wigs.

Godless Advertising

It’s December, that happy time of year when people get frothing mad about the nonexistent “War on Christmas.” In an unusual turn of events, the first salvo in this year’s skirmish appears to have been fired by American atheists, who are hosting a national convention in Memphis in April. A billboard promoting the event pictures a little girl writing a letter to Santa: “All I want for Christmas is to skip church! I’m too old for fairy tales.”