9:30 a.m.

• In the jail cell, the dingy jail cell, the lion sleeps tonight.

U.S. Marshals bagged a lion Wednesday and hauled him to jail.

 

OK, it wasn't a real lion, but a man wearing a furry costume with a long tail: James Wagner, 39, of Canonsburg, Pa.

 

Wagner has been running from the law for more than two years, marshals say. He was wanted on charges of rap ing and impregnating a girl in Pennsylvania.

 

Marshals in Pennsylvania re ceived a tip that Wagner was working at a cell phone store on Ohio 91 in Solon. They heard that his job there was to stand outside the store wearing a lion suit to lure people inside.

 

About 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, marshals drove to the store in a car. Sure enough, a lion enthusiastically waved them over.

 

The marshals jumped out of their car and struggled with the lion, until one marshal grabbed the tail.