An Alaska Airlines jet was evacuated in Orange County, Calif., because a suspicious “white dust” was spotted in a lavatory.

A haz-mat team descended on the plane after six crew members and 151 passengers were safely off — and discovered the substance to be remnants of toilet paper.

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This clown is going to prison!

Frank Salvador Solorza, 46, of Redwood City, Calif., was convicted of attempting to extort a family of immigrants, telling them he was a fed who could take care of all bureaucratic loose ends for $50,000.

Solorza was arrested in February 2009 — while wearing a clown’s suit and riding a child’s bike to pick up a briefcase he thought contained the cash.

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First there was taking candy from a baby — and now there’s ripping off a 2-year-old’s piggy bank.

Four thugs pushed their way into a woman’s Knoxville, Tenn., apartment over the weekend, cops said, and stole her purse and her toddler’s piggy bank.

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Permission to get a six-figure job denied!

A West Virginia man, applying for a lucrative Ohio job, claimed he was a general, listed the Army chief-of-staff as a reference, and boasted of professional relationships with current and former US defense secretaries — and all appear to be lies, authorities said.

Randall Thomas Keyser of Barboursville, W.Va., is now in jail and accused of wire fraud.

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Cops arrested a suspected bank robber in Denver — but he probably didn’t care.

Adam Lynch, 34, earned his moniker the “Ho-Hum Bandit” because of his oddly casual, if not uninterested, demeanor while knocking off banks in Southern California, Colorado, Washington and Wyoming.