Highlights From the Police Blotter Report at the Ohio State U Student Newspaper

We came across these stories while doing research for something else. And, while there's not a lot of information on any one of them, all of them made us chuckle just a little and in total made us laugh . . . sort up. Just think: some Buckeye student gets credit in a Journalism class for writing this crap. For more fun like this, please check out The Lantern.

Police Arrest Drunken, Bleeding Head-Stander
Police were called to Summit Street and East 17th Avenue early Saturday morning on reports of a man who was bleeding and standing on his head. When officers arrived they found 37-year-old Yellow Springs resident Stephen P. Ali, who was highly intoxicated. Police arrested Ali for disorderly conduct because he could not care for himself, according to the police report.

Grill thief traps student in home
Someone stole a grill from a 21-year-old Ohio State student's porch on West Norwich Avenue Sunday night, and then the thief wedged patio furniture against the front and rear doors so the student could not leave her house.

Golf ball vandals show support for Cavaliers
On Saturday, a 20-year-old Ohio State student reported to police that a golf ball shattered the double-paned rear window at her East Norwich Avenue home on Friday, May 22. The golf ball had "go cavs" written on it.

Witness chases brick thrower away
A 67-year-old man reported to police that someone threw a brick through a window at his home on the 2000 block of Iuka Avenue in an attempt to enter the house Friday night. A witness who saw the man through the rock chased him away.

We Have a Winner! Man Arrested for 153rd Time!

Forget it if you think you're hot sh*t for being arrested 20 or 30 times. Paul Baldwin of Portsmouth, New Hampshire has just been arrested for the 153rd time, this time for punching someone in the face, just days after spending a year in jail for stealing $1.99 can of beer. Baldwin wants to plead guilty, but the prosecutor hasn't been able to determine a charge yet because he hasn't had time to review the man's lengthy record.

Arraigned June 1 by video from the Rockingham County House of Corrections, Baldwin, 49, with no fixed address, was charged with a class A misdemeanor count of simple assault alleging he hit someone in the face in Market Square. He told the court he didn’t want a lawyer and was prepared to plead guilty, but prosecutor Rena DiLando said her office has not had time to contact the alleged victim for input.

DiLando petitioned the court for $5,000 cash bail, noting that Baldwin’s criminal history is so lengthy she didn’t have time to read it all. She said he was also cited twice for violation-level offenses during his first week out of jail, once for a trespassing on the railroad tracks and another time for having an open container of beer.

Free from jail for days, man arrested for 153rd time [Boston Herald]

Latest Female Teacher Sex Scandal: Woman, 27, Accused of Having Sex Seven Times With Boy, 14, in Classroom After School

Someone's not telling the truth here: the "victim" in this case, a 14-year-old boy at Middle School 8 in Jamaica (Long Island, NY) claims he and a female teacher had sex multiple times in her classroom after school. The accused, teacher Melissa Weber, 27, told cops that nothing really happened and that "I've hugged him and he put his hands on my buttocks. I reprimanded him for that." The problem for Ms. Weber might come in when officers look at what the evidence that the boy's mother found on his cell phone: hundreds of calls and text messages between the two.

Weber, pleaded not guilty to seven counts of second-degree rape, 14 counts of third-degree sexual abuse and one count of endangering the welfare of a child. If convicted, she could get up to 7 years in prison. Not sure the point that Weber's lawyer was trying to make, but at one point attorney Donald Vogelman told the media, "If you take a look at my client, what she looks like, if she goes into jail, it'll be very difficult for her."

Charges: West Babylon woman had sex with student, 14 [Newsday]

Man Arrested for Disturbance at Church Because No One Came to His High School Graduation

You work hard for what, six or seven years, and then no one shows up when you finally graduate from high school? I'd be upset, too, but probably not so upset that I'd mess with the cops and get my ass tasered in a church.

A Framingham man who became angry when his family did not attend his high school graduation on Sunday was arrested after he became combative, police said. Keith Herring, 19, was arrested at 5:50 p.m. at Power - The Holy Ghost church at 12 Irving St., police said. Herring graduated Sunday from Framingham High School's Thayer Campus.

Police went to 12 Irving St. after a call about an out-of-control teen, police spokesman Lt. Paul Shastany said. When they arrived, they found Herring yelling and being restrained by several people. "He was very upset," said Shastany. "He was advised to stop yelling and he kept trying to get by the officers, trying to push past them."

The officers told Herring, who Shastany described as a large man, 6 feet 2 inches tall and 200 pounds, that he was going to be arrested for being disorderly. Herring started throwing his arms around and resisting the officers attempts to handcuff him.
"He was advised if he didn't stop, he would be tased," said Shastany. "He continued struggling, and he was Tasered. Immediately after, he was handcuffed."

Herring was not injured, but he was taken to Framingham's MetroWest Medical Center as a precaution. Later, Herring told police he was upset because no one attended his graduation.

Video: EMT Could Face Charges for Scuffle With State Trooper

This one poses an important question: if an ambulance and a police car both have their sirens on but are going to different locations, who has to pull over? A cell phone video from the man who's mother was being taken to the hospital in the ambulance shows the confrontation between cops and EMTs. (Watch video of the incident below.)

A paramedic could face charges after a scuffle with a state trooper that was caught on cell phone camera. It happened Sunday near Paden in Okfuskee County. That's about 70 miles southwest of Tulsa. Kenyada Davis' mother was being transported in the ambulance and recorded the incident on his cell phone camera. paramedic could face charges after a scuffle with a state trooper that was caught on cell phone camera.

It happened Sunday near Paden in Okfuskee County. That's about 70 miles southwest of Tulsa. Kenyada Davis' mother was being transported in the ambulance and recorded the incident on his cell phone camera.

EMT Could Face Charges After Incident With Trooper [KTUL]



Will EMT Law Protect Paramedics?

Drunk Man Arrested With Shirt Wrapped Around Boat Propeller

From the way this story reads, this guy is lucky he's only in jail and not dead or severely maimed. When sheriff's deputies approached his boat, they found him underwater with his T-shirt caught in the boat's propeller!

A 44-year-old Connecticut man was arrested for drunken boating on the Grand River (Michigan) after sheriff's deputies said he got his T-shirt caught in the boat's propeller, police said. Ottawa County sheriff's deputies responded to a report that a man had been thrown from his boat near Indian Channel. They found an empty boat and the man submerged behind the craft, fighting to breathe.

When police pulled him out of the water, they found his T-shirt wrapped around the boat's outboard motor propeller, which had killed the motor, but also secured the man to it, deputies said. Police said the man refused medical treatment.

Anyone else surprised that alcohol was involved?

Man arrested on drunken boating charge after propeller incident [MLive]

Female Teacher, 38, Caught in Van With Boy, 16 - Jennifer Espinosa

Yet another married, mother of two, middle-aged teacher is caught with an underage boy. That part's not news. What is news is that the boy in question is also--according to police--a gang member and had been expelled from school. And the fact that the cops found the boy with Jennifer Espinosa, 38, after following her Honda Pilot and noticing the smell of marijuana coming from it. When the pulled it over they found Espinosa, the boy and a 22-year-old man that they also suspect of being a gang member. Oh, and a bunch of weed.

At that point Espinosa did the right thing and refused to answer any further questions. No, just kidding: she sang like a bird to officers and admitted having sex numerous times with the underage boy in both her Pilot and at her home. Yeah, someone's going to prison for a long time. At right, Jennifer Espinosa's mug shot picture. She looks sad.

Espinosa told police she “loves” the 16-year-old boy, who was expelled from Maine East in September and is a known Sureno 13 gang member, the release said. Espinosa was taken in for questioning by Sheriff’s police on Saturday night near the Golf Terrace Apartments, on the 9600 block of North Golf Terrace, after police smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from behind Espinosa’s 2009 Honda Pilot, the release said.

As police curbed the car and noticed the windows were rolled down, they noticed one person moving quickly to a back seat. All people in the car were ordered out and Espinosa immediately told police she was a Maine East teacher, the release said.

Officer recognized the 16-year-old boy and a 22-year-old man as known gang members. Police searched the car and recovered a bag of suspected marijuana. Alejandro Landi, 22, of Niles, was charged with misdemeanor drug possession.

Upon questioning of the suspects in the vehicle, Espinosa told investigators she was a teacher and mentor to the boy unti he was expelled. She said their relationship began after his expulsion, the release said. Police said they told them they have had sex numerous times, in her Park Ridge home and in her car at various locations around the high school.

Maine East teacher charged with having sex with former student [Chicago Sun Times]

Cops Say Female Teacher Used Facebook to Lure Boys for Sex in Her Minivan - Heather L. Zeo

Some older teachers are afraid of technology.

Not, apparently, Heather L. Zeo, a teacher at North Penn High School in Lansdale, PA. According to police, Zeo contacted at least two underage male students via their Facebook accounts and was able to coerce one of them into a sexual relationship.

The 37-year-old Warrington mother of three was arraigned in Lansdale district court on charges of endangering the welfare of children and corruption of minors. She posted bail of $25,000 and was scheduled for a hearing on June 3.

Police said the 11th and 12th grade teacher used Facebook to contact the students, one earlier in the school year and one in April. The more recent one said that after he got a "friend request" from Zeo, they kissed and touched during her prep period in her classroom six or seven times, according to police. They progressed to having sex in her minivan in a Montgomery County shopping center, according to the police complaint.
The couple continued having sex at various locations in the township and at school up until the middle of May, said Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman.

Earlier in the year, police said, Zeo contacted the other teen through Facebook and told him that she would have sex with him if they were alone together and invited him to her classroom, but he never went. He told authorities they had five or sex sexually explicit conversations.

Heather Zeo faces charges of endangering the welfare of children and corruption of minors and was scheduled for a hearing on June 3. At right, Ms. Zeo in happier, pre-Facebook times.

Teacher charged in sexual liaison with teen [Philly.com] Thanks to Dr. H for the link!

Man Sets Toilet Paper on Fire, Smears Own Feces on Police Station Bathroom Walls

It all started as a simple request for a guy to pay his bar tab. It ended with him setting some toilet paper on fire in a police station bathroom, taking a crap on the floor and them smearing his own feces on the walls. How does someone get from Point A to Point B? Here's the story from Philly.com:

Shortly before 3 a.m. yesterday, the pub in the Camden County township's Blenheim section contacted police about an unpaid bill. Jason Detora, the patron, said his girlfriend was on the way to settle the tab. When Nicole Leadbeater arrived, officers spoke with her - and arrested her for appearing to be under the influence.

She was taken to police headquarters, and so was Detora, "as a courtesy ... to wait for a ride," according to the police news release. The details of what happened next are probably best left to the police statement:

"While waiting in the hallway of Police Hqs Mr Detora entered the bathroom, when he came out of the bathroom Ptl. Thomas Wynne noticed an odor emanating from the hallway. Ptl. Wynne checked the bathroom and found toilet paper along with paper towels were piled up and lit on fire. Ptl. Wynne also found Mr. Detora had defecated on the floor then drew on the walls of the bathroom with feces. Mr Detora was immediately taken into custody."

Detora, 24, was charged with arson and criminal mischief while Leadbeater, 22, was charged with driving while intoxicated.

Strip Club Manager Arrested for Hiring 14-Year-Old Dance

According to police, any reasonable person would look at this girl and realize that she's a 14-year-old seventh grader . . . but apparently not Jeffery Shawn Martinez, 34, the manager of an adult nightclub in Corpus Christi, TX. Officers say the girl approached them and told them that she had been kidnapped from San Antonio and had somehow escaped the person who abducted her. During her captivity, she allegedly was hired to work as a stripper at the club.

Martinez was charged with sexual performance of a child and employment harmful to a minor, while Leslie Campbell, 48, (the man apparently accused of kidnapping the girl) was being held on suspicion of aggravated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping.

Adult nightclub manager arrested [Houston Chronicle]

Woman Accused of Having Sex in Car in Front of Kids, Claims She Spilled Beer on Pants

The cops pull up to a parked car, find two small children in the back (aged 1 and 3) and their mother in the front seat with her pants down with a strange man with her. She says she spilled beer on her pants and was just trying to clean them off, the cops say she was having sex in front of her kids. Either way, is this someone who should make the finals of our Dumbass Daily Mother of the Year?

Authorities said they found 24-year-old Danica Wallace engaged in sexual activity with a man in the front seat. Wallace was charged with two counts of endangering children and public indecency.

She reportedly told police she pulled over to have sex because they could not have sex at a friend’s house. Wallace told a different story in court and pleaded not guilty Monday.

“I had spilled beer on my pants, and when I went to change my pants, the police pulled up and said I was engaged in sex in the seat,” Wallace said in court. “I was not engaged in any sex while my kids were in the backseat.”

Police: Mom Had Sex In Car While Children Watched [NBC 4i]

Highway Patrol Called in on Case Involving Female Music Teacher, 23, Who Had Sex With Boy, 16 - Alison Peck

Not sure why the Missouri State Highway Patrol is involved in a female teacher sex scandal, but at this point I think the schools need all the help they can get!

According to police, a 16-year-old boy told them he started texting music teacher Alison Peck back in December of 2008 and that eventually lead to them having a sexual relationship. He claims the pair had sex at a park in Dade County and eventually he "visited" Peck at her home on several occasions where they had sexual relations. The MSHP detective says Peck "basically confirmed the boy’s account" for them and was charged with statutory sodomy and statutory rape.

Before she resigned this week, Peck was a a first-year teacher at Greenfield High School after just graduating from Drury University last year. At right, Alison Peck's mug shot picture in which she appears to already be wearing one of those cartoon criminal stripped outfits. Good fashion call on the day of your arrest Alison!

Second prosecutor files sex charges against ex-teacher [KY3]

Female Teacher, 29, Accused of Sending Sexual Texts to Boy, 14

Good idea or bad idea for you to send these kinds of text messages to an underage boy if you're a female teacher?

"I want to rip all of your clothes off and have sex with you to the point of ecstasy"
"I want to kiss you all over"
"I want to have sex with you."

Probably NOT a good idea, but that's what Geneva Henry, 29, a former teacher at Jupiter Christian School in Florida and stands accused of. Her defense lawyer now claims that Henry is bi-polar, which explains her alleged electronic lust for a high school boy.
At right, Geneva Henry's mug shot picture. Not sure who should play her in the likely Lifetime Movie of the Week about this incident, but a few years ago I would have suggest Meg Ryan. But today . . . not so sure? Post your suggestions for an actress to play Mrs. Henry below.

Attorney: mental disorder led teacher to send sexual messages to 14-year-old student [CBS-12]

Pregnant Mom Punches Kindergarten Teacher in Face

Don't mess with a pregnant woman! If she says you choked her 5-year-old in class, you'd better admit it and then hope you can outrun her.

Gabriela Dominguez Ugarte said that her 5-year-old son, Vincent Anthony Ugarte, told her last week that his teacher, David M. Svetlecic, had choked him. Ugarte went to the East Austin school to file a complaint against Svetlecic at 8 a.m. on Friday, and Principal Freda C. Mills met with Ugarte and Svetlecic in her office, according to the affidavit. Svetlecic denied choking Ugarte’s son several times, the affidavit said. (Svetlecic could not be immediately reached today by phone for comment.)

“Suddenly, without provocation, Svetlecic says Ugarte punched him in the left side of his head with a closed right fist one time,” the affidavit said. The attack left Svetlecic with several scratches to his left ear and redness on the left side of his neck. Ugarte, who is two months pregnant, was charged with assault of a public servant, a felony. She was released from jail on bond.

Reached by phone this afternoon, Ugarte said that she had lost her job as a caregiver when news of the incident spread. She said Svetlecic denied choking her son but admitted to shaking him. She said hitting Svetlecic at that point was a “mother’s instinct.” “All of this could have been prevented if the principal had done something,” Ugarte said. “This guy choked my son. My baby could have died.”

Mom arrested after assaulting Sims Elementary teacher [Statesman]

Dad Arrested for Giving Son Gang Tatoo

It used to be that parents would have to warn their kids about going to school and becoming part of a gang. Now, it looks like the schools will have to warn their kids about their parents getting them into gangs.

A Califorina man was arrested on charges of suspicion of child abuse, mayhem, battery with gang enhancements, false imprisonment, participating in criminal street gang activity and committing a crime for the benefit of a gang, after the found him, his girlfriend and the man's 7-year-old son at a motel. The man, Enrique Gonzalez, 26, and a friend allegedly held the boy down and put a paw print (Awww!) tatoo on his right hip as part of some weird gang thing. The boy's mother (who Gonzalez is not currently married to) was not happy with that and called cops.

Investigators saw Ramirez leaving the room and asked her whether Gonzalez was inside. She confirmed he was there. Following a brief escape attempt through a rear window of the room, Gonzalez surrendered.

After his arrest, police discovered a photograph of Gonzalez, his son and a third child. The two children had gang graffiti on their bodies, police said.

Police first learned of the incident three weeks ago when, they said, Gonzalez held down his son while another gang member tattooed a gang insignia -- a dog paw -- on the boy's right hip.

The man alleged to have tattooed the boy, Travis Dewayne Gorman, 20, of Fresno, was arrested April 21. His bail is listed as $700,000, according to Fresno County Jail records. Gorman is not a licensed tattoo artist but does tattoos for Bulldog gang members. It is illegal in California for a child younger than 18 to get a tattoo, officials said.

Tattooed boy's father arrested [Fresno Bee]

College Students Set Off Smoke Alarms, Tie Emergency Doors Shut as Part of "Prank"

How stupid are college students these days, anyway? What makes you think ANYONE would think it was funny that you purposely tied the fire exit doors shut and then overcooked microwave popcorn so it smoked and made people in your dorm think there was a fire? Especially at 3 o'clock in the morning!

Three Connecticut college athletes were arrested for allegedly setting off a smoke alarm after they tied shut the doors of several dorm rooms, police told The Herald newspaper.

Christopher Scifo, Matthew Dortch and Patrick Robinson were charged with reckless endangerment, burning and mischief, among other offenses for what they said was a prank pulled at Central Connecticut State University. When campus police at the school responded to an early-morning fire alarm, they found a "quad" of dorm rooms full of smoke and two full bags of charred popcorn in a microwave, according to The Herald of New Britain, Conn.

The incident happened at 3:14 a.m. Monday on the third floor of the Vance Hall dorm. A resident assistant there told firefighters that two doors on the fifth floor were tied shut with heavy fishing line. Several other doors on the fourth floor were also bound. Residents were forced to struggle through a small opening in the doors to get out, police told The Herald. “I didn’t intend to hurt anyone, just get a few laughs,” Scifo, 19, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., told police.

Yeah, well let's see if you find it funny when you're bunking with Bubba in jail and he decides you look a lot like his ex-girlfriend. He probably just wants a few laughs, too.

College Athletes Set Off Smoke Alarms, Tie Dorm Doors Shut, Police Say [FOX News]

Middle School Science Teacher Accused of Throwing Bullets Down Hallway at School

From our "What the Hell?" Department: A middle school science teacher, apparently conducting some kind of bizarre experiment, was arrested for throwing bullets down the hallway at the school where he worked. Must not have been able to afford a gun

A Madras science teacher has bailed out of jail and is on paid administrative leave after police say he's the man seen on surveillance tape, tossing live bullets down the halls of Jefferson County Middle School.

Timothy Wojtusik, 47, has taught science to seventh- and eighth-graders at the middle school for 11 years. School officials say they were shocked to hear he's been charged with menacing and disorderly conduct after staff was finding strange things in the hallways last week.

Last Wednesday morning, around 8 a.m., staff and a student walking the halls at the middle school came upon what police are only describing as "several" .22-caliber live bullets strewn on the floor. Madras police detectives immediately went to the school's surveillance tape and, they say, clearly found their man. "The surveillance video is really clear," said Det. Tanner Stanfill. "It shows him walking down the hallway, tossing bullets on the floor."

Madras teacher jailed for tossing bullets down halls [KTVZ]