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.

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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]

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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]

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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.

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