Baltimore Continues to Pay City Employees While They're in Jail!

Your tax dollars at work!

Yes, everyone's entitled to a fair trial and people who have served their time in jail should get a second chance, but what about those on the government payroll, convicted of a crime and serving time: should they still get paid for their jobs? Apparently the City of Baltimore thought so, until last week when someone blew the whistle on a convicted sex offender who did 8 months in jail and still got paid.

Only in America. The real topper is at the end of the story from Fox News.

The mayor of Baltimore this week imposed new rules on city employees requiring them to report when they've been arrested after a convicted sex offender stayed on the city's payroll while serving time, a local news site reported.  Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake signed an executive order Monday that requires city employees to inform supervisors if they have been charged with a crime, reported the Investigative Voice, a Baltimore news website.

The move came in response to a report by the city watchdog showing that Dennis J. McLaughlin, an employee of the city's Department of Public Works' Bureau of Water and Wastewater, received $12,700 in sick leave, vacation and holiday pay by the city while serving an eight- month sentence for sexually abusing a minor, the site reported.

When McLaughlin ran out of sick leave, union officials approved 24 extra paid days from the "sick bank" -- a deal that the city's labor commissioner also approved, the site said.  When McLaughlin later returned to work, he was assigned to a sensitive position investigating water leaks in both private residences and schools, the site reported.

SOURCE: FOXNews.com - Baltimore Cracks Down on City Employees Getting Paid While in Jail
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Female Student Teacher Arreste for Sex With Boy, 15 - Melanie K. Yusko

Melanie K. Yusko isn't even an official teacher yet (she was about to graduate from Kent State University this past weekend) and she's already working like a pro. Unfortunately, the kind of work Yusko was doing was not what the State of Ohio had hoped for when she became a teacher.

A former student teacher at Southeast High School who is set to graduate from Kent State University today has been charged with engaging in sexual conduct with a high school boy. Melanie K. Yusko, 22, of Highland Heights, was indicted Monday by a Portage County grand jury on one count of sexual battery, a third-degree felony. Portage County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Greg Johnson said the victim, a 15-year-old student at Southeast High School, told a friend about his encounter with Yusko.

Johnson said one incident of sexual conduct occurred between the victim and Yusko, “to the best of our knowledge.”  The encounter took place on April 7, according to the indictment. It did not take place on school property, Johnson said.

SOURCE: Recordpub.com - Teacher arrested for sex with student: Student teacher at Southeast set to graduate today from Kent State University
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Florida Grandma, 87, Arrested for Selling Crack

There's probably no good age to be selling crack, but 87 seems kind of old to be a drug dealer, doesn't it? Then again, Ola Mae Agee, right, looks like a tough old bird.

The Escambia County Sheriff’s Narcotic Investigators conducted an undercover operation in the area of Dr. Martin Luther King Drive and East Desoto Street over the past month. During that time, they captured 87-year-old Ola Mae Agee on video selling crack cocaine to undercover deputies.

That sale led to a search of Agee’s home today. A family member brought Agee to the Escambia County jail so she could turn herself in.

SOURCE: 87 Year Old Woman Busted For Selling Crack Cocaine - Escambia County Florida
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Sorority Girls Gone Wild - Pi Beta Phi at Miami University Suspend for Year Over Antics

Girls Gone Wild? Well, not exactly like the popular videos would have you think. These ladies (and we do use the term loosely) from the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women (isn't that an oxymoron?) at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio took things to a whole new level with their spring formal this year. The list of allegedly crimes compiled by the owner of the Lake Lyndsay Lodge, Lyndsay Rapier-Phipps, in a letter written to the dean of students, reads like "how to" manual for drunken frat parties and includes:

• Arriving at the event already heavily intoxicated when it started at 8 p.m.
• Breaking a toilet
• Continuing to use that toilet, even though they knew it was broken
  
• Urinating in sinks (probably AFTER they eventually figured out the toilet was broken)
  
• Flipping over a table of appetizers (must not have been hungry)
• Getting caught having drunken sex (2)
  
• Breaking two crystal vases which were reportedly thrown off a porch
• Breaking a concrete lion (Degree of difficulty for that maneuver is a 1.8)
• Vomiting numerous times inside the building, and the topper for the evening:
  
• Defecating outside the building in numerous spots
  

All in all, a full evening of fun! And yet, surprisingly the ladies of Pi Beta Phi have been suspended for year for their efforts at creative drunkeness. (The national organization confirms that here.)

Nothing at the MU chapter's website indicates anything is amiss (at least at the time this was written) and their Photo Gallery includes pics from something called the "$5 Prom".  (Not sure if that is a reference to how much their dresses were supposed to cost or . . . something less ladylike.) The group shot above was taken from the local chapter's website, and we should point out that we have no idea if any of the ladies pictured were involved in the alleged incidents or are even current members of the organization, but we can hope, can't we guys?

Here's more from the Oxford Press:

In the letter she (Lyndsay Rapier-Phipps) details how students arrived heavily intoxicated at 8 p.m. “Some could barely manage to walk inside the facility,” the letter states. She said students carried drinks onto the dance floor, broke a toilet in the women’s restroom and then continued to use it, urinated in the sinks, flipped a table of appetizers onto the carpet and vomited numerous times inside the facility.

At one point, several men climbed over the counter to get drinks after the caterer stopped serving alcohol. They also tried to swim in the lake, according to the letter. Two crystal vases were taken outside and thrown off the porch and a large concrete lion was knocked over and broken, according to Rapier-Phipps’ letter.  Workers found a pile of human feces outside the building, and two couples were caught having intercourse in different places, she said.

SOURCE: MU sorority suspended after wild party (Thanks to long time reader Gary S. for the link!)

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Happy Mother's Day! Mom Arrested for DUI Sunday With Kids in Car

Probably not the best way to celebrate Mother's Day: to get pinched at 11:30 in the morning on a DUI charge. The good news is that this is now a felony in New York state, under something known as Leandra's Law, or more formally "Aggravated Driving While Intoxicated with a Passenger 15 Years Old or Younger."

Probably not a good idea any time of the year. At right, Frances Fannon's mugh shot picture.

A woman on Long Island was arrested Sunday for driving while intoxicated with two children in the car. Frances Fannon, 48, was pulled over for a traffic infraction on Mother's Day around 11:30 a.m in West Islip. A Suffolk County police officer determined she was drunk, and placed her under arrest. Her two passengers, her 13-year-old daughter, and the daughter's 12-year-old friend, were unharmed.

SOURCE: Mom Arrested For DWI With Two Children In Car - WPIX
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Burbank Leader > Archives > News > Teacher gets two years for having sex with student

A female teacher, accused of sex with a student is actually going to jail? Someone check Hell, it must be frozen over!

Burbank Leader > Archives > News > Teacher gets two years for having sex with student: "A former Burbank middle school teacher was sentenced Friday to two years in state prison after turning herself in to authorities for having sex with a 14-year-old student.

Amy Beck, a 33-year-old former English and social science teacher at Jordan Middle School, pleaded no contest March 25 to charges of unlawful sex with a minor. A no-contest plea is not an admission of guilt, but is treated as such for sentencing purposes.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge also ordered Beck to register as a sex offender for the charges that included one count each of unlawful sex with a minor and performing lewd acts on a minor.

Because of time served, Beck's attorney said she would likely only serve about 10 months in prison."

Stripper Accused of Committing Worker's Comp Fraud, Being Dumbass

Professional Job Hunting Tip of the Day: If you're going to claim a fall that occurred when you were working at a restaurant left you unable to "stand or change positions" it's probably not a good idea to get a job as a stripper while you're collecting benefits from the state.

A Pennsylvania woman is facing insurance fraud charges after authorities say she worked as a stripper while collecting worker's compensation payments. The state Attorney General's office said 43-year-old Christina Gamble, of Quakertown, collected thousands of dollars in insurance payments while working at C.R. Fanny's Gentlemen's Club and Sports Bar.

According to a complaint, Gamble claimed she fell and hurt her back while working at a restaurant in 2007 and told a doctor it was difficult for her to stand or change positions. Authorities say she received more than $22,000 in disability benefits.

SOURCE: Stripper accused of committing worker's comp fraud - The Denver Post
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Drunk Driver Takes One Last Drink Before Taking Cop's Sobriety Test

Some people are good test takers, while others are not. Sometimes you need that extra dose of courage to help you make it through. In this case though, taking one more drink before a cop tests your reflexes because he suspects you've been drunk driving is probably NOT a good idea.

An Ocala man who was just minutes away from taking a roadside sobriety test decided he needed another drink before he got started.  Marion sheriff’s deputies say they pulled over Dana Allen Seaman, 61, of 2417 S.E. 17th St., along the 3000 block of County Road 484. Deputy Eric Larson spotted Seaman swerve his car three times.

After stopping the vehicle, the deputy asked Seaman if he had been drinking. Seaman said yes and agreed to undergo a field sobriety test. Before the test, the deputy watched Seaman take a drink from a cup and toss it under the passenger seat.  The deputy said he “retrieved the cup and could smell a strong odor of alcohol coming from the cup,” according to the report.

SOURCE: Dana Allen Seaman arrested for DUI – but not before one more drink | Ocala.com
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Woman Returns Dog Poop to Yard of Customer Who Refused to Pay

In most cities in the US, you can find someone who will come to your house and pick up after your dog. Seems kind of silly to folks in the rest of the world we're sure, but another great example of the American entrepreneurial spirit. Our question has always been: what happens if you don't pay your bill? What are the pooper-scoopers going to do? Huh?

Once deadbeat in Bend, Oregon found out this week (link includes great video of the poop-flinger explaining her actions.):

A dispute between a Bend dog owner and a dog waste removal service got more than a little messy this week, when The Bomb Squad went from collecting - to depositing.  Melinda Hofmann, owner of The Bomb Squad dog waste pick-up service, tried to collect a $150 payment from Deborah Dillow on Monday night. When Dillow didn't answer the door, Hofmann went to her truck to write another notice - but she quickly changed her mind.

"I started to go back and write another note, but I just decided to give her poop back," Hofmann said Wednesday. So then, from the back end of her truck, Hofmann started slinging feces - 30 gallons of it, according to police - onto Dillow's front yard.  Hofmann admitted she wasn't exactly thinking rationally at the time, but that didn't stop her.  "Actually, once I started doing it, I kind of lost all rational thought together and I just got into this mode of emptying bags," she said. "And as I was flinging the poo all over her yard - it felt really good, and I just kept doing it."

Hofmann has been making a living picking up other people's dog poop for about 10 years.

SOURCE: Unpaid Bend dog-waste removal firm pays back - in poop - KTVZ.com Central Oregons News, Weather and Sports Leader -

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Sixth Grade Teacher Accused of Putting Video Camera in Bathroom

And not just any bathroom: the unisex bathroom shared by both male and female teachers. How did Terry Rauh, 43, get caught? Some advanced surveillance technique like your see on "24" or complicated CIS-type hidden fiber? Nope, the dumbass recorded his own face briefly after he installed the tiny camera in a toilet seat cover dispenser . . . which, apparantly, no one uses at Jesse Hall Elementary School in Nevada, or they would have found the hidden device.

A local sixth grade teacher, is caught on video, for allegedly placing a small camera in the staff bathroom at Jesse Hall Elementary School.  43-year-old Terry Rauh, is in jail on ten counts of "Capturing an Image of a Private Area," after one of his coworkers found the recorder earlier this week. According to video evidence that dates back to January, investigators say the camera may have recorded the private parts of dozens of teachers, staff members, parents, and even volunteers.  "I think it's disgusting. I really do," said Stacey Jim, a parent at Jesse Hall Elementary.

Washoe County School police say the camera, which was only about half the size of an iPhone, was taped inside of a toilet seat cover dispenser, but had somehow fallen to the ground.  "Another teacher actually found the recording device and brought it immediately to me. That's when we notified police and we started the investigation," said Jeanne Ohl, Principal at Jesse Hall.  The camera was discovered inside of the teacher's lounge, where about 65 staff members use one of two unisex bathrooms during the seven to eight hours per day they spend on campus.

School police say when they reviewed the video, not only did they find at least ten incidents where the camera had been placed inside the restroom, but also a yet-to-be determined number of both male and female victims. They also saw the evidence they needed to make an arrest, the face of sixth grade teacher Terry Rauh.

SOURCE: Police: Arrested Teacher's Face On Bathroom Video
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Lady Cop Arrested for Smoking Crack On and Off Duty - Michelle Salentine

You want your cops to have a good "feel for the street" but likely actually doing crack (on and off duty) is going a little too far. At least arresting Officer Michelle Salentine, 28, was easy: they just busted her when she showed up for work Monday night.

A 28-year-old Platteville police officer is facing federal drug possession charges. Michelle Salentine was arrested by FBI agents on Monday night. She was arrested around 7 p.m. when she showed up for her night shift. According to a criminal complaint, Salentine regularly smoked crack cocaine at her home on Hathaway Street, along with an individual who lived with her.

The federal charges resulted from an FBI investigation that began in early February when a witness came forward, alleging that Salentine was using crack cocaine on and off duty. According to authorities, a search of Salentine's home and one other residence recovered drug paraphernalia, including several suspected crack pipes, marijuana bongs and controlled-substance residue.

SOURCE: Platteville Police Officer Facing Drug Charges - Madison News Story - WISC Madison
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Teacher, Boy, 14, Allegedly Had Year Long Affair, Sex 100 Times - Kristen Sullivan

According to the victim in this case, he and the teacher, Kristen Sullivan, had sex more than 100 times over the past year, sometimes at school, sometimes inside her Honda. We're pretty sure that voids the warranty.

A Broward school district teacher is accused of carrying on a sexual relationship with one of her students for close to a year.  Kristen Sullivan, 25, of Plantation, is charged with two counts of sexual battery and one count of lewd and lascivious battery, according to Lauderhill police.  Police say Sullivan had a relationship with a 14-year-old boy between May 2009 and April 2010. They met during a sign up for a boxing program, police said.

Sullivan later had the boy transferred into her computer class at Lauderhill Middle School. They would meet at various locations to have sex, according to police, including a school storage room, her home and inside her car.  The boy later told investigators that he believed they had intercourse about 100 times.

The boy's mother thought something was wrong. Yet when she asked Sullivan about it, she denied being involved with her son, police said. But the boy later confided to a new girlfriend about the relationship. The girlfriend told his mother, who then went to police.  On Sunday, the pair had sex, the boy told police. On Monday, police had monitored a call between Sullivan and the boy discussing their sexual relationship, according to an arrest affidavit.

SOURCE: Former middle school teacher accused of sexual relationship with student - Broward Breaking News - MiamiHerald.com
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Man Goes Without Sex for Three Weeks, Breaks Into Home to "Get Some"

The good news? He wanted to "get some" from his wife. The bad news? The couple had be separated for four days and he removed a window air conditioner to get into the room where she was staying with another family to get away from his ass.

A 24-year-old intoxicated man forced his way into a house where his wife was staying and told her he was there to "get some," according to his Crestview Police Department arrest report.  The couple had been separated for four days. He removed an air conditioning unit and climbed through the window.
His wife was afraid of him due to his state of intoxication and dialed 911, the report said.
When police arrived, the defendant walked away from them and refused to provide identification. He was put in handcuffs. After being cuffed, he told the officer that he "has not gotten any in three weeks and he was going to get some."

SOURCE: Husband forces way into house to 'get some' | told, house, way - News - Northwest Florida Daily News

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Man Arrested for Having Fake Police Car, Fake Police Dog, No Life

We suppose if you're going to go to the lengths this guy did to impersonate a California Highway Patrolman (CHiP) then you might as well go all the way. And by all the way, we mean painting your car to look like a cop car (including lights) and putting a German Shepard in the back seat! No word if this loser also installed a dash-cam, but we wouldn't be surprised. He might have video of his ass being pulled over by real cops.

Tehama County Sheriff's deputies arrest a Washington man after they find him driving a car designed to look like a CHP cruiser. They say Timothy Portillo was driving a Ford Crown Victoria painted like a police car, complete with stickers and a light strip. Deputies reportedly found a billy-club inside the car and a high capacity clip inside his motel room. He also had a german shepard in his car, similar to other police dogs.

SOURCE: CHP impersonator arrested - CBS 12 Action News
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Stay Off the Sidewalks! Heather Locklear is Driving Again

Hasn't Heather Locklear suffered enough lately? Didn't she date David Spade for a while? Isn't that sorta like going to jail? Well, she may be headed to the slammer for real after cops say she ran over a street sign and then took off in something the police like to call "hit and run." Usually not a big deal, but Locklear is already out probation for a 2008 DUI arrest. Oops.

Actress Heather Locklear could be tossed behind bars after allegedly bowling over a street sign in her BMW and then bolting, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Locklear's Ventura County case is a misdemeanor, but the "Melrose Place" star is already on probation for pleading no contest to reckless driving in 2008 following her DUI arrest in Santa Barbara.  "If it's found she's in violation of her probation, she could be facing a maximum of 90 days in custody," Santa Barbara Deputy District Attorney Lee Carter said.

Locklear is due in Ventura County court May 17. Santa Barbara officials said they'll likely wait to take action until the current hit-and-run case is resolved.

SOURCE: 'Melrose Place' actress Heather Locklear may spend time in jail after hit and run
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Fake IRS Email Claims "Child Benefit"

Have you received one of these emails? It's getting a lot of hits over at one of our sister sites, The Spam Email Graveyard.

It claims to be from the IRS, is offering some kind of "child benefit" (what the hell is that?) and then asks you to grab the attachment and fill it out and return it to them. We're not getting the emails directly and wouldn't open the attachment even if we did, but was wondering if anyone has fallen for this scam and can tell us what it's about?

Man Arrested for DUI on Go-Kart, Blows .22% BAC

Not surprisingly, this guy's license had been suspended so he knew he couldn't drive a car, so the next best thing? A go-kart, of course. But, much like our drunken friends who try to make it to the bar on riding lawnmowers or golf carts (occasionally even a horse) he found out you can still be arrested for DWI, regardless of the size or shape of your transportation. Bonus: While the cops were arresting this guy, a second drunk driver ran into them! (Thanks to reader Daniel C. for the link!)

A Lewiston man who was leaving a bar on Center Street driving a go-kart was charged with felony driving while intoxicated Sunday. And while police were arresting him, a second man almost ran into officers and the go-kart and also was charged with DWI. Ronald E. Voit, 22, of Fuller Street had driven to the Pub Bar and Restaurant in a go-kart because his license had been revoked for a previous DWI conviction. He was seen driving the go-kart near the bar just after 2 a.m.

He was pulled over by Lewiston Police Officer Scott Stafford at Eighth and Onondaga streets and was found to have a blood alcohol of .22 percent -- nearly three times the legal limit -- police said. He was charged with DWI for operating above 0.18 percent, felony DWI for a previous conviction, aggravated unlicensed operation, operating an uninsured motor vehicle on a highway and a number of vehicle and traffic violations.

SOURCE: Go-kart driver charged with DWI : Latest Local News : The Buffalo News

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Pot Heads Celebrate 4/20 by Tunneling Into Medical Marijuana Shop

How badly would you need to toke up to tunnel your way into a place that sells weed for "medical purposes?" I mean, just imagine the brain power (or lack there of) to come up with this plan and actually execute it to the point that these stoners made it into the facility and not the taxidermy place next door? Then again, maybe they didn't plan on tunneling into the pot place (tunneling was just something to do when they were bored) and that was just a happy surprise. "Dude, you won't believe what I found!"

Four Orange County men have been arrested after they were accused of tunneling their way into a medical marijuana dispensary. Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department, says three men wearing ski masks and gloves were seen running away from the pot clinic early Sunday. Authorities say the men broke into a business next door, then cut a hole in a wall to get inside. An alarm was triggered and the men were arrested, along with a fourth suspected to be the getaway driver.

SOURCE: 4 arrested in Orange County pot clinic break-in - San Jose Mercury News
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Man: I Was Speeding Through Town to Entertain the Children in the Car

You know what else I hear the kid's like? Trips to the emergency room after horrific car accidents.

Possible charges could be coming for a 21-year-old driver who told police Sunday he had sped through town to entertain children in the car, according to Bremerton police reports. A sergeant heard a revving engine on Seventh Street Sunday evening. He watched the car go past him heading west toward Warren Avenue at what he estimated was about 60 mph in a 25 mph zone. The sergeant caught up to the car when it stopped for the stop sign at Warren Avenue. The man told the sergeant he had driven that way to entertain the children, then lamented that it was poor judgment.

SOURCE: Bremerton Driver Said he Sped to Entertain Children » Kitsap Sun

Stephanie Ragusa Update: Teacher Pleads Guilty to Sex With Teens

You all remember middle school teacher Stephanie Ragusa, don't you? She was, arrested multiple times for sex with underage males, who always seemed to be smiling in her mug shots. Well, Stephanie's not smiling any more after accepting a plea deal that could see her going to prison for ten long years. At right, a compilation of Ragusa's many mug shots. She does seem to enjoy her work!

There will be no trial in the case of a Tampa middle school teacher accused of having sex with two of her students.  31-year-old Stephanie Ragusa pleaded guilty to all three counts against her in court today. It is an open plea deal, with a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and 10 years probation with credit of time served. More: WTSP Coverage on Stephanie Ragusa

When she first walked into the courtroom this morning, she hid under her long hair and turned away from cameras. This is unlike her previous courtroom behavior, where she has been seen smiling.  "You can imagine being set for trial and either going to trial or accepting a plea agreement, there's a great deal of anxiety, stress and pressure. There's a lot of very important decisions to make and so I think that's something that affects anyone's emotions," said her defense attorney Robert Herce.  After working out the plea deal, Ragusa turned back several times toward her father and smiled shyly back at him.

Florida Teacher Pleads Guilty to Sex with Students wltx.com | Columbia, SC News, Weather and Sports |

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Second-Grade Teacher Arrested for Shaking Weiner at Cop

Word to the wise: when frequenting a highway rest stop, best to keep your manhood in your pants, even if you really, really, really need to uh, "let off some steam."

A second-grade public school teacher was arrested today after he allegedly exposed himself to a state detective at a rest stop on the Garden State Parkway, State Police said.  John Socrates, 47, of Point Pleasant, a teacher at Howard C. Johnson Elementary School in Jackson Township, Ocean County, is charged with masturbating in a public area near the men's rest room at the Monmouth Service Area in Wall Township, said State Police Detective Brian Polite. Police came upon Socrates around 9 a.m. this morning during a routine surveillance of the service area.

Jackson Township elementary teacher arrested for public lewdness at rest stop | - NJ.com

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