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"Rodney Scott McLagan, 48, of South Arm, today was sentenced after pleading guilty to possessing 31,000 illegal images, most involving human female sex acts with dogs, ponies, snakes, tigers and an octopus.
Although 30 percent of the total images involved child pornography, Hobart Supreme Court Justice David Porter today said only 20 percent of those were actually viewed by McLagan.
"Your interests lie in the bestiality material," Justice Porter said in sentencing today.
McLagan's lawyer David Barclay told the court that his client had little or no interest in child pornography, and no relevant prior convictions.
Those images were downloaded in bulk along with the bestiality material, Barclay said.
McLagan, a single man with no children, pleaded guilty on July 4 to possessing bestiality products and child exploitation material.
Police found the images on computers and discs discovered during a search of McLagan's home, near Hobart, on January 6 last year.
A psychiatric report tendered to the court showed McLagan suffers from an avoidant personality disorder, leaving him ill-equipped to achieve normal intimacy.
The disorder often leaves its sufferers with chronic social anxiety and loneliness, without the opportunity for normal sexual relationships, and fantasy is often indulged, the court was told.
Justice Porter said: "It also emerges from the report that you are particularly self-conscious about your teeth".
"One of the consequences of all of this in your case is that you equate yourself with a beast, reflecting the level of your self-esteem.
"It is that which motivated your accessing the material you did."
McLagan was convicted and sentenced to a four-month suspended jail term and fined $1500.
He will also be placed on a community protection offender register for four years."Rodney Scott McLagan, 48, of South Arm, today was sentenced after pleading... more
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An attorney for a Watauga man accused of delivering drug-laced cookies to police stations -- says his client is the victim of overzealous officers.
L. Patrick Davis represents 18-year-old Christian V. Phillips.
Davis says officers had very little evidence indicating drugs were inside the treats.
Davis also says Phillips was delivering treats for Mothers Against Drunk Driving as part of community service work after he was arrested last year at a party in Watauga.
Davis says no traces of LSD have been found in cookies taken to police in Lake Worth Village. That's where Phillips remains jailed on $75,000 bond on a charge of tampering with a consumer product.
Davis is asking a judge to lower the bond. A hearing is Monday.
Phillips was arrested this week after Lake Worth officers said they smelled marijuana in the basket of cookies.
--- The kids in jail because his cookies smelled like pot.... Nice to live in the USAAn attorney for a Watauga man accused of delivering drug-laced cookies to police... more
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GRANITE CITY, Ill. - Police in Nicholas T. Sheley's town came to know him well as his crimes progressed from marijuana possession to domestic battery, then to resisting a peace officer and aggravated battery.
But nothing in his history suggested he was capable of violence of which he is now suspected: killing eight people in two states, from a toddler to a 93-year-old, all by the personalized and brutal method police describe as "blunt force trauma."
Sheley was led out of the Granite City police department in an orange jumpsuit, leg shackles and handcuffs, a day after he was quietly arrested outside a bar known as a police hangout. The capture followed an intense manhunt for the 28-year-old.
GRANITE CITY, Ill. - Police in Nicholas T. Sheley's town came to know him well as... more
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John Leslie, the former Blue Peter presenter who was acquitted of indecent assault in 2003, was arrested last night over an allegation of rape. The 43-year-old attended a London police station by appointment with officers investigating the accusation, which dates back to 1995.
Previously he had been named, apparently mistakenly, on television as the alleged rapist of Ulrika Johnson. Following a police investigation Mr Leslie was charged with two counts of indecent assault on a different female, a 23-year-old actress. But in August 2003 Crown prosecutors dropped the case.
Mr Leslie said outside the court that he had always maintained that he was an innocent man.
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In what is thought will become the first prosecution in the U.K. involving pre-release music, a London-based DJ and music critic has been arrested on suspicion of theft and money laundering in connection with his alleged selling of 150 pre-release albums on eBay, according to a statement from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a record label trade group.In what is thought will become the first prosecution in the U.K. involving pre-release... more
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The Metro Vancouver leader of the notorious United Nations gang appeared to be plotting the murder of a rival when he was arrested by U.S. authorities last month, according to court documents filed Tuesday in a Seattle court.
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Alain Robert, a French stuntman known for climbing tall buildings, scaled the north face of the New York Times building on Thursday, ascending 52 stories to the roof and clutching a bright green banner, before police officers arrested him around 12:22 p.m.
Police and security officials cordoned off the sidewalk below, on West 41st Street, as a crowd assembled. The words on the banner were illegible from the sidewalk, but from office windows inside the tower the slogan on the banner could be clearly read: “Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week.”
The man later confirmed, moments after being arrested on the roof of the tower, that he was Alain Robert, a 46-year-old stuntman famous for scaling structures like the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, the Sydney Opera House in Australia and the Eiffel Tower and Montparnasse Tower in Paris. He wore a T-shirt with his name and the address of a Web site (thesolutionissimple.org), exercise pants and climbing shoes. He had long blond hair. He used no rope, harness or parachute.
Police officers blocked off the sidewalk at the base of the building and asked members of the crowd to move along. Construction workers on a building directly across West 41st Street, facing the northern face of the building, looked on with expressions of astonishment and amusement. A crowd gathered on the sidewalk, pointing, gawking and capturing pictures and images with cellphones, digital cameras and video cameras.
“This is a publicity stunt, it looks like,” Janet L. Robinson, the chief executive of The New York Times Company, said as she entered the building. “There is definitely going to be an arrest.”
Wearing a backpack slung over one shoulder, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., the chairman of The Times Company and publisher of The Times, who is himself an avid climber, ducked under the police tape and examined the spectacle. He declined to comment.
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"A woman who suffers from a disease which causes balance problems was thrown into a cell - because police mistakenly thought she was drunk.""A woman who suffers from a disease which causes balance problems was thrown into... more
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Austrian police arrested a 73-year-old man who they say kept his daughter locked in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, three of whom never emerged into daylight from their prison until now.
The woman, identified by the police as Elisabeth F., was released by her father, Josef F., after her eldest daughter, 19, became ill and was taken to a hospital. Doctors had appealed for her mother to come forward to share details of her medical history. The authorities said she was still in serious condition.
The police referred to the family name by initial only as is standard procedure in criminal cases in Austria.
In its macabre details, the case carries echoes of the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch, an Austrian schoolgirl who was held in a windowless basement cell for eight years before escaping in August 2006. This latest case, which unfolded in a nondescript, three-story apartment house in Amstetten, a town 80 miles west of Vienna, is, if possible, even harder to comprehend.
Elisabeth, 42, told the police that in 1984, her father drugged, handcuffed and dragged her into a basement, accessible only through a hidden door with an electronic code. She said she spent close to the next quarter-century imprisoned there, a constant victim of sexual abuse and incest by her father.
“This is not a mother abandoning her child, which then had to be admitted to the hospital,” Franz Polzer, chief of the criminal investigations unit for the province of Lower Austria, said at a news conference on Sunday, according to Reuters.
“We know that she herself has been kept imprisoned by her own father for 24 years in the basement,” he said, “and furthermore, she obviously was also subjected to sexual abuse.”
Elisabeth gave birth to seven children during that time, one of whom died shortly after birth, the police said. Her father ordered her to give up three of the children, who were then adopted or cared for as foster children by Josef and his wife, Rosemarie, the mother of Elisabeth.
The police said Rosemarie apparently did not know of her daughter’s ordeal, believing that she had left the children on her parents’ doorstep because she was unable to care for them herself. When Elisabeth disappeared in 1984, her father claimed that she had written a letter asking her parents not to search for her.
Three of the children born in the basement — now 19, 18 and 5 — never left it, the police said..
When Josef brought Elisabeth and the others out of confinement, he told his wife that their “missing” daughter had returned. He is in police custody, charged with abduction and incest. Elisabeth told the police that she had been sexually abused by her father from the age of 11.
The authorities said they would perform DNA tests to determine whether Josef is the father of the children.
Also a mystery is how Josef, an electrical engineer, was able to conceal his daughter and her children for so long. Behind the door, for which only Josef had the access code, he built a dwelling capable of sustaining a family.
“There is not only one, but a number of rooms: one room to sleep in, one to cook, and there are also sanitation facilities,” Mr. Polzer said in interview with the Austrian broadcaster ORF.
Neighbors were flabbergasted. “It is so horrible,” Corina Schmid said to ORF. “I can see the house from my balcony and from my window, and when I think now of who was in there, I can simply not imagine that.”Austrian police arrested a 73-year-old man who they say kept his daughter locked in a... more
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A Seattle man who said he wanted to kill all black people and made racist comments to a group of toddlers is being charged with malicious harassment, a hate crime.
Daniel P. Haas, 25, is accused of attacking a schoolteacher with a brick last Thursday after first harassing a group of preschoolers.
According to documents filed in King County Superior Court, witnesses first noticed Haas around 11:15 a.m. when he approached a woman outside the Lake Washington Girls Middle School on 18th Avenue near East Columbia Street, and asked whether it was an all-girls school.
The man then asked the woman whether he could come in to use the restroom and was rebuffed, but he soon returned, telling her, "We are going to kill all the black people," according to the court papers.
Minutes later, Haas allegedly approached the playground area at the adjacent Kidus Montessori School where a dozen young children were at play under the supervision of a teacher.
Holding a long metal pole, Haas, who is white, allegedly told the children, "You're an abomination to the planet. Curse to Africa. Curse to your kind," before walking off through the school parking lot.
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A 22-year-old was arrested on Thursday after phony crack cocaine was sold to residents at a Jacksonville nursing home.
Police arrested Hillmon Arnold outside the Golden Retreat Shelter Care Center at Moncrief Road and Golfair Boulevard, according to his arrest report.
Police interviews showed that a man was selling small pieces of bread that looked like crack cocaine in Tylenol pill bottles to the clients at the center for $5, the report said.
The center was targeted because residents receive their checks the 10th of the month and he needed money to support his own drug habit, the report said.A 22-year-old was arrested on Thursday after phony crack cocaine was sold to residents... more
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Police have arrested two members of Shannon Matthews' family over the schoolgirl's alleged abduction. The nine-year-old disappeared on 19 February and was found less than a mile from her home in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, three weeks later. Her stepfather's mother Alice Meehan, 49, and sister Amanda Hyett, 25, were arrested on Friday. Shannon's stepfather's uncle Michael Donovan, 39, has been charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment. Ms Hyett was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender; Ms Meehan was arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.Police have arrested two members of Shannon Matthews' family over the... more
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"According to CNN, 26 year old Fouad Mourtada of Morocco has been arrested for pretending to be the Moroccan king’s younger brother, Prince Moulay Rachid, on Facebook. The specific charge? “Villainous practices” (I like the sound of that).
In a photo caption (copied to right), CNN says the prince has allegedly been the victim of “identity fraud,” which seems like quite a stretch, unless Mourtada was trying to run the government from the fake Facebook site, or somehow ruining the prince’s credit score. I guess the moral of the story is that if you are going to pretend to be royalty to meet girls on Facebook, you should do it from somewhere other than where the royalty being impersonated has legal jurisdiction."via techcrunch.com
"According to CNN, 26 year old Fouad Mourtada of Morocco... more
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Pakistani officials have arrested a 15 year old boy in connection with Bhutto's assassination. The boy confessed his involvement but the interrogators are now waiting for a corroborating story from another detainee before accepting his confession.
The boy claims that the assassination was carried out by a team of five who were sent to Rawalpindi by Baitullah Mehsud, a militant leader with strong ties to al Qaeda and an alliance with the Taliban.
A spokesperson for Mehsud, Mohammed Umar, said "It is just government propaganda ... we have already clarified that we are not involved in the attack on Benazir Bhutto."
Is this a propaganda stunt or genuine arrest? Can Musharraf be trusted? Are the links to al Qaueda and the Taliban too politically convenient? As ever, fire up those webcams...Pakistani officials have arrested a 15 year old boy in connection with Bhutto's... more
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From Dec 14 to Jan 1 Anthony Maher broke the record for most arrests for DUI in Santa Clara County. On two of the arrests his BAC was .20 or higher!From Dec 14 to Jan 1 Anthony Maher broke the record for most arrests for DUI in Santa... more
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Joe Hanson has certainly done a number of questionable things over the course of the Joe Gets series. But he's never done anything to get in trouble with the law. That's why he took a ride down to the station to find out what happens when Joe Gets Arrested.Joe Hanson has certainly done a number of questionable things over the course of the... more
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Ever want to complain that the police officer writing your ticket is taking his merry time? Don't complain...you'll go to jail. (via Boing Boing)Ever want to complain that the police officer writing your ticket is taking his merry... more
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While promoting his latest CD, Kid Rock vowed he was putting his days of made-for-the-tabloid antics behind him. The man from Michigan says he wants to be known for his music, not as a gossip-column item.
This weekend in Atlanta, Kid Rock managed to do both.
Saturday night, he rocked a sold-out Tabernacle at a show supporting "Rock N Roll Jesus," currently the No. 1 album in the country and the first chart-topper of his 17-year career.
A few hours later, Kid Rock, who calls his genre-bending blend of country, rap and southern rock "hick-Hop," was arrested after police said he and his entourage beat up a customer at a local Waffle House.
Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, was charged with simple battery, as were five other men who were with him.
The 36-year-old rocker was released from DeKalb County Jail on Sunday afternoon after posting a $1,000 bond on the misdemeanor charge.While promoting his latest CD, Kid Rock vowed he was putting his days of... more
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I know looks aren't always a good thing to judge by, but it seems like a big coincidence that this guy would just happen to live next to a giant wild hemp patch somewhere in upstate NY...I know looks aren't always a good thing to judge by, but it seems like a big... more
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