Stupid people of the week

Coach, 6th-grade teacher faces 20 years for post-graduation relationship with student

He couldn’t keep it in his pants for 90 days.

A Nebraska teacher and high school wrestling coach has been charged with sexual abuse by a school official after authorities said he entered into an intimate relationship with a former student shortly after her graduation.

Cody Pester, 26, a sixth-grade teacher and wrestling coach, was arrested following an investigation by the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office. According to a probable cause affidavit, Pester and the 18-year-old woman began exchanging text messages May 10, the day she graduated from Palmyra High School. Per KOLN, citing Lancaster County Chief Deputy Ben Houchin, Pester and the victim exchanged more than 13,000 text messages.

Investigators said the two decided to enter into a relationship by July 18, 2025.

The sheriff’s office learned of the allegations Dec. 29, 2025, and interviewed the woman Jan. 23. She told investigators she and Pester engaged in intimate relations several times in July and August 2025.

Authorities said Pester waived his Fifth Amendment rights and admitted to the relationship, estimating the two had sexual contact about six times in July 2025.

Under Nebraska law, teachers are prohibited from having intimate relationships with students within 90 days of their graduation or departure from the school system.

Pester was taken into custody Jan. 26 and later released on a $10,000 bond after bail was set at $100,000. The school district has removed him from all duties and said it is cooperating with law enforcement.

Source; KOMO News

Ex-Marine arrested after early release following hazing death

This guy’s got some issues.

A former Parris Island Marine drill instructor that was sentenced to prison in 2017 for hazing recruits and released early on good behavior has recently been arrested and charged with a separate crime in South Carolina.

During his time as a former gunnery sergeant at Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Parris Island, South Carolina, Joseph Anthony Felix was accused and subsequently found guilty of abusing recruits, leading to the death of one in 2017.

On Jan. 25, Felix was arrested by the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office under the charge of cruelty to children, according to a redacted copy of the incident report shared with Military Times by the office.

According to the incident report, the officer that responded to the scene found the victim to have severe abrasions on his neck area, like “something had scraped it with extensive force.”

Felix was booked into the Beaufort County Detention center but was released on bond the next day, Lt. Daniel Allen, a spokesperson for the office, said in a statement to Military Times.

The court date is currently scheduled for March 12 in Beaufort Magistrate Court, but that can change, according to Allen.

Felix served in the Marine Corps for 15 years and is an Afghanistan and Iraq War veteran.

More at the source, including his callousness towards recruits: Military Times

Inmate’s sentence extended after attempted escape from Fort Leavenworth military prison

We talked about this when it happened, and now we get some resolution.

Last year, a picture shared on social media showed a man entangled in concertina wire on the top of a fence after attempting to break out of a military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Now, he has been sentenced to an extra nine months behind bars, according to the Army.

Zachary Harader received the extra time per a plea agreement after being convicted on Jan. 12 of one specification of attempted escape under Article 130 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or UCMJ, Army spokeswoman Heather J. Hagan said on Tuesday. Stars and Stripes first reported on Harader’s sentence.

On April 29, Harder and fellow inmate Mason Wollersheim tried to escape from the Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility, but both men were recaptured, Hagan said.

A picture shared on social media afterward showed Harader stuck in concertina wire as two soldiers worked to free him, Army officials confirmed on Tuesday.

Harader “became entangled in the wire at the top of a perimeter fence” during the escape, and Wollersheim was injured by the fence’s concertina wire, Hagan said.

Harader was a specialist assigned to Vilseck, Germany, when he was court-martialed in April 2024 and convicted of two specifications of domestic violence under Article 128b of the UCMJ, Army court records show.

He was sentenced to spend 33 months in prison and receive a bad conduct discharge per a plea agreement. Army court records from January indicate that Harader is currently a PV1, or private.

Wollersheim, a former staff sergeant who served with 10th Special Forces Group, was convicted in January 2025 of one specification of broadcasting an indecent recording, three specifications of attempted larceny, one specification of wire fraud, and one specification of larceny under Articles 80, 121, 134, and 120c, of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, according to Army court records.

He was also found not guilty of one specification each of indecent recording, extortion, assault consummated by battery, and false official statement under UCMJ Articles 120c, 127, 128, and 107, according to Army court records.

Wollersheim was sentenced to be reduced in rank to specialist (or the E-4 paygrade), spend 28 months in prison, and receive a bad-conduct discharge, the court records show.

Charges against Wollersheim in connection with the April 2025 escape attempt have not yet been referred to a general court-martial, Hagan said.

Source; Task and Purpose

Lastly, I’ll leave you with this video I captured of Dave Hardin and AW1Ed’s struggle with the servers here;

Category: Crime, Stupid Criminals