Stupid people of the week

A man seeking Wisconsin’s governor illegally brought guns to the state Capitol — twice in one day

According to other news reports, this guy donated money to Bernie’s Presidential Campaign…

A man illegally brought a loaded handgun into the Wisconsin Capitol, demanding to see Gov. Tony Evers, and returned at night with an assault rifle after posting bail, police said Thursday.

The man, who was shirtless and had a holstered handgun, approached the governor’s office on the first floor of the Capitol around 2 p.m. Wednesday, state Department of Administration spokesperson Tatyana Warrick said. The 43-year-old man said “he would not leave until he saw Governor Evers” so he could talk about “domestic abuse towards men,” Capitol police said in a bulletin sent to lawmakers and their staffs.

Evers was not in the building at the time, Warrick said.

A Capitol police officer sits at a desk outside of a suite of rooms that includes the governor’s office, conference room and offices for the attorney general.

The man was taken into custody for openly carrying a firearm in the Capitol, which is against the law, Warrick said. Weapons can be brought into the Capitol if they are concealed and the person has a valid permit. The man arrested did not have a concealed carry permit, Warrick said.

The man posted cellphone video of his arrest on his Facebook page, which one of his Facebook friends downloaded and provided to The Associated Press. In the footage, the man tells police as they speak to him outside of the governor’s office that he is armed “to defend myself” from people who he says police won’t protect him from.

“I am not a threat,” the man tells police. His dog is with him.

When told by officers that it’s illegal for him to openly carry a firearm in the Capitol, the man says, “I will admit that I broke that law.”

Warrick said she was not aware of the video and could not comment on it.

The man was booked into the Dane County Jail but later posted bail.

He returned to the outside of the Capitol shortly before 9 p.m., three hours after the building closed, with a loaded assault-style rifle and a collapsible police baton in his backpack, Warrick said. He again demanded to see the governor and was taken into custody.

The man said “he did not own a vehicle and it is likely he has access to a large amount of weapons and is comfortable using them,” police said in the bulletin sent to Capitol workers.

Capitol police named the suspect, but court records show that no charges had been filed as of late Thursday afternoon. The AP normally does not name suspects until they are charged and efforts are made to get comments from them, their lawyer or other representative.

Madison police reported Thursday that the man was taken into protective custody and taken to the hospital. He could not be reached by the AP, and a spokesperson for the police department did not return an email seeking additional details.

A spokesman for the state public defender’s office could not disclose on Thursday whether a public defender had been assigned to the alleged gunman, and an attorney who represented him in a previous case did not immediately return voicemails asking whether they were representing him. Members of the man’s family and prior employers also did not immediately respond to voicemails.

In a podcast posted Tuesday, a man who identified himself with the same name and birthdate as the alleged gunman said he was in Madison and, in speech filled with profanity, said he would burn down the system “with love” because it is corrupt. The man complained about how he had been treated by the courts and spoke about illegally selling weapons, working in gun stores with explosives and machine guns, attempting suicide and dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder. He also said he wanted to keep living.

“Capitol Police took control of the situation and so it’s over,” Evers told reporters Thursday.

He declined to comment on what security changes may be enacted for him or the Capitol building.

“I never, ever talk about what my security detail does or what they’re planning on doing,” Evers said. “But anytime something like this happens, obviously they reevaluate.”

The incident is just the latest in a series of violent threats against public officials.

Evers, a Democrat, was on a hit list of a gunman suspected of fatally shooting a retired county judge at his Wisconsin home in 2022. Others on that list included Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Whitmer was the target of a kidnapping plot in 2020.

Warrick said no immediate changes to security in the Capitol or for the governor were planned. The public has free access to the Capitol daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. There are no metal detectors.

Source; KSTP

SHERIFF’S EMPLOYEE ARRESTED FOR SCHEME TO DEFRAUD

A former Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office employee was taken into custody on Wednesday, October 4, following an investigation of a third-degree felony Scheme to Defraud.

Preston Hines had been placed on administrative leave since September 25 following an investigation into allegations he had been compensated in the amount of $1,051.38 for working contracted overtime details for which he was not entirely present.

The claim, which originated in September, noted Hines had worked ten overtime details since April 2023 at various locations within the county. Deputy Hines documented he worked the contracted and required timeframe; however, through investigative means, it was determined that he routinely arrived late and left early. At times, Hines was documented as having arrived 15-20 minutes after the contracted start time and having left several hours before the end of his details. Prior to his arrest, Hines was employed with the sheriff’s office from August 2020 to October 2023, where he was assigned to the agency’s patrol bureau.

The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office holds its employees to a high standard of conduct and behavior. The actions demonstrated by Mr. Hines do not reflect the vision of the agency or its values of integrity, respect, service, and fairness. As such, the sheriff’s office recognizes the importance of informing the public of our commitment to the community and to ensure we strictly adhere to those values.

Source; Sarasota Sheriff’s Office

Portland Kia Thieves Leave Photos Of Themselves Behind

We’ve seen quite a few dumb criminals recently, but a group who stole a Portland woman’s Kia and left behind what authorities believe are photos of themselves just really takes the cake. After all, that’s almost as good as putting a signed confession with your fingerprints on the dashboard when you dump a stolen car.

This unbelievable story comes via KGW News, which spoke with the woman who says she bought the Kia Rio about two years ago. However, one morning she woke up and the car was gone. It was discovered later in the parking lot of a shopping center in a different part of Portland with the Polaroids of likely the thieves as well as a partial 12-pack of White Claw, the drink preferred by Elon Musk, no less.

Those Polaroid photos came from a camera the woman left in her Kia. Not many people have those these days, so it’s likely the young thieves found the novelty fascinating and just had to use it. The problem is they left some nice evidence behind in the process.

Sadly, the thieves also got away with over $2,000 in camera equipment that was left in the trunk of the Kia. Not to blame this woman, but we want to remind everyone to not leave valuables in your car, especially overnight. It’s just not worth the risk.

We don’t expect Portland police will be hot on the trail of these car thieves. After all, car theft is quite common in the city and local law enforcement have their hands full with many more serious crimes. Sadly, that’s in part why car theft is such a common problem in places like Portland.

It’s also noteworthy that the steering column shrouding had been removed from the Kia Rio, as shown by KGW. In other words, these kids likely did the famous TikTok challenge where they hotwired the car using a USB phone charging cable. There are multiple layers of ridiculousness in this story, but that’s the state of car theft in the US and many other countries in 2023.

Source; Yahoo!

Teacher busted after students find her meth at family fun night: police

An Indiana middle school teacher was arrested after two students found her methamphetamine stash inside a hidden compartment on her hair scrunchie – and the 35-year-old woman came prepared for subsequent drug tests with a pouch of clean urine in her pants, police said.

Helfrich Park STEM Academy hosted a family fun night for students on Sept. 12, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital, and Sarah Duncan attended the event along with her daughter, who was a student at the school.

At the end of the event, around 6 p.m., Duncan posed with students in a photo booth, per the affidavit.

“Both juveniles stated that Duncan let her hair down for the photo,” Evansville Police Department officers wrote. “After the photo, the juveniles cleaned up the area and located a blueish colored velvet-type scrunchie with a white zipper on the table. They noticed the scrunchie was heavier than a typical scrunchie, they opened the zipper pouch and observed a glass vial that contained a white powder substance that the two believed to be drugs along with a cut straw with white powder.”

They immediately notified another teacher, who instructed the students to throw the substance in the trash. That teacher, who could not be reached by Fox News Digital at press time, secured the scrunchie in her classroom and notified the school’s principal and assistant principal.

Meanwhile, two janitors working the night of the event told police that Duncan was “frantically searching for some sort of hair tie” after the event had ended. Security camera footage from the school obtained by police showed Duncan wearing the scrunchie earlier in the evening.

A field test for methamphetamine on the scrunchie, administered by responding police, allegedly came back positive.

Two days later, the school’s deputy chief of staff and Evansville Police Chief Tim Alford accompanied Duncan to a nearby clinic for a drug urine screening, per the document.

The teacher’s first two urine samples were too small and did not “reach the temperature for testing,” and Duncan allegedly acted baffled, telling officers that she “[did] not know why her urine would not reach the appropriate level or temperature for testing.”

While making a third attempt, police wrote, officers “observed an unauthorized collection container fall from Duncan’s shorts.”

“Duncan stated that she was not aware of the pouch/container in her shorts until after she was providing her second sample,” police wrote in their affidavit. “Duncan stated that she does not know how or when the pouch/container got into her shorts that day. Duncan stated that there may be another one of them at her residence but that they were not purchased by her, but by someone she knows who probably uses them to pass drug screens.”

Duncan was booked into the Vanderburgh County Jail last Wednesday on one count of criminal possession and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia and has since been released on $1,000 bond on the condition that she attend a drug rehab program, a court clerk at Vanderburgh Superior Court told Fox News Digital. Her first court hearing was scheduled for Tuesday.

Fox News Digital could not reach the school district for comment at press time. She was fired the day of her arrest, according to local outlet WFIE.

Duncan could not be reached for comment and has not yet been assigned a public defender. Her next court appearance is scheduled for Oct. 9.

Source; Fox News

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