From the “Can they have their good name back now” Department
Not even a little surprising to me, especially since I have read everything printed on this issue:
Durham police arrested Duke lacrosse accuser Crystal Gale Mangum, 33, late Wednesday after she allegedly assaulted her boyfriend, set his clothes on fire in a bathtub and threatened to stab him.
Authorities charged her with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.
Love to know how the Lacrosse guys are doing now. I bet they are all doing fairly well, having lived through that nightmare can only toughen someone up.
Was mich nicht umbringt macht mir starker and all that.
Category: Politics
Shocked, totally shocked. She seemed like such and upstanding young woman.
I’m waiting on an apology from the “Duke 88” any minute now…
How soon will the DA come out and say she “is guilty” or the Durham police saying, “All we care about is a conviction”?
This is not her first brush as the accused.
“In June 2002, she was arrested on a multitude of charges while working at a topless dance club called Diamond Girls. According to police, she removed a customer’s keys to his taxicab while giving him a lap dance, then stole the taxi while he was in the bathroom. Police chased her at speeds up to 70 miles per hour — frequently in the wrong lane — and when an officer tried to approach her, she barely missed running him over, and struck his patrol car instead. She tried to escape again, but a flat tire ended the second leg of her getaway. Finally in custody, she was found to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.19 (the state limit is 0.08). While being questioned, Mangum passed out and was taken to a hospital.
In the end, Mangum had racked up 10 charges, including driving while impaired, driving with a revoked license (her license has been suspended three times), eluding police, reckless driving, failure to heed a siren and lights, assault on an officer and larceny of a motor vehicle. In 2003, she pleaded guilty to four misdemeanors: larceny, speeding to elude arrest, assault on a government official and DWI.”
H/T to the Ace of Spades Archives. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/222417.php