Mary Kennedy Was an Alcoholics Anonymous Member at Time Of Suicide

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Safetyfirst

Another AA member commits suicide. Mary Richardson Kennedy had joined AA 5 months prior to committing suicide by hanging herself. She had been in rehab as well. It is hard to believe a woman of that intelligence was convinced to go to Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings. Some even knew she was suicidal in the past.

RIP Mary Richardson…..

Mary Kennedy remembered for struggles, warmth

By Peter Applebome and Anne Barnard / New York Times News Service

Published: May 18. 2012 4:00AM PST

Everyone remembered the capture-the-flag games, the signature event at Mary and Bobby Kennedy’s forested estate with the pool, treehouse and sprawling grounds in the green reaches of northern Westchester County, N.Y.

Like a variation on eternal Kennedy themes, the couple brought out famous families — Glenn Close, Christopher Reeve, Chevy Chase and their spouses and children — and many less pedigreed friends, neighbors and schoolmates for long afternoons of lemonade, Oreos and spirited rambles through the woods.

It was, friends said, the unpretentious essence of Mary Richardson Kennedy, who led an adventurous life, but whose greatest gifts seemed to be for friendship, good spirits and building the family nest.

And, stunningly, it became yet another backdrop for what seemed like the perfect life gone awry when Kennedy, facing a divorce she dreaded, a recent history of drug and alcohol problems and a long fight with depression, was found Wednesday hanging in a barn behind the three-story red-brick house she had painstakingly rebuilt.

“A lot of times I don’t know how she made it through the day,” her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said Thursday. “She was in a lot of agony for a lot of her life.”

The Westchester County medical examiner’s office said Thursday afternoon that the cause of Kennedy’s death was asphyxiation due to hanging.

Bobby Kennedy said that contrary to earlier reports, no note was found at the scene.

The Bedford Police Department, which was investigating the death, declined to provide any details Thursday. There was no indication that the death of Kennedy, 52, was anything other than a suicide.

Kerry Kennedy, a sister of Bobby Kennedy’s who roomed with Mary in college, said that Mary, who took part in Alcoholics Anonymous, had been sober for five months. But that was not her only battle. Mary Kennedy also suffered from depression, people close to her said, and had talked of suicide in the past.

“She fought with every ounce of her mission to overcome that horrible disease,” Kerry Kennedy said. “It was not something that she asked for; it was something that she was

http://www.bendbulletin.com/article/20120518/NEWS0107/205180413/

HOLLY HILL DEMOLISHES BATHROOMS AT ROSS POINT RIVERSIDE PARK DUE TO ILLEGAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Safetyfirst

Due to sexual and illegal activity in the bathrooms at Ross Point Riverside Park, the City of Holly Hill Florida, without any input from citizens tore down the park bathrooms Monday. Where will people go to the bathrooms now? Right up the street to Sunrise Park where the city commissioners Rick Glass, Donnie Moore, John Penny, and Liz Towsley Patton, Mayor Roy Johnson, City Manager James McCrowskey and Holly Hill Police Department Chief of Police Mark Barker have ignored complaints from local businesses and citizens who have reported sexual and illegal activity there, drug dealing and advertised drug rehab meetings sponsored by Daytona AA and Daytona NA.

It is obvious it is who you know in the City of Holly Hill Fl, to get anything done! If it were not for the complaints from fancy Bed and Breakfast The River Lily Inn directly across the street from Ross Point Park, I doubt these bathrooms would ever have been torn down. The River Lily Inn is well connected in Holly Hill circles and was successful in solving their problems with the park bathrooms.

You should not have to own a fancy B&B to get the city to listen. Citizens have had death threats, and continue to be harassed from Daytona AA and NA members, and still have meetings in Sunrise Park, Holly Land Park and Centennial Park despite complaints from locals. They refuse to pay rent, or apply for special use permits when meetings exceed 99 people.

When locals have complained about drug dealing, sexual activity and having court ordered felons in our playgrounds via AA/NA meetings in Sunrise Park, Police Mark Barker has been dismissive. Formal complaints have been filed with the State of Florida against the Holly Hill Police Department in 2011 in reference to these matters. Yet still nothing.

So I would ask the City Manager James McCroskey and his good buddy Police Chief Mark Barker how are they going to deal with the soon to be ever increasing problems in our other parks now that they tore down Ross Point’s bathrooms? Mind you the Holly Hill Police Department is only blocks away from Sunrise Park, Holly Land Park and Centennial Park. Even with such close proximity Holly Hill PD could not get a handle on Ross Point, even after they did do a sex sting in 2011 busting retired Catholic priest Paige Blakely.

There has been crimes of rape in Centennial Park & Sunrise Park along with other crimes like car break-ins. Is Holly Hill going to tear down those bathrooms too because they can’t handle the few parks with bathrooms? Check out Centennial Park on Saturday night at 7:30 PM when Daytona Narcotics Anonymous ‘Third Tradition’ has sometimes over 100 people having a meeting without any permit, fees and against zoning ordinances. They illegally park on the sides of the roads, making for a very hazardous condition.

Also on Sunday morning at 11:00 a.m. we have a Daytona Beach Narcotics Anonymous meetings ‘Just For Today’ at Holly Land Park, and ‘Sunrise Group’ The Volusia County Intergroup AA meeting at 9:00 am Sunday morning at Sunrise Park. Why don’t they have meetings in the parks of Daytona Beach where AA and NA have there headquarters? Because Daytona Beach won’t tolerate their behavior and refusal to pay rent. Most at these meetings are NOT tax paying Holly Hill citizens. They are from Daytona and Ormond for the most part.

I guess the new City Manager and commissioners are getting spoiled with passing things through on the consent agenda. Now they even skip that formality and just do what the hell they want to do, and are starting to destroy buildings without input from tax paying citizens! How much did those bathrooms cost to build in the first pace? Now even the bathrooms next to the Riverside Condos on the Halifax River are always closed. Again, the condo developers have influence in Holly Hill Florida.

Maybe Lily River Inn and The developers of the condos can also convince the Holly Hill PD to do something about the growing crime in general in Holly Hill Florida. It seems the City Commissioners just want to keep telling the Police Department what a fine job they are doing, when in reality they are the laughing stock of local citizens and of nearby city police departments.

Check out this video taken April 24th 2012 of the Holly Hill Commission meeting discounting concerns of crime by citizens, and instead telling the Holly Hill PD what a fine job they are doing! What a slap in the face to the community!http://www.justin.tv/cityofhollyhill/b/316201474http:/

Let’s clean house in November 2012!

Holly Hill Razes Bathrooms At Riverside Park

By CHRIS GRAHAM, Staff writer May 16, 2012 12:05 AM

East Volusia Ross Point Park

Holly Hill officials have torn down the bathrooms in Ross Point Park, a move some hope will flush out illegal activity in the area.But City Manager James McCroskey said that’s not the reason officials closed the facilities.”We’re planning to build a sun shelter,” he said Tuesday.McCroskey said the decision was made months ago to shutter the bathrooms, demolish the facility and build a shelter later this year at the park off Riverside Drive near Sixth Street.Staff members are responsible for daily maintenance of more than a dozen bathrooms throughout the city, and McCroskey said he wanted to consolidate their duties.The item will be added to the 2012-13 budget and it will be up to the City Commission to approve the construction of the shelter, McCroskey said.”It will be a place to get some families out of the sun,” he said, noting there are other such shelters in Centennial Park and nearby Sunrise Park, which has bathrooms.

But shutting down the bathrooms at Ross Point will hopefully cut down on a number of problems reported at the park, said Mayor Roy Johnson.

“We’ve had lots and lots of complaints,” he said. “I think the only thing they could do was shut it down.”

In years past, Holly Hill police have conducted stings in response to complaints of sex acts being performed in the bathrooms.

In November 2011, New Smyrna Beach resident Paige Blakely, a retired Catholic priest and former pastor at a DeBary church, was one of six men arrested after exposing himself to an undercover officer, according to an arrest affidavit. According to court records, prosecutors deferred a case against Blakely as part of an agreement.

Johnson said police can’t arrest anyone unless they’re caught in the act. Taking away the bathrooms should take away the temptation, Johnson said.

“It’s a good way of not having things that are immoral around children,” he said.

McCroskey said he’s heard rumors of sex acts occurring in the bathrooms but he said he doesn’t think it’s limited to Ross Point Park or the city.

“Every place has the potential of having that problem, but I don’t think it’s unique to Holly Hill,” he said.

http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/east-volusia/2012/05/16/holly-hill-razes-bathrooms-at-riverside-park.html

Daytona News May 14th 2012

DAYTONA BEACH NEWS JOURNAL MAY 14TH

Holly Hill Demolishing Ross Point Park Restrooms Holly Hill, FL- Crews were out Monday afternoon, taking heavy equipment to the bathrooms at Holly Hill’s Ross Point Park. Back in November, six men were arrested as part of a sex sting revolving around those bathrooms.

Holly Hill Police Chief Mark Barker said after the sting that he planned on asking the city to change the washroom to a ‘single-use facility’ to limit sexual activity there. Calls to the City Manager’s office requesting comment were not immediately returned.

TV Coverage about sex perverts at Ross Point Park and how people can go up the street to Sunrise Park now! Thanks guys, thats all we need is more sex perverts and court mandated criminals at Sunrise Park.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/orlandowesh-16122564/city-demolishes-park-bathrooms-after-complaints-29320540.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Forlandowesh-16122564%252Fcity-demolishes-park-bathrooms-after-complaints-29320540.html

Murderers And Sexual Predators In Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings-Are You Safe?

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Safetyfirst

Here is an eye opening article written by addiction specialist Laura Tompkins about the dangers to people attending AA and NA meetings. The courts are mandating sexual predators and murderers to these 12 step meetings. She is also quite concerned about the minors attending as well. Thanks Laura!

Are You Safe From Sexual Predators Or Murderers In An Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting?

Posted by cougarblogger on May 10, 2012 in Controversary

How many steps are there? Twelve, right? Wrong. There are Thirteen. “Thirteenth-stepping” is a euphemistic term used among members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) to refer to people (particularly men) who target new, more vulnerable members (typically women) for dates or sex. Previous research suggests that women frequently experience sexual harassment in 12 step meetings. Just the fact the term “thirteenth-stepping” exists, serves as a warning. Since thousands of convicted felons are mandated by the US courts to AA, this warning must be heeded.

The following is a partial list of requirements for sex offenders in the court system:

1. Attend all ordered treatment sessions. This includes individual and group counseling, educational sessions, and other treatment as directed. Unexcused missed treatment sessions will result in a sanction.

2. Do not make threats towards other participants or staff or behave in a violent manner. Violent or inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated and will be reported to the Court. This behavior may result in a sanction or termination from the Mental Health Court program.

3. Attend all scheduled Mental Health Court sessions. You must attend all court sessions as scheduled by the Mental Health Court probation officer.

4. As a participant, you will be expected to dress appropriately for court. Clothing bearing violence, sexual, drug, or alcohol related themes is inappropriate. Sleeveless shirts and body piercing other than earrings will not be allowed in court. Sunglasses are not to be worn in court unless medically approved.

5. You are required to attend AA or NA meetings on the weekends, Saturday and Sunday, and must have a card signed at these meetings for attendance by the designated person at the meeting. You must stay for the entire meeting.

Since there is no accountability in a 12 step meeting as participants are required to remain anonymous, the answer to the question is unequivocally…NO. Not only are you not safe in a 12 step meeting but neither is your wife, husband, daughter, son, sister, brother, friend, co-worker nor anyone else. You could very well be sitting next to someone who has been convicted of rape and is mandated to your 12 step meeting as part of their parole. You could very likely be holding hands with someone who has violently raped a child while reciting the Lord’s Prayer….the central prayer of Christianity. The Twelve Steps are based on Christianity, and as an anonymous religion, one would think that the steppers would want to protect their flock. Unfortunately, since anyone can and is mandated to attend 12 step meetings, you are never safe in your meeting. In fact, a 12 step meeting is a dream come true for a sex offender…It’s like a gift from the court for these extremely mentally ill individuals to stalk people in a meeting where no one knows their criminal past. You are sharing deeply personal information in your meeting and sexual predators will play on your weaknesses in order to inspire trust. They will then steal money from you, lie and manipulate you to do their bidding, rape you, your daughter, your son, and take anything they can take from you before moving on to their next victim.

Skeptical? Here are two recent examples:

In 2011, Charles Doucette was on parole from seven life sentences, imposed in 1991 for the killing of Raymond Bufalino of Salem, MA and two home invasions while he was awaiting trial in the murder. He was released in 2007 and was mandated to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. In fact, he met his girlfriend in an AA meeting, Melissa Markus, who accused him of dragging her alongside his truck and threatening to put a bullet in her head during an argument outside Doucette’s home on the afternoon of Feb. 14, 2011. The prosecution argued that, given his criminal history and two past instances when Doucette allegedly struck her during their two-year relationship, Markus had reason to fear for her safety. Upset that the girlfriend he met in Alcoholics Anonymous was drinking again, Doucette took back the key she had to his home and moved out her belongings, Markus testified. While they argued outside his house, she claimed he threatened her and then, while she was standing beside the driver’s side window of his truck, he “dragged” her alongside as he drove away. Happy Valentines Day.

Defense attorney Eitan Goldberg, who joined Scott Dullea in representing Doucette, asked for Doucette to be released from custody while his case was being considered by the Parole Board…and as part of his parole, attend AA meetings. Doucette’s lawyers produced enough reasonable doubt to get him acquitted from this assault and he was set free. Again.

In March 2012, Roy Floyd Johnson Jr. of Dalton, GA was accused of sexually molesting an underage girl during a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting. Johnson faces charges of child molestation and sexual battery of a child. He was arrested in January for molesting a girl who was attending a Narcotics Anonymous meeting with her parents. The girl was in a separate area when she said the incident occurred. Her mother said that she did not think anything about it because she told police that the coffee is back there and homeless people come in all the time to go to the bathroom and get coffee. The mother is also reported to have said that she has never seen the man before at any of the meetings but does remember what he looks like. Johnson has previously been charged with battery and assault many times. This case is presently pending.

Even more disturbing, teens are routinely mandated to 12 step meetings for alcohol and drug related issues and are in dire danger of meeting folks like Doucette and Johnson. In case you are thinking that these incidents are isolated, any research will prove you wrong. These crimes in 12 step meetings are being swept under the rug by the judicial system and AA and NA. Our children depend on us to protect them and we are failing them miserably when it comes to continuing to mandate minors to AA and allowing felons and minors to mix at meetings. In fact, AA actively sends members to recruit and transport criminals to and from meetings. After all, AA like any other cult, needs to keep the flock growing and thriving in order to continue to control members with negative affirmations of diseased and powerlessness and character defects and personality shortcomings, ad nauseum.

Article with comments and contact information to Laura Tompkins-

http://cougarblogger.com/2012/05/10/are-you-safe-from-sexual-predators-or-murderers-in-an-alcoholics-anonymous-meeting/

It can also be seen at

http://pacificpalisades.patch.com/blog_posts/are-you-safe-in-an-alcoholics-anonymous-meeting

Alcoholics Anonymous Sponsor Testifies In Court For Violent Felon Sponsee

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Safetyfirst

This convicted felon had his AA Sponsor get on the stand on his behalf to help this man get the ‘AA get out of jail card’ , and it worked! This gun wielding felon gets probation, even though the judge found his past violence and criminal background make him “a huge risk” for probation! The prosecutor wanted 5 years jail time considering this was his 3rd felony conviction! I guess that makes him a huge risk for those at AA meetings too.

Wow! Look out everyone at your NA/AA meetings! We just can’t keep up with all the articles of violent felons being mandated to the 12 step rooms of AA. Minors should not be allowed in adult meetings period.

Quincy man gets probation for incident involving gun outside tavern

May 11th 2012

Justin Cowan

By RODNEY HART
Herald-Whig Staff Writer

A Quincy man was sentenced Thursday to spend 60 days in jail in connection with an incident involving shooting a gun in front of a tavern last September, but he avoided a prison term by being placed on probation.

Justin Cowan, 38, pleaded guilty in March to being a convicted felon in possession of a weapon in exchange for four other counts being dropped. Authorities said last September, Cowan got into an altercation with a woman inside Buddie’s Tavern at Sixth and Payson. He was outside of the bar when he pointed a gun at three men before the weapon discharged, and the bullet hit the sidewalk, then hit one of the three men in the leg.

Cowan was put on probation for 30 months. He served 57 days in the Adams County Jail after his arrest.The victim was not seriously injured. Cowan, who has 1996 convictions for aggravated battery and for stealing a gun, said he’s attending meetings, is working full time and has changed his ways.

Cowan apologized before being sentenced by Judge William Mays, calling himself a “humbled man” and asking for the judge to not send him to prison or to the county jail. Cowan said he’s been sober since his arrest.

Mays says he was bothered by the fact Cowan was on bond for a DuPage County domestic battery charge involving the same woman he had the encounter with inside Buddie’s Tavern.

“When you get drunk, there is some kind of violence involved, and that scares me,” the judge said.Mays also chastised Cowan for missing self-help and other meetings. Cowan said he missed them because he’s been working as an air purifying system salesman.

“Your No. 1 goal in life should be recovery, not your employment,” Mays said.

The judge said he’d be second-guessed by some for not sentencing Cowan to prison and called the probation sentence a “huge risk.”

Cowan said he was extremely intoxicated when he went to the bar that day, and that he didn’t take his alcohol addiction seriously until after the incident. Defense attorney Don Schuering put Cowan’s good friend, his boss and his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor on the witness stand to testify on his behalf. They said he was hard working, had a good attitude and appeared to have turned a corner in his life.

Assistant State’s Attorney Anita Rodriguez asked for a five-year prison sentence, noting this was Cowan’s third felony conviction. She also said it was apparent “from the defendant’s history” what his intentions were the day of the incident, and that he’d previously harassed her and ran her off the side of the road in his car.

http://www.whig.com/story/18308763/quincy-man-gets-probation-for-incident-involving-gun-outside-tavern

Alcoholics Anonymous For Dad Who’s Children Begged Him Not To Shoot Mom

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Safetyfirst

Mark Dickenson got the AA get out of jail card for felony menancing for threatening wife with gun. His children begged him not to shoot their Mom. Thank God he listened to them.

2-year probation sentence for Mark Dickenson in menacing case

SCF employee battling depression, alcoholism

David Martinez, Journal-Advocate staff writerjournal-advocate.com

Posted: 05/09/2012 10:15:38 PM MDT

A man facing charges for pointing a gun at his wife received a two-year probation sentence Wednesday, along with a deferred two-year sentence pending the completion of his probation.

Mark Bradley Dickenson, a Navy veteran who works at the Sterling Correctional Facility, had been suffering from depression, job stress and alcoholism at the time of the incident in April 2011. Statements made in court said he’d been suffering since coming across an inmate who had been tortured and killed in 2009 and that, during the incident, his 5- and 6-year-old children had asked him not to shoot their mother.

He faced charges for felony menacing with a real or simulated weapon, telephone obstruction of service, harassment with strikes, shoves or kicks and harassment involving insults, taunts and challenges.

The probation sentence came with the last count and the deferred two-year sentence came with the first; the other two were dismissed with prejudice. The felony menacing charge will stay on his record as a deferred sentence, but it will be removed if Dickenson completes probation successfully.

Dickenson’s defender Steven Furman first asked the court for a probation sentence, citing a medical evaluation in court that said he was not found to be a dangerous man.

“I’m not here to minimize, rationalize, or depreciate what he did,” Furman said. “He did a terrible thing. He terrified his wife and kids. It’s not because he’s a dangerous man; it’s because of alcoholism and his depression.”

Furman added that Dickenson has since started attending Alcoholics Anonymous classes twice a week and that he still watches over the kids. He said it’s been more than a year since the incident and that Dickenson is doing what he has to do to stay clean.

Deputy District Attorney Zack Balkin agreed that probation would be fitting, but said that a 90-day sentence would be appropriate, too.

All things taken into consideration, it ended about as well as it could, Balkin said, but added Dickenson was a couple of pounds of pressure away from a homicide.

“When a child has to tell you not to shoot your other parent, it’s pretty traumatizing for a child,” he said, “This is a decent bargain.”Dickenson’s wife also took the stand, reiterating that Dickenson’s behavior that night was not a regular occurrence, and that he wasn’t in his right mind. She said that 90 days in jail would do nothing to help their situation and that Dickenson would probably lose his job. “I wish there had been some other way to get this help,” she said, “but sending him to jail is going to do nothing to help our family. … I want to put it behind us.”

http://www.journal-advocate.com/sterling-local_news/ci_20587520/2-year-probation-sentence-mark-dickenson-menacing-case

Osceola County Sex Sting Arrests 40 Potential Future AA Members

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Safetyfirst

How many of these men wil go on to court mandated AA and NA meetings where other minors attend? Scary, huh?

Sex sting: Pro golfer, teacher, students among 40 arrested

Forty people were arrested in an undercover sting in Osceola County that targeted people who travel to meet minors for sex, officials announced Tuesday. (Osceola County Sheriff’s Office / January 17, 2012)

By Jeff Weiner Orlando Sentinel Updated: 9:34 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012

The arrests were the result of a weeklong, undercover operation led by the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, dubbed “Operation Red Cheeks.” The operation ran from Jan. 8 through Monday.

Undercover detectives posed as children, or as parents or guardians, to chat online with the suspects, who traveled to an arranged meeting location in Osceola County for sex with a child, deputies said.

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The Sheriff’s Office said some of the suspects sent pornographic images to undercover detectives during the online sting, and some brought alcohol or drugs and other items to the meetings.

Agencies involved in the sting included the Citrus, Lake, Orange, Sumter, Polk, Hardee and Manatee sheriff’s offices and Ocoee, Kissimmee, Sanford, Orlando, Longwood and Casselberry police.

The suspects face a variety of charges, including traveling to seduce a child to commit sex acts, using a computer to solicit a child or parent and, for some, attempted lewd and lascivious battery of a child.

”These predators stalk the cyber community looking for children,” said Osceola Sheriff Bob Hansell, adding that because of the sting, “at a minimum, 40 children did not fall prey to a sexual deviant.”

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/sex-sting-pro-golfer-teacher-students-among-40-2106982.html

AA Member Convicted In 140 Million Dollar Conspiracy That Defrauded Investors Over 8 Years

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Safetyfirst

This guy is in deep typical AA denial. He said he did not mean to cheat anyone. Everyone else is lying. Even fellow AA members testified on his behalf. Yet he still will have to sit behind bars for 12 years and give up 50 million dollars! Incredible!

Sky Capital’s Mandell Sentenced to 12 Years for Fraud

Sky Capital Holdings Ltd. founder Ross Mandell was sentenced to 12 years in prison for operating what prosecutors alleged was an eight-year scheme that defrauded investors of $140 million.

Mandell, of Boca Raton, Florida, was found guilty in July of conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud– all the counts against him — after a trial before U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty in Manhattan. At a hearing today, Crotty also ordered Mandell to serve three years’ probation, pay $10,000 fine and forfeit $50 million. Mandell, who is free on bail, must report to prison on June 18, Crotty said.

Mandell, 55, asked Crotty for mercy in sentencing him, saying that he and his family have suffered continuously since FBI agents raided Sky in November 2006. He told the judge he never intended to cheat anyone, blaming his conviction on false testimony by witnesses given in exchange for leniency.

“This is supposed to be about the truth,” said Mandell, who didn’t testify at his trial. “The people who cooperated here perjured themselves. They lied.”

Prosecutors accused Mandell and his co-defendants of using the money for personal expenditures including private jets, strip clubs, luxury hotels and expensive Swiss watches.

‘Significant Sentences’

Adam Harrington, of Miami, a former broker at Sky Capital who was tried with Mandell, was convicted of the same four counts. He will be sentenced tomorrow. The government asked for“significant sentences” for both men.

A presentence report by federal probation authorities called for Mandell to get 30 years in prison.

Mandell, who has a wife and two daughters, ages 12 and 8, submitted letters from more than 125 people in his support, including people he’d helped through Alcoholics Anonymous.

Mandell, Harrington and others at Sky Capital also used the money to award themselves excessive commissions and pay off other victims who’d lost money through prior purported investment opportunities, prosecutors argued during the trial.

Rest of Article-

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-03/sky-capital-founder-mandell-sentenced-to-12-years-for-fraud

Child Porn Hoarder Turns To Alcoholics Anonymous After Busted With 300 Videos And 8300 Pictures

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Safetyfirst

This sicko, was busted with tons of child porn by his own son! In jail awaiting sentence, and I am sure trying to get a lighter sentence with the ” AA get out of jail card ” turned to AA meetings and ministry classes. This federal judge was not impressed and basically threw the book at him. When he gets out there will be an AA member waiting to take him into the community to his first outside AA meeting, where minors will be allowed to be present. Unless of course some laws are changed to prevent this from continuing to happen.

Wilker sentenced to 8 years

by Gregory R. Norfleet · News · May 04, 2012

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a West Branch man to more than eight years in prison for possessing more than 8,300 pictures and nearly 300 videos of child pornography. Timothy Wilker, 43, was given the maximum sentence of 97 months — eight years, one month — for possession of child porn. At the federal courthouse in Cedar Rapids, U.S. Judge Linda Reade imposed $10,000 in fines and a $100 special assessment. Wilker must register as a sex offender anywhere he lives inside the United States and must provide DNA samples to law enforcement. As a convicted felon, Wilker may no longer possess a firearm or ammunition, Reade said. Wilker said he had a “long time to think” sitting in jail since his Sept. 26 arrest. “I’m very sorry for what I’ve done,” he said.

He said he understands now why child porn is illegal and why the penalties are “so hard.” “I have to pay back my debt to society,” he said. “I’ve thought a lot in the last year, and come around to religion.”

Wilker said he is taking ministry classes and taking Alcoholics Anonymous courses.

Entire Article

http://www.westbranchtimes.com/article.php?id=8135

EX-AA Member Bashes AA To Judge Stating They Depress Everyone Around Them

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Safetyfirst

Michael Braun 23, was on his 3rd DWI, and had been mandated to AA before. It obviously had not worked for him, and he told the judge as much. He asked that he not be mandated to Alcoholics Anonymous this time stating “ “They’re not happy people,” Braun said. “They depress everyone around them.” Priceless! Judge said he did NOT have to attend AA, unless of course his probation officer tells him to! What?!

Hey Michael, if that probation tells you that you have to go to AA, after the judge said you didnt, just e-mail us here at www.nadaytona.org and we will go to bat for you. You have a constitutional right to not be mandated to AA or NA without a non-religious option. Good going Michael for sticking up for yourself in court ! Help show the world AA is NOT the only way! Also you showed if you ask a judge to not go to AA, but other alcohol counseling, you might just get off the 12 step dogma train! More people need to start following your lead in court.

Felony DUI leads to jail sentence

Judge allows 23-year-old to serve time later

By TERRY SMITH Express Staff Writer

Michael B. Braun

A 23-year-old Shoshone man was sentenced April 23 to 30 days in jail for felony DUI. However, since Michael B. Braun has taken steps to stop drinking, Judge Robert J. Elgee ruled that he can serve his time later this summer so it won’t interfere with his busy spring construction work schedule.

Elgee gave Braun credit for five days already spent behind bars. The judge further ordered that Braun continue with alcohol counseling, serve three years probation, pay a $2,500 fine and lose his driver’s license for one year.

Elgee also gave Braun a withheld judgment, a provision that allows the conviction to be removed from his criminal record if he successfully completes probation.

Braun pleaded guilty to felony DUI in February.

He was charged with a felony following his arrest by Hailey police on Woodside Boulevard on the evening of June 25 because of two prior recent misdemeanor DUI convictions. According to Idaho court records, Braun was convicted of misdemeanor DUI in Blaine County in 2011 and in Twin Falls County in 2006.

Blaine County Prosecuting Attorney Matt Fredback said at the hearing that Braun had developed a habit of drinking after work with his friends and then driving home drunk.

“He’s 23 years old and this is his third DUI,” Fredback said. “He needs to stop drinking and maybe get new friends and change his life.”

Braun told the court that he has been attending alcohol counseling because “I do understand that I have been going down the wrong path.”

Elgee agreed to Braun’s request that he not be required to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after Braun complained that AA doesn’t seem to work for him.

“They’re not happy people,” Braun said. “They depress everyone around them.”

“It’s OK if you don’t like AA,” Elgee said. “It’s not for everybody. They’ve got some sad tales, but a lot of them have conquered what you have.”

Elgee nonetheless told Braun that he would be required to attend AA meetings if told to do so by his probation officer.

Terry Smith: tsmith@mtexpress.com

http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005141911

Mandated AA Member Sexual Predator On Probation Breaks Into 2 Womens Florida Homes

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Safetyfirst

Elton P. Croft who has done 9 years in prison as a pedophile, and is a level 3 sexual predator, was on probation when he broke into 2 a homes in Jacksonville, Florida. He had drug paraphernalia and marijuana on him when the police arrested him. These are the type of people sent to the same AA and NA meetings as children and teenagers!

While you were sleeping: Sex Predator broke into 2 women’s Beaches apartments, police say

Submitted by Clifford Davis on May 1, 2012 – 5:37amClifford Davis’s Blog

Elton P.Croft

An Atlantic Beach woman was in her bedroom on Beach Avenue Sunday night when she turned and saw a man she didn’t know standing in the room with her.

“Who are you?” the woman screamed. “I’m Bob,” he said. But his name wasn’t Bob.

According to police it was 35-year-old Elton Paul Croft, a registered sexual predator. The suspect immediately fled the home and the victim was able to call police and give them a description.

About 10:30 p.m., roughly 30 minutes after the first incident, police were dispatched to a robbery in progress just a few blocks away on Ocean Boulevard, according to the report from the Atlantic Beach Police Department.

Read the police reports for both incidents

The second victim was also in her bedroom. She thought she heard a noise coming from her window but found nothing when she checked it, according to the report. She then heard a noise coming from the living room and, thinking it was her roommate, called out to her.Instead she saw a man run out of her living room toward the kitchen.

The woman locked herself in the bedroom, called police and also gave them a description.Officers arrived and spotted Croft, who matched the description given by both victims, coming out of the breezeway outside the second victim’s apartment.

He tried to flee on a bicycle but fell when police ordered him to stop, cutting his nose and upper lip when he fell on the concrete sidewalk, according to the report. The officers then took him to the ground.However, Croft continued to resist and an officer deployed her Taser to his lower back.

After he was taken into custody, police found three condoms, three pairs of women’s panties and six AA batteries in the pocket of his shorts, according to the report. In a compartment on Croft’s bicycle, police found three sexual devices, about a gram of marijuana and a marijuana pipe.

After Croft was arrested, the first victim was taken to the scene and identified him as the same man. Croft is now being held in Duval County jail on charges of violation of parole, failure of a sex offender to report residency or name change, two counts of burglary to an occupied structure, theft from a dwelling, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Croft served nine years in prison on separate convictions of a lewd and lascivious assault on a child and lewd and lascivious exhibition of a minor.

Anyone with information about these crimes can contact the Sheriff’s Office at (904) 630-0500 or by email at JSOCrimeTips@jaxsheriff.org. To remain anonymous and receive a possible reward, contact Crime Stoppers at 1 (866) 845-TIPS or email them at rewards@crimestoppers.com

http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/455124/clifford-davis/2012-05-01/while-you-were-sleeping-sex-predator-broke-2-womens

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AA MEMBER EX-COP LEAVES PRISON AFTER KILLING 4 PEOPLE IN DWI

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Safetyfirst

This ex Cop killed 4 people while driving drunk going to work at the police station. A 24 year old pregnant woman, her 4 year old son and her 16 year old sister. The baby died later after delivery.He has since become an AA Member. This is not uncommon apparently among police officers driving drunk! Just how many police officers do we have going to AA meetings? This might explain their laid back attitude to the crime in the rooms in AA and NA. They just dont have the blue wall of silence in the police force, but it extends to the crimes related to Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings.

Ex-Cop Who Killed 4 People In DWI Released From Prison

Gray, in a NY State Corrections photo

In 2001, an off-duty police officer who spent up to 12 hours drinking before going to his Brooklyn precinct struck and killed a 24-year-old pregnant woman, her 4-year-old son, and her 16-year-old sister. Medical staff delivered the woman’s baby boy, who died 13 hours later, and police officer Joseph Gray was eventually convicted of four counts of second degree manslaughter. He was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison and yesterday, after 10 years behind bars, Gray was released.

The Staten Island Advance reports, “Gray…was conditionally discharged after being denied parole three times, most recently in January of last year. He will be on supervised released until April 28, 2017, which represents the expiration date of his prison sentence, said Linda Foglia, an agency spokeswoman. Parolees on supervised release are subject to substance-abuse testing, prohibited from drinking alcohol or going to bars and must find work, among a number of other requirements, said Carole Weaver, another Corrections spokeswoman. Gray must also participate in a DWI-impact panel, she said.”

On August 4, 2001, when Gray had finished his night shift at the 72nd Precinct at 8 a.m., he started drinking all the way up until he needed to head back to the station at 9 p.m. He never went home to Staten Island that day and was traveling from a strip club (that was off-limits to the NYPD because it was suspected of corruption) when he struck pregnant Maria Herrera, her 4-year-old Andy, and her teen sister Dilcia Pena in Sunset Park. His blood alcohol was measured at 0.16.

State corrections spokeswoman Foglia told the Advance that inmates can be released for good behavior after serving at least 2/3s of their sentence: “Gray had no disciplinary history while in prison and completed DWI and anger-management programs, Ms. Foglia said. He also was a teacher’s assistant in a general business class, earned paralegal and personal-training degrees in prison and attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.”

Gray’s family said in a statement, “We are all happy [he] is home. He’s thrilled to be back with his family,” but he did not comment. Last year, when Gray was denied parole, he told the Advance, “Everyone knows the true reason I am not going to be granted parole, and that is publicity. That, however, should not be a determining factor,” and pointed out he made a training video for the NYPD in 2010 to warn against drunk driving, “People should remember that what happened to me can happen to anyone who has ever gotten behind the wheel of a car after drinking. Too many people, myself included, think, ‘It’ll never happen to me.’ Well, it can.” Too bad that video came after one police officer fatally struck a Brooklyn woman—and there have numerous been troubling incidents of allegedly drunk cops driving just last year.

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By Jen Chung in News on April 28, 2012

AA Member Claims To Be Sexually Abused By Fellow AA Member

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Safetyfirst

This AA Member states he was sexually abused by a fellow member.

Alcoholics Anonymous. A FRIEND TOOK ADVANTAGE OF ME!! MORE INFO…WOW. PLEASE READ…

I posted something earlier about me relapsing after a year sober, a friend coming over to “help me”, when I came out of my black out, I was sucking his penis. I asked, “I thought you were here to help me??!!” His response was “I am helping you…” and so on. If you want to know more, it was posted an hour ago…. Anyway, further information found out. He did this to me….I JUST FOUND OUT… He did this to two other people. They both relapsed, within a month from each other. Friend B went to help them while they were using and blacked out. He ended up having sex with them. They were too ashamed to tell anyone. WHAT THE ****???????? How is someone in AA, with 5 years sober, taking advantage of new comers like this and getting away with it? It’s ******* disgusting. I am 27, the one guy is 21, the other guy is 29. Friend B is almost 50. He is disgusting. What the HELL kind of sobriety is this? What should we do? Is there anything we can do? He is going to keep doing this to people and especially newcomers if he isnt stopped.

RESPONSE

by raysny

Best Answer -

It is a common enough practice in AA that they have their own term for what the sexual predators in AA do:”. “13th stepping”.

“Authors: Cathy J. Bogart a; Carol E. Pearce a Affiliation: a Department of Psychology, Avila University, Kansas City, MO. DOI: 10.1080/10884600305373 Publication Frequency: 4 issues per year Published in: journal Journal of Addictions Nursing, Volume 14, Issue 1 Spring 2003 , pages 43 – 47 Abstract “Thirteenth-stepping” is a euphemistic term used among members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) to refer to people (particularly men) who target new, more vulnerable members (typically women) for dates or sex. Previous research suggests that women frequently experience sexual harassment in AA meetings and even in chemical dependency treatment settings. The objective of this survey study is to describe the frequency of various 13th-stepping experiences in a sample of women involved in AA.

Fifty-five women, aged 17-72 years, completed an anonymous survey to describe their experiences with 13th-stepping by men in AA. Results showed that at least 50% of the participants had at least occasionally experienced seven of the thirteen 13th-stepping behaviors listed in the survey. Also, compared to women who had never attended a female-only AA group, women who had attended such groups reported more 13th-stepping experiences from their attendance at coed groups. Two of the study participants volunteered that men they met in AA had raped them.

It is important that chemical dependency treatment providers be aware of 13th-stepping in AA, particularly when treating women. Especially vulnerable women, such as those with histories of sexual abuse, should be referred to female-only groups when possible. When women’s groups are unavailable, women should be adequately prepared to protect themselves from 13th-stepping.”
Check out http://stop13stepinaa.wordpress.com/

AA MEETINGS LOSE IN ZONING VIOLATION LAWSUIT

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Safetyfirst

We have the same problem in Holly Hill Florida At Sunrise Park, Holly Land Park & Centennial Park where AA & NA Meetings take place without a permit and against zoning regulations. The City Of Daytona Beach Fl does not tolerate the violation of their zoning ordinances. So the Volusia County Intergroup AA & Daytona Beach Narcotics Anonymous come to Holly Hill and violate our zoning laws!

Drug rehab and felon rentry programs by our Volusia County judicial system (which includes Drug Court) are using our parks without any concern for local citizens or childrens safety.

Crime is up almost 30% from last year thanks to the Holly Hill Police Department ignoring the complaints from citizens. Many got up and complained at the city commission meeting last Tuesday blasting the poor job of the City Of Holly Hill and The Holly Hill Police Department to agressively fight crime. Instead they have a bad habit of blaming the victim.

AA IN THE COURT

Orange Papers published by Pennywise on Mon, 04/30/2012 – 15:50

In this case, the leasee of a building in which AA meetings were held appealed an order that use of the building for AA meeings violated a city ordinance. The building leasee argued that the order violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. The appellate court found in favor of the zoning board, stating that “[b]ecause the group meetings are for the purpose of treating addictions and not for exercising religion, no matter what the religion is, the trial court did not err in determining that Glenside was not using the leased office space at 2285 Cross Road for religious purposes.”

Anyway, here are some interesting snippets from the case (I boldfaced my favorite parts):

GLENSIDE CENTER v. ABINGTON TP. ZONING, 973 A. 2d 10 – Pa: Commonwealth Court 2009

http://www.aopc.org/OpPosting/Cwealth/out/886CD08_3-17-09.pdf

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=7773412378412953526&q=Glensi…

Thomas Deveney (Deveney), a member of AA for 53 years, testified regarding his involvement with Glenside for 45 years. He explained what a typical AA meeting was like and then read the 12 Suggested Steps of AA.[7] He testified that AA was a spiritual program and stated the difference between a spiritual program and a religion was that he belonged to a religion and practiced its precepts but AA taught him spirituality.[8] When asked if AA encouraged participants to seek contact with a higher power, whatever they might call it, he responded: “Well, they just say, this is 14*14 what we did. If you want what we have, you better do as we did [and that was to seek a higher power].” . . . Various neighbors from the community introduced photographs into evidence showing the adverse parking situation on the street by the office building which made driving difficult and dangerous and prevented emergency traffic from getting through. Other neighbors testified that they observed members of Glenside urinating in public, using obscene language and trash which had been left by members attending meetings. . . . Additionally, the testimony from neighborhood residents regarding parking problems, noise, trash and loitering supported the Board’s determination that granting a variance would have been detrimental to the public’s health, welfare and safety.

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http://orange-papers.org/forum/node/1313

Detroit Students Witness Judge Violate The Constitution By Mandating Alcoholics Anonymous Without Secular Option

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Safetyfirst

West Bloomfield students got to witness first hand our judicial system violating our constitution and mandating DUI offenders to Alcoholics Anonymous. Maybe the students need to teach the judge that they are violating the constitution without offering a secular choice like www.smartrecovery.org

April 28, 2012 at 1:00 am

West Bloomfield students witness drunk driving sentencings

By Shawn D. Lewis
The Detroit News

Defense attorney Matt Fedor, left, addresses the court at the sentencing of his client in front of West Bloomfield High School students. (Charles V. Tines / The Detroit News)

West Bloomfield— The consequences of drinking and driving were witnessed firsthand Friday by West Bloomfield High School students as they watched a live court in their school.

Members of the school’s law club, American history classes and other students attended the sentencing of defendants in two drunken driving cases before 48th District Chief Judge Diane D’Agostini in the school’s media center.

The stiff fines, jail time and probation sentences grabbed the students’ attention.

One of the defendants was sentenced to two years’ probation and 30 days in jail, with credit for five days served. He also was ordered to undergo drug testing and attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings twice a week.

The other defendant was given eight months’ probation. She also was ordered to undergo drug testing and given 20 hours of community service.

“It was a wake-up call for everyone who sat and watched,” said Taylor Onderko, 16, a junior. “What we learned should influence everyone’s decisions in the future.”

A poster board was displayed in front of the makeshift courtroom, filled with newspaper accounts of victims who had been killed by drunken drivers. D’Agostini referred to the board when sentencing the two defendants, neither of whom hurt anyone while driving drunk.

“Drunk driving causing death is a form of manslaughter, and depending on how extreme the drunk driving case is, the charge could be second-degree murder,” the judge said. “You’re just lucky you didn’t kill anybody, or yourself.”

To emphasize the point, D’Agostini showed a video involving a local teen who caused his best friend’s death while driving under the influence. Many in the audience dabbed their eyes as the young man, and the family of the deceased teen, shared their story.

“The video was very effective because it showed the consequences of what can happen when someone drives drunk,” said Sakina Usuf, 17, a junior.

D’Agostini said she was particularly concerned about teens drinking and driving as prom season begins.

“I see it more and more as summer approaches,” she said. “You’re drunk, you’re driving and putting innocent people in danger. And that includes smoking marijuana. I’m seeing it so frequently. People getting high while driving, or driving a couple of hours later. Drugged driving brings the same penalties as drunk driving.”

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http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120428/SCHOOLS/204280347/West-Bloomfield-students-witness-drunk-driving-sentencings?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cs

Man Who Knifed Dog Runs To Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings For Lighter Sentence

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Safetyfirst

This man went ran to AA Meetings after stabbing his girlfriends Beagle mix dog to get a lighter sentence! The attorney said ” This will never happen again” because of the drug and alcohol education he is recieving. Alcoholics Anonymous is NOT- repeat-NOT drug & alcohol education !!!

Tecumseh man who admitted knifing dog ordered to stay away from pets

By Anonymous

Daily Telegram

Posted Apr 27, 2012

A man who admitted knifing his girlfriend’s beagle-Labrador mix was ordered to keep his distance from any pets during three years of probation he was sentenced to Thursday in Lenawee County Circuit Court.

Juston Thomas Gorney, 27, of Tecumseh was also sentenced to 80 hours of community service work and ordered to pay $177.60 restitution for the dog’s medical care. He was also ordered to pay $1,250 court costs and $495 attorney fees.

Gorney had claimed self-defense in wounding the dog on Nov. 16 while his girlfriend was at work. Gorney called police and reported the dog had bit him, causing him to react with a kitchen knife. It suffered a 11⁄2-inch cut under its eye.

A felony warrant against Gorney was sought after a Lenawee County Sheriff’s Department animal control officer reported the dog showed no sign of viciousness while being treated by a veterinarian.

Gorney pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of attempted torturing an animal on March 21, shortly before he was to face a jury trial. He told Judge Margaret M.S. Noe the dog bit his hand twice while he was giving it a treat.

“I went to pick him up and he really nailed me,” Gorney said. He then “swatted” at the dog with a knife grabbed from the kitchen counter.

Gorney said nothing Thursday before he was sentenced.

Public defender Robert Jameson said Gorney realizes he should have made some different choices that day. Since December he has been attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and now has a job, Jameson said.

“I don’t accept that the dog created the dilemma that resulted in him being stabbed,” Noe said. “Only you know for certain what happened and what mental state you were in,” she told Gorney.

Noe said she is presuming “this will never happen again” because of the drug and alcohol education he is receiving. If there is still a problem it will be discovered during probation, she said.

No pets, however, will be allowed to share a home with Gorney during those three years, she ordered.

The injured dog, “Bear,” did not return to Gorney’s home after the knifing. It was turned over to the Lenawee Humane Society.

http://www.lenconnect.com/news/x272269717/Tecumseh-man-who-admitted-knifing-dog-ordered-to-stay-away-from-pets

AA Member Mark Criswell Of Daytona Beach Gets Slap On The Wrist For Felony Battery Of David Summers

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Safetyfirst

What a miscarriage of justice in the sentencing of Daytona Beach AA Member Mark Criswell ! The victim’s attorney was not even there during the sentencing. It seems Judge Joseph Will was impressed with the fact that Criswell had went to Vince Carter Sanctuary, which is based on the 12 step model.

Victim David Summers and his attorney Brett Hartley are very upset with the decision to not sentence Criswell to any prison time. Wow the AA grip on our judicial system is alive and well! Bummer………..

Former Daytona Official Gets Probation In Biketoberfest Beating

By LYDA LONGA, Staff writer

April 27, 2012 12:20 AM

Mark Criswell

Former Daytona Beach city official Mark Criswell — accused of pummeling a liquor company representative during Biketoberfest — pleaded no contest Thursday to felony battery and was sentenced to probation.

The 52-year-old Criswell — the former building official for Daytona Beach — also pleaded no contest to obstructing an officer, a report shows.

He will not see any prison time and has been sentenced to four years drug probation. He must also attend two Alcoholics Anonymous meetings weekly.

While Criswell and his attorneys are pleased with Thursday’s outcome, according to Criswell’s attorney David Kerce, victim David Summers is not happy at the outcome, said his lawyer Brett Hartley.

“This is horrendous,” Hartley said Thursday afternoon. “He (Criswell) got a slap on the wrist. My client has only been working part time, he has hearing problems, a brain injury and a fractured eye-socket.

“The only reason I found out about this is because I saw it on the news,” Hartley said.

According to police, Criswell — formerly head of the city’s licensing and permits department — beat up Summers the morning of Oct. 15 at the Iron Gate bar on Main Street. Summers, who lives in Nebraska, was in town working during Biketoberfest. He was at the Iron Gate bar overseeing a mobile stage when Criswell ordered him to turn down the music, an arrest report shows.

Summers complied, according to the report. But when he asked Criswell if he was drunk, Criswell insulted him, then began hitting him, the arrest report shows.

The injuries were so bad that Summers’ shirt was “covered in blood” and he could no longer see out of his right eye, police said. At the time, Summers said he needed surgery and he took leave from his job, which requires him to travel 45 weeks a year.

After the fracas, Criswell was immediately placed on paid administrative leave from his $87,289-a-year post. City officials started an internal investigation of the incident — separate from the criminal investigation done by police — but the query was suspended after Criswell resigned last October.

State Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Klare Ly said Criswell entered an open plea before Circuit Judge Joseph Will to a lesser charge of felony battery. Criswell was initially charged with aggravated battery, but Ly said it would have been difficult to prove intent with a charge of aggravated battery, because Criswell was inebriated the morning of the assault.

Pleading to the lesser charge also helped Criswell stay out of prison, as did his attending a treatment program at the Vince Carter Sanctuary, Ly said.

“The judge commended him for that,” Ly said.

In addition to being unhappy with the pleas and the sentence, Hartley also complained the initial pretrial hearing scheduled for Criswell’s case on Thursday was moved from 1:30 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. — and neither he nor his client were notified.

He also said the $800 restitution that Criswell was ordered to pay his client is too low.

“He (Summers) has thousands of dollars in medical bills,” Hartley said.

One of Criswell’s attorneys, Mike Lambert, has agreed to revisit the restitution issue, Ly said, and a hearing will be scheduled for that. Summers is expected to attend the hearing and make a statement, Ly said.

“We can’t schedule the hearing until the victim tells us he can be here,” Ly said.

http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/east-volusia/2012/04/27/former-daytona-official-gets-probation-in-biketoberfest-beating.html

Daytona Beach Official Mandated To Alcoholics Anonymous For Biketoberfest Beating

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Safetyfirst

Judge Will mandated violent felon Mark Criswell to AA Meetings and probation. No jail time. After the severe beating of a man during Biketoberfest, this man gets the AA get out of jail card!

Did Judge Will offer Mark Criswell a secular option? Does not sound like it. This is a violation of the constitution.

Former Daytona Beach building official gets probation in Biketoberfest beating

By LYDA LONGA, Staff Writer

April 26, 2012 12:45 PM

Criswell

Former Daytona Beach city official Mark Criswell — accused of pummeling a liquor company representative during Biketoberfest — pleaded no contest to felony battery and was sentenced to probation today.

The 52-year-old Criswell — the former building official for Daytona Beach — also pleaded no contest to obstructing an officer, a report shows. He will not see any prison time.

Criswell entered his plea this morning before Circuit Judge Joseph Will, the State Attorney’s Office said.

Will sentenced Criswell to four years drug offender probation and he must attend two Alcoholics Anonymous meeting per week, said Klare Ly, state attorney spokeswoman.

Adjudication was withheld on both charges, Ly said. A felony still appears on the individual’s record, but the felony does not affect the person’s ability to vote or maintain a , driver’s license, for example.

Police said Criswell beat up David Summers the morning of Oct. 15 at a bar at the 500 block of Main Street. According to the arrest report, Criswell shoved his city of Daytona Beach business card in Summers’ face and demanded that Summers lower the music at the bar.

He also threatened Summers, saying Summers would be “in a world of hurt” unless he lowered the music, the arrest report shows.

After Summers lowered the sound, he asked Criswell if he was drunk; Criswell began punching him about the face and head, the report shows.

The Daytona Beach policeman who responded to the beating, wrote in the report that the victim’s injuries were “severe” and would likely “permanently disfigure him.”

Criswell’s attorney David Kerce said his client just wanted to get this chapter of his life behind him and move on.

Kerce said Criswell did not get prison time because the judge probably respected the fact that Criswell has taken certain steps to “rectify his life.”

In addition, Kerce said Summers did not want to see Criswell’s life ruined.

http://www.news-journalonline.com/breakingnews/2012/04/former-city-official-accused-of-bar-beating-enters-no-contest-plea-given-drug-offender-probation.html

Baclofen Shows Hope For Drug And Alcohol Addiction

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Safetyfirst

This is rich! Even with indications of the drug Baclofen for drug and alcohol addiction, AA member and representitive ’Paul’ of YAIG Intergroup states he thinks “NOTHING” can replace the 12 step program. ‘Billy’ of YAIG Intergroup also states alcoholism and drug addiction is a disease.

I thought Bill W. said AA was not the only way to sobriety. Yet this is what AA has evolved into. Anything that threatens AA, loyalists of the group will try and talk down any other way of gaining sobriety. Also AA members are not to speak about alcohol reform etc. Looks like Billy and Paul broke the traditions.

A SHOT AT REDEMPTION

Some experts call tiny pill a miracle drug for addicts

By Jordan Uhl

TheNewsOutlet.org

YOUNGSTOWN

Damion Thomas said he has been in trouble for most of his life.

Drinking. Drugs. Rehabilitation programs. Slip-ups. More drugs. More trouble. Heroin.

“I lost everything. I haven’t seen my child in two years. My house, my car, my job. I lost trust in my family, my wife. I lost my pride, self-respect,” said the 36-year-old graduate of Community Corrections Association, a Youngstown-based alternative rehabilitation program.

Thomas, who has been serving a two-year sentence for trafficking heroin, said one little white pill that he takes three times every day is what is going to keep him straight for good this time.

In September 2011, Thomas and other inmates of CCA were offered a shot at redemption in the form of a pill some are calling a miracle drug. Baclofen, a muscle relaxant commonly used to treat spasms, is finding its way into substance-abuse recovery programs.

Supporters, such as CCA Director Rick Billak, claim the drug cures addiction by suppressing cravings for drugs and alcohol.

Thomas says that the pill is giving him back his life.

“I’m tired of this lifestyle. I’ve been in trouble for the past 32 years,” Thomas said. “I want to be a productive citizen again.”

Billak said CCA gave the drug to 56 of its residents who asked for it. He said it is being administered on a voluntary basis. There have been 11 relapses among the 56 participants — an 82 percent success rate, Billak said.

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The fact that Baclofen promises addiction recovery is part of the reason why those who support such treatment programs as Alcoholics Anonymous are skeptical.

Alcoholics Anonymous and others, who believe in a 12-step program, say there is no cure for alcoholism or drug addiction.

“We’ve got alcoholism over here. It’s a disease. Is that a cure for disease?” said “Billy,” a representative at Youngstown Area Inter Group of Alcoholics Anonymous. Billy refused to give his name because members of AA take a vow of anonymity.

”Paul,” another YAIG representative, said he didn’t think anything could replace a 12-step program.

While AA officials question Baclofen, Billak has his own concerns about the effectiveness of AA.

“The only thing that bothers me about AA is because it’s anonymous, you can’t establish its effectiveness,” Billak said. “It’d be nice if they could do a blind study on the effectiveness of AA and release its results.”

However, Billak said many of CCA’s clients attend AA meetings for support, and couple it with their Baclofen treatment.

“While in [the program] they’re also in our other treatment elements within our facility. We use cognitive behavioral therapy,” Billak said.

Entire Story-

http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/apr/24/a-shot-at-redemption/

AA Meetings Mandated For Man Who Assaulted Cop And Threatened Sister With A Kitchen Knife

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Safetyfirst

This Man was threatening his sister with a knife, and assaulted a cop when they tried to arrest him. He got the AA get out of jail card!

Man gets probation for head butting cop

Posted: Wednesday, Wed Apr 25, 2012.

By Margaret Gibbons Staff writer

A Towamencin man Tuesday received a two-year probation sentence for assaulting a police officer who had responded to a 911 call reporting that the man had threatened his sister with a kitchen knife.

Daniel J. Furber, 46, who was drinking at the time of the episode, pleaded guilty to simple assault of a police officer. Furber will have to receive drug and alcohol treatment and attend AA meetings.

He also must make a $500 contribution to the local youth club.The incident took place on April 17, 2011, at about 8 p.m. Police initially were dispatched to investigate a 911 hang-up call from a residence in the 1900 block of Bremen Road. On the way to the residence, a 911 dispatcher relayed information that they were able to make contact with Furber’s sister, who reported that Furber had threatened her with a knife.

When they arrived, police spotted Furber standing inside the garage next to a car and engaged in an agitated cellphone conversation in which he was screaming that police were coming and he was going to jail.

Police, not knowing whether Furber was armed, asked him to step out of the garage and talk about what was going on. Furber initially challenged the officers, telling them to come into the garage “so I can kick your (butt)” and telling them to come into the garage and get him, according to the criminal complaint.

When Furber repeatedly refused orders, the officer activated his Taser and again, told Furber to exit the garage. Furber complied, telling the officer “it’s cool, don’t tase me,” according to the criminal complaint.

Furber again became agitated when the officers attempted to handcuff him, threatening the officers and head-butting them, the complaint said. One officer, whose face Furber hit with the back of his head, suffered a cut lip and cuts inside his mouth, according to the complaint.

Furber also struggled with police getting into patrol car.

The sister told police that she and her brother had been fighting all day.

Furber was the one who made the initial call to 911 but quickly hung up. While she was talking with the dispatcher, who had called back, Furber took out a kitchen knife and pointed it at her although he quickly put the knife back in the drawer, according to the complaint.

Rest Of Story

http://www.phillyburbs.com/my_town/north_penn/man-gets-probation-for-head-butting-cop/article_5ba515eb-ed03-5a4e-9915-4dd4f6796c81.html

Mandated California AA Member Charged In Attempted Murder In Mesa Stabbings

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Safetyfirst

Sean Michael Crane 23, has been charged with attemted murder. He had been sentenced to Alcoholics Anonymous for previous felonies. There are some very dangerous people being sent to the rooms everyday. Beware!

Police Identify Fourth Suspect in Mesa Stabbings

40-year-old victim who was stabbed multiple times remains in critical condition

By Michelle Nelson, Noozhawk Managing Editor |Published on 04.19.2012

Santa Barbara police have identified the fourth suspect arrested in connection to stabbings at a Mesa party last Friday night that sent two men to the hospital.

Devin Thomas Kelley, 24, is facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon and violation of parole.

The other three suspects, named earlier this week, are Eddie Jonathan Mesa Jr. and Sean Michael Crane, both 23, and Michael Joseph Hardy, 22.

Both victims were at a party at 1037 Del Mar Ave. and got into an argument with several other men that led to a fight, during which both were stabbed multiple times, according to police Sgt. Riley Harwood.

The Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office is still investigating Kelley’s role but has filed criminal charges against Crane, Hardy and Mesa.

Crane has been charged with attempted murder and use of a deadly weapon on a 40-year-old man who remains in critical condition at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Harwood said.

“I was told it’s going to be some time until they’re really able to say whether he’s making any kind of progress,” he said of the victim, whose family does not want him to be identified

In 2006, Crane was sentenced to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, Project Recovery’s Clean & Sober Program and three years of probation for second-degree robbery and assault by means of force likely producing great bodily injury. He was charged with driving under the influence last year and the case was transferred to Ventura County, where he lives in Ojai.

Hardy is charged with assault with a deadly weapon — a knife — on a victim who was treated and released at the hospital for his wounds. Hardy is also charged with special allegations of causing great bodily injury and a parole violation. His criminal record includes probation and prison time for residential burglary, battery, receiving stolen property and resisting officers.

In a May 2009 incident, deputies responded to a call of someone burglarizing a car and fighting in the street with the 9-1-1 caller’s husband, according to court documents. He apparently fled when police arrived, entered a house without permission and tried to hide in a bedroom, and then kicked and spit on deputies once in custody. Seven months later, he was sentenced to two years of state prison for residential burglary and violating his probation.

Entire Story-

http://www.noozhawk.com/article/041912_fourth_suspect_identified_mesa_party_stabbings/

Pedophile Banker Mandated To Alcoholics Anonymous As Part Of Plea Deal To Not Be Registered As Sex Offender

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Safetyfirst

More proof of pedophiles being mandated to Alcoholics Anonymous. This sick man, who was the president of a bank, did a plea deal that included going to AA meetings. This way he would not be registered as a sex offender! I cannot believe these judges are mandating these men to AA meetings where children and minors are present! AA and NA are in on it too! Disgusting behavior on the part of the judges and AA World Services & Narcotics Anonymous World Services.

Ex-banker from Granger convicted of molestation violates plea agreement

Ex-banker from Granger gets deal in child molestation case

(Photo provided)

By ERIN BLASKO South Bend Tribune2:39 p.m. EDT, April 20, 2012

SOUTH BEND — A former bank president accused of molesting a 6-year-old girl in May 2008 faces up to 11 years in prison for violating the terms of a plea agreement that, until now, had allowed him to avoid registering as a sex offender.

William C. Peterson, 45, convicted of child molesting, a Class C felony, and sexual battery, a Class D felony, will be sentenced May 16.

The conviction requires that he now register as a sex offender.

“The victim in this case, and the community, have the right to have this resolved,” St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Jane Woodward Miller said during a hearing on the matter today.

Peterson, of Granger, reportedly tested positive for alcohol on April 12, in violation of the plea agreement.

He also refused urine drug screenings, did not report to probation, and did not attend alcohol and mental health counseling, deputy prosecutor Cara Brook said.

“If I tested you today — and be honest, because I will test you today — will you test positive for alcohol?” Miller asked Peterson during the hearing.

Peterson paused and then said, “I drank two days ago.”

In convicting Peterson, Miller called him a liar and an alcoholic, stating at one point, “I swear to God, Mr. Peterson, you have the florid face of an active alcoholic.”

According to court documents, Peterson, former president of St. Joseph, Mich.-based Edgewater Bank, fondled a sleeping 6-year-old girl at a home in Granger in May 2008.

The girl’s mother, a family friend, told police she found an intoxicated Peterson with his hand down the front of the girl’s pajama bottoms.

Edgewater fired Peterson in late 2008, shortly after prosecutors filed charges in the case.

In May 2011, Peterson pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery as part of plea agreement under which he did not have to register as a sex offender.

Among other things, the agreement required that Peterson have no contact with the victim, attend Alcoholics Anonymous, continue psychiatric counseling, abstain from alcohol and report to probation.

If Peterson abided by those terms, he would be sentenced in 2014 on one count of misdemeanor battery, the agreement stated.

If not, the judge could decide to call him to court and convict him of child molesting and sexual battery, as happened today.

Speaking after the hearing today, the victim’s father admitted to mixed emotions.

“I’m disheartened that he (Peterson) could not pull himself together and obey his probation,” he said, “but I’m resolved that this seems to have come to a conclusion and he’s convicted.”

Staff writer Erin Blasko:

eblasko@sbtinfo.com

574-235-6187

http://www.wsbt.com/news/wsbt-former-bank-president-accused-of-molestation-violates-plea-agreement-faces-prison-20120420,0,1592602.story

Convicted Killer Get Passes From Prison To Attend Canadian Narcotics Anonymous Meetings

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Safetyfirst

Canadian NA Member Dana Melkerk, and convicted killer gets passes from jail to attend outside Narcotics Anonymous Meetings within the community. Anyone attending 12 step meetings please be careful, you could be sitting next to a killer!

Dana Melkert (PETER PARSONS / Staff / File)

Murderer gets passes to visit girlfriend and Narcotics Anonymous Meetings

April 21, 2012 – 4:18am By PATRICIA BROOKS ARENBURG Staff Reporter

A Halifax man who murdered a man at a Bedford car wash in 2002 will still be allowed to leave prison in Alberta to go to meetings and visit his pregnant girlfriend, the parole board has ruled.

Dana Joseph Melkert has “completed over 70 temporary absences successfully and there has been no indication that you have returned to criminal activity or shown any aggressive behaviours during these absences,” the Parole Board of Canada said in a decision released this week.

Melkert, 32, was handed a life sentence in 2004 for shooting Derrick Slaunwhite.

The 40-year-old Terence Bay man was found slumped over the steering wheel in his pickup truck at the Rubber Duck Car Wash on the morning of March 6, 2002. He had been shot once in the head.

Parole documents indicate Melkert has been making

steady progress in Alberta, where he is attending programs, learning a trade and staying sober with the help of Narcotics Anonymous. He has also had “gang-related tattoos removed” and in November was even a guest speaker at the University of Alberta, where he behaved “professionally and (was) receptive to all kinds of questions,” the parole board said.

While out on work release in March, a search of his bag turned up a pack of cigarettes, a bank card and an iPhone cord and plug. He was fined $10, the report said.

There have been no other issues, so the board granted his request to continue to attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings and men’s group meetings in the community. These passes are good for 60 days. The board also allowed him to continue to visit his pregnant girlfriend, but not overnight.

“You continue to remain involved in a positive relationship and want to be involved in the baby’s upbringing,” the board said.

These passes are good for six months

http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/88839-murderer-gets-passes-to-visit-girlfriend

Alcoholics Anonymous Member Arrested For Assaulting A Police Officer

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Safetyfirst

Court mandated Tennessee AA Member Jennifer Lynn Boyance decided to get super drunk before her AA meeting, and never quite made it there. Instead she ended up being charged with assaulting a police officer! I guess this will be one more horror story to share at her next mandated AA meeting.

Arrested for alleged assault on Oak Ridge officer

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Anderson County jail

Jennifer Lynn Boyance

By Leean Tupper | leean.tupper@oakridger.com

The Oak Ridger

Posted Apr 13, 2012 @ 12:05 AM

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. —

A Briarcliff neighborhood woman was arrested Monday night for allegedly assaulting a police officer who came to her home to check on her welfare.

The alleged assault came after the woman was involved in a traffic accident and after several people had contacted the Police Department and reported a woman stumbling along Melton Lake Drive.

Oak Ridge police reports said 45-year-old Jennifer Lynn Boyance of 121 Baypath Drive was charged with simple assault about 11 p.m. and taken to the Anderson County jail.

Boyance reportedly scratched Officer Dustin Henderson on his arm and neck, and when he tried to put handcuffs on her, she and Henderson fell into a wall, causing damage to the wall.

Henderson had gone to the Boyance home to check on her and her sons, ages 4 and 8, after her 18-year-old babysitter called the Police Department to let officers know Boyance had returned home.

A short time earlier on Monday, several motorists on Melton Lake Drive called the Police Department and reported a woman walking and stumbling along the shoulder of Melton Lake Drive. When officers arrived, the motorists told them the woman ran into a nearby yard and wooded area.

Officers went into a yard on Artesia Drive and found sandals, balls of yarn and a crochet manual, as well as a purse with its contents, including keys, a cellphone and a passport reportedly belonging to Boyance. They then contacted the Boyance home but learned Jennifer Boyance was not there, reports said.

The babysitter told officers she would call the Police Department when Boyance returned. Reports said the babysitter called Julian Boyance, who was out of town, and he told her to allow the officers to check on his wife and children. She reportedly told police officers Boyance smelled of alcohol and had trouble standing when she took off her jacket.

When Henderson came to the house, Boyance reportedly came down the stairs “yelling and demanding the police leave her residence.“ Henderson reported she tried to shove him out of the house, which is when he was allegedly scratched.

Boyance was arrested in August for driving under the influence and later charged on a warrant for failure to appear in court. Those cases are currently set for a hearing in General Sessions Court on May 3.

Reports said Julian Boyance told officers his wife was supposed to be attending an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting on Monday night.

Jennifer Boyance was also involved in a two-vehicle crash on Monday. Reports said she was driving her minivan about 6:30 p.m. and pulled out from Central Avenue onto Oak Ridge Turnpike into the path of a minivan driven by 73-year-old Donald Edward Busch of Crossville. Boyance, as well as Busch and his passenger, Alta Wynell Busch, 71, were all properly restrained, but the Busches sustained minor injuries and were taken to Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge for treatment. Boyance was not cited for failure to yield the right of way.

http://www.oakridger.com/newsnow/x876162504/Arrested-for-alleged-assault-on-Oak-Ridge-officer

Bandidos Bikie Gang Member Brian Neville Peters and NA Member Sentenced In Major Drug Sting

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Safetyfirst

Brian Neville Peters Narcotics Anonymous member and a member of the Bandidos outlaw bikie gang, was sentenced to less than 2 years in a huge drug case involving the Gold Coast illegal drug trade and kingpin Daniel Kalaja. This is one of Australia’s largest drug syndicates!

Wow, maybe if some little kid or teen is lucky they will be able to get his autograph when he continues to go to NA meetings once released. Geez, ya never know what infamous people you will meet in AA or NA!

‘Model prisoner’ biki the gets two years

Marissa Calligeros

April 20, 2012

A senior member of the Gold Coast chapter of the Bandidos outlaw bikie gang will spend little more than two years behind bars after admitting to trafficking 10,000 ecstasy tablets.

Brian Neville Peters, 34, faced Brisbane District Court yesterday where he pleaded guilty to two counts of trafficking and supplying dangerous drugs in late 2009 and early 2010.

He also pleaded guilty to a number of offences relating to the possession of ecstasy, tainted jewellery and ammunition.

Peters, from Varsity Lakes, admitted supplying an associate with 10,000 ecstasy tablets over three occasions in Broadbeach in November and December 2009.

On the first occasion he sold 4000 tablets containing methylamphetamine, while on the second and third occasions he provided 3000 tablets.

The court was told Peters was connected with Gold Coast drug kingpin Daniel Kalaja, who was arrested in a massive police swoop in 2010 and has since admitted to operating one of the nation’s largest drug syndicates.

Justice Peter Lyons noted Peters was connected with key figures in the Gold Coast’s illegal drug trade, although he had refused to name his associates when questioned by police.

“You were obviously in a position to obtain these drugs and were supplying them to a person who was heavily involved in the Gold Coast drug trade, and perhaps further afield,” he said.

Peters was arrested following a lengthy police operation, in which detectives tapped thousands of phone calls between the bikie and his associates.

He was released from prison on bail soon after, but was arrested again in July last year, after police raided his Varsity Lakes home and found him in possession of several kilograms of precursor chemicals used to make amphetamines, as well as drug-making instructions, ammunition and amphetamines for his own use.

Defence barrister Jeffrey Hunter SC said Peters had sourced the precursor chemicals, including a large quantity of iodine, with the intention of selling them to support his own addiction to the drug.

Mr Hunter said Peters had relied upon the drug to help control his attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Crown prosecutor Glen Cash said Peters should be sentenced at least nine years’ jail due to his significant criminal history and offending while on bail, but Mr Hunter successfully argued a for a lesser penalty.

Mr Hunter said Peters had become a model prisoner whilst being held on remand.

He said Peters had become a respected mentor to younger prisoners and had completed a diploma of business, while regularly attending Narcotics Anonymous meetings.

Justice Lyons noted Peters’ psychologist was cautiously optimistic about his rehabilitation, but decided to impose a less severe sentence of 7½ years’ jail.

He declared 10 months Peters has been held on remand as time already served under the sentence.

Peters will be eligible for parole on December 31, 2013, after serving 20 months behind bars.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/model-prisoner-bikie-gets-two-years-20120419-1x9th.html

AA Member Leslie Haun Diagnosed With Schizoaffective Disorder Murdered AA Member Shain Pierce

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Safetyfirst

Apr. 16, 2012

COVINGTON — Leslie Haun told a state psychiatrist that he isn’t convinced the man he is accused of beating to death with an aluminum bat and table leg is actually dead.

Why the doubt? Haun thinks the dead man has since visited him in jail.

That was Dr. Timothy Allen’s testimony during Haun’s competency hearing Monday in Kenton Circuit Court. Judge Patricia Summe did not immediately rule on whether Haun is competent to stand trial.

Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Jim Redwine urged the judge to find the 48-year-old Haun competent.

“Perhaps in the course of a trial we will prove beyond a reasonable doubt – not only to a jury but to him as well – that he did in fact kill somebody,” Redwine said.

Public defender Eva Hager argued that a defendant who thinks the person they charged with killing visited them in jail can’t possibly participate in their own defense.

Allen said Haun can function in society when he is on medication. Haun has an IQ of 111; the average range is 85 to 115.

“He is a bright individual,” Allen said. “No concern about his cognitive function related to the court process.”

It is when Haun is off his medication when he hears voices, Allen said. There have been times Haun has delusions of various entities, often of the demonic type, chasing after him. Haun once told a judge he led police on a 50-mile chase in a stolen car because “Jesus provided the car for him to escape the demons that were chasing him.”

Another time Haun told authorities his name was “Sabo.” When a judge questioned the name, Haun told him, “That’s what they call me in the third dimension.”

Allen said the staff at the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center in La Grange had worked with Haun over the years. A state mental evaluation in October diagnosed Haun with schizoaffective disorder, a condition that caused symptoms of schizophrenia such as hallucinations or delusions and symptoms of mood disorders, such as mania or depression, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Haun is charged with murder for the killing of 54-year-old Shain Pierce last September in Covington. Pierce let Haun stay at his apartment after he was kicked out of a drug and alcohol treatment facility. The two men had met at Alcoholics Anonymous.

Investigators say Pierce returned to his apartment after having a toe amputated to Haun drinking alcohol. When Pierce ordered Haun to leave, there was a struggle.

The trial in the killing of Pierce was set for June 5, but that date is in jeopardy because the state crime lab hasn’t completed DNA testing on the murder weapon. Haun’s son, 22-year-old Robert Haun, is accused of trying to throw the bat and table leg used in the beating down a sewer. Investigators were able to find the bat but could not find the table leg, according to court records.

The son is charged with tampering with physical evidence and is set to be tried with his father.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120416/NEWS010704/304160113/Accused-murderer-believes-victim-isn-t-dead?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE