AA Member Arrested at AA Meeting After Stealing Car and Driving to Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting

I guess AA members feel pretty safe stealing cars and going to AA meetings. Must be their habit of inviting and protecting criminals for decades

Jury indicts Phillipsburg man accused of stealing car, driving to AA Meeting

Matthew Bultman | The Express-TimesBy Matthew Bultman | The Express-Times 
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on August 01, 2013 at 5:27 PM, updated August 01, 2013 at 9:54 PM
Phillipsburg man was indicted on a charge he stole a car in Warren County before driving it to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Easton.

A Warren County grand jury returned a one-count indictment Wednesday against Brian Mulrooney, 23, of the 500 block of Roseberry Street, charging him with one count of theft of an automobile. Orlando Florida NA Meetings.

Mulrooney on Jan. 19 stole a 1999 Chevy Impala in Phillipsburg and drove it to Easton, court records state. AA and NA Daytona Area Meetings List.

City police said they found the stolen vehicle along the first block of North 12th Street, according to court documents. After canvassing the neighborhood, police found Mulrooney at a nearby Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, records say.

Mulrooney told police the car was his and became uncooperative when officers informed him the vehicle was stolen, court papers say. He struggled with police and headbutted Easton police officer Charles McMonagle, authorities said.

Mulrooney, who is in Northampton County Prison, waived his preliminary hearing today on the Pennsylvania charges before District Judge Richard Yetter III, according to Northampton County Assistant District Attorney Patricia Fuentes Mulqueen.

He is scheduled for formal arraignment Sept. 19 in Northampton County Court in Easton on misdemeanor resisting arrest and felony counts of receiving stolen property and aggravated assault. Authorities also added another felony count of aggravated assault against Mulrooney for headbutting the officer, Mulqueen said.

Unless Mulrooney enters a plea or the case is disposed of in another fashion, he is headed toward trial on the Pennsylvania charges.

In February, Mulrooney was additionally charged with aggravated harassment by a prisoner after he allegedly spit on a Northampton County Prison guard. He hit corrections officer Gregory Knauss on the cheek and eye when he spit Jan. 28 through the bars of his cell, court records say.

He is being held in the Easton jail in lieu of $50,000 bail. Charges stemming from the February incident remain unresolved, court records state.

Regional editor Kurt Bresswein contributed to this report.

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