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Man Hospitalized After Fight Behind Alcoholics Anonymous Building

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Drinking behind Alcoholics Anonymous leads to fight  Thursday, 20 June 2013A 42-year-old Lawton man was hospitalized with injuries received Tuesday behind the Alcoholics Anonymous building, he said, during some daytime drinking followed by an epithet that could have resulted in his own epitaph. AA NA Daytona Beach Meetings

LPD Sgt. J.R. Helms said he met with the man at Comanche County Memorial Hospital where the man was being treated for a cut right eye/cheek and left side of the head as well as a possible broken arm. The man told Helms he’d been drinking with a group of people behind the AA building at Southwest 12th and F Avenue around noon when he’s said a racial epithet. A 40-year-old black man he knew only as “Michael Jackson” allegedly picked up a piece of wood and began beating the man with it, the report states. “Jackson” then left the area and the injured man walked to the hospital where he called police. Continue reading →

Ottawa Narcotics Anonymous Member Arrested In Mass Marketing Fraud Against Seniors In Canada and the United States

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Another financial scam by Narcotics Anonymous Members against vulnerable seniors.

Single Ottawa mom could face jail time for Narcotics Anonymous ‘grandparents scheme’

 By Chloé Fedio, OTTAWA CITIZEN June 14, 2013
OTTAWA — A judge told a single mother he was “very reluctant” to send her to jail for her role in a “grandparents scheme” that defrauded seniors in Canada and the United States out of $45,000.

But Carolyn Palmer must prove that she is making real efforts to pay that money back before he will rule it out.

“I need to see some action,” Ontario Justice Robert Fournier said Friday afternoon.

Palmer was depressed that she could not afford Christmas for her young son when she was approached by another member of Narcotics Anonymous to take part in a mass marketing fraud, her lawyer argued at her sentencing hearing. Continue reading →

Another AA Member Driving Drunk From AA Meeting

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A man who's accused of blowing twice the legal limit was stopped on the way home from Alcoholics Anonymous. Photo / File

Just a reminder just because people are in AA or NA does not mean they have stopped  drinking or doing drugs. 

Man admits driving drunk after AA meeting

10:58 AM Wednesday Jun 12, 2013

By Kurt Bayer @KurtBayerAPNZ , Cullen Smit

A repeat drink-driver who blew more than twice the legal limit after being stopped on the way home from an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting has pleaded guilty today.

Campbell Geoffrey Armstrong, 39, who has three drink-driving convictions, was stopped by police in Canterbury last week while riding a BMW motorbike. Continue reading →

Violent Woman Convicted Three Times for Stabbing Partner Attends Narcotics Anonymous Meetings

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This very violent woman attends both AA meetings and NA meetings after being charged with stabbing her partner on 3 different occasions. So many violent criminals go to AA meetings before they are sentenced in hopes to impress the judge. Many defense attorneys tell their clients to do this no matter how violent the crime.

Campbell River woman avoids more jail for third stabbing

Published: June 06, 2013 

A woman convicted for the third time of stabbing her male partner is spending her time in rehab, but not jail.

Lena Walkus, 38, appeared in Campbell River provincial court on May 29, to be sentenced for assault causing bodily harm.

According to Crown prosecutor Adrienne Venturini, it’s the third time Walkus has been convicted in connection with a domestic stabbing assault.

Venturini asked the court to impose nine more months of jail time, but instead, Judge Roderick Sutton delayed sentencing a few days to allow Walkus to immediately enter residential treatment in Alert Bay.According to defence lawyer Angie Penhall, Walkus grew up in Vancouver and began drinking at age 12 or 13. At 15, she began smoking marijuana and by 17 she was using crack cocaine. Continue reading →

WIFE WHO ALLOWED AA MEMBER JOHN SISCOE TO BRUTALLY TORTURE HUSBAND SENTENCED TO 8 YEARS IN PRISON

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Wife of brutally tortured man sentenced to eight years in prison

“The victim met Siscoe during an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a small B.C. town in 2008. The victim and his wife had been married for three years.”

The woman helped her lover confine her own husband in the closet of their Toronto apartment for two and a half months.
By:  News reporter, Published on Thu May 30 2013

The woman who helped her lover confine and brutally torture her own husband for 2½ months in a Toronto apartment was sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday.

“This is the worst case of abuse and torture seen in Canada,” said Justice John McMahon, adding the “almost unspeakable” acts performed showed “a human nature of such depravity it is beyond conscience.”

The 32-year-old woman, who cannot be named to due a publication ban that protects her husband, pleaded guilty in January 2012 to aggravated assault, sexual assault causing bodily harm and failing to provide the necessities of life.

She watched her lover and the father of her child, John Michael Siscoe, beat her husband with a broom handle until it broke, cut him with razor blades and pour lighter fluid — or sometimes hairspray or aftershave — over parts of his body and set it alight, according to the agreed statement of facts. Continue reading →

Loophole In California Law Lets Sex Offenders Become Addiction Counselors

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Now this is some excellent investigative reporting. Hats off to the reporters! Now this probably won’t come as a shock to those of us advocating safety regulations in 12 step meetings.  I wonder what the state of California has to say about the fact that sexual predators are allowed to be AA sponsors and NA sponsors for people of all ages, including teens?
Many 12 steppers go on to become addiction counselors to make a living, or set up halfway houses to make a buck and exploit the system and the addicts. This is just outrageous that sex offenders can be addiction counselors or AA Sponsors to teens. Let’s roll up our sleeves and start raising more hell about these loopholes and apathy that allow these insane practices to continue! Stop sexual abuse by sexual psychopaths turned counselors and sex predators turned sponsors!
Hole in California law allows sex offenders to become addiction counselors
May 13, 2013
 “Sexual psychopath.” That was the diagnosis a court-ordered psychiatrist gave Donald Robert Hoffman after he was convicted of molesting a 13-year-old boy in 1965. Hoffman, the psychiatrist determined, was a danger to others.

But that history didn’t stop Hoffman from becoming a state-registered drug and alcohol counselor decades later, even though he had to register as a sex offender once he was released from prison in 1979.

Hoffman lost his counselor status only after three residents of the San Francisco rehab center where he worked told investigators in 2008 that Hoffman had plied them with drugs and alcohol and made aggressive sexual advances. Hoffman was fired, but was never charged over those allegations. He died two years later at 67. Continue reading →

Thief attends AA Meetings after Arrest on 26 Charges Related to Stealing and Identity Theft

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Marianne Marcum

AA and NA member Marianne Marcum attended these 12 step meetings prior to her sentencing, most likely to impress the judge. This woman had stolen multiple credit cards and defrauded businesses out of thousands in merchandise. She had an amphetamine addiction she was feeding at the expense of others. No wonder so many 12 step members report being ripped off by other members they meet at meetings. Considering how many thieves the courts send to AA meetings. Also AA Daytona Beach meetings

Police Chief Mike Chitwood is tough on Daytona Beach crime

13TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

4-year community corrections sentence for Sterling ID thief

Lawyer: Marcum turned to crime to feed meth addiction
Posted:   05/14/2013

STERLING — Almost a year after her first arrest, 41-year-old Sterling resident Marianne Marcum received a sentence of four years of community corrections after pleading guilty to identity theft and criminal possession of a financial device.

The court found that the local mother — who was arrested after a series of incidents in which the court says she stole credit cards and defrauded local businesses out of thousands in merchandise — had acted out to feed a methamphetamine addiction. Continue reading →

Another Woman On Her Way to AA Meeting Gets in Car Accident

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Car accidents caused by woman allegedly on her way to AA meeting 

By Karen Workman
Posted:   05/09/2013

Woman gets in series of accidents, tells police she was heading to AA meeting

A Michigan woman who is accused of causing several car accidents Monday later told officers she was on her way to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. The 42-year-old, who has not been named, failed sobriety tests but had no alcohol in her system, police say. After she was arrested, however, police say they found prescription pills in her purse, including some that were not prescribed to her. She’s accused of hitting one car, knocking it into another and then hitting an SUV, which crashed into the lobby of an adult education building.

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_23202331/odd-crime-news-woman-way-aa-meeting-accident

Killer Goes to AA Meeting After Slitting the Throat and Strangling Mental Health Counselor

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Lia Yera Tricomo who was known to have mental problems and had been treated at the Pro 12 Step Behavioral Health Resources in Olympia Washingon. This is where she met victim John Alkins as a patient. It appears she was an AA member, considering after the killing she went to an AA meeting to confess. 

May 3rd 2013

Accused killer had moved in with victim on the day of slaying at Sunset Beach Drive

Former Behavioral Health Resources counselor John Alkins, 58, was fired in December after he “violated BHR policies concerning professional boundaries.” Five months later, a 27-year-old Olympia woman who says she was a former patient of Alkins’ at BHR is accused of slitting Alkins’ throat with a folding razor knife at his Sunset Beach Drive home. She told police she later strangled him with an extension Continue reading →

‘Face Gnawer’ of Women Sentenced to AA Meetings after Pleading Guilty to Terrorist Threats, Indecent Exposure and More

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Oh God help us! Man who tackled women and gnawed thier faces, broke into a house, hit an EMT personal is mandated to AA Meetings. PLEASE,PLEASE do not send your kids or teens to AA/NA meetings. You never know who you will be sitting next to and told to hug and hold hands.

  • ‘Face gnawer’ is sentenced

  • Receives 90 days to 23 ½ months in prison
  • By Kelly Waters    Updated May. 2, 2013

  • — A man accused of gnawing at a woman’s face is now in jail.

    On Thursday morning in the Wayne County Courthouse, Richard Cimino, 21, was sentenced for an incident that occurred on Sept. 7, 2012.

    His total sentence from Judge Raymond Hamill is 90 days to 23-1/2 years in prison at the Wayne County Correctional Facility. Cimino also has to pay the cost of prosecution, pay $15,693.11 in restitution at a minimum of $200 a month, pay a $50 per month supervision fee, refrain from the use of drugs and alcohol, undergo drug and alcohol testing, attend a minimum of one AA meeting per week and pay a $200 fine for count 8, criminal mischief.

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Court Ordered AA Member Attempts To Remove Child from Elementary School

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Winchester man charged for trying to take child from school

Mandated AA Member James A. Tolson arrested for attempting to take child from elementary school. He had already been previosly mandated to AA.

Tolson is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday on his latest case. He was scheduled to be in Clark District Court Monday on a previous conviction for fourth-degree assault. He was convicted of alcohol intoxication, criminal mischief and assault in January after breaking out the windows of a woman’s car, pulling a knife and cutting her sister’s finger. He pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 150 of them conditionally discharged and was ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and anger management classes

Winchester man charged for trying to take child from school

By Kendall Sparks  May 2, 2013
A Winchester man has been arrested after he went to Central Elementary School this morning and attempted to check out a child Continue reading →

Another Con Man With Atrocious Long and Violent Criminal Record Mandated to AA Meetings

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There is no criminal too dangerous to mandate to your local AA meeting. Here is more proof!  Wagner is classified as a high-risk offender due to his “atrocious” criminal record.  This man has a three-page record of numerous offences including well over nine assaults, four robberies and attempted robberies and two of uttering threats. na daytona  aa daytona

Missing violent con found hitchhiking in Sudbury

Harold Carmichael The Sudbury Star  

It was perhaps pure luck that a Saskatoon man with a long and violent criminal history was spotted hitchhiking in the Greater Sudbury area on April 1. Continue reading →

Wife of AA Member Allowed Fellow AA Member John Siscoe to Brutally Torture Husband

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The AA member that tortured John Michael Siscoe is considered one of they worst crimes committed in Toronto history. Siscoe met the man at an AA meeting! Siscoe’s wife is in court for her part in covering up the torture. You cannot be too careful in AA meetings. More and more people are reported being murdered, raped and mutilated by people they have met at AA and NA meetings.

Here is original story- AA Daytona Meetings

http://nadaytona.org/2012/01/14/toronto-aa-member-tortures-and-sexually-assaults-fellow-aa-member/

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AA Member Investment Broker Nicholas Polito Sentenced to Prison In Ponzi Scheme

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AA Member Nicholas Polito sent to prison for ripping off his clients at PNC Bank in Ponzi  scheme.

Prison Term, Restitution For Bank Fraud Scheme

Posted on: 11:54 am, April 29, 2013, by 

WILKES-BARRE — A former investment broker who admitted to swindling more than a half million dollars from his clients learned his fate Monday.

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New Hampshire NA Member With Heroin Addiction In State Prison For Burglary

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NA Member Tony Carter has been in and out of jail for years and battling a heroin addiction. He is now in N.H. State Prison for burglary.

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April 28, 2013

Tony Carter has been shooting heroin since he was 15 years old. Now he’s in prison.  Daytona NA Daytona Rehab

Carter, 25, has spent the past few years in and out of jail. He has spent even longer in and out of rehab and Narcotics Anonymous. He is currently serving a 1½- to 4-year sentence for burglarizing the Hanscom’s Truck Stop on the Route 1 Bypass in Portsmouth.

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We Can Do So Much Better Than 12 Steps

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Many agree with this letter to the editor!

We can do better than 12 steps

Letter to the editor
Posted:   04/17/2013
Our number one problem (health and otherwise) in Humboldt County is drugs? We treat our alcohol and drug problems with an 85-year-old prescription. I am talking to you, doctors. If your doctor treated your cancer the same way doctors did 85 years ago, you might get a new doctor. The emotional claims that 12-step programs work are over-blown and largely unrealized. It matters if Alcoholics Anonymous works or not. After all, we send our family members to 12-step programs in order for them to get help. We send criminals to 12-step programs for them to get God, stop crime, and clean up our cities. But 12-step programs do not work for most people, so, let’s quit wasting everyone’s money and time on the 12-step movement.

And the anti-progress aspect of the 12-step systems? Their language is archaic. Their practices are almost medieval. They are very much a sexist organization in their language, at least.

”Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.” Our kids deserve better!

Let’s find a better way. NADaytona

Rick Boman

McKinleyville

http://www.times-standard.com/letters/ci_23042701/we-can-do-better-than-12-steps

Mayor Glen Lyn Sentenced to Jail and AA Meetings for Putting Gun to Wife’s Head and Domestic Assault

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Wow another person with mental health issues, brandishing a gun and assaulting someone mandated to AA meetings. This time it is a Virginia Mayor!

Glen Lyn mayor to serve 5 months in jail 

He pleaded guilty to brandishing a firearm and assault and battery after a January incident involving his wife.

MELISSA POWELL Monday, April 15, 2013

Glen Lyn Mayor Thomas “Rick” Ould was sentenced Monday to five months in jail for firing a handgun into the air and putting the gun to the head of his wife during a domestic incident, special prosecutor Mike Fleenor said. Continue reading →

After Coastal Crime Spree Long-Term Drug Addict Freed to Attend Narcotics Anonymous

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Another criminal gets the NA get out of jail card. He had over 40 charges and 20 years behind bars. Just a slap on the wrist and going to NA meetings to sit next to vulnerable women and minors. 

Long-term drug addict freed despite coastal crime spree

13th Apr 2013 6:00 AM

A SERIAL criminal picked up $23,000 from an unlocked pub safe and blew it on a five-day drug binge during a prolonged crime spree on the Sunshine and Fraser Coasts.

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California AA Member Arrested for Throwing Hot Coffee On Leader of AA Meeting

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A known disruptive AA member had been tolerated for his disruptive for some time before he lost it and threw hot coffee at the leader of the AA meeting causing him blisters. It is common for 12 step meetings to be very tolerant of members putting other members in peril.

Hot beverages reportedly weapon of choice in alleged assaults in San Francisco

By: Mike Aldax | 04/09/13 5:45 PM
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Two separate incidents at two separate Starbucks in San Francisco involved suspects using scalding hot water as a weapon.

Three unrelated criminal cases in which scalding water or coffee was used as a weapon are being handled with care, according to San Francisco prosecutors.

Men with apparently hot tempers were recently arrested in connection with unrelated attacks at two Starbucks outlets and an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.

The latest incident occurred March 31 when a man allegedly poured coffee on the leader of an AA meeting at 20th and Lexington streets in the Mission district. The suspect, 28-year-old Armando Rodriquez of San Francisco, landed in hot water when he was charged with felonious mayhem and assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury. He remains in custody on $100,000 bail. Continue reading →

Musician Charged With Arriving at AA Meeting Very Drunk With Distressed Daughter

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Birmingham Magistrates Court: A mother who is a well-known musician will appear on here Thursday charged with being drunk in charge of a child under seven years old

Actually this is not an uncommon occurrence contrary to popular belief. There is only a request for a desire to not drink or do drugs. Meaning people are welcomed to both AA and NA meetings drunk and strung out. Many AA members bring their children along too.

Musician to face court charged with taking her daughter to an AA meeting WHILE DRUNK

  • 40-year-old was ‘heavily intoxicated’ when she showed up for late-night meeting, it is claimed
  • Officers took her to a police station and her ‘distressed’ daughter to a ‘place of safety’
  • It is understood the mother is well-known in entertainment and regularly travels abroad for work Continue reading →

Child Porn Addict AA Member Receives No Jail Time after Mentoring Other AA Members

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Donald Judge

 AA Member Donald Judge and child porn addict has been able to skip jail time with the help of AA members supporting him. He actually sponsored people in Alcoholics Anonymous. How disgusting! A man with a child porn addiction that had been found to have over 6690 images and videos, including rape and bestiality is sponsoring other AA members? The Judge thinks this is a good thing?! Anyone can be a Sponsor in AA and NA. This is proof!

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NA Member Arrested for Driving on Drugs Was Running Late to a Narcotics Anonymous Meeting

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Sounds like the perfect guy you would want your daughter sitting next to at a NA Meeting! The cops also found heroin hidden in his socks.

Man on his way to narcotics anonymous meeting arrested for driving while on drugs

March 05, 2013|By Veronica Rocha, veronica.rocha@latimes.com

A 30-year-old man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs on his way to a narcotics anonymous meeting, officials said.

Officers stopped Arsen Galstyan after they spotted him driving erratically on the Foothill (210) and Glendale (2) freeways, according to Glendale police. He reportedly apologized for his driving, claiming he was using his cellphone and dropped it.

Galstyan, who reportedly admitted to a past arrest for drug use, added that he and his passenger were running late to a narcotics anonymous meeting.

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Feds: Alcoholics Anonymous Host Sold Drugs at AA meetings

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Alcoholics Anonymous host allegedly sold drugs at meetings

By Michael Harthorne Published: Mar 13, 2013

CBS/AP) SEATTLE – Michael Martin Shepard, the owner of a South Seattle nonprofit club that regularly hosted Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, was arrested Monday for allegedly selling oxycodone before and after meetings,CBS affiliate KIMA reports.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Seattle Police Department was alerted in November that Shepard, the owner of Nomadian Community Resource Center, was dealing illegal drugs.

“We took a closer look and realized what we had here was a pretty significant drug operation,” Sgt. Sean Whitcomb, of the Seattle Police Department, said. Continue reading →

Wisconsin Narcotics Anonymous Member Arrested at Church for Attacking NA Members

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Waukesha Wisconsin Narcotics Anonymous Member Samantha A. Mueller attacked fellow NA members including a 16 year old minor boy that spilled outside of St. Luke Church 300 Carroll St., Waukesha , Wisconsin 53186  when she accused people of trash talking about her. She even assaulted the police when they arrived.

When are these churches going to see what a liability having pagan NA 12 step meetings at their churches? I hope this church asked this NA group to carry liability insurance.

Waukesha woman charged with attacking others at N.A. meeting

March 15, 2013

 An 18-year-old Waukesha woman could face more than 16 years in prison after allegedly attacking several people, including arresting officers, following a Narcotics Anonymous meeting in the City of Waukesha.

Samantha A. Mueller was charged on March 14 in Waukesha County Circuit Court with physical abuse of a child, attempted battery of a peace officer, resisting an officer, causing injury, two counts of misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct.

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Man Stabs Mother Gets Probation and Mandated to AA Meetings

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Bozeman man sentenced for stabbing mother

A 45-year-old Bozeman man was freed from jail Monday after serving 131 days there for stabbing his mother in the leg while drunk last year.

Instead, Gallatin County District Judge Mike Salvagni sentenced Alexander Scott Sawicki to a four-year suspended sentence and ordered him to regularly attend a community support group like Alcoholics Anonymous for at least a year.

The suspended sentence comes as a result of the plea agreement reducing Sawicki’s charge from felony assault with a weapon to the lesser felony of criminal endangerment.

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