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AA Member Strangles His Wife Months After Being Mandated To AA Meetings For Felony Domestic Violence

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Kenneth Booker

 AA member Kenneth Booker has been arrested in the murder of his estranged wife.

Police records say he had also been arrested March 22, 2013 after this AA member threatened to shoot her with a .22-caliber handgun.

On Nov. 22 Booker completed the county’s treatment program and he was mandated to attend Alcoholic Anonymous meetings three times per week! This man had a violent history going back to 1989 which eventually ended in murder. The judges will send anyone to AA meetings, no matter what their crimes are.

Prosecutors: East Cleveland woman, 59, strangled by estranged husband

on January 23, 2014

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio— Authorities said on Thursday that a 59-year-old woman was strangled inside her apartment and prosecutors have charged her estranged husband in connection with her death.

Kenneth Booker, 54, was charged Thursday with aggravated murder in East Cleveland Municipal Court. Judge William L. Dawson set bond at $1 million and his case was bound over to a Cuyahoga County grand jury to decide how the case will proceed.

Prosecutors on Thursday said Booker is accused of strangling to death Carolyn Blair, 59, of East Cleveland  inside her apartment. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner has not yet officially ruled on the death.

East Cleveland Prosecutor Willa Hemmons said in court and in an interview with the Northeast Ohio Media Group that she observed Booker and Blair walking out of the Cuyahoga County Justice Center about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, some four hours before Blair was found dead.

Hemmons said Booker loudly cursed at Blair from the time they left the justice center to Tower City.

“They were right in front of me and I heard him yelling at her,” Hemmons said. “So I lagged behind to make sure nothing happened. I was kind of afraid something might.”

Hemmons said she overheard Booker telling a relative he was planning to visit the relative’s home later in the day, which is where police eventually arrested Booker on suspicion of murder.

Booker, according to detectives, Hemmons and a search of court records, has been convicted of domestic violence five times since 1989.

He was convicted of domestic violence against Blair twice, once in 2001 and once in 2013.

Booker pleaded guilty to fourth-degree felony domestic violence in the 2013 case was sentenced to two years probation.

Police records say Booker was arrested March 22, 2013 after Booker threatened to shoot her with a .22-caliber handgun, which reports say they confiscated after the arrest.

Booker on Nov. 22 completed the county’s treatment program and was ordered that he attend Alcoholic Anonymous meetings three times per week.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/01/prosecutors_east_cleveland_wom.html

Chardon High School Shooter T. J. Lane Charged In Killings

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The Judge lifted a ban on pictures being taken of T.J. Lane or his family after news circuits filed complaints. A win for photographers rights!

It appears T.J. Lane had been charged in the past with assault, and his brother was involved In Narcotics Anonymous for a heroin addiction when he was a minor.


TJ Lane

CHARDON, Ohio – The tumultuous home life of T.J. Lane spun into violence on a Wednesday night in December 2009.

By Aaron Josefczyk, Reuters
T.J. Lane, 17, is escorted Tuesday into the Geauga County Courthouse Annex by deputies for his court appearance in Chardon, Ohio.

He was 15 and living with his older brother and younger sister at the home of his grandparents. They had taken custody of the kids after the children’s mother split with T.J.’s father, a sometimes steelworker with a record of domestic violence. The grandparents had gone out, leaving the kids with their 44-year-old uncle, John Breuning. The household was tense, police later noted, because T.J. had refused to go to a volunteer service job required by his school.
Around 8 p.m., according to a police report, T.J.’s 16-year-old brother got into a fight with Breuning, who wanted the boy to go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting because of his “known heroin addiction.” T.J. joined the fray — he later said he was trying to protect his brother — and by the time police arrived, Breuning was bloodied and wanted to press charges against both boys.

T.J.’s grandparents returned, and the chaos continued. The grandmother “was difficult to calm down,” police later wrote, because she feared that Breuning’s charges would derail the older brother’s court-ordered drug rehabilitation program. She “continued to yell” at the boys, Breuning and his wife, who had called the police when the fight broke out.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-29/chardon-ohio-school-shooting-tj-lane/53309676/1

Jess Brown Had 20 Drunk Driving Arrests While In Ohio Alcoholics Anonymous

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Before Jess Brown’s last DUI he was awaiting trial for his 19th. He had been mandated to Alcoholics Anonymous for many years by the court system. he holds the record for the most DUI’s in Ohio’s history. How many AA members got in the car with this guy while he was still drinking? He also had convictions for domestic violence. In Jail he is continuing attending Alcoholics Anonymous. I wonder if he was given an option, other than a program that did not work for him before.

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‘Brown was attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings when they met, Ress said. The stress of caring for his mother and worrying about a heart defect drove him back to drinking, she said.

Ress knew Brown had a problem but was shocked to learn about the high number of drunken-driving convictions. She was even more alarmed by his mug shot plastered across the media. His wild hair and disheveled appearance made him look like Charles Manson.

“It was horrible what they said about him,” Ress said.

Last DUI

Brown had bounced in and out of treatment and Alcoholics Anonymous but never took it seriously.

He was blatant in his disregard for authority. In 2002, after his 17th conviction, he showed up drunk to a court-ordered alcohol and drug test in Akron.

His final drunken-driving arrest came on Nov. 22, 2006, in Barberton after he crashed a vehicle into the car a Norton woman was driving on Interstate 277. She was not seriously injured.

For many, the timing was appalling. Brown was waiting to be sentenced for his 19th offense and was out on bond. And there he was, driving drunk and crashing into another vehicle.

Brown had been held up as a poster child in Ohio for harsher sentencing for serial drunken drivers. The crash cemented his reputation.

Years earlier, Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh had used Brown — along with other repeat offenders — to lobby for tougher drunken-driving laws in Ohio. In 2004, the state responded, mandating prison time for chronic drunken drivers and allowing court officials to examine driving records going back 20 years.

Despite his lengthy record, Brown pleaded for leniency and court-imposed treatment instead of prison when he was sentenced in 2007.

Now-retired Common Pleas Judge Patricia Cosgrove ignored his request. She told Brown he had had plenty of opportunities for treatment after previous convictions and if he felt that strongly, he should have sought help on his own.

She imposed the harshest penalty she could, running the two drunken-driving and other traffic sentences consecutively for a longer prison term.

“Not only do you have the worst DUI record I’ve ever read, you apparently have the worst DUI record for anyone in the state of Ohio,” Cosgrove told Brown. “It’s only fair and fitting then that you receive the worst sentence.” ‘

http://www.ohio.com/news/local/reviled-alcoholic-seeks-to-rebound-1.252937