A woman is in the Fulton County Jail on Wednesday after allegedly trying to bring a handgun and a stun gun that resembled a cell phone into the courthouse the day before. Ecreia Laki Perez is being held on $6,000 bond after she was arrested Tuesday afternoon. Perez tried to enter the Fulton County...
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Woman tries to bring stun gun disguised as cell phone into courthouse
What not to do when you’re a juror…post on Facebook that it was “gonna be fun to tell the defendant they’re guilty.”
A judge removed a juror from a trial in suburban Detroit after the young woman wrote on Facebook that the defendant was guilty. The problem? The trial wasn’t over. Hadley Jons, of Warren just north of Detroit, could be found in contempt when she returns to the Macomb County circuit court Thursday. Jons, 20,...
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Man takes meth to court for trial…it’s not show and tell
A Washington state man who went to court to face a methamphetamine charge is in more trouble after authorities say he showed up with a bag of meth in his pants. The 33-year-old Bremerton man had to be booked and released from the Kitsap County Jail before Tuesday’s court appearance in Port Orchard. That’s...
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Man sentenced to playing poker…for stealing to play poker
An Albuquerque stockbroker who confessed to stealing from clients to support a gambling habit is being dealt an unusual hand. Prosecutors are letting him play poker for his freedom. In exchange for the plea, authorities are letting Samuel McMaster, Jr. stay out of prison if he can earn enough money playing in poker tournaments...
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Man photoshops himself into pictures doing charity work to influence judge
He couldn’t resist one last scam. A career fraudster was sent to the slammer for nearly 24 years after giving a White Plains federal judge phony photos of himself doing charity work at hospitals and schools in a bumbling bid for leniency. Daryl Simon’s bald-faced move included sticking a picture of himself into a...
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Man goes for a jog after sentencing
A 45-year-old Denver man made a dash for freedom Monday after he was sentenced to three years in prison by a judge in Aspen, Pitkin County authorities said. Warren Carter, 45, was being led out of the courtroom when he bolted from officers and led police in Aspen on a seven-minute chase, the Sheriff’s...
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Lawyer claims he didn’t mean to touch the judge’s butt…his cerebral palsy made him do it
A disabled lawyer accused of touching the rear end of a Taxi and Limousine Commission judge is blaming it on his cerebral palsy. Queens prosecutors have charged Hippocrate Mertsaris, 35, with sexual abuse and sexual harassment for allegedly grabbing the woman’s inner thigh and buttocks during a meeting in her Kew Gardens offices. Mertsaris’...
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Judge popped over popcorn kickback
A city parking judge has lost his job because he combined a snack attack with poor judgment. Officials disclosed yesterday that Alan Rubin, employed as an administrative-law judge by the Finance Department since May 2004, got the heave-ho in June 2009 because he accepted six to eight bags of free popcorn a year earlier...
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Sentenced to 2 years, man runs from court…is caught waiting for the elevator
There was a fracas on the eighth floor of the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center this morning after a defendant bolted from court after he was sentenced to two years in state jail. When Tuff, who had been free on bond, showed up for court today, he tested positive for cocaine, Baird said. Baird called...
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Beer thief with 153 arrests nabbed again…tells judge “I’ve been in this court more than you have.”
Paul Baldwin is a 49-year-old man from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. As of June, Baldwin has been arrested 154 times for arson, trespassing, receiving stolen property and theft, among others offenses. His most recent arrest was for stealing 48 beers. Only 12 days before Baldwin’s most recent arrest, he had just finished up a one...
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