Daily Rotten Archives February 4, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Arab hunter gets 25 years The Australian | Submitted by: heystoopid "A French truck driver who fired at French Arabs for sport because he considered them 'sub-human' has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for murdering a teenager and for 16 attempted murders. Joel Damman, 50, admitted to the court in Douai, northern France, that he roamed the streets of nearby Dunkirk seeking Arab-looking individuals while believing he was 'off for a day's hunting'. He wore dark hunter's garb, a cap and dark sunglasses and covered up the number plate on his vehicle, before taking pot-shots when he came across individuals from France's large Arab immigrant community, he said. On October 4, 2002, he shot and killed a 17-year-old boy of north African origin, Mohamed Maghara, and wounded three other people who had been standing around in front of two cafes." Read article... Alleged rapist cop found dead Allentown Morning Call | Submitted by: Shell'em "An Allentown police officer who failed to show up Tuesday for an arraignment on charges that he sexually assaulted his girlfriend was found dead Tuesday night in a home in Millsboro, Del... [Christopher Dowling] was arrested in November and charged with aggravated assault, terroristic threats, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and simple assault. Police said Dowling, who is suspended from the police force, handcuffed his girlfriend's hands behind her back, put an unlit M-80 firecracker in her vagina, repeatedly hit her with a tire iron and placed a 30-pound safe on her chest. The assault began, the woman said, when he caught her lying about smoking cigarettes." Read article... Possible Rumsfeld arrest warrant on Abu Ghraib charges Reuters | Submitted by: fushuugi "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday he has not decided whether to attend an international security conference next week in Germany, where he might be subject to arrest on a war-crimes complaint. 'I have not made a final decision on that. And there are several factors,' Rumsfeld told reporters when asked if he would go to the prestigious annual private Munich Conference on Security Policy Feb. 12-13 when he is in Europe next week. He conceded in response to questions at a press conference that one problem was the jurisdiction of a German court over a 160-page criminal complaint filed Nov. 30 with the federal prosecutor's office in Germany accusing him of war crimes in connection with detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq... The complaint also names other senior U.S. military authorities, including former U.S. commander in Iraq Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, and former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet." Read article... Enron audiotapes imply outright criminality CNN | Submitted by: Bog "A Washington state utility released audiotapes Thursday that it said revealed bankrupt energy trader Enron Corp. plotted to take a power plant off-line in 2001 to jack up electric prices in Western states. That same day, shortages of power forced rolling blackouts in northern California that affected about 2 million customers... [The Snohomish Public Utility District] says an Enron employee and a worker at a power plant in Las Vegas, Nevada, made up phony repairs, taking the plant off-line January 17, 2001. 'We want you guys to get a little creative... and come up with a reason to go down,' the Enron worker tells the plant employee on one of the tapes. 'Anything you want to do over there? ... Cleaning, anything like that?' the Enron employee says. 'Yeah, yeah,' the other replies. 'There's some stuff we could be doing.' ... 23 of Enron's executives - including former CEOs Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay - have been brought up on federal charges related to its collapse." Read article... Auschwitz wannabes caught in Utah CNN | Submitted by: atxrex "A Florida couple accused of torturing and starving five of their seven children were captured Friday night in Utah after detectives were able to track their cell phone signals, authorities said. Capt. Jim Cernich of the Sheriff's Office in Citrus County, Florida, said deputies in San Juan County, Utah, apprehended Linda Dollar, 51, and John Dollar, 58, on a road after recognizing their gold 2000 Lexus sport utility vehicle... In a 1995 DCF questionnaire, Linda Dollar wrote, 'We have five adopted children and have seen what we can do to help those less fortunate, we can see so many children who need special care, love and an opportunity to be part of a warm, loving, caring home atmosphere.'" [Somebody warm up Old Sparky.] Read article... Band teacher charged with more alleged pervosity WMAQ-TV 5 Chicago | Submitted by: Matt "[Robert Sperlik] was charged Wednesday with nine counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, six counts of kidnapping, and one count of unlawful restraint in the latest allegations... Police found in Sperlik's home non-pornographic videotapes and computer images depicting adults duct-taped and tied by rope similar to the way the pupils were treated, Berwyn Director of Public Safety Frank Marzullo said... 'Mr. Sperlik for his own sexual gratification was duct-taping himself, duct-taping students, having students duct-tape themselves and using rope, duct tape,' Marzullo said... Sperlik was already being held without bond after being charged Jan. 16 with five counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, two counts of kidnapping and one count of aggravated kidnapping for his alleged conduct with five pupils from 1999 to 2001." Read article... Cops allegedly juicing Officer.com | Submitted by: Richard Smoker "As a brand-new police officer, Chris Holden wanted to do everything he could to protect himself, especially after he heard about a highway patrolman who was shot to death in a struggle over his gun... Now Holden, 31, is out of work, one of four members of the Norman Police Department who were fired last fall after being accused of using bodybuilding steroids. Police officers in Mississippi, Ohio, Connecticut, Hawaii, Colorado, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas and New York have also been accused of steroid-related offenses in recent years... A former Riverdale, Ga., police officer who received a life sentence in 1995 for the slaying of a bar owner, and an Oregon jail guard who received a 20-year sentence in 1986 for kidnapping, shooting and paralyzing a woman both claimed steroid use contributed to their behavior." Read article... No charges filed in LAPD flashlight beating incident Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: jcool_83 "After a five-month review, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge Officer John Hatfield, who struck Stanley Miller 11 times with a 2-pound steel flashlight after a chase in South Los Angeles on June 23. Because of Miller's attempt to elude police, the ensuing struggle and the possibility that he was armed, 'we cannot establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Officer Hatfield's actions were without legal necessity,' Deputy District Attorney Margo Baxter said in a report... Videotape taken by news helicopters showed Miller, who is black, being beaten on the ground after he appeared to surrender." Read article... Police dispatcher receives unusual deference KSTP-TV 5 Minneapolis | Submitted by: Oobatz "Police reports say [Michelle Sutherland] was drunk when she crossed the center line on Highway 70 just outside Spooner, Wisconsin crashing into the vehicle [Sara Summer] was a passenger in. Summer's only 26 and has to use a walker now to get around. The crash crushed her pelvis and lacerated her liver... Sutherland is a State Patrol Dispatcher. And her husband is a deputy in the county where she was arrested... even though officers say they smelled alcohol and noticed Sutherland's slurred speech and glassy eyes, they did not give her a field sobriety test in the field. Rather waited until an hour later at the hospital. When the officer asked her to count down, reports show she said, '53, 52, 51, 51...' She kept repeating the numbers. And her blood test measured a 0.19. We've also learned that before carting Sutherland off to jail two officers allowed her to make a stop at home to check on her 14 year old son." Read article... Church struck by frozen piss comet Daily Record | Submitted by: Pvt. Gripweed "Mourners at a funeral were left terrified when a massive block of frozen urine fell from the sky. People ducked for cover when iced toilet waste the size of a portable television hurtled down as they were leaving the church. The lump of ice smashed into the building as around 50 mourners were standing outside and narrowly missed them as it scattered across the ground. It is believed to have come from an aeroplane that was passing overhead... A spokeswoman for National Air Traffic Services confirmed the ice may have been caused by toilet waste." Read article...