Collier County, Fla. - WINK News Now obtained a confidential memo sent around the Collier County Sheriff's Office. What it showed, sent a shockwave of disgust through our staff.
The question now is, is the new way to get high described in the memo, really being used in Southwest Florida. WINK News Now investigates.
It's called Jenkem - the ingredients may shock you.
"That's gross. I'm sorry, but when you think about people using this to get high, what do you think? That they're idiots," said a high school student WINK News Now spoke with.
Basically, the new drug is a mixture of solid human waste and urine, turned into a gas that can be huffed.
WINK News Now found the memo discussing the drug on Snopes.com, a website devoted to investigating urban legends. Tonight, the Collier County Sheriff's Office confirms they sent it out.
When our crews asked some students about the drug, they said they never heard about it, and would not be interested in trying it.
However, the memo suggests students are already talking about the drug at Palmetto Ridge High School. A parent apparently e-mailed a deputy, saying her son had heard about the mixture.
Deputies say they haven't had any confirmed cases of kids using the drug. Even Snopes.com is saying it's undetermined if kids in the U.S. are really huffing the gas.
RICHMOND, Va. - A judge who ordered a woman to drop her pants and decided a custody dispute by flipping a coin was removed from the bench by the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday. The decision against Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Judge James Michael Shull of Gate City was unanimous.
"Unless our citizens can trust that judges will fairly resolve the disputes brought before our courts, and treat all litigants with dignity, our courts will lose the public's respect and confidence upon which our legal system depends," Justice Barbara Milano Keenan wrote.
According to the court, Shull admitted tossing a coin to determine which parent would have visitation with a child on Christmas. Shull said he was trying to encourage the parents to decide the issue themselves but later acknowledged that he was wrong.
The pants-dropping incidents, the court said, "were even more egregious."
The court said they occurred when a woman was seeking a protective order against a partner who she said had stabbed her in the leg. Shull knew the woman had a history of mental problems and insisted on seeing the wound, the court said.
The woman dropped her pants once to display the wound, then dropped them a second time after Shull left the bench for a closer look to determine whether the woman had received stitches.
A court bailiff testified before the commission that after the hearing, he asked Shull, "Did you see what that lady had on?" According to the bailiff, Shull replied: "Yeah, a black lacy thing ... it looked good, didn't it?"
Shull denied making the comment. His attorney, Russell V. Palmore, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment Friday.
The justices could have merely censured Shull, but they noted that he had appeared before the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission in 2004 for allegedly calling a teenager a "mama's boy" and a "wuss" and advising a woman to marry her abusive boyfriend. That complaint was dismissed with an admonition to Shull to chalk it up as a learning experience.
but they noted that he had appeared before the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission in 2004 for allegedly calling a teenager a "mama's boy" and a "wuss"
Like many middle-class, suburban American parents, Shannan and Joey Troiano worried about their son’s behaviour and his bad grades at high school. And like many wayward teenagers, Cory Ryder was grounded for weeks at a time, had a PlayStation confiscated and was banned from watching TV.
Less typically, this 16-year-old was plotting to murder his parents by hiring a hitman, while his mother was organising a sting operation involving a police officer posing as a contract killer.
Cory’s trial is scheduled to begin today at the circuit court in St Mary’s County, Maryland. His mother is expected to testify as a witness for the prosecution.
At an earlier court hearing Mrs Troiano, 35, explained how her emotions were torn between being an agonised mother and a murder victim. “I miss him being at home,” she said, “and I miss us joking around and kidding around. And then in the very same breath – I don’t know what this kid will do, because it’s not my son. That can’t be my little boy sitting there.”
Mrs Troiano remembers the night on June 2 when she discovered that the vague threats her son had made were serious. A woman Cory trusted, the mother of one of his friends, took him to a hotel room where he met an undercover police officer pretending to be a hitman.
At home in southern Maryland, Mrs Troiano told her husband that Cory would never go through with it and began frantically tidying the house, according to an account in The Washington Post yesterday.
After a few hours’ waiting, the policeman called: Cory was in custody and would be charged with attempted murder. Mrs Troiano fell to her knees in the bathroom she was cleaning and burst into tears.
Police say that Cory offered the undercover officer his stepfather’s new pickup truck as payment for killing his parents. “Two bullets is all it takes,” he is alleged to have said.
His mother, a financial manager at Patuxent River naval station, and stepfather, a computer specialist, had lived an ordinary life with Cory and his two stepsisters. Mrs Troiano had left his father when Cory was little more than a year old but, by the time she remarried, her son’s behaviour was getting steadily worse.
He walked out of lessons at Spring Ridge Middle School in Lexington Park, smashed a fire extinguisher case and then broke into the county fairgrounds, where he vandalised property. A judge sentenced him to supervised probation and his parents attended no less than 36 meetings with the authorities about him.
But Cory dropped out of school and then, after stealing $45 (£22) from his sister’s piggy bank, had a fight with his mother, which led to him being kicked out of home. He has since told officials that he was upset about being thrown out of the house and that he felt pressured to talk to the man in the hotel.
Cory insists that he never intended to have his parents killed and that he wanted to call the police that night in the hotel room. A judge has ruled that he should be tried in the juvenile system, which means that he cannot be held beyond his 21st birthday.
He has also been writing to his mother, saying: “You know I love you with all my heart mom!” Mrs Troiano fears that he is being manipulative. She wanted him tried in an adult court where he would have faced a much longer sentence. “He needs to understand what he did was wrong,” she told the court in September. “I’m scared to death that if this kid is serious, and they put him in a three-month programme, they’re going to release him to the street.”
If the title didn't mention the PS2, there would have been absolutely no connection between those 2 events. What he did was a direct result of being kicked out of the house.
BOSTON -- A Boston attorney once considered by ABC television to star in “The Bachelor” is, according to prosecutors, a serial rapist.
Gary Zerola is charged with the rape and attempted rape of two 19-year-old women in 2004 and 2006. He is also facing charges in Florida that he drugged and then raped an 18-year-old college student he met in a Miami Beach club.
Prosecutor Suzanne Kontz said in court Monday that Zerola took one victim he’d met at a Boston bar to Neiman Marcus and bought her a $700 dress and $250 shoes. She then alleged that he took the woman back to his apartment and slammed her head against a door and knocked a phone from her hand as she tried to dial 911.
“He spent some time grooming these girls,” Kontz told The Boston Herald. “He would clearly spend money on them. He would clearly follow up with them.”
Zerola, 36, was named one of People magazine's "Most Eligible Bachelors" in 2003.
Zerola has pleaded not guilty. His attorney, Janice Basil, argued that he “is simply a man who meets women in bars.”
Police in Florida charge that last month he took a college student he met in a bar to a nearby hotel. ''He held her face with his hand and forced her to take an unknown amount of pills with an unknown liquid,'' according to a report filed by police.
Zerola was considered by ABC to be a candidate for "The Bachelor" in the first season of the reality program.
A teenager carried out a sex act and then simulated sex on a pavement after drinking a half bottle of vodka while on medication, a court has heard.
Steven Marshall, 18, of Woodstock Avenue, Galashiels, admitted the offence in his home street on 17 June.
Selkirk Sheriff Court heard he got into a press-up position on the pavement and started simulating sexual intercourse.
Sentence was deferred on Marshall, who takes medication for arthritis. He was put on the sex offenders register.
The court heard that on the evening in question motorists saw Marshall lying on his back carrying out a sex act.
He then turned over and started simulating sex in full view of a female taxi driver.
Marshall, who is on medication for arthritis problems he has suffered since the age of 12, ended up lying on his back in the road.
He stopped traffic getting past him until a neighbour intervened and took him back home.
Sheriff Kevin Drummond deferred sentence for background reports and ordered that Marshall's name be placed on the sex offenders register for five years.
Am I the only one who thinks that's a bit extreme?
I agree, this does seem like a bit of an extreme judgment.. if you get put on the sex offender's list, you are totally stigmatized for as long as you're on it. All for humping the pavement while drunk? I should think public intoxication and indecent exposure, but nothing more.
A budding online friendship between a Citrus Springs man and a St. Petersburg man turned sinister when one invited the other to help him kill someone and then have sex with the body, Citrus County sheriff's officials said.
Sheriff's deputies on Friday arrested Kevin Wade Daley, 50, of Citrus Springs, charging him with criminal solicitation to commit first-degree murder. They also searched his home located at 2377 W. Swanson Dr.
On Oct. 11, Citrus deputies received a call from a 44-year-old St. Petersburg man. He explained how he'd struck up a friendship with a man he knew as "Kevin" online, officials said.
While chatting with Daley, the St. Petersburg man was alarmed when the suspect talked about coming to St. Petersburg to kill someone for the purpose of satisfying his deviant sexual desires, officials said.
The suspect wanted his new friend to assist him with the murder, officials said.
Daley later abandoned the plan, saying he'd targeted someone up in Citrus County instead and asked the St. Petersburg man to join him for the murder and ensuing sex acts, sheriff's officials said.
The St. Petersburg man worked closely with Citrus County detectives as the case unfolded. St. Petersburg police helped by recording phone conversations between the informant and Daley as plans were discussed.
At one point, the suspect revealed the name of his intended victim, a 27-year-old Homosassa man who did some work in the suspect's Citrus Springs neighborhood, officials said.
Detectives alerted the intended victim's family and were told that he was currently out of town.
On Friday, Daley called the young man's job to compliment him on his work, officials said. Detectives grew concerned and secured the search and arrest warrants. As part of the search warrant, Daley's computer records were seized.
Daley was arrested at 5:25 p.m. on Friday. He remained Saturday at the Citrus County Detention Facility in Lecanto without bond.
An Edmonton man who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing his five-year-old daughter and wrote her a letter of apology appears to be blaming the little girl.
The 43-year-old molester, who can't be named to protect the victim, told police his daughter "initiated the sexual acts" in the bedroom and in the shower.
In his apology letter, the sex offender asks the girl's forgiveness for him "not showing better judgement" and says he should have stopped her more forcibly.
"I only wanted to show her that I loved her and that some things would have to wait for her to grow up, but to give knowledge of what to expect," he said in the letter.
"I had only wanted to answer your questions as best as I could.
"I know that showing you was not the way and giving in to you was wrong. I didn't want you hating daddy because I wouldn't tell you what you wanted to know."
He also claimed the abuse was not sexual in any way and he did not get any pleasure out of it.
The man, who court heard has a previous conviction for sexual assault, ended the letter by asking the girl's mother if he can still say goodnight to the child.
The city father pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual touching of a person under 14.
According to an agreed statement of facts, the man is the biological father of the victim, who recently turned eight, and was separated from the girl's mother during the offence period of March 1, 2005, to July 2, 2005.
He was living in a south-side basement suite and his daughter would visit him frequently and stay overnight once or twice a week.
The child's mother called police after the girl revealed her father was touching her sexually.
After being confronted during an interview, the man made some admissions to a detective, but he maintained she had "initiated the sexual acts."
During one of the incidents of sexual interference, the man was talking to his daughter about women having orgasms, according to the agreed facts.
The girl told the child abuse detective "she didn't think what was happening with her dad was a bad thing because (he) told her it wasn't."
Court of Queen's Bench Justice Mary Moreau ordered a pre-sentence report and a psychiatric assessment done on the man and a sentencing hearing was set for Feb. 19.
He remains free on bail, but is not allowed to have any contact with the girl.
NEW DELHI (AP) -- A man in southern India married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony in a bid to atone for stoning two dogs to death, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
The 33-year-old man married the sari-draped dog at a temple in the southern state of Tamil Nadu on Sunday after an astrologer said it was the only way to cure himself of a disability, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported.
P. Selvakumar told the paper that he had been suffering since he stoned two dogs to death and strung them up in a tree 15 years ago.
"After that my legs and hands got paralyzed and I lost hearing in one ear," the paper quoted him as saying.
Family members chose a stray female dog named Selvi who was then bathed and clothed for the ceremony.
The groom and his family then had a feast, while the dog got a bun, the paper said.
Comments
Are local kids using human waste to get high?
Judge booted for flipping coin to decide
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/hans_reiser_trial/index.html
... and drugs them...
nice defense. I really hope that's not the entirety of their argument.
Am I the only one who thinks that's a bit extreme?
heh, could you imagine if he went to jail for that?
"what're you in for?"
"I simulated sex with the road..."
He has concrete ideas about his sexuality, despite the fact that they're not very well grounded.
The police must have been floored when they got this call.
Am I doing it right?
Dad blames daughter for his sex deviance
On Halloween he'll have to say:
"I can't go out becuase I'm a sex-offender!"