For your approval, gleaned from recent news accounts, let me introduce you to some of the country’s more interesting law-breakers:
– Princeton University professor John Mulvey, 67 , who teaches financial engineering applications, was charged with stealing 21 yard signs around the borough of Princeton. The signs were for a computer repair business owned by a man with whom he was feuding.
– Caius Veiovis, 33, is preparing to go to trial for a gruesome 2011 triple murder in Hamden, Massachusetts. He has decided, perhaps on his attorney’s advice, to remove the spikes from his nostrils. His attorneys have nevertheless requested that prospective jurors be asked whether they can give him the constitutional presumption of innocence despite the six horns he had surgically implanted into his forehead, along with a “666” tattoo.
– Jerrod Christian of Kingsport, Tennessee had some explaining to do after a tornado damaged his house, leaving furniture and tools strewn about his lawn. According to police, who filed four charges against him the next day, some of the items (an air compressor, a welder, a ratchet, an air hose and a weed-trimmer) belonged to neighbors who had long suspected him of burglarizing their homes.
– Gloria Baca-Lucero, 48, was arrested in Albuquerque after allegedly holding a Comcast cable installer’s tool bag at gunpoint in her home. She explained that she had understood that the service call was free, but the installer told her otherwise, so she evidently decided to detain the tool bag. She was slated to become president of the parents association at a private school, but has decided to take voluntary leave of absence from her position.