| Retired country cop posing as girl nabs online predators
DIAMOND, Mo. — No one will ever confuse Jim Murray with a teenager. His tall frame, broad shoulders and clipped gray hair give him away for the grandfather he is.
But for a 69-year-old retired small-town police chief, Murray cuts a credible figure as a 13-year-old girl surfing the Web, looking for friends. He knows all the instant-messaging shorthand, the emoticons, the places to find men looking for sex with children.
Murray's retirement job from a rural home office has netted 20 arrests since he started in 2002, but his latest catch was the first elected official: four felony enticement charges against a small-town Missouri mayor, who after his arrest called Murray up and begged him to make the case go away.
Nineteen other defendants have included a Missouri furniture company executive, an Arkansas professor and a Tulsa, Okla., school security guard.
Slidell man pleads guilty to pornography charges
U.S. Attorney Jim Letten announced Wednesday that Slidell resident Danny Daugherty, 59, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to three counts of the production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.Daugherty was arrested May 9, 2007, by the Slidell Police Department after a May 8 search of Daugherty's house at 1154 St. Augustine St. by Slidell Police and deputies with the St. Tammany Sheriff's Office turned up over 50,000 images of child pornography stored on Daugherty's computer hard drive.The police searched Daugherty's home on May 8 with a search warrant for stolen property. Instead, they found a laptop computer and a portable hard drive containing pictures of children being sexually molested. Three of the victims turned out to be local Slidell boys, ages 12 to 14, who had been photographed by Daugherty.During the May 9 arrest, Daugherty resisted by pulling out a loaded Beretta 9mm semi-automatic pistol.Slidell police spokesman Capt.
Desert hockey delivers
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City Council candidate receives second threat letter
Two days after an article was published in this newspaper about an anonymous threatening letter to City Council candidate Jefferson Wagner, another one arrived at his surf shop, Zuma Jay's. The letter warned that further information about Wagner would be turned into this reporter.This second letter was handwritten. The first one was typed. At the top of the letter, it says "IRS." It addresses Wagner as "Mr. Zuma Jay," and then lists eight first names, with an initial following three of them. Wagner told The Malibu Times some of these names are of current or former employees at Zuma Jay's.The letter states, "Well let me remind you that you did not pay tax's [sic] for each. Big Problem [sic] Don't run for office or these names will be turned inTo [sic] IRS and Jonathan Friedman w/Much More Details."Wagner said the person who sent the letter was "probably somebody following the business very closely," but he did not think it was an employee."I kind of doubt it, because they [an employee] would have come up with a better list," Wagner said.
Kiteboarding flies but not everyone's on board
The extreme sport, which got its start in Hawaii a decade ago, has made its way to Hampton, Seabrook and Jenness Beach in Rye. The riders stand on boards a little larger than a snowboard and surf the water while attached by 25 meters of lines to a "kite" they control with a handlebar. Through the bar they can control pitch and angle of the kites that can be up to 20 feet wide, said Rodrigo Concha, 39, of Portsmouth. The kiteboarder planes on the water; advanced riders are able to jump and perform tricks. When the wind picks up, they meet in Seabrook Harbor, just north of the Yankee Fisherman's Cooperative on Route 1A. They only go on the ocean side if the wind is blowing onshore. Lately, they've been worried by anonymous letters sent to Seabrook selectmen, the media and the state Marine Patrol, calling the sport dangerous and asking for it to be banned in the harbor.
CALZAGHE DISMISSES `IDIOT' HOPKINS
Joe Calzaghe turned up the heat for his battle against Bernard Hopkins when he accused his American opponent of being "an idiot" for making a racial slur recently. Hopkins has been reported as saying: "I'll never let a white boy beat me. Never." But Calzaghe, whose Ring Magazine world light heavyweight fight with Hopkins will take place on April 19 at the Thomas and Mack Centre in Las Vegas, dismissed the racist element of Hopkins' comments. Calzaghe said: "That didn't hack me off. It was embarrassing for himself. He made himself look an idiot. "I'm not offended because I know what's going to happen. I'm not bothered if it's a black guy, a green guy, a yellow guy or any kind of colour. I'm just not going to lose full stop. "It is just a stupid comment from an adult.
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