T H E E X A M I N ER8 F R I DAY, NOV E M BER 20, 2009
Mostly cloudy judgment,
chance for jail time
ATVweathermanwasaccusedof
stalking after leaving more than 100
messages to a woman he briefly met
through an Internet dating service,
KLAS-TV in Las Vegas reports.
After having coffee with recently
downsizedmeteorologistJohnFred-
ericks,thewomandecidedshewasn't
interested. She
ignored Freder-
icks' calls until
her voice mail-
box filled. That's
when she lis-
tened and heard
an emotional
roller coaster.
"Hey good
looking, what's
cooking? I hope
wearestillonfordatenight,"hesaid
at 9:32 a.m.
Byafternoon,histonechanged."If
I've done something to p-ss you off,
justcallme.Iwanttohearfromyou.I
miss you. You are my sweetheart."
Seven minutes later, "You are
treating me like dog [expletive]."
Four minutes after that, "Hey
there, just so you know, I will not
contact you again. We are done."
But Fredericks called again -- at
3:07 p.m., 3:28 p.m., 3:36 p.m., 4:52
p.m., 4:55 p.m. and 5:02 p.m.
At 5:09 p.m.: "You are a very dis-
turbed individual. I just wanted to
makeyouawareoftheconsequences
ofstalkingapublicfigure,whichIstill
am. And if you don't call me back in
an hour, I am going to contact the
police. I'm going to give them your
numberandtheyaregoingtoarrest
you for stalking me."
The calls continued until police
confronted Fredericks -- twice.
Happy days
ATennesseewomanwasarrested
aftershemistookacopforacarhop.
PoliceinElizabethtonreceivedacall
that a car that nearly struck several
vehicles had pulled into a Sonic
Drive-Inparkingspace.Policefound
a woman slumped over the steering
wheel. When the cop woke her, she
handed over a $20 bill to pay for her
order.Thewomanwaschargedwith
drivingundertheinfluenceandpos-
session of drug paraphernalia.
Location, location,
location
New Hampshire police arrested
105 Colby-Sawyer College students
at a house party for underage drink-
ing. The house was about 200 yards
from the police station.
High-tech car wreck
PoliceinNewJerseysayabicyclist
washitbyacarwhilethedriverwas
texting -- about a drug deal. Robert
Sharrer, 28, was seen driving errati-
cally on Route 70 when his vehicle
drifted onto the shoulder and hit
and injured the bicyclist. Sharrer
told police he was texting and didn't
remember the collision. Police said
Sharrer's text message concerned
the sale of prescription drugs.
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By FREEMAN KLOPOTT
and SCOTT McCABE
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STUPID CRIMES
On this day, Nov. 20, in 1986, a
Canton, Mass., boy beat a 14-year-old
classmate to death with a baseball
bat to see what it was like to kill,
then showed the corpse to friends
who stayed quiet about the killing
for weeks.
Rod Matthews planned the mur-
der for a month, sorting out possible
victims, before finally choosing new
freshman Shaun Ouillette because
he would be "the least missed."
Matthews, 14, lured Ouillette to
the woods with the promise of fire-
works. He made Ouillette walk ahead
of him in the snow so he could follow
undetected in his footprints, then
clubbed Ouillette over the head as
the classmate set off bottle rockets.
Matthews later described the
murder to friends after a snowball
fight and took them to the crime
scene.
Police found the body after one of
the boys sent them an anonymous
letter. The boy said he rode on his
bicycle to see the body late at night
and was having trouble sleeping.
Matthews was sentenced to life
in prison.
- Scott McCabe
Boy kills classmate
for the thrill of it
The D.C. police union chairman
called for an investigation over a
stack of religious, anti-gay lit-
erature at a police station. Union
head Kristopher Baumann asked
the D.C. inspector general to look
into the matter this week after
he said police management failed
to respond to a formal complaint
by an officer of the Gay and Les-
bian Liaison Unit in March. The
five-page pamphlets, which were
available for officers at the 5th
District police station in North-
east Washington, discussed what
could be done to resist homosex-
ual impulses and asserted that
God condemned homosexuals,
Baumann said.
� Scott McCabe
Police union head calls for probe of anti-gay literature
By Freeman Klopott
Examiner Staff Writer
Federal and local authorities say
they've dismantled a Maryland-based
group of the violent street gang the
Latin Kings that started operations
in Montgomery and Prince George's
counties in spring 2007.
NationalgangsliketheLatinKings,
MS-13 and the Bloods have been
steadily seizing territory in Wash-
ington's Maryland suburbs in recent
years. On Thursday, authorities took
19 alleged Latin King members into
custody, charging them with rack-
eteering.
"Today we executed the enforce-
ment action on a very violent group
of criminals who call themselves
the Latin Kings," said Kenneth Mel-
son, acting director of the Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives. "We dismantled a large
part of the Latin Kings organization
whose members allegedly used vio-
lence to secure the sanctity of their
private society."
An indictment unsealed Thurs-
day accused alleged gang members
of stabbing a suspected MS-13 gang
member in Langley Park's Mary-
lander Condominiums in December
2007. It said they stabbed two people
in Wheaton, one in November 2008,
the other in July. They're also accused
of robbing drug dealers and beating a
prostitute in a Maryland hotel.
In a separate case filed over the
summer, a group of suspected Latin
King members were accused of beat-
ing and stabbing a 21-year-old man to
death in Silver Spring after he cat-
called to a group of women who were
outside a home belonging to alleged
gang members.
The gang, which is centered in
Chicago, opened its Maryland branch
in spring 2007, the indictment said.
Alleged leaders Miguel Cruz, 44,
and Erick Roman, 33, reportedly
called their group the Royal Tribe of
Maryland and were heard commu-
nicating about the gang's activities
in Maryland with national leaders
in Chicago. On multiple occasions,
the group's leaders traveled to New
York City, Chicago and Philadelphia
to meet with gang directors, court
documents said.
"This case is part of a series of
federal racketeering and conspiracy
prosecutions in which federal, state
and local agencies have joined to
target leaders and key members of
violent gangs operating in Maryland,"
said U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein.
Other cases, he said, are pending
against MS-13, the Black Guerilla
Family and two branches of the
Bloods.
fklopott@washingtonexaminer.com
Feds, local officials say they've
dismantled Latin Kings in Md.
Fredericks
U.S. Park Police search
for Army veteran's ashes
U.S. Park Police continue to
search for a stolen urn containing
the ashes of a decorated U.S. Army
veteran. Police said the urn was sto-
len from a car parked at the National
Mall. The urn contained the ashes of
83-year-old retired Army Col. Nor-
bert Otto Schmidt of Florida. The
urn was described as bronze with a
cross on the lower right front.
Officers won't face charges
over K-9 fondling video
The five Virginia correctional offi-
cers charged in October with animal
cruelty for fondling a K-9 dog and
videotaping the incidents will not
be prosecuted. Powhatan County
prosecutors said the charges would
not stand up in court. The officers
were training to become K-9 han-
dlers in Goochland County. Two of
the officers no longer work for the
corrections department, and three
others were removed from the
canine program.
Jurors in Dixon trial
filled with questions
Jurors in Baltimore Mayor
Sheila Dixon's theft trial continued
to send questions even after they
were dismissed for the day. After
jurors sent a question and a note
Thursday afternoon asking to end
deliberations for the day, Judge
Dennis Sweeney dismissed them.
The judge and attorneys then
began discussing the question but
were interrupted by another ques-
tion. A courtroom buzzer sounded
again indicating another question,
prompting Sweeney to call them
back in. Sweeney told jurors they
had to stop deliberating for the day
and the best thing they could do was
"go away."
Police ID pedestrian
killed in Silver Spring
Montgomery County police
have identified the pedestrian who
was killed Wednesday night in
Silver Spring as 63-year-old Wil-
liam Alexander Guy. Police said
Guy was attempting to cross 16th
Street just north of Colesville Road
when he was struck by a black 2002
Mercedes-Benz. Police are still
investigating.
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