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Alvin Lastimado Jr., 18, was arrested in August at the Wahiawa, Hawaii, Public Library and charged with assault. He had been holding a woman against her will in his home, when he began to utter a satanic chant. In the middle of the chant he forgot the words and told the woman he was going to the library to look them up. The woman escaped and called the police, who intercepted Lastimado in the occult section.
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Convicted prostitute Mary Ellen Tracy, 50, was accepted as a volunteer nature-trail tour guide for elementary school students in Santa Clarita, California, in November. Two months later she was dismissed when the nature center that employed her found out that several years ago Tracy had been a “priestess” of a “church” in which she said she had had sex with 2,700 members as part of a sin-cleansing ritual.
Only days apart, two Wisconsin men arrived in court drunk for their trials on DUI charges. Both denied they had been drunk while driving, and both denied they were drunk in the courtroom. James Heard had an 0.26 blood-alcohol level on his trial day in Milwaukee, and John Newbury registered 0.22 at his LaCrosse trial–both levels are more than double the 0.10 legal maximum.
