Lead Story
Police in Urbandale, Iowa, arrested one of their own in January. James R. Trimble, a 43-year-old cop, part-time antidrug crusader, and part-time girls’ basketball coach, was charged with trafficking in marijuana and methamphetamine. According to the Des Moines Register, Trimble was also driving around with “scores” of sex videotapes in his car and had a “sexual device inserted into his body”–a device that “was connected to a battery pack.” (No other details were revealed.)
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Courtroom Antics
The U. S. Supreme Court in January rejected the appeal of a convicted drug possessor in Arizona who claimed he didn’t receive a fair trial because no fat people served on the jury.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
