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Phoenix police arrested Michael William Wetton, a Christian school headmaster, in March and charged him with child abuse. Police say when a woman and her 15-year-old daughter met with Wetton to discuss enrolling the girl, he forced the girl to strip and submit to a paddling while reciting the Lord’s Prayer.
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Denver police arrested Milton Edward Anderson, 63, in March and said he was their principal suspect in a wave of about 200 recent brassiere slashings at stores. Anderson denied the charge but admitted he was wearing women’s underwear at the time he was arrested.
In April in Haddon Heights, New Jersey, police charged Leslie Nelson with the murders of two police officers who’d come to her home to serve a warrant for weapons violations. Nelson resisted arrest and barricaded herself inside for 14 hours. During the standoff the six-foot-two-inch Nelson, who’d recently undergone a sex-change operation, was seen at a window in her home holding a rifle while clad in G-string and halter top.
In May, the Providence Journal-Bulletin reported on the racial harassment of Lateef Saibu by his neighbors. One neighbor quoted Saibu’s chief antagonist as saying he opposed the Saibu family’s moving there because “it would bring down [my] property value.” According to the Journal-Bulletin, the neighborhood consists of seven houses and three small industries jammed up against a hilly dead end, with bare dirt yards, rusted junk cars and truck tops, cracked windows, and facades with curling shingles.
