Criminal News

I thought I had heard just about every ramification of the great hurricane of August 29th. I can practically see many of the problems it caused every day as I leave my home and venture into the wrecked community. But today I read that Hurricane Katrina has unleashed another storm of sort on the rest of the U.S. It has scattered about 2000 convicted sex offenders all over the country, and about 300 sex offenders who fled here have disappeared.
In all cases the sentencing of each included a requirement that they notify local police whenever they move residence, the penalty for failure being to be sent back into prison. But the missing 300 have vanished totally, ignoring their sentencing guideline and worry police departments everywhere. Not knowing the location of the sex lawbreakers, some of them predators, rapists and child molesters has police and operators of centers that care for sex abuse victims on edge. Though most of our local sex offenders did notify police when they evacuated and have kept them updated as to their movement, 30 have already been arrested for not doing so. Well, I don't wish anyone gets those sex offenders, I must admit Hurricane Katrina did us well in blowing them away from here.
So much for the slimy criminals, but what about the stupid ones? I have a good illustration of that in the form of a teenage boy who accidentally set himself on fire after allegedly trying to siphon gas from a firefighter's car. He's unidentified, for his own protection and because of his stupidity.
Police first learned of the injury after the 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy claimed that someone had thrown gasoline on the 17-year-old at the Common Cents service station and lit him on fire, said a police officer, Lt. Rod Hauge. The young thug was taken to the hospital with second- and third-degree burns on his legs.
After police were called to the hospital to investigate the incident and later learned that the 17-year-old spilled gas on his pants while siphoning gas, they nabbed the thief t right there in the emergency area of the hospital.. Allegedly, he used a lighter to try to determine how wet his pants were after stealing the gas from that car and as a result, set himself of fire.
Both boys have been ticketed with larceny, but any judge with vision would order IQ test for the injured thief and sentencing him to long term of educational classes..