Father of boy who planned school attack is jailed:
Frank Cossey, the father of would be homeschooled school shooter Dillon Cossey, has been jailed. He violated his parole when he failed a drug test.
Cossey the elder was convicted of manslaughter back in the ’80s and had attempted to buy a rifle for his son by lying on the application stating he had no previous convictions.
The trial for the second suspect in the plot to attack Marshfield High school in Massachusetts started today. The first ‘suspect’, Tobin Kerns, was convicted for his alleged role in the plot and was sentenced to 10 months in jail.
It’s no secret that I think Tobin Kerns was actually set up by the defendant in today’s trial, Joe Nee. For all my posts on that, you can check the archives.
Here are two articles about today’s proceedings. Pretty much, both of them say a whole lot of nothing. All they say is that there were opening statements and witness testimony. Way to display those journalism degrees, guys. Considering that the trial of Tobin Kerns was documented in detail by both newspapers, this is ridiculous.
As I’ve mentioned before, Nee’s father, Thomas Nee, is the head of the Boston police union. Is it possible that the media is downplaying this trial because of some kind of arrangement with the Boston Police Department? That’s pure speculation on my part, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility.
Johnson suspected in theft of debit card:
Jonesboro gunman Mitchell Johnson just can’t catch a break, not that he deserves one.
While he stews in a Bentonville, Arkansas jail for his latest misdemeanor drug possession, it turns out that Johnson may have had his hand in another crime, using a stolen ATM card. He allegedly took it when a customer at the gas n’ gulp that he worked at left the card at the store. Johnson was ID’d by an employee of one of the places he allegedly used the card at.
Karma ain’t even close to punching your card yet, son.
Jonesboro School Shooter Arrested Again:
When you’re awaiting sentencing on federal drug and gun charges, the smart thing to do would be to not get arrested again on drug charges. Apparently, Jonesboro gunman Mitchell Johnson isn’t that smart.
He was arrested yet again Sunday night for being in possession of misdemeanor amounts of marijuana.
I’m sure the judge will take that into consideration at his sentencing.
Man arrested in threats claims he corresponded with Columbine shooter:
Yesterday I posted about a mutant from Newark, Ohio named Patrick Gauchel and the classic signs of mutantdom he displayed by sending threatening messages to the lead Columbine investigator.
Now comes to us another article which displays an even deeper sign of mutantcy, claiming to have a personal relationship with one of the Columbine shooters.
In an exclusive interview with NBC4 on Saturday, Gauchel said he had correspondence with Eric Harris, one of the Columbine shooters. He told the station he was so upset about the way Battan conducted the investigation that he sent her threatening e-mails.
He said the e-mails contained things like, “I’ll pay someone to rape her,” NBC4 reported.
The station reported Gauchel said he had a fascination with the Columbine case, but his correspondence with Battan was “just e-mail.”
They always claim they knew Eric Harris for some reason, never Dylan Klebold. If as many people who claimed to have been friends with Eric Harris were actually friends with him, he would have been the most popular kid in Colorado.
You only have to go as far as my mail section to see other delusional souls such as this.
Newark man accused of sending threatening email to Columbine investigator:
28-year-old Patrick James Gauchel of Newark, Ohio, has been arrested for sending threatening e-mails to an investigator of the Columbine massacre.
Gauchel is accused of sending “threatening, intimidating and retaliation-type messages” to Kate Battan, an investigator with the Jefferson County sheriff’s office in Golden, Colo., Newark Police Capt. Al Zellner said yesterday.
Gauchel did not know Battan but apparently was familiar with her role in investigating the massacre in Littleton, Colo., on April 20, 1999.
I can almost guarantee you that Gauchel is a mutant. E-mailing someone connected to the Columbine tragedy is like getting an autograph to them. Alvaro Castillo sent an e-mail to the principal of Columbine, Frank DeAngelis, before he went on his shooting spree. I know of at least one un-incarcerated mutant that e-mailed Mr. DeAngelis.
Mutants also think they have a better understanding of Columbine, even though none of them were there. But since most of them are mental midgets, they can’t get their point across without resorting to threats.
Getting back to Gauchel, he must have been 19 or 20 when Columbine happened. You would think one would be out of high school by that age, but you never know. I’m curious to see how Gauchel identifies with Columbine, considering he shouldn’t have even been in school when it happened.
Gauchel is looking at a max of 6 years behind bars.
Pat from BelchSpeak was kind enough to send me this link to let me know that 29 years ago today was when Brenda Spencer opened fire on a San Diego elementary school that was across the street from her house. She ended up killing two and wounding nine.
Pat asked me whatever became of her and I directed him to this post from 3 years ago when she was last denied parole.
Pat, in his usual manner, replied…
What? she hasn’t been released yet because she was a child at the time of the shooting and there is not a shred of DNA evidence that says she did it??
Epic.
That’s the difference between now and then. Then there was no debate on what to do with a 16-year-old murderer. She was sentenced to life.
Federal court jury convicts Jonesboro school shooter:
Mitchell Johnson was convicted today on federal weapons charges. The best part is that the prosecution didn’t even bring up Jonesboro to do it.
Government lawyers did not bring up Johnson’s violent past. The only clue during the two-day trial came during jury selection, when potential panelists were asked one-by-one whether Johnson’s name sounded familiar.
The husband and son of one of his victims attended the trial…
Mitch Wright, the widower of a teacher killed March 25, 1998, watched Tuesday’s court session along with his son Zane, who was 2 at the time of the shootings and is now 12. Wright said the boy “wanted to see what this person looked like.”
Johnson will be sentenced within the next 45 days. He’s looking at a 10-year maximum.
Weapons trial begins for Jonesboro school shooter Johnson:
The federal weapons trial for Jonesboro shooter Mitchell Johnson started earlier today.
In opening statements, the prosecution stated that Johnson is a heavy marijuana user and had a nickel-plated 9mm in his possession at the time of the traffic stop on New Year’s Day 2007.
The defense says that Johnson was pulled over on a bogus tip that Johnson was in possession of 100 pounds of marijuana, and that police were looking for any reason to pull him over.
The article also contained this little gem of information…
Johnson left prison with an “adjudicated” record _ meaning he could own firearms.
I really hope the state of Arkansas closed that loophole too when they fixed the law that allowed Johnson and his cohort Andrew Golden to be released.
The cop that pulled Johnson over testified that he saw Johnson driving erratically but admitted that he was looking for a legal reason to pull Johnson over.
I’ll admit the evidence against him seems pretty flimsy, but Johnson should have never set foot out of jail in my opinion.
Thanks to everyone who sent in tips.
New Trial to Begin for School Shooter:
It seems that Jonesboro shooter Mitchell Johnson was on his way to California to make a new life for himself. Too bad he got caught traveling with another convicted murderer, and marijuana, and a gun.
“Honest to God, I’m just trying to get to Cali, man,” Johnson told deputies as they searched the loaded-down, 1980s Ford van at a Fayetteville convenience store. The incident was recorded on video.
Awwww…isn’t that cute?
And it seems that he had just received the gun prior to his arrest on New Year’s Day 2007.
Johnson lived in North Carolina and California for a while. He even returned to Jonesboro over Christmas 2006, where Craighead County Sheriff Jack McCann had warned that deputies “couldn’t guarantee” the safety of either him or Golden.
He received a silver 9 mm Lorein pistol as a present and practiced “target shooting” near the city.
Who in the blue hell thought it was a good idea to give a convicted school shooter and murderer another gun?
Since he had already lived in California and returned to Arkansas, it proves the old adage. You can’t go home again. Or maybe that should be, you shouldn’t go home again.