Lead Story
In June prosecutors were deciding whether to file charges against a couple in Crown Point, Indiana, who allegedly beat their 17-year-old son because he’d refused to let his sister borrow some of his underwear after she and friends went swimming in their clothes. When the boy took his underwear to his grandparents’ house for safekeeping, police said, his enraged parents followed and the confrontation ensued.
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Justin Breakspear, 18, was arrested in Framingham, Massachusetts, in May and charged with illegal possession of three firearms; police said it would be difficult for Breakspear to deny ownership of one, a .380-caliber pistol, given that he has a detailed image of the gun, including its serial number, tattooed on his hip. Also in May 25-year-old Jason McClaskey was hospitalized in Valhalla, New York, with burns covering 60 percent of his body. Evidence suggested McClaskey, who was under house arrest on burglary charges, had tried to burn the monitoring device off of his leg; he claimed he was lighting his grill when he accidentally set his clothing on fire, but there was no charcoal on the grill, there was no food anywhere nearby, and it was nearly six in the morning.
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Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
