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Richard Smith, 31, celebrated his release from jail in March with a dinner at the Tara Hyannis Hotel in Massachusetts. He had served 90 days for running out on nine restaurant tabs last summer. He was promptly arrested again after running out on the $28 check at the Tara.
John Fogleman, 30, serving time for rape in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was arrested in November for making obscene telephone calls from inside the jail.
In February in Quebec City, Serge Pouliot was sentenced to 18 months in prison for assaulting his supervisor, who had threatened to turn Pouliot in for sleeping at work. Both men operate an X-ray machine at a shipyard, and Pouliot committed the assault by severely x-raying his supervisor, subjecting him to the equivalent of 20 years’ on-the-job exposure.
Earl H. Brockington was convicted in February for a robbery in Kansas City, Missouri, that took place a year ago. He had taken a woman’s purse (containing only $5) in a parking garage, then accidentally nicked the woman with his knife, provoking her to scream, whereupon four men chased him, forcing him to leap from a parking deck 25 feet to the ground, injuring his leg. He managed to hobble to and climb underneath a parked car, but the owner of the car got in a few minutes later, started it up, and ran over Brockington’s feet, breaking several bones.
