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FEBRUARY 12--A New York man, enraged that his girlfriend had been ensnared in a drug probe, is himself facing a felony rap for a vulgar telephone tirade directed at the parents of a federal agent. According to investigators, Joshua Haggerty, 24, began ranting soon after a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent contacted his girlfriend to discuss her surrender in connection with drug distribution. Amy McDonald, Haggerty's squeeze, was charged late last month in Maryland with cocaine distribution.
THE father of struggling pop star Britney Spears yesterday pleaded for his "sick little girl" to be left alone.
"We're just trying to take care of her,'' Jamie Spears said in a US television interview.
As Spears remained in the Promises Treatment Centre in Malibu, California yesterday - her third attempt at rehab in just over a week - her manager released a statement denying reports she had attempted suicide as "absolutely untrue''.
"She is in rehab, and it is very disappointing that various media outlets are running these false stories about her, as Britney tries to get better,'' he said.
Jamie Spears, who has also been in rehab, said rumours his daughter was battling drug or alcohol addiction were wrong.
Britney Spears snapped overnight, lashing out at a photographer's car, before reportedly going back into rehab.
The website x17 has posted photos and a video of the troubled bald-headed pop star battering the snapper's vehicle with an umbrella before stomping off.
The website says the incident happened after she went to her ex-husband Kevin Federline's San Fernando valley home and got no answer when she rang the bell.
Britney Spears' latest meltdown comes as no surprise to those who have known the pop superstar longest - they insist she has a long history of mind-bending drug use. She was spotted with prescription pills during a night out with pals in November (06), sparking initial concerns her life was spiralling out of control, but now old friends have started to come forward with drug use stories.
Amanda Alexander, the sister of Spears' first husband Jason, admits the singer's drug use dates back to 2003.
These Trees are a real work of art The original planter must have had the patience of Job. These trees were grown in Santa Cruz CA, the year I don't know, but the man that grew them never told any one how he did it. Then in around 1999, the owner of Nob Hill Foods in Gilroy CA moved them to His park in Gilroy and they are doing well.
After watching the movie "Bully" for about the 10th time I decided to do a little digging into the true story of Marty Puccio and Lisa Connely and the rest of the "Misfit Mafia" who were involved with the killing of "Bobby Kent".
Here is some of the information that I was able to find...
Hello and Welcome . You have the reached the Marty Puccio message board .
This board is for people who would like to learn more about Marty Puccio and perhaps help out . I expect everyone to have respect and be civilized to each other . I welcome private emails also and encourage anyone who has a negative outlook on Marty ,to please educate themselves before forming an opinion. If after reading the posts you have more questions, feel free to contact me . A defense fund has been set up for Marty so anyone wishing to contribute can email me for the address and information. Thank you .
FREE LISA CONNELLY This movie and the book upon which it is based, are not based on court testimony or any personal account. It is a fiction loosely based on an event which occurred. The Producers have no legal right to call this a true story, or to use the actual names of the individuals involved. There is not a single footnote, reference of quotation mark in this book.
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Hi. I created this group to help Donald Semenec. For thise of you who dont know him he was invloved in the Bobby Kent murder. I got tired of seeing webpages and groups for all of the other people invoved in the case and not him. In my opinion he is the one who needs the most help.
AlisHusband · Alis Husband I am married to ali willis-chapman that was involved in a 1993 murder. A friend of hers Persuaded 6 others to kill a bully. I just want to know if anyone wants to see what its like to be married to her.... THE REAL ALI!
Note; I signed-up to join the group with an interest in seeing if Ali would have any interest in writing a post here on Wakado but have not heard anything so far.
I would be happy to post her statement as is and without any editing whatsoever.
Hopefully she or her husband will return my request to at least join the group.
There is a huge interest in this subject and this site gets alot of traffic looking for the information I have here... BJC123
Bobby Kent and Martin Puccio Jr. grew up together, went to school together, lifted weights together , they were best friends , who did everything togther, even worked the same job after school, and to many of the neighbours in the middle class suburb where they lived , they were reffered to as the siamese twins , as they almost seemed joined at the hip. At one point , they almost drifted apart , but came together again at high school, and joined up where they had left off ,it seeme as if nothing could ever seperate the two friends.
Bobby Kent was by many accounts, a popular athletic boy. He earned a decent grade point average in school and played sports. Bobby was charming to those around him and naturally attracted attention. His parents, Fred and Farah Kent had high aspirations for him. Fred was self-employed as a stockbroker, and believed that the true American Dream was for one to be their own master; something he wanted for his son and had plans to set Bobby up running his own business once he graduated from college. Bobby, who was an avid car stereo enthusiast and had his own vehicle sound system that was worth several thousand dollars, had told his father that was the type of business he would like to get into.
We, the undersigned, believe that Marty Puccio is in full deservance of a clemency hearing, pardon or new trial. We believe that Marty is not a threat to society and that is beneficial for all concerned if we were released from prison.
This is being sent to various lawmakers in Florida.
Donald Semenec was given a life sentencestruck for his involvement in the murder of supposed gang leader Bobby Kent. Semenec who has been incarcerated since 1993 was never proven to have a motive. The supposed ringleader of the murder, one of Semenec's co-defendants was given a life sentence, however it was later reduced. This said ringleader has since been released and is leading a normal life, one filled with freedom and empathy. Semenec is currently serving a life sentence along with Marty Puccio and Derek Kaufman. Puccio, the best friend of Bobby Kent dealt the fatal blow which inevitably killed him. Derek Kaufman was a supposed "hitman" hired to aid the inexperienced group of kids in the murder. How is it that Semenec can be serving the same sentence as these two men. In my opinion justice has yet to be served in this case. Donald Semenec deserves a new trial.
The hopes of this petition is to gain 200 signatures. Once and if this happens this petition will be sent to the Florida Law Makers.
We have on appeal the judgment and sentence of the trial court imposing the death penalty on Martin Puccio. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const.
Martin Puccio and Bobby Kent had known each other since third grade, had lived on the same block in Broward County since that time, and were good friends as adults. Bad blood, however, existed between the two. Puccio felt "ill-will and hatred" towards Kent because Kent would bully and pummel him. For a few weeks prior to the murder, Kent dated Alice Willis, best friend of Puccio’s girlfriend, Lisa Connelly, and when Willis moved back with her parents in Palm Bay, Florida, Kent said he was going to murder her and smother her baby unless she returned to Broward County to date him. Willis returned and she and Connelly concocted a plan to kill Kent. The women obtained a gun and lured Kent to a rock pit in west Broward but backed out at the last minute. Later that night, Kent and Willis were seen holding hands but then, according to Willis, Kent raped her at her house. The next day, July 15, 1993, a wider circle of friends conspired to kill Kent and again lured him to the rock pit. The following were present: Alice Willis, Donald Semenec, Heather Swallers, Lisa Connelly, Martin Puccio, Derek Dzvirko, and Derek Kaufman. While Willis and Swallers distracted Kent, Semenec stabbed him from behind. Puccio then stabbed him in the abdomen, and when Kent tried to flee, Semenec, Kaufman, and Puccio tackled him and stabbed and beat him. Kaufman delivered the final blow with a weighted baseball bat, and he and Puccio threw the body into a canal.
I preach love, I'm called erratic,
I preach Christ, I'm called a fanatic
I preach peace, I'm called a sinner
I belong to God, so I'm a winner
Martin Puccio
It is perhaps ironic that Lisa Marie Connelly occasionally picks up her mail at an antique store in Sebring, Fla., called Pieces of the Past.
Almost 14 years ago, Connelly and six other of her friends and acquaintances -- including boyfriend Marty Puccio -- faced prison sentences for the murder of Puccio's best friend, a 20-year-old bully named Bobby Kent.
The reason for a band of suburban kids to commit an act of murder on a whim?
It's the same reason the punk band The Ramones explained why kids sniff glue -- they just wanted something to do.
Connelly, now 32, may be living in the Sebring area.
''I rented an apartment to her, but she left last year,'' said landlord James Lyons, who said he drops off Connelly's mail at the store in Sebring. ``I don't really know her.''
Even by South Florida standards, the murder of Bobby Kent was a stunner. The sheer rage behind the crime seemed inordinate, monstrous. And it posed a troubling, unanswerable question: How could outwardly normal kids descend so far into madness without anyone noticing?
On the night of July 14, 1993, Kent, 20, was bludgeoned and stabbed to death at a secluded Weston rock pit by seven acquaintances - one of them Marty Puccio, 19, his best friend since third grade.
Dallas journalist Jim Schutze told the story in a nonfiction book, Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge, a lurid tale of jealousy, abuse and deadly alienation. Naturally, it caught Hollywood's attention. But the grimness of the story, combined with an alarming rise in teenage violence, made it look like "Bully" would never see the screen.
Bijou opens up in BULLY
Bijou Phillips is furious at Bully director Larry Clark for secretly including shots of her genitals in his controversial new film. The outspoken 21-year-old only discovered Clark had included the explicit footage, which Phillips claims she was not party to, when she saw the film's premiere. Phillips, who dates musician Sean Lennon, rants, "I see the movie for the first time, and I'm like, 'You fucking pricks!' I'm sitting there at the premiere, and I'm like, 'Whyyyyy?' I had no idea. Because the camera only has to go like this," she says as she slightly tilts her hand, "to look at my pussy, so how am I supposed to know? Fucking pricks!" The affair echoes that of Sharon Stone, who claimed Basic Instinct director Paul Verhoeven tricked her into baring her genitals in the notorious 'leg-crossing' scene in the 1990 film. Stone claimed the controversial film-maker had asked her to remove her white knickers because they were causing a reflection on film - and then used a shot of her private parts in the thriller, without her permission.
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For anyone who has seen Bully, and also read the book, Im curious as to how you feel about the story itself. I recently wrote to Marty Puccio, and am in contact with people who are in contact with him. Have I taken this a little too far? Im kinda wondering now.....hmmm.... this man has my address....what now? Whatcha guys think. According to inside sources, I should be recieveing a letter back from him shortly.
DC Number: 963020
Name: SEMENEC, DONALD
Race: WHITE
Sex: MALE
Hair Color: BROWN
Eye Color: BLUE
Height: 5'04''
Weight: 163 lbs.
Birth Date: 07/15/1975
Initial Receipt Date: 06/06/1995
Current Facility: COLUMBIA ANNEX
Current Classification Status: NOT APPLICABLE
Current Custody: CLOSE
Current Release Date: SENTENCED TO LIFE
DC Number: 963025
Name: CONNELLY, LISA
Race: WHITE
Sex: FEMALE
Hair Color: RED OR AUBURN
Eye Color: BROWN
Height: 5'03''
Weight: 166 lbs.
Birth Date: 07/31/1974
Release Facility: LOWELL CI
Custody: COMMUNITY
Release Date: 02/03/2004
DC Number: 894391
Name: KAUFMAN, DEREK L
Race: WHITE
Sex: MALE
Hair Color: BROWN
Eye Color: BLUE
Height: 6'03''
Weight: 240 lbs.
Birth Date: 05/08/1973
Initial Receipt Date: 06/14/1995
Current Facility: SOUTH BAY C.F.
Current Classification Status: NOT APPLICABLE
Current Custody: CLOSE
Current Release Date: SENTENCED TO LIFE
Bobby Kent case Q & A forum
OK i am gona try something new. I get tons of mail about what happened. so i am gonna make this a public forum and let you guys and gals ask questions. i figure this will be easier than answering the same questions all the time. i will answer the best i can. this did happen almost 16 years ago , so some things may be a little fuzzy. so plz read and see what was asked , you probably have the same quwstions as a lot of other people.
DC Number: 963022
Name: PUCCIO, MARTIN
Race: WHITE
Sex: MALE
Hair Color: BROWN
Eye Color: BROWN
Height: 6'00''
Weight: 188 lbs.
Birth Date: 03/01/1973
Initial Receipt Date: 08/03/1995
Current Facility: DESOTO ANNEX
Current Classification Status: NOT APPLICABLE
Current Custody: CLOSE
Current Release Date: SENTENCED TO LIFE
I would personally like to thank Rush Limbaugh and all the little kids who have made it so hard to get my medications these days.Maybe if you would stick to the street drugs like we all did in the 70's Me and all the rest of the people who really need these drugs could get them without going through a ton of shit...Wakado
In a "good-news-bad-news" twist to the war on drugs, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) reports that U.S. teens are turning away from use of street drugs like marijuana and cocaine, in favor of abusing prescription drugs, and over-the-counter cough and cold medicines. According to the ONDCP report, Teens and Prescription Drugs (.pdf), while illegal drug use among teens has dropped by 23 percent over the last five years, the number of new teen abusers of prescription drugs have caught up with new users of street drugs.
LANCASTER -- You’ve forgotten about those leftover painkillers in the back of your medicine cabinet, but your teen may not have. Almost 600 Lancaster County youth in grades 6 through 12 have illegally used prescription pain medications (such as Vicodin® and OxyContin®) in their lifetimes, ac-cording to the 2005 Pennsylvania Youth Survey. Even more have abused stimulants, such as Ritalin®, intended to treat attention deficit disorder, while 350 misused tranquilizers (such as Xanax® and Valium®).
According to Follansbee police, prescription drug abuse is a growing problem in the Ohio Valley.
Officers said a number of people try to file false reports that their prescription drugs were stolen. Now, officers require those people to take lie detector tests but said people rarely show up for the polygraph. Because of pain pill theft and forged prescriptions, pharmacists said they must keep an eye on their customers.
Aldo Crisante of the Follansbee Pharmacy said, "We don't treat anyone as a criminal, but if we're not familiar with them, we may give them another glance. We're also familiar with doctors' handwriting. We look for strange quantities of the medication."
The world’s first robotic twitcher has been deployed to one of America’s most inhospitable swamps to join the search for the holy grail of birdwatching: an iconic woodpecker so rare that it was thought to be extinct for more than half a century.
The ivory-billed woodpecker, sometimes known as the Lord God bird because of its spectacular plumage, had last been spotted in 1944 before a possible sighting of a bird with its markings was reported in the Cache River national wildlife reserve, in Arkansas, in February 2004.
Developed by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Texas A&M University, the high-resolution intelligent robotic video system installed in the Bayou DeView area of the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas is part of a major effort to locate the ivory-billed woodpecker in its historic habitat, the bottomland forests of the southeast United States.
If the researchers obtain conclusive photographic evidence of the woodpecker, it will settle a debate that has become heated in recent years and fascinated millions of people around the world, from bird-watchers and environmentalists to Arkansas farmers and duck hunters.
The robotic camera system developed by researchers at UC Berkeley and Texas A&M University is installed in the Bayou DeView area of the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas. The system is part of a major effort to locate the famed ivory-billed woodpecker. Credit: Photo courtesy of Dezhen Song, Texas A&M University In the meantime, the new robotic video system provides detailed video sequences of other birds, suggesting a new high-tech approach to doing field biology work.
Two priests are off to the showers late one night. They undress andstep into the showers before they realize there is NO SOAP.Father John says he has soap in his room and goes to get it, notbothering to dress.He grabs two bars of soap, one in each hand, and heads back to theshowers. He is halfway down the hall when he sees three nunsheading his way. Having no place to hide, he stands against thewall and FREEZES like he's a STATUE.The nuns stop and comment on how "life-like" he looks. The first nunsuddenly reaches out and pulls on his manhood.Startled, he drops a bar of soap!"Oh look," says the first nun, "it's a soap dispenser".To test her theory, the second nun also pulls on his manhood.Sure enough, he drops the second bar of soap.Now the third nun decides to have a g o.She pulls once, Then twice and three times but nothing happens.So she gives several more tugs.....then yells,"Holy Mary, Mother of God, hand-lotion too!"
She spent the first day packing her belongings into boxes, crates and suitcases. On the second day, she had the movers come and collect her things. On the third day, she sat down for the last time at their beautiful dining room table by candle-light, put on some soft background music, and feasted on a pound of shrimp, a jar of caviar, and a bottle of spring-water.
When she had finished, she went into each and every room and deposited a few half-eaten shrimp shells dipped in caviar into the hollow of the curtain rods. She then cleaned up the kitchen and left.
When the husband returned with his new girlfriend, all was bliss for the first few days. Then slowly, the house began to smell.
They tried everything; cleaning, mopping and airing the place out. Vents were checked for dead rodents and carpets were steam cleaned. Air fresheners were hung everywhere. Exterminators were brought in to set off gas canisters, during which they had to move out for a few days and in the end they even paid to replace the expensive wool carpeting. Nothing worked. People stopped coming over to visit. Repairmen refused to work in the house. The maid quit.
Finally, they could not take the stench any longer and decided to move. A month later, even though they had cut their price in half, they could not find a buyer for their stinky house. Word got out and eventually even the local realtors refused to return their calls.
Finally, they had to borrow a huge sum of money from the bank to purchase a new place. The ex-wife called the man and asked how things were going. He told her the saga of the rotting house. She listened politely and said that she missed her old home terribly and would be willing to reduce her divorce settlement in exchange for getting the house back.
Knowing his ex-wife had no idea how bad the smell was, he agreed on a price that was about 1/10th of what the house had been worth, but only if she were to sign the papers that very day. She agreed and within the hour his lawyers delivered the paperwork.
A week later the man and his girlfriend stood smiling as they watched the moving company pack everything to take to their new home......... And to spite the ex-wife, they even took the curtain rods!!!!!!
