I didn't know "deliverence" was filmed in Wisconsin

4th Stites brother is charged with sexual assault


BY Sarah Millard • Herald Times Reporter • June 2, 2009

MANITOWOC — Thomas M. Stites, 25, of Francis Creek, made his initial appearance Monday on a first-degree, sexual-assault-of-a-child charge before the Manitowoc County Circuit Court.
Stites is scheduled for a preliminary hearing at 9:30 a.m. June 9. He remains jailed in lieu of $10,000 bail.
A young girl told law enforcement she was 6 years old when Stites raped her in the spring of 2005, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday.
The girl told Manitowoc police detectives Thomas Stites and his brother, Carl J. Stites, 20, of Manitowoc, forced her to have sex with Thomas Stites in order to play video games. Carl Stites held her arms on the ground while Thomas Stites assaulted her, according to the complaint.
An investigation into Carl Stites' role in the assault is continuing, Manitowoc police Capt. Scott Luchterhand said.
Thomas Stites is the sixth Stites family member to be charged with sexual assault-related crimes.
His brother, Michael E. Stites, 38, of Manitowoc, pleaded guilty May 7 to repeatedly sexually assaulting two teenage girls in Manitowoc County. Michael Stites also was convicted in Brown County of three counts of sexually assaulting his children's then 14-year-old baby-sitter in September 1998.
Jason C. Stites, 27, of New Berlin, another brother, is charged with five felonies.
He is accused of videotaping a teenage couple having sex while he chaperoned the minors in Manitowoc County. Stites' attorney, Ryan Kautzer, filed a motion May 19 to dismiss the case. A motion hearing is schedule for 9:30 a.m. Friday.
Carl Stites has been convicted of two counts of child enticement. He had sexual contact with a then 15-year-old boy in August 2006. He also had sexual contact with an adolescent girl between 2004 and 2005.
Charlene P. Stites, 43, of Manitowoc, Michael Stites' wife, is charged with repeated sexual assault of a child.
She is scheduled to meet with lawyers in the district attorney's office for a June 30 settlement conference.
Adam M. Stites, 18, of Manitowoc, Charlene and Michael Stites' son, has been convicted of three misdemeanor fourth-degree sexual assault charges — two counts in Kewaunee County and one count in Manitowoc County. He also is serving a deferred judgment agreement on a felony sex-related charge that will be dismissed if he fulfills the terms of the agreement.

Tales from airport security

Pilot's Missing Laptop Causes Airport Security Scare

A pilot's laptop, filled with top secret security information was reported missing at Dulles Airport and the ripple effects were felt across the country.
The Mesa Airlines employee couldn't find the personal laptop he brought with him while co-piloting a United Express flight from Birmingham, Alabama to Dulles International Airport.
17 airports were forced to make emergency changes to access codes at Dulles, Atlanta, Phoenix, Chicago's O'Hare and San Antonio.
Various officials within the airline industry admit that with these access codes, someone who went though security could, with the touch of a few buttons, get onto a plane or get outside, right below a plane.
A TSA spokesperson said, "On April 17, Mesa Airlines notified TSA that an employee reported a laptop, containing confidential information, had been misplaced, lost or stolen."
Federal and airline officials admitted that the classified codes on the computer provided the pilot, through a keypad, access from the gate to the plane and down to ground level right below the plane.

Passengers were appalled. "That's just a major security breach for everyone that flies within the United States."

One airline insider tells ABC 7 News the laptop was probably stored in an overhead compartment used by passengers and likely stolen.

Federal officials quickly contacted 17 U.S. airports used by the pilot, warning them of the security breach. Media representatives for a number of those airports affected, including Dulles, Phoenix and Akron-Canton said the codes were promptly changed. ABC 7 News learned one security official at a midwest airport rushed to work in the middle of the night to prevent a breach.

A Mesa Airlines spokesperson said, "Any breach of aviation security is of primary concern to Mesa Airlines and we are fully cooperating with the TSA."

Meanwhile, a TSA official said the agency, "may look at increasing the standards for anyone who stores this type of information on their computers."

Airline officials said they have very little to go on because they don't know if the pilot was targeted or if it was a crime of opportunity. A spokesperson for Dulles said airport police are investigating.

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From a website called scrappleface. It made me laugh out loud!

Gore Wins Nobel Prize, High Court Gives It to Bush

by Scott Ott

(2007-10-12) — Although former Vice President Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize this week for his work as a global-warming performance artist, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled early today that President George Bush would receive the gold medal, the diploma and the $750,000.

Mr. Bush, who was narrowly defeated by Mr. Gore in the 2000 presidential election, thanked Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito “for swinging the vote my way, and helping me to join the pantheon of great Nobel laureates like Jimmy Carter and the late Yassir Arafat who together brought peace to the middle east.”

Mr. Gore could not be reached for comment as he was returning from Oslo, Norway, in a private jet. However, his spokesman said that his efforts to bring peace on earth speak for themselves.

“Thanks to Al Gore’s movies, speeches and books,” said the unnamed spokesman, “Terrorists and tyrants around the world will soon lay aside the weapons of war and give peace a chance by working together to develop a hybrid car that runs on cheap, clean-burning gunpowder.”

Well, you gotta have something to balme

Idaho Man Blames Wild Sex for Car Crash

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

MOSCOW, Idaho — A 22-year-old carnival worker blames two friends having sexual intercourse in the back seat of his car for an accident in which his Chevrolet S-10 Blazer struck a telephone pole.

Joshua D. Frank, who is living in a trailer parked on the Latah County Fairgrounds, pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor charge of failing to notify a police officer of a traffic accident. That's after he left the vehicle at the site of the mishap. He was fined $188.

Frank told Moscow Police Department officers that he was driving the vehicle near downtown early Saturday while a man and woman were having sex in the rear of the vehicle.

According to a probable cause affidavit, Frank told authorities that the actions of the pair in the back caused the Blazer, which "was top heavy anyway," to become "tippy" and lose control.

Frank left the accident scene with a minor head wound and returned to his trailer.

The other two occupants of the vehicle were treated for injuries, according to the affidavit, though further information on their condition wasn't available.