Intimidating Smile
A man entering the courthouse in Chicago, Ill., went through the regular security checks. A deputy x-rayed his briefcase, and spotted four knives. He asked the man what was in the case.
"Just papers," the man allegedly replied.
Kevin J. Long, 48, of Chicago was arrested March 16 and charged with unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, both felonies, as well as parole violation -- Long was previously convicted of intimidation of a civil court case witness after telling the witness he would kill their child if they testified. He apparently bought the knives on his way to the courthouse; they still had price stickers on their unopened packages. He claimed he "forgot" about the knives. His bail was set at $350,000.
Long has an interesting criminal history, having been arrested 18 times in the past 10 years, including trespassing in a judge's chambers, masturbating in public, and violating a restraining order. But not all at the same time, thankfully.
More after the mug shot/evidence photo:
After Long's arrest, detectives from the Cook County Sheriff's Department and agents from the U.S. Marshals Service served a search warrant on Long's home after getting information that he had more weapons -- which would be illegal since Long is a convicted felon.
Yeah, they found a few things.
In addition to 1,600 knives, including several plastic knives (designed to get through metal detectors), switchblades (illegal in Chicago and/or Illinois), they found brass knuckles (ditto), handguns, fake police badges, batons, and other items. In all, 47 of the weapons resulted in additional charges against Long.
In addition, detectives found Long was gathering information on certain law enforcement agents.
"We recovered numerous boxes of documents from his home, and in those were several pieces of papers with police officer and sheriff deputy names on them," a sheriff's spokesman said. "There was nothing saying a specific threat against a specific person, but it was certainly clear that he was documenting specific people's names."
Gee: it's not like he has a history of threatening people who might testify against him.
But our favorite part of this case is a second mug shot. It's unclear when this was taken:
Source: Chicago Breaking News
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Posted by D in Illinois on March 28, 2010:
Bob, his 18 arrests were for things like public indecency, harassment, trespassing -- not traffic tix. Some were felony arrests that he pled down to misdemeanors. Check this out for more on his history.
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Amazing -- and pathetic. -rc
Posted by Bob in Illinois on March 29, 2010:
D in Illinois, Thanks for the link it is an interesting read. My point however is that someone can be arrested a hundred times and it still doesn't have any legal bearing on a person until they are convicted of the charges. Having 18 convictions for an array of felonies on the other hand is a different story then it does bring up why he was still free with all those convictions. As you pointed out some were reduced to misdemeanors. But again my point is without knowing all the information about every charge and conviction a person has we assume the worst of everybody. I know of several people that drive drunk almost every day but have never been stopped, at least that I know of. They in fact do not have any convictions for any kind of drunk driving (locally we can go online to the county web site and lookup there arrests and convictions). Yet, I have an ex-brother-in-law who got stopped the first time that I know of for drunk driving and lost his license for 15 years, it was supposed to be 10 years but it took him another 5 years and about $20,000 to get it back. All he did was swerve to miss a dog and got stopped and that's what was in the police report, I know because I had to pick him up at the police station in the middle of the night. So what you read does not always tell the whole story, you have to have all the facts before making a judgment about someone and their actions.
Posted by Sabra in CT on June 27, 2010:
Any idea how this is turning out?
Sounds like a real nightmare. I feel really sorry for the people he harassed. I'm glad they stood their ground and didn't let him intimidate him.