Re: OT Crowding the Interesection DOES NOT get you out there any faster...

["Roland Moore" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If the ploice really start to "crack" down, I wonder if there are enough
jails?

"(PeteCresswell)" <x@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Per Roland Moore:
>>I think that may be an accurate template to describe the way many men
>>experience female companionship, especially marriage.
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> AKRON, OH Area resident Helen Crandall, 44, was arrested by Akron police
> Sunday,
> charged with conducting an elaborate "sex-for-security" scam in which she
> allegedly defrauded husband Russell Crandall out of nearly $230,000 in
> cash,
> food, clothing and housing over the past 19 years using periodic offers of
> sexual intercourse.
>
> "It's the biggest scam of its kind I've ever seen," Akron police chief
> Thomas
> Agee said. "We're talking coats, dishwashers, jewelry, sewing machines,
> bathroom
> cleansers-you name it."
>
> According to Agee, undercover agents spotted Crandall's husband handing
> her $50
> in cash at approximately 4 p.m., just 30 minutes after the two had sex.
> Crandall
> then drove off in her car, returning home two hours later with five bags
> of
> groceries.
>
> "That's when we made the arrest," Agee said. "After tracking her for
> years, we
> finally had proof that she was buying all those goods with dirty money."
>
> During the arrest, Akron police officials entered the Crandall household
> and
> seized more than 150 items Mrs. Crandall had received from her husband
> over the
> last 19 years, including a four-speed adjustable food processor, 12 pairs
> of
> earrings, a matching sofa and loveseat, a box of two-ply kitchen garbage
> bags,
> and a portable radio.
>
> In exchange for these items, Agee said, Crandall's husband received sex an
> estimated 950 times-most frequently in the master bedroom, but also in the
> downstairs den three times, and once on the floor of the sewing room.
>
> In addition to physical evidence, Akron police have collected considerable
> eyewitness testimony. More than 250 Akron residents have come forward to
> report
> seeing Helen and Russell Crandall together, and several said they
> witnessed Mr.
> Crandall flagrantly purchasing items for his wife.
>
> "Sure, they'd come in here," said Ray Greene of Greene's House and Home.
> "I
> think the last time they got one of those box fans with the three
> settings."
>
> Perhaps the most damaging testimony has come from Mr. Crandall himself,
> who on
> Tuesday told police that while the couple was dating in 1977, Mrs.
> Crandall
> (then known as Helen Steuben) demanded that he buy her a ring worth over
> $1,000
> before he could have sex with her. The first sexual liaison took place
> some six
> months later at Bob's Honeymooner Hotel during an all-expenses-paid trip
> to
> Niagara Falls.
>
> It was also in 1977, Mr. Crandall said, that his wife quit her job at
> Shippee
> Shoes in downtown Akron.
>
> "Clearly," Summit County prosecutor Andrew Dravecky said, "after quitting
> her
> job, the accused began receiving money under the table from some other
> source:
> How else could she have afforded to not work? It's now pretty apparent
> that at
> that point she began supporting herself by providing a certain service to
> Mr.Crandall."
>
> Crandall's mother, Bernice Steuben, a resident of the Valley View Senior
> Home in
> Yuma, AZ, is being sought for questioning in connection to the case:
> Police
> suspect that Steuben may have introduced her daughter to the
> sex-for-security
> scam after having used it herself from 1932 to 1971.
>
> But for all the evidence collected against Crandall, Dravecky said the
> case will
> likely be difficult to prosecute. "Helen was very careful to cover her
> tracks,"
> he said. "She even got her husband to put her name on the bank accounts
> and
> credit cards."
>
> The Crandall case is not an isolated incident, said criminologist John
> Ohlmeyer,
> who said there are "literally millions" of such cases across the U.S. each
> year
> that never come to court.
>
> "This kind of thing isn't as uncommon as we'd all like to think," Ohlmeyer
> said.
> "A woman finds herself in a situation where she isn't employable. Or maybe
> she
> has interests like child-rearing, cooking and home-maintenance that keep
> her
> from getting a job. So what does she do? She cooks up a scheme to entrap a
> man
> using her body as the bait. It's frightening, but it happens every day in
> this
> country."
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> PeteCresswell