I was able to read that one.
P.S. Several years later, I was interviewing for another job, and the interviewer asked me why I left that place after 4 months. I kind of hemmed and hawed, and he just looked at me and said, “You can tell me the truth. I’ve been told many times that Hospital X is a very difficult place to work at.”
I know someone that’s a felon for smuggling coyotes. Not being a coyote and smuggling people, but smuggling actual coyotes. Transporting them, really. Now it’s legal, but he’s still a felon for it. And he had to spend 9 months in jail, in his 70’s, for it.
This guy used to be a coworker of mine. Was even on a project with him briefly.
I have to ask: Why would anyone smuggle a coyote?
Trying to get rid of unwanted animals without killing them?
Trapping & transporting squirrels is illegal around here, I’ve been told.
The story is that at one point, fox hunting because a very popular sport in North Carolina. So popular that the fox population became pretty decimated. People started importing coyotes from other states into NC and they started hunting them for sport. Then Hurricane Hugo hit, destroying many of the coyote pens, and they got loose and returned to the wild. Then there were too many coyotes around. So they made it illegal to bring coyotes into NC.
Man, people are sick 
None that I know of.
Smuggled raccoons from Florida (done by a coon hunting club to help with dog training) led to Rabies virus introduction to areas not yet endemic.
ETA a cite. From here: http://www.peqtwp.org/cit-e-access/webpage.cfm?TID=60&TPID=7575&Print=1
We had one high school science teacher who would take prize students on trips. On those trips he apparently picked up little boys and paid for sex with drugs. He was never charged with anything with the students he took with him as far as I remember.
One of the shop teachers I had was convicted of statutory rape. I think it was his niece. I don’t think there were public allegations of anything with students.
Since I’ve been doing this job I’ve locked up a few teachers for in school shenanigans.
Two. One’s the whitest of white collar workers that got busted for income tax evasion back in the early '80s. Fantastic guy, served his time and made his amends and has been a model citizen ever since.
The other’s currently serving time in federal prison for a string of 8 bank robberies across four states. He’ll get out in 2022, I think, and we’ll see where he goes from there. Nice guy, just really, really bad at money management. (So’s his wife, incidentally.)
Is that a coyote in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Ok, I’d thought I had read this story earlier!
Two off the top of my head, both from the little town I left to go to college 25 years ago. (I’m sure I’ve been acquainted with more in my urban life - my city’s most notorious criminal of the last ten years lived right down the block - but I didn’t know them well enough to know their criminal records.)
There is quite the dichotomy between the two. One was the president of our local bank. In the mid-90s, he did a few things he shouldn’t have (made some unsecured loans with falsified paperwork, wrote off some personal overdraft fees) and got caught. He spent about a year in the slammer for that, I think, but his real punishment was not ever being able to do the kind of work he was trained to do again. Today, after a long run as either a janitor or a minister in a bunch of churches, Bruce is involved in a community ministry specializing in poverty and prison after-care. I haven’t talked to him for a good long time; maybe I’ll run into him one of these days.
The other one I only knew as a gradeschooler. I’ve written about him here before - you just couldn’t turn your back on the kid. I was teaching third-grade Sunday School and one day the topic of evil came up. Every single kid there agreed that this kid was pure evil - there was no convincing them otherwise. He would do pretty much any maladaptive thing he could get away with - stealing, animal cruelty, vandalism, you name it. By fourth grade, he was in the juvenile justice system. Today he’s serving a life sentence for murder. No one is surprised.
I tell the story a lot, and have probably done so here already.
I worked as a part time contractor doing database work for a guy’s company. I found out that he’d spent about 7 years in prison for drug running a while ago.
He was a very nice guy, but had a strange quirk that he thought he was brighter than anyone else around him. He made very dumb decisions, but thought he knew better. I tried to talk him out of a lot of things.
He would do things like violating probation by travel out of state.
One day I was listening to a radio station in St. Louis and they reported that both the BBB and Illinois State Attorney had complaints against the business. That’s when I started separating myself from working for him.
The business collapsed after burning though over $1 million in capital. I don’t know where he is now. Google searches come up pretty empty.
I have more than a dozen (formerly close) friends and/or long-term co-workers currently incarcerated for felonies. I know at least 3 of them are there for murder, one is there for multiple murders, and at least two are convicted pedophiles. I guess I run with a fairly colorful crowd, although it’s getting to be a smaller crowd every year.
Only one that I know of. The former president of our model car club is currently in prison for life after murdering his parents with a baseball bat in a drug-fueled rage. :eek:
If we are including school teachers then I can add another four from my (catholic) high school. All done for molesting students.