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Dumb Criminals: Judge Arrested While Wearing "Bad Is My Middle Name" Shirt
BELLEVILLE • A courthouse drug scandal expanded Friday with charges alleging that a St. Clair County probation worker used cocaine repeatedly with two judges and provided the dose that killed one of them.
James K. Fogarty, of the probation office’s investigative unit, told officials he bought cocaine and re-sold it to Associate Judge Joseph Christ and Circuit Judge Michael N. Cook the day before the two went to a hunting lodge where Christ died March 10.
Fogarty, 45, was charged in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis with distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. He was held pending another hearing.
Earlier Friday, Cook, 43, appeared in the same courthouse to answer charges of being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm, and a misdemeanor charge of possession of heroin.
The firearm reference may relate to guns Cook used for hunting.
Apparently wearing the clothes in which he was arrested Wednesday night, Cook attended the hearing in cut-off jeans and a blue T-shirt with the words “Bad is my middle name.”
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-clair-county-court-drug-scandal-widens-to-probation-worker/article_61467f79-bd7e-506a-97e1-d2cd95179b85.html
James K. Fogarty, of the probation office’s investigative unit, told officials he bought cocaine and re-sold it to Associate Judge Joseph Christ and Circuit Judge Michael N. Cook the day before the two went to a hunting lodge where Christ died March 10.
Fogarty, 45, was charged in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis with distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. He was held pending another hearing.
Earlier Friday, Cook, 43, appeared in the same courthouse to answer charges of being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm, and a misdemeanor charge of possession of heroin.
The firearm reference may relate to guns Cook used for hunting.
Apparently wearing the clothes in which he was arrested Wednesday night, Cook attended the hearing in cut-off jeans and a blue T-shirt with the words “Bad is my middle name.”
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-clair-county-court-drug-scandal-widens-to-probation-worker/article_61467f79-bd7e-506a-97e1-d2cd95179b85.html
