'Dismiss the case, he's a deputy's son': Police clerk sends order to scrap ticket to newspaper

[TalkingDog]

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048134/Police-clerk-accidentally-sends-order-scrap-speeding-ticket-local-newspaper.html#ixzz1aZu5NwOG

Joann Reed told the Belleville News-Democrat that she accidentally sent the fax from the St Clair County Sheriff’s Department in Belleville, Illinois to the newspaper with a signed handwritten note saying 'dismiss the case.'

Reed had intended to send the three-page message to a Centreville village lawyer but her request went astray and landed in the Belleville News-Democrat newsroom.

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She also insisted she had falsely suggested the 18-year-old ticketed motorist - Jonathan Yates was the son of a deputy sheriff and was in fact a college student she was trying to help out.

Reporters discovered that Yates - the son of Cerether White, a St. Clair County sheriff's deputy, was issued the $175 fine on August 18 for allegedly driving at 43mph in a 20 mph zone.

[seabeyond]

1. " 20 mph zone." in other words, a school zone at 43 mph. not good. nt

[Frustratedlady]

2. Those 'Oops Moments' often end up with someone in the unemployment line.

Hmmmmm? Does she still have a job?

[Myrina]

3. yes, accidentally. cough cough.

;-)

[1776Forever]

4. This has happened around my "neck of the woods" for years! It is just how the good ole' boys

did it. Disgusting but in this Repub town everyone knows who "gets away" with things and who doesn't.:mad: