Another bizarre story out of Ohio.... [View All]

[JoMama49]

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> http://www.newsnet5.com/news/3990954/detail.html

..........they will stop at nothing
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> Man Charged With Submitting Phony Voter Registration Cards
> Cards Had Names Of Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy
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> POSTED: 8:44 am EST December 12, 2004
> DEFIANCE, Ohio -- A grand jury indicted a man who authorities said
> submitted phony voter registration cards in the names of Mary
> Poppins, Dick Tracy and star athletes.
>
> Chad Staton was charged with 10 counts of false registration. He was
> being held Saturday in the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio
> pending a bond heating and arraignment Wednesday in Defiance County
> Common Pleas Court.
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> Staton was arrested last week after being indicted by a Defiance
> County grand jury investigating allegations that a woman paid him
> cocaine in exchange for registration efforts.
>
> Authorities have said Staton filled out phony voter forms himself
> rather than getting citizens to fill out legitimate registrations.
> He was first arrested in October but was released without bond
> during the investigation.
>
> Officers said then that they interviewed a woman who claimed that
> she had paid Staton with cocaine for the registrations.
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> That woman, Georgianne Pitts, 41, of Toledo, about 50 miles east of
> Defiance, was found dead in her home Monday, possibly from a drug
> overdose, the Toledo police crime log indicated.
>
> The Lucas County coroner's office conducted an autopsy, but was
> waiting for toxicology results before releasing the cause of death.
> A message seeking comment was left Saturday for Coroner James
> Patrick.
>
> The Lucas County prosecutor's office was planning to file 10 counts
> of filing false registration forms against Pitts, chief investigator
> Frank Stiles said.
>
> "She was the central figure in all this," Stiles said. "Everything
> went through her."
>
> False registration is a felony, and carries a sentence of six to 12
> months.
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