Workman�s comp
Suspended cop: Sex with prostitute wasn�t fun; it was work

BEAUMONT, TX � Officer Keith Breiner is looking to be reinstated to the Beaumont, Texas Police Department after a bungled felony prostitution investigation where he had sex with women he was trying to entrap.

Breiner is one of two officers suspended indefinitely without pay for engaging in sex acts during an undercover investigation. Breiner is the only officer trying to stop the city from suspending him, saying that because he did what he was asked to do, the punishment violated his constitutional rights.

�I don�t agree that he should have had sex. I don�t agree that (Lt. Curtis) Breaux told him he should have sex,� Police Chief Frank Coffin said in court.

Breiner has said all along that Breaux told him he would have to have sex with the women to make the case.

Breiner added that the other undercover officers didn�t want to participate in the sting because they didn�t want to have to testify in open court. Also, the officers indicated their wives wouldn�t allow it.

Breiner testified to experiencing manual stimulation, oral sex and vaginal penetration with women at two spas.

Assistant City Attorney Joseph Sanders asked Breiner if he enjoyed having sex with the women.

At first, he shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. At times when Breiner responded to the attorney�s questions, he raised his voice and answered questions with a question.

�If you are asking if I had an orgasm, yes. It was a job, sir,� Breiner said. �I didn�t have pleasure doing this. I was paid to do it.�

In a round of questioning about sexually transmitted diseases, Breiner said the women at the spas provided protection in the form of condoms.

He said if he had contracted a sexually transmitted disease, the city should be held responsible.

�I have very high morals, but they are being attacked because of something I did for the city,� Breiner said during testimony last month.


Wisconsin woman arrested, 
booked over library fines

GRAFTON, WI � A Grafton, Wisc. woman was arrested and booked for failing to pay her library fines. Heidi Dalibor, 20, told the News Graphic in Cedarburg she ignored the library�s calls and letters as well as a notice to appear in court.

Still, she was surprised when officers with a warrant knocked on her door, cuffed her and took her to the police station to be fingerprinted and photographed.

Police Capt. Joe Gabrish saied officers follow the same procedure with every warrant. Library director John Hanson said a couple of dozen people are cited each year for failure to return materials or pay fines.

Government study: �New phenomenon� 
brought down World Trade Center Building 7

NEW YORK, NY � According to a federal agency report released Aug. 21, a �new phenomenon� known as thermal expansion was directly responsible for the mysterious collapse of World Trade Center 7 on 9/11. 

This study, posed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology � a federal scientific agency that promotes technical industrial standards � marks the first �official� government theory on the collapse. 

The building's demise occurred some seven hours after the twin towers collapsed on 9/11, and has been the source of numerous conspiracy theories key to the �9/11 Truth� movement, most of which argue that the symmetrical, seven-second collapse was brought about by a controlled demolition. 

Dr. Shyam Sunder, director of the Institute�s building and fire research laboratory, oversaw the government�s three-year research efforts. The report aims to disprove the controlled-demolition argument.

After New York City officials cut off the water main to the tower, the building�s sprinkler system was unable to function, Sunder said. This allowed fires across 10 floors to burn uncontrolled for nearly seven hours.

The Institute asserts that, due to the lack of water supply, an �extraordinary event� occurred, and for the first time ever, steel expanding due to heat from the flames caused columns to separate from structural concrete. Column 79 was the first to fail, according to the report, which brought about a quick succession of failures in adjoining columns.


Buffalo police batter their 
way into wrong house

Buffalo, NY � Armed with a battering ram and shotguns, Buffalo police looking for heroin broke down the door and stormed the lower apartment of a family of eight. The problem is that the raid should have occurred at an apartment upstairs.

And, that�s only the tip of the iceberg, according to Schavon Pennyamon, who lives at the mistakenly raided apartment with her husband, Terrell, and six children.

Pennyamon alleges that after wrongly breaking into her apartment, police proceeded to strike her epileptic husband in the head with the butt end of a shotgun and point shotguns at her young children before admitting their mistake and then raiding the right apartment.

She says she�s left with a broken door, an injured husband, jittery children and � what bothers her most � still no apology from police.

�They know they did something wrong and they were still ignorant,� said 29-year-old Pennyamon. �At first, I just wanted an apology. Now, because they want[ed] to be ignorant and rude, I have to take it to the next level.�

She filed a report with the department�s Professional Standards Division and also contacted Mayor Byron W. Brown about the incident. Police brass acknowledge that officers with the Mobile Response and Narcotics units entered the wrong apartment.

�As the officers were in the lower apartment, one of the detectives reviewed the search warrant application and realized it was for the upper [apartment],� said Dennis Richards, chief of detectives.

�It appears to be an honest mistake and we certainly apologize to all involved,� added Michael J. DeGeorge, Buffalo police spokesman.

Police declined to comment, however, on Pennyamon�s allegations of assault and other police impropriety. The internal investigation with the Professional Standards Division is now under way to determine exactly what happened.

�We wouldn�t be comfortable discussing the internal investigation,� Richards said. �We can say comfortably that over 1,100 search warrants were executed last year and 580 to date this year and that, with such a high volume and such a fast-paced environment, it is understandable that mistakes could happen.�