Monday, August 11, 2008

ROBERT CHAMBERS: PREPPIE KILLER DEALS COCAINE TO COP

Robert Chambers spent 15 years in prison for 1986 murder of Jennifer Levin. On Monday, Chambers and girlfriend were arrested on drug bust.

Robert Chambers is led in handcuffs into Manhattan criminal court for his arraignment Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007, in New York. Chambers plans to offer a psychiatric defense to fight drug charges that could send him to prison for life, his lawyer told a judge Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007. He and his girlfriend were arrested last month on charges of dealing cocaine out of their apartment in midtown Manhattan. (Louis Lanzano/AP Photo)

Chamber's girlfriend, Shawn Kovell, was also arrested for allegedly selling cocaine.

'Preppie killer' headed back to prison on drug rap
updated 4:42 p.m. EDT, Mon August 11, 2008

NEW YORK (AP) -- The "preppie killer" who served 15 years behind bars for strangling a woman in Central Park during what he said was rough sex is headed back to prison for a drug offense.

Robert Chambers pleaded guilty Monday to criminal sale of a controlled substance and assault on a police officer. He and his girlfriend were arrested in October 2007 in an undercover sting at their Manhattan apartment on charges of dealing cocaine.

The district attorney's office said Chambers has been promised 19 years and four months in prison when he is sentenced next month. Chambers will get six years on the assault charge, which will run concurrently, and will have five years of supervision after his release.

A telephone call to Chambers' attorney, Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg, was not immediately returned Monday.

Chambers initially pleaded not guilty and was facing life in prison if convicted after trial. His attorney had planned to present a psychiatric defense at trial, arguing that his brain and judgment were damaged because of years of drug abuse. She had said he was using up to 12 bags of heroin plus other drugs each day at the time of his arrest.

Chambers' girlfriend, Shawn Kovell, admitted in state Supreme Court in December that the two sold narcotics to an undercover detective. Under the terms of her plea deal, she was sent to a drug rehabilitation center, and upon completion of her program she will be allowed to withdraw the guilty plea and plead to a lesser charge so she can receive a sentence of probation.

SOME PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW TO STAY OUT OF JAIL...

Sunday, August 10, 2008

BERNANN McKINNEY: CLONED DOG, SEX-SLAVE FUGIVITIVE

Bernann McKinney, left, who made headlines worldwide when she had five puppies cloned from her dead pit bull, admitted Saturday that she indeed was the former beauty queen, right, accused of forcing a Mormon missionary to be her sex slave in England more than 30 years ago.

Police said Joyce McKinney and a male accomplice kidnapped the missionary and chained him to a bed in a Devon, England, cottage, where he was repeatedly forced to have sex with her until he escaped. February 1978 photo / AP

Dog Cloner Is Same Figure in Sex Case

By JENNIFER DOBNER,
AP / posted: 6 HOURS 4 MINUTES AGO

SALT LAKE CITY (Aug. 9) - A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She's the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave.

Dog lover Bernann McKinney acknowledged in a telephone call to The Associated Press on Saturday that she is indeed Joyce McKinney, who in 1977 became a British tabloid sensation when she faced charges of unlawful imprisonment in the missionary case. She jumped bail and was never brought to justice.

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She and a male accomplice were accused of abducting the 21-year-old missionary as he went door to door, taking him to a rented 17th-century "honeymoon cottage" in Devon and chaining him spread-eagle to a bed with several pairs of mink-lined handcuffs.

There, investigators say, he was repeatedly forced to have sex with McKinney before he was able to escape and notify police.

In a 1977 court hearing mobbed by the British press, Joyce McKinney said she'd fallen head-over-heels in love with the Mormon man and acknowledged tracking him to England. "I loved him so much," she told a judge, "that I would ski naked down Mount Everest in the nude with a carnation up my nose if he asked me to."

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