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By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Fri Feb 25, 2005 at 12:57:59 PM EST
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So far this week, Key West Prosecutor Albert "A.J." Tasker takes the prize for his naked streak across a parking lot and jump into a stranger's car.

A drunken Florida prosecutor who streaked across a motel parking lot and mistakenly jumped into a stranger's car landed in the slammer, a state attorney's office spokesman said.

After tossing back a few drinks with colleagues last weekend, Monroe County assistant prosecutor Albert "A.J." Tasker, 28, stripped off his clothes as a prank and headed toward what he thought was a friend's vehicle.

But Tasker jumped into the back seat of the wrong car, where a woman was waiting for her boyfriend. The woman screamed, the boyfriend arrived and Key West police arrested Tasker. "The devil made him do it," said Matt Helmerick, spokesman for the Monroe County state attorney in Key West.

Tasker, who was hired in December, was jailed on misdemeanor charges of disorderly intoxication and exposure of sexual organs. He was released on bond and is on an unpaid leave of absence from his job pending an internal investigation. "It's embarrassing to us, it's embarrassing to him," Helmerick said. "If this guy had been a doctor or a janitor or a short-order cook, there would be no news."

Really? A naked man jumping into a stranger's car wouldn't make the news otherwise? Ha. [Hat tip to Jack King, Public Affairs Director of NACDL.]

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    Stupid Criminal of the Week | 9 comments (9 topical)
    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#1)
    by kdog on Fri Feb 25, 2005 at 01:20:41 PM EST
    Why was he arrested over an honest mistake? He thought it was somebody else's car. After a few chuckles and an apology, it should have been over. Nobody died, got hurt, or lost property. We need to get over our national obsession of throwing people in a cage for every little thing.

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Feb 25, 2005 at 02:01:22 PM EST
    Why was he arrested over an honest mistake? Neither the disorderly intoxication nor the exposure of sexual organs seem to have been "honest mistakes". I suppose if the charge was, I dunno, carjacking, you might have a point. And, seriously, "the devil made him do it"?

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Feb 25, 2005 at 02:09:01 PM EST
    What was that scene in PCU with streaking..... -C

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#4)
    by Quaker in a Basement on Fri Feb 25, 2005 at 02:32:21 PM EST
    What? "Outing" this guy for his personal, private preferences? Where's the outrage? Where's the outrage?

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Feb 25, 2005 at 02:38:01 PM EST
    I'm sure He will be appointed to prosecute himself. Don't forget this is Jeb Joke Bush Country, Flalala land.

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Feb 25, 2005 at 03:23:03 PM EST
    his punishment is sex with katherine harris

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#7)
    by jimcee on Fri Feb 25, 2005 at 07:07:42 PM EST
    I don't know about any one else but the least he could do is clean the interior of the car, you know like the passenger seat. Eeeeewwww. On the other hand if I had a case coming up against him......

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Feb 26, 2005 at 07:08:26 AM EST
    I do not see any reason why this had to reach the police hands. I am certain this was a situation that anyone of us could easily find ourselves in. I believe this only made the news because of his occupation and now a man's job is in jeopardy.Come on!!

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Feb 26, 2005 at 07:34:53 AM EST
    "I am certain this was a situation that anyone of us could easily find ourselves in." Um...except those of us who don't get drunk and take our clothes off in public.

    Stupid Criminal of the Week | 9 comments (9 topical)