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A Combustible Mix
What happens when you mix a pooper-scooper, scissors and crack cocaine? What do you get when you mix anything with crack cocaine? Something right out of a Stephen King novel.
Waukesha County, Wisconsin Circuit Judge Lee S. Dreyfus, Jr., sentenced Leisa K. Reed, 47, to two years in prison and five years extended supervision for her attack of a Waukesha couple she didn’t know.
John and Linda Dormer were awoken at 4:40 a.m. by the family’s Shih Tzu barking. Linda walked into the kitchen and saw a stranger wildly swinging a pooper scooper and babbling, “They are going to kill me. I’m going to kill you.”Linda screamed and John ran into the kitchen. Reed, all of 105 pounds, hit the 6-foot, 210 pound John with the pooper scooper and grabbed two scissors. Dormer said he tried to reason with Reed and couldn’t believe her strength, as she fought him with scissors in each hand.
By the time the first officer arrived, Reed was foaming at the mouth while struggling with Dormer. It took three stuns of a Taser gun and the combined weight of five officers to finally subdue Reed.
Reed had a history of alcoholism, DUIs, domestic violence and repeated trips through the revolving doors of the criminal justice system. She admitted smoking crack cocaine before the incident. The Dormers said they usually lock their doors, but had left one unlocked for their son, who was at an all-night graduation event at his High School, from which he had graduated that day. Reed somehow found that door. She was crazed and given almost super-human strength from the crack cocaine.
Reed wept through much of her hour-long sentencing. Like most addicts, she’s probably a decent human being. If she’d been coerced into abstinence with a requirement to undergo regular and random alcohol and other-drug testing, the odds of such an occurrence would have been greatly reduced. But then, we wouldn’t have been entertained.
(Story and tagline usually from “This is True,”copyright 2006 by Randy Cassingham, used with permission. See http://www.thisistrue.com for free subscriptions.)