38 - Wednesday, June 1, 1994 - North Shore News

Call of the weir

SUSUMA SUZIKI, 45, was arrest-
ed last summer in Takasaki, Japan,
and charged with having made
approximately 8,500 phone calls to
city hall — as many as several hun-
dred a day — and then hanging up
without speaking. He cited as his
motive a 20-year-old snub by city
hall when he applied for a job after
graduating from college. And in
September, Mikiko Miyamoto, 43,
was charged with having made as
many as 100) similar phone calls a
day for 12 years to a female
acquaintance in Tokyo.

In September, St. Paul,
Minnesota, police stopped Jimmy
Monk, 39, and confiscated from his
car’s roof a 20-foot ladder, which
had been reporied missing. At the
time, he was awaiting sentencing
on two other ladder thefts and was
a suspect in a rash of about two
dozen others. Said a police
sergeant, “He just can’t seem to

walk past (a ladder) without taking -

it.”

In Cincinnati in January,
Thomas David West was back in
court on charges that he violated
his probation by resuming his prac-

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tice of impersonating doctors and
lawyers. He was released from
prison in June, where he had served
time for impersonating a doctor,
among other identities, and was
charged this time with posing as a
lawyer for a Cincinnati firm. When
he took the witness stand at the
probation hearing, he said his cur-
rent employment was as chief
fundraiser of a Kentucky state-
funded project, but officials said
there was no such person.

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In April in Cedar Rapids, lows,
Erin Prendergast, 20, pleaded
guilty to 174 more parking viola-
tions, with total fines reaching
nearly $5,000. In January, she had

pleaded guilty to 248 parking tick-.

ets totaling more than $7,000.
Officials said still more violations
against her were awailing process-
ing. When the judge asked how she
could accumulate so many viola-
tions, Prendergast, who was
described as “affable” by a Cedar
Rapids Gazette reporter, said, “I

_ don’t know.”

A jury in Canton, Ohio, recently:

convicted Estella Sexton, 47, of
sexually abusing her 13-year-old
daughter, one of her 11 children.
According to the girl’s brother,
their father Eddie Sexton, who is
now in jail in Florida, conducted
satanic seances featuring cat car-
casses and the spirits of dead rela-
tives. Another daughter, Pixie
Sexton-Good, recently pleaded
guilty in Florida in the death of her
infant son and agreed to testify
against her father and another
brother who will soon stand trial
for the death of Pixie’s husband,
Joel Good.

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