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  • The country’s oldest crack dealer was sentenced this week to 18 months in prison, where she will celebrate her 89th birthday before being released.

    Ola Mae Agee, 87, was convicted at trial this week of a felony charge of selling cocaine to an undercover cop in Florida. As previously reported, Agee was nabbed in May for selling crack from her Pensacola home. The hand-to-hand transaction was videotaped by investigators with the Escambia County Sheriff's Office.

    A jury found Agee guilty after just 20 minutes of deliberation, according to court records. The felonious octogenarian is pictured here in a mug shot snapped after she was taken into custody following the October 26 verdict.

  • [UPDATE: TSG has identified the “Anonymous” correspondent who today detailed his purported (sexless) one-night stand with Christine O’Donnell. See bottom of piece.]

    Readers of today’s first-person account of a sexless one-night stand with kooky Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell might have noticed that the author--whom Gawker cloaked as “Anonymous” --was wearing an actual Boy Scouts uniform in photos accompanying the story about the purported Halloween night encounter three years ago.

    While the man’s identity remains a secret (at least for the time being), TSG has determined that the uniform’s owner is a buddy of “Anonymous” who actually works for the Boy Scouts of America.

    Brad Kurisko, 28, is a district executive with a Boy Scouts council in the Philadelphia area. In the pictures of O’Donnell mugging with “Anonymous,” the nametag on the uniform is obscured with a black bar. This was presumably done to further protect the identity of “Anonymous” and cut off any attempts to ID him via the uniform.

    Which apparently only worked half.

    In a series of phone conversations this afternoon, Kurisko, pictured above, acknowledged that “Anonymous” had worn his Boy Scouts outfit, but claimed that he was unaware that the uniform would be seen in photos published with the O’Donnell story. “I have to go home and kick his ass,” Kurisko said of his buddy, whom he declined to identify. He added, “I had no idea that any pictures existed.”

    Asked if he was involved in the preparation or brokering of the Gawker story, Kurisko declined comment. While denying that he was “Anonymous,” Kurisko refused to identify the story’s author, claiming that TSG was “asking me to throw someone under the bus.” He also refused to answer a question about whether he received money in connection with the story (Gawker's editor told a Yahoo reporter that the site paid in the "low four figures" for the O'Donnell story).

    While Kurisko refused to out “Anonymous,” some online activity this evening may point to the author’s identity. Shortly after his last phone conversation with a TSG reporter, a single name disappeared from Kurisko's list of Facebook friends.

    The man with whom electronic ties were abruptly cut is Dustin Dominiak, a 28-year-old buddy who attended Albion College with Kurisko. Records show that Dominiak has previously shared a Philadelphia address with Kurisko. One online posting reports that Dominiak, a Michigan native, has worked as an auditor at the Federal Reserve in Philadelphia. Dominiak is pictured at left.

    Soon after Dominiak's name vanished from Kurisko's list of friends, Dominiak’s entire Facebook page (which listed 356 friends) was suddenly deactivated. Perhaps this was Dominiak’s attempt to achieve a greater degree of anonymity.

    UPDATE: In a phone interview tonight, a besieged Kurisko told TSG that Dominiak is the man pictured with O’Donnell in the Gawker photos. He said that while Dominiak had borrowed his Boy Scouts uniform, he was unaware of the existence of photos of his roommate with O’Donnell.

    Kurisko said that he had no idea that Dominiak was preparing the Gawker piece and only became aware of its publication after speaking with a TSG reporter late this afternoon. He added that he is now concerned about “preserving my job” in light of media scrutiny, which has included reporters attempting to contact members of his family. These contacts, Kurisko added, were triggered by a Village Voice report that erroneously identified him as “Anonymous.”

    Dominiak is “well aware of the situation,” said Kurisko, who added, "I was not aware this was going down."

  • An update on the case of notorious pool defilers Andrew Harris and Michael Cline:

    As TSG originally reported, the Florida teens were arrested in August for allegedly smearing feces across the bottom of the pool at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort and Golf Club in St. Petersburg. Said waste was provided by the 18-year-old Harris, who, cops reported, defecated in his shorts and then dove underwater to smear feces “all across the bottom of the pool.”

    Court records show that both defendants recently pleaded guilty in connection with the repulsive incident. As part of his sentence, Harris, pictured above, was ordered to pay $1007 in restitution to the hotel.

    Now that the case is closed, photos taken by a crime scene photographer (we pity the poor lensman) have been released by the St. Petersburg Police Department in response to an open records request.

    The first photo in the series offers a survey of the full pool. The second image zooms in on the area vandalized by the teens. Photo three gets uncomfortably closer to the place where X marked the spot. For especially curious/demented readers, photo #4 gets even closer and--WARNING--is just plain gross. To view it, you’ll have to click the period at the end of this sentence.

  • We’re not sure what’s more troubling: That a public university pays “Real Housewife” Jill Zarin $15,000 to address collegians, or that she is referred to as “artist” in her appearance contract.

    The "Real Housewives of New York" cast member appeared before a tiny crowd last month at the University of South Florida to talk about who knows what and sign copies of her book “Secrets of a Jewish Mother” (currently Amazon ranking: 284,686). Zarin’s appearance contract, excerpted above, guaranteed her the 15 grand, accommodations in a hotel suite, and a $100 per diem. Airfare for the 46-year-old Zarin (whose corporate alter ego is "JBZ Enterprises, LLC") was also covered by the school.

    By comparison, Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain, only banked $11,300 for a USF “lecture” last Wednesday. Next month, the school is shelling out $15,000 for comedian/”Daily Show” contributor Aasif Mandvi to provide a behind-the-scenes look at the “REAL Fake News.”

  • This still life comes courtesy of the cops in Washington state who concluded that Four Loko--the elixir of choice among collegians seeking speedy inebriation--was responsible for the hospitalization this month of students attending a house party at Central Washington University.

    The evidence photo, snapped by a Cle Elum Police Department officer, shows some of the aftermath of the October 8 bash that left some partygoers so plastered that friends worried they had been dosed with the date rape drug.

    In Four Loko’s defense, however, the indiscriminate mixing of Dr. Pepper and Skyy Vodka has also been known to produce toxic results.

  • Claiming that her son was being bullied at school, a Connecticut woman admitted to police that she placed a BB gun and a folding knife into the 12-year-old’s backpack before he left for class last Friday.

    Sylvia Mojica, 38, told Hartford Police Department cops that her child had been “getting harassed and threatened on a daily basis for at least two weeks” at Burns Elementary School, according to a police report (click here to download a PDF). Mojica added that she had registered several complaints with faculty members and had attempted to contact the school’s principal.

    School administrators and police learned of the weapons in the boy’s backpack after he was involved in a confrontation with “a group of Hispanic males” after school Friday. The child admitted that his mother had “encouraged him to bring the BB gun and the knife to school.” The boy, who said he had not used the weapons, turned the items over to Principal Lourdes Soto.

    Mojica, pictured in the above mug shot, was arrested on a felony risk of injury to a minor charge. Her son was issued a juvenile court summons for carrying a dangerous weapon.

  • Meet Matthew Dixon.

    The 27-year-old was nabbed Friday night for shoplifting a Halloween costume at Oklahoma City’s Party Galaxy. He allegedly removed the costume from its packaging and “concealed it inside his pants,” according to an Oklahoma City Police Department report (he was spotted doing this by an off-duty uniformed cop working security at the store).

    The item recovered from Dixon’s trousers? “One Sexy Referee Costume” valued at $34.99. The three-piece Leg Avenue costume--comprised of a halter dress, socks, and a whistle--is pictured at left.

    While en route to jail, Dixon said that he had “alcohol issues” and, after being sober for six months, began drinking that evening. He remarked that he “always makes bad choices when he drinks.” It is unclear whether Dixon planned on wearing the sexy referee outfit or intended it for someone else.

  • An accidental discharge into a urinal has a North Dakota man facing criminal charges.

    Jason Pietrzak, 21, allegedly shot the bathroom fixture Friday night at the Whispers nightclub in Williston. The urinal did not survive getting plugged with a single round from Pietrzak’s .45-caliber semi-automatic Beretta, according to a Williston Police Department report.

    Pietrzak told cops that the urinal shooting occurred while he attempted to unload his pistol, so to speak, in the Whispers bathroom. As Pietrzak ran from the club following the incident, a witness told cops that a club employee announced, “That guy just shot the urinal.” The witness added that Pietrzak was carrying the weapon after being accosted earlier in the evening by “a much larger man that was wearing what looked like ‘biker’ colors.”

    Cited for discharging a firearm within city limits and malicious injury to property, Pietrzak is scheduled for a November 1 court appearance.

  • Despite reports that a 10-year-old Illinois boy called 911 last week and complained about the dinner his father served, police tapes show that the child actually dialed the emergency number and hung up without speaking.

    When the operator called the number back, the boy’s father, Stefan Cristoltean, answered the phone and explained that his son had been misbehaving. “I told him to call 911. He’s misbehaving in front of me and I told him, ‘Call them, let them come over here and see who’s right.’” And the child did just that.

    Click below to listen to excerpts from the October 14 dispatch tape.

    At one point on the tape, the 41-year-old Cristoltean told the operator, “Now he’s begging me to tell you not to come over here.” In the background, the boy can be heard wailing, “Don’t come over. Noooo.”

    Cristoltean calmly explained, “I said, ‘You know what? Call 911 if you think that you have a disagreement with me and you’re right.’ And he called 911.” While beckoning the boy to return to the dinner table from his bedroom, Cristoltean told the operator, “He thinks that is just a joke this 911. I’m telling him that is not a joke and we have to impose some rules in the house and the have to follow the rules.”

    When a Buffalo Grove Police Department officer was dispatched to the Cristoltean residence, the child noted that his dinner, “was edible but that he wanted something more to his liking,” according to an online police blotter, which notes, "Yes, we are a full service police department." Before departing the Cristoltean home, the cop advised on the proper use of the 911 system.

  • In our continuing quest to find young Russian successors for convicted spy Anna Chapman and alleged munitions smuggler Anna Fermanova, here are mug shots of four women indicted last month for their alleged roles in an international fraud ring that allegedly used malware to help loot U.S. bank accounts.

    The quartet of United States Marshals Service booking photos (click to enlarge) includes a shot of Kristina Svechinskaya, the 21-year-old New York University student who has been given the “World’s Sexiest Computer Hacker” tabloid handle.

    Svechinskaya, upper left, is joined, clockwise, by alleged ring members Julia Sidorenko, 22; Sabina Rafikova, 23; and Alina Turuta, 21.

    Federal investigators allege that the hackers stole at least $3 million from U.S. targets.

  • Meet Salvatore Dichiera.

    The 28-year-old Pennsylvania native was arrested earlier this month for disorderly intoxication by Florida cops (he spent slightly more than a day in custody before being released from the Pinellas County jail).

    Dichiera first appeared in these pages last October following a misdemeanor collar. He has been busted four times since that arrest, but in three of the corresponding booking photos he is relatively clean shaven.

    However, his most recent mug shot, seen here, reveals that Dichiera--whose MySpace page lists his occupation as “traveler”--has returned to his distinctive half-bearded state.

  • A Virginia chef who sought to shake down $25,000 from a businessman by threatening to reveal details of a homosexual encounter in a Washington, D.C. hotel room pleaded guilty yesterday to a felony rap.

    Shawn Lightfoot entered his plea during a U.S. District Court hearing in Detroit. He is scheduled to be sentenced in late-January, and faces a maximum of two years in prison for the Extortion by Threat to Reputation conviction.

    As TSG first reported, Lightfoot, a married father of four, warned an unnamed Michigan businessman that he would distribute photos showing the victim in “compromising positions with a man,” according to an FBI agent. The images, which Lightfoot threatened to send to the man’s wife and business associates, included one shot showing the man “leaning over a sink and the black male's hand is placed on his back" during the May encounter.

    This was the second time Lightfoot, 46, was nabbed trying to extort money in connection with a gay liaison. In 2003, he was sentenced to five years in state prison following an identical Virginia extortion conviction. According to police reports, Lightfoot demanded $15,000 from a New York man who had traveled to Washington on a business trip. If not given the cash, Lightfoot threatened to release photos of the victim in "compromising positions" with a black male.

    Lightfoot is pictured above in his chef’s whites.