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Drunk man lets 9-year-old drive Third body tied to Craigslist killer Virginia Tech blocks fine on alert
A suburban Detroit man says letting Authorities have identified a third body Virginia Tech University said it acted
his 9-year-old daughter drive him around possibly tied to a deadly Ohio Craigslist appropriately in alerting the campus dur-
after he had been drinking was a bad idea scheme that lured jobseekers with a fake ing the mass shooting in 2007 that left 33
that grew out of good memories from his ad for cattle ranch work. people dead.
youth. Noble County Sheriff Steve Hannum The government disagrees and has
Shawn Weimer said that he made a said Saturday that the body of Ralph Gei- fined the school $55,000. The Education
mistake asking his daughter to drive in ger was found in a shallow grave near Department said Virginia Tech was too
the early morning of Oct. 8. where the body of another jobseeker was slow in notifying students, faculty and
He faces trial on a felony child abuse found this month. staff about the situation, and therefore
charge. Authorities are under a gag order and was in violation of a federal law requir-
The 39-year-old said he wanted to share did not immediately tie Geiger’s corpse ing timely warnings when there are safety
the experience of driving with his daugh- to a Craigslist help-wanted ad for a farm- threats.
ter. His family owned a junkyard and he hand job that led two other men to their The university gets a chance Wednes-
had access to many vehicles at her age. deaths. day to begin making its case before an
Police arrested Weimer after pulling A statement from Hannum says an administrative judge, in hopes of erasing
over the van and finding his daughter be- “ongoing investigation” led authorities to a fine that isn’t hefty but can leave a black
hind the wheel near their home. Geiger’s body. mark on an institution’s record.
Surveillance video from a Brownstown The farm in the ad doesn’t exist. During the Obama administration,
Township gas station shows Weimer brag- The bodies were on coal company land the associated press there’s been a ramping up in enforcement
ging about her driving skills. leased to hunters. the Fbi and irs searched d.c. under the law, which has gotten recent at-
Weimer said he picked up his daughter Authorities said another man sur- councilmember harry thomas Jr.’s home tention because of scandals at Penn State
at her mother’s house in Lincoln Park and vived a shooting on the property and as part of an investigation that he diverted and Syracuse universities.
took her to his home. escaped. $300,000 in city funds for personal use. From Associated Press reports
Cain suspends White House bid
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the associated press
were keeping busy Friday
night, tacking up signs at
his headquarters. A con-
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train has come to a stop. agents inspected the site in
Republican candidate advance of Cain’s arrival.
Herman Cain is suspend- “We are moving ahead,”
ing his bid for the Repub- said Cain’s Georgia direc-
lican presidential nomi- tor David McCleary, who
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