Brandon Adams, the man who was accused of kidnapping Jeremy London, says he is innocent and he never kidnapped or forced London to take drugs like he is being accused of instead he says the pair went simply went on a fun alcohol and drug binge for hours after Jeremy asked him to hook him up with pills.
Jeremy told police that when he was kidnapped his wife, Melissa, was also in the car but the kidnappers kindly dropped her off (which amazes me that they would say that – why didn’t the wife report the incident?) but Brandon says the only thing true about their story is that he helped him with their flat tire.
Brandon says that he and his uncle were sitting outside 7-Eleven looking for someone to buy them beer when Jeremy and his wife were also outside the store acting all paranoid and ran into the store when police pulled up. When police left Brandon, his uncle and some other guy helped the couple with their flat tire.
“As soon as we got in the car, Jeremy asked us if we could get him five xanax and five oxycontin. Melissa was asking for xanax too. I told him I could hook him up but that I wanted a couple of beers. He agreed. Jeremy wanted to drink, so we bought beer and some hard alcohol and we got f****d up. Jeremy was just drinking beer but we were wasted. We went driving around my neighborhood, handing out beer to my friends and random people on the street. We were having a good time.”
After a while, and after Melissa was dropped off, Brandon says that Jeremy started to acting erratic and irritated and started demaning they get him pills. He continues…
“I hadn’t been able to get any xanax or oxycontins up to that point, but I was finally able to get him three ecstasy and three xanax pills. He took all six pills at once. He was out of his mind high, I brought him to my home and he met my wife and kids. Then I drove him back to his neighborhood and I dropped him off on the street. He ended up checking into a hotel at 2am and staying there.”
Jeremy London is still sticking to his story but RadarOnline claim that they have proof that the actor loves popping xanax and that he was indeed seen acting high last Saturday night when police were called to his hotel.
I know all of this is Brandon Adams side of the story and nothing can be taken too seriously but his story makes more sense than the other side. He is currently being held on $500,000 bail.
source: Man Accused Of ‘Kidnapping’ Jeremy London Says ‘We Partied All Night’ — He Took Ecstasy and Xanax [Radar Online]
Actor Jeremy London (of Party of Five and 7th Heaven) had quite an adventure last week.
London, 37, was changing a flat tire in Palm Springs, California when two men stopped and offered to help. Instead of helping, they drove him around town in his own vehicle at gunpoint (which I’m guessing means that they did change the tire after all) before supposedly forcing him to smoke either crack or methamphetamine. They also made him purchase alcohol and hand it out to a bunch of a people in the ghetto.
It’s almost heartwarming. Like Robin Hood, but with assholes.
London somehow escaped around 3am and notified authorities, who found his vehicle in a Palm Springs neighborhood near where one of the kidnappers lived. Two men were charged yesterday over this total ball of WTF.
Source: Hollywood Actor Jeremy London Kidnapped; Held At Gun Point, Robbed & Forced To Smoke Drugs [Radar]
A man in Parma, OH dressed in a Santa Claus suit tried to abduct a 12 year old girl earlier today, pretty much guaranteeing that future Christmas holidays will be nightmare inducing screamfests.
Anthony Russo, 46, was hiding in the bushes when he motioned for the 12 year old girl to come over to him. Since this is not 1954, the girl smartly kept walking, which apparently pissed Santa off.
Russo grabbed the young lass by the arm and tried to drag her away, but she broke free and ran to a local business for help. The brilliant (alleged) pedophile then decided that escaping on a city bus was a good idea, because he could blend in. In his Santa suit. Carrying a red sack that said “Merry Christmas” on it. Also carrying a large box of candy canes.
Touched by the national news of the kidnapping and murder of five year old Shaniya Davis, Cleveland Cavalier Shaquille O’Neal was moved to pay for the young girl’s funeral.
Over 2000 people attended Shaniya’s funeral, whose body was found on November 16th on the side of a road.
Antoinette Davis, her mother, has been charged with child abuse involving prostitution and human trafficking, and a man named Mario McNeill is charged with kidnapping, rape and murder.
Shaquille O’Neal stated,
“I was sitting at home watching it on the news and the story brought a tear to my eye.”
source: Touched By NC Girl’s Death, Shaq Pays For Funeral [NPR]
A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to as much as 15 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, “It was much more than stupidity.”
The 61-year-old football Hall of Famer stood shackled and stone-faced when Judge Jackie Glass quickly rattled off his punishment soon after he made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency, choking back tears as he told her: “I didn’t want to steal anything from anyone. … I’m sorry, sorry.”
Simpson said he was simply trying to retrieve sports memorabilia and other mementos, including his first wife’s wedding ring, from two dealers when he stormed a Las Vegas hotel room on Sept. 13, 2007.
But the judge emphasized that it was a violent confrontation in which at least one gun was drawn, and she said someone could have been killed. She said the evidence was overwhelming, with the planning, the confrontation itself and the aftermath all recorded on audio or videotape.
Glass, a no-nonsense judge known for her tough sentences, imposed such a complex series of consecutive and concurrent sentences that even many attorneys watching the case were confused as to how much time Simpson got.
Outside court, Goldman’s father, Fred Goldman, and sister, Kim, said they were delighted with the sentence.
“We are thrilled, and it’s a bittersweet moment. It was satisfying seeing him in shackles like he belongs.”
The Goldman’s took a measure of credit for Simpson’s fate, saying their relentless pursuit of his assets to satisfy a $33.5 million wrongful-death judgment “pushed him over the edge” and led him to commit the robbery to recover some of his sports memorabilia.
Boy George (from Culture Club) was brought to court today on charges of false imprisonment of Audun Carlsen.
Carlsen, told the courts how the singer, whose real name is George O’Dowd, pinned him to the floor of his bedroom, beat him up, swore at him, then handcuffed him to a hook next to his bed.
What happened was the pair met through the gay dating website, Gaydar, and after several bizarre emails Carlsen agreed to meet up and let George pay him £300 to pose for pornographic pictures at his home in Shoreditch.
Carlsen left after they both took cocaine and George accused him of “tampering with his computer,” but a couple of months later he returned for a second photoshoot at midnight. Carlsen says that after the photoshoot while he sat in his boxers and shoes, George went into his bedroom and then called him in, where there was another man waiting.
He says, “as soon as I got eye contact they were both jumping on me. They held me down and beat me.
George was holding and slapping me and beating and punching me and screaming things. He was slapping my chest and my face. He was screaming things like, ‘now you’re gonna get what you deserve.’
I was dragged on the floor towards the bedroom and they handcuffed my right hand. He was screaming things at me.”
Geoerge then brought out a box full of sex toys and metal chains, but Carlsen managed to unscrew his handcuffs, however while trying to escape through the door, the singer hit him with the chains causing bruising and a lot of blood. It was 6am at this time when a local newsagent heard the screams and then called the police.
The best part of the trial so far has to be when prosecutor Heather Norton said George had wanted to check if he was the person who had tampered with his computer, but she then turned to the jury and asked “did he really have to hurt him?” Obviously a reference to their song (above), Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?
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George admits to handcuffing Carlsen, but denies one count of false imprisonment, the trial is expected to continue tomorrow.
I wonder what type of punishment Boy George will get for chaining someone up and then beating him with the chains?
O.J. Simpson has made lots of mistakes in his life … some allegedly and some actually quantifiable within a court of law.
The latest “real” mistake though, is just an example of Juice messing with the karma that has been so kind to him (lost Heisman trophies or no, he still got off on the Brown – Goldman thing).
That’s because, while heading towards the conclusion of his Las Vegas armed robbery trial, O.J. planned an acquittal party. I wish I was joking.
Simpson associate Thomas Riccio, after an in-studio interview Friday with radio talk-show host Anthony Crivello and retired Las Vegas police detective Phil Ramos, invited them to join O.J.’s entourage at an undisclosed location.
“That’s how certain he was,” Crivello said during an interview on Saturday, a day after Simpson and co-defendant Clarence “C.J.” Stewart were found guilty on all counts, including armed robbery and kidnapping with a deadly weapon.
“He’s been predicting a hung jury,” said Ramos, who attended the trial and provided expert commentary on Crivello’s show, “The Sicilians” on Fox Sports Radio KBAD-AM, 920.
Maybe that prediction just stemmed from prior experience? Who knows.
What I do know is that you never plan a party like that so early, because it always comes back to bite you, like Simpson now.
It’s pretty phenomenal though, and a testament to the type of person that Juice really is, that he actually went this far. In other words, we see (I think) O.J. as some bungling murderer in the Naked Gun fashion, but in reality, he’s an incredibly cocky criminal who is finally getting his come uppin’s.
source: O.J. Simpson found guilty, faces life sentence [ctv]
