Sometimes an individual is so stupid, so Doofy, that it's almost impossible to credit.
Meet today's Doofus.
Joshua Kay, already sitting behind bars for, among other things, impersonating a police officer, allegedly didn't let his current address spoil a ruse.
Last week, Kay let some of his fellow inmates at the Ferris Huber Center in on a little secret: He is actually an undercover sheriff's deputy working a 30-day "internal affairs" assignment, investigating other deputies at the center, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday in Dane County Circuit Court.
Kay, 30, of Madison, now finds himself charged once again with impersonating a police officer after one of Kay's confidants ignored his alleged request to "keep it quiet."
According to the complaint, on Feb. 10 Deputy Brian Matzke was interviewing inmate Brent Fowler, who asked Matzke whether he knew that "there is a deputy in our wing."
Fowler described what Kay allegedly said about his undercover assignment.
Other inmates also told investigators that Kay has been claiming to be a deputy working undercover, according to the criminal complaint.
Kay, a former security guard, is serving an eight-month jail sentence for three misdemeanors.
Among them is a 2007 conviction for impersonating a police officer, which happened when Kay turned on flashing red lights and a siren on his Honda Civic and tried to stop a speeding car on the Beltline.
That car, unfortunately for Kay, was driven by an off-duty police officer from Arena.
It's bad enough to impersonate a police officer . . . but to tell other prison inmates that you're one?
I'm a former prison chaplain, amongst other things. Allow me to assure you, dear reader, that there are inmates behind prison walls who spend their time looking with longing for police informers, undercover cops, and suchlike among the inmate population. There's nothing they'd like more than to beat them up, rape them, murder them, and probably a few other things besides.
And this doofus goes around telling other inmates he's an undercover cop????
Verily, the mind doth boggle . . .
Peter
6 comments:
Most of the prisons I've been at, this doofuses claim would have been a ticket to either the infirmary or the morgue. What an idiot!
He's lucky he's not dead...
He will be dead if he keeps telling the other offenders he is a cop
"A former security guard"?
Those folks are generally wannabe cops who couldn't get into a real LE agency. Same as there is an unnaturally high number of former SEALS and suchlike among the mall ninjas who post 'Net pictures of their tricked out shotguns.
To borrow a phrase, "room temperature IQs" and candidates for Darwin awards.
give him a break, he is obviously mentally ill. Sounds like prison is an inappropriate place for him.
Sounds eerily like a kid bouncing up and down and trying to convince his classmates of how gosh-darn cool he is. "Guess what! Guess what! My mom got me a DS and it's signed by Chris Hanson! And he put his favourite games on it! And and and and..."
The kid is usually desperate to get his classmates to buy into it - and the desperation is generally a tip-off in itself. They'll do just about anything to "prove" that they're not making it up.
And then there's this guy, who - yeah, Raven, probably not only has a few screws loose, but is missing a whole IKEA bedroom set (complete with Mechano-esque screwdriver). And he's bouncing up and down, and yammering to his fellow inmates, "Guess what! Guess what! I'm not really an inmate! I'm an undercover cop making sure that there's no corruption in this jail!"
I suspect - especially considering that his yammering was reported to the real authorities - that his fellow inmates didn't believe him.
But the problem is, Raven, that while the guy may be mentally ill, it'd be rather hard to make a case that he's harming himself or others by claiming that he's an officer of the law and trying to act the part. Yes, he's putting his life in danger by yammering that he's an undercover cop, but he's committed misdemeanors - not enough, I'd think, for him to be transferred to a ward for the criminally insane, and legally (at least up in Canada) even someone known to be mentally ill cannot be forced into treatment unless they've displayed evidence that they're a threat to themselves or others; Officer Fraud would have to be trying to do drug-busts or "assisting" his "fellow officers", or threatening (or displaying evidence of) self-harm for him to be pushed into treatment if he doesn't want it.
And even if he does go into treatment? There's no guarantee he'd take any drugs that might accompany his therapy.
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