Former Bay City Rollers drummer Derek Longmuir gets 300 hours of community service but no jail time after he admitted possessing child porn March 24. The 48-year-old musician, who now works as a nurse at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, confessed to having indecent films, videos and photos in his home, but he claimed they belonged to an American friend and that he never looked at the material, having no interest in it. He's been suspended from his nursing job. The Bay City Rollers haven't exactly been strangers to the crime world despite their teen-idol image - former Roller Ian Mitchell - has acted in a porn film, and former manager Tam Patton was once jailed for indecent acts with underage teens. Longmuir's case erupted two months after another 1970s pop star, glam rocker Gary Glitter, was released from prison after two months for possessing hardcore child porn.
YPSILANTI, Mich. - Banks here and in Southfield were searched by police March 23 after statewide raids on a chain of adult bookstores. Officials say the stores may have violated state racketeering law - but the state's largest gay and lesbian rights group says it's unwarranted political harassment. Ypsilanti police and multi-county task force investigators led the bank searches, with a search warrant, at an accountant's offices - all tied, says the Detroit Free Press, to one company running two dozen adult bookstores in Michigan and Ohio. Officials want to file racketeering charges based on evidence of indecent sexual activity inside the stores, the paper says. The stores are said to have "buddy" booths that let patrons masturbate while watching each other, and pose a health risk. But the Triangle Foundation, a Detroit-based group, says the bookstores were safe places for gays and lesbians to meet and the raids equal political harassment. There have been no arrests from the raids so far.
DENVER - Dorothy Nelson shouldn't have flashed her breasts to prove to two police officers they had the wrong girl as a burglary suspect - but the officers should have handled the incident a little more wisely. That's the ruling from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals here, which dismisses Nelson's suit claiming her rights to protection from unreasonable search or seizure were violated in the incident. Nelson was stopped for speeding in Oklahoma when a license check showed a burglary warrant for a female with the same name and a chest tattoo. Concerned for her young twin sons, who with her at the time, and worried they might all end up at the police station, according to Nelson's suit, Nelson exposed her breasts right at the traffic scene to the female half of the patrol team which stopped her, to prove she didn't have a chest tattoo.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Dustin Ulm could pay a stiff price by teen standards for videotaping nude girls without their knowledge while they used his tanning bed. His guilty plea in juvenile court already brings him a judge's order to undergo sex offense, drug and alcohol counseling, obey a curfew, and surrender his driver's license pending strict new restrictions on his driving privileges. He's also been ordered to write formal apologies to each of his victims. And he's still to be sentenced in April, in a case where he and another teen, Adrian Ulsh, taped three 15-year-old girls and an 18-year-old girl in 1998. Ulsh's sentencing is April 19. Prosecutors are expected to recommend intensive probation and 200 hours of community service for Ulm, 17. The case broke when some of the girls heard at school the tape was shown to other people, according to the Kansas City Star.
--- Compiled by Humphrey Pennyworth
