Gay Dating Website A Trap For School Principal

[+ Lucky]

A Santa Clara California elementary school principal was cruising a gay dating site and learned the hard way that you don't know who is on the other end of those messages. He is alleged to have offered drugs to his potential date, who was an undercover narcotics officer. A meeting was set up, and while the principal was on his way,the police searched his apartment, where they found a quarter ounce of methamphetamine, eight ecstasy pills, and three vials of GHB, a date-rape drug, according to Sean Webby, spokesman for the Santa Clara County district attorney. Investigators also found scales and plastic baggies consistent with drug sale operations, and they confiscated his computer at home as well as the computer he used at the school.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/South-Bay-principal-jailed-for-drugs-3889745.php#ixzz27Ppg70Bc

[+ deej]

If anyone has trouble with that URL try it without the reference to Lucky's cookies: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/South-Bay-principal-jailed-for-drugs-3889745.php

 

I was going to accuse the site of yellow journalism. That headline would be just as effective without the word gay. (Or without the word website.) But the actual headline in the article is:

 

"South Bay principal jailed for drugs"

 

which is much more accurate. The fact that it was a gay dating site is mentioned only in the caption on the accompanying photo.

[+ Lucky]

If anyone has trouble with that URL try it without the reference to Lucky's cookies: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/South-Bay-principal-jailed-for-drugs-3889745.php

 

I was going to accuse the site of yellow journalism. That headline would be just as effective without the word gay. (Or without the word website.) But the actual headline in the article is:

 

"South Bay principal jailed for drugs"

 

which is much more accurate. The fact that it was a gay dating site is mentioned only in the caption on the accompanying photo.

 

Not sure what your gripe is dear, but since that is your forte, I guess there isn't really a point.

a) my link works fine, except that it isn't my link. SFgate provided it when I quoted from their article, so bitch at them.

b) the idea that undercover cops are working gay dating sites is the interest I had here, not that a prinicpal was arrested. Thus my headline.

[+ deej]

Who said I had a gripe?

 

So it's a conspiracy you're inventing?

 

The arrested followed a tip to the Santa Clara County drug task force that Lewis might be involved in drugs.

They're STALKING us, is that the idea?

[+ Lucky]

No dear, I never used the word "stalking" now, did I? What I said was that you never know who is on the other end of the message when you begin chatting with someone on a dating site. I doubt that most men think they are chatting with an undercover cop. How often that happens is unknown. But, if the linked article is true, gay men probably talk about drugs often on gay dating sites. Personally, I wouldn't know: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207497/Two-year-study-reveals-gay-people-seven-times-likely-illegal-drugs-general-population.html

 

Ironically, according to the San Jose Mercury-News: An unfortunate, poetic posting to students and parents happened to appear Sunday on Lewis' school's website: The "Principal's Message" stated, "At the end of the day be ready to say I'm proud of what I did today!"

[+ Lucky]

It turns out that the principal's home might itself have been a trap. Not for him, but for his dates and customers, if he is, in fact, a drug dealer. Ten hidden cameras were found in his home, including one in the nose of a teddy bear. So if you see a cute stuffed toy in your trick's apartment, turn it over! Other cameras were hidden in a coat hanger, a watch, and a lighter. Just what was this guy thinking, and who does he have recorded, and doing what?

[nate_sf]

I was reading about this in the freebie paper on the way home today. Strange story for sure. Here's a link to the info about the hidden cameras:

 

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_21621310/santa-clara-elementary-school-principal-charged-selling-meth?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com

 

Also odd that in the last paragraph they identify the name of the drug-sniffing dog. Not sure what that has to do with anything, but "go Zeus!"

[Lohengrin1979]

It turns out that the principal's home might itself have been a trap. Not for him, but for his dates and customers, if he is, in fact, a drug dealer. Ten hidden cameras were found in his home, including one in the nose of a teddy bear. So if you see a cute stuffed toy in your trick's apartment, turn it over! Other cameras were hidden in a coat hanger, a watch, and a lighter. Just what was this guy thinking, and who does he have recorded, and doing what?

 

Definite creeper status. I can't imagine he can declaim much innocence with that kind of setup. Now I'm going to be nervous next time I do an incall.

[+ Axiom2001]

On the 10 o'clock news on one of the channels in NorCAL the other evening, I heard about this story. Too bad for this particular man who supposedly used http://www.Adam4Adam.com for his contacts.

The man in question was also shown in court with bail pending. The authorities want to know if he had planned to used so-called "drug money" for his bail.

[sfguy]

This story is definitely weird, with all the hidden cameras. How do you even hide a hidden camera in a coat hanger?

 

I also find it a bit disturbing that the police are combing through gay dating and sex sites to identify and target drug users and dealers. While I assume that they target those that openly advertise their drug their use, I do find it a bit unsettling. I wonder if they already were investigating him. Otherwise it really is concerning that they are going online to ferret out drug users.