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Police Can't Confirm Ritter's Arrest (New Detail and Mug Photo)
WNYT-TV, Albany, NY ^
| January 20, 2003
| WNYT Staff
Posted on 01/20/2003 11:41:33 AM PST by Shermy
ALBANY, NY, Jan. 20 - Scott Ritter of Delmar is well known internationally as an outspoken, former U.N. weapons inspector. Now more information is coming to light about Ritter's past and a disturbing arrest.
Police released this mugshot following
the arrest of William Ritter in June 2001.
Lindsay Cohen reports.
COLONIE POLICE CANNOT comment on whether or not they actually arrested Ritter on charges he solicited an underage girl over the Internet. They say this is because if an arrest was made, it was sealed due to court proceedings.
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However, NewsChannel 13 reported in June 2001 about an arrest of a 39-year-old William Ritter of Delmar on charges he tried to lure a 16-year-old girl he met on the Internet to a Burger King in Menands. According to police, the intent of that meeting was so that she could watch him perform sexual acts on himself.
At that time police said William Ritter was arrested before doing anything, but was facing multiple misdemeanor charges for trying to solicit an underage girl for sexual reasons.<...snip...>
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; US: New York
KEYWORDS: arrestedritter; busted; internetinspector; nowheretohide; nowheretorun; perviescott; predator; ritter; ritterlovessoddom; saddamscabinboy; scottietheperv; scottritter; sexoffender; traitor; trenchcoattraitor
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To: isthisnickcool; Miss Marple; doug from upland
They take up a lot of time and resources and are usually beyond the expertise of this kind of small police department. That's why the Feds work these cases. They have the resources. Ritter had already made his about turn over Iraq by the time of this arrest. In July of 2000 he accepted $400K from Saddam's US-based front-man Shakir al-Khafaji to go to Baghdad and make a propagandistic "documentary" featuring interviews with the likes of Tariq Aziz. This extraordinary reversal must have piqued the curiosity of US intelligence. It could well be that they developed evidence regarding Ritter's vulnerability and used the sting to get something on him for use at the appropriate time.
To: Shermy
Yeah Shermy...that story was buried here.
To: Grampa Dave
I previously thought he'd been bribed. Well, it was more effective than that. Bribery and blackmail, in combination, make a very persuasive way to influence behavior.
To: Catspaw
Don't know. It may be the first time he got caught acting on his slimy sexual impluses. Of course, if his computer been seized--and with the case sealed, no one knows if it was--there might be a record of where Scott goes when he's on-line. If there were records showing the problem was worse than what was caught in the sting, it would make no sense that it was hushed up. There are programs out there that claim to clean up traces of previous activity from a PC, and if this guy kept his PC spotless then maybe prosecution chose to offer a plea bargain to the misdemeanor rather than wage a time consuming, expensive, and iffy court fight in which the state's own experts would have to testify that there was no trace on the PC.
To: Miss Marple
I just did a google search on Norah Murphy and found two interesting items. One, there was a Norah Murphy who was in the third class cabin on the Titanic and two, a Norah Murphy practicing law. Here is her link....
Defender of Perverts
To: woofie
Is Matt sympathetic to the anti-war sentiment?
To: BOBTHENAILER
To: canuck_conservative
Your Burger King query can is answered here.
168
posted on
01/20/2003 1:50:01 PM PST
by
Shermy
To: Grampa Dave
As you wished, re the name of Ritter's liar, er attorney: Today: "Ritter's attorney, Norah Murphy, confirmed that he was arrested in the town of Colonie in June 2001."
Thanks!
To: Miss Marple
Thanks for the info. I might have to write her.
170
posted on
01/20/2003 1:52:12 PM PST
by
BOBTHENAILER
(Smear Ritter Campaign Chairman)
To: Lauratealeaf
I wonder what her firm is up to? Back in a bit.
To: Catspaw
From what you're saying there is nothing that unusual about a first-time offender getting his conviction quashed like this in such a case, which is pretty much what I figured. I think the main interest here is what this incident tells us about Scott Ritter and his potentially exploitable weaknesses, rather than any inferences about a "cover up."
To: Catspaw
I believe I would have remembered this, wonder why Scott didn't............ROFLMAO.
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posted on
01/20/2003 1:54:32 PM PST
by
Howlin
(It's yet ANOTHER good day to be a Republican!)
To: Inspectorette
ROFLMAO.
I'm trying to imagine that myself........all sorts of things come to mind!
174
posted on
01/20/2003 1:55:34 PM PST
by
Howlin
(It's yet ANOTHER good day to be a Republican!)
To: cyncooper
I would think by now it wiuld be on Matts site ....maybe he is working another angle
175
posted on
01/20/2003 1:55:58 PM PST
by
woofie
To: Miss Marple
This new equipment probably explains why a small police force was doing this investigation. They had new equipment that they needed to justify expenditures for by using it!Well, not exactly. They could get all the new equipment in the world, but if they didn't have training, all they could do was play solitaire.
The state and feds offer training in this area, and I'd bet the officers mentioned in the story took that training and were certified.
That said, one of the freepers on this thread said that they had high sex crimes arrests the year before they got this hardware.
176
posted on
01/20/2003 1:56:13 PM PST
by
Catspaw
To: Catspaw
Thanks! I missed that!
Correct me if I'm wrong about this too but Colonie has a population of around 8,000 or so? And they were doing these kinds of cases? Good for them but if they were to catch a really big fish like Ritter????
This will be interesting to watch.
To: Frank_Discussion
Folks thought I was being melodramaticOf course, you do mean "folks" as in "folks NOT on FR," right?
I believe it.
178
posted on
01/20/2003 1:58:24 PM PST
by
Howlin
(It's yet ANOTHER good day to be a Republican!)
To: Shermy
WOW!!!
BUMP for great freeping!
It is starting to sound like this arrest was never supposed to see the light of day.
NewsChannel 13 reported in June 2001 about an arrest of a 39-year-old William Ritter of Delmar on charges he tried to lure a 16-year-old girl he met on the Internet to a Burger King in Menands. According to police, the intent of that meeting was so that she could watch him perform sexual acts on himself.
This Ritter is one sick dog. He's toast.
Buh-bye to any credibility he may have once had, even with the liberal press.
179
posted on
01/20/2003 1:58:45 PM PST
by
Lancey Howard
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To: PhiKapMom
Ma'am, you're enjoying this thread entirely TOO much!
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posted on
01/20/2003 1:59:15 PM PST
by
Howlin
(It's yet ANOTHER good day to be a Republican!)
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