AzPete
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Haven't seen her yet. Might have to keep a better eye out there......sure........ :scar
PANAMA CITY BEACH — When police arrested Jennifer Rush on Saturday afternoon as she walked along the beach wearing only a ragged wet T-shirt, it wasn’t their first run-in with the apparently drunk and nearly naked woman.
This year alone, police have arrested 23-year-old Rush for “exposing her breasts and rear end� to bowling alley patrons, boarding a charter bus loaded with BP contract workers and “exposing her breasts,� and “exposing her vaginal area to several bystanders … including a child� as she lay on a bench in front of a bar, according to police reports.
Local law enforcement agencies have generated nearly 50 reports on their dealings with Rush, which have resulted in more than a dozen convictions for charges — all misdemeanors — ranging from disorderly intoxication and disorderly conduct to public nudity and indecent exposure.
State Attorney Glenn Hess, a former circuit judge, said he’d like to stop the cycle of “just rolling (Rush) through the system� and to get her help with a sentence that includes more than just fines and jail time.
Rush appears to have a “substance-abuse problem,� Hess said, and would be better served in a treatment center.
A judge can order a habitual misdemeanor offender, like Rush, to incarceration or to a life-management evaluation, Hess said. He plans to talk to Rush’s attorney and judge to “request that the court take some different action with her, see if we can’t get her some help.�
If that help isn’t found, Hess said, he worried about where the problem might lead.
“When you have someone who is that drunk, they’re not able to protect themselves and so they can be prey; they can certainly be taken advantage of,� he said. “Apparently, she doesn’t have anyone to look out for her.�
In the latest arrest, deputies reported that Rush’s “breasts, buttocks and genitalia� were clearly visible through the holey white T-shirt, “which was basically transparent.�
After a 2006 incident, a gas station employee told police the then-19-year-old Rush “was intoxicated … yelling obscenities and crude remarks to the families using the gas station and … was exposing herself indecently.�
A few days later, police responded to “a drunken female wandering in and out of traffic� on Front Beach Road, “showing her breasts and genitalia to traffic,� according to a PCBPD report. The next month, an officer reported finding her in a parking lot “wearing nothing but a black tank top� and “so intoxicated that she was almost struck by several vehicles.�
There was a string of arrests in 2007, in which an apparently intoxicated Rush ordered and ate food at beach restaurants and then tried to skip out on the bill.
“Rush then said to call her mom or dad to come pay for the items,� a BCSO officer reported. “I have dealt with Rush in the past and this is standard for her.�
In four years of reports, police only once listed an occupation for Rush: as a dancer at a topless bar. She gives her parents’ address on each report, although she sometimes tells police she’s staying with friends in Panama City Beach.
Hess added that he doesn’t think the court’s attitude toward Rush — or the charges levied against her — would be more severe if she were a man.
“The behavior isn’t threatening,� Hess said. “It’s disgusting, but it’s not threatening. It’s not so much that she has an evil heart; it’s that she has a problem that manifests itself in criminal behavior.�
PANAMA CITY BEACH — When police arrested Jennifer Rush on Saturday afternoon as she walked along the beach wearing only a ragged wet T-shirt, it wasn’t their first run-in with the apparently drunk and nearly naked woman.
This year alone, police have arrested 23-year-old Rush for “exposing her breasts and rear end� to bowling alley patrons, boarding a charter bus loaded with BP contract workers and “exposing her breasts,� and “exposing her vaginal area to several bystanders … including a child� as she lay on a bench in front of a bar, according to police reports.
Local law enforcement agencies have generated nearly 50 reports on their dealings with Rush, which have resulted in more than a dozen convictions for charges — all misdemeanors — ranging from disorderly intoxication and disorderly conduct to public nudity and indecent exposure.
State Attorney Glenn Hess, a former circuit judge, said he’d like to stop the cycle of “just rolling (Rush) through the system� and to get her help with a sentence that includes more than just fines and jail time.
Rush appears to have a “substance-abuse problem,� Hess said, and would be better served in a treatment center.
A judge can order a habitual misdemeanor offender, like Rush, to incarceration or to a life-management evaluation, Hess said. He plans to talk to Rush’s attorney and judge to “request that the court take some different action with her, see if we can’t get her some help.�
If that help isn’t found, Hess said, he worried about where the problem might lead.
“When you have someone who is that drunk, they’re not able to protect themselves and so they can be prey; they can certainly be taken advantage of,� he said. “Apparently, she doesn’t have anyone to look out for her.�
In the latest arrest, deputies reported that Rush’s “breasts, buttocks and genitalia� were clearly visible through the holey white T-shirt, “which was basically transparent.�
After a 2006 incident, a gas station employee told police the then-19-year-old Rush “was intoxicated … yelling obscenities and crude remarks to the families using the gas station and … was exposing herself indecently.�
A few days later, police responded to “a drunken female wandering in and out of traffic� on Front Beach Road, “showing her breasts and genitalia to traffic,� according to a PCBPD report. The next month, an officer reported finding her in a parking lot “wearing nothing but a black tank top� and “so intoxicated that she was almost struck by several vehicles.�
There was a string of arrests in 2007, in which an apparently intoxicated Rush ordered and ate food at beach restaurants and then tried to skip out on the bill.
“Rush then said to call her mom or dad to come pay for the items,� a BCSO officer reported. “I have dealt with Rush in the past and this is standard for her.�
In four years of reports, police only once listed an occupation for Rush: as a dancer at a topless bar. She gives her parents’ address on each report, although she sometimes tells police she’s staying with friends in Panama City Beach.
Hess added that he doesn’t think the court’s attitude toward Rush — or the charges levied against her — would be more severe if she were a man.
“The behavior isn’t threatening,� Hess said. “It’s disgusting, but it’s not threatening. It’s not so much that she has an evil heart; it’s that she has a problem that manifests itself in criminal behavior.�
