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Updated: 7:11 PM Nov 2, 2009
Police say scam artist did not break any laws
Notre Dame, IN Friday, Notre Dame law students were sent an email from Notre Dame officials saying a person identifying himself as Gary Stearley is posing as a law student and is not actually enrolled at the university.
Posted: 6:16 AM Oct 31, 2009Reporter: Nick McGurk and Alana Greenfogel Email Address: nick.mcgurk@wndu.com, Alana.Greenfogel@wndu.com |
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I thought Durham, NC (where Duke is) was full of jealous, bitter, inferiority complex-ridden people. But South Bend has one-upped us here.
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if he didn't commit a crime, why are we splashing is name through the mud?
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According to the brilliant Bid Daddy, criminal laws are created when "people say it's criminal and everyone rolls with the flow on that." Thanks, Bid Daddy, for educating all of us about the criminal justice system. Who needs the rule of law?
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To "smarter than a collage student"- please, first spell COLLEGE correctly, THEN you can proceed to tell us how much smarter you are. LMAO.
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NDLawyer, I agree with you. I am not a student at ND but if I were, I would feel very violated that my safety was compromised by someone who just wanted to "sit in" on classes. Tuition is paid to use the resources offered by ND. If he wanted to be a student, he should have gone through the proper channels to do so, though he likely would not be accepted- hence his little stunt.
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This guy sounds like some of those folks who have been "working" in the County-City building for years. We'll probably see him as an intern with Mayor Luecke's re-election campaign.
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For NDLawyer, Jennifer, and the rest of those who feel like he had no right to be there... Federal law prohibits any istitution of higher education state or "private" from closing its classes to the public. Schools that charge outrageous admission often find a way around this by locking the doors to the halls under the false pretense of "safety". Even if the local police were to charge him with tresspassing the charge would be thrown out in court. I do not remember the statute to refrence,but when I was a "student on a budget" I would often sit in on classes that I had intrest in but were not required for my degree the school tried to argue at first, and why not they see it as money lost, but one call from my layer and that was the last I heard of it. Yes this situation is a little different, but I see no malice.
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I'll bet he attended class, and if he did attend class and he didn't pay tuition, isn't that "stealing".
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For all of you who are asking what crime this young man committed, he trespassed, at the very least. Notre Dame is a PRIVATE university, and its facilities are made available only to its students, faculty, staff, and other invitees. Further, it sounds like he had to use a code to enter the law school at some point, meaning he was likely there after normal "visiting" hours, when one would not expect non-students or other visitors in the building. For all of you rushing to his defense for having commmitted "no crime," what would your reaction have been if he had committed a violent crime while posing as a student, and it was then revealed that he was never a student? Likely derision at ND for not discovering his ruse in the first place. Seems there is no pleasing those who love to hate.
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Wow, I'm amazed at the hate that some of you people have for the university and the students. You take a simple report on fraud and turn it into let's bash Notre Dame! Some how I don't think it would get the same reaction if it was an scam on IUSB or any other local college! As for "Bid Daddy" you're a joke with your "GO STEARLY! WITH YOU 100%" I bet your momma's really proud of you siding with a thief!
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Either the police or WNDU needs to be more definitive as to what the actual crime is here. Was it some sort of fraud, identity theft? Why are you telling us this, and why should I care? Give us more information, please. I'm not terribly scared about a guy that sounds like he's just having a little fun.
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Why did WNDU do a story on this guy before he was picked up? I'm sure the NDPD is thrilled that he saw his own face on the news and disappeared in the night before they could arrest him. It also could have been dangerous for his roommates. I was surprised that Channel 16 made this decision.
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No, JT, according to most of the posters, this guy poses no threat at all regarding identity theft and the University is just full of themselves. Apparently the fact that he has done this in the past and stolen things does not constitute a crime in their minds. So the roommates had no cause to turn him in. Oh? Identity theft IS a crime? Stealing IS a crime? Most students don't have ID's laying around from "numerous" colleges? My bad. Big Daddy- thug life, huh? You're pathetic- wannabe.
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For those who are asking what he did wrong, how would you like to have been a "patient" of his as he was posing as a physician's assistant? He is WANTED by other states for stealing from hospitals and and for identification fraud. It is too bad that the roommates didn't call the police instead of believing he'd turn himself in.
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I'm glad to see how smart collage kids are. It's sad to see them spend all of their parents money on tuition just to see them work at an average paying job when it's all over. Maybe we could get approval for some of those bail out funds to get back the parents lost investments. Street smart wins over book smart anyday.
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