Respect Authority

• Dozens of corruption arrests in New Jersey
  
• Dead shark left in Miami street after failed sale
  
• Amy Winehouse in court on fan assault charge
  
• Stephen Baldwin files for bankruptcy

And my favorite of the day, which isn’t so much unsurprising as it is simply hilarious:

• Edison Officials Fighting Return of Erotic Convention

Breaking news: someone sold Amy Winehouse drugs. 

A couple who sold footage of the singer smoking crack to a newspaper has reportedly pled guilty to charges that they were the ones supplying the drugs. In fact, the two offered to supply Winehouse with cocaine and ecstasy in the hopes of covertly filming the inevitable abuse of substances.

There are two best parts to this story, and I can’t decide which is better. For one, detectives who charged the drug-dealing couple decided there “wasn’t enough evidence to charge Winehouse.” I would say that at any given time of day, Amy Winehouse looks like she’s on about 34 different drugs, to say nothing of actually catching her on camera.

And second, when they raided the drug couple’s home, detectives found a list of celebrities they had reportedly supplied with drugs. Johnny Blagrove and Cara Burton: drug dealers to the stars.