NewsFebruary 27, 2005
State digest 02/27/05
Charges dropped against St. Louis photographer; Predator who prompted law change is sentenced
Charges dropped against St. Louis photographer
BERKELEY, Mo. -- Authorities in this St. Louis suburb have dropped charges that a St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer was in the way of emergency workers at an accident scene last month. Gabriel Tait, 32, was taking photos Jan. 1 on Interstate 70 where a sport utility vehicle had overturned. Tait was charged with refusing to comply with an officer's command and interfering with rescue operations. The Post-Dispatch said the charges were dropped Thursday. No reason was given.
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Predator who prompted law change is sentenced
FARMINGTON, Mo. -- A convicted serial rapist whose escape from a mental health facility's sexual predator unit led to a change in state law was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison. Thomas Ingrassia, 48, spent two years living in Florida under an assumed name after the 2001 escape from a state mental hospital in Farmington. He was convicted last month of damaging state property because escape from civil detention was not a crime in 2001. Lawmakers corrected the loophole in May. Ingrassia got out by cutting a hole in a fence. After his prison term is up, Ingrassia again could be sent to a civil commitment.
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