flyingtiger1013 Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 http://wtop.com/?nid=456&sid=752766 WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - Two people who police say conspired to get off of work for a few days by filing a fake obituary with a newspaper have been arrested. James Ralph Snyder, 36, and Mary Jo Elizabeth Jensen, 33, both of Waterloo, participated in the scam by filing an obituary saying Jensen's 17-year-old son had died, police said. Snyder was charged with tampering with records. Jensen was charged with being an accessory after the fact. Snyder, claiming he was Daniel Reddout's father, submitted the obituary to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier in December, police said. Snyder, who is Jensen's boyfriend, said Reddout died at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn., after a lengthy illness, police said. Later in the week, people who know the family and the teenager saw him at a downtown restaurant and called authorities, police said. Snyder and Jensen, who worked at Tyson Foods in Waterloo, started taking time off of work in December saying her son was sick and in a hospital, police said. They said the plot escalated and Tyson officials were told the teenager was on life support and eventually had died. Company officials asked the couple to verify their absence from work and Snyder took the obituary to the newspaper, police said. The son told police about the plan, records show. ___ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfitzo53 Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 :laugh: Looks like it would have been easier just to go to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Well, at least they won't have to worry about taking time off work anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Washington Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 i bet the son got a serious ass whippin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeHateIggles Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 I think it happens more often than you would think...When I was in high school there was an obit for "Richard Lick III". I'm dead serious. Come on...And he's the 3rd one? :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IONTOP Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 I'm dead serious. Nice play on words... :applause: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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