Crime Blotter: Naked Lawyer Hops in Wrong Car

ByABC News
March 3, 2005, 9:41 AM

Feb. 25, 2005 -- -- A Florida lawyer runs naked through a parking lot and jumps into the wrong car; a New York man poses as a transit worker in an attempted locomotive theft; and a woman is accused of being all bite and no bark with a Delaware State Police trooper. "The Crime Blotter" will always have some bite.

KEY WEST, Fla. -- A prosecutor who may have had too much to drink thought it would be funny to run naked across a parking lot and hop into a friend's car -- but authorities say it was the wrong car.

Monroe County officials say Albert Tasker, a 28-year-old attorney with the Monroe County State Attorney's Office, jumped into the back seat of a car occupied by a woman waiting for her boyfriend. The woman yelled, her boyfriend showed up and scared Tasker out of the car.

The woman called police and when they arrived, they found a still-naked Tasker in the middle of the parking lot.

Tasker faces misdemeanor disorderly intoxication and indecent exposure charges. His employers have placed him on administrative leave without pay.

NEW YORK -- A man who was repeatedly arrested for posing as a New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority worker has pleaded guilty to attempted locomotive theft.

In June 2004, law enforcement officials said, Darius McCollum, 39, entered a Long Island Rail Road yard, presented himself as a safety consultant and asked how to operate a new type of engine. McCollum, authorities said, was later found with stolen keys, including those used to operate a new locomotive.

McCollum has been arrested 20 times for allegedly posing as a subway motorman, bus driver and transit token clerk. At the time of his arrest for the attempted automotive theft, he was on parole. He pleaded guilty to third-degree attempted grand larceny and faces up to three years in prison when he is sentenced March 28.