STRATEGIC PARTNERS
February 27, 2002
NEW YORK -- At least one person suspected of trying to steal money from an ATM during looting at last summer's Woodstock event has been taken into custody by New York State Police, according to the New York Post.
Jennifer E. Staas, of Georgia, was charged with attempted grand larceny for the unsuccessful ATM theft and with grand larceny for helping Keith G. Cook, of Maine, steal a car from the Woodstock parking lot. Police identified Staas from an Associated Press photo taken during rioting at the event. The photo was widely published in newspapers across the country.
State police are still investigating five reported charges of rape in connection with the concert. No arrests have been made in those cases.
Last October, 10 New York State Police troopers and two supervisors were given suspensions and censures for two incidents in which police asked female concertgoers to take off their clothes. In one incident, two nude women posed for photographs with a group of police. In another, a group of topless women washed a state police car, an event captured in a New York Post photograph.
