You Can't Punish This Guy Any Further...This is Enough

[GeorgeWendtCFI]

Deputy fire chief faces indecency charge

The Arizona Republic
Mar. 7, 2006 10:17 AM

Leroy Donald Johnson was caught this weekend in a barn with his pants down, literally, according to a sheriff's office report.

"You caught me ... I tried to (expletive) your sheep," Johnson told his neighbor, according to the report.

But the Mesa Fire Department deputy fire chief changed his story when a sheriff's deputy arrived on his doorstep minutes later, denying anything happened.

Johnson, 52, was jailed on suspicion of disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing after the neighbor told investigators he found Johnson, unzipped and holding a sheep down on its side.

That's the sanitized version. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office report released Monday night is a little more graphic.

Johnson's neighbor told sheriff's deputies he was called home Saturday afternoon when his 13-year-old daughter saw Johnson drag one of their sheep into a barn.

The teenager said Johnson had first knocked on the front and back door of the home in the 1200 block of East Catclaw Street, in a county island in Gilbert, before grabbing the small gray lamb, records showed.

One of the deputies noted that Johnson had bloodshot eyes and smelled of alcohol, and neighbors who confronted him said he admitted everything.

According to the deputy's report, "(The owner) took me into the back yard and showed me where he and (neighbor) pulled up. He took me through the corral gate and I saw the victim for the first time. She was a small gray lamb about three feet tall and four feet long."

The men then told the deputy they walked over to the small barn, opened the door and "saw Leroy holding the lamb down on its side in the hay with his pants down trying to have sex with it. That's when he made the statement about (expletive) the lamb."

The men said Johnson stood up and zipped up his pants.

"The sheep ran out of the barn at that point," the report says.

Johnson apologized, according to the report, and said he'd had "too much to drink."

The Mesa Fire Department placed Johnson, on paid leave Monday pending an internal investigation. Johnson, deputy chief of technical services, has been with the Mesa Fire Department for nearly 26 years.

Assistant Fire Chief Mary Cameli said Johnson has been an "exemplary" employee with a spotless personnel record.

"We were all very surprised by this," Cameli added.

Johnson did not return a call for comment Monday.

When confronted by a deputy at his home, Johnson initially denied the incident, saying he had been at his neighbor's house to talk about annexation.

Johnson said he went into the barn after hearing noises. The deputy said to him, "I believe something more than that happened," and offered help.

Johnson responded, "I probably do need some help, but I don't know if this is the time or place for it," according to the report.

When asked how the animal got into the barn, Johnson said, "I'm not going there," then asked if he was going to be arrested and demanded to know his legal options.

He continued to deny that anything happened in the barn and was arrested.

"I think it's disgusting," Sheriff Joe Arpaio said. "I think of Ghandi who said you judge the morality of a country by the way they treat their animals. . . . I do look at (bestiality) as some type of animal cruelty."

[lvwrench]

Mary had a litlle lamb; and it just filed sexual assault charges. Alcohol does funny things to people's minds but then again this is just sick and not so funny.

[WaterbryVTfire]

So it sounds like it was a pretty

baaaaadddddd experience

Sorry....

[DeputyChiefGonzo]

He went to the barn and got it on with some sheep
He blamed it on drinking and a lack of sleep
He thought he went home with a stripper named Ann
but his date turned out to be Mary's little lamb

He thought that for sex he would have a chance
so he loosened his belt and dropped his pants
The sheep ran out of the barn at that point
frightened by the zipper and the touch of a "joint"

The County sheriff showed up at the door
"But I thought it was Annie, that young stripper whore"
The sheriff then asked "what were you trying to do?"
he replied "none of your business... frack ewe!

[tfpd109]

Nice Capt! A little to much time today?

[NYSmokey]

The firefighters at his firehouse better be careful busting on him when he comes back. He might file a complaint with the E-I-E-I-O

[lutan1]

Well said smokey!!!

[nmfire]

Mary had a litlle lamb; and it just filed sexual assault charges. Alcohol does funny things to people's minds but then again this is just sick and not so funny.

Umm. Yea alcohol does funny things but I can't say I've ever been tempted to tresspass onto a farm and bang a sheep... or any other animal for that matter.

[redneckemt]

Were there banjo's playing in the background?

[efd824]

Does Mesa wear 3/4 boots?, you have to admit though fellows from the description she was a very pretty sheep!!!, they all get better looking at closing time....

[WaterbryVTfire]

There's even photos?


http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0307062sheep1.html

[nozzelvfd]

there are a lot of unanswered questions here. for example

1) was it unwanted sex?

2) did the lamb say no at any time during the alleged incident?

3) was the DC holding the lamb against her will? and by the way he was just balancing her on the hay......

to me it sounds like the lamb was shaking her booty to much and the Deputy Chief needed some action and got the OK signal!!!

[doughesson]

The late Jay Hickman had part of his routine about a Church meeting where folks were encouraged to confess their sins while the preacher cheered them on til they told it all:
One guy gets up and starts with"I am sorry but I have slept with everyone's wife in the room"
The preacher's screaming "Tell it,Brother Jones,let it ALLLLL out!"
"When I started work at the mill,I'd go through other guys' lockers when I was broke before payday"
The preacher screamed"C'mon,brother,let ALLLL that sin out!"
"When I was 15,I screwed my Daddy's mule."
Preacher said,"Damned if I'da told that one."

[wag11c]

What's wrong with that? I personally prefer a goat but what the heck. The man wants some pleasure.

[BrianHFDLT]

Yeah, I remember this happened to me once.........oh wait, wrong forum Sorry !!

[MalahatTwo7]

Does Mesa wear 3/4 boots?, you have to admit though fellows from the description she was a very pretty sheep!!!, they all get better looking at closing time....

The "burning" question is: did he have velcro gloves or was he bare-handed?

[FlyingKiwi]

The big question is will the Lamb keep the wooly jumper with the evidence on it?

Will this be presented in court and the media later on?

Oh Monica you naughty lamb.

[Dalmatian190]

The bigger question is...

Will he retire from Mesa...

And is New Zealand, sheep capital of the world, hiring.

[nmfire]

You know, he is obviously screwed for the rest of his life. But I really feel bad for this guy's kids. They are in college right now. Can you imagine being a college student and having the news circulating that your dad was caught screwing a sheep? I would crawl under a rock and never come out again.

[martinm]

Theres an old joke over here about it being more acceptable to be seen climbing out of a sheep than a Skoda car.