<SPAN class=h2hed>Deputy fire chief faces indecency charge </SPAN>



<DIV class=story>The Arizona Republic
Mar. 7, 2006 10:17 AM


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<DIV class=storyText id=storyBody>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."</DIV></DIV></DIV> <SPAN class=sidebar>Leroy Johnson </SPAN>

Fire Official Faces Porn Accusations






The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona is investigating what they believe is a case of bestiality.

Leroy Johnson, a Mesa fire department battalion chief is facing misdemeanor criminal trespassing and public sexual indecency charges.

He’s accused of knocking on the door of a 13-year-old girl who was staying home alone this weekend, but when she didn’t answer, investigators say he went into the backyard.

Johnson is then accused of taking a lamb into a nearby barn.

Lisa Allen of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office says, “One could certainly ascertain that if you're in a barn and in a secluded area with a lamb, and you’re behind her and your pants are down by your ankles, then an unnatural sex act is probably occurring.”

Tonight, the Mesa fire department responded to Johnson’s arrest saying he’s been an exemplary employee for the past 26 years and they are shocked and surprised.

Johnson has been placed on administrative leave pending the MCSO investigation.

Sick bastard at least he didnt get the little girl ...or the sheep

He so horney!

Sicko Pervert

Drty told me that if it's horsies, it's OK.

Well, sheep are to little for me.


So, the old codger gets liquored up and tries to f*ck his neighbor's sheep, gets caught with his pants down, admits it, only to change his tune when Johnny Law shows up. If this story came from Necktucky or Arkinsaw it would be run of the mill. But ARIZONA??? WTF? Wonder if he's related to the dog f*ckers from S.F.?

Makes you wonder what he was really after. I hope they lock the dirty perv up for a long time.

Makes you wonder what he was really after. I hope they lock the filthy perv up for a long time. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Blasphemy!!! Don't take my name in vain or I shall smite thee mightily.

Makes you wonder what he was really after. I hope they lock the filthy perv up for a long time. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Blasphemy!!! Don't take my name in vain or I shall smite thee mightily. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

my bad.

Frankie sometimes asks me to whinnie.

OMG that was funny </div></BLOCKQUOTE>x GAZAMABILLION

Damn sheep probably led him on!

I think the sheep was asking for it.

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...ouch...baaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaa...ouch

ROTFLMAO!