Crime

Northwestern SBA President Now In Trouble With the Real Police (UPDATE: Charge Dismissed)

CORRECTION AND UPDATE (12/6/2010): We are advised as follows by a knowledgeable source: “There was never a charge of ‘fleeing’ the police or anything of the sort. Todd was, in fact, ‘pulled over’ while parked in the parking lot of his hotel and the only charge against him, driving under the influence, has been dismissed.” […]

By Elie Mystal on March 29, 2010 12:38 pm

CORRECTION AND UPDATE (12/6/2010): We are advised as follows by a knowledgeable source: “There was never a charge of ‘fleeing’ the police or anything of the sort. Todd was, in fact, ‘pulled over’ while parked in the parking lot of his hotel and the only charge against him, driving under the influence, has been dismissed.”

We’ve had quite a bit of fun around these parts with the Northwestern Student Bar Association’s role as PC Police for the entire Northwestern Law community. You’ll remember that the Northwestern SBA admonished students for using “any racial or sexual epithet[s]” around exam time — e.g., “that exam raped me.”

But now tipsters report that outgoing SBA president Todd Belcore is in trouble with duly recognized officers of the law, and it’s got nothing to do with his language:

[O]n a school trip to MS, Todd Belcore was arrested for DUI and fleeing from the police. The people on the trip were warned not to discuss the arrest to avoid the news getting to you guys.

Getting hemmed up on a DUI in Mississippi? That is so gay.

Various Mississippi sheriffs’ departments declined to talk about the incident, but additional sources confirmed the reports….

Another Northwestern student suggests that the incident was more of your run-of-the-mill DUI than anything else:

I wasn’t there, but I’m told that “fleeing” is too strong of a word. He was stopped and it took him a while to pull over … that’s all.

We reached out to Belcore, but he declined to comment on the record. We’ll update you if we hear anything more.

We do know that the SBA recently held elections to elect a new board. But we’ll be sad to see the old board go. With the PC police email, the gender-neutral prom aristocracy, and now this, the old board was a riot.

How can the new board members live up to their predecessors? I’m not sure, but I hope it involves two dragons.

CORRECTION AND UPDATE (12/6/2010): We are advised as follows by a knowledgeable source: “There was never a charge of ‘fleeing’ the police or anything of the sort. Todd was, in fact, ‘pulled over’ while parked in the parking lot of his hotel and the only charge against him, driving under the influence, has been dismissed.”

Earlier: The PC Police Ride Strong at Northwestern
Northwestern’s Gender Neutral — Possibly Hermaphroditic — Barrister ‘Rulers’