Crackhead Bookie

Crackhead bus driver is a bookie, feds charge

A school bus driver exposed as a crackhead in the Daily News was also moonlighting as a foulmouthed bookie for a gambling ring with ties to the Mafia, authorities said yesterday.

Frank Cappello, 53, was accused in a federal complaint unsealed in Brooklyn of collecting debts from gamblers who had lost bets as high as $10,000 on sporting events.

The News reported last week that Cappello was driving schoolchildren even after he was arrested in the lobby of a housing project with crack. The Education Department did not learn of the bust for more than a month until a union representative informed Cappello's bus company.

He tested positive for cocaine in September, and his certification to drive a school bus was revoked after 32 years on the job.

Bus Driver Behaving Badly

Ex-bus driver faces sex charges

A former school bus driver faces federal charges of sexually exploiting a child.

Andrew Grabow, 40, of Florence is charged in U.S. District Court in Covington with four counts of making or trading images of child porn over the Internet. If convicted of all the charges, he could be sentenced up to 50 years in prison.

He is already indicted in Boone and Kenton counties on child sexual exploitation charges. Investigators say he exploited two children - a 16-year-old student who rode his Boone County Schools bus and a pre-teen. The abuse dates back to June 2004.

Brake Check...

WINSTED: School bus driver charged with hitting brakes to quiet students

A school bus driver accused of slamming on the brakes to quiet a dozen students on board earlier this month turned herself in to police Friday night after a warrant was issued for her arrest.

Wendy Middlebrook, 33, of Royer Street, was released after posting a $25,000 court-set bond. She is due to appear in Bantam Court April 2, when she will be arraigned on 12 counts of risk of injury to a minor .

According to court documents and police, Middlebrook was bringing students home from the Hinsdale Elementary School on the afternoon of March 13 when she tried, unsuccessfully, to get the youths on board to pay attention to her. She was about to drop off several of the students at an after-school program on Lake Street when she stopped the bus suddenly, police said.

Pill Poppin' Bus Driver

Cops: Bus driver bought drugs from a student

A Northeastern Transit Inc. bus driver faces charges of buying prescription drugs several times last month from a 16-year-old student he drove daily to an alternative school in South Scranton.

Robert W. Griffith, 67, of 3901 Wylam Ave., Moosic, told investigators he never used the medications he bought from the boy, whom he said he felt sorry for and was trying to impress the teenager as “a big guy,” police said.

The boy told police Mr. Griffith asked him in February to find him drugs. Over the course of the month, the driver allegedly paid him numerous times for Xanax and Seroquel that the boy took from his mother. Xanax is an anti-anxiety drug; Seroquel is used to treat bipolar disorder.

Bus Driver, Aide & Drugs

School bus aide, driver are indicted over drugs

A grand jury in Monmouth County indicted a school bus aide and the driver yesterday on charges they gave more than just rides to high school students in Middletown.

The indictment charged the aide, Parrish Jones, 36, of Keans burg, with a number of drug-related crimes, including giving methadone to a 15-year-old stu dent, who went into respiratory distress and lost consciousness after ingesting the drug, Mon mouth County Prosecutor Luis Va lentin said.

Bus Drivers Shouldnt Drink and Drive

Bus Driver pleads innocent to drunken driving

A former bus driver pleads innocent to a city drunken driving ticket at Delavan stemming from her transporting of 25 Phoenix Middle School wrestlers last month.

Fifty-one-year-old Connie Holden of Delavan faces a thousand-dollar fine and 18-month revocation of her regular driver's license if convicted. She could also lose her bus driver's license for five years.

Her innocence would be easy to prove it wasnt for that pesky Scooby Doo blood test.

Authorities say a blood draw showed Holden's blood-alcohol content was more than twice Wisconsin's legal limit.

And the kids on the bus go.. shake shake shake

School Bus Driver Suspended for Assaulting 4-Year-Old

A school bus driver is suspended after allegations that she shook a little girl.

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When the little girl's mom went to pick her up at the bus stop she says she saw a lot of students yelling at the bus driver. She asked what was going on and she says the students told her the bus driver shook her little girl. The mom confronted the bus driver. The driver said that never happened and denied the whole thing “My first reaction? it was just shock,” said the father.