{"id":8792,"date":"2013-08-08T10:59:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T10:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8792"},"modified":"2013-08-08T10:59:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T10:59:47","slug":"drunk-suspect-threatens-police-with-voodoo-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8792","title":{"rendered":"Drunk suspect threatens police with voodoo curse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BH-2013-08-07-A001\"<\/a>A Cadillac-driving OUI (common acronym for drunk driving) suspect \u2014 charged with running a Boston Globe delivery truck off Interstate 93 and onto the Leverett Connector \u2014 was carrying three EBT cards, mocked a cop \u201cfor paying for food when she gets it for free\u201d and threatened to put a voodoo curse on him, according to a police report. [Recipients with food stamp benefits can use their EBT Card for eligible food purchases at most grocery stores and some other retailers for free]<\/p>\n

\u201cI questioned her as to why she had other peoples (sic) EBT cards and she \u2028began screaming that I was a \u2018dumb (expletive)\u2019 for paying for food when she gets it for free,\u201d trooper William Koko\u00adcinski wrote of Vivencia \u2028Bellegarde, 25, of Everett, noting she had her own electronic benefits transfer card and also the cards of two other people.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe repeatedly called me a racist and told me she was from Haiti and she was gonna \u2018put voodoo on my white (expletive),\u2019\u201d Kokocinski wrote. \u201c(She) told me to Google her name and find out who I was \u2018(expletive) with\u2019. She further explained that her name translated means \u2018give life take life\u2019 and she emphasized \u2018TAKE LIFE\u2019. She then shouted that she was \u2018coming for all you white (expletives).\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the state Department of Transitional Assistance, which administers welfare, said in a statement the agency has been notified of Bellegarde\u2019s EBT cards \u201cand will take appropriate action.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDTA investigates every\u2028tip that it receives from members of the public or law enforcement, and refers cases to the auditor\u2019s Bureau of Special Investigations for further action, which has the power to investigate potential criminal matters,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

Bellegarde, who is listed as unemployed in court \u2028papers, is being held on $10,000 bail on charges of drunken driving causing serious injury. Surveillance video of the 3:13 a.m. Monday crash shows a car slamming into the Globe truck, forcing it off the roadway and into a frightening 40-foot free fall. The truck came apart on impact with the Leverett Connector \u2028on-ramp below.<\/p>\n

The truck driver, Paul Healy Jr., 35, of Brockton, was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was in fair condition yesterday. He declined to comment yesterday through a family member.<\/p>\n

Bellegarde told cops she\u2019d left a party prior to the crash, and \u201cdidn\u2019t care about the guy she hit because he isn\u2019t dead and that all she cares about is smoking a cigarette,\u201d the report says. Her mood fluctuated greatly during booking, the report says, and at one point she began crying about her 5-year-old child.<\/p>\n

Bellegarde at first denied driving the heavily damaged 2006 Cadillac DTS sedan, which Kokocinski spotted while on his way to the Globe truck crash, police said. Bellegarde\u2019s attorney, Hassan Willians, said his client \u201chas no comment. She\u2019s looking forward to her day in court.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bellegarde\u2019s driving record \u2028includes 10 suspensions, many for failing to pay citations. Last year, her license was suspended for 30 days in connection with a first-offense drunken-driving charge in Lincoln from September 2011. Her license will be suspended for three years because she refused a Breathalyzer test in Monday\u2019s crash, according to the Registry of Motor Vehicles.<\/p>\n

The Lincoln arrest report says Bellegarde reeked of booze and had front-end damage on her car when she called cops to ask them for help with her tires on a 5 a.m. trek home from a Boston club. She failed sobriety tests but was \u201cpolite and \u2028cooperative,\u201d the reporting officer wrote. – Boston Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Cadillac-driving OUI (common acronym for drunk driving) suspect \u2014 charged with running a Boston Globe delivery truck off Interstate 93 and onto the Leverett Connector \u2014 was carrying three EBT cards, mocked a cop \u201cfor paying for food when she gets it for free\u201d and threatened to put a voodoo curse on him, according … Continue reading “Drunk suspect threatens police with voodoo curse”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[1768,4914,1772,4913],"class_list":["post-8792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-black-racism","tag-drunk-driving","tag-haiti","tag-voodoo"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bellegarde.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8794,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions\/8794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}