Someone’s Not Winning Miss Congeniality
Beauty queen and friend beat up unfavorable judge
By KRISTIN NEHLS
Updated 1:19 PM CST, Tue, Jul 28, 2009
After a busty and dramatic drag queen was charged Wednesday with beating up a beauty pageant judge, it’s probably safe to say the Miss Congeniality award is out of the question.
Two men, one of whom competed in a recent West Side beauty pageant, were charged with using a trophy to beat a judge whose vote they found unfavorable. The judge had dared to not vote for the suspect (you might have guessed).
Oh, no he di-in’t!
So, Leroy Tinch, 28, of Evanston, allegedly sought revenge -- sweet revenge with his buddy Anthony Johnson, 23, of Skokie. After their attack, the judge’s jaw was left shattered in three places and he had a gash on his forehead.
Tinch and Johnson were charged with felony aggravated battery, Rogers Park District police Lt. John Franklin said.
They may have been competing on the basis of beauty at the July 6 pageant, but things definitely got ugly when police responded at 4:55 a.m. to a call of a person with a knife at the pageant.
When officers arrived at the West Side community center, The 5th City Center on West Jackson Boulevard, witnesses said Johnson used a trophy to strike judge Sebastian Latta, 37, of Baltimore Md., shattering his jaw in three places. Latta was treated at Mount Sinai hospital, where his jaw was wired shut, Franklin said.
“Apparently, I must have voted for the wrong person,” Latta told a reporting officer.
Tinch, who dresses in drag and appears to have breast implants, was probably the one competing in the competition and probably didn’t win the trophy used in the attack, cops said.
Tinch also allegedly slashed Latta across the forehead with an unidentified edged instrument.
Judging by the paw print tattoos running along Tinch’s chest (seriously), it seems that Tinch may have embraced his inner-lynx and scratched up Latta’s face in a fit of feline rage.
Meeee-ow-ow-OW!
“They said they didn’t like the way he [Latta] judged one of them in the pageants,” Franklin said.
Rogers Park District police officer Jennifer Caputo arrested Tinch early Tuesday when she spotted him in the 7100 block of North Clark Street. Johnson later surrendered at the Rogers Park District police station.
Shame on these men. Don’t they know there are little starlets out there looking up to these contestants as role models? We’re pretty sure there’s been enough controversy with beauty queens as of late.
Come on, people. Think of the children.
First Published: Jul 22, 2009 11:57 AM CST
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