Though Judge Vincent Gaughan's eleven-page decorum order details dozens of don'ts for we the mischievous media, I can't find anything in there about donuts. But that didn"t stop one sheriff's deputy from threatening WJMK's Brendan Greeley with the revocation of his court credentials, after what was intended as only a "kind gesture" by the young reporter early this morning.
Here's how it all went down.
This sad saga started yesterday when one deputy was kind enough to alert Greeley of R Kelly's imminent arrival. Greeley, who works for the Steve Dahl show, told his boss how nice everyone here at "two six" was treating the press.
Dahl suggested that, as a thank you, he should bring Dunkin' Donuts to the deputies today.
"So we sent over a cute intern," Greeley recounted, "with about two dozen....glazed, chocolate, powdered, and peanut."
Sounds like a nice mix, right?
Not so fast.
When Greeley offered them to those working outside of this jailhouse of a courtroom, only one employee took him up on the breakfast treat.
Another responded with this: "You're distracting the officers. This is your warning. Next time you'll get your credentials taken away."
Word in the courthouse corridors is that someone in the higher-ups (Sheriff Tom Dart perhaps?) heard the banter during the morning drive over the airwaves, and wanted to squash the possibility of any stunts.
Looks like there could be a "hole" in the reasoning.
Randi Belisomo, CLTV reporter at the R. Kelly Trial

