Pedophile politician's $150,000 bribery scheme
Saturday, Oct. 3 2009 @ 11:38AM
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| Here's the plan: You build a homemade helicopter, fly it onto the jail roof, and bust me outta here. No, really. I'm serious. It'll be easy. |
The drug kingpin is currently in a Nashville jail awaiting sentencing for dealing, money laundering, and murdering nine people. He's apparently not excited about spending the remainder of his life eating creamed corn and generic bologna.
So he came up with this plan: Gal pal Faith Readus would build a homemade helicopter from a kit, learn how to fly it, then bust him out of jail, presumably by landing on the roof exercise yard of the downtown jail.
Now it's one thing to suck at escape plots. But it also seems Shakir blows at the art of covert jail correspondence. He seems to have overlooked the little-known fact that guards read your letters.
Sadly, the plan was revealed through intercepted letters intended for Christopher Conyers, in which Shakir discusses dope dealing, robbery, assaults and his plans to whack three people. Point of order: As a general rule, the wise criminal tries to avoid discussing illegal activity in writing.
He also ordered Readus to research helicopter kits and flight training, because everyone knows how easy it is to land a pile of junk on a downtown rooftop. One or two lessons, and you're probably a seasoned pilot, right? "Your first loyalty ... should be to me, because without the head the body is useless," Shakir wrote to Readus in another letter. "And without a true strong King, there can be no stable queen."
But at least Readus' attorney Jennifer Thompson -- the only adult in the room -- has found an asset in her client's stupidity. She argues that the plan was so dumb it was beyond success, and that there's no law against entertaining moronic ideas. "It's really outrageous she's being charged ... when the plan is to get a homemade helicopter kit and learn to drive the helicopter by taking a couple of classes," she told The Tennessean.
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