Judge: Former Miss Kentucky Latina violated probation Woman admitted to charter ridge

http://www.kentucky.com ^ | Thursday, Dec. 02, 2010 | Greg Kocher

[TSgt]

RICHMOND — A judge found Daniela Gaskie in violation of her probation, but the former Miss Kentucky Latina will serve time in a hospital rather than jail.

Gaskie, 22, was admitted to Charter Ridge Behavioral Health System in Lexington about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. She had already been receiving outpatient counseling there.

During a hearing Wednesday in Madison District Court, Gaskie testified it was not her intent to violate Judge Brandy Brown's order for conditional discharge.

"It was never my intent to go against what I'm told to do," Gaskie said in an apology from the witness stand to Judge Brown.

Gaskie pleaded guilty Nov. 10 to several misdemeanor charges. As part of her plea agreement, Gaskie was to be put on home incarceration and was prohibited from owning guns or ammunition and from working at any place that sells guns or ammunition.

Within 24 hours of that sentence, a Chrysler PT Cruiser crashed through the front doors of Sling Point Firearms, a gun shop on New Circle Road in Lexington co-owned by Gaskie's husband, Scott Bond. Three assault weapons and several handguns were stolen.

When a Lexington TV station recorded Gaskie inside the business shortly after the burglary, Madison County Attorney Marc Robbins filed a motion seeking to revoke the plea agreement and put Gaskie in jail.

During Wednesday's hearing, Gaskie, who lives in Richmond, said she had gone with her husband to Lexington after they learned of the burglary at about 2:30 a.m. Nov. 11.

Gaskie testified she thought her husband and police asked her to assist them in retrieving information from a new, multi-camera surveillance system. Gaskie repeatedly said she was in shock at the time and didn't remember specifically which officer or officers asked her for assistance in getting footage of the crash into the store.

"It wasn't an attempt to disobey anything," Gaskie said.

During cross-examination, Robbins asked Gaskie why she had not stayed home rather than go with her husband to the store.

"I was scared to stay home alone at 2:30 in the morning," Gaskie said.

But she acknowledged under cross-examination that police had not called her at home and asked her to come to the scene. Asked why she could not have given instructions via e-mail or over the phone on how to retrieve information from the surveillance system, Gaskie said it would have been difficult to do.

Another defense witness, Lexington police officer Ray Terry, also testified he had not asked Gaskie to come to the store.

Brown asked Terry if Gaskie had told any officer, "I'm not supposed to be in here."

"No," Terry said.

In his closing statement, defense attorney James Baechtold noted Brown had not expressly written in the terms of conditional discharge, as required by state law, to stay out of the store.

Rather, the judge had given that verbal admonition in court.

"It was not an explicit condition," Baechtold said.

In addition, he said, "what she (Gaskie) did do was mitigated by the good she did by helping the Lexington Metro Police Department."

But Robbins noted "no one asked her to go to that store," and Gaskie had ample time and opportunity to consult with police or her defense attorneys on whether she should have entered.

In the end, Brown ordered Gaskie to spend seven days in the hospital. Upon completion of that, the terms of conditional discharge go back into effect.

"This strikes me more as not a flagrant violation of the order but an inability or an unwillingness to recognize the consequences of your behavior," Brown said.

Gaskie pleaded guilty on Nov. 10 to charges stemming from October incidents in which she stabbed a gas station attendant and assaulted a pharmacist in Richmond.

Shortly thereafter, Gaskie was stripped of her Miss Kentucky Latina crown after pageant officials learned of the arrest and that she was married.

[TSgt]

I'm not sure what is more shocking, the story or that Kentucky has a Miss Kentucky Latina.

[samtheman]

Could someone please explain, in three English sentences or less, WTF happened.

The writer of this piece should really, really be put up against the wall and shot. Multiple times. Without prejudice. For the crime of extreme confusion and causing general annoyance.

[BigCinBigD]

“I’m not sure what is more shocking, the story or that Kentucky has a Miss Kentucky Latina.”

It’s sponcered by McDonalds, Taco Bell and the Zippy home cleaning service.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Where to start. But, why is she in the hospital? There wasn’t anything in the situation referring to an addiction problem.

[caver]

Being a northern neighbor of Kentucky, I’m more surprised to hear of a Miss Kentucky Latina? I thought Kentucky had more horse sense.

[Altura Ct.]

Miss Kentucky Latina?

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“The writer of this piece should really, really be put up against the wall and shot. Multiple times. Without prejudice. For the crime of extreme confusion and causing general annoyance.”

Agreed.
The writer seems to be using the “and He goes, then I go...” style of writing. Sorting out who did what to whom gave me a headache.

[samtheman]

I assume that Miss Kentucky is also a 14 karat idiot, claiming the police asked her to do what? Retrieve something from a crime scene? When do the police ever ask civilians to retrieve items from crime scenes for them? But really, I’m not sure from reading this that that is what she’s claiming. Is it what she’s claiming?

[chadwimc]

“...Could someone please explain, in three English sentences or less, WTF happened...”

That's racist! Or how ever the hell it is pronounced in “Mexican”.

Apparently, writing skills are not required for journalism these days...

[chadwimc]

“...Gaskie pleaded guilty on Nov. 10 to charges stemming from October incidents in which she stabbed a gas station attendant and assaulted a pharmacist in Richmond...”

Hee. Those hot blooded Latin types...

[samtheman]

racistas

[jocon307]

“For the crime of extreme confusion and causing general annoyance.”

Agreed, but it might not really be the writer’s fault.

It’s hard to make sense of a story where Miss Latina Kentucky is a. married, b. a criminal. Add to this the fact that this criminal is married to a man who owns a gun shop (!?!?) that gets robbed by someone who breaks in by smashing through the front with a car (?!?!?) and you’ve got a situation that’s extremely confusing and annoying all on its own.

[basil]

From the photo, she is certainly a lovely young lady.

From the disconnected, jerky article, one can almost gather that the poor woman is mentally ill, and should be in a locked psychiatric hospital.

[keving]

Lets remember that she violated probation. That was the first crime and not mentioned in the article. I think that she might jas received her designation as a result of a radio contest.

[TSgt]

They don’t ask about race but they do ask about parents and grandparents origin.

Here’s the entry form: http://www.missuslatina.com/Entry-Teen.html

SUBMIT THE INFORMATION BELOW WITH TWO (2) RECENT PHOTOS (face close-up & full body)
TO BEGIN THE PROCESS. To qualify for the National Pageant you must be an unmarried female, between the ages of 14 and 16 by December 31, 2010, and not a parent.

NAME:

RESIDENCE:

BIRTH PLACE:

PARENTS ORIGIN:

GRANDPARENTS ORIGIN:

SCHOOL ATTENDING:

YEAR LEVEL: Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior

END OF SCHOOL TERM:

PAGEANT EXPERIENCE:

MODELING EXPERIENCE:

MEASUREMENTS:

YOUR BIRTHDATE:

TELEPHONE NUMBER:

E-MAIL ADDRESS:

Applying for: Local pageant only
Nationals At-Large
Both

By checking this box, I acknowledge having parental permission to send this form.

[Seruzawa]

What’s wrong with that judge? She’s definitely NOT GUILTY.

[Lion Den Dan]

Apparently, writing skills are not required for journalism these days...

Not in Kentucky or in North Dakota. As long as you can spell "busted" and use it in a clause, phrase or string of words terminated by a period, you are a news writer.

[Cailleach]

I give up...it must be lack of coffee. I just can’t figure out what happened in this article. It hurts my brain to read it! HAHA! Did she drive her car into her husband’s gun shop and steal guns from his store? Why was she banned from owning guns as a result of a conviction for stabbing someone? If the judge knew her hubby owned a gun shop, did he really think banning her from owning a gun would keep them away from her hands? Did I miss something, somewhere?

[Charles Martel]

This part caught my eye:

To qualify for the National Pageant you must be an unmarried female, between the ages of 14 and 16 by December 31, 2010, and not a parent.

I wonder if that language is pageant "boilerplate" now.

[dfwgator]

It’s sponcered by McDonalds, Taco Bell and the Zippy home cleaning service.

And Chico's Bail Bonds.