How thorough are your background checks? (Part 2)

Posted by Jim Stroud

March 14, 2006

When I read this story, it reminded me of my earlier comments on background checks. Read below and see if you get the correlation?

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An employee at the Roane County Courthouse went out three times with a convict on Maine’s Most Wanted list.

Robert Fain had active warrants against him in four states, with prosecutors in Roane County planning to charge him with aggravated assault after they say he tried to run over two Kingston Police officers last Friday.

“He was the nicest guy you could possibly want to meet,” Pam Smith thought of Fain after they met on her birthday, February 24. “Now, I feel like a fool.”

Smith said Fain went to her office in Juvenile Court and met her co-workers the Friday afternoon he was captured. Pam said Fain was going to pick her up in the courthouse parking lot later that evening for dinner. Ten minutes before that was supposed to happen, a friend told her about looking people up on the internet.

“I typed in Robert Fain plus Maine,” she recalled. “Maine’s Most Wanted came up.”

The website said Fain was wanted for writing bad checks and that Fain had an “extensive criminal history.”

“Dear God,” Pam thought. “What have I done?”

Pam said Fain told her he moved to Roane County after his wife had died. Now fearing for her safety, she called police in Maine, who told her to call local authorities.

Minutes later, members of the Kingston Police Department surrounded Fain’s truck as he waited to pick up Pam for dinner.

“And all of the sudden, he threw it in reverse…

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