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Crime

Is This Poet Our Space Cowboy Bomber?

by Cienna Madrid • Mar 18, 2010 at 11:16 am

The charging documents list his name as Vladimir Lestat Augustine, (alternative spelling, Augustin):

pauldorpat.com
Vladimir Augustin

If it is the same guy, as of last April, he was writing poems on the backs of business cards in exchange for a meal. My mind keeps returning to a line from the charging papers, where he said "he needed help."

h/t Hanna Brooks Olsen

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