Man Nabbed in Alleged Test SchemeIt don't get much idioter than this:
One minute, Kevin Boonear Siangchin thought he finally had paved his way to a prestigious law school. The next minute, the aspiring attorney was looking for a good defense attorney, his career more than likely over before it began.
Well, he can claim he was just studying the law from the inside.
Desperate to get accepted to a top school, the 27-year-old North Plainfield, N.J., man paid $5,000 for a copy of a Law School Admission Test, in Bucks County this week in a scheme he hoped would get him into Columbia or New York University, authorities said.
Instead of walking away with the test, he bought himself a possible seven years in prison after Bucks County detectives arrested him during an undercover sting at a Middletown Township McDonald's on Wednesday night.
From buying a Big Mac to sharing a cell with Big Mac all in one night.
Authorities were alerted to the alleged scheme when two employees from the Law School Admission Council, which has its headquarters in Newtown Township, told them Siangchin left notes on their vehicles outside their office in January, saying ''I am willing to compensate you generously for your help'' in getting a copy of the test.
''It sounded almost bizarre,'' Bucks County District Attorney Diane Gibbons said of the initial requests for the test. ''I was afraid someone was going to get hurt and said, let's be careful. It sounds sort of nutty.''
Ms. Gibbons has a talent for understatement.
The electrical engineer who graduated from Rutgers with a 3.6 grade point average probably ruined his career, Gibbons said.
Couldn't just be an engineer, a perfectly wonderful calling. Nope, had to be a lawyer just like, uh, Bill Clinton...
''It was like a bad spy movie, meeting at a McDonald's in the middle of the night,'' Gibbons said.
In interviews with detectives, Siangchin admitted trying to get the test from the two law school admissions employees. He was charged with four felony crimes: criminal attempt to commit theft, criminal solicitation, criminal use of a communication facility and unlawful use of a computer.
You want to know the really funny thing? He asked the detectives for his money back...