allaccess.com reports the following in today's page (7/27/2005):
The wannabe DJ who hijacked the request lines of CLEAR CHANNEL Top 40 WIOQ (Q102)/PHILADELPHIA, and redirected the calls to his house so that he could meet women, has beaten a rape charge. But WILLIAM PASSARELLA, JR. did plead guilty to a host of lesser charges, according to the PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS.
PASSARELLA admitted to stealing a credit-card number and using it to spend $21,000 on limousines to chauffeur radio listeners to bars. He also admitted stalking and threatening another woman. But Common Pleas Judge ANTHONY DEFINO acquitted him of the rape after the alleged victim testified that she had not told police about any sexual assault until two weeks later, after seeing a TV news account of Passarella's arrest.
The woman went to police the day after her encounter with PASSARELLA only to report that a bank card and two personal checks were missing from her pocketbook. She testified that she had stayed at PASSARELLA's house for about 12 hours that day -- after meeting him on a chat-line dating service -- and remained there even after he had sex with her.
Last month, Judge DEFINO found PASSARELLA guilty of contacting WIOQ's phone provider, and convincing them to switch the station's request line numbers to his home. He remains jailed pending sentencing on the lesser charges.
The wannabe DJ who hijacked the request lines of CLEAR CHANNEL Top 40 WIOQ (Q102)/PHILADELPHIA, and redirected the calls to his house so that he could meet women, has beaten a rape charge. But WILLIAM PASSARELLA, JR. did plead guilty to a host of lesser charges, according to the PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS.
PASSARELLA admitted to stealing a credit-card number and using it to spend $21,000 on limousines to chauffeur radio listeners to bars. He also admitted stalking and threatening another woman. But Common Pleas Judge ANTHONY DEFINO acquitted him of the rape after the alleged victim testified that she had not told police about any sexual assault until two weeks later, after seeing a TV news account of Passarella's arrest.
The woman went to police the day after her encounter with PASSARELLA only to report that a bank card and two personal checks were missing from her pocketbook. She testified that she had stayed at PASSARELLA's house for about 12 hours that day -- after meeting him on a chat-line dating service -- and remained there even after he had sex with her.
Last month, Judge DEFINO found PASSARELLA guilty of contacting WIOQ's phone provider, and convincing them to switch the station's request line numbers to his home. He remains jailed pending sentencing on the lesser charges.