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And Another Class She Flunked

Jessica Lynn Cato, 27, was at the Kent County (Mich.) Courthouse to attend a class when she overheard that sheriff’s deputies were on their way to the room to arrest her on two warrants from a drug case. By the time deputies arrived, Cato had run into a restroom, dislodged a light, and climbed into the ceiling in an apparent bid to escape. “There was drywall dust falling as she was walking across it,” a witness said. “And I guess as she tried to climb over here, she kicked through the whole ceiling [and] her leg fell through.” It took about 10 minutes for officers to get Cato down and arrest her. The class Cato was taking: “Thinking Matters”. (RC/Grand Rapids Press, WOOD Grand Rapids) ...To be fair, she hadn’t started reading the textbook yet.