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To those that might be interested, and if you know MARK THOMAS PETRINA, you should be! In late May, early June this man was finally arrested for being a pedophile. I am thankfully only related to him via marriage, but I have known him my whole life and sadly when I (along w/many other family members) were shocked by the arrest, but no one was surprised. He was always a huge blowhard, proudly telling any one who was polite enough to listen about his great career as a sheriff deputy and jailer. While listening to his hot air about how great he was you just knew that there was something "off" about him. Now that it is apparent that he is a molester, it all makes sense. He never showed total signs that he was doing these things, but like I said, it all makes sense now. He was pompous, conceited and loved to talk about himself, but was always extremely friendly and a pretty fun to be around if you could ignore his "know it all" attitude. Looking back, there were signs in his personality that makes you know he is guilty as charged. Typical pedophile, can sweet talk and con anybody, & also like the typical creep that touches little girls, probably made them at first secure because he was someone to be trusted, a deputy, then could lie and twist a story to make a victim feel bad about themselves, not about what HE had done to them. I don;t know if it is true, but there is talk, he also said, about little neighbor kids spending a lot of time at his home. I do hope that nothing happened during those visits. If anyone knows what is going on with him now, I'd love to know. Last I heard he was on suicide watch-if we all should be so lucky to rid the land of yet another freakin' creep.