November 15, 2007 - 1:00am
By Gabriel Arana
The Ithaca Police Department keeps the city’s inhabitants safe from an array of criminal minds. The press sometimes notices its work. On the local page of this weekend’s Ithaca Journal is a (side-lead) story about Lisa Nembhard, 44, whom police apprehended in the parking lot of CVS Pharmacy with over 100 bootlegged DVDs and CDs; this puts an end to “Lisa’s World”— a freefall of mendacity and home-labeled jewel cases. The District Attorney here recently dismissed drug charges against Robert Gelinas, 61, who had transferred his anti-anxiety medication from large prescription bottles to smaller, portable ones that did not have the pharmacy label. Gelinas learned his lesson: “Now I carry the original pill bottles with me in the car,” he said.