Pubdate: Tue, 27 Mar 2007
Source: Post-Crescent, The (Appleton,  WI)
Copyright: 2007 The Post-Crescent
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1443
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KAGEN'S SON PAYS DRUG FINE, AVOIDS TRIAL

APPLETON - U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen's son paid a $186 fine to avoid a 
Monday trial on a municipal drug paraphernalia offense.

Tommy J. Kagen, 21, was scheduled to appear for trial before Judge 
Joseph Troy in Outagamie County Circuit Court, but paid his ticket instead.

The trial cancellation was announced just before the case was to be called.

Kagen was fined on Nov. 8, just one day after his father won a hotly 
contested race for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

According to the Outagamie County Sheriff's Department, a security 
screener at the Outagamie County Regional Airport found a marijuana 
pipe - but no marijuana - in the younger Kagen's bags.

The congressman, an Appleton Democrat, wasn't with his son at the 
time of the incident.
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