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Just in time for Fashion Week, a top male model is facing criminal charges after allegedly offering sexual favors to Arkansas cops in return for his release following an arrest for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Nick Snider, 21, was busted early Monday morning after causing a disturbance at a female friend’s home in Batesville, a city 90 miles north of Little Rock. According to an Independence County Sheriff’s Department report, when deputies approached the intoxicated Snider, he stated, “I am a very famous model.” As Snider was being transported in a patrol car to the county jail, he “kept trying to get me to stop the car and let him go,” reported Deputy Brian Luetschwager. “Mr. Snider stated to me, ‘If you stop I’ll suck your dick and balls if you let me go.’” Snider, pictured in the below mug shot, allegedly repeated the oral sex offer after arriving at the local lockup, where the model “also harassed the booking Jailer with similar sexual comments.” After declining the barter deal, deputies lodged an additional charge against Snider, this one for illegally attempting to influence a public servant. He pleaded not guilty yesterday to the three misdemeanor counts during an appearance in Independence County District Court. Snider is free on $780 bond and is scheduled for a February 17 trial. Snider has appeared as the face of Prada and was named by Forbes in 2008 as the world’s fifth most successful male model. Last month, he was in Paris for the Yves Saint Laurent fashion show and will appear on various runways when New York City’s Fashion Week begins February 11. Snider, a Manhattan resident, did not respond to TSG messages sent to his Facebook and MySpace accounts.
from The Smoking Gun

Uganda’s controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill is likely to be changed, a minister has told the BBC.
However, Deputy Foreign Minister Henry Okello Oryem did not give details of how he thought the final bill would be different to the current proposals.
Uganda has come under intense international pressure over the bill, which provides for the death penalty for some homosexual acts.
Mr Oryem was speaking after US leader Barack Obama called the bill “odious”.
It has also been condemned by various European countries.
“I am sure the bill will take a different form when it is tabled on the floor in parliament,” Mr Oryem told the BBC’s Network Africa programme.
However, he also pointed out that it was a Private Member’s Bill and so the government did not have the powers to alter it at this stage.
“Homosexuality is not a top priority for the people of Uganda,” he deputy minister said.
“Our priority is to make sure there is food on the table of our people – that we deal with the issue of disease.”
Homosexual acts are already illegal in Uganda and punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
The bill would raise that penalty to life in prison.
It also proposes the death penalty for a new offence of “aggravated homosexuality” – defined as when one of the participants is a minor, HIV-positive, disabled or a “serial offender”.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has already distanced himself from the bill, saying it did not represent the views of his government.
Two weeks ago its sponsor, David Bahati, told a Ugandan newspaper he was willing to “amend some clauses”.
The cabinet has set up a committee to look at his proposals.
from The BBC