St. Charles police: Magazine salesman offers drugs to teen girl, father hits magazine salesman with metal pipe
Update 6:51 p.m. Wednesday: Court records show McCormack was on probation for a felony drug possession case involving a prescription painkiller.
St. Charles police say a magazine salesman offered a teenager drugs, prompting the girl’s father to hunt him down and beat him with a metal pipe.
Both men have been charged with felonies.
William J. Bishop | St. Charles County Department of Corrections
It started last Thursday, police said, when William J. Bishop, 21, knocked on the door of a home in the 200 block of Brookdale Drive. He was working for a traveling magazine sales company called “New Generation,” they said.
Bishop later told police he was homeless and gave them an address for his father in Honor, Mich.
Detective Derek Piasecki said a 15-year-old girl answered Bishop’s knock, and he offered her an anti-anxiety drug if she would let him perform a sexual favor. The girl told police Bishop also offered to buy her beer, and he touched her inappropriately. Then, he left.
The girl called her father, Daniel S. McCormack, 41, of St. Charles, police said, and he tracked down Bishop in the 100 block of Paula Drive. McCormack hit Bishop with a two-foot-long metal pipe.
Daniel S. McCormack | St. Charles PD
McCormack admitted to using the pipe, although he told police he only hit Bishop in the leg. Police said Bishop had several head injuries, and McCormack bragged to them about Bishop “getting what he deserved.”
Police said they found prescription drugs on Bishop, who admitted he wasn’t supposed to have them. He has been charged with possession of a controlled substance.
McCormack has been charged with assault.
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I know, by law, the father should not of attacked the salesman, but damn, the salesman got his butt kicked good. He might think twice about his actions the next time.
as a parent i applaud what the father did and will write the prosecutors office asking that the charges be dropped against the father. if any of you agree with this, we should look into marching on the St Charles courthouse in support of this man. how many of you would do the same if it was your daughter?
This lowlife got off easy in my book!
All these magazine “salesmen” are hoodrats and are only using this as a plow to get into your home or in this case somethinbg else. Also, its a great front as a burglar many have been arrestes for burglary when they find noone is home. Never let them into you house and always call the police to check them out.
We need more fathers like Daniel McCormack!
Great story. If he had waited for the police to get out of Steak and Shake to go after the guy, he would have been out of sight in another neighborhood doing the same thing.
Way to go Daniel McCormack! If it were my child, getting hit with a pipe would have been the least of his worries!!! This is very scary that someone can get that close to your home & family! I am with you Steve. I would love to be right there in support for Mr. McCormack!
I think Bishop got what he deserved, it’s called justice and protecting our children. I wonder why Bishop is only charged with the drug possession and not with intent to distribute to a minor or a sexual assault or attemted assualt charge for touching her innapropriately. I would recommend that anyone interested write the Prosecutor and/or attend the hearing (7/29/09 9am Division 6 Terry R. Cundiff’s courtroom)in support of McCormack. He’s going to need it becuase he has unfortunately had a couple of prior scrapes with the law and this charge might send him to prison.
Way to go Dad!!!
St. Charles City requires door-to-door idiots to register at the police department and get a badge to wear. So if someone comes to your door to sell stuff without a white city of st. charles “peddler” badge, slam the door and call the cops.
I am so sick and tired of reading about these freaks! Who cares if he got smacked down - he’s lucky to still be alive…not so lucky for the rest of us honest - hard working - taxpaying -civilized human beings! I am a mom and I would have been out looking for him too and probably would have done worse. I don’t blame Daniel!
Drop the charges against Mr McCormick.
These “magazine salespeople” come to my door all the time, prompting me to get a “No Soliciting” sticker for my door.
They use tactics to try to get into your house … I’m sorry, young lady … I don’t care HOW hot it is outside, I’m not letting you in my house for a glass of water.
That’s ALL I need, is some chick claiming something happened in my house.
Talk about liabilities!!
Not to mention, in order to go door-to-door selling anything in St. Charles, you’re supposed to get a permit.
I hope Mr. McCormick has a good lawyer given his prior record. This man should be applauded and made a hero! So many parents today don’t take an active role in parenting. Not only did his daughter feel comfortable enought to tell him, but he took action! GREAT JOB Mr. McCormick! You are in my prayers!
I say, if the Prosecuting Attorney won’t plea it down to a misdemeanor or dismiss the charges all together, McCormack should exercise his right to a jury trial. I Think a jury of 12 peers would find him not-guilty!
Grizzly bear justice. Don’t mess with anyone’s offspring
I agree that the magazine salesman should be in jail. I understand the reasons for the father being charged with assault but, how about teaching your teenage daughter not to answer the door when it is someone they do not know? My teenagers would never open the door to someone they don’t know for this very reason, and much worse things as well.
So now we charge people with assault on drug pushing pedophiles??? Where exactly is the crime here again?
Are they charging him with the more serious charge of distributing drugs so close to a school…
I am glad he thumped this freak. I think we should create a legal fund for this gentleman. If we did more of this kind of stuff maybe we would not have a 21 year old offereing sex to our teenagers at the door of the their home. What a freak!!!!!!!!!
Dude was just trying his mad pick up skills. The Dad later found him and gave him a lesson in the popper technique of the classic golf swing. I really don’t see the crime here. On another note the magzine sale crews are forced labor who often give out drugs, beat and treaten there members. They are the ones bringing the trash to our home towns.
For further information on the magazine sales company listed in this article and the traveling door-to-door sales industry please visit our websites: http://www.travelingsalescrews.info and http://www.dedicatedmemorial.org
Thanks.
The 21 year-old freak deserved to be beat but now it is time for Dan to start paying child support. He has not supported his children for the past 10 years.
Whenever Phil finds one of these he post his back links. Phil uses “Social Fear Spam” to promote his websites and his cause. This young man, not a teenager as Phil would like you to believe, was not working for the above listed company. I know he had worked for the listed company, although recently quit and began working for Atlantic Circulation Inc., 06/24/2009. I spoke with the listed company and they faxed me reports that he was not working for them. The listed company also had a permit for going door to door, Atlantic Circulation Inc., did not. Atlantic Circulation Inc., according to the internet is not a good company and responsible for contracting with sales agents that other companies are not willing to contract, it is my opinion they are a scam company. Phil Elenbecker wants everybody to believe lies about the magazine industry. He is personally responsible for more than 60% of all blogs on the internet about traveling sales crews. Phil makes the good companies, look like the bad companies by using his “Social Fear Spam”!