Subject: George Pawlaczyk

• Gavel Rousing

  May 28, 2003

• Woman With 63 Drunk in Public Arrests In 5 Years Dies In Jail; Police anxiously "awaiting the results of toxicological testing."

  photo of Sunny Swanson via www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/972782.html​The story of Sunny Swanson is a sad, strange one and George Pawlaczyk of The Belleville News-Democrat does a damn fine job telling it.If you missed the tale in today's BND, here's the Cliff's Notes version:Swanson, 38, was homeless in St. Clair County. She liked to drink and squat in abandoned houses. So much so, in fact, that she'd been arrested 63 times since 2004 for those two offenses.Last Friday, after her latest drinking

  October 20, 2009