The Knucklehead of the Day award

It was tempting to give Howard Dean today's award but I'm certain he'll back in the future.

Instead today's award goes to Joliet Montana resident Jesse Lee Leggett, 31 for breaking into a female friend's home. What was he trying to steal? The woman's clothes, seems Mr. Legget is a transvestite.

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Gazette Staff

A Joliet man accused of breaking into the home of a female acquaintance to steal her undergarments and shoes was charged Monday in Justice Court.

Jesse Lee Leggett, 31, appeared by video from the county jail on a felony burglary charge. Judge Larry Herman set bond at $5,000 and ordered Leggett to appear Thursday for arraignment in District Court.

According to court records, Leggett was arrested Friday outside a residence with an address on Old Highway 10 northeast of Billings. A sheriff's deputy arrested Leggett after finding women's undergarments and shoes in his car. Leggett initially said the clothing belonged to him.

The deputy spoke to a neighbor who said he called authorities after seeing a man get out of a car with a hammer and pace a walkway in front of the residence. The man said he then heard breaking glass.

The man and woman who live at the residence arrived and said Leggett was an acquaintance but that he did not have permission to break in and take the woman's clothing. Prosecutors said a kitchen window was broken and a bedroom door had been knocked off its frame.

Prosecutors said in court records that Leggett admitted to stealing the woman's clothes because he has a fetish and could not help himself.