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Psalm 101 - attributed to David
I sing of mercy and justice; to you, LORD, I sing praise.***
I do not allow into my presence anything base.
I hate wrongdoing; I will have no part of it.
May the devious heart keep far from me**** https://bible.usccb.org/bible/psalms/101
Ahab sent to all the children of Israel
and had the prophets assemble on Mount Carmel.
Elijah appealed to all the people and said,
"How long will you straddle the issue?
If the LORD is God, follow him; if Baal, follow him."
The people, however, did not answer him.
So Elijah said to the people,
"I am the only surviving prophet of the LORD,
and there are four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal.
Give us two young bulls.
Let them choose one, cut it into pieces, and place it on the wood,
but start no fire.
I shall prepare the other and place it on the wood,
but shall start no fire.
You shall call on your gods, and I will call on the LORD.
The God who answers with fire is God."
All the people answered, "Agreed!"
Elijah then said to the prophets of Baal,
"Choose one young bull and prepare it first,
for there are more of you.
Call upon your gods, but do not start the fire."
Taking the young bull that was turned over to them, they prepared it
and called on Baal from morning to noon, saying,
"Answer us, Baal!"
But there was no sound, and no one answering.
And they hopped around the altar they had prepared.
When it was noon, Elijah taunted them:
"Call louder, for he is a god and may be meditating,
or may have retired, or may be on a journey.
Perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened."
They called out louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears,
as was their custom, until blood gushed over them.
Noon passed and they remained in a prophetic state
until the time for offering sacrifice.
But there was not a sound;
no one answered, and no one was listening.
Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come here to me."
When the people had done so, he repaired the altar of the LORD
that had been destroyed.
He took twelve stones, for the number of tribes of the sons of Jacob,
to whom the LORD had said, "Your name shall be Israel."
He built an altar in honor of the LORD with the stones,
and made a trench around the altar
large enough for two measures of grain.
When he had arranged the wood,
he cut up the young bull and laid it on the wood.
"Fill four jars with water," he said,
"and pour it over the burnt offering and over the wood."
"Do it again," he said, and they did it again.
"Do it a third time," he said,
and they did it a third time.
The water flowed around the altar,
and the trench was filled with the water.
At the time for offering sacrifice,
the prophet Elijah came forward and said,
"LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel,
let it be known this day that you are God in Israel
and that I am your servant
and have done all these things by your command.
Answer me, LORD!
Answer me, that this people may know that you, LORD, are God
and that you have brought them back to their senses."
The LORD's fire came down
and consumed the burnt offering, wood, stones, and dust,
and it lapped up the water in the trench.
Seeing this, all the people fell prostrate and said,
"The LORD is God! The LORD is God!"
The point is God loves us and listens to our prayers.
You're not criminalizing them when you stop them; they're criminalizing them when they start
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Tonight, Raleigh community leaders are stepping up outreach efforts to help turn around kids caught on camera violently vandalizing homes and cars in the Lions Park neighborhood and shattering peace of mind.***
Neighbors say some 10 to 15 kids ranging in age from four to 12 years old have been throwing rocks and bricks through glass windows and doors on houses and cars for months.
Owners say the damage has climbed into the tens of thousands of dollars.***
Many neighbors who didn’t want to be identified say they don‘t want to criminalize the kids.***
When you hold someone accountable in juvenile court, you're not criminalizing them. The criminality is in throwing a brick through someone's window.
I'm not saying to throw these idiots in prison, but they need drastic intervention. At a minimum they need community service. Would like to see them pick up trash and contribute something positive to the community.
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Two, related, odd criminal cases in Colorado
The Colorado Court of Appeal reversed homicide convictions in People v. Cooper, 2026 COA 44 and People v. Cichuniec, 24CA0675.
Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec were paramedics in Aurora, Colorado. When the police choked out Elijah McClain in 2019, the paramedics responded to the call for help. They injected McClain w/ 500mg of ketamine - an anesthetic - and McClain died at least in part due to the ketamine.
They were convicted of criminally negligent homicide.
“[a] person acts with criminal negligence when, through a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise, he fails to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that a result will occur or that a circumstance exists.” § 18-1-501(3) (emphasis added). No statutory provision defines “standard of care” or “reasonable person” for purposes of this offense.***
Before closing arguments, based on the prosecution’s theory of culpability, Cooper’s counsel tendered a jury instruction that read, “A person acts ‘with criminal negligence’ when, through a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable paramedic in Aurora, Colorado would exercise in the same circumstance, he fails to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that a result will occur or that a circumstance exists.”***
The court held that the paramedics were correct and reversed the convictions, but that may not be good paramedics and other medical professionals.
The case as tried held the paramedics to the standard of an ordinary generic person. The holding of the Court of Appeals is that the paramedics are now held to a higher standard of care. A higher standard is harder to meet and easier to breach.
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Freakin' shameful
A grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama has issued a superseding indictment in United States v. Southern Poverty Law Center, 26-cr-139. The charges are more appalling than the original.
Three people - F30, F31, and F32 - sought SPLC's help in leaving the KKK. Some of them sought help in removing racist tats. Instead, SPLC paid them to remain as members.
I get that they were supposed to be snitches, but simple mercy and humanity would demand that you help someone trying to leave trash like the KKK.
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Let's hope they stop robbing people
A Marine Corps veteran fought off a group of teens who tried to carjack him at gunpoint in broad daylight in Maryland.
Jheyco Borda was working on his truck in Oxon Hill — about 10 miles outside Washington, DC — when four hooded teens approached him around 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, surveillance video posted to his Facebook page shows.
“Be careful and be aware of your surroundings,” Borda warned in the caption.
The teens surrounded Borda at the bed of his truck while one suspect — who was wearing a red, white and blue sweatshirt — pulled out a pistol and pointed it at the veteran’s head, demanding his car keys and phone.
Borda, seizing on a moment of distraction among the group, grabbed the suspect holding the gun and wrestled him for the weapon.***
Seconds after the struggle began, Borda’s brother ran out of the house to help his sibling fend off the group.
A single gunshot rang out as the brothers fought for the gun, but nobody was struck.***
A witness shot down Karmelo Anthony’s self-defense claim in bombshell testimony Saturday, claiming the accused killer provoked Austin Metcalf before their deadly encounter.
Anthony apparently antagonized Metcalf during the fatal April 2025 confrontation at David Kuykendall Stadium, the 17-year-old student told the Collin County, Texas courtroom.
The Frisco Memorial High School student, who went to school with Metcalf, saw the stabbing from nearby bleachers, he said when questioned by a prosecutor.
Despite Anthony’s claim that he whipped out a weapon to protect himself while being ambushed by Metcalf and his brother Hunter, the witness said he didn’t see anyone crowding around the alleged murderer.***
“Do you remember in your written statement saying Austin put his hand on [Anthony’s] shoulder to intimidate?” Shook asked.
“Yes,” the student replied, per CBS. “More of a warning. Actions speak louder than words.”
Other witnesses, including one who knew Anthony, echoed the belief that the suspect was the aggressor.
They recalled Anthony keeping his hands hidden in his backpack until Metcalf shoved his shoulders to try to get Anthony out of their tent – then described the alleged killer pulling out a knife and stabbing the victim.
Anthony “tried to provoke us” when he was told to leave the tent, a 15-year-old witness claimed, adding Anthony got “irritated.”***
The Memorial team *** told Anthony, a stranger, to leave – but he allegedly refused and became aggressive, the witness claimed.
“F–k y’all,” Anthony allegedly started saying, the student said, according to Fox 4.
Anthony wasn’t yelling, he said under cross examination. “F–k y’all. I’m not going to leave. Y’all are a bunch of p–sies. Y’all not going to do anything. Touch me and see what happens.”
“I’m not going to fight you,” Metcalf allegedly replied.***
"I am the son of man, I just killed the man of sin."
Actor James Handy, known for roles in films including "Top Gun: Maverick," "The Rocketeer" and "Jumanji," has been identified as the victim of a fatal stabbing in Los Angeles, police said.
The Los Angeles Police Department said officers responded Wednesday to a report of "unknown trouble" in the Tarzana neighborhood of the city and found Handy in the front yard of a residence suffering from a stab wound to the chest.
He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday identified the victim as the 81-year-old actor.
According to the LAPD, the suspect called emergency services and said, "I am the son of man, I just killed the man of sin."
Investigators allege that 44-year-old Michael Gledhill, the son of Handy's girlfriend, stabbed the actor, though authorities have not revealed any motive behind the alleged stabbing.***
You don't think maybe he's a little whack and off his meds?
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6 more in New York
Six people were injured in a stabbing inside New York’s Penn Station on Sunday evening, authorities said, less than a day before thousands of fans are expected to descend on neighboring Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals.
A suspect was taken into custody after the attack, which unfolded around 7 p.m. in one of the nation’s busiest transportation hubs.***
Paramedics found one victim with serious injuries, two with moderate injuries and two with minor injuries, according to the city’s fire department. All five were taken to Bellevue Hospital.
Another person, whose condition was not immediately known, was transported to a separate hospital.***
By late Sunday, the immediate chaos had given way to a familiar Penn Station scene. Travelers wheeled luggage past a roped-off area near Tracks 5 and 6 where medical gloves, discarded bandages and traces of blood still marked the floor.***
He stabbed to death Austin Metcalf at a track meet in McKinney, Texas in 2025.
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But your honor, he needs the money because he's an orphan!
Nick Reiner, who is accused of killing his father, legendary film director Rob Reiner, and his mother, is seeking unpaid money from a trust his parents established for him, saying he needs it to help in his defense.
The 32-year-old's civil attorneys filed a petition in a Los Angeles County court on Monday saying trustees overseeing the funds have denied them without legal justification, and he needs and should get them now.
"Nick loved his parents, and he is devastated by their deaths. But the facts about what did and did not happen to them are not at issue in this Trust litigation," the petition says. "Like anyone accused of a crime, Nick is presumed innocent, and he is entitled to mount his defense with the resources that are lawfully his own."
The petition says the trust has at least $1.5 million in assets, but that the attorney in charge of the fund will not share the exact amount of its value.***
He also needs money to get the blood out of his clothes, and you know how expensive dry cleaning is.
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Should never have prosecuted
A California jury last week deadlocked in a case concerning a pro-life advocate who was arrested last year over a social media post deemed “threatening” to workers at abortion facilities.
The case began in 2025 when Anastasia Rogers was arrested while sidewalk-counseling outside a Planned Parenthood location in San Francisco, according to Life Legal, which is coordinating Rogers’ legal defense. Authorities later told Rogers that a warrant was issued for her arrest after she posted a video on Instagram that contrasted her peaceful sidewalk-counseling efforts with the violent realities of abortion, Life Legal said.***
However, a jury could not reach a unanimous decision in the case June 5, with Life Legal reporting that “a substantial majority of jurors rejected the prosecution’s theory of the case.”
Alexandra Snyder, Life Legal Foundation CEO, stated in a release that the prosecution should never have occurred, adding, “After nearly two weeks of trial, not only did the State fail to convince the jury that she [Rogers] committed a crime, but ten San Francisco jurors voted to find her not guilty.”
Snyder stated that the mistrial is a wake-up call for Americans regarding free speech and other constitutionally protected rights.***
America's problem has never been everyone committing a crime; the problem has always been a small minority committing one crime after another as fast as they can
Eduardo Cruz was beaten to death in Northwest D.C. on Jan. 22. Cruz had reportedly objected after his neighbor, Jose Ramos, was being too loud. Ramos and his friends allegedly reacted to this complaint with a lethal beatdown.***
After Cruz was killed, but before Ramos was arrested for the murder, Ramos was due in court for a totally separate assault in Virginia (his fourth assault charge). Ramos missed that court date on June 15 because he was arrested that morning “carrying 17 bags of cocaine at a 7-Eleven,” according to a news report. He was, according to police, high on cocaine at the time.
The next month, July 2022, the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force found and arrested Ramos for the deadly assault on Cruz.
Ramos was charged in August 2022 but released pending trial, and his attorney said he would reside out of D.C. (In fact, he was residing in the Fairfax County jail.) In October, a D.C. judge reversed his release and issued a bench warrant, ordering Ramos detained pending the homicide trial.
Then in December 2023, pending trial, Ramos was again released, this time to home confinement (in D.C.) with GPS monitoring. These terms were loosened in September 2025.
In early 2026, Ramos appeared in court and rejected a plea deal from prosecutors. That’s when Ramos went missing. His GPS monitor died, and he failed to show up to a May 4 hearing. “Mr. Ramos just completely vanished,” the judge said and issued a bench warrant for Ramos’s arrest.
The U.S. Marshals were sent out to find Ramos.
On May 26, they found him in a park in D.C.’s Mount Pleasant. Ramos gave them a fake name. Neighbors began heckling the police for the arrest, and one neighbor apparently came into the park carrying a bat, provoking an officer to draw his weapon. Video of the incident went viral.***
Online liberals railed against the arrest, calling it fascism.***
a 1 June meeting among the CCP's leadership decided to clear the square.[15][13][14] Chinese troops advanced into central parts of Beijing through the city's major highways in the early morning hours of 4 June, and engaged in bloody clashes with demonstrators attempting to block them, in which many people – demonstrators, bystanders, and soldiers – were killed or injured. The vast majority of killings were clustered in Beijing's western suburbs along the Chang'an Avenue. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundreds to the low thousands, with thousands more wounded.[16][17][18][19][20][21] On June 5, after military forces secured the Square, an unidentified individual, later referred to as "Tank Man" temporarily halted a column of tanks. The image depicting the event became one of the most iconic and widely recognized images of all time and remains censored in China.[22][23][24]
They haven't changed. CCP won't change. If you value liberty and freedom, they'll treat you just like Tank Man.
Never kick a fresh turd on a warm day - Will Rogers or Harry Truman or someone
Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal inquiry involving writer E. Jean Carroll and whether she made false statements related to her accusations against President Donald Trump, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
The reported inquiry marks the latest development in the yearslong legal and political battle between Trump and Carroll, who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s, allegations Trump has repeatedly denied.
Carroll first publicly accused Trump in 2019, after which Trump said she fabricated the story for publicity and political motives.***
There's no reason to investigated this, and nothing good is going to come from it. It's not going to reflect credit on Trump, it's going to cause a poo-storm in the press, and it's going to create sympathy for an attention seeking woman
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You can take the Raider out of Oakland, but you can't take the Oakland out of the Raider
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs was released from a Wisconsin jail on Wednesday while authorities further investigate allegations of domestic abuse.
Jacobs was arrested Tuesday in Brown County on allegations of strangulation and suffocation and other offenses over the weekend. His lawyers said he denies wrongdoing.
District Attorney David Lasee said it’s too soon to make a formal charging decision.***
If you watch the video, the houses appear to be pretty far apart, so the yelling must have been intense.
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What's a little revenge porn among reality stars?
Kelly Dodd is accused of sharing footage of a woman engaged in sexual activity last summer - and could face potential time in jail as a result.
The Real Housewives of Orange County alum, 50, is accused of distributing video of a female identified as Jane Doe masturbating and having sex with another person, prosecutors said in legal documents reviewed by TMZ.
Dodd was not granted consent to release the footage, prosecutors said in legal documents, which described her alleged actions as unlawful and intentional.
The Jane Doe referenced in the video suffered what was described as 'severe emotional distress' as a result of her inclusion in the unauthorized footage.
Dodd is accused of recording the sexual activity in a place where the person identified as Jane Doe would've had expectations of privacy, according to the court filing.***
Dodd and the Jane Doe had made a pact to not release the material, prosecutors said in court docs.***
Sounds like some weird Mutual Assured Destruction pact.
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You didn't ask for any receipt for $40M????
May 28 (UPI) -- A former CIA agent is accused of stealing nearly $40 million worth of gold bars and about $2 million in cash from the agency, and lying to the agency about his education, military history and pilot license.
David J. Rush of Virginia, who is described in a criminal complaint as a former senior executive with a top secret clearance, was arrested last week and charged with theft of public funds, The Washington Post, USA Today and NBC News. He also claimed about $77,000 of paid military leave for which he wasn't entitled.
The FBI searched Rush's home last week and found 303 gold bars that weighed 2.2 pounds each and are estimated to be worth about $40 million, according to an affidavit written by Special Agent Matthew Johnson, USA Today reported.
The FBI seized the gold from the home along with about $2 million in cash and 35 luxury watches, many of which were Rolexes.
From November 2025 and March 2026, Rush requested and received "a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses," the affidavit said. When the government visited the storage facility where it was supposed to be stored, most of it was missing. The documents don't list the reason he needed so much money and gold.***
◼ Canada’s legal assisted suicide program, Medical Aid in Dying (MAID), now has its own poster boy: Dr. James MacLean. Two of MacLean’s 2024 cases have come under scrutiny following public complaints. In one, MacLean signed off on the death of a 45-year-old man with Crohn’s disease. Crohn’s, which involves inflammation of the bowels, is chronic and frequently painful. But it is a far cry from the kinds of immediate end-of-life situations MAID was billed to address; many people live with it for years and years. In the second case, MacLean tried and failed to kill a 67-year-old cancer patient who had previously consented to MAID. He gave him a powerful sedative and pronounced him dead when his heart stopped, then left before his breathing resumed. MacLean received a “caution” and an order that his practice be better supervised for six months. He can’t be taken off his rounds, after all: Those Canadians won’t just kill themselves.
NEWARK, N.J. – A Morris County man was arrested on May 28, 2026 and charged with assaulting federal officers and causing bodily injury***
Brendan John Geier, 26, of Madison, was charged by complaint yesterday and appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cari Fais, and was released with location monitoring, a curfew, and prohibited from returning to Delaney Hall. ***
He kicked and bit ICE officers. The bite mark he left -
A 19-year-old Kutztown University student was arrested on child pornography charges on March 13, [2019] according to the Berks County District Attorney’s Office.
Brendan Geier of Madison, N.J., who resides at Lehigh Hall on KU’s Campus, has been charged with sexual abuse of children related to dissemination and possession of child pornography.***
The Berks County Detective’s Office received a complaint on Sept. 21, 2018, from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) regarding the possession and uploading of child pornography through Skype, according to a media release from the Berks County District Attorney’s Office. Microsoft had reported to NCMEC that seven digital images of suspected child pornography had been uploaded on Sept. 17, 2018. The I.P. address was identified and provided to the Berks County Detectives Office.
On Nov. 9, 2018, Berks County Detectives and the Kutztown University Police Department served a search warrant at Geier’s dorm room at Lehigh Hall on KU’s campus.
As a result of this search, Berks County Detectives seized a laptop computer and an iPhone. A forensic examination on these devices led to the discovery of numerous digital images of suspected child pornography.***
😲Man Steals Ambulance🚑 Drives to Hospital Drinking A Bud Light🍺Wants To Save The World
Marietta police arrested Eric Jordan, 38, after he al
Marietta police arrested Eric Jordan, 38, after he allegedly stole an ambulance from a Church Street Racetrack parking lot. Internal surveillance cameras caught the driver drinking a Bud Light while behind the wheel of the emergency vehicle. According to the incident report, the suspect stated he took the vehicle because he wanted to save the world
On Wednesday, the Department of Justice filed lawsuits against Maine, Washington, Oregon, and Massachusetts challenging their unconstitutional policies denying confidential license plates to federal agents. This comes after each state refused to rescind their unconstitutional policies in response to a prompt letter from the Department explaining the policies’ illegality.
Not only are these policies unconstitutional, but, as alleged in the complaint, these policies threaten the operational effectiveness and safety of federal agents who have faced a wave of targeted harassment. If federal agents cannot use confidential plates, dangerous individuals can track and evade law enforcement. There is no justification for states to deny confidential license plates to federal agents.***
Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner made disturbing comments about sexual assault victims in Reddit posts that were deleted shortly before he launched his campaign — saying assault victims should “just take some responsibility for themselves” to avoid attacks and “act like an adult for f–cks sake.” He said people should avoid alcohol so they don’t end up in a “compromising situation” and downplayed the challenges servicemembers face in reporting sexual assault. ***
EMILYs List President Jessica Mackler released the following statement:
“Graham Platner’s comments blaming victims of sexual assault are unacceptable and disqualifying. ***
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D.) suggested that legendary "American Sniper" Chris Kyle shot innocent civilians in Iraq in order to inflate his kill numbers. ***
Platner, running for Senate against Sen. Susan Collins (R.), lashed out at Kyle and members of the SEAL's "Task Unit Bruiser" in a May 2024 podcast interview on Green Beret Chronicle Show ***
"[Kyle's] stories about how many people he was shooting certainly tracked with the behavior I witnessed [in Ramadi]," said Platner. "It's relatively easy to get high numbers like that if you're a little less discriminating in your fire than, say, a more professional unit would be."***
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/graham-platner-smeared-murdered-american-sniper-chris-kyle-in-podcast-rant-claiming-navy-seal-shot-innocent-civilians-to-get-high-numbers/
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Platner accuses Chris Kyle and the SEALs of serial murder. His accusation is apparently false. https://www.thefp.com/p/how-do-i-know-graham-platner-is-lying
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Buffer zones
New York legislators Tuesday approved a sweeping buffer zone measure as part of the state budget, in a measure that would establish criminal penalties for violations.
The legislation, proposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul and negotiated with the Democratic-led majorities in the state legislature, establishes a 50-foot security buffer around houses or worship and educational centers in response to or anticipation of a planned protest outside its premises. The bill would make it a class B misdemeanor — a low-level criminal offense — when a protester “knowingly or intentionally engages in a course of conduct that places that individual in reasonable fear for their safety.”
The measure defines a place of religious worship broadly, covering not only sanctuaries but also community centers and schools being used for services, education and religious observance. And it gives police the authority to establish a security perimeter beyond 50 feet, within which demonstrations are not allowed, when anticipating large protests or clashes.***
Civil liberties advocates and progressive groups had raised concerns about broad restrictions on protest activity. Mamdani, a strident Israel critic who faces scrutiny from mainstream Jewish organizations over his response to antisemitism and pro-Palestinian protests, vetoed a similar bill that applied to schools and educational institutions.***
Moron Zamdani is a jerk, and protesting outside places of worship is bad, but maybe if NY just enforced its existing laws, it wouldn't have protesters threatening and harassing people.
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Religious freedom
Supreme Court is deciding whether to take up the case of Doe v. Hochul, 24-1015. The petition says
Petitioners are all former healthcare workers in the State of New York who submitted, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a request for a religious accommodation from the State’s mandate that all healthcare workers in New York receive a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of continued employment in the healthcare industry. *** All Petitioners were unceremoniously terminated from their employment and suffered financial, personnel, and professional hardship as a result. ***
Their supplemental brief notes
Petitioners’ lives were destroyed and their long-tenured employment stripped from them by their Respondent employers who refused to engage in any interactive process with their employees required by Title VII. And the reason they would not even “consider” their requests for exemption from the COVID-19 shots and a reasonable religious accommodation is because the Mandate forbade them under penalty of fines and loss of their business licenses. Even a remote worker who had an exemption and accommodation from all vaccines and an exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine had his exemption and accommodation rescinded because religious exemptions could not be “considered.”***
New York really is absolutist; totalitarian. New York officially approves of assisted suicide. What legitimate interest could New York have in vaccinating someone who worked remotely?
Let's hope Supreme Court tells New York to leave people alone.
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New Jersey antifa riots
NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- Arrests were made outside an ICE facility at Delaney Hall after some protesters violated the curfew.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka ordered the mandatory overnight curfew that began May 30.
Baraka closed the area from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. for a half mile surrounding Delaney Hall, amid a second night of state police clearing the street.
Detainees at the ICE facility launched a hunger strike over a week ago, citing poor living conditions. Protestors outside the facility gathered, many in support of the migrant detainees and a few there in favor of ICE.***
As police erected protest barriers, ICE agents who had formed an line in front of protesters moved inside the building's perimeter fence.
New Jersey State Police Lt. Col. David Sierotowicz said ICE officers agreed to stand down with state police assuming responsibility.***
At least six demonstrators were arrested for allegedly assaulting law enforcement officers Wednesday night, and more have been arrested on other nights, according to DHS.
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche shared images online Friday of bloody wounds and bruises sustained by ICE officers.***
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — A Hollywood senior was arrested on five charges on Wednesday after police said he “consistently” exposed himself to multiple neighbors at his apartment complex.
Police said neighbors of Tyrone James Causey, 79, became “increasingly concerned and frustrated with his continued behavior,” which included a call to authorities the day before about the same problem.
Investigators said Causey, who court records show lives in the 2400 block of Van Buren Street, regularly walked around the common areas of the apartment complex and made “lewd gestures,” like “thrusting his penis” at a woman’s doorbell camera.
Hollywood Police Department Officer Savannah Hutcheson wrote that she went to Causey’s door to speak with him, and he answered wearing a “G-string thong.”***
Police said he explained that he walks around naked “because he is allowed to and that he did not know he was being filmed.”
Hutcheson wrote that Causey later put on lipstick in front of her, “began touching his penis” and told her to “jump rope for me, baby doll.”***
Bobby, go get your grandpa! He's off his meds and out of the house!
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Your objection hot, steamy love is OVERRULED
Eleanor Ross is the federal district court judge who was subject to a private reprimand for having sex with a police officer in chambers in earshot of law clerks, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Ross, of the Atlanta-based US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate in 2014. She previously served as a state court judge, a federal prosecutor in the district, and a prosecutor in the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office.
Ross and other court representatives didn’t return requests for comment sent Thursday through phone calls to chambers and via email.***
While being processed into jail earlier this month, Michigan woman Monique Megchiani was discovered to have concealed a “stolen, unopened bottle of Cupcake Vineyards Pinot Grigio inside her vagina”, according to investigators.
Megchiani, 48, was charged with attempting to smuggle contraband into a penal institution as a result of her unique techniques of trying to have a good time on the inside.
The woman was arrested earlier this month for trespassing at a CVS pharmacy in Grand Traverse***
Caught stealing wine, arrested, barred from store. Went back the next day.
At the time, the arresting officer was unaware that “Megchiani stole another bottle of Cupcake Pinot Grigio and hid the bottle on her person.”
While she was being booked into jail, Megchiani received a “final check” from a female corrections deputy, according to a Traverse City Police Department report.
During that examination, “it was learned that Megchiani had concealed a bottle of Cupcake Vineyards Pinot Grigio inside her person.”
Megchiani reluctantly complied with the deputy’s order to remove the wine from the cavity. The screw-top container "was removed and was still intact,” cops reported. “The evidence was destroyed, due to biohazard concerns.”
25-year-old John Elijah Matthews stabbed and killed Swan on a train at the Oakland City station. Swan was stabbed 18 to 20 times, and her throat was cut during the attack, according to her daughter, Shanae Sams.
The incident happened Saturday night, marking the second stabbing on the transit system within a two-week period. Sams said her mother used the transit system frequently without previous problems and was simply minding her own business when she was attacked for no reason.***
Security footage shows Swan sitting alone inside MARTA train car 134 around 11:25 a.m. on Saturday, according to an arrest warrant.
The warrant states Matthews walked up to stand near her right side, pulled a knife out of his front pants pocket, grabbed Swan by her head, and cut her throat.
Swan screamed and attempted to rise from her seat before Matthews grabbed her right arm and stabbed her roughly 18 to 20 times in an unprovoked attack.
Matthews then threw Swan to the floor and stood beside her until the northbound train pulled into the Oakland City Station at approximately 11:27 a.m.
After the train stopped, Matthews walked out of the train car onto the north end of the station platform holding the knife in his right hand. ***
Other passengers looked on but no one helped the grandmother as she bled out on the floor of the train. Emergency responders attempted to save Swan’s life, but she died at the scene from massive blood loss.***
Atlanta resident Shanae Sams said MARTA’s temporary free ride policy (for the upcoming World Cup) allows everyone to ride for free with little to no security in the MARTA stations.
“To me, it’s negligence with the security and the patrolling,” Sams told The New York Post Monday. She noted that renovations on the MARTA transit system means free rides for commuters.***
Matthews is supposedly homeless. What are the chances he's not a mentally ill career criminal?
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His father in law was only 11 years older?
Aaron White, 33, was indicted in January on murder and aggravated assault charges in connection with the 2024 shooting of Jason Maughon, 44.
Officials said that White shot and killed his new wife Kailagh White's stepfather just hours after they got married in Butts County.
White has maintained his innocence since the shooting and insisted that he acted in self-defense.
The charges against White were dismissed on Wednesday after prosecutors agreed they lacked sufficient evidence to prove the case.***
In 2025, a grand jury found White acted in self-defense, but then-Towaliga District Attorney Jonathan Adams chose to take the case to a grand jury for a second time in January.
Adams stepped down from the DA's office in February, and he won the election for Towaliga Circuit Superior Court Judge in May.
In March, a judge disqualified the Towalgia DA's office from the case, citing forensic misconduct, and the Henry County DA's office took over for the prosecution.
Butts County Sheriff Gary Long said the dispute began when Kailagh confronted a drunk guest after the ceremony and asked them to leave.
White tried to intervene, but Maughon allegedly punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground. ***
Minutes later, Maughon and the drunk relative returned in separate cars and the unnamed relative fired a gun, hitting White in the hand while Maughon charged at him, reported WSB-TV.
White fled to his truck to grab his own weapon and began firing shots.
'I defended myself and everybody else,' he said.***
The bank robber who strapped a bomb to himself and held 10 hostages for up to 15 hours inside a Bakersfield, Calif., bank before authorities shot him dead has been identified as a US Army veteran and sex offender.
Police named the suspect as 41-year-old Anthony Scott Searles-Harris, who was dishonorably discharged for going AWOL on duty.
He is also a registered sex offender who was charged with sex acts with a child under 14 in 2014, police said.***
“It’s a bad day to be at the bank,” he said, according to a witness who spoke to KGET.
His reason for committing the act remains unclear. During hostage negotiations, he spoke with police about food and water, as well as certain materials he wanted to see concerning his court case, authorities said. He said that he was frustrated with “certain elements” of his case, police said.***
Searles-Harris has a long rap sheet, including two convictions for criminal sex acts in 2014. He was convicted of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age and oral copulation with a minor under 14 years of age and more than a 10-year age difference between offender and the victim.
Another man allegedly paid Searles-Harris $200 in 2014 to have two girls, aged 13 and 17, perform oral sex on him, according to reports. Searles-Harris allegedly hosted underage girls at parties at his Oildale home, giving them alcohol and drugs and coercing them into sex acts.***
FBI HRT saved us a lot of money and pain in the neck by capping him.
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Way to go Padre!
A Detroit priest tackled and detained a suspected car thief until police arrived after a car crash outside a historic church on June 1.
Father Canon Jean-Baptiste Commins of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest said he was in the parking lot of St. Joseph Shrine on June 1 when he heard tires screech and a loud crash. He ran toward the scene and saw a young man fleeing, according to FOX2 Detroit.
"I grabbed him [and] put him down,” said Father Commins told the outlet. “He was resisting a lot, trying to run away, definitely, and so I had to unfortunately give him a few punches and hurt my hand a little bit.”
Father Commins said bystanders urged him to stop the man. The priest tackled the suspect and, with the help of another church member, held him until police arrived.***
An 18-year-old was arrested, and three other people were detained, police said. Investigators believe the vehicle involved in the crash had been stolen.
According to police, officers attempted to stop the vehicle before it crashed into another car. A woman in the other vehicle suffered injuries that were not considered life-threatening.***
Supreme Court decided three criminal law cases today, 28may26:
Rutherford v. United States
Fernandez v. United States
Pitchford v. Cain
Rutherford & Fernandez considered compassionate release under 18 U. S. C. §3582 and what qualified as “extraordinary and compelling reasons warrant such a reduction.”
Daniel Rutherford, petitioner in one of these consolidated cases, committed two separate robberies at gunpoint in 2003. A jury convicted him of several crimes, including two counts of using and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence, in violation of §924(c).
Years later, Congress amended the law to greatly reduce the sentence for such crimes. That amendment did not qualify as an extraordinary and compelling reason to warrant such a reduction in his sentence.
Fernandez was indicted in 2013 for his role in the assassination of two gang members. The prosecution’s theory was that members of a drug ring had paid Fernandez $40,000 to act as the backup shooter. When the primary shooter’s gun jammed, Fernandez stepped in. He fired 14 rounds, killing both victims.
Fernandez’s cousin and alleged co-conspirator, Patrick Darge, testified against him at trial. To discredit Darge, Fernandez’s counsel argued that Darge was framing Fernandez to protect the real second shooter, Darge’s brother. Unconvinced, the jury convicted Fernandez of murder for hire and a firearms offense. See 18 U. S. C. §§924(j), 1958. The District Court then imposed two consecutive life sentences.
Fernandez filed an unsuccessful appeal, and then two indirect appeals under 28 U. S. C. §2255. After the second, the district judge basically told him to ask for compassionate release based on a second shooter theory. Fernandez asked for it, the judge granted it, and the government appealed.
Supreme Court said that "extraordinary and compelling reasons” means something like terminal illness, a permanent physical or medical condition, the death or incapacitation of the defendant’s only family members capable of caring for the defendant’s minor child, or other such personal situations.
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In 2004, two black teenagers, Terry Pitchford and Eric Bullins, robbed a grocery store near Grenada, Mississippi—a small town in Grenada County off I–55 in north-central Mississippi. Grenada County was then about 60 percent white and 40 percent black.
At the time of the robbery in 2004, Bullins was 16, and Pitchford was 18. During the robbery, Bullins fired three shots at the store owner, who was a white man, and killed him. ***
Bullins, who fired the fatal shots, reached a plea agreement and received a 20-year sentence for the homicide. *** Pitchford also fired a gun, which was loaded with rat shot. It has been disputed whether he shot at the store owner or fired his gun into the store floor. *** In any event, for Pitchford, the State charged capital murder and sought the death penalty.
During jury selection at Pitchford’s trial in Mississippi state court, the prosecutor used peremptory strikes against four of the five black potential jurors. In response, Pitchford’s counsel raised a Batson objection. *** The trial court asked the prosecutor for race-neutral reasons for striking each of the four black potential jurors. According to the prosecutor, one had returned 15 minutes late to court, two others had brothers convicted of violent offenses, and the fourth, like Pitchford, was young, unmarried, and a father. *** As the prosecutor offered reasons for striking each of the jurors, the trial court declared each to be race neutral. Upon hearing the prosecutor’s reason for the last strike, the trial court stated that “[t]he Court finds that to be race neutral as well,” and
per Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U. S. 79 (1986), at that point the trial judge was supposed to ask "Defense Counsel, what is your response?"
For the last 20-plus years while in prison, Pitchford has pursued appellate and collateral challenges to his conviction and death sentence. In his direct appeal to the Mississippi Supreme Court, Pitchford renewed his Batson argument—in particular, that the prosecutor’s purported race-neutral reasons for striking the four black prospective jurors were pretextual. In a divided opinion, the Mississippi Supreme Court concluded that Pitchford had waived his Batson objection by not arguing to the trial court that the prosecutor’s proffered explanations were pretextual.***
Supreme Court ruled "that the Mississippi Supreme Court unreasonably applied the clearly established Batson precedents and unreasonably determined that Pitchford waived his opportunity to rebut the prosecutor’s asserted race-neutral reasons for the peremptory strikes of four black prospective jurors," and reversed the conviction and sentence.
The teenage San Diego mosque gunmen appear to have left behind a shocking, hate-filled manifesto, which praised Adolf Hitler and a slew of mass murderers, before the attack, The California Post has learned.
Authorities are investigating whether 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez wrote the nihilistic missive before killing three people and then each other, according to law enforcement sources.
The document expresses a desire to spark a race war and bring about the end of civilization.***
The opinions therein are a nonsensical collection of anti-Trump, anti-liberal, antisemitic, homophobic and misogynistic bile — tied together only by the authors’ fury that they were not given more in life.
Sources said investigators have a copy of the purported manifesto and believe it to be authentic.***
The unhinged dispatch contains scattershot derogatory and racist views targeting a number of groups — including Muslims, Jews, and gay people, among others, describing himself as an “accelerationist” who hoped to instigate an “all-out race war” to bring about the collapse of society.
In Vazquez’s portion, he lamented being short, which he said caused him great pain and humiliation.***
A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida has indicted former Cuban dictator Raul Castro.
Hermanos al Rescale (Brothers to the Rescue, Inc. ("BTTR") was
an organization in Miami, Florida that flew unarmed Cessna aircraft to rescue or guide Cuban migrants stranded or lost at sea. In the I 990s, BTIR's flights also flew to support anti-Castro, pro-democracy movements in Cuba.***
On February 24,1996, three BTTR aircraft flew from South Florida toward Cuba, and Cuban MiGs shot down two of them in international waters, killing four United States nationals, including three American citizens.***
Count 1 charges Conspiracy to Kill U.S. Nationals
Counts 2 & 3 charge Destruction of Aircraft
Counts 4 - 7 charge murder. The victims are not named; they are identified by their initials.
The indictment includes pictures of the civilian aircraft and the Cuban MiG-23 Floggers.
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Crazy Jersey case
A grand jury in the District of New Jersey returned a superseding indictment yesterday charging Treva Edwards, 61, Orange, New Jersey, with two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, three counts of forced labor, and conspiracy to commit forced labor. The superseding indictment also charged his wife, Christine Edwards, 64, also of Orange, with conspiracy to commit forced labor.
According to the superseding indictment, Treva and Christine Edwards were the founders and pastors of a church they named “Jesus is Lord by the Holy Ghost,” which they operated out of a multi-unit apartment building in Orange, where they conspired with each other and others to obtain the compelled labor of church members.***
The church sought out and exploited vulnerable women.
The Edwardses secured labor contracts to provide manual labor in and around Orange, including cleaning and gutting commercial and residential properties, shoveling snow, removing bulk trash, moving furniture, cleaning raw sewage, and exterminating rodent infestations. The Edwards couple dispatched the victims to perform the contracted labor. They did not pay wages to the victims for their work and kept the money earned from their labor.
Treva Edwards preached to the victims that he communicated God’s will, that it was God’s will for them to work, and that members had to perform labor to serve God. The defendants convinced the victims that they would lose favor with God and “the Prophet” if they did not perform the prescribed labor. Treva Edwards spread fear among the victims through verbal and emotional abuse and threats of reputational harm, homelessness, hunger, spiritual retribution, punishments, and additional hard labor to gain their obedience and compel them to perform unpaid labor. ***
According to the allegations in the superseding indictment, Treva Edwards controlled and subjected two victims to repeated physical and sexual assaults, impregnating one victim and instructing her to get an abortion, and telling the other victim that having sex with him was God’s will and would prevent her from becoming mentally ill.***
[On 19may26] the Justice Department notified Washington Governor Bob Ferguson of the initiation of a federal investigation into Washington’s practice of housing men in its women’s prison. The Justice Department will investigate whether Washington engages in a pattern or practice of violating the constitutional rights of female prisoners incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) in Gig Harbor, Washington.***
It is remarkable that federal courts will enjoin prisons from using penis people to search female prisoners or observe them naked, but the same courts will mandate prisons to put criminal penis people into the general population of female prisons.
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ISIS turd from Detroit area
A Michigan man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison after having been convicted by a jury last year on two charges of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, commonly known as ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization, and for being a felon in possession of a destructive device****
Aws Mohammed Naser, 38, formerly of Westland, Michigan, was convicted last year following a five-week trial. The jury unanimously found that Naser twice attempted to provide material support to ISIS, in the form of personnel (including himself) and services, knowing that ISIS was a designated terrorist organization, and that ISIS engages in terrorism. In addition, Naser was found guilty of being a felon in possession of a destructive device. ***
He traveled to Iraq in 2012. He tried other times to travel there.
Naser booked a flight departing the United States and arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport with luggage that contained a rifle scope, cane sword, and a four-inch tactical knife. Naser’s attempt to join was thwarted when he was not allowed to board the plane. Undeterred, Naser purchased another one-way plane ticket, this time departing from Chicago O’Hare Airport bound for Beirut, Lebanon, in January 2013. Hours before his scheduled flight to Lebanon, Naser robbed a gas station. After the robbery, Naser took a bus to Chicago and attempted to board his flight to Lebanon with $2,000 in cash but was again denied boarding and returned to Michigan. Naser was later charged and convicted of armed robbery and served a three-year prison sentence.
Naser was released from prison and placed on parole supervision in 2016. Unable to travel to join ISIS, Naser renewed his oath to ISIS and focused his attention on how to support ISIS in the United States. Naser surreptitiously created social media accounts and joined invitation-only ISIS supporters’ chatrooms, groups, and private rooms where he obtained and viewed official ISIS media reports, publications, and other jihadi propaganda. Naser considered himself a “Son of the Islamic State,” and a “Solider of the Caliphate.” He solicited and obtained information on explosives from other ISIS supporters, received training from a bomb-maker, experimented with manufacturing explosives, and operated drones. He also downloaded a video that provided step-by-step instructions on the manufacture of an improvised explosive device (IED) using triacetone triperoxide (TATP), known as “The Mother of Satan.” In October 2017, the FBI searched Naser’s home and vehicle. In Naser’s basement, the FBI found a bomb-making lab and multiple drones, tools, and drone parts. In the lab, they recovered a ready-to-assemble destructive device which included precursor chemicals and components needed to make a TATP-based IED.***
How's he going to inject sugar if you seize his needles?
OCALA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man was arrested in a Publix parking lot after he blew fentanyl in a deputy’s face and attempted to claim it was sugar, according to body camera video.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said deputies located a car belonging to Jesse James McAuliffe on SW 62nd Avenue. He had an active violation of probation warrant.
Deputies pointed a gun at his car, and he exited the vehicle, according to the video.
MCSO said deputies noticed signs of drug use, including a tie-off falling from his arm and syringes in his car.
A deputy found a bag of fentanyl in McAuliffe’s pocket, which he claimed was sugar.
The video shows a deputy finding a bottle cap filled with melted fentanyl that was in another pocket.
McAuliffe then blew the fentanyl from the cap “directly into Deputy Qubaisy’s face,” the sheriff’s office said. MCSO said this action was an attempt to destroy evidence.***
A crazed gunman who belived he was Jesus Christ pulled out a revolver and opened fire outside the White House Saturday night, before he was quckly taken down by a barrage shots from the Secret Service, sources said.
Nasire Best, 21, fired at a checkpoint at about 6:10 p.m. after being seen pacing in a strange manner up and down 17th St. Northwest, sources told The Post. He only got off a few shots before he was shot and killed in a hail of bullets from federal officers.
At least one bystander was hit and seriously wounded in the fusillade, the sources said.
While a motive for the attack hasn’t been confirmed, sources said Best is a mentally troubled individual who was well-known to the Secret Service for repeatedly loitering around various entry posts and who has violated a previous court order to stay away from the White House.***
Best, who was taken down by members of the Secret Service Uniformed Division, had previously been involuntarily committed on June 26, 2025, for obstructing vehicular traffic at 15th Street and E Street NW, before being arrested again on July 10, 2025, for Unlawful Entry. ***
Do you really think he was better off sleeping on the sidewalk and being shot than being committed to a mental health facility?
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Funding insanity
Far-left billionaire George Soros has funneled more than $7 million to groups behind an Albany lobbying effort to pass a pair of woke parole bills that critics warn could lead to the freeing of “Son of Sam” serial killer David Berkowitz and other infamous murderers.
Soros’ grant-making network gave at least $7.1 million since 2016 to eight of 15 organizations that are founding members of a purported “grassroots coalition” called “The People’s Campaign for Parole Justice,” Open Society Foundation records reveal.
The campaign sanitizes the idea of releasing hardened murderers and rapists by calling it “decarceration and family reunification” — and lobbies the state Legislature to pass the potentially devastating Fair and Timely Parole and Elder Parole bills.***
A registered sex offender recidivated again? Say it aint so....
Also, mugshot of the week.
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - An Omaha man who has been a registered sex offender since 1987 was arrested [24apr26] after police said he broke into a home, got naked, entered a sleeping child’s room, and pinned the child down.
Lavern Scott, 65, appeared in court Monday and is charged with attempted class 2 felony, burglary, and failure to register as a sex offender after previous violations.***
Police met with residents who said a man, later identified as Scott, had entered the home through an unlocked front door and then took off his clothes before entering a sleeping child’s room.
“The suspect then got into bed” with the child, who woke up and began screaming for a family member. “The suspect pinned the child to the bed and set his legs in, using his feet as hooks to hold the child in place,” the report reads.
A family member entered the room and found Scott standing at the foot of the bed with a bottle of water and a bottle of lotion. They “escorted” Scott out of the home and locked the door.
When the family member went to bring Scott’s clothes out of the apartment, Scott had left the scene, according to police.
One block west, police received calls from residents of an Airbnb that Scott had entered the home, claiming it was his. The residents also “removed” Scott from the building.
Scott was later found by police at a nearby street corner wearing only socks.
On March 30, 1987, Scott, according to a sex offender violation report, “AKA Cookie MONSTER AKA Cookie X” was convicted of 1st-degree sexual assault in Douglas County and later convicted in 1999 of attempted 1st-degree sexual assault in Madison County.
Scott has been convicted and sentenced for violating the registry in 2017, 2018, 2022, and 2024. As of Friday, he had 2,777 days of noncompliance.
He has also previously been convicted of indecent exposure three times and trespassing six times in Nebraska and numerous times in Council Bluffs, as well.***
AURORA, Colo. — An Aurora man received a deferred sentence after pleading guilty to one felony count related to a sextortion case that targeted students at several local schools.
As part of the plea deal, three other felony charges were dismissed against Jamir Bright.
Bright pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child sexual exploitation material. In a separate, unrelated misdemeanor harassment case, Bright pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years probation. If he finishes his probation without re-offending, the felony charge will be dismissed.
In December 2024, Aurora Police said Bright and two minor accomplices were involved in blackmailing children by threatening to publish explicit images or sharing sexually explicit images with others in exchange for money.
How safe are your kids when adult criminals like Bright don't even go to jail?
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Speaking of sex offenders
A New Hampshire woman said her Planet Fitness membership was canceled after she raised concerns about a man being in the women's locker room.
Judy Walcott said she had been a member of Planet Fitness for more than a decade. On April 11, she said she was getting ready to use the bathroom in the women's locker room when she saw a man hanging up belongings outside a shower.
"He gave me goosebumps," Walcott said. "I went to the front desk. I said, 'There's somebody there who's really creepy, and it's freaking me out.' And it was just a kid, you know, I think he was new even, and he just said, 'There's nothing I can do about it.'"
Walcott said no employee checked on the situation after she reported it.
A few days later, when she raised the concern again with another employee, Walcott said she was called transphobic.
"She just kept calling me transphobic," Walcott said. "Told me I should quit if I didn't like it. Pointed to the door. So I just walked away. And it was a few hours later that the assistant manager in Concord called me and canceled me. She didn't ask me anything. She wasn't present for any of it. She just canceled me for a policy violation."***
His Criminal History: 631:2-b,I(a), DV; Simple Assault; BI or PC MISDEMEANOR A Conviction Date: 8/11/2025
633:3-a, Stalking MISDEMEANOR B Conviction Date: 4/21/2025
651-B:5, Change Name,Alias,Address;Duty to Inform MISDEMEANOR A Conviction Date: 7/19/2023
651-B:5, Change Name,Alias,Address;Duty to Inform MISDEMEANOR A Conviction Date: 5/20/2022
642:9, Assault by Prisoner FELONY Conviction Date: 3/29/2012
642:9, Assault by Prisoner FELONY B Conviction Date: 2/8/2012
632-A:3, Felonious Sexual Aslt FELONY Conviction Date: 3/4/2011
642:9, Assaults By Prisoners FELONY Conviction Date: 3/4/2011
637:3-a, Theft - Willful Concealment MISDEMEANOR A Conviction Date: 11/23/2010
634:2, Criminal Mischief MISDEMEANOR A Conviction Date: 11/9/2010
634:2, Criminal Mischief MISDEMEANOR A Conviction Date: 10/4/2010
504-A:4, Violation of Terms of Probation or Parole Conviction Date: 2/10/2010
631:4, Criminal Threatening MISDEMEANOR A Conviction Date: 2/10/2010
597:7-a, Breach Of Bail Cond MISDEMEANOR A Conviction Date: 7/14/2009
173-B:9, Violation of Protective Order MISDEMEANOR A Conviction Date: 7/10/2009
173-B:9, Violation of Protective Order MISDEMEANOR A Conviction Date: 7/10/2009
635:2, Criminal Trespassing MISDEMEANOR A Conviction Date: 7/10/2009
637:7, Receiving Stolen Property MISDEMEANOR A Conviction Date: 7/10/2009
Gator Boy
If you're a woman, you want him in your locker room, right?
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Chiraq is as Chiraq does
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Five Chicago police officers were struck by a driver while dispersing a "teen takeover" early Sunday, officials said.
At this point, it's not clear whether the driver that hit the officers was connected to the teen gathering, which Alderman Jason Ervin said was not a traditional "teen-takeover" type event like has been seen elsewhere around the city, but rather an after-prom party that got out of hand.
Meanwhile, Ald. Jim Gardiner said police were addressing a so-called "teen takeover."
The incident happened at about 3:20 a.m. in the 1200 block of South Loomis Street, Chicago police said.***
CPD officers were on foot dispersing a large gathering when they were struck by a driver in a blue car heading westbound in the eastbound lane, police said.***
The 18-year-old man driving the car was not injured and was taken into custody, officials said. CPD said they found a gun in the car.
All five officers were initially taken to local hospitals and were expected to be okay.***
About 30 minutes later, a 19-year-old man was shot in the 1100-Block of West Roosevelt Road, police said.***
SEATTLE - Neighbors living near Aurora Avenue are on edge after a weekend shooting marked the latest incident in a wave of persistent gun violence and criminal activity gripping the area.
Residents say the sound of gunfire has become a regular occurrence, with multiple shootings reported in the vicinity over the last few weeks.
The latest escalation occurred around 4 a.m. Saturday near Aurora Avenue North and North 98th Street. Seattle Police responded to the scene after neighbors reported hearing more than 30 gunshots.***
Upon arrival, officers discovered a chaotic scene with 20 shell casings on the west side of Aurora Avenue and another 20 on the east side. The gunfire damaged at least one vehicle and multiple buildings.
Residents report that stray bullets are routinely striking parked cars and flying directly into homes.***
What they're saying:
According to local community members, the severe spike in violence is directly tied to illicit activity spilling off the main thoroughfare and onto residential streets.
"We have nightly prostitution, we have the gun violence that is coming along with it," a resident said, noting that a revolving door of pimps and johns regularly circles the neighborhood.***
Frustrated by the perceived lack of city response, some community members took matters into their own hands by erecting makeshift barriers. Although the initial barriers were quickly vandalized, neighbors rebuilt them with stronger reinforcements. Near the structures, a hand-drawn chalk picture carries a stark message: "No Gunfire."***
I took my >90-year-old mom to her once favorite restaurant on Aurora in this area a couple years ago. Every woman I saw walk by on the sidewalk was dressed like a prostitute.
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Can we just shoot him in the face?
An American journalist and political commentator who has lived in China for more than a decade is facing a criminal charge in the U.S. of acting as an agent for the Chinese government.
Thomas Pauken II allegedly prepared confidential reports that his Chinese handler told him were being conveyed to Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to an affidavit FBI Special Agent Timothy Healy submitted in federal court. Pauken also took a lie detector test at the request of his Chinese contact and provided a cell phone and laptop to another individual in the U.S. who was seeking a job in the Trump administration, Healy wrote.
Pauken said he consistently rebuffed his handler’s requests for classified information, but told the FBI that he thought there was an 80 percent chance that the other individual he was helping to put his handler in contact with would provide classified information to China, despite what Pauken said were his warnings not to do so, the affidavit says.***
Pauken was arrested by the FBI in February and has been in custody since. In March, a federal magistrate judge in Alexandria, Virginia, denied Pauken’s bid for pretrial release, court records show.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema has set a “pre-indictment plea hearing” Friday for Pauken. Such a hearing usually signals a defendant’s plan to offer a guilty plea to some charge or charges, typically in an agreement with prosecutors. Prosecutors told the court last month that they’d had “productive discussions” with Pauken’s counsel about a resolution of the case.***
When Pauken returned to the U.S. from China in February, the FBI “simultaneously monitored” a meeting Pauken had at a Washington hotel with the individual he’d delivered the cell phone and laptop to last year. During that meeting, Pauken gave the person a SIM card and offered him a $10,000 bonus to work with Pauken’s Chinese handler, providing “one report per week” that “would influence policy and be read by Xi Jinping.”
Shortly after that meeting, Pauken was arrested.***
Pauken is also a son of GOP politician Tom Pauken, who served in the Reagan administration before chairing the Texas Republican Party from 1994 to 1997. ***
the younger Pauken used the pseudonym at his father’s request because his father did not want to be tied to his son’s activities in China, which included work for several major state-controlled media outlets, including China Radio International, China Central Television, China Global Television Network and Xinhua. The document says the junior Pauken told the FBI that “all his Chinese associates were obsessed with attaining information” on his father.
For those wondering, the CCP keeps an iron grip on information so any transmission of info or phrases they declare verboten apparently shuts down the web of anyone from china viewing it.
I don’t know how effective it actually is but pretty sure any china shill in china is going to avoid the Tiananmen square or any talk of it like the fucking plague, if not for fear of their internet cutting out or of being proven wrong that china number 1, then certainly fear that Xi Jinping is going to personally butcher their social credit in a back alley.
Chiraq: where the criminals walk free and the shampoo is behind bars
Walgreens is shuttering a location in Chicago, upsetting residents, and stirring fury among exploitative and complicit politicians. The way some local “leaders” tell it, the drugstore chain is acting greedily, selfishly, or even criminally.
“Walgreens should be charged with first-degree corporate abandonment,” thundered a local alderman. “It should be a crime, the way they’re treating our elders. It should be a crime, the way they’re treating our families.”***
Hm, why would they close a store in the City of Broad Shoulders?
Earlier this week, Walgreens announced the closing of the store, which has served the Chatham community for more than 20 years, creating what many residents call a "prescription desert" and a continued disinvestment in the Black community.
On Saturday, the Walgreens executives revealed the store lost more than a million dollars last year, partly due to declining prescription sales but also a massive amount of store theft.
"Theft at this store is 16%," Johnson said. "That's four times above the company average."
And the company explained that they tried to stop theft.
"Lock boxes help us protect the merchandise in the store. A lot of the time, those lock boxes were getting destroyed. And that's at a great cost to the company," said Jason Vasquez, Walgreens District Manager.
They say Walgreens was spending $400,000 a year on security guards in the store, but there were still attacks on store employees.
"We've had people jump across the counters, because we sell liquor behind the counter, taking liquor, cigarettes... That wears. That wears down. Not so much the financial piece but the endurance of that day in and day out," said Lonnie Fuqua, the store's manager.***
Don't put that in your mouth; you don't know where it's been.
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Dirtbags
WELD COUNTY, Colo. — The chair of the Weld County Republicans has been arrested and is accused of showing up to a meeting where he thought he would be paying for sex with a minor, according to the Larimer County Sheriff's Office.
Hunter Rivera, 24, is facing charges including:
*Soliciting a Child Prostitute
*Internet Luring of a Child
*Cybercrime - Soliciting to Arrange a Minor Prostitute
*Attempted Sexual Assault on a Child
The Larimer County Sheriff's Office said Rivera was one of several dozen people who responded to listings posted by investigators pretending to be minors selling sexual acts. ***
The other man who showed up to meet with a supposed minor was Ismaaeel Abdur-Rahmaan, 23. He is facing the same charges as Rivera.
Rivera is currently serving as chairman of the Weld County GOP and as a national committeeman for the Colorado Federation of Young Republicans.***
Under Governor Gavin Newsom, California has sought to transform its massive prison system into a Nordic-style rehabilitation program. Newsom has placed a moratorium on all executions, transferred condemned prisoners to facilities across the state, dismantled San Quentin State Prison’s death row, and turned the notorious prison into a therapeutic center, with art, classrooms, a café, and podcast studios.
As part of this transformation, the Newsom administration approved a $189 million contract to provide new digital tablets—generic, flat-screen devices in a plastic shell—to every inmate in the state prison system, at “no cost” to offenders. The administration heralded the effort to replace inmates’ old tablets—which were piloted in 2018 and given to nearly all prisoners by 2023—as a step toward “digital equity” for “justice impacted” individuals, who could, in theory, use the devices to contact their families, consume “educational” content, and “learn new technology.”***
we contacted dozens of death-row inmates, who told us that prisoners in the state system use such devices to watch pornography and have explicit sexual conversations. Some prisoners, according to a former high-ranking California corrections official, use their tablets to groom minors. Though the state has claimed to regulate explicit content, the inmates told us that users can easily evade detection.***
In the 1980s, a rapist and serial murderer named Robert Maury earned the nickname “the Tipster Killer” for calling in anonymous tips identifying the locations of the dead bodies he left behind. During this period, he killed a woman by strangling her with a nylon clothesline, strangled and killed another two women, and brutally raped a fourth before he was caught by authorities.
Now, Maury is living at a state prison facility in Stockton, California, where he has viewed pornography on his taxpayer-funded digital tablet. In an interview, Maury told us inmates can receive “nude pictures” and watch pornography through their devices. In his case, he claimed to have received a topless photo from a 22-year-old German psychology student who was “hoping that I would share my story with her for her class project.” After the student sent the photo, Maury said he “flirted” with her “for a while.”***
Nathaniel Ray Diaz, who was convicted of committing sex crimes against a 12-year-old girl, allegedly used a prison-issued tablet to contact and exploit her from inside Avenal State Prison. Diaz allegedly told the girl to send him sexually explicit images, which he received through a co-conspirator. The girl reportedly told investigators that Diaz forced her to speak with him through the tablet “for hours, every day,” from the time she came home from school until the prison phones turned off at midnight.
Prosecutors alleged that, in total, Diaz made “thousands of calls” to the girl, violating a no-contact order and—by soliciting explicit photographs and exploiting a minor—committing additional child sex crimes. ***
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - Dalton Eatherly, the controversial streamer known as “Chud the Builder,” appeared in court on Friday morning to hear the charges against him stemming from a shooting outside the courthouse on Wednesday.
Eatherly and another man, identified as Joshua Fox, got into a confrontation Wednesday afternoon. The confrontation led to a shooting outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville, Tennessee, the district attorney general for the 19th Judicial District said.***
The judge set his bond at $1.25 million and said the steep price tag was due to the severity of the charges and the proximity to the courthouse.
Eatherly is scheduled to return to court on May 26 for a hearing. His attorney will be back in court for a bond hearing on May 21.
Fox, reportedly a disabled veteran, was shot in the stomach and shoulder during Wednesday’s incident. His wife set up an online donation to help with his medical expenses.
Eatherly has gained a following online for his in-your-face videos depicting him pushing the boundaries of free speech by using racial slurs in public settings.***
Tennessee has the death penalty. https://www.tn.gov/correction/about-us/executions/death-penalty-in-tennessee.html Eatherly sounds like a good candidate.
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Even flaming dirtbags deserve a fair trial
NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors deadlocked in Harvey Weinstein ’s rape retrial Friday, forcing another mistrial in a #MeToo-era case that has gone to trial three times so far.
While the former Hollywood mogul has been convicted of other sex crimes on two U.S. coasts and remains behind bars, the mistrial leaves the New York rape charge in limbo. Prosecutors were pondering whether to try the case a fourth time, after some jurors said outside court that nine out of 12 wanted to acquit Weinstein.***
The majority-male Manhattan jury weighed whether Weinstein raped Jessica Mann, a hairstylist and actor. Weinstein’s lawyers argued that the encounter was consensual. It happened in 2013 during a fraught relationship between the then-married Weinstein and the decades-younger Mann.
Deliberations began Wednesday. On Friday, after the jury sent two notes in 90 minutes saying it was stuck, Judge Curtis Farber declared a mistrial.
What stood out to jurors
Some jurors said they were struck by gaps in what Mann recalled, particularly when defense lawyers were questioning her.
“The prevailing thought was that the witness had a lot of inconsistencies in her story,” said juror Josh Hadar, 57. He favored acquittal: “I don’t come to that easily, but it just seemed that there was enough reasonable doubt.”
Another juror, Sarae Perez, 25, noted that she studied feminism and is well versed in #MeToo, but she also couldn’t overcome uncertainties about Mann’s account.
“There were places where we couldn’t trust her word for it,” she said.***
Weinstein has claimed that the sexual encounters were transactional. He says the women came to him seeking his support for their movie projects: they traded sex for his support.
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Emblem of our criminal justice problem
A 15-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted after being lured from a bus stop in Seattle’s Northgate neighborhood is now “forever scarred,” according to an emotional statement from her family read in court Wednesday morning.
The suspect, identified as Joshua Kowalczewski, pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and kidnapping during his first court appearance.
A judge also ordered media outlets not to show the suspect’s face in court because of potential identification issues that could come up during the trial.
Prosecutors say Kowalczewski has nine active warrants for his arrest and several pending criminal cases in multiple cities, including Puyallup, Olympia, Edmonds, and Seattle.***
the girl was waiting at a bus stop in Northgate on her way to school the morning of May 4 when investigators say she was lured into a wooded area and sexually assaulted.
The victim, who has a learning disability, later told police, “I was afraid something was going to happen if I didn’t do what he said.”
Investigators say a nearby construction worker became suspicious after seeing the pair walk into the woods and went to check on them. The worker called 911 after hearing the victim scream and seeing her emerge from the wooded area “crying and looking terrified.”
Police later arrested Kowalczewski after Seattle firefighters treating the victim recognized him as matching the suspect description. Investigators say firefighters were trying to stop him as he was lighting a fire near Aurora Avenue North and North 109th Street.
Court records show Kowalczewski’s criminal history includes 28 arrests and 13 convictions for crimes including assault, DUI, violating a protection order, and criminal trespass. Prosecutors also noted one of his active warrants stems from a domestic violence assault case filed just three days before the alleged attack on the teenage girl.
Fayetteville PD
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — After being arrested for allegedly spray-painting swastikas on the side of a building last week, the Fayetteville Police Department said they have arrested the same man on charges related to pointing a gun at people and passing cars.
In a news release Wednesday afternoon, police said they received multiple calls about a person who was armed. One witness said the person was walking down the road and pointing a handgun at people and passing cars in the 7500 block of Bridgeman Drive just after 3 p.m.***
Police identified the man as 18-year-old Taquon Jameek Vereen and charged him with going armed to the terror of people and assault by pointing a gun. He is being held in the Cumberland County Detention Center under a $2,500 secured bond.***
Vereen is the same person who was arrested on May 6 after Fayetteville police said he was spray-painting swastikas on a building in Fayetteville. He was charged with two counts of damage to real property and second-degree trespassing in connection with that incident, according to police.
Court records show Vereen was arrested in the gun pointing incident the same day he posted $1,500 bond for the swastika incident.***
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Kelley Paul orders DA to wear a yellow Star of David
12 knuckleheads broke into and vandalized the Stanford University president’s office in June 2024.
Once inside, the protesters barricaded doors with wires, stacked furniture to block entrances and hung up banners in support of Palestine and Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, who was killed by Israeli forces. They also allegedly covered security cameras with tissue and foil paper.
***At some point, some protesters spilled fake blood made from corn syrup on office floors and furniture. ***
*** police estimated that the group caused $300,000 in damage. Carpet stains, a bent door bar, broken doorframes and an assessment of an antique grandfather clock with drops of blood on it contributed to those costs.
Seven chuckleheads took plea deals, five went to trial, and the first trial ended in a mistrial. On 7ma26, J. Paul disqualified District Attorney Jeff Rosen from prosecuting the case due to a conflict of interest.
The alleged conflict arises from Rosen raising funds based on his prosecution of this case.
The Stanford lawsuit is “not a hate-crime case,” and should not be characterized as a fight against antisemitism, Paul said.
WTF? Rosen's campaign website boasts of only two hate crime prosecutions
"Sunnyvale, California*** perpetrator who targeted the victims because he thought they were Muslims."
He prosecuted a man who attacked "Muslim worshippers in Morgan Hill during Ramadan"
His hate crime page does not list prosecution of antisemitic hate crimes, even though he is a Jew.
He speaks out against anti-Asian hate crimes. Rosen even responded reasonably when Pro-Philistine protestors personally attacked him -
What's really irritating is the lies in the media and in the court. This wasn't simply a pro-Philistine protest, it was was an explicitly anti-Israel and anti-Jew burglary - Taryn Thomas - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUjxHQnlQU5/ points out that the Stanford pres is a Jew. The Philistine graffiti included
Isn't there something in Art VI of the Constitution about "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States?"
It feels like J. Paul has imposed a religious test in this case.
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Mosque murderers were dirtbags
The alleged gunmen in a shooting rampage that left three people dead outside a San Diego mosque have been identified as 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Velasquez, according to a law enforcement source.
At least one of the suspects took a weapon from his parents’ home and left a suicide note that talked about racial pride, a law enforcement source told The Post.
Clark attended Madison High School and was a standout wrestler, according to the school’s social media page.***
Clark and Velasquez were found dead inside a BMW from self-inflicted gunshot wounds only a few blocks from the Islamic Center of San Diego.
Anti-Islamic writings were found in the suspects’ vehicle and “hate speech” was written on the firearms used in the shooting, according to the source.
A shotgun and gas can with an “SS” sticker on the side were located at the scene where the gunmen’s bodies were discovered.***
Police revealed that around 9:42 a.m., they had received a call of a runaway juvenile from a concerned mother.***
The mom allegedly believed her son was suicidal and shared that several of her weapons were missing, as was her vehicle, according to police.
The mom also said her son was with a companion and that they were dressed in camo.***
Why you would name your kid after the 1st murderer in the Bible is not explained.
And now art [Cain] cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive [his] brother's blood from [his] hand;
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Robinson's jerk lawyers work to censor truth
Lawyers for the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk were in court Tuesday, making their case to bar reporters and the public from parts of a key upcoming hearing and seal some evidence after the judge rejected their request to ban news cameras from the courtroom.
Tyler Robinson's defense has argued that broadcasts of the proceedings create a media frenzy that often misrepresent him and could bias potential jurors. They hope to restrict access to parts of his preliminary hearing, scheduled for July 6-10, when prosecutors must show they have enough evidence to warrant a trial.***
The defense began Tuesday by urging the judge to punish prosecutors for comments that one of them, Christopher Ballard, made outside of court. Richard Novak, an attorney for Robinson, said Ballard essentially went on a “media tour” in which he made “expressions of opinion as to Mr. Robinson’s guilt.”
Prosecutors responded that Ballard had a right to speak to news outlets to correct misinformation about an inconclusive, preliminary finding by ballistics experts, which led to speculation about Robinson’s possible exoneration. “Here he was representing the true nature of that report" and did not make a statement of opinion about guilt, Deputy Utah County Attorney Ryan McBride said.***
Prosecutors have said Robinson left a note for his romantic partner hidden under a keyboard that said, “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.” They have also said he wrote in a text message about Kirk: “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”
Authorities have said DNA consistent with Robinson’s was found on the trigger of the rifle used to kill Kirk, the fired cartridge casing, two unfired cartridges and a towel used to wrap the rifle.***
Robinson should receive a fair trial from an impartial jury, but there are many, many people in the county who will not have seen or read anything about the case.
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Good luck, county jerks
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was charged Monday in relation to the nonfatal shooting of a Venezuelan man during immigration operations in Minnesota earlier this year.
Officer Christian Castro faces four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime, according to Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty.***
On Jan. 14, Castro allegedly shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the thigh while pursuing another man, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna. Both men were in the country illegally.***
28 U.S.C. §1442. Federal officers or agencies sued or prosecuted
(a) A *** criminal prosecution that is commenced in a State court and that is against or directed to any of the following may be removed by them to the district court of the United States for the district and division embracing the place wherein it is pending:
(1) *** any officer (or any person acting under that officer) of the United States or of any agency thereof, in an official or individual capacity, for or relating to any act under color of such office or on account of any right, title or authority claimed under any Act of Congress for the apprehension or punishment of criminals or the collection of the revenue.***
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Supervise your kids
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is calling for the Council of the District of Columbia to implement a curfew for juveniles in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area as a public safety matter. Bowser’s plea comes after a violent brawl during a so-called “teen takeover” in the capital city’s Navy Yard section. Video of a melee inside the Navy Yard Chipotle showed several violent juveniles fighting each other, including using store chairs as weapons.
“I urge the DC Council to immediately pass emergency legislation to restore the extended juvenile curfew in Washington, DC,” Bowser said in a post on X.***
Violent confrontations among juveniles in Washington, D.C. have been a recurring public safety concern in recent months. In one instance, during the first week of April, eight teenagers were arrested after police responded to reports of fighting in the Navy Yard district. In multiple incidents, police officers were reportedly assaulted by the youths.
Bowser’s plea for the restoration of the juvenile curfew comes after U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro warned that parents of teenagers causing trouble in the so-called “teen takeovers” could face legal consequences in the future, including $500 fines, criminal prosecutions, and jail time, in certain circumstances. Pirro said parents could be held accountable under the city’s “Contributing to the delinquency of a minor” statute.
“We’re going to charge them,” Pirro said. “And if you drop your kid off and you fail to supervise them or you let them skip school to join the chaos, you are going to face fines, court-ordered classes, and possible jail time.”***
A New York state court judge on Monday blocked prosecutors in the murder trial of Luigi Mangione from using some of the evidence from his backpack when he was detained by police at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, on the heels of the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan.
Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Gregory Carro said that because the backpack was not sufficiently in Mangione’s control when Altoona police were detaining him, “the evidence found during the search of the backpack at the McDonald’s must be suppressed, including the [loaded ammunition] magazine, cellphone, passport, wallet and computer chip.”
However, a 3D printed gun, which is suspected of having been used in Thompson’s murder, and journal in the backpack, which was later inventoried by police at their headquarters, can be used as evidence, Carro ruled.***
Huh, what? Why not inevitable discovery? Why not community caretaking/public safety?
Why not "every consideration of orderly police administration benefiting both police and the public points toward the appropriateness of the examination of respondent's shoulder bag prior to his incarceration." Illinois v. Lafayette, 462 U.S. 640, 647 (1983).
The order is at https://wjactv.com/resources/pdf/8516bc8a-6b1c-4dc7-a810-a86f3815f5fc-MangioneEvidenceRuling51826.pdf#toolbar=0&navpanes=0&scrollbar=0
I would like to fry Mangione, but that's not why I write this. Altoona police could not reasonably leave the backpack of an assassin in a public area of a McDonalds. It was in a public place, and the police had tons of probable cause to seize it. This is not an unreasonable search.
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Zionists won't mind concentration camps
A Democratic House candidate from Texas is fielding criticism from some in her own party after she pledged to send American Zionists to a facility currently being used to detain undocumented immigrants.
In an Instagram post last week, Maureen Galindo said she would turn the "Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking."
"It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists," Galindo wrote, referring to herself in the third person.
Galindo, a sex therapist and housing activist, is running for a seat in the newly redrawn 35th Congressional District, facing Johnny Garcia in a primary runoff.***
In other social media posts, Galindo has accused Garcia—a former hostage negotiator and public information officer for the Bexar County Sheriff's Office—of wanting "Jews and Mexicans in warehouses." She also accused "billionaire Zionists" of controlling San Antonio and South Texas trafficking networks.***
U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., called for national Democratic leaders to denounce Galindo's comments. "First current political candidate suggests concentration camps for American Jews. This should be national news!" he wrote on X.***
Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren beat former state Sen. Jen Jordan, and Justice Charlie Bethel beat attorney Miracle Rankin in two races for the Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday.***
On Monday, statements from Georgia’s Judicial Qualifications Commission were made public, saying Jordan and Rankin violated its rules of conduct by endorsing one another and running on the issue of restoring abortion rights to Georgia.
Warren and Bethel both voted to reinstate Georgia’s six-week abortion ban in 2024.
The JQC says candidates can’t make promises that commit them to issues that are likely to come before the court.***
Longtime state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, a major power broker in Virginia politics who stumped for Spanberger on the campaign trail in 2025, is now at the center of a major FBI corruption probe, according to federal law enforcement sources. A federal law enforcement source familiar with the case clarified that the corruption probe was opened by the FBI during the Biden administration.
Agents executed court-authorized criminal search warrants at Lucas’ office in Portsmouth, Virginia, Wednesday, according to federal law enforcement sources. The FBI simultaneously carried out a SWAT-team search of a nearby cannabis dispensary co-owned by Lucas. At least three people were detained during the raids.
The state senator arrived at her office as the raids were being conducted. She told Fox News that she had no idea what the FBI agents were doing at her office.***
The search warrants were signed off by a federal judge, who agreed there is probable cause to conduct the raids.***
In addition to serving as the Virginia Senate president pro tempore and chair of the Finance & Appropriations Committee, Lucas also is co-owner of a cannabis business. The cannabis shop has previously faced scrutiny after an investigation reported that some products were allegedly mislabeled or exceeded legal THC limits, raising regulatory concerns under Virginia law. ***
Lucas is known for a bombastic social media presence, heavy on crude language and memes.***
Because it's FBI and not DEA, it's probably not the weed.
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There are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics - Twain
Thirteen members of Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department have been placed on administrative leave and face possible termination following an internal investigation into allegations that crime data was manipulated to make the city appear safer.***
Interim Police Chief Jeffery Carroll announced the conclusion of the internal investigation during a press conference Tuesday but declined to provide specifics about what was found.
“No one was fired,” Carroll said. “Some members were served with paperwork yesterday as it relates to being placed on administrative leave pending termination.”***
Oversight Committee chair, GOP Rep. James Comer said in a statement Tuesday after the disciplinary action was announced, “Our work is not done. I expect to receive MPD’s internal report and all related documents to ensure crime data is reported accurately and that anyone responsible for manipulation is held accountable.”
Dozens of workers from multiple cruise ships that docked in San Diego, including one from the Disney Cruise Line, were found to be in possession of or involved with the distribution of child pornography, according to authorities.
Officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection boarded eight cruise ships between April 23 and April 27 and interviewed 28 workers as part of an ongoing investigation, federal officials said in a statement.
During the interviews, officers confirmed that 27 of the 28 individuals had either received, sent, possessed or transported child pornography, according to the statement.
A Disney Cruise Line ship was among those that were boarded and where employees were detained in connection with the investigation.
In a statement, a Disney Cruise Line spokesperson said the workers were no longer with the company.***
◼ Baltimore recorded just four homicides in April, the lowest number since tracking began in 1970. This comes amid a broader decline of violence and criminality in the city. Homicides fell 61 percent between 2015 and 2025. Robberies decreased by 46 percent in the same time period after reaching a peak in 2017. As we’ve seen in other blue cities, dumping soft-on-crime prosecutors—in Baltimore’s case, Marilyn Mosby—and putting criminals behind bars gets results. In 2022, Baltimore initiated its “Group Violence Reduction Strategy” in collaboration with the state’s attorney general’s office. This program focuses on removing the worst repeat violent offenders from the streets and directing resources toward those most at risk of gun violence. This approach has not only proven effective; it has won support and cooperation from the communities most affected. Mayor Brandon Scott also deserves credit for reducing the number of vacant houses from 16,000 to fewer than 12,000 since his election. It all goes to show that progressive jurisdictions needn’t tolerate high levels of crime, if they are willing to jettison self-defeating permissiveness and lock up criminals.
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◼ Amsterdam has banned advertising for meat, airlines, and combustion-engine cars. The justification for this censorship is—what a surprise—climate change. Advertising that encourages consumption responsible for high greenhouse gas emissions supposedly threatens the health of the planet. But while campaigns such as Amsterdam’s will do nothing for global temperatures, they do serve two useful functions. For one, they make clear that climate extremism and free speech are incompatible. Secondly, they highlight the direction that climate policy will take. One way or another, it will involve restricting the supply of the offending items. Eat your burgers while you can.
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Gotta love people who won't get off the internet and won't change their minds
The deranged firebug accused of igniting the devastating Palisades Fire had become “fixated” on Luigi Mangione in the lead-up to the deadly blaze — and then allegedly suggested the inferno was started out of “resentment of the rich,” prosecutors said.
Jonathan Rinderknecht, 30, was obsessed with the accused health care CEO killer and had routinely searched “free Luigi Mangione” and “lets take down all the billionaires” online, court documents show.
In the weeks and hours before allegedly sparking the blaze that triggered the catastrophic Palisades Fire, Rinderknecht — who worked as an Uber driver — ranted to customers about Mangione’s arrest, too.
“Many of defendant’s Uber passengers on December 31, 2024 and January 1, 2025, described defendant as angry, intense, driving erratically, and ranting about being ‘pissed off at the world’ and Luigi Mangione, capitalism, and vigilantism,” prosecutors noted in a trial memorandum.
When asked why someone would ultimately set the blaze, Rinderknecht allegedly responded that it “would be out of resentment of the rich enjoying their money as ‘we’re basically being enslaved by them’ and compared such an act of ‘desperation’ to the murder for which Mangione was charged,” according to the memo.***
Animal rescuers working in Los Angeles' Skid Row are raising the alarm over a practice they say has become a grim pattern. They allege that drug users expose dogs to narcotics, including fentanyl-laced substances, to test whether a supply is safe to consume.
The allegation, made on the record by frontline volunteers, forms part of a wider crisis of animal abuse in one of America's most densely populated homeless encampments. Pit bulls are confined in wire crates in 90-degree heat, pregnant dogs give birth without veterinary care, and animals are bred in bulk and sold for cash or traded for drugs.
Despite repeated calls for enforcement from advocates, animal control agencies and California lawmakers, rescuers say the response from city and county officials has been, at best, inconsistent.
Drug Testing on Dogs, Volunteer Accounts
Victoriah Parker, co-founder of the nonprofit Starts With One Today, has worked with dogs on Skid Row for eight years. Speaking to CBS Los Angeles, she described what she and other volunteers say they witness regularly. 'What they also use their dogs for is to test their drugs to make sure there is not fentanyl, they are not laced. So we have had several dogs overdose on fentanyl down here,' Parker said.***
Jonathan Parker, the co-founder of Starts With One Today, says [some animals] are even being used to test drugs to make sure substances are not laced with fentanyl.
UCLA’s sorority row is being terrorized by aggressive homeless men threatening and harassing terrified sisters.
Students revealed a relentless pattern of menacing encounters from vagrants targeting the women daily as they walk to and from campus.
They describe men yelling vulgarities, making sexual remarks and approaching them on sidewalks near the houses, including one man they dubbed “the screamer.”
Now the UCLA Panhellenic Association — the university’s largest women’s organization — has brought in private security guards to patrol overnight.***
Student Ani Hovanesian, 20, told The Post: “We had a meeting with UCPD a few weeks ago and it didn’t go well.”
“They seemed unaware of the issue and not really proactive. They kept turning it back on us like ‘why aren’t you calling 911 or reporting any of this’ and it’s like ummm, we are and that’s why we’re here.”***
So if someone with no insurance, no plates, and no lights hits you, thank the LA city council
In a unanimous vote Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council moved to end the Police Department’s use of pretextual stops, a law enforcement tactic long criticized by civil rights advocates who say it disproportionately targets Black and Latino residents.
Pretextual stops occur when officers pull over or detain someone for a minor violation as a way to investigate possible evidence of a more serious crime.
According to a report released earlier this year by the Los Angeles Chief Legislative Analyst’s Office, LAPD officers conducted more than 72,000 pretextual stops between April 2022 and September 2025.
The report found roughly 30% of those stops led to evidence of another offense, including drugs or weapons.***
If adopted LAPD will not be able to pull you over for:
- Expired tags
- Non-functioning tail lights
- Cracked windshield
- Broken sideview mirrors
- Illegal tint
- Loud exhaust
- Missing license plate
At the ACLU of Kansas, the role of Voting Rights Organizer involves leading voter… · Experience: ACLU of Kansas · Education: Washburn Univer
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (KCTV) - An Overland Park man was arrested Thursday morning on charges related to the possession of child pornography.
Evan Altman is charged in Johnson County court with four counts of possession of child pornography.
He was arrested by Overland Park Police at 7 a.m. Thursday and made his first appearance in court at 1:30 p.m.
According to court records, Altman is accused of possessing the sexually explicit images between July 23, 2025, and Dec. 18, 2025.***
America has some dangerous murderers serving sentences of Life without Parole, LWOP. The idea is that the sentence is a guarantee that the murderer will never, ever leave prison alive, and never, ever kill again.
Of course, LWOP really means imprisonment only until some leftwing DA feels more sympathy for a murderer than for a murder victim or some legislature decides it must go more woke.
Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their s
NY Senate Bill S454 would allow you to kill five people in a family of 10 and be sentenced to LWOP at age 40. At age 55, you could be paroled to go out and kill the remaining five family members. Assuming you were again sentenced to LWOP at age 55, you could be paroled once more at 70.
California Senate Bill 672 is similar.
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Consider cutting back on the tequila
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The driver of a garbage truck was arrested Wednesday after leading law enforcement on a multi-county chase on Interstate 35 Wednesday morning, according to the Hays County Sheriff’s Office and Texas Department of Public Safety.
Six vehicles were struck and four people were injured during the chase, the Comal County Public Information Office said. The office did not provide the severity of the injuries.***
When a CCSO deputy attempted to make a traffic stop, the driver, identified as Devante Dunn, ran a red light and hit a vehicle, according to Comal County PIO. Stop sticks were deployed, which deflated both front and rear left tires.
According to the office, the driver hit another vehicle before jumping a curb to head northbound on the interstate frontage road. The pursuit continued, passing Center Point Road in San Marcos, the McCarty Lane exit and the Seguin exit.
Dunn briefly exited the vehicle at the 213 mile marker before getting back on the road, the PIO said. The pursuit ended when the truck hit a wall in Austin. Dunn ran and was captured and taken into custody, Comal County PIO said.***
A booking photo of Dunn is not available yet because Dunn has not been cooperating with staff at the jail, according to Comal County PIO.***
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht announced on Monday that he is leaving the Democratic Party due to what he believed was the rampant spread of “Jew-hatred” and antisemitism within the party. His announcement comes a little over six months after he won a retention election to serve another 10-year term in November. Wecht was first elected to Pennsylvania’s high court in 2015.
“From 1998 to 2001, years that preceded my judicial career, I served as Vice-Chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party,” Wecht said in a statement announcing the change of his party affiliation. “In the quarter-century that has passed since then, the Democratic Party has changed. Nazi tattoos, jihadist chants, intimidation and attacks at synagogues, and other hateful anti-Jewish invective actions are minimized, ignored, and even coddled. Acquiescence to Jew-hatred is now disturbingly common among activists, leaders, and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party.”
He is not joining the repubs.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) expressed his support for Wecht and urged Democrats to acknowledge and “confront its own rising antisemitism problem.”***
The gunman who allegedly opened fire on passing cars on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts Monday afternoon is 46-year-old Tyler Brown from Boston. Brown was shot and wounded by a State Police trooper and a civilian and taken into custody.
Two people in separate cars were struck by the gunfire and taken to Boston hospitals with life-threatening injuries.
Brown is no stranger to law enforcement, with a criminal record that dates back to 2008 when he was convicted of cocaine distribution. In 2020, he was charged with attempting to kill Boston Police officers.
At the time, Brown pleaded guilty to eight charges including armed assault with intent to murder and attempted assault and battery by means of discharging a firearm for firing at a Boston Police officer.
According to I-Team sources, a photo of Tyler Brown was included in an officer safety bulletin that went out Monday morning in Boston. ***
Shortly after the bulletin went out, videos of Brown were recorded by witnesses on Memorial Drive. He is seen walking down the middle of the street, terrorizing drivers and waving and shooting a long gun. Witnesses said he shot at cars and in the air, before he was shot and taken into custody. ***
At the time of the armed assault in 2020, Brown was on probation for a 2014 conviction for assault and battery with a knife and witness intimidation. In 2021, Brown was sentenced to 5-6 years in state prison followed by probation. He was also ordered to undergo mental health evaluations and treatment.***
Brown ended up serving about three-and-a-half years in prison after his sentencing date. He was released from prison on May 21, 2025.
BOSTON (AP) — A man previously convicted of shooting at police strode down a busy road outside Boston, firing an assault-style rifle at passing cars, shooting two drivers and sending others scrambling until he was wounded when a state trooper and a former Marine opened fire, authorities said.***
Rachael Saveriano said she was trapped in her car Monday as other vehicles tried to make U-turns in front of her when she saw Brown walking toward her, waving his gun. The man authorities later identified as a former Marine helped her escape, she told The Boston Globe.
“I didn’t know what to do. It doesn’t feel like you should get out of the car when there is a shooter coming toward you, but there was a man next to me,” she said. “He opened my car door, pulled me out, and told me to run. He made a barricade with the door and I just started running.”
Saveriano said she saw the man shooting at Brown before she ran into a nearby hotel.
“He is an incredible hero,” she said. “He was so calm, and he didn’t hesitate.”***
How many people must you attempt to kill in Massachusetts before you do hard time?
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Citizen! Firearms are for trained law enforcement professionals only!
A Frontier Airlines flight deplaned at Denver International Airport on Sunday after an ammunition magazine was discovered on board, according to the airline.
The magazine was found as the Phoenix-bound flight prepared to take off from DIA, Frontier spokesperson Rob Harris said in a statement. The plane was scheduled to depart at 8:08 p.m. Sunday.***
Harris said investigators believe the magazine belonged to a law enforcement officer on a previous flight, who likely left it on the plane.***
Neither the airport nor the airline has said where or how the gun magazine was discovered, or how it made it onto the plane.***
KINSTON, N.C. (WITN) - Four Camp Lejeune Marines were caught ‘red-handed’ in a break-in at a closed-down Kinston mall, according to police.
On Saturday, Kinston police learned of four people breaking into the Vernon Park Mall on Hardee Road.
The caller said the men were defacing the building with paint.
Officers found 21-year-old Corporal Victor Torres and 20-year-old Lance Corporal Angel Martinez with red paint on their hands and in possession of burglary tools.
Two other suspects, 20-year-old Lance Corporal Joshua Son and 21-year-old Corporal Isaac Reyna, left the mall and ran toward the Caswell Center property, according to police.
With the help of a K9 and the Caswell Center Police Department, officers were able to arrest Son and Reyna.
Warrants show the men stole three metal signs and a sex education CD from the mall, valued at $150.***
Their worst offense - unsat haircuts!
On Saturday, officers with the Kinston Police Department went to a report of four people breaking into the Vernon Park Mall on Hardee Road.
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America's crime problem in a nutshell
NEW YORK - The man accused of killing an elderly man by shoving him down a stairway at a Chelsea subway station was released from a psychiatric evaluation just hours before the attack, according to officials. On Saturday, he made his first court appearance.
What we know:
Rhamell Burke, 32, was charged with second-degree murder for the May 7 attack.
According to police, surveillance video showed Burke violently shoving a man down the stairs at the 18th Street subway station around 9:30 p.m. that day. Officers said the video showed the man, later identified as 76-year-old Ross Falzone, flying into the air and hitting his head on the steps, before landing at the bottom of the staircase.***
Officials said Rhamell Burke was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation and quickly released just hours before he allegedly shoved a
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Hm, I wonder if he did anything like that before? Like maybe on 2apr26 on a NYC subway
A young woman who declined to help prosecutors after a violent subway encounter now says her silence cost a stranger his life.
She and a friend were riding a Manhattan train on April 2 when Rhamell Burke struck up an unwanted conversation, the 23-year-old told the New York Post (NYP). When the pair tried to escape into another car, the 32-year-old followed and allegedly yanked her head downward in an attempt to slam her to the floor and kicked her friend in the back, she said. Officers happened to be standing nearby when they fled at the West 4th Street-Washington Square Station and arrested Burke on the spot.
Despite the violence, she walked away from the case rather than work with prosecutors, she told the NYP. Her reasoning, she said, was racial. “Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail, but, you know, at some point, if you are a criminal, you’re a criminal, and he was scary, he was a scary guy,” she told the outlet.***
“I regret it 100% and I actually feel really bad that a man lost his life,” she told the NYP.
Her April 2 case ended with Burke walking free. Prosecutors requested $3,000 bail, but a judge granted him supervised release instead, according to the New York Daily News (NYDW). It was one of four arrests Burke had collected since February, with each case ending in release without bail or under supervision, the outlet reported.
Officers picked Burke up again hours before the deadly shove, after he was seen acting erratically outside the 17th Precinct, ABC7 New York reported. They drove him to Bellevue at 3:39 p.m. for a psychiatric evaluation. Staff cleared him by 4:39 p.m. He killed Falzone about five hours later, ABC7 reported.***
WASHINGTON (TNND) — A California mayor will plead guilty to being an illegal agent for the Chinese government and resigned from her position, officials confirmed this week.
Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang was charged in April with one count of acting in the United States as an illegal agent for the foreign government, a news release from the Department of Justice said.
Wang, 58, was accused of doing the bidding of Chinese officials, including sharing articles favorable to Beijing without prior notification to the U.S. government, which is required by law.***
According to a plea agreement detailed by the DOJ, Wang and Yaoning "Mike" Sun, 65, of Chino Hills, worked on behalf of the People's Republic of China from the end of 2020 to 2022 to promote their interests through promoting pro-PRC propaganda in the U.S.
Sun is currently serving a four-year sentence after pleading guilty to acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government in October 2025. Sun is also listed in campaign filings as the treasurer for Wang's 2022 campaign.
Both Wang and Sun operated U.S. News Center, a news website geared toward the Chinese American community, and were instructed by the Chinese government to publish pro-PRC content.***
Northern Ireland is finally safe. Clive Johnston has been convicted and can no longer menace the public.
Johnson, 78, is a retired pastor who committed the heinous offense of preaching near the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine. That was considered within the “safe access zone” under Northern Ireland’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act.
The Act prohibits “influencing,” “preventing or impeding access,” or “causing harassment, alarm or distress” to a protected person within 100 meters (about 328 feet) of facilities where abortions are performed.
So Johnson was found guilty of “influencing” inside the protected zone and fined 450 pounds (about $614).***
We previously saw several cases in the United Kingdom where people were arrested for silently praying near abortion clinics.
For its part, The Irish Republic has been a leader in censorship and the criminalization of speech. As the leader of the Irish Green Party proclaimed, “We are restricting freedom for the public good.”
By the way, his offense was reading John 3:16, including “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
What could perish in Ireland and the United Kingdom is free expression****
Another failure of the criminal justice & mental health systems
DENVER (TNND) — The man killed by a plane at Denver International Airport after making it onto a runway and being sucked into an engine had a lengthy criminal history across several Colorado counties, arrest records show.
Michael Mott, 41, was part of the “unhoused community,” according to the Colorado Springs Police Department. He was most recently arrested on April 10 and charged with first-degree criminal trespass and resisting arrest.
Records reviewed by The New York Post show Mott had multiple run-ins with law enforcement dating back to his teenage years, including arrests at 17 for minor offenses such as shoplifting and underage drinking.
In April 2010, the Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office arrested him on felony domestic violence, menacing and assault charges.
Additional offenses over the years included second-degree burglary in 2016 and felony assault on a peace officer in 2020, though that case was later dismissed by the district attorney’s office.
By February 2025, Mott was arrested by the Cortez Police Department on suspicion of attempted murder involving a firearm.
He later pleaded guilty to second-degree assault causing serious bodily injury with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to six years in prison. While incarcerated, he was again charged with felony assault involving a weapon.
Public records also show arrests for driving under the influence, hit-and-run, trespassing, fighting in public, violating protection orders and resisting arrest.***
If our criminal justice and mental health systems had been serious about public safety and mental health, Mott might be alive. He might not have endangered 200 people on the Frontier airplane.
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Good!
BALTIMORE — The Justice Department announced 18 charges Tuesday against the operators of the 100,000-plus-ton cargo ship that crashed into a Maryland bridge more than two years ago, causing it to collapse and killing six people.
Federal prosecutors said they were charging the international companies Synergy Marine Pte Ltd. and Synergy Maritime Pte Ltd., as well as the ship’s technical superintendent, Radhakrishnan Karthik Nair. The charges included conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and misconduct or neglect of ship officers that resulted in death.***
The 900-foot ship Dali lost power twice and slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge early March 26, 2024, as a work crew was fixing potholes.
Six construction workers died when the bridge crumbled into the Patapsco River. Another construction worker fell into the water and sustained serious injuries but survived, while an inspector working as a subcontractor for the Maryland Transportation Authority escaped without injuries.***
Kelly Hayes, the U.S. attorney for Maryland, said at the news conference Tuesday that the defendants were alleged to have altered the ship in a way that meant it could not regain power after the second blackout to avoid crashing into the bridge in time.***
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