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CJ current events 26jan23

Success may have many fathers, but failure is an orphan - especially when someone might go to jail

By: Sam Tabachnik | The Denver PostPosted at 7:07 PM, Jan 19, 2023 and last updated 11:19 AM, Jan 20, 2023

The trials for five Aurora police officers and paramedics charged in connection with Elijah McClain’s death will be split up into three separate proceedings, an Adams County District Court judge ruled this week.

A state grand jury convened by Colorado’s attorney general in September 2021 indicted Aurora police officers Nathan Woodyard and Randy Roedema, former officer Jason Rosenblatt and paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Lt. Peter Cichuniec on 32 combined counts related to McClain’s violent arrest and death in August 2019.

While the five defendants were indicted under one proceeding, “the factual circumstances do not neatly follow a typical codefendant criminal matter,” Judge Mark Douglas Warner wrote in Wednesday’s order.*** https://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/aurora/judge-orders-3-separate-trials-for-aurora-police-officers-paramedics-charged-in-elijah-mcclains-death

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Weird that FBI or Chair Force would care

When federal agents kicked in his door one icy morning last November, Joerg Arnu was still asleep. Roused by deafening bangs and shouts, the 60-year-old retired software developer stumbled out of bed to find a crowd of unfamiliar men in military gear standing in his foyer.

At least one of the half dozen men, he remembers, was visibly armed and pointing a gun in his direction. Another was holding a riot shield. “This is the FBI,” one yelled. “Put your hands against the wall!” Less than a minute later, Arnu was being handcuffed and led forcefully outside, dressed only in sweatpants and a T-shirt. His house, located in the remote town of Rachel, Nevada, had been swarmed by police vans. Shivering from a lightly falling snow, he was placed in the back of one of the vehicles, while over a dozen agents from the FBI and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations—the Air Force’s secretive counterintelligence wing—poured into his home. Not long afterwards, agents started asking him questions. One of the first things they wanted to know was: “Are there any booby traps on the property?” To Arnu, it seemed like a pretty weird thing to ask. A retired software developer and self-admitted senior citizen? Did that really sound like somebody who would boobytrap his own house?*** https://news.yahoo.com/enduring-mystery-aggressive-fbi-raid-211000547.html

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If you’re serving LWOP, why not?

Kahlieff Adams is serving LWOP for a murder. He apparently slipped a percocet to a co-defendant in a conspiracy trial in Atlanta.

***After the alleged exchange, deputies with the Fulton County Sheriff's Office stepped in, took the Percocet from Williams, and confronted Adams.

A search of Adams revealed that he had Percocet, marijuana, tobacco, and other contraband wrapped in plastic and food seasonings to mask the smell, officials allege.

Deputies took Adams to Grady Hospital after they say he appeared to eat other items of contraband to try to remove the evidence.*** https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/young-thug-drugs-court-jury-selection-ysl-rico-trial

How someone serving LWOP acquired percocet, weed, and tobacco was not explained.

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Fun job while it lasted

An Arapahoe County district judge who failed to disclose an extramarital affair with a clerk and faced a sexual harassment complaint has resigned from the bench.

District Judge John E. Scipione stepped down as part of an agreement with the Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline, which was investigating Scipione for violating the Colorado Code of Judicial Conduct, according to court documents filed with the Colorado Supreme Court.***

As part of the formal inquiry, Scipione admitted to a year-long extramarital affair, when he was a magistrate, with a court clerk, according to court documents. There were also claims of sexual harassment against Scipione in which he referred to a second judicial assistant “using a derogatory term” and that he “openly discussed his involvement in an ‘alternative lifestyle.’ ”*** https://www.denver7.com/news/politics/arapahoe-county-district-judge-resigns-after-extramarital-affair-with-court-clerk-sexual-harassment-complaint

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Death from moral poverty

A Los Angeles 17-year-old who ran over a mother walking her baby in a stroller in 2021 and received just a few months of diversionary camp as punishment was gunned down in Palmdale, California, this week.

Kristopher Baca, whom Fox News Digital has previously not identified due to his youth, pleaded guilty to the hit-and-run last year.***

Deputies found him dead with gunshot wounds in a Palmdale driveway on the 83600 block of 11th Street East on Wednesday evening, according to the sheriff's office.

Sources close to the investigation said he had been at a fast food restaurant earlier trying to "get with a girl."

As he walked home alone, a car pulled up next to him and an argument broke out. Someone in the vehicle opened fire, then sped off.***

The teen was already on felony probation for poisoning a high school girl's drink at the time of the hit-and-run, which surveillance cameras captured on Aug. 6, 2021.

The video shows a stolen vehicle speeding the wrong way down a one-way backstreet. It plowed into a woman walking her infant son in a stroller. Then he hit the gas, accelerating away from the scene, where a good Samaritan in a pickup truck rammed the suspect vehicle head-on.

Los Angeles police responded and found drugs in the driver’s system and marijuana in the car, according to an incident report obtained by Fox News.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-hit-run-driver-who-plowed-into-mom-baby-stolen-car-murdered-after-light-sentence

Dilulio, J.J. (Dec. 15, 1995). Moral Poverty. Chicago Tribune, made a good point

***Most Americans of every race, religion, socio-economic status and demographic descriptions grow up in setting where they are taught right from wrong and rewarded emotionally or spiritually (if not also or always materially) for deferring immediate gratification and respecting others. Most of us were blessed to be born to loving and responsible parents or guardians. And most of us were lucky enough to have other adults in our lives (teachers, coaches, clergy) who reinforced the moral lessons that we learned at home--don't be selfish, care about others, plan for the future, and so on.

But some Americans grow up in moral poverty. Moral poverty is the poverty of being without loving, capable, responsible adults who teach you right from wrong. It is the poverty of being without parents and other authorities who habituate you to feel joy at others' joy, pain at others' pain, happiness when you do right, remorse when you do wrong. It is the poverty of growing up in the virtual absence of people who teach morality by their own everyday example and who insist that you follow suit.

In the extreme, moral poverty is the poverty of growing up surrounded by deviant, delinquent, and criminal adults in abusive, violence-ridden, fatherless, Godless and jobless settings. In sum, whatever their material circumstances, kids of whatever race, creed or color are most likely to become criminally depraved when they are morally deprived.***

Moral poverty begets juvenile superpredators whose behavior is driven by two profound developmental defects. First, they are radically present-oriented. Not only do they perceive no relationship between doing right (or wrong) now and being rewarded (or punished) for it later. They live entirely in and for the present moment; they quite literally have no concept of the future. As several researchers have found, ask a group of today's young big-city murderers for their thoughts about "the future," and many of them will ask you for an explanation of the question.*** https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-12-15-9512150046-story.html

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They’ll want an eternal warranty for their air conditioner

33-year-old William Dale Zulock Jr. and 35-year-old Zachary "Zack" Jacoby Zulock adopted two brothers who were in 3d & 4th grade at the time. They then s3xually abuse the boys, used them to produce cpr0n that they distributed, and trafficked them to other men.

They have been indicted in Georgia. Police rolled up at least one of the cpr0n recipients before arresting the Zulocks and searching their home.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/01/17/zulock-case-pt-1-n2618219

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/01/18/zulock-case-pt-2-n2618321

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sorry Tom, Tumblr posted the graphic, not the link I pasted.

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Monterey Park mass shooter

*** 10 people were killed and at least 10 other people were injured and taken to local hospitals after a gunman opened fire shortly after festivities for the Lunar New Year wrapped up in the city. The shooting was carried out on West Garvey Avenue at about 10:22 p.m., according to authorities.***

The victims include five men and five women and were all "probably" of Asian descent, according to L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-authorities-release-first-photos-suspected-monterey-park-mass-shooter

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Sheriff released this wanted poster

https://twitter.com/LACoSheriff/status/1617241146710962178

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Astonishing surveillance images show the moment a brave good Samaritan tackled California dance club mass shooter Huu Can Tran — grabbing his semi-automatic assault pistol even though he was certain he was about to die.

Brandon Tsay, 26, was seen brawling with the 72-year-old shooter as he burst into the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio after already shooting dead 10 people and injuring as many others at a nearby dance hall in Monterey Park late Saturday.*** https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/images-show-moment-hero-grabbed-monterey-mass-shooters-gun/

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The elderly man who slaughtered 10 people at a California dance club had been a regular patron there, was paranoid instructors said “evil things about him’’ — and may have been hunting his “wife,” reports say.

“There is increasing evidence this was domestic violence,” a law-enforcement source told LA Magazine of the late Saturday massacre at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park.

Murderous madman Huu Can Tran, 72, “was looking for his wife’’ at the time of the bloodbath, the source added.***

Tran later killed himself inside a cargo van during a stand-off with police in Torrance, about 30 miles from Monterey Park, officials said.*** https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/images-show-moment-hero-grabbed-monterey-mass-shooters-gun/

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Another victim of Saturday night’s shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, California succumbed to their wounds Monday, bringing the death toll to 11, officials said.

The victim, whose name was not released, died at LAC+USC Medical Center where four of the ten people who initially survived the shooting were transported.***https://ktla.com/news/local-news/monterey-park-shooting/suspect-dead-2/

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In other California mass shooting news,

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — Seven people were killed in two related shootings Monday at a mushroom farm and a trucking firm in a coastal community south of San Francisco, and a suspect was in custody, officials said.

San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine says four people were killed at the farm and three at the trucking business on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, a city about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of San Francisco.

It wasn’t immediately clear how the locations were connected, though Pine said the suspect worked for one of the businesses. He called the suspect a “disgruntled worker.”

California state Sen. Josh Becker, who represents the area, said people were killed in separate shootings. San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa tweeted that one shooting happened at a mushroom farm.

The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office tweeted just before 5 p.m. that a suspect was in custody.*** https://ksltv.com/518870/official-7-killed-in-two-shootings-in-california-community/

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Atlanta riots

*** The Atlanta Police Department identified the six suspects – all but one who came from out of state – to Fox News Digital on Sunday afternoon. They are Nadja Geier, 24, of Nashville, Tennessee; Madeleine Feola, 22, of Spokane, Washington; Ivan Ferguson, 23, of Nevada; Graham Evatt, 20, of Decatur, Georgia; Francis Carrol, 22, of Kennebunkport, Maine; and Emily Murphy, 37, of Grosse Isle, Michigan.

The six are each facing eight misdemeanor and felony charges.***

On Sunday, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens appeared on CBS News and rebuked those claiming that the anti-police riot seen overnight in his city were not violent, noting how the suspects had explosives, burned down a police car and broke the windows of businesses.***

Saturday’s protests were in response to the death of 26-year-old environmental activist Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, who was shot and killed by Georgia State Patrol.***

Authorities said Teran first shot and wounded a trooper tasked with clearing protesters from the construction site of a new public safety training center dubbed by activists as "Cop City."

State officers allegedly returned fire, but authorities said there was no body-camera video of the shooting, prompting the chaotic demonstrations overnight.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/atlanta-domestic-terrorism-suspects-seen-smiling-stone-faced-post-anti-police-riot-booking-photos

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Listen for and count the shots

A distressing video has emerged showing the moment SWAT team officers in North Carolina repeatedly shot an unarmed man accused of being a hostage-taker.

Jason Kloepfer, 41, released the video capturing his Dec. 13 shooting on his Facebook page Friday, along with graphic photos showing his injuries.

According to a press release that was put out by the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office last month, deputies responded to Kloepfer’s mobile home on Upper Bear Paw Road at around 11 p.m. after getting a 911 call of shots fired.*** https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/unarmed-disabled-man-jason-kloepfer-shot-by-cops-video/

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A whip has significant power in Congress - it’s the arm twister/breaker

from https://www.ibtimes.sg/who-jared-riley-dowell-nonbinary-son-top-democrat-katherine-clark-arrested-assaulting-police-68724

The daughter of House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) was arrested over the weekend in Boston, Massachusetts, after allegedly spray-painting a monument and assaulting an officer.

On Saturday night, Jared "Riley" Dowell, 23, was charged with assault by means of a dangerous weapon, destruction or injury of personal property, and damage of property by graffiti or tagging. Clark has been outspoken about Dowell, whom in a statement she referred to as "Riley," being nonbinary.

"Last night, my daughter was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts," the No. 2 House Democrat wrote. "I love Riley, and this is a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting. This will be evaluated by the legal system, and I am confident in that process."

Officers responded to a call for a protest at the Parkman Bandstand monument within the Boston Common at about 9:30 p.m., according to Boston police. Officers said that once they arrived, they saw someone "defacing" the monument with spray paint, allegedly writing "NO COP CITY" and "ACAB," which stands for "All Cops Are Bastards."*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/katherine-clark-daughter-arrested-assault-officer-damage-property

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good idea

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — When gunshots at two electrical substations cut power to thousands of central North Carolina homes for several days in early December, Republican state Rep. Ben Moss watched his vibrant district full of family farms, small businesses and sprawling golf courses become “a ghost town.”

After the latest attack last week on a substation in Randolph County, northeast of Charlotte, Moss is urging fellow lawmakers to prioritize new legislation that would secure the state’s critical infrastructure when the legislative session begins in earnest this week. He’s among the first state legislators to propose power grid protections this year amid a surge in attacks on U.S. substations, primarily in the Carolinas and Pacific Northwest.

The recent attacks in Moore County, North Carolina, and others in Washington, Oregon, South Carolina and Nevada, have underscored the vulnerability of the nation’s far-flung electrical grid, which security experts have long warned could be a target for domestic extremists.

Lawmakers in at least two affected states — North Carolina and South Carolina — have begun proposing remedies.

“I don’t want to see anybody else go through what Moore (County) did,” said Moss, a 2024 candidate for state labor commissioner whose district saw a peak of more than 45,000 customers lose power. “When the power goes out, you don’t have heat, don’t have food, can’t get fuel or some medications, the people are unsafe.”*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/state-lawmakers-power-grid-protections-attacks

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Female Body Inspector? WTF???

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, January 23, 2023Retired FBI Executive Charged with Concealing $225,000 in Cash Received from Former Intelligence Officer

Charles F. McGonigal Arrested in New York

Charles F. McGonigal, 54, a former FBI Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office, has been arrested on charges relating to his receipt of $225,000 in cash from an individual who had business interests in Europe and who had been an employee of a foreign intelligence service, while McGonigal was serving as Special Agent in Charge of FBI counterintelligence efforts in the New York Office. McGonigal retired from the FBI in September of 2018.

According to the nine-count indictment, unsealed today, from August 2017 and continuing through and beyond his retirement from the FBI in September 2018, McGonigal concealed from the FBI the nature of his relationship with a former foreign security officer and businessperson who had ongoing business interests in foreign countries and before foreign governments. Specifically, McGonigal requested and received at least $225,000 in cash from the individual and traveled abroad with the individual and met with foreign nationals. The individual later served as an FBI source in a criminal investigation involving foreign political lobbying over which McGonigal had official supervisory responsibility. McGonigal is accused of engaging in other conduct in his official capacity as an FBI Special Agent in Charge that he believed would benefit the businessperson financially.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/retired-fbi-executive-charged-concealing-225000-cash-received-former-intelligence-officer

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, January 23, 2023Former Special Agent in Charge of the FBI New York Counterintelligence Division Charged with Violating U.S. Sanctions on Russia

A Russian Court and Government Interpreter Also Charged with Violating U.S. Sanctions on Russia

A former Special Agent in Charge of the FBI New York Counterintelligence Division and a former Soviet and Russian diplomat were arrested Saturday on criminal charges related to their alleged violating and conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and conspiring to commit money laundering and money laundering.

According to court documents, Charles F. McGonigal, 54, of New York City, and Sergey Shestakov, 69, of Morris, Connecticut, are charged in a five-count indictment unsealed today in the Southern District of New York with violating and conspiring to violate the IEEPA, and with conspiring to commit money laundering and money laundering.

According to court documents, on April 6, 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Oleg Deripaska as a Specially Designated National (SDN) in connection with its finding that the actions of the Government of the Russian Federation with respect to Ukraine constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy. According to the U.S. Treasury, Deripaska was sanctioned for having acted or purported to act on behalf of, directly or indirectly, a senior official of the Government of the Russian Federation and for operating in the energy sector of the Russian Federation economy.

McGonigal is a former Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of FBI’s Counterintelligence Division in New York who retired in 2018. While working at the FBI, McGonigal supervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska. Sergey Shestakov is a former Soviet and Russian diplomat who later became a U.S. citizen and a Russian interpreter for courts and government offices.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-special-agent-charge-fbi-new-york-counterintelligence-division-charged-violating-us

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https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1563476/download is the indictment of Charles McGonigal, the FBI SAC of Russian counter-intel 2016 - 18. By 2021 he was taking concealed payments from a Russian oligarch, Deripaska.

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McGonigal was a big fan of Comey. https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2017/05/16/us-intelligence-officials-comey-was-one-of-the-most-loved-leaders/

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motive?

It wasn’t immediately clear how the locations were connected, though Pine said the suspect worked for one of the businesses. He called the suspect a “disgruntled worker.”

The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office tweeted just before 5 p.m. that a suspect was in custody.*** https://ksltv.com/518870/official-7-killed-in-two-shootings-in-california-community/

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Rule of Law much?

EXCLUSIVE — Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom was in Vatican City for a children's basketball game when he was hit with alarming news: Turkey placed a $500,000 bounty on him.

After the announcement, a range of hitmen, serial killers, and members of the mafia could have been on his tail, eager to cash in on the lucrative reward for his capture.

Freedom believes the bounty was intended to send him a clear message: to "shut up" about Turkey's human rights record, but he has no plans of backing down.

"Whenever I speak, it pretty much like goes everywhere in the world, and the Turkish Government hates that. So they try to do whatever they can [to] shut me up. I mean, they put my dad in jail. [That didn't] work. Now they put a bounty on my head," Freedom told the Washington Examiner. "They're literally trying every way possible."*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/enes-freedom-defiant-turkish-bounty

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When environmental goals & laws collide

An Australian mining company has been cited for endangering a 6-inch desert wildflower less than a week after the Department of Energy signed off on a $700 million conditional loan for the company to mine lithium in Nevada.

Ioneer Rhyolite Ridge LLC was slapped with a trespass notice by the Bureau of Land Management for disturbing the critical habitat of Tiehm's buckwheat, a wildflower with yellow pom-pom blooms. The agency listed the flower last week as an endangered species and said the "disturbance" was forbidden under a permit it issued Ioneer Ridge LLC to drill at a proposed mine site that is likely to face massive pushback from environmental groups.

The flower is only found in the United States and grows in lithium-rich soil — the very same soil that attracted Ioneer to the area.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/energy/arizona-energy-lithium-mine

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SCt published two opinions on Mon

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/22

Neither is interesting for CJ purposes. In re Grand Jury, 21-1397, dismissed a petition for certiorari as improvidently granted. DIG means the Court originally agreed to review the case, took a look at it, and decided to follow Harry Truman/Will Rogers advice “never kick a fresh turd on a warm day.”

Denials of cert are not precedential. Whomever the petitioners were, they may still appeal to SCt after their case is decided by lower courts.

The reason I mention these two cases is that it may be the trickle of cases that comes before the spring flood.

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If you’re murdered, it’s prolly....

EXCLUSIVE DETAILS — WEST RICHLAND, Wash. — The ex-wife of slain Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan has moved 2,800 miles from Florida to the Pacific Northwest as investigators are about to announce that an arrest is imminent in the unsolved murder, Fox News Digital has learned.

Nearly one year after the father of four was executed in front of his toddler, Bexley, in north Florida, Shanna Gardner-Fernandez quietly uprooted her 10-year-old twins she shared with Bridegan and relocated to West Richland, Washington.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/major-break-jared-bridegan-murder-mystery-ex-wife-moves-cross-country

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.319%????

Four male suspects have been arrested in the rape of a Louisiana State University sorority member after she was later dumped on the side of the road and fatally struck by a car following a night of drinking, police said.

Kaivon Deondre Washington, 18, Everett Lee, 28, and Casen Carver, 18, turned themselves in Monday, more than a week after 19-year-old Madison Brooks was fatally struck in Baton Rouge, the Advocate reported.

A fourth suspect, a 17-year-old boy who had not been identified because he is a minor, turned himself in on Sunday, the outlet reported.

Brooks had been drinking at Reggie’s, a bar near the LSU campus where she met the 17-year-old suspect on Jan. 15, the newspaper reported.

She left between 1 and 2 a.m. with the teen and the three other suspects, according to an arrest warrant.*** https://nypost.com/2023/01/24/louisiana-student-madison-brooks-19-fatally-struck-by-car-after-alleged-rape/

At least one had intercourse with her. She was left on the side of a road, perhaps at her request?

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Interesting court-martial

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2023/01/24/at-marine-raiders-homicide-trial-questions-center-on-security-video/

Common law would have called it chance-medley and let everyone get on with their lives.

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Collateral consequences

Cartoon Network’s late-night programming block Adult Swim announced that it had cut ties with Justin Roiland, co-creator of the show Rick and Morty, following revelations regarding his alleged domestic abuse.

The adult animated comedy show has become one of, if not the network's most lucrative cash cow since its premiere in 2013, with its media and merchandising franchise estimated to be worth up to $1 billion, according to Yahoo Finance.***

The future of the show was thrown up into the air earlier this month when NBC News revealed that Roiland was facing felony domestic violence and false imprisonment charges over a 2020 incident with a woman he was dating at the time. On Tuesday, it was announced that the show would continue, albeit without Roiland.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adult-swim-cuts-ties-rick-morty-creator

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Secret Service reports?

Over the past five years, the consistency with which public space mass attackers elicit concern from their communities has risen dramatically. Around 69% of attackers caused people to be worried prior to their attack, according to the Secret Service.

Nearly half of those concerned only had peripheral contact with attackers, meaning a person may have only had a brief or limited interaction with the attacker, but it was enough to cause concern for the attacker's well-being or that of others, per a report from the Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center.

The report looked at attacks in mass public spaces over the course of five years, from 2016 to 2020. The assessment center recorded 180 attackers in 173 attacks in public and semipublic spaces. In the attacks, 1,747 people were harmed and 513 were killed across 37 states and the District of Columbia. Most of the attackers were male, with only three identifying as female, and three-fourths of attacks involved illegally possessed firearms.

While the number of attacks has remained consistent in similar studies conducted by the Secret Service, Chief Lina Alathari said during a press conference on Tuesday that the biggest change within the last five years has been the consistency of elicited concern.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/attackers-elicited-concern-prior-to-attack-report

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Good study of mass shootings

https://www.secretservice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2023-01/usss-ntac-maps-2016-2020.pdf notes

Communities must encourage and facilitate bystander reporting and be prepared to respond when reports of concern are received. Three-quarters of the attackers exhibited concerning behaviors and communications.***

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Don’t mess w/ Sr Mary Johnice

https://youtu.be/Sw0nq_48MFU

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Because California has so much freedom Floridians should move there.

***It all began when Californians legalized marijuana in 2017, and Humboldt officials saw green. They passed new ordinances to maximize the county’s taxes and fees from commercial cultivation. Fearful of losing revenue, they also weaponized the building code to punish anyone who might possibly be growing without a permit. Fines for minor violations that would ordinarily be a couple hundred dollars now jump to $10,000 if the county thinks the violation has some nexus to marijuana.

And as the fines have gone up, the county’s standards for issuing them have gone down. To identify potential violators, county officials now use satellite images to find properties with an unpermitted greenhouse or a graded flat of land. Then, without any further investigation, the county issues an average of three violations. A single unpermitted greenhouse, for example, can bring $30,000 in daily fines: $10,000 for the greenhouse; $10,000 because the county insists the owner must have moved 50 cubic feet of soil; and $10,000 for unpermitted cultivation by alleging—again, without any investigation—that the greenhouse must have marijuana inside.

Pictures confirming there’s no marijuana will not get the county to drop the charges. Instead, the owner has just 10 days to return the land to its “pre-cannabis state,” a murky concept that can include demolishing buildings and graded mountain roads. Those who dare contest the charges risk having their daily fines accumulate for 90 days.

This code enforcement dragnet catches plenty of harmless and innocent conduct. Humboldt has issued cannabis fines for a monastery’s garden, lavender and vegetable farms, and plenty of homesteaders who grow their own food. Blu Graham, for instance, faced $900,000 in fines for a greenhouse because code enforcement said they knew he wasn’t “just growing asparagus.” They were right: Blu was also growing peppers to make salsa for his wife’s Venezuelan restaurant.

The county even fines new owners for their predecessors’ behavior. Rhonda Olson and Doug and Corrine Thomas all face millions in fines because previous owners once grew marijuana on their properties. The county demanded they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to remove unpermitted structures and grading—not because of any safety concern, but simply because cannabis once touched it.*** https://ij.org/ll/the-california-homeowners-facing-million-dollar-fines-for-growing-vegetables/

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If you can’t obey the little laws, you’re not cut out for a life of crime

Police in Wheat Ridge conducted a traffic stop that ended with a big drug bust on Monday night. Officers seized one pound of methamphetamine, 1,000 fentanyl pills and a stolen handgun.

Two officers were in the area of I-70 and Kipling when they spotted a vehicle with expired tags, from April 2022. They pulled over the vehicle and the driver had an expired driver license. Officers said a container with presumptive, and then later confirmed, methamphetamine crystals was in plain view inside the vehicle.***

That led officers to search the vehicle which uncovered the fentanyl pills and handgun. The firearm was reported stolen out of Loveland in 2020.

Police said the 42-year-old driver has an extensive criminal drug record and now has more pending charges including possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute both for meth and fentanyl, and counts related to the firearm and knives- four knives were found on his person. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/wheat-ridge-police-fentanyl-meth-handgun-traffic-stop/

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It’s only an arrest, he’s presumed innocent

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, January 25, 2023Former Prison Guard Arrested for Sexual Abuse of Inmates

A former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional officer was arrested today in Oahu, Hawaii, on criminal charges related to his alleged sexual abuse of female inmates.

“As alleged, the defendant’s conduct targeted vulnerable victims and undermined the dual mission of the Bureau of Prisons: to provide a safe, humane custodial environment while preparing individuals for a return to society,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco. “The charges announced today reflect the Department’s commitment to root out sexual misconduct within the BOP and to hold accountable those who illegally exploit their authority.”

According to court documents, Mikael Rivera, 45, of Kapolei, Hawaii, was a correctional officer at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu from approximately 2014 to 2018. While on duty as a correctional officer, Rivera allegedly committed multiple sexual acts with one inmate through the use of threats and engaged in sexually abusive conduct with two additional inmates under his supervision.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-prison-guard-arrested-sexual-abuse-inmates

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