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‘Chief of
Anti-Occupational Forces’ - 2012!

PUBLISHED: Thursday, February 2, 2012

Interim Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan (pictured left) was officially named the city's top cop Wednesday by Mayor Jean Quan (pictured right). Asked why she took so long to name Jordan chief, Quan quipped that she and other city officials had been "preoccupied."

The announcement comes at a critical time for the city, which has been plagued by plunging tax revenue, escalating employee retirement costs, layoffs and concerns over crime. The 650-officer Police Department has also been struggling with tensions from continuing Occupy protests and criticism by U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson, who believes the department is moving too slowly to implement the reforms he is overseeing in the wake of a decade-old police scandal. "What we're doing today is stabilizing our leadership to move forward," the mayor said.

"I have very high expectations for his leadership," Quan said. "He's coming in at a very tough time." Jordan, 46, was interim chief in March 2009 when four police officers were shot and killed in the single deadliest day in the department's history. Later that year, Jordan was passed over as chief when then-Mayor Ron Dellums hired Batts away from Long Beach.

Quan reappointed Jordan as interim chief after Batts quit in October, expressing frustration with the city's bureaucracy. A few days later, "the first tent went up," Jordan said - alluding to the Occupy Oakland encampment on Frank Ogawa Plaza outside City Hall. Controversy over the movement, and how the city and police should handle it, has dominated Oakland ever since.

Jordan, a 23-year veteran of the Police Department, has served as assistant chief, a SWAT team commander, head of internal affairs and Oakland schools police chief. He was interim chief for about eight months before the city hired Anthony Batts to run the department in 2009.

‘D.C. Occupied’ - 2012!

PUBLISHED MON, JAN 30, 2012 02:14 PM - MODIFIED

WASHINGTON, DC – Republican lawmakers last week questioned why the Park Service has allowed Occupy protesters to camp for months on federal land. National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis said protesters have a right to be in the park and won't be evicted, but they will be encouraged to sleep elsewhere. Monday morning a sign board carried a National Park Service notice that regulations banning camping will be enforced starting at noon. It defined camping as having temporary structures to store personal belongings and "laying down of bedding for the purpose of sleeping." Park Police surveyed the encampment earlier in the day followed by chanting protesters and surrounded by a phalanx of television cameras and photographers. Protesters blew whistles and chanted "from Oakland to D.C. defy the police."

A noon deadline passed to remove camping equipment from two Occupy Wall Street sites in Washington, D.C., after officials said they planned to enforce a no-camping rule and start moving out protesters. At Freedom Plaza tents flapped in the wind. The National Park Service has warned protesters that those who violate the camping rule at Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square will be subject to arrest, but by mid-afternoon nothing had happened. At McPherson Square seven blocks away park spokesman David Schlosser said that people are not allowed to camp so the first step of enforcement will be to remove bedding and other belongings. He said police gave protesters pamphlets informing them of the regulations. Schlosser said police want voluntary compliance. If that doesn't happen he said "incremental measures" will be taken but he wouldn't elaborate on what that meant.

"It's not an eviction notice," said Barry Knight, 44, of Framingham, Mass., who has been living at Freedom Plaza since Christmas and has been a part of the movement since October. "We have to have our tents open and not have our sleeping bags rolled out to show we're not camping. "We're here to exercise our freedom of speech, which is our right," he said. If the Park Service enforces the camping ban, Knight said he plans to sleep on the sidewalk like many homeless people do around downtown Washington. "If they have a few hundred people sleeping on the sidewalks in this city, I think it'll make quite an impression," he said. "We already have thousands of people living on the streets in this country, a large portion of whom are veterans." If he's arrested, he said, "I'll be back again tomorrow." The Occupy protest needs to remain "to keep the conversation open," he said.

A few protesters milled about. A woman knitted by her tent, seated in a wheelchair. Protester Bill Miniuti, 62, inspected a tent for Tammy Kareza, 47, who is homeless. Police may come at nightfall, when people start to go to sleep, Miniuti said. Kareza "shouldn't be sleeping down here, but if she doesn't have anywhere else, what can we do?" Earlier in the day Knight kept a watchful eye on two U.S. Park Police officers inspecting tents at Freedom Plaza. "I'm following them so they know they're being observed," Knight said. Protesters have said they intend to stay at the two sites and defend their encampments.

Richard Ochs, 73, is a veteran of protests going back to civil rights and Vietnam protests of the 1960s. He lives in Baltimore but came to the McPherson camp to support the protesters. "I wanted to be here to defend our freedom of speech," he said. Protesters are not camping, he said, "camping is recreational. What we are doing is a 24-7 protest." Ochs said he plans to stay in Washington, but he's not sure where he'll be Monday night. "It depends on the police," he said. "I may be spending the night in jail."

The protesters, many in their 20s, come from across the country. They wore scarves around their faces, large goggles and masks.

Desiree DeLoach, 28, packed up her belongings and put them in a storage area nearby. She was a protester at Occupy's first protest in Zuccotti Park in New York City and lost her belongings in a raid there. "They gave us ample warning (in Washington)," she said. "I decided not to take any chances. Matt Canard of Denver walked around the camp encouraging people to sign a handmade petition to give to the park police. The petition asks the police to let the protesters stay. Canard, 27, has been sleeping in the camp since November. He works during the day and sleeps in the camp at night. He's off Monday from his job as a waiter so he could be at the camp if the police threw them out. He had a carpentry business in Colorado that was struggling so he said he decided instead to join the Occupy movement. "I didn't see any other way for me to contribute," he said.

The National Occupy Wall Street movement began in New York City in the fall but has been largely dormant lately. Oakland, New York and Los Angeles were among the cities with the largest and most vocal Occupy protests early on. In Oakland over the weekend demonstrators clashed repeatedly with police. More than 400 people were arrested. The demonstrations downtown broke a lull that had seen just a smattering of people taking to Oakland's streets in recent weeks for occasional marches that bore little resemblance to the headline-grabbing Occupy demonstrations of last fall. That all changed Saturday with clashes punctuated by rock and bottle throwing by protesters and volleys of tear gas from police, and a City Hall break-in that left glass cases smashed, graffiti spray-painted on walls and an American flag burned. At least three officers and one protester were injured. Police spokesman Sgt. Jeff Thomason said there were more than 400 arrests on charges ranging from failure to disperse to vandalism.

Mayor Jean Quan (pictured above, left) personally inspected damage caused by dozens of people who occupied City Hall. "People in the community and people in the Occupy movement have to stop making excuses for this behavior," she said.She said she wants a court order to keep Occupy protesters who have been arrested several times out of Oakland, which has been hit repeatedly by demonstrations that have cost the financially troubled city about $5 million. Quan also called on the loosely organized movement to "stop using Oakland as its playground."

Caitlin Manning, an Occupy Oakland member, believes that Saturday's protest caught the world's attention. "The Occupy movement is back on the map," Manning said Sunday. "We think those who have been involved in movements elsewhere should be heartened."

‘Chapel Hill’ - 2012!

PUBLISHED MON, JAN 30, 2012 08:38 AM - MODIFIED MON, JAN 30, 2012 01:06 PM PST

CHAPEL HILL, NC -- Seven people charged with misdemeanor breaking and entering are due in Orange County court today in connection with last fall's incident at the former Yates Motor Co. building in downtown Chapel Hill. The incident and police raid that removed the squatters after one day has divided the community. Supporters of the squatters plan to rally at the Orange County courthouse beginning at 9 a.m. today. Speakers pro and con have spoken at several Town Council meetings.

The debate could return to Town Hall tonight when Town Manager Roger Stancil may provide his recommendation on whether the town should approve an outside investigator to review the incident.

A new town-appointed Community Policing Advisory Committee formally requested the investigator last week to help it compile a factual time-line of events during the Nov. 12-13 incident and to help the committee make policy recommendations.

A majority of council members, however, indicated last week they do not support the investigator because he or she would not be able to compel witnesses to speak or to speak truthfully and because the town could not protect those who spoke with the investigator from civil or criminal liability.

The council's reaction has left committee members "curious," committee chairman Ron Bogle said.

On Sunday, A crowd of about 60 people rallied outside the downtown post office on Peace and Justice Plaza. They were protesting Stancil's proposal to start enforcing restrictions on public gatherings that were lifted during the three-month Occupy Chapel Hill-Carrboro tent encampment. Council member Laurin Easthom has asked for a discussion before enforcing the rules, which restrict overnight gatherings and in some cases require a permit.

The Yates building takeover on West Franklin Street was by "anti-capitalist occupiers," according to their literature. The group said it wanted to turn the long vacant building into a community center with a clinic, daycare and beds for the homeless. Some members also were members of the Occupy encampment and movement down the street.

‘Russian Spring’ - 2012!

First Posted: 18:37 (Moscow) 29/01/2012 - Updated: 3:13 PM PST - 29/01/2012

Enraged: Protesters carry the Russian Empire’s black, yellow and white flag during a rally against the December 4 parliament elections in Moscow on Dec. 24, 2011. “…protesters shouted ‘New Elections, New Elections,’ and organizers say their densely packed mass on Sakharov Avenue reached 100,000 people.

Moscow, Russia -- Hundreds of cars flying white ribbons - a symbol of Russia's protest movement - drove around a major Moscow thoroughfare on Sunday to demand a fair presidential vote in March. Up to 3,000 cars took part in “the biggest motorist protest in Russia’s history,” said Pyotr Shkumatov, leader of the grassroots motorists’ group Blue Buckets. “Nobody has forgotten the December 4 [parliamentary] elections and people are ready to stand their ground,” Shkumatov told Russian media sources. The Russian capital’s traffic police said only 300 cars took part in Sunday’s protest. White balloons and anti-Putin banners were also attached to some of the vehicles which circled the 16-kilometer Garden Ring road in central Moscow on Sunday. One car had a Putin doll strapped to its hood, a Russian media correspondent reported. White ribbons emerged as an opposition symbol during mass anti-government protests last month which erupted after Russia’s disputed parliamentary vote won by Putin's United Russia party.

Sunday's action was designed to maintain momentum ahead of the next anti-government demonstration on February 4, one month before a crucial presidential poll that is widely predicted to bring Prime Minister Vladimir Putin back to his old job in the Kremlin. Opposition leaders fear the March 4 vote may be rigged in Putin's favor. Putin served two terms as president from 2000 to 2008 but was constitutionally barred from standing for a third consecutive term. A win by Mr. Putin could result in his maintaining power until 2024. “It’s absolutely unacceptable that the man who’s in power [already] for 12 years will be here for 12 years more!” one demonstrator told a US News Source. He later stated, “We don’t want another revolution, or bloodshed, but if Putin is going to win then there may be a ‘Russian Spring’—not an Arab Spring but a Russian one.”

The opposition claims the authorities are now using the state machinery to boost support for the prime minister. Over the past several weeks, Putin has enjoyed extra-positive coverage on Russia's state-dominated TV, including several documentaries promoting him as the country's "savior" during the economic downturn in the 2000s. He has also refused to take part in TV debates ahead of the March vote - his spokesman said they would "impede his ability to duly carry out his duties." There have also been reports in the liberal media of state employees being coerced to cast their votes for Putin, or else face the sack.

Another motorist protest, this time nationwide, is planned for February 19.

Occupation 2012
Oakland!

First Posted: 1/20/12 - Updated: 01/21/2012 02:44:16 PM PST

"Police did this to me!"

-- Janauary 28, 2011: A pregnant protester being medically wheeled away from Frank H. Ogawa Plaza after witnesses said she was hit in the kidney by a Oakland police baton.

Oakland Occupy: Occupy Oakland protesters burn an American flag found inside Oakland City Hall during an Occupy Oakland protest on the steps of City Hall, Saturday, January 28, 2012, in Oakland, Calif..

Oakland, CA -- Saturday marked the first major clashes between protesters and police since November and left three officers with minor injuries, as protesters threw bottles, metal pipes, rocks, spray cans and "improvised explosive devices," police said. Oakland police received mutual aid throughout the day from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office and city police, including Fremont, Hayward, Berkeley, Pleasanton, Union City and Newark.

Video: Occupy Oakland March - January 28, 2012

The events followed a week where Occupy Oakland organizers announced plans to take over a vacant building to create the movement's headquarters, with plans for a two-day party. Police and city officials vowed not to allow it. Late Saturday, paramedics wheeled a pregnant protester away from Frank H. Ogawa Plaza after witnesses said she was hit in the kidney by a police baton. She yelled: "Police did this to me!" Demonstrators spent the day temporarily occupying City Hall and a YMCA, all the while snaking around lines of riot-clad police periodically shooting bean bag projectiles, among other uses of nonlethal force.

At 1:30 p.m., the group began marching with a crowd of about 450 protesters. Forty-five minutes later, some of the marchers entered the campus of Laney College, city officials said. That was when police first fired tear gas, a witness said. At 2:50 p.m., marchers began tearing down perimeter fences around the vacant Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, city officials said. Police declared an unlawful assembly and fired more tear gas. Witnesses said police fired rubber bullets at protesters soon after.

The first large skirmish of the day took place on the front steps of the Oakland Museum of California. Police arrested 19 marchers during that confrontation. The rest of the marchers headed to City Hall. Later, about 100 protesters were arrested after police ordered them to disperse at the YMCA on Broadway, police said. By 4 p.m., most of the Occupy crowd, which had grown to about 500, returned to Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. After regrouping, the marchers headed out again and congregated at the Oakland YMCA. About 6:30 p.m., police ordered protesters to disperse and those who remained were arrested, with some hiding in the YMCA building. As police processed the 100 or so arrested protesters, the rest of the demonstrators headed to City Hall, where they broke into the lobby.

Demonstrators left the City Hall building with at least two American flags, which were quickly burned. Police regained control of the building, arrested more and guarded the trashed lobby.

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan spoke moments after the City Hall occupation, saying the city would ask for "stay away" orders against many of the protesters who have repeatedly been arrested in Oakland. "This particular faction of Occupy ... they're very violent and I'm going to be asking for a lot more mutual aid," Quan said, adding that the weekly marches prevent the city's police force from patrolling other parts of Oakland. "They are hurting the neighborhoods by continuing to do this on Saturday nights."

The police department received heavy criticism late last year for breaking up earlier protests, including from the mayor. Earlier this month, a court-appointed monitor submitted a report to a federal judge that included "serious concerns" about the department's handling of the Occupy protests.

Occupation 2012
The Financial Di$trict!

First Posted: 1/20/12 - Updated: 01/21/2012 02:44:16 PM PST

San Francisco, CA -- Occupy protesters have chained themselves to the entrance of Wells Fargo Bank's corporate headquarters at 555 California St. as part of a daylong protest by Occupy San Francisco and other groups.

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-- April 16, 2011, Statement by New York City Police Officer Michael Daragjati, boasting of his false arrest of another African-American male.

Under Arrest ...!

First Posted: January 30, 2012 2:40 pm PT - Updated:

Santa Maria, CA -- A Santa Maria police officer suspected of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl was shot and killed by a fellow officer as he was about to be arrested, authorities said. The officer, who has not been formally identified, was near the end of his shift at a DUI checkpoint when supervisors arrived after 1 a.m. Saturday to detain him, Police Chief Danny R. Macagni told reporters at a news conference. There was a struggle, the suspected officer fired his gun and a fellow officer then shot him in the chest, Macagni said. "He chose to resist," Macagni said. "He drew his weapon. A fight ensued. He fired his weapon. And one of my officers that was there also discharged his weapon, and the officer was fatally wounded."

The dramatic shooting of a police officer by a colleague in the same unit roiled this northern Santa Barbara County city of 100,000, known more for its tri-tip and Elks rodeo than violent crime. "It's a very, very tragic day," Macagni said. In a briefing posted to the website of media sources, the police chief said developments in the probe of the officer forced police to take immediate action. He said detectives believed that the officer knew he was under investigation, that witnesses were being intimidated, and that the public would be at risk if the officer was not arrested before he left his shift.

"The information that we had in hand demanded that we not let him leave that scene, get in a car, drive somewhere. It would put the public at risk if he did," Macagni said. "We just did not know what was going to happen. And we did not expect him to react the way he did."

Macagni outlined some details of the police investigation:

Santa Maria police detectives were made aware of allegations that the officer was involved in an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old girl, but the information was sketchy.

Detectives continued the investigation into Friday evening, while the officer began his shift at a DUI checkpoint at Broadway and McElhany Avenue, near a fast-food restaurant, a liquor store and a market.

"Information unfolded during the time that the officer was on duty and unfolded very rapidly. It was very explicit, very specific, that indicated that the officer was involved in not only an inappropriate sexual relationship, but a very explicit one, and it demanded immediate action," Macagni said.

By 1 a.m. Saturday, detectives had enough information to arrest the officer, who would have been booked on multiple felony counts.

Two police supervisors were dispatched to the checkpoint to make the arrest. A fight ensued, and the suspected officer was fatally shot by an officer who had been working at the DUI checkpoint with him.

"We had no choice. And I am not at liberty to divulge the specifics of the ongoing information that caused us to take the action that we did," Macagni said. "But let me stress the fact that we had information in hand that was very specific, that demanded we go out and take this officer off the street immediately. There is some witness intimidation involved, and the allegations of sexual misconduct are very explicit."

Macagni added: "We also understand that the community demands that we hold our people to a very high standard, and this type of conduct by a sworn police officer … cannot be tolerated, and agencies will take the necessary enforcement action to take these people off the streets."

The officer, who was married and was a four-year veteran of the department, was pronounced dead at Marian Medical Center after undergoing emergency surgery. No one else was injured. The officer's father and sister, speaking to media sources in Santa Maria, identified him as Albert Covarrubias Jr., 29.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department is investigating the shooting.

The Top Cop's Son!

First Posted: 01/26/2012 2:40 pm ET - Updated: 01/26/2012 1:47 pm PT

MANHATTAN, NY -- The woman who accused Greg Kelly of raping her also claims she became pregnant as a result of the alleged sexual assault, sources told Corrupt Justice™. She was described as a credible "professional person" who said she ended her pregnancy, sources said. Kelly, a local TV news anchor and son of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly (pictured above, center) is being investigated by the Manhattan District Attorney's office after the woman walked into the 13th Precinct Tuesday night and claimed he raped her in her law office near South Street Seaport. The accuser, who is not a lawyer, told police that she was virtually passed out when Kelly, the co-host of Fox 5's "Good Day New York," allegedly sexually assaulted her last Oct. 8 at her Wall Street-connected firm. Kelly was absent from Thursday morning's "Good Day New York" broadcast. After the woman made the accusation, the NYPD contacted the Manhattan District Attorney’s office to take over the investigation because of the conflicts created for cops who would have to investigate the police commissioner’s son.

The woman, in her late 20s, said she and Kelly met for the first time that evening and they were drinking at a bar near the Seaport. They then strolled to her office where she claimed she the newsman assaulted her while she was incapacitated. She told investigators she eventually called Kelly demanding to know "what did you do to me?" sources said. Media sources reported that the woman is an "emotional cripple" and "distraught." The alleged victim told investigators that her boyfriend became enraged when she told him about the alleged attack, sources said. He confronted the police commissioner at a public event around the holiday season and told him that his son had ruined her life, a police spokesman said Wednesday. Ray Kelly told the boyfriend to write him a letter, the woman told investigators, sources said.

"Mr. Kelly is aware that the New York County District Attorney's office is conducting an investigation," Kelly's lawyer said in a statement. Kelly, through his attorneys, has vehemently denied the allegation. "Mr. Kelly strenuously denies any wrongdoing of any kind, and is cooperating fully with the District Attorney's investigation. We know that the District Attorney's investigation will prove Mr. Kelly's innocence." His lawyers have turned over text messages between Kelly and the woman that they believe undermine suggestions the encounter was anything but consensual.

Greg Kelly has not been charged with any crime. Mayor Bloomberg, speaking at an unrelated press conference, said Ray Kelly took the appropriate step when he told the accuser's boyfriend to write a letter. He also said turning the case over to the DA was "exactly what they should do," and added that "as far as I know, Greg Kelly has not been charged with anything." The NYPD referred all calls to the district attorney's office. The DA's office also declined to comment.

Kelly joined Fox News Channel in 2002 and was the White House correspondent from 2005 to 2007. A Marine Corps veteran and lieutenant colonel in the reserves, he also covered the Iraq War and the September 11 terror attacks.

Love Seat-on!

Posted: 12:07 AM, Jan. 21, 2012 - Updated: 12:17 PM (PST) Jan. 25, 2012

“My theory was that she was trying to get leverage with the city to get her boyfriend out of jail.”

-- January 19, 2011, Trial testimony by former Shreveport city Assistant Chief Administrative Officer, Richard Arnwine "Rick" Seaton on why an 18 year old woman accused him of rape.

(Former Shreveport Assistant Chief Administrative Officer Rick Seaton leaves Shreveport City Jail with the 18-year-old student the night of Dec. 27, 2010, in this screen grab from surveillance video provided by the Caddo district attorney's office.)

Shreveport, La. -- A former Shreveport city staffer is in jail awaiting sentencing after being convicted Friday of raping an 18-year-old high school student Dec. 27, 2010, on a couch in the mayor's office after the Independence Bowl. A Caddo District Court judge found former Assistant Chief Administrative Officer Richard Arnwine "Rick" Seaton (pictured left) of one count each of forcible rape and abuse of office. Seaton, 44, of Shreveport, remained stoic after the verdict was rendered by Judge Ramona Emanuel and as he was taken into custody by courthouse deputies. At 5:26 p.m. Friday, Seaton was booked into Caddo Correctional Center, where he will be held until his sentencing hearing at 2 p.m. Feb. 1.

The trial began with testimony from the first officer on the scene who said the alleged victim's mother showed him a text message from her daughter stating she'd just been raped by, "Officer Seaton." When the officer talked to the young woman she told him Seaton had taken her into the mayor's office and raped her. The alleged assault happened following the December 2010 Independence Bowl. Prosecutors say he told the young woman he was a police officer and she on two occasions referred to him as a police officer.

The crime scene investigator testified when she searched the mayor's office, she found at least three long black hairs and a smear of what appeared to be some type of body fluid on the mayor's sofa. The crime scene investigator said she also found a used condom in the mayor's kitchen in City Hall. A DNA expert from the crime lab says the DNA profile from the fluid inside the condom was consistant with Rick Seaton's DNA. The expert also testified the woman's DNA was found on the exterior of the condom.

Seaton's bench trial culminated with passionate and compelling closing statements by prosecutors and Seaton's defense attorney that centered on establishing a time-line of events of that night. Emanuel then deliberated for a half hour and handed down the guilty verdict.

During their closing, Assistant District Attorneys Bill Edwards and Hugo Holland cited testimony by key witnesses indicating the student was impaired and vulnerable, as well as uncomfortable around Seaton. Seaton used his influence and position to coerce the intoxicated teen into accompanying him to Government Plaza, the prosecutors argued, citing testimony by police and others who said they smelled alcohol on the woman's breath and heard her slurred speech. "The only witness that disputed her intoxication was the defendant," Holland said.

Holland closed by emphasizing Caddo sheriff's Deputy Gerald Posey's testimony Thursday that it appeared someone had attempted to delete much of the Government Plaza surveillance footage of Seaton and the woman recorded Dec. 27, 2010. Seaton had a "power user" account and the ability to delete footage, Posey had testified. Seaton has denied having such an account and attempting to delete the footage. The prosecution outlined a case against Seaton, saying he lured the victim, an 18-year-old high school student at the time, into the mayor’s office and sexually assaulted her.

(Former Chief Administrative Officer Rick Seaton walks through Government Plaza with the rape victim in this security footage from December 27, 2010./IMAGE FROM SECURITY VIDEO PROVIDED BY CADDO DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE)

Seaton's Defense attorney, citing discrepancies in time stamps on text messages in an attempt to throw doubt on the prosecution's case, then presented a time-line of events as Seaton described them. "Look to mother justice, lady justice and how she judges impartially," he said. "He (Seaton) made a stupid mistake, but he's not a criminal, he's not a sex offender."

The former city hall official took the stand in his own defense Thursday to present his version of events and disclose his theory on why his accuser claimed that he raped her. Seaton gave testimony that established a time-line from his perspective for the events of Dec. 27, 2010, accused his wife and accuser of lying to the court and established a theory explaining the rape allegations.

“My theory was that she was trying to get leverage with the city to get her boyfriend out of jail,” Seaton said. Assistant District Attorney Hugo Holland asked Seaton if it was his theory that his accuser began plotting the allegations before any sexual acts taking place. Seaton said he didn’t know why she thought the allegations would help her boyfriend. “I didn’t say it made sense, but that was the only theory that I could come up with for her actions,” Seaton said. Seaton also claimed his wife was lying when she said the condoms and sex toy, confiscated from Seaton’s Government Plaza office by police, were not used within the couple’s marriage.

Hog-Tied!

January 18, 2012

Susanville, CA -- A man once convicted in a string of killings that terrorized San Joaquin County for more than a decade was found hanged in his residence on the grounds of a state prison in northeastern California, officials said Tuesday. Loren Herzog, 46, apparently committed suicide in his trailer on the grounds of the High Desert State Prison near Susanville (Lassen County), where his body was found around 11:45 p.m. Monday, said Luis Patino, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Herzog was required to live in a trailer outside the prison while on parole for the 1998 killing of 25-year-old Cyndi Vanderheiden in Linden (San Joaquin County).

Herzog was convicted in 2001 of the methamphetamine-fueled rape and murder of Vanderheiden and the killings of two other people in the mid-1980s. His trial and the case against a co-defendant, childhood friend Wesley Shermantine, were moved to Santa Clara County from San Joaquin County because of extensive pretrial publicity over what were dubbed the "speed freak killers." Herzog was sentenced to 78 years to life, but an appeals court threw out his conviction in 2004, saying investigators had illegally forced a confession from him.

Unable to use the statement at a new trial, prosecutors agreed to a deal under which Herzog pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for killing Vanderheiden. Herzog received a 14-year sentence and was released on parole in 2010. The terms of his parole required that he live in a trailer near the High Desert State Prison, meet a strict curfew and wear a GPS-tracking bracelet. Herzog was free to come and go during the day.

Shermantine remains on Death Row for four murders dating from 1984.

Olenchak!

Posted: 2:23 p.m. EST, January 19, 2012 - Updated: 11:56 PM PST, Wed. January 25, 2012

Fla. -- A Davie police officer accused of drugging and raping a family member is preparing for a new trial this spring after rejecting a plea deal, said his attorney. Stephen Olenchak, 37 (pictured above, center) was found guilty in December 2010, but won the right to a new trial because a juror brought a Wikipedia article into deliberations. "They made a plea offer of three years, which we rejected," Olenchak's attorney said this week. Trial is likely three or four months away, he said.

Olenchak was arrested in March 2009 by Davie police on charges he drugged and raped a family member, then 19, while his wife and 4-year-old son slept next to them in the same bed. Olenchak claimed the young woman seduced him. In the first trial, Olenchak pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual battery. On Dec. 2, 2010, jurors convicted him of digital penetration but acquitted him on the second charge of penile penetration. If convicted on both counts, he could have received a maximum 30-year sentence. Two weeks later, Broward Circuit Judge Stanton Kaplan declared a mistrial after a jury forewoman admitted to downloading information from Wikipedia and bringing it to the jury room. Olenchak was briefly declared a sex offender after being convicted by the first jury. The judge revoked that designation because of the mistrial.

In this next trial, Olenchak can be prosecuted only on one count of sexual battery because he was acquitted on the second. A status hearing was held Thursday morning before Broward Circuit Judge Barbara McCarthy. Assistant State Attorney Victoria Watson said she plans to upgrade the charge to sexual battery on a helpless victim, a first-degree felony that carries a maximum 30-year sentence. The original charge of sexual battery was a second-degree felony punishable by a maximum sentence of 15 years.

Ladmarald Cates!

Posted: 5:47 PM EST, Fri January 13, 2012 - Updated: 02:51 PM PST, Fri January 13, 2012

A jury on Wednesday found fired Milwaukee police officer Ladmarald Cates (pictured below, left) guilty of violating a woman's civil rights by raping her after he responded to her 911 call in July 2010. The jury deliberated for just three hours. In their split verdict, they found Cates not guilty of using a firearm in a crime of violence. They also found that although Cates committed a rape that qualified as aggravated sexual abuse, it did not result in bodily injury to the victim. Despite being acquitted on a second count, Cate's, 44, faces a maximum penalty of life in prison when he is sentenced April 11, 2012. He will likely serve far less time under federal sentencing guidelines.

The victim in the case cried as the verdict was announced. Afterward, she said she was glad her ordeal had ended. "I really appreciate the federal government helping me," she said. "It means a whole lot to me that I don't have to deal with it anymore, and no other women will have to deal with it. I'm happy he won't hurt anybody else."

The U.S. attorney's office and FBI began investigating Cates in late 2010 after the Milwaukee County district attorney's office declined to charge him. Cates was fired from the Police Department in December 2010 for lying and for "idling and loafing" because having sex on duty is against department rules.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mel Johnson said he was pleased with the outcome. "We feel like we won the heart of the case," he said. "Of course, we want to win everything, but it was a difficult case."

The defense attorney for Cates said she and her client accepted the result of the trial process. "They made a decision that he violated her civil rights, and we accept that," she said. "They obviously didn't believe some of her testimony in regards to the gun and decided there was no bodily injury." Now, the attorney said, she and Cates would shift their focus to keeping him out of prison.

The trial, which began Monday, came down to who was more credible: Cates or the victim. Both testified, and they gave vastly different accounts.

Cates said the woman had sex with him willingly after he arrived at her north side home in response to her 911 call about neighbors throwing bricks and rocks through the windows. The two had met previously, during a traffic stop, and they started flirting and talking, he said. When he told her he was becoming aroused, she performed a sex act, which led to intercourse, he said.

In stark contrast, the woman testified that Cates assaulted her. As he did, she feared he could kill her and she would never see her two young children again. She didn't try to fight him, but did not want to have sex with him and did not consent, said the woman, then 19. She felt threatened by his police firearm, which was on his belt during the assault, she said.

During closing arguments earlier Wednesday, both the prosecution and the defense focused on the issue of whose version was more credible.

Saeed A. Mody, a prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, told jurors Cates "went from police officer to predator when he preyed upon a young woman he saw as powerless, vulnerable and voiceless."

"He picked someone he thought would never say what happened, and if she did, no one would believe her," Mody said.

The jury should believe her, Mody said, because her consistency in relating the details of the assault, her actions afterward and the medical evidence in the case make her credible. He reminded jurors that Cates had told an internal affairs detective three different stories. First, Cates denied having sexual contact with the woman in July, but said the two had previously had sex in his car while on a date after a traffic stop. Then, he said that although they did not have sex in July, she grabbed him and touched herself sexually. In a third statement, he said he and the woman engaged in two sex acts that were consensual. During the third statement, he also said they had not really had sex previously.

The defense attorney, conceded in closing arguments that Cates had initially lied to the detective but contended that his third account, which he repeated on the witness stand, was the truth. She pointed out several inconsistencies in the details of the woman's statements, such as who took her children out of the house and whether Cates responded when she asked him to use a condom. She also emphasized that a medical examination of the victim after the incident showed no injuries to her vaginal area.

The jury believed the victim and convicted Cates. The attorney who was retained by the victim to help her bring the case to prosecutors, said she was proud her client had not given up. "It's humbling to have a client who went out and actively attempted to save the lives of other women," the attorney said. "It was a crime against her civil rights, and it was violence against women. . . . She has achieved justice on behalf of women in Milwaukee, and that doesn't happen very often."

Last year, a media investigation revealed Cates had been accused of breaking the law five times before. Three of the previous allegations involved sexual misconduct - two with female prisoners and one with a 16-year-old girl. The alleged incidents date to 2000, three years after he was hired by the department. Internal investigators referred Cates to the district attorney's office for possible charges in two of the previous cases.

The first was a domestic violence battery in 2000. Cates' then-girlfriend said he shoved and choked her. Prosecutors offered Cates a diversion agreement, which allowed him to avoid charges by refraining from criminal activity, avoiding violent contact with the victim and undergoing counseling. A conviction on a domestic violence charge would have prevented Cates from carrying a gun under federal law and resulted in his removal from the force. Police also referred Cates to the district attorney's office on allegations of having sex with the 16-year-old in 2007. Prosecutors declined to charge him.

Due to the rules of evidence, the jury was not allowed to hear testimony about any of the previous allegations.

Beach Patrol!

Posted: January 7, 2012 12:05 AM - Updated: January 17, 2012 11:34 AM PST

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The trial of former Volusia County Beach Patrol Officer Bobby Tameris on charges of underage sex has been postponed until February while the defense continues its efforts to get evidence tossed. The trial had been set for next week. The announcement was made Friday after Circuit Judge Joseph Will heard arguments on a number of evidentiary issues that have tied up the case against Tameris for years. The 46-year-old Port Orange man is accused of having sex with two teen girls who were younger than 18. If convicted, Tameris could face prison. Under Florida law, it is a felony for a person over 24 to have sex with a person who is 16 or 17, regardless of whether the sex was consensual or not. The case has dragged along with numerous procedural delays since Tameris was arrested in 2009. He was released on $20,000 bail.

His lawyer argued this week that the case against Tameris (pictured right) should be dismissed outright because the State Attorney's Office knew Tameris was represented by a lawyer when they used what he called methods of entrapment. The judge denied the motion to dismiss on those grounds, prosecutors said. But Will pointed out that he felt "uncomfortable" with the fact that a letter the defense attorney wrote to the office informing them he was Tameris' lawyer was never answered. After the letter was sent, an investigator with the prosecutors' office sent a young female witness to Tameris' house to record a conversation with Tameris about his sexual background. The defense attorney cried foul.

Prosecutor Celeste Gagne defended the decision by the office not to respond to the letter. The office, she said, had no legal duty to respond to defense counsel's letter. "The state has an obligation to prosecute crimes," Gagne said, adding that a vague response such as "thank you for writing" may have "clued (the attorney) off there was something in the works." "I can tell you, in this case, the law was followed," she said.

"It's perfectly legal to not respond and perfectly legal to continue to investigate, but there's something upsetting in our small community," the judge said, "to write a letter and be ignored." While the judge didn't find the case should be dismissed for any due process violation on the part of the state, he felt the fact that the defense attorney's letter wasn't answered "lacked civility." Will suppressed some evidence, including phone records and text messages from a phone that was recovered with a search warrant. But he reserved rulings on the suppression of other evidence, including recorded conversations Tameris had with the young woman who was working with investigators. Will said a hearing will be set next week to announce his remaining rulings on the pretrial motions.

Since the case is largely a battle over the credibility of witness testimony, what additional evidence is suppressed could have a dramatic effect on the outcome. The judge assured the attorneys he would make a ruling so the case can be tried Feb. 20, 2012. The trial is expected to take five days.

Killeen Teen Sex!

Published: Thursday, Jan 12, 2012 4:13 PM PST - Updated: Friday, January 13, 2012, 10:04 AM PST

KILLEEN, TX -- Killeen Police Officer Kirt Yarbrough Sr. (pictured below, left) has been arrested and charged with sexual assault after allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old. The teenager was a member of the Killeen Police Explorer Program, which Yarbrough was one of the leaders of. He was initially placed on administrative leave the day after the alleged inappropriate relationship was reported on January 4, 2012. After an investigation by the Bell County District Attorney's Office Yarbrough was arrested Thursday and released after posting a $100,000 bond. There is an ongoing investigation which could result in more charges being filed, according to a police press release.

The Explorer Program is chartered through Learning for Life, a subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America. Killeen's chapter was established in the early 1980's, and police department policy expressly prohibits fraternization between Explorers and their adult leaders. That program has been suspended to allow for an administrative review of the policies and procedures affiliated with it. Killeen Police say it appears the activities surrounding the relationship between Officer Yarbrough and the juvenile are isolated.

Darby Township Rapist!

Posted: Sat. December 31, 2011 3:56 PM PST - Updated: Tues. January 3, 2012 11:16 AM PST

DELAWARE COUNTY, Pa. (WCJB) – A former Darby Township police officer is facing some serious charges. Kevin Joseph Walker is behind bars after Delaware County prosecutors filed rape, sexual assault and other criminal charges against the former officer. According to the criminal complaint, Walker used his authority as a Darby Township police officer to coerce women into performing sex and sexual acts. The women accuse Walker of harassing and stalking them and say Walker committed some of the crimes while he was on duty and in uniform.

Walker is currently an elected state constable for the City of Chester. He was suspended with the intent to terminate this past July and is currently suspended without pay, pending the outcome of the charges.

Walker was arraigned Thursday afternoon and is now free on bail. He will be required to stay away from the victims. Walker’s wife turned in his personal weapons and he is required to turn in his badge, gun and other police materials by Friday.

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Starburst!

Posted: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 03:15:16 PM PST

WHITE PLAINS, NY – A 49-year-old married father from Fishkill Tuesday pled guilty in Westchester County Court to attempted rape in the first degree, a felony, for trying to arrange a sexual encounter with a 10-year-old virgin. Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore said Robert Viggiano (pictured left) an electrical contractor, told a prostitute that he wanted to have sex with a 10-year-old virgin, asking whether or not she could arrange it. The prostitute reported the request to Yonkers Police, who along with the Westchester DA’s office began an undercover investigation.

Over a period of a few weeks, Viggiano had several conversations with an undercover police officer posing as the mother of the 10-year-old-girl regarding arrangements and the price. They agreed on the transaction occurring at her apartment for $400 and to bring candy for the victim. On February 8, 2011, Viggiano was arrested by Yonkers Police when he arrived at the location with $400 in his pocket along with Starburst candy and a lollipop, thinking he was going to have sex with the girl.

Viggiano was remanded to the Westchester County Jail pending sentencing in March when he faces up to 15 years in state prison and up to 15 years of parole as well as a requirement to register as a sex offender.

Cradle-Grave Robbers!

Posted: Thurs. 4:30 p.m. CST, January 5, 2012 - Updated: Fri. January 6, 2012 - 9:12 AM PST

MILWAUKEE, WI (WCJB) - Tim Russell, a former aide to Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker was charged with fraud on Thursday, accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from a fund for families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Another man, Kevin Kavanaugh, also faces fraud and embezzlement charges linked to the case, while Russell's domestic partner, Brian Pierick, faces charges of child enticement that prosecutors said came to light in the investigation. Pierick, a staffer at the state Department of Public Instruction, was charged with child enticement and causing a child to expose his genitals. The Milwaukee County district attorney said the crimes were uncovered during the embezzlement investigation. Pierick works as an office operations assistant for education for homeless youth at DPI, according to the agency's website.

Russell (pictured above, center) who served as Walker's deputy chief of staff and then housing director of the Milwaukee County's Department of Health and Human Services, faces two felony counts and a misdemeanor count of embezzlement. Kavanaugh, who served on the Milwaukee County Veteran Service Commission, was charged with four counts of fraudulent writings and one count of embezzlement.

A criminal complaint alleges that Kavanaugh (pictured left) and Russell misappropriated funds from 2006 to 2009 from Operation Freedom, a military appreciation event held each year at the Milwaukee County Zoo. The complaint alleges Russell, who worked closely with Walker when he was Milwaukee County Executive, diverted more than $21,000 intended for Operation Freedom to his personal bank account and using some of the money to go on Hawaiian and Caribbean vacations. The criminal complaint also alleges other funds were used by Russell to attend a weekend political strategy session in December 2010 with Herman Cain and his chief of staff, Mark Block, to discuss Cain's now-defunct presidential campaign. Kavanaugh is alleged to have embezzled more than $42,000 from the Military Order of the Purple Heart, a charity involved in Operation Freedom.

Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm declined to comment on the charges or the ongoing probe, which began in 2010.

Schoolyard Predators!
Part XI - 2012

Merrick Pleads!

Posted: 01/20/2012 05:07:02 PM PST - Updated: 01/24/2012 04:36:06 PM PST

MARTINEZ, CA -- A former teacher at Stanley Middle School in Lafayette was sentenced Friday to five years and eight months in prison for molesting a female student on campus in 2010. Michael Merrick, a 48-year-old Lafayette resident, had been scheduled to go to trial Monday on 25 felony charges but instead chose to take a plea deal and pleaded guilty to six felony counts of sex crimes against a minor. He is required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. Had Merrick gone to trial, the victim would have testified in a courtroom closed to the public. Deputy district attorney Johanna Schonfield convinced a judge to close portions of the trial related to the victim's identity in response to a high level of community interest and an online news report that she said compromised the girl's anonymity.

Schonfield required Merrick to admit wrongdoing as part of the plea deal. Speaking in a low tone from inside a courtroom cell, Merrick admitted that he molested the girl on campus and apologized to her, her family, his family, his students and the rest of the Stanley Middle School community. "I betrayed a position of trust," Merrick said. "I was the adult and solely responsible for what occurred."

Merrick (pictured right) was a popular teacher at the Lafayette school when he was arrested in October 2010 on suspicion of molesting a 14-year-old girl that summer. The crimes occurred in his classroom during private tutoring sessions paid for by the victim's parents. Among the evidence collected by police were semen from his classroom couch and hundreds of inappropriate text messages that Merrick sent to the victim.

"To the extent that the criminal justice system can address and remedy that wrong that's been done to this young person, the family is satisfied," an attorney said on behalf of the victim's family, who did not attend the sentencing. "But there's no amount of time nor sanction that can be levied by the court that would remedy the wrong that has been done."

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Sexual Encounters
of a
Historical Nature!

Posted: 11:20 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 - Updated: 10:20 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012

Tulsa, Okla. -- A history teacher at Central High School in Tulsa has been arrested for the 2nd-degree rape of a student. Tulsa Police Officer Jason Willingham says 41-year-old Maurice Parker (pictured above, center) is a history teacher. He was arrested for second degree rape on Wednesday. Willingham says, “Second degree rape is defined by anybody in a position of authority that uses authority possibly to further that relationship.” Investigators say Parker had three sexual encounters with an 18-year-old student. “He was not arrested at the school. He was actually located actually in the 9500 block of South Riverside Parkway.” Parker is out on a $25,000 bond.

Peter ... !

Posted: 01/18/2012 05:49:09 AM PST
Updated: 01/18/2012 04:44:16 PM PST

FREMONT, CA -- A James Logan High School teacher was arraigned Tuesday on 21 felony charges in connection with a sexual relationship police said he had with a 16-year-old student. Peter Kolesnikov, 38, is accused of 12 counts of statutory rape and nine counts of oral copulation of a minor, and additional charges may be pending, police Cmdr. Ben Horner said.

Kolesnikov, being held on $1 million bail at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, is scheduled Thursday to enter a plea to those charges at the Fremont Hall of Justice. In addition, Superior Court Judge Richard Keller is expected to rule on a motion filed by his defense attorney to reduce his bail. It was Kolesnikov's first court appearance since he was arrested Thursday in Hayward, where police said he was en route to meet with the Union City girl, now 17.

Art Teacher Peter Kolesnikov receives his meal at the James Logan Puente lunch.

Outside the courtroom, work colleagues praised Kolesnikov for being dedicated to teaching. "He was devoted to his students academically, personally and emotionally," said a co-worker who declined to give her name. "He's a very popular, well-liked teacher, and I've never seen him do anything inappropriate."

Police investigators paint a different picture. Between last March and November, Kolesnikov and the student -- who is not being named -- had a relationship that began with kissing and eventually led to numerous sexual encounters in private residences and motels in Alameda County, Horner said. New Haven Unified School District officials learned of the relationship Jan. 10 and immediately asked Union City police to conduct an investigation, district spokesman Rick La Plante said. Kolesnikov has been on leave since the start of the school year on a matter unrelated to the arrest and has not worked in the school district since June, La Plante said.

Investigators also served a search warrant on Kolesnikov's residences in San Francisco and Berkeley, Horner said. Police believe there may be additional victims, and parents are encouraged to speak to their children about the arrest. "Based on my request to the public, we have received a number of phone calls," Horner said. "We're still in the process of identifying possible additional victims, if there are any."

Posted: Saturday, January 14, 2012 - Updated: 11:58 AM PST, Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Union City, CA -- A Union City high school teacher has been arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female student, the latest Bay Area educator to face sexual misconduct allegations. Peter Kolesnikov (pictured left) a 38-year-old art teacher at James Logan High School, had a relationship with the student from March to November, said Union City police Cmdr. Ben Horner.

"The relationship began with kissing, then eventually led to sexual encounters in private residences and motels in Alameda County," Horner said Friday. Kolesnikov was arrested Thursday as he was on his way to meet with the girl, who is now 17. He is being held at Santa Rita Jail on suspicion of statutory rape, oral copulation of a minor and communicating with a minor with criminal intent. His bail was set at $1 million.

» On Wednesday, Livermore police arrested Granada High School math teacher Marie Johnson, 40, for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old male student.

» On Tuesday, San Jose police arrested Craig Chandler, 35, of San Jose on suspicion of sexually assaulting a student at O.B. Whaley Elementary School, where he teaches a combined second- and third-grade class.

Elementary School!

Posted: Thurs. 4:30 p.m. CST, January 5, 2012 - Updated: Fri. January 6, 2012 - 9:12 AM PST

SAN JOSE, CA (WCJB) – A San Jose elementary school teacher charged with lewd acts on a child is being accused of having multiple victims, prosecutors said Friday. Craig Chandler (pictured left) 35, appeared in court in a brown jumpsuit Friday afternoon to be arraigned on two felony charges of lewd acts on a child. Chandler was arrested on Tuesday night at his home in San Jose on suspicion of several counts of aggravated sexual assault involving a child in the 7- to 8-year-old age range.

Prosecutor Alison Philo Friday said multiple victims have been identified.

“We have probable cause to believe that more than one victim was involved,” Philo said.

She said Chandler could face a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted on the charges. She would not comment on the children’s gender and age, but said they are all younger than 14.

Chandler’s attorney said that Chandler would “deny the allegations vehemently.”

“Mr. Chandler’s very devastated by these allegations,” he said. “We asked that the police reports remain under seal until we have an opportunity to review the case and the judge has agreed to do that.”

Chandler is suspected of committing at least one of the crimes against an O.B. Whaley Elementary School student at the campus at 2655 Alvin Ave. between August and October, police said. Investigators have not released the child’s age or gender.

According to police, Chandler teaches a second and third grade combination class at O.B. Whaley and has been teaching at the school for the past nine years.

The Evergreen School District posted a statement on its website on Wednesday stating that Chandler has been placed on leave “in accordance with district protocol.”

The statement read, “We want to assure the community that the safety and well-being of our children is our primary concern.”

Chandler’s next hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 31.

He is being held without bail at the Santa Clara County Main Jail.

Serial Molester!

Posted: Thursday, January 5, 2012, 10:43 PM - Updated: Fri. January 6, 2012 05:06 PM PST

(Daniel Montague Acker Jr., above, taught fourth grade at three schools and drove buses in the Shelby County school system from 1985 until he retired in 2009.)

ALABASTER, Ala. - An Alabama schoolteacher was jailed on charges of sexually abusing a fourth-grade female student, and police said Thursday the man told them he molested more than 20 other girls over his 25-year career. Alabaster police said Daniel Montague Acker Jr., 49, was charged with three counts of sexual abuse, and additional charges were possible. "This is not a one-time event," said Deputy Chief Curtis Rigney. "This happened over a period of 25 years." Acker taught fourth grade at three schools and drove buses in the Shelby County school system from 1985 until he retired in 2009. He was investigated on similar allegations in 1992, but grand jurors did not return an indictment, said Rigney.

A girl who is now 12 or 13 came forward within the last week claiming Acker molested her around 2009, when he was a teacher at Thompson Intermediate School, Rigney said. He wouldn't say what drove the girl to go to police. At least one instance of alleged abuse occurred in a classroom in front of other students, Rigney said, but it wasn't clear whether the children saw anything or realized what had happened. An attorney for Acker did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

Acker was being held in the Shelby County jail with bond set at $225,000. A jail mug shot showed him wearing a vest meant to prevent prisoner suicides. Acker remained on the school payroll as a substitute bus driver until this week, Rigney said. Acker's father, Dan M. Acker, is a longtime commissioner in Shelby County, just south of Birmingham, but Rigney said there was no indication his father's position helped the teacher avoid charges earlier.

Shelby County schools spokeswoman Cindy Warner said Acker was placed on leave while child abuse allegations were investigated in October 1992, and the county school board voted against firing him in February 1993 after grand jurors did not indict him. She said Acker was reinstated as a fourth-grade teacher at Creek View Elementary, where he worked before moving to Thompson Intermediate.

In a statement, Superintendent Randy Fuller said the district was cooperating with police and would no longer use Acker as a substitute bus driver or in any other capacity. We can only say that the allegations are shocking," Fuller said. "We, as a school district, understand that child abuse is horrible with devastating consequences to victims and their families."

Confronted by police, Acker admitted molesting the girl who went to officers. He also told investigators he had abused more than 20 other girls but did not name any alleged victims, Rigney said. Acker is no longer cooperating with investigators, he said. Investigators believe most if not all of the girls were in Acker's classes, Rigney said. But police are trying to see if some of the girls were students in other teachers' classrooms. "He was in a school. We don't know what contact he might have had with other kids," said Rigney.

Acker's arrest stunned residents in the Birmingham suburb of 28,000, where he was well-known for his long teaching career. "Everybody knows Danny," said former city councilman Bobby Harris, shaking his head.

National Youth
Coaching & Ministries!

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 3:32pm PST - Updated:

LAKELAND, Fla. — Polk County deputies arrested a teacher and the head football coach at George Jenkins High School in Lakeland for alleged sex crimes involving children. The Polk County Sheriff's Office said both suspects are youth ministers but it didn't immediately identify them. However, the media source said Matt Thompson (pictured above, center) the head football coach at George Jenkins High School, was arrested. The newspaper said Thompson, 30, is accused of having sexual activity with a 17-year-old female student. He faces two counts of sexual battery by a person of custodial authority, the newspaper said. The local media also said Thompson has been under investigation by the school district for alleged harassment. The newspaper said that investigation involved allegations that athletes falsified information. It's not clear whether Thompson's arrest is related to the district's investigation.

The local media said Thompson has been the coach at George Jenkins High School for the past two seasons. The media also said he previously coached at Wildwood High School in Sumter County. In his two seasons at Wildwood, Thompson led Wildwood to the state playoffs each year. Before that, he coached at Paris (Ky.) High. Thompson grew up in London, Ky., and played college football there, but his playing career as a linebacker was abbreviated by four shoulder surgeries. He worked as an assistant at two high schools in Kentucky before coming to Melbourne Central Catholic, where he was an assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and head weightlifting coach. After his stay at MCC, he went to Paris, the third-smallest football playing school in the state The Polk County Sheriff's Office declined to release additional information until a news conference at 11 a.m. today.

Thompson denied inappropriate behavior with any students.

30-year-old teacher Edward Demoreta (pictured above, center-left) was charged with three counts of lewd battery on a victim between the ages of 12 and 15. Detectives say that the victim was a student at Mulberry Middle School and admitted to having a crush on Demoreta.

She admitted to performing oral sex on him three times while he was her teacher. The first time was at his request after a tutoring session on campus. The other times were at her request while he was giving her a ride to church, saying once the act was performed in the church parking lot. Demoreta admitted to detectives that he allowed her to perform oral sex on him, but denied initiating any sex.

27-year-old Ricardo Navarro (pictured above, center-right) was charged with enticing a child to use a computer to distribute pornography and two other counts. According to an affidavit, the 14-year-old victim, a member of the youth group at the First Assembly of God in Mulberry, claims that Navarro attempted to fondle her breasts and touched her hand to his penis while inside the church. The victim also received text messages from Navarro's phone requesting "sexy" and "skin" photos from her.

Navarro told detectives that he did not recall attempting to touch her, but did confess to sending the text messages and requesting to see pictures of the victim naked.

Demoreta and Navarro were youth pastors.

Officials say that while the three cases are separate investigations, the victim in two of the cases is the same girl.

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NYPD Thievery!

First Posted: Jan 31, 2012 - Updated: 2:54 PM, PST, Feb. 2, 2012

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 39-year-old cop has been busted for stealing two iPads, sources said Tuesday. Anthony Rivera was arrested Monday for grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and official misconduct, police said. A source said Rivera stole two iPads from an impounded vehicle. The NYPD's internal affairs bureau led the investigation. The arrest comes as the NYPD and its commissioner, Ray Kelly, are embroiled in other controversies. Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne has been in the hot seat for providing inaccurate information about the screening of an anti-Muslim film to trainees, while Kelly's son, "Good Day New York" co-host Greg Kelly, is being investigated for rape allegations.

NYPD Beatdown!!

First Posted: Jan 31, 2012 - Updated: 1:54 PM, PST, Feb. 2, 2012

The NYPD is investigating several cops after a disturbing video emerged of them beating a drug suspect, police said. Cell phone camera footage captured cops pushing, kicking and striking Jateik Reed, 19, with a baton as he lay on a sidewalk in University Heights around 1:45 p.m. Thursday. One of the cops also appears to threaten the person taping the arrest with pepper spray. The cell-phone footage was posted on YouTube over the weekend, prompting prosecutors and NYPD internal affairs investigators to open a probe, sources said.

Investigators will determine if the cops' actions violated department policy or broke the law, a law enforcement source said. "The incident in the video is under investigation by the Bronx District Attorney and the NYPD," said a spokesman for Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson. An NYPD spokeswoman said that the officers had been placed on modified duty and that the incident is under investigation.

After his arrest, Reed was charged with assaulting a police officer, menacing, harassment and possession of cocaine and marijuana. He is being held at Rikers Island on $15,000 bail. Cops claim Reed resisted being handcuffed after they saw him trying to ditch the drugs, according to court records. One of the cops said Reed head-butted him in the cheek and punched him in the nose, causing injuries that required stitches at a local hospital, the records show. But a friend who witnessed Reed's arrest said he did nothing to warrant the beating- and will likely be permanently disfigured. "The police who did that were out of control," said the friend, who did not want to be named. "They just kept hitting him and hitting him for no reason. His entire face was black and blue and his eyes were sealed shut from being so swollen."

Reed's mother, teenage brother and a third relative were also arrested when they went to the 42nd Precinct station house to complain about the incident and allegedly scuffled with cops, records show. "I want answers!" Reed's mother, Schuan Reed, 40, said at the station house, records show. Her son, Jashawn Walker, 16, allegedly swung on cops trying to remove him from the station, leading to the arrests. Jateik Reed was also arrested Jan. 20 for stealing a cell phone from a woman on Webster Ave. in the Bronx, police said. He was charged with robbery, grand larceny, petit larceny and possession of stolen property in that case.

Gun Runner!

First Posted: 6:28 AM, EST, Jan 24, 2012 - Updated: 9:54 AM, PST, Jan 24, 2012

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (WCJB) - Prosecutors are describing a Prince George's County police detective accused of reselling guns seized from criminals as a "gun dealer on the street with a badge." The remarks were made Monday during opening statements in the trial of Juan Carter (pictured above, center) who was indicted in 2010 on 13 counts of theft and misconduct in office. The indictment stemmed from an internal investigation into the theft of several confiscated guns.

Carter was on a firearms task force run by the Maryland State Police, and authorities have said that at one point more than 20 guns taken by the task force were missing. The indictment against 13-year veteran Juan Diego Carter links him to 11 alleged thefts. One of the guns was later used to wound an off-duty fellow Prince George's County police officer in a September 2009 carjacking attempt. Another gun turned up in a Baltimore domestic violence investigation. Prince George's County police Chief Roberto Hylton says investigators believe Carter was reselling guns he had seized from criminals and at least nine guns remain missing.

Carter's defense attorney said his client did not steal the weapons and added that Carter's paperwork, along with others on the task force, was sometimes sloppy. Carter, who was suspended last year, remains free after posting a $200,000 bond.

The New Sheriff
In Town!

January 27, 2012

Posted: Friday, Jan 20, 2012 - 6:50 AM PST - Updated: Saturday, Jan 21, 2012 - 3:14 PM PST

San Francisco, CA -- The wife of San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi strongly defended her husband during his arraignment Thursday on three charges stemming from a domestic violence incident involving the couple on New Year's Eve. Mirkarimi, 50, appeared in court Thursday afternoon and pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of domestic violence battery, child endangerment and dissuading a witness. He was ordered by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Susan Breall to stay away from his wife, Eliana Lopez and their 2-year-old son Theo throughout the court proceedings, despite an emotional statement by Lopez in support of her husband and against the order.

She said Theo woke up at 5 a.m. Thursday to ask "Is daddy at home?" and said she promised that he would be home the next day. "The violence against me is I don't have my family together," Lopez said. "I'm not afraid of my husband at all." Mirkarimi removed his glasses to wipe away tears at times during Lopez's speech to the judge.

Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Aguilar-Tarchi had sought the stay away order and laid out much of the evidence in the case against Mirkarimi in support of it. Aguilar-Tarchi cited a video that a neighbor took of Lopez, who went to the neighbor's home the day after the alleged incident. The neighbor, since identified as Ivory Madison, reported the incident to police on Jan. 4, according to an arrest warrant affidavit filed by police last Friday. Breall ultimately sided with prosecutors and issued the stay away order, saying although Lopez is "quite charming" and "says her husband is a good person," she said, "I have to go by this affidavit."

Before Breall issued her order, Mirkarimi's attorney Bob Waggener acknowledged that Mirkarimi left the bruise on Lopez's arm during the argument but said "it's really on the lower tiers" of domestic violence. Waggener said the couple has since reunited and should be allowed to work through their problems.

At the end of the hearing, Mirkarimi was ordered to return to court on Monday to set a date for trial. Because the case is a misdemeanor, the trial has to begin within 45 days. Mirkarimi did not speak during the hearing and declined to speak to reporters outside the courtroom after the hearing.

Tuesday, January 18, 2012

San Francisco, CA -- San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón obtained an emergency protective order from a judge last week barring San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi from having any contact with his wife or son. Mirkarimi, 50, is awaiting arraignment Thursday on misdemeanor charges of domestic violence battery, child endangerment and dissuading a witness, stemming from an incident that began after the couple left their Western Addition home for a New Year's Eve meal. Theo is the couple's 2-year-old son. Mirkarimi is accused of child endangerment because the boy was present when he allegedly bruised his wife. Mirkarimi has denied the allegations. Through his lawyer, Sheriff Mirkarimi has also turned down several requests to talk to police.

Mirkarimi's wife said in a videotaped account of his alleged New Year's Eve attack against her that he had manhandled her on an earlier occasion last year, and that the former city supervisor had warned her he could gain custody of their young son because he was "very powerful," court documents show. A key piece of evidence in the case is a Jan. 1 videotape taken of Mirkarimi's wife, Eliana Lopez, by a neighbor, Ivory Madison. On it, Lopez is crying and points to a bruise on her right bicep where she said Mirkarimi grabbed her during the confrontation the day before, according to an arrest warrant affidavit prepared by police Inspector Richard Daniele of the domestic violence unit. "This happened yesterday," Lopez says on the video, according to the affidavit. "Two times in 2011, and this is the second time this is happening."

San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi with his wife Eliana Lopez by his side, speaks to the news media about the three misdemeanor charges against him, on Friday Jan. 13, 2012, in San Francisco, Ca.

In a Jan. 11 follow-up interview with district attorney's investigators, Madison said Lopez came to her home New Year's Day, burst into tears and gave a "free-flowing narrative" of the confrontation the previous day, Inspector Daniele wrote in the arrest warrant affidavit. Lopez told her that she, Mirkarimi and their son had been driving to lunch when she asked Mirkarimi if she could visit her family in Venezuela after his Jan. 8 inauguration as sheriff, Madison said.

Lopez recounted how Mirkarimi began to "scream, 'F@%k you, f@%k you, you are trying to take Theo away from me!' " Madison said. Lopez said Mirkarimi had turned the car around and called off lunch, Madison said. Mirkarimi said "something to the effect that she didn't deserve to eat," Madison said.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

San Francisco, CA -- San Francisco's new sheriff was charged with beating his wife during an incident on New Year's Eve but denied the claims and said he will fight to prove his innocence. He could face up to a year in prison and up to three years of probation. Mirkarimi was booked at San Francisco County Jail and he was released on $35,000 bail. A police mugshot showed Mirkarimi with his eyes closed (pictured left). The sheriff was ordered to stay away from his home while police investigate other possible domestic violence incidents involving Mirkarimi and Ms Lopez. The sheriff, 50, vowed to remain in office while he fights the charges. He told reporters outside his office last Friday afternoon that he denies the allegations. "‘The charges are very unfounded. We will fight the charges. We are cooperating'."

Controversy swirled around the investigation from the start. Days after the alleged dispute, Mirkarimi was sworn in as San Francisco sheriff, but a judge had declined to perform the ceremony to avoid a potential conflict if Mirkarimi were charged. Mirkarimi appeared at the ceremony with his wife and son. Asked about the incident, he called it a ‘private matter, a family matter.'

A neighbor reported that Mirkarimi grabbed and bruised his wife Eliana Lopez's arm during a heated argument at their home, according to a police affidavit. The injury was shown on a video recorded by the neighbor, and a text message conversation between Lopez and the neighbor included details of the incident, according to the affidavit requesting a search warrant to obtain the video camera and phone.

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon said the basis for the child endangerment charge was that the couple's son saw the alleged incident occur. Mr. Gascon declined to explain the allegation that Mirkarimi influenced a witness. ‘While I do not relish having to bring charges against a San Francisco elected official, I have taken an oath to uphold the laws of the state of California,’ Gascon said. ‘Whether this was the elected sheriff or any other San Francisco resident, this type of behavior is inexcusable, criminal and will be prosecuted.’

Friday, January 13, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is expected to face three misdemeanor charges stemming from an investigation into accusations he physically abused his wife, Corrupt Justice™ has learned. The District Attorney's office plans to file charges of domestic violence battery, child endangerment and dissuading a witness, sources said. He could be arraigned as early as Tuesday. The charging decision by District Attorney George Gascón heightens the legal and political challenges faced by Mirkarimi, a major player in San Francisco's left-of-center circles.

As sheriff, Mirkarimi (pictured below, left) oversees the city's jail system. The sheriff oversees a paramilitary organization of more than 800 sworn officers and a civilian staff of about 100. The department runs San Francisco's jails with an average daily inmate population of 2,200, provides City Hall and courtroom security, carries out court-ordered evictions and warrants, and aids San Francisco police in enforcement actions.

Police initiated an investigation after a neighbor of the couple contacted them on Jan. 4, 2012. The neighbor said Eliana Lopez contacted her on New Year's Day to report the alleged abuse: that Mirkarimi grabbed his wife's arm forcefully enough to cause bruising. The neighbor said she had a photo and video of the bruising and text messages from Lopez about the incident. Police, armed with a search warrant, seized the photo, video and texts as evidence. Mirkarimi, who served on the Board of Supervisors for seven years before becoming sheriff on Sunday, has denied wrongdoing; his attorney described the case as flimsy; and his wife, Eliana Lopez, has said it is not true that Mirkarimi bruised her during a fight on New Years Eve.

A spokesman for Mirkarimi, who was sworn into office less than a week ago, said the sheriff plans to fight the charges and will not resign. "He's going to fight it. He and Eliana just believe there has been no incident of domestic violence," said Jim Stearns, Mirkarimi's spokesman. If he fights the charges, he opens himself and his family to public scrutiny in an open courtroom. If he pleads no contest or guilty, the sheriff would be admitting his culpability as a wife abuser in a city that prides itself as being at the forefront of combating domestic violence. If found guilty, Mirkarimi, a sworn peace officer, would be prohibited from carrying a firearm. He also would be required to attend domestic violence classes, pay a $400 fine and could be put on probation for up to three years or sent to jail for up to a year. Under state law, he would only be automatically removed from office if convicted of a felony.

High-profile victims' advocates who work in the field of domestic violence rallied in front of City Hall on Thursday demanding that Mirkarimi take a leave from office until the case is resolved and that he resign if he's charged and found guilty.

City law gives Mayor Ed Lee the authority to charge Mirkarimi with official misconduct and temporarily suspend him from office - a move that eventually could lead to Mirkarimi's permanent expulsion. During a temporary suspension, the sheriff's department would be run by a caretaker appointed by the mayor. The likely pick for the interim post would be Undersheriff Jan Dempsey, a veteran of the department. Should Lee suspend Mirkarimi from office, the mayor would be required to immediately notify the city Ethics Commission and the Board of Supervisors and quickly produce written charges.

The Ethics Commission would hold a hearing at which Mirkarimi and his legal counsel could wage a defense. The commission then would make a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors on whether to sustain the charges, and the board would review the record of the hearing. It would take the support of at least nine of the 11 supervisors to take disciplinary action against Mirkarimi - up to and including stripping him from the office to which he was elected. The threshold for discipline would be "conduct that falls below the standard of decency, good faith and right action impliedly required of all public officers and including any violation of a specific conflict of interest of governmental ethics law."

Spring Chicken Flies!

PUBLISHED WED, JAN 11, 2012 05:38 PM - MODIFIED WED, JAN 14, 2012 02:03 PM PST

HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. — Long-time Holly Springs fire chief Cecil Parker has unexpectedly left his post here amid a state investigation into allegations of misconduct on his part. Parker, a 19-year Holly Springs employee, submitted his letter of resignation last Thursday, and his tenure ended Friday. Town Manager Carl Dean said Parker cited "personal reasons" for his departure. The chief resigned of his own volition, according to Dean. Town staff have refused to release Parker's letter of resignation, citing state personnel laws. Dean said yesterday he had heard no official word of the state's interest in Parker. "I know there are lots of rumors around," he said. "I've heard lots of different things, but I'm just dealing with the resignation and moving on."

A State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman confirmed yesterday that the bureau began a probe of Parker's conduct in March 2010. Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby requested the investigation into "allegations of misconduct by Cecil Parker," Jennifer Canada said. Canada declined to describe the nature of the allegations against Parker or further details of the ongoing investigation, citing bureau protocol. "Generally, we're very limited in what we can say," she said. Willoughby's office did not respond before press time to a request for comment.

Parker, 48, joined the town staff in 1992, when he left the Wake County Sheriff's Office to become Holly Springs' first police officer, according to former councilman Parrish Womble. The de-facto police chief became the "chief of public safety" in 1995, then the fire chief in 2006. Parker's final salary was $99,984; it was unclear whether he was qualified for a pension. He oversaw 36 employees in his role as fire chief.

Sucker Punched!

Posted: 1/11/12 02:12 PM ET - Updated: 1/11/12 04:50 PM PT

Bellflower, CA -- A passenger on a bus recorded a Los Angeles cop punching a woman in the face who apparently hadn't been violent while the camera rolled. Jermaine Green, the man who taped the Monday night incident in Bellflower, told media sources that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy who struck the woman threatened to arrest him if he didn't hand over his camera phone.

The woman brought a stroller laden with pillows on to the bus and Green described her as having "special needs." Two deputies allegedly boarded the bus at the next stop and confronted the lady, who began cursing at them, according to Green's retelling. His video begins with the woman standing in the aisle and cursing repeatedly. One of the deputies, a woman, grabs her arm. The audio is unclear, but the woman appears to try to walk past the deputies. The male deputy, who had been holding her wrists, cocks his right arm and throws a right-handed punch that knocks the woman off balance.

The arguing continues as the woman is restrained on a seat. The tape cuts out after more deputies board the bus.

A spokesman for the sheriff's office told LA Weekly that the police accosted the woman, because they'd received a report that said she "almost attacked an elderly man." The woman, whose name was not given, has previous arrests, including charges of assaulting a police officer, the spokesman said. He added she had acted aggressively towards the deputies. The spokesman's statement said the woman had "mental challenges."

Officials from Internal Affairs and the Office of Independent Review will investigate.

DEA Dirty Laundry!

Posted: January 9, 2012 - Updated: Wed. 04:32 p.m. PST, January 11, 2012

MEXICO CITY – Mexico's government allowed a group of undercover U.S. anti-drug agents and their Colombian informant to launder millions in cash for a powerful Mexican drug trafficker and his Colombian cocaine supplier, according to documents made public Monday. A Mexican magazine published portions of documents that describe how Drug Enforcement Administration agents, a Colombian trafficker-turned-informant and Mexican federal police officers in 2007 infiltrated the Beltran Leyva drug cartel and a cell of money launderers for Colombia's Valle del Norte cartel in Mexico. The group of officials conducted at least 15 wire transfers to banks in the United States, Canada and China and smuggled and laundered about $2.5 million in the United States. They lost track of much of that money.

In his testimony, the DEA agent in charge of the operation says DEA agents posing as pilots flew at least one shipment of cocaine from Ecuador to Madrid through a Dallas airport.

The documents are part of an extradition order against Harold Mauricio Poveda-Ortega, a Colombian arrested in Mexico in 2010 on charges of supplying cocaine to Arturo Beltran Leyva. A year earlier, Beltran Leyva was killed in a shootout with Mexican marines in the city of Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City. Beltran Leyva was once a top lieutenant for the Sinaloa drug cartel, led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. But he split from the cartel shortly after his brother was arrested in 2008, setting off a bloody battle between the former allies. The documents show Mexico approved Poveda-Ortega's extradition to the United States in May, but neither Mexican nor U.S. authorities would confirm whether he has been extradited. U.S. and Mexican officials did not respond to requests for comment. The documents offer rare glimpses into the way U.S. anti-drug agents are operating in Mexico, an often sensitive subject in a country touchy about national sovereignty.

(A haul of about $206 million is seen with confiscated weapons after the money was found stashed in closets, suitcases, and drawers in a house in an upscale neighborhood of Mexico City (March 15, 2007).) On one occasion, the informant who began working for the DEA in 2003 after a drug arrest, met with the girlfriend of a Colombian drug trafficker in Dallas and offered to move cocaine for their group around the world for $1,000 per kilo. In a follow-up meeting, the informant introduced the woman to a DEA agent posing as a pilot. The woman is identified as the girlfriend of Horley Rengifo Pareja, who was detained in 2007 accused of laundering money and drug trafficking. Another scene described the informant negotiating a deal to move a cocaine shipment from Ecuador to Spain and minutes later being taken to a house where he met with Arturo Beltran Leyva.

Fractured cartels have led to an increase of drug violence in Mexico. According to several counts more than 45,000 people have been killed since late 2006, though the government stopped giving figures on drug war dead when the toll hit nearly 35,000 a year ago. On Monday, police in western Mexico found the bodies of 13 men at a gas station in the state of Michoacan. The bodies were dumped near a convenience store on the gas station lot in the town of Zitacuaro, said Michoacan state prosecutors spokesman Jonathan Arredondo. Arredondo said threatening messages were found with the bodies, but he wouldn't comment on their content or give any other details.

The western state is home base to The Knights Templar cartel, which like its predecessor, La Familia, is a pseudo-religious gang specializing in methamphetamine production, drug smuggling, extortion and other crimes.

Dope on the Rhine!

Posted: Mon. 11:33 a.m. PST, January 9, 2012 - Updated:

RHINE, Ga. -- A central Georgia police officer faces drug charges for allegedly dealing in prescription drugs. The Dodge County Sheriff's Office says Rhine Police Chief Kip Herman Cravey, 36 (pictured above, center) was arrested and booked in the county jail Thursday night. A news release says Cravey faces two charges of illegally distributing pills and trying to buy some. The release says Cravey furnished more than two dozen "Soma" pills to a person and tried to buy Roxicodone pills, also known as Oxycodone.

The sheriff's office says Cravey may face additional charges.

Cravey was booked into the county jail, but has been moved to another jail for safety reasons, the release says. No bond has been set.

Rhine, population about 400, is located in Dodge County.

Shots Fired!

Updated: Sat December 31, 2011 3:08 PM PST

An off-duty Riverside County sheriff's deputy accused of shooting a man in a Murrieta bar, was arraigned Friday (12/23) at 1:30 pm. 42-year-old Dayle William Long (pictured below, center) a 10-year veteran with the Riverside Sheriff's Department, is facing one count of murder. He allegedly shot 36-year-old Samuel Vanettes of Winchester at Spelly's Pub and Grille at 40675 Murrieta Hot Springs Road around 8 p.m. Wednesday, according to Murrieta Police. Vanettes was shot several times and died at the scene. When police arrived, they say Long identified himself to the officers "as an off-duty Riverside sheriff's deputy.''

Long was booked at the Southwest Detention Center in Murrieta on suspicion of murder and is being held on $1 million bail. If convicted as now charged long could face a sentence of 50 years to life in state prison.

Thurs. December 22, 2011 2:30 PM PST

Murrieta, CA -- An off-duty Riverside County sheriff's deputy who allegedly fatally shot a man in a Murrieta bar stopped after the shooting to reload and use his cellphone to report the incident, a family member of the dead man related Thursday. Dayle William Long, 42, then walked outside the bar Wednesday night and identified himself to arriving Murrieta police officers as a deputy, police said. He was questioned and booked on suspicion of murder early Thursday morning, according to a police report.

Long has worked for the Riverside County Sheriff's Department for 10 years and serves on its court services division, said Sgt. Joe Borja, a spokesman for the department. A Facebook account bearing Long's name lists him as a member of the department's Underwater Search and Recovery Team.

Long had just met the man he allegedly shot and killed -- Samuel Vallentes, 36, of Winchester -- said a relative of the victim who asked not to be named because police asked the family not to speak publicly. Vallentes, a cashier at a gasoline station, arrived at the crowded Spelly’s Pub and Grille on Murrieta Hot Springs Road for happy hour with his sister, her boyfriend and another friend, the family member said. Long had been sitting alone and drinking. Vallentes introduced himself and they began playing darts, said the relative, adding he received a first-hand account from the sister and boyfriend.

“They were getting along good,” said the family member. “When the cop started having more whiskey, he started getting belligerent. He was talking to somebody else. "He lifted his shirt up and showed his gun," the relative continued. "Sam was standing by the dart board. He said, 'You don’t want to do this; you’re a nice guy.' And he shot him. That’s what I’m told.” Then, as people were scrambling for cover, Long reloaded his gun and pulled out a cellphone, the family member said. “He was calling dispatch and telling them shots were fired, like he was a cop,” the relative said.

The shooting occurred less than an hour after the two men had met, the family member said. “He shot him three times. How could that happen?” the family member said. “How could a cop shoot [him]? I’m pro-cop; I just don’t understand it.”

Brutal Force:
Seattle Police!

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:40am PST - Updated:

SEATTLE, WA — Seattle police have engaged in excessive force that violated federal law and the Constitution, the U.S. Justice Department said Friday. An investigation was launched last spring following the fatal shooting of a homeless, Native American woodcarver and other reported use of force used against minority suspects. The investigation was aimed at determining whether Seattle police have a "pattern or practice" of violating civil rights or discriminatory policing, and if so, what they should do to improve.

"Our findings should serve as a foundation to reform the police department and to help restore the community's confidence in fair, just and effective law enforcement. The problems within SPD have been present for many years and will take time to fix," said Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for the civil rights division. The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and 34 other community groups called for the inquiry after a Seattle officer shot and killed the woodcarver, John T. Williams, in 2010.

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Video from Officer Ian Birk's patrol car showed Williams crossing the street holding a piece of wood and a small knife, and Birk exiting the vehicle to pursue him. Off camera, Birk quickly shouted three times for Williams to drop the knife, then fired five shots. The knife was found folded at the scene, but Birk later maintained Williams had threatened him. Birk resigned from the force but was not charged. A review board found the shooting unjustified.

Other incidents captured on surveillance or police-cruiser video include officers using an anti-Mexican epithet and stomping on a prone Latino man who was mistakenly thought to be a robbery suspect; an officer kicking a non-resisting black youth in a convenience store; and officers tackling and kicking a black man who showed up in a police evidence room to pick up belongings after he was mistakenly released from jail.

Attica:
Beatdown!

Posted: 3:58 PM PST, Tue December 13, 2011 - Updated:

pictured above, center, Sean Warner

WARSAW, NY - Four Attica guards attacked and seriously injured a jewelry thief serving a two-to-four year sentence at the maximum-security prison in western New York, prosecutors said Tuesday. Inmate George Williams, 29, who was convicted of larceny for stealing jewelry from two Manhattan stores in 2008 and 2009, suffered broken bones and fractures in the Aug. 9 attack, state police said. Williams was moved to another prison near Buffalo and is still recovering from his injuries, which are not considered life-threatening, state police said. The four men — Keith Swack, 37, Sean Warner, 37, Matthew Raddemacher, 29, and Erik Hibsch, 28 — were arrested Tuesday and indicted on felony charges of gang assault, conspiracy and tampering with physical evidence. The indictment from a Wyoming County grand jury also charges Swack, of Corfu, Sgt. Warner, of Belfast, Raddemacher, of Wyoming, and Hibsch, of Gainesville with conspiracy, tampering with physical evidence, official misconduct and offering a false instrument for filing.

pictured above, center, Matthew Raddemacher

Authorities provided no further details on the circumstances of the attack. But Swack's attorney maintained the altercation occurred when the guards learned that Williams "may have had a blade and drugs in his cell." In the previous weeks, the attorney said, prison authorities had recovered "over 70 weapons — knives, shanks, razor blades — from inmates in searches of cells. And a lot of those weapons came from the same C Block where this inmate was." "When you go to work at a max like Attica, that's no day at the beach these days," he added. "When a jury hears the evidence, we are very confident it will do the right thing."

pictured above, center, Eric Hibsch

The guards appeared at an arraignment Tuesday along with their lawyers, and bail was set at $25,000 each. No pleas were entered. They were ordered back to court Feb. 7. The four also were charged with official misconduct, a misdemeanor. In addition, Warner was charged with a felony count of submitting false statements to the prison. Gang assault, the most serious charge, carries a sentence of five years to 25 years. The arrests came after a four-month investigation by the state Department of Corrections, the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Inspector General's Office. "What everyone needs to remember as this case goes forward is that this is an indictment of four individuals and not an indictment on the noble profession of corrections officer," Wyoming County District Attorney Donald O'Geen said. "No one is above the law."

pictured above, center, Keith Swack

In September 1971, police fired more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition in six minutes in quelling a four-day inmate uprising at Attica. In all, 11 corrections officers and 32 inmates died. All but four were shot to death when state troopers retook the prison.

Read the indictment against the officers here.

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-- April 16, 2011, Statement by New York City Police Officer Michael Daragjati, boasting of his false arrest of another African-American male.

The Grim-X-mas Reaper!

Posted: Wed. December 28, 2011 3:37 PM PST - Updated:

A man charged in the bludgeoning death and dismemberment of a 9-year-old Indiana girl is wanted in Florida for violating probation in 2000, officials said Wednesday. Michael Plumadore, 39, faces one count of murder in the death of Aliahna Lemmon (pictured above, center). He was being held without bond after a court appearance Tuesday. He was arrested Monday night after the girl's body was found. Allen County Sheriff Ken Fries told media sources, "Some of the story we heard from the beginning with him led us to believe he was the key to this case, that ... he was the one who was going to have the answers we were looking for."

Plumadore's confession came after several hours of interrogation Monday evening. "It was very factual when he started telling them what happened. And they just had to sit there and listen to him as if they were just listening to a story with no emotion, just trying to get him to say more and more and more," Fries said. "He was the one who saw her last," Fries said. "He was the one who had the most contact with her."

In a probable cause affidavit released Tuesday, Allen County, Indiana, sheriff's investigators said Plumadore (pictured left) admitted striking the girl repeatedly in the head with a brick as she stood on the front steps of his mobile home in the early hours of December 22. He told authorities he stored Aliahna's body in garbage bags in a freezer at his home until that night, when he allegedly dismembered it with a hacksaw, according to the affidavit. Plumadore allegedly told investigators he threw parts of the body in a nearby commercial trash bin but kept the head, hands and feet in his freezer, according to the document.

Florida Department of Corrections records show that Plumadore was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, firefighter or EMS worker in May 2000, and later that month he was sentenced to a year of community supervision. But he failed to report to his probation officer or attend a court-ordered anger management class the following month, said department spokeswoman Ann Howard. Details of the offense were unavailable because of the time that has passed, she said. However, Plumadore is listed in the department database as "absconder/fugitive."

Posted: Tues. December 27, 2011 10:13 AM PST - Updated:

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - A babysitter and trusted neighbor has confessed that he bludgeoned a 9-year-old Indiana girl to death with a brick then dismembered her, hiding her head, hands and feet at his home and dumping the rest of her remains nearby, police said Tuesday. Allen County sheriff's investigators said in an affidavit that 39-year-old Michael Plumadore admits he killed Aliahna Lemmon on Dec. 22. According to the affidavit, Plumadore told police that after beating Aliahna to death, he stuffed her body into trash bags and hid her in the freezer at his trailer. He said he later chopped up her body and stuffed her remains into freezer bags. Police said Plumadore told them he had hidden Aliahna's head, feet and hands at his trailer and that he had discarded her other remains at a nearby business. Police obtained a warrant to search his trailer on Monday and found the body parts. A judge ordered Plumadore held without bail or bond at an initial hearing Tuesday, sheriff's department spokesman Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel said. He has yet to be formally charged in Aliahna's death.

Mike Plumadore sits next to the chair where Aliahna Lemmon, 9, was last seen before she went missing, in this Dec. 25, 2011 photo.

Allen County Sheriff Ken Fries said Plumadore (pictured above, center) was arrested after being interviewed by detectives for several hours Monday — and was also questioned Friday and Saturday. "The story just didn't make sense to our investigators or to me when I first heard it," Fries said. "I thought this is the guy we needed to focus on. If we are going to find her, he's going to be the one who has the answers for us."

Aliahna and her two younger sisters were staying with Plumadore because their mother had been sick with the flu. "He was a trusted family friend," Aliahna's step-grandfather, David Story, told media sources late Monday, saying he was surprised by the arrest. "It did come to a horrible conclusion," Fries told media sources. "We have somebody in custody now who can pay the price for it."

Plumadore told media sources on Sunday that Aliahna (pictured left) disappeared from his home Friday morning while he was sleeping after having gone to a gas station about a mile away to buy a cigar. Authorities have said the store's surveillance video shows him there about that time. Plumadore claimed that he left the three girls in his mobile home about 6 a.m. Friday and went to a gas station about a mile away to buy a cigar. Authorities have said the store's surveillance video shows him there about that time. "I had dead-bolted the door," he said. "When I got back, all the girls was here." He said he smoked his cigar and went back to sleep, then woke up about 10 a.m. when Aliahna's mother called. After that call, he realized the door to the home was unlocked and that Aliahna was gone. He said Aliahna's 6-year-old sisters told him Aliahna had left with her mother. Plumadore said it wasn't until he talked with Aliahna's mother about 8:30 p.m. that they realized she was missing and police were notified. Souders said the miscommunication caused the delay in determining that Aliahna had vanished.

Aliahna's mother, Tarah Souders, told media sources on Sunday that her daughter had vision, hearing and emotional problems and suffered from attention deficit disorder. "She's never wandered off," she said Sunday. Aliahna and her sisters were staying with Plumadore because their mother had been sick with the flu and Aliahna's stepfather works at night and sleeps during the day.

More than 100 emergency workers searched for her Saturday around the rundown mobile home park where Aliahna and Plumadore lived and FBI agents were there Monday. Fries said Plumadore told investigators on Monday where the girl's body could be found, ending the hopes of authorities that Aliahna would be found safe. A state website shows that 15 registered sex offenders live in the park that numbers about two dozen homes. Plumadore is not on Indiana's registered sex offenders list. He has a criminal record in Florida and North Carolina that includes convictions for trespassing and assault. Elizabeth Watkins, who lives nearby, said residents are cautious and keep to themselves in part because of the number of sex offenders living in the mobile home park. "I'm numb, I'm totally numb. I don't know what to think," she said.

Still Missing!

Posted: 12/29/2011 8:50:17 AM ET - Updated: 12/29/2011 10:04:17 AM PT

Waterville, Maine (WCJB) -- On Wednesday, Waterville police said they have wrapped up large-scale searches for missing child, Ayla Reynolds. With assistance from firefighters and residents, authorities have repeatedly probed private properties, nearby woods, open fields and waterways on foot and by air, according to the Waterville police. They have searched trash bins and drained a stream in an attempt to find the missing toddler. Police concluded that Ayla, who recently started walking, did not leave the house on her own.

The child was reported missing on Dec. 17, 2011. She was last seen by Justin DiPietro, the father of 20-month-old Ayla, in his Waterville, Maine home, when he put her to bed the previous night.

DiPietro and Trista Reynolds, 23, have not spoken once since the child’s disappearance or during the ensuing wide-scale search by local authorities. The grandfather of a missing 20-month-old Maine girl repeated over and over Wednesday night that the girl's father has not been in touch with the family, even as the father reiterated he doesn't know what happened to her. "Nothing, not a word, nothing," Ron Reynolds told media sources. "My daughter tried to talk to him. Nothing's coming back ... nothing is being said."

Posted: 9:22 PM EST, Mon December 26, 2011 - Updated: 3:59 PM PST, Wed. December 28, 2011

Waterville, Maine (WCJB) -- Authorities in Waterville, Maine, on Monday offered a $30,000 reward for information that would lead investigators to find 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds (pictured left). The young girl was last reported seen more than a week ago, and police are now confident that someone was involved in taking Ayla from her house, said Waterville Police Chief Joseph Massey. Ayla is described as having blond hair, being about 2 feet, 9 inches tall, and weighing 30 pounds. She was last seen wearing green pajamas with white polka dots and the words "Daddy's Princess" across the front. When she disappeared, the girl had her arm in a soft cast. "This is the largest reward that I can remember for a missing-person case in Maine's history," he told reporters. "I'm very hopeful that this will encourage anyone that has any information to call the Waterville police."

Ayla's family is cooperating, and police do not have anyone connected to the case in custody. Authorities have conducted dozens of searches so far, involving federal and local law enforcement. Work to find the missing girl continued over the weekend with police sorting through leads, said Massey. "Like in most missing person cases, it concerns us as time goes on," the police chief said.

Inbreeding???

Posted: 5:01 PM EST, Thu December 22, 2011 - Updated: 10:46 AM PST, Tue December 27, 2011

"We have reason to believe inbreeding occurred in Aron's family."

-- December 21, 2011, Statement by a defense attorney for accused child killer/torturer Levi Aron to media sources regarding his defense for Mr. Aron's actions.

New York (WCJB) -- The lawyer for the man charged with kidnapping and killing an 8-year-old boy in Brooklyn last summer says inbreeding is partially to blame for his client's actions. In July, police found 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky's (pictured right) remains divided between a freezer in Levi Aron's (pictured left) attic apartment and a trash bin more than two miles away. The boy had asked Aron for directions after getting lost on his seven-block walk home from summer camp, police said. It was his first time making the trip alone. Kletzky died after being drugged and then smothered, New York City's chief medical examiner said after an autopsy in July.

"We have reason to believe" inbreeding occurred in Aron's family, a defense attorney told media sources Wednesday. Asked what proof of inbreeding he had, the attorney said he had "anecdotal evidence in talking to the family," but declined to elaborate. Asked how inbreeding might lead someone to murder, the attorney said he is "not a medical doctor," but believes that inbreeding "can result in certain kinds of mental defects." Aron pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in August, according to his attorney.

A status conference in the case was held Wednesday. Both sides discussed the turning over of discovery materials at the pretrial hearing, the attorney said. Schizophrenia and brain trauma also factored into Aron's actions, his attorney contended to media sources. Aron has a family history of schizophrenia, the attorney said. His sister committed suicide as a result of the mental illness, according to the attorney. And at a young age Aron suffered a brain-damaging fall from a bicycle, his attorney said. "He's virtually catatonic each and every time I have (been) called upon to deal with him," he said of his client's mental condition.

A mental evaluation of Aron in August found that he was fit to stand trial. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for March. Aron's attorney declined to say whether he would raise the issue of inbreeding at trial, emphasizing that the defense team would continue to investigate that angle in the coming months. He did not specify what form that investigation would take. If convicted, Aron could face a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole.

Evil Incarnate!

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:24am PST - Updated:

New York (WCJB) -- A 47-year-old man was arrested Sunday in the death of a 73-year-old woman who was set on fire in the elevator of her Brooklyn apartment building, telling police the woman owed him $2,000, New York police said. Jerome Isaac (pictured above, center) faces charges of first-degree and second-degree murder, along with arson, police said in a statement. Isaac told police Gillespie owed him $2,000 for work he claims he did for her, said NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne. He turned himself in to police overnight or early Sunday morning, he said.

A preliminary investigation showed the man was standing outside the elevator on the fifth floor and attacked the woman as she was attempting to exit, authorities said. The incident was caught on surveillance cameras inside and outside the elevator, and police have the videotapes, Browne said. Authorities believe Isaac initially sprayed the woman with a flammable liquid, presumably gasoline, and continued to spray her as he followed her back into the elevator, Browne said.

The woman was first sprayed in the face, he said. Then, using "one of those long lighters that you would use for a grill, he lit a Molotov cocktail and used the burning leg on top of that to ignite her body," Browne said. The suspect stepped out of the elevator, threw the Molotov cocktail inside, then returned again to spray more liquid on the woman as she burned, he said. Authorities responding to a 911 call of a fire found the woman's body inside the elevator. She was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the police statement.

The victim was identified as Deloris Gillespie. Isaac also lives in Brooklyn, but does not live at the address where the incident took place, police said in a statement. Isaac lived about 10 minutes away from Gillespie's apartment building, Brown said. After the incident, he apparently returned home and ignited the door to his own apartment, he said. He was concerned he had burned himself in the second incident, although no one else was injured, Browne said. He then hid out on a rooftop for a while and fell asleep, later going into a police station "reeking of gasoline" and telling officers he was responsible for a fire. During questioning, Browne said, he implicated himself in Gillespie's death. It was not clear whether Isaac had retained an attorney.

Eagle Rock Fire!

Posted: Fri. December 16, 2011 | 06:58:58 PM PST - Updated: Thurs. December 22, 2011 2:30 PM PST

"I went to grab her, not to hurt her but to talk to her."

-- Los Angeles Fire Department captain David Del Toro, 54, testifying before jurors that he did not kill Jennifer Flores at his Eagle Rock home, or later drag her dead body down the raod attached to his pick-up truck.

Los Angeles, CA -- A former Los Angeles Fire Department captain who killed a woman in his Eagle Rock home and dragged her nude body behind his truck was sentenced Friday to 15 years to life in prison for a crime the judge called "baffling." Following a three-week trial, David Del Toro (pictured above, center) was found guilty in March of the second-degree murder of Jennifer Flores, 42, whose battered body was found dumped in the street a few blocks from the fire fighter's home in August 2006. Del Toro, 55, was a 23-year veteran of the city's fire department at the time of the murder. He had served as a drill instructor and worked at stations in Arleta, Skid Row, Lincoln Heights, Silver Lake and Hollywood.

"He's done wonderful things in his life," Judge Lance Ito said before handing down the sentence. "So it makes the events of the day in question so much more baffling. You can't have these factors come together and make any sense."

Flores, of San Gabriel, was an acquaintance whom Del Toro had allowed to stay at his home the previous night. She had been beaten so badly that her jaw, ribs and nose were broken before she was strangled. Other injuries included postmortem road rash on her back, which investigators believe occurred when Flores' body fell out of the back of Del Toro's truck and was dragged for about a mile.

"It's unfathomable how this man beat the life out of this woman, mutilated her hair ... then continued to drag her lifeless, naked body on the street as if killing her wasn't enough," said Ellen Flores, the victim's sister-in-law. "Only an evil man could have done this. Even an animal does not deserve to be so ruthlessly killed."

Del Toro had killed Flores in a drunken rage when she turned him down for sex, dumped her body and returned home to clean up the mess, according to prosecutor Bobby Grace. The firefighter had a history of alcoholism and domestic violence, and was temporarily suspended by the fire department for beating an ex-wife and ex-girlfriend, Grace said. "It was inevitable he was going to end up killing somebody," Grace said after the sentencing.

But Del Toro, who testified in his own defense, maintained that he did not kill Flores, although he admitted that his memory was spotty from the heavy drinking he had done that night. "I don't remember killing her. I don't believe I killed her," Del Toro said during testimony. "I just didn't kill her. I don't know how I would know, but I know I didn't kill her."

The Flores family had hoped for a first-degree murder conviction, which would have meant a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison. With the second-degree murder conviction, Del Toro will have to serve 85 percent of his sentence - about 12 or 13 years - before being eligible for parole, according to Grace. The firefighter was also given 1,555 days credit for time served since his Nov. 2006 arrest.

Members of the Flores family, who described the five-year ordeal as "grueling," were relieved at some semblance of closure, but said they would never fully get over Jennifer Flores' death. "Her future was cut way too short," said Edward Flores, her father. "I cry for her every single day. We won't be able to hug her ... she'll never have children."

Georgia:
Initial Appearances!

Posted: 10:02 PM EST, Thu December 8, 2011 - Updated: Tues Dec 13, 2011 10:42am PST

Canton, Georgia (WCJB) -- New details emerged in the brutal slaying of a 7-year-old Georgia girl, hours after an attorney for the suspect said his client would plead not guilty. Authorities have charged 20-year-old maintenance worker Ryan Brunn with killing Jorelys Riveria (pictured left). Seven-year-old Jorelys mouth was duct-taped, and her hands and feet were bound with plastic ties, a source close to the investigation said. Authorities have said Jorelys died of blunt force trauma to the head, was stabbed and had been sexually assaulted. Jorelys, who was last seen alive Friday near a playground at the apartment complex where Brunn worked in Canton, Georgia. They found her mangled body in a trash compactor there three days later, the source said. The warrant for Brunn's arrest charged him with murder and making false statements to law enforcement. "The accused did unlawfully and with malice aforethought cause the death of Jorelys Rivera by hitting her on the head with a blunt object," it said. Authorities have said there will likely be other charges, including kidnapping and sexual molestation.

Brunn (pictured above, center) who was arrested Wednesday, is in segregated confinement in prison and was required to wear a bullet-proof vest Thursday due to the nature of the case, said Lt. Jay Baker, a spokesman for the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office. "It's been a hot issue in the community. We didn't want to take any chances," Baker told reporters. Authorities said Brunn has no known criminal history. Thursday's court appearance came after the little girl's mother called for capital punishment for the suspect. The little girl's father, Ricardo Galarza, lives in Puerto Rico. He told media sources on Thursday that he last saw his daughter two years ago when she visited for the summer. She was supposed to visit for Christmas this year, Galarza said. He echoed Rivera's call for the death penalty.

A court date for an arraignment has not been set. One of Brunn's court-appointed attorneys said his client will enter a "not guilty plea" at the appropriate time. Brunn wore an orange jumpsuit and a bullet-proof vest Thursday during his initial court appearance. His hands and feet were shackled during the hearing, which lasted only a few minutes. After Cherokee County Superior Court Judge Frank Mills read him his rights Thursday, Brunn said he understood what he was being charged with and was satisfied with his counsel. After the hearing, one defense attorney told reporters that his client was "very shaken." "We're investigating our case," he said. "It's obviously a very tragic case. It's a very serious case. We take it very seriously. Just give us time to do our jobs."

Brunn has not made a public statement, but his adopted brother has said he is innocent. His adopted brother, Connor, told media sources that the arrest was a "big mistake." "I honestly think he is innocent. There's just no way he would do something like this. He's just a kind-hearted person," Connor Brunn said. He has spoken with Ryan, he said, who told him "he wouldn't touch a girl like that." "He wouldn't ever do something like that. ... This is just all bogus. ... He knew that he was suspected but he never, like, thought that it would go to him. He was asked to help to go look for this little girl. And then he got brought into this," Connor Brunn said.

Jorelys was abducted "in the immediate vicinity" of the apartment complex's playground, then taken to an empty apartment nearby, Keenan said. "We have evidence that the murder occurred in that vacant apartment," he said. "At some point, the child's body was then disposed of in the Dumpster and compacted into trash." Neighbor Heather Johnson-Coker said residents were suspicious of Brunn after investigators found Jorelys' body in the trash compactor, which can only be operated with a key that employees at the complex have. She said the maintenance worker had mentioned the large number of vacant apartments in the complex when a boy from the area went missing for a few hours recently. "He said, and I quote, 'It would be really easy for someone to break in and do something to one of these children,'" Johnson-Coker said Wednesday. Connor Brunn said investigators should have focused on the complex's other maintenance workers, who also had access to the trash compactor, instead of his brother. "I think they were looking at him because he was one of the maintenance guys there," he said. "But he's just one out of what, four or five other maintenance guys that work there?" Brunn was one of hundreds of people whom investigators interviewed in their search for suspects, Keenan said Wednesday.

On what friends say is Ryan Brunn's Facebook page, he described himself as being "very outgoing" and having "a 'wonderful' life, family, and friends." In July, he posted a message slamming Casey Anthony, who was acquitted of killing her daughter in Florida. He wrote that Casey Anthony should have died, "but really she'll get hers."

"We're confident that Brunn is a killer," Keenan charged, but he added that the investigation will continue for months. "We are investigating all of the past history of Ryan Brunn and piecing together what he's been doing the last several years," he added. "We have sent agents to other states and also to other counties and we're going to backtrack all of his activities and make a determination if he has been involved in other crimes. He has no known criminal history to us, but we will find out."

Oklahoma:
Dual Patterns!

Posted: 7:37 PM EST, Fri December 9, 2011 - Updated: 11:55 AM PST, Thurs. December 29, 2011

Weleetka, Oklahoma -- A 25-year-old Oklahoma man was charged Friday with murder in the deaths of two girls who were found about three and a half years ago, shot to death in a ditch alongside a remote country road. "We don't believe that he knew (the slain girls) directly," Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Director Stan Florence said Friday of Kevin Sweat (pictured left). "We just believe that he happened to be in the area that day."

According to a probable cause affidavit, Sweat told investigators on September 13 that he'd been driving his Chevrolet Cavalier where the girls were found when he saw "two monsters" come at him. The suspect said he "panicked," shooting the "monsters" first with a Glock .40 handgun and then with a .22 handgun he'd had in his glove box, the affidavit said. It claimed Sweat had voluntarily waived his rights and agreed to talk to investigators. The "monsters" are believed to be best friends Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13, of Weleetka and Skyla Jade Whittaker, 11, of nearby Henryetta, who were discovered June 8, 2008, by Taylor's grandfather. They had been shot in the head and chest, eight times for Skyla and five for Taylor, the state medical examiner reported after an autopsy.

Their killings rattled Weleetka, a town of just over 1,000 residents, with police calling the shootings the community's first murders in more than 20 years. They also set off an extensive investigation involving multiple local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and including about 650 interviews, 900 leads and 19,000 forensic tests on 800 pieces of evidence, according to Florence.

In January 2010, Sweat was among those interviewed about the girls' murder, because he owned a Glock .40 Model 22 handgun like one of those thought to be used in the shootings. He then told an investigator then that he'd sold such a gun in 2007, according to the arrest affidavit. Sweat was not considered a suspect until this year, after being arrested and charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Ashley Taylor, Florence said. He was already in the Seminole County Jail in his girlfriend's death when the new charges were filed, according to the state investigative bureau director. He is charged on four counts related to the 2008 case: two each of first-degree murder, plus two each of shooting with intent to kill, according to the affidavit. The witnesses cited in the arrest affidavit include several of Sweat's family members, including his father, as well as the two victims' relatives and the Glock gun company.

District Attorney Max Cook, whose jurisdiction includes Creek and Okfuskee counties, said Friday that he has filed court documents requesting that Sweat be eligible for the death penalty if found guilty of murder in any of these killings. "We feel that we are in an appropriate position to go forward in this case," Cook said Friday, referring to the case of the two girls.

Neighbors and relatives described Taylor and Skyla as nearly inseparable, often playing together after school, riding their bikes and sleeping at each others' houses. They were at Taylor's house the night of June 8, when they set off about 5 p.m. for a walk down the road. Soon thereafter, Taylor's grandfather made a futile attempt to call her on her cell phone. He found the two girls about 30 minutes later, lying side-by-side in a ditch about a quarter-mile from the home, police said.

Six weeks after the slayings, Oklahoma authorities released a 911 tape in which a breathless, nearly hysterical woman -- identified only as a family member of one of the victims -- is heard screaming, "Somebody killed two girls. They went for a walk, and now they are both down here dead. ... My granddaughter and her friend," the woman said on the tape. "Help me. Please!"

On September 30, a $5,000 reward was offered for information on "the Glock .40 model 22 handgun used in the Weleetka girls' homicides," the state investigation bureau noted on its website. A serial number was given for that weapon, one of two linked to the girls' deaths. Ballistics tests determined that the .40-caliber shell casings found at the crime scene, matched those found on the property of Curtis Sweat, Kevin's father, the affidavit said. Investigators determined the serial number of the gun, which had been sold to Sweat. In his September interview, the suspect admitted that he'd purchased the Glock .40 gun in 2007.

Authorities on Friday reiterated their plea for the public's help in tracking down this firearm, which they said Sweat may have tried to sell in March at a Tulsa gun show. Two photos of the suspect were also released: one taken around the time of the Weleetka killings and the other a mug shot after he was charged in his girlfriend's death. "We hope that, by releasing (those photos), it will spark someone's memory of seeing Mr. Sweat around the scene of (Taylor and Skyla's) murder," Florence said.

Infanticide!

June 22, 2011

SACRAMENTO, CA – In what police say is an extremely rare and disturbing case, a Sacramento woman was arrested this morning for allegedly killing her 6-week-old daughter in March by placing her in a microwave oven. Ka Yang, 29 (pictured left) was arrested at her Sacramento home this morning and charged with homicide after a three-month investigation into what caused unusual burns on the child, Mirabelle Thao-Lo, who was found dead on the afternoon of March 17.

Sacramento police spokeswoman Laura Peck said there have been only three previous cases involving a child being burned in a microwave, and that detectives studied those cases and consulted with medical experts and pathologists before making the arrest. “It was a lengthy investigation to determine how these burns occurred,” Peck said. “When the officers arrived on scene they immediately saw there were unexplained injuries because of the burns. That led to this very lengthy, involved investigation to determine how these unusual and rare injuries occurred.”

The infant’s fourth-degree burns were among the worst investigators at the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office had seen, coroner’s spokesman Ed Smith said. “The child was apparently killed by the burning of the tissue,” Smith said. “I don’t know if they can say how long baby was in the microwave.”

Yang has three other children, all boys ages 7 and younger, and they were removed from the home that day, police said. The mother remained under suspicion while detectives studied previous cases in Texas, Virginia and Ohio. Peck said the Texas case involved a Galveston child who survived being placed inside a microwave. A second case in Dayton, Ohio, involved the 2005 death of a 4-week-old baby and resulted in a guilty verdict and life sentence last month for the baby’s mother. The 1999 death of a 1-month-old Virginia baby resulted in a five-year sentence for the mother. Peck said the rarity of such cases contributed to the length of time between Mirabelle’s death and today’s arrest.

“That’s why it took so long,” she said. “Normally, we make an arrest within a few days. But in a situation like this where we had to do so much analysis, it took some time for us to piece together.” Jail records show Yang is still in the process of being booked on charges of murder and assault resulting in the death of a child under 8.

There have been three other known cases of babies being burned inside microwaves before today’s arrest of Ka Yang, including:

— The September 1999 death of 1-month-old Joseph Lewis Martinez in New Kent County, Va. The baby was found in the oven and his mother, Elizabeth Renee Otte, told authorities she became confused during an epileptic seizure and placed the boy in the microwave instead of a bottle of milk. She was charged with murder and in 2000 pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to five years.

— The August 2005 death of 4-week-old Paris Talley in Dayton, Ohio. Talley’s mother, China Arnold, stood trial three times before her conviction last month on charges of aggravated murder. The jury in the case recommended a life sentence.

— The May 2007 injury of 2-month-old Ana Mauldin, who suffered burns on her left ear and arm after being placed inside a microwave oven for about 10 seconds in a Galveston, Texas, motel. The girl’s father, Joshua Mauldin, originally told authorities the child had been injured through by sunburn or scalding water. He was convicted in 2008 of injuring a child and sentenced to 25 years.

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“Another Nigger fried. No big deal.”

-- April 16, 2011, Statement by New York City Police Officer Michael Daragjati, boasting of his false arrest of another African-American male.

Infamous Dealings!

Posted: Wed DEC 21, 2011 AT 4:13PM EST - Updated: Sat. Dec 24, 2011 2:19pm PST

"I feel so strongly, for the first time in my life, that I am truly ripe for positive reform and real achievement."

-- Cameron Douglas in a written letter to the judge asking for some compassion and looking for a break (reduction in original prison sentence). Cameron Douglas, who was already serving five years for drug dealing, has been slapped with additional time for drug possession while behind bars.

New York -- The 33-year-old son (pictured above, center-left) of Michael Douglas was sentenced to five years in prison last April on drug-dealing charges, after he was caught with half a pound of crystal meth. On Wednesday, Cameron was sentenced to an additional four-and-a-half years in prison and a $4,000 fine for drug possession while behind bars. The sentence was more than twice what prosecutors had asked for under sentencing guidelines, according to The New York Post. The judge, obviously annoyed at the situation, told Cameron that he had "blown the biggest opportunity of his life."

Apparently Cameron had been looking for a break and had written a letter to the judge asking for some compassion. In the letter, which was made public earlier this week, Cameron wrote that he was "saturated in my own shame and penitence" and begged for "the opportunity to build myself and gain the tools I need to shape my future."

"I feel so strongly, for the first time in my life, that I am truly ripe for positive reform and real achievement," Cameron said in the Manhattan federal court filing. Cameron was previously arrested in 1999 and 2007 for drug possession. At the time of his 2009 arrest, his father Michael wrote a letter pleading his son's case to the judge. "I love my son, but I'm not blind to his actions," Douglas said in the letter. "I don't want to see him break."

In addition to the jail time, Cameron also received a two-year ban on family visits and will need to undergo treatment for drug addiction while in prison.

Method to:
Missouri Madness!

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 - Updated: Fri. Dec 23, 2011 1:33pm PST

pictured above, center, Methamphetamine arrest

HILLSBORO, Mo. – For more than a dozen years, the wooded hills and valleys of Jefferson County have hidden a dark side of life here: a drug problem so pervasive that some people call this rural area "Metherson County." Methamphetamine has a tight grip on this county south of St. Louis, says Cpl. Timothy Whitney of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, who manages a county drug task force. Jefferson County leads the state in meth lab seizures — a sign, he says, of aggressive enforcement as well as the scope of its problem. Through Nov. 28, there were 6,915 seizures of meth labs, equipment and dump sites nationwide: Missouri led all states with 1,744. So far this year, there have been 234 seizures in Jefferson County.

Top states for seizures of methamphetamine labs¸ equipment and dumpsites, Jan. 1-Nov. 28:

1. Missouri 1,744
2. Kentucky 770
3. Indiana 661
4. Oklahoma 659
5. Illinois 481`
6. Michigan 293
7. North Carolina 277
8. Iowa 260
9. Mississippi 259
10. Arkansas 232

Source: El Paso Intelligence Center, led by the Drug Enforcement Administration and staffed by 15 federal agencies to track transnational crime

Through the end of November, there were 75 drug-related misdemeanor and 340 felony arrests, many prompted by anonymous tips. "We have no bigger problem than most of the counties in Missouri," Whitney says, but its team approach leads to more busts. Meth arrived in Jefferson County around 1998, Whitney says. Once people got hooked, they started making, or cooking, it. It's harder to find meth labs here because there are no big-scale manufacturers, just hundreds of individual "mom and pop" cooks, he says. There is, however, a broad network of people who buy medications containing pseudo-ephedrine and sell it to the cooks, a practice called smurfing, Whitney says. In the past three years or so, young heroin users have begun smurfing to make money so they can buy heroin. A box of Sudafed that costs $8 or $9, he says, can be sold to meth cooks for $100, which is enough for 10 small heroin doses. Whitney expects almost 30 heroin overdose deaths this year in this county of 219,000.

pictured above, center, Methamphetamine and test kit

Meth continues to plague communities across the nation despite getting scant attention, says one University professor. "You'd think there's no meth problem, he says, but in many economically depressed rural areas it's still used "to cope with … difficulty and poverty." A family medicine professor says the nation "is not yet past the chapter on methamphetamine." As the problem persists, he says, budget woes are shrinking resources to address the problem. "There's just an air of desperation that's out there," he says.

Whitney's task force has nine investigators, down from 12 in 2005, and it will lose two more Jan. 1 when a federal grant that subsidizes task force salaries expires. "The problem is going up, but the manpower is going down," Whitney says. Jefferson County was the first in Missouri to end over-the-counter sales of cold and allergy remedies containing pseudo-ephedrine, a key meth ingredient, but neighboring St. Louis County has no restrictions. Under state law, people can buy up to 9 grams of pseudo-ephedrine every 30 days. Until there's a statewide requirement that those medicines can be sold only with a prescription, Whitney says, the battle against meth labs won't be won. Law enforcement officials began tracking another trend in 2007 that made busting meth cooks even more difficult: a "one pot" method. The drug is mixed in a 2-liter soda bottle, often in moving cars. When the process is complete, the leftover toxic materials are tossed out the car window.

Oregon and Mississippi have reported dramatic decreases in meth lab seizures since laws requiring prescriptions for all pseudo-ephedrine sales were enacted. The Missouri House passed a similar bill this year; it died in the state Senate.

Meth use is down nationwide, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released in September by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The number of people who said they had used meth in the past month fell from 731,000 in 2006 to 353,000 in 2010.

The social consequences of Jefferson County's meth problem are dire, says Circuit Court Judge Darrell Missey, who presides over family court. "I look at my job like I'm in the emergency room," he says. At a time of shrinking public resources, Missey wishes there were money for an in-patient treatment center for girls to match the existing one for boys and a "recovery school" to transition students coming out of treatment. The community is committed, he says, but "the question is always about the money." Missey says the community won't stop fighting drugs, with or without government funds. "We're just going to have to be creative," he says.

American Air 'Lines'!

Posted: Thurs. December 8, 2011 - Updated: Fri Dec 23, 2011 02:14pm PST

When federal investigators announced they had broken up a cocaine-trafficking ring, the crime boss was not a member of a Mexican cartel or the Mafia. The ringleader was Victor Bourne (pictured left) a low-wage baggage handler for American Airlines at Kennedy International Airport. And his associates in the enterprise were other airline employees: baggage handlers and crew chiefs who delivered contraband while they delivered luggage to the baggage-claim area. Their cunning provided luxury watches, cars, tuition for their children and expensive vacations. Now they face prison.

For passengers, dealing with luggage issues has long been an annoyance of air travel. Bags can get lost or damaged, heightened security has made carry-ons less convenient and most airlines now charge travelers to check luggage. But all of that may pale to what happens outside the view of the flying public.

Testimony at Mr. Bourne’s trial in Federal District Court in Brooklyn during September and October revealed a culture of corruption among some baggage handlers at Kennedy. They stowed drugs in secret panels inside planes; stole laptops, lobsters and fine clothing flown as freight; and rifled through passengers’ belongings for perfume, liquor and electronics. “‘Everybody did it.’ That’s a line that a lot of the witnesses said,” recalled Rebecca Grefski, a juror at Mr. Bourne’s trial, part of a case in which 12 American Airlines employees either pleaded guilty or were convicted. “Everybody was doing it.”

In September, five former Delta Air Lines employees were indicted in Michigan for smuggling marijuana from Jamaica to Detroit Metropolitan Airport. In a related case, five other Delta workers were indicted in Michigan in June.

In November 2010, four part-time baggage handlers for American Airlines were arrested on charges of stealing valuables from luggage at Philadelphia International Airport. Detectives working with airline security officials set up surveillance cameras and said they caught the workers taking electronics, cameras and jewelry from passengers’ bags. Three of them pleaded guilty, and the fourth is awaiting trial. In 2009, the last year for which there is complete data, the Transportation Security Administration received about 6,750 reports of property missing from checked baggage. Passengers reported the total value of their losses as nearly $5.3 million. Clothing was reported most often as missing. Digital cameras also disappeared with some frequency. From 2002 to 2010, American Airlines generated more such reports than any other airline.

In a statement, American noted its cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help in prosecuting the case at Kennedy. “The overwhelming majority of American Airlines employees at our J.F.K. terminal and throughout our system are honest, law-abiding individuals who work hard every day to take care of our customers,” the airline said. Yet the testimony in Mr. Bourne’s trial suggested that a serious problem seemed to exist at American Airlines. “What percent of American Airlines employees would you say engaged in this conduct?” a federal prosecutor, Patricia E. Notopoulos, asked Matthew James, a defendant in the case who pleaded guilty and testified for the prosecution. “About 80 percent,” Mr. James answered. American Airlines, in its statement, said that “any claim of 80 percent employee involvement in such illegal activities is absurd.” Much of the action at Kennedy was centered on American Airlines flights from some warm-weather location, and the primary drug-ferrying route was Flight 1384, a daily flight from Barbados, which for much of the year arrives after dark.

Mr. Bourne, a native of Barbados who prosecutors say had criminal connections there, bought cocaine in bulk and arranged for baggage handlers in Barbados to hide it on planes bound for New York, several American Airlines employees testified. Mr. Bourne, who is in custody, was found guilty of importing and distributing narcotics, as well as of conspiring to do so. He was also convicted of offenses involving financial transactions. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. His lawyer recently filed a motion to dismiss the counts on which Mr. Bourne was convicted and requested a new trial. “The witnesses on whose testimony the counts were founded could not be trusted,” his attorney said.

On Boeing 757s, the Barbadian handlers hid the bricks of cocaine among loose bags and freight. On larger 767s, they stowed the drugs in giant containers that were filled with luggage at the terminal and then loaded onto the planes. On Airbus A300s, they found hidden spaces behind the wall and ceiling panels in the cargo hold. Only the airline workers at Kennedy who were a part of the scheme knew where to look. “I would take the drugs out of the ceiling, put it in the bag, mix it up with other bags coming down the plane and send it down the belt,” said Edwin Asencio, a former baggage handler for American Airlines. If the hiding spots were secret, the practice was not. “I was bragging around the job that I was doing it, and I was trying to get my other friends involved so they could make extra money,” Mr. Asencio said.

pictured above, center, Seven kilograms of cocaine found on an American Airlines jet.

Trafficking was heaviest during the winter months, when customs agents assigned to the tarmac were less likely to leave their cars, and when baggage workers could hide some of the bricks of cocaine inside their coats. When the customs agents were looming, the baggage handlers sometimes left the cocaine on the plane and tracked it as it hopped around the country. When it returned to Kennedy from a domestic trip, the workers — taking care that customs agents were nowhere in sight — removed the drugs.

Mr. Bourne sold the cocaine he smuggled for about $18,000 a kilogram and took home the biggest share of the profits, prosecutors said. They calculated that he made several million dollars, which was passed through businesses he ran in Brooklyn and in Barbados. Handlers like Mr. Asencio worked in crews of three or four, and Mr. Bourne paid each of them from $3,000 to $5,000 each time they smuggled, they said. Mr. Bourne also paid crew chiefs, the employees who assigned the flights, about $500 each time they assigned his crews to Flight 1384. Steven Zografos, a crew chief who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import cocaine, described the first time he was approached by a baggage handler. “He tell me his aunt was coming off the flight,” Mr. Zografos said in court, stumbling over his English. “I looked in the schedule, and I took away the flight they were supposed to have, him and his crew, and I assigned him the flight that he wanted to work.”

“At first, I thought it was a pretty expensive aunt,” he added, “but then I said, ‘Obviously something else is going on here.’ ” Before long, he kept a bottle of correction fluid next to his crew schedule. Whenever someone from Mr. Bourne’s crew approached him, he would just Wite-Out the flight that he was supposed to have, and take Flight 1384 from a crew that had it, and make the switch. Seven American Airlines employees testified against Mr. Bourne, all but one of them defendants who pleaded guilty and testified for the government. Ms. Notopoulos, who prosecuted the case with Toni M. Mele, Soumya Dayananda, Alexander A. Solomon and Tanya Y. Hill, summed up their testimony and the government’s case by calling American Airlines Terminal 8 “a cesspool of corruption.”

Even the defense lawyer for Bourne said that he believed part of the witnesses’ testimony. “It became very obvious that everyone in American Airlines’ baggage services is dirty,” the attorney said. “If they don’t steal commercial cargo on a regular basis, they are going to rifle suitcases. It is astounding the kind of valuable items they were able to steal.” The cooperating witnesses face minimum sentences of 10 years in prison, unless the prosecution recommends leniency.

“I think everyone sitting in the courtroom and sitting in the jury box was surprised about how long it went on and that it was known to everybody,” Ms. Grefski, the juror, said of the criminal activity. “You always hear about people having things stolen on airlines,” she added. “It was a little startling that they talked about stealing so naturally.”

Officials with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that led the investigation, said the inquiry into corruption among airline employees was continuing.

High Perceptions!

Posted: November 8, 2011 - Updated: Fri Dec 23, 2011 2:53pm

United States -- Recent high profile narcotics busts at the universities of Georgetown, Columbia, and Cornell, demonstrate that students at elite private schools aren't just smoking a little pot. They're using (and dealing) hard drugs like heroin—and they're getting arrested for it. Tom Workman, the fellow for the Education Department's Higher Education Center for Alcohol Drug and Prevention Program told reports that elite private schools are "more likely to enroll students whose race [is white] and [whose] favorable socioeconomic status make them more likely to engage in risky behavior such as alcohol and drug abuse; the competitive nature of such institutions also creates a high-pressure environment in which students are more prone to substance abuse." Workman notes that because pop culture promotes the stereotype that hard drugs are used by either rock stars or low income people of color, the narcotics problems at elite schools could be more pervasive than anybody realizes.

A study published November 8, 2011 in the Archives of General Psychiatry says that black and Asian teens are less likely to use drugs and alcohol than white people their age. In a survey of more than 72,000 young people conducted by Dan Blazer, a psychiatry professor at Duke Medical Center, 39 percent of white teens and 37 percent of Latinos reported having abused substances in the past year, compared to 32 percent of blacks and 24 percent of Asians. When it came to drugs alone, 20 percent of whites, 19 percent of blacks, and 12 percent of Asians reported using.

Blazer called the relatively low rate of substance abuse among black juveniles "surprising": "The public perception is that that’s not the case," he said. Also surprised should be American police, who continue to arrest black kids for drug use at far greater rates than whites. Consider this chart from the federal Office of Juvenile Justice:

In the 1990s, the juvenile black drug arrest rate was nearly three times that of whites, and in 2008 it remained almost double. The fact is that cops bust blacks kids markedly more for a crime they commit slightly less often. This is especially unfair because petty drug offenses are how thousands of black kids per year end up in the U.S. justice system. Their criminal records then haunt many of them for the rest of their lives, ruining their employment and educational opportunities and all but forcing them to turn to more crime to stay afloat.

It also doesn't help that officials at these elite (White) schools don't exactly want the word to get out that there are major drug problems on campus. After all, reputation is everything.

NFL:
National Felons League!

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:00pm PST - Updated: Fri Dec 23, 2011 3:38pm PST

CHICAGO, IL (WCJB) — People who knew him here have become uncomfortably familiar with the details in the criminal complaint: $88,000 and marijuana found inside a car; the plan to buy up to $700,000 worth of drugs each week; Sam Hurd, the Chicago Bears receiver, their hero, accused of aspiring to become not just a drug dealer, but a kingpin, Tony Montana of “Scarface” and football’s Joe Montana all at once.

“People are dismayed,” said Al Porter, a retired teacher for whom Hurd (pictured left) was a student assistant, a man who later helped Hurd run his summer football camps here. “We don’t want to believe it. There’s got to be something we haven’t heard yet.” Porter sighed as he sipped sweet tea at a coffee shop. “Look, people can live a double life,” he continued. “Behind closed doors, you never know. It’s just. ...” His voice trailed off, into a whisper. “What they’re accusing him of, it’s not small time. It’s a drug ring.”

The Hurd family was not immune to the dangers that surrounded them. One of Hurd’s uncles, Jimmy Corbin, was arrested several times, including on felony charges for robbery and cocaine possession, according to public records. On Dec. 27, 2004, Jimmy Corbin was found dead on his front porch “with a gunshot wound to the top of his head,” according to the police report. The media quoted Hurd the next day, saying, “The street got the best of him.” Corbin was 48. His murder, laid out on a one-page incident report, remains unsolved.

In 2008, Hurd also told media sources that he owned several guns, including an M-16 assault rifle. That, too, gave locals pause. The Hurd they thought they knew told them he gave his life to Christ a few years ago. When he returned home, he carried a Bible, sang gospel, attended church on Sundays and decorated his sculptured arms with verses. When Daniel Thatcher asked how he was doing, Hurd always said, “I’m blessed.”

After he signed with the Cowboys, Hurd married his college sweetheart, Stacee Green. Jake Thatcher described the wedding — at a country club, opulent flower arrangements on the tables — as the nicest he ever attended. The couple performed a choreographed dance. Later, when Thatcher visited Hurd in Dallas, they walked around a Walmart. “You play for the Dallas Cowboys, and nobody knows who you are,” Thatcher said he told his friend. To which he said Hurd responded, “Not yet.”

He became widely known this month, but not in the way anyone expected. In the criminal complaint, which quotes an undercover agent and a confidential informant, Hurd is described as an aspiring drug lord who moved four kilograms of cocaine a week in the Chicago area but wanted more. Hurd faces up to 40 years in prison and a $2 million fine. The United States attorney’s office in Dallas has 30 days to present its case to a grand jury for indictment.

Mon. Dec 19, 2011 2:29pm

CHICAGO, IL (WCJB) — Chicago Bears receiver Sam Hurd was in federal custody on Thursday, charged with trying to set up a drug-dealing network. He was arrested with a kilogram of cocaine in a sting, the authorities said. Hurd was arrested Wednesday night after meeting with an undercover agent at a Chicago restaurant, according to a criminal complaint that says he was first identified as a potential drug dealer over the summer as the N.F.L. lockout neared an end. Hurd told the agent that he was interested in buying 5 to 10 kilograms of cocaine and 1,000 pounds of marijuana each week to distribute in the Chicago area, the complaint said. He said that he and a co-conspirator distributed about four kilos of cocaine every week, but that their supplier could not keep up with his demands, the complaint alleges.

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Judge Young Kim said Hurd (pictured left) would need to return to Texas to face the charges. During a hearing Thursday in Chicago federal court, Kim ordered Hurd held pending bond. The hearing will be continued Friday after prosecutors and defense lawyers discuss possible bond. Hurd was handcuffed as marshals led him to the hearing. A defense lawyer, said Thursday that he spoke with prosecutors and expected Hurd to be released Friday. The attorney said Hurd was ready to “fight the case.”

According to the complaint, Hurd agreed to pay $25,000 for each kilogram of cocaine and $450 a pound for the marijuana. The United States attorney in Texas said Hurd faced up to 40 years in prison and a $2 million fine if convicted of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 500 grams, or half a kilogram, of cocaine.

Hurd’s agent did not return messages. Coach Lovie Smith said the arrest was a disappointment and a “total surprise,” adding that Hurd was still a member of the Bears for now. Smith said there was no reason to believe Hurd had problems when the Bears signed him before the season. Hurd, 26, played for five seasons with the Dallas Cowboys and is in his first season with the Bears. He has played in 77 games over all, starting six and scoring two touchdowns, while contributing mostly on special teams. He has played in 12 games this year, with eight catches for 109 yards. Teammates said Thursday that they were stunned. “It’s a situation that you don’t, I don’t, want anybody to be in, especially a close friend,” said fellow receiver Roy Williams, who also played with Hurd in Dallas.

The Bears agreed to a three-year deal with Hurd reportedly worth up to $5.15 million, including a $1.35 million signing bonus and base pay this season of $685,000.

Intoxicated Indictments!

Posted: Tues. December 20, 2011 9:05 PM PST - Updated: Wed Dec 21, 2011 04:00pm PST

OAKLAND, CA (WCJB) — A former Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy is due to appear before a federal judge in Oakland Feb. 7 for the setting of the next dates in his prosecution on charges of so-called “dirty DUI” arrests. Stephen Tanabe (pictured above, center) 48, of Alamo, was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on four charges accusing him of aiding former private investigator Christopher Butler in arranging the drunken driving arrests of three husbands in divorce cases. He pleaded not guilty to the charges before U.S. Magistrate Laurel Beeler on Monday. Beeler granted him bail of $400,000 and ordered him to return to the court of U.S. District Judge Saundra Armstrong Feb. 7 for the setting of future dates, including a possible trial date.

The four charges in the Dec. 15 indictment are one count of conspiring to extort under color of official right, or under his position as an officer, and three counts of extortion under color of official right. The indictment alleges that Butler gave Tanabe cocaine and a firearm in exchange for his help in making the arrests of three husbands or ex-husbands of women who were clients of Butler and were in the midst of divorce or child custody disputes. Butler allegedly arranged for an undercover employee to make plans to meet each victim at a bar. Butler would then “direct the employee to entice the target to drink alcohol until he was intoxicated, and have a police officer waiting outside the bar to stop and arrest the target for drinking under the influence,” the indictment alleges. Tanabe allegedly personally made two of the arrests on Jan. 9 and 14 of this year.

In a third case in Nov. 2, 2010, he allegedly arranged for another deputy sheriff to wait outside the bar and make the arrest while Tanabe remained inside the bar “monitoring the alcohol intake of the target,” according to the indictment. Tanabe’s defense attorney was not available for comment Tuesday. The prosecution grew out of a Contra Costa County law enforcement scandal that began with an investigation of stolen drug evidence and expanded to a probe of alleged drug sales, theft, bribery, possession of illegal weapons and prostitution.

Butler, former Central Contra Costa County Narcotics Enforcement Team (CNET) commander Norman Wielsch and former San Ramon police officer Louis Lombardi have previously been charged in federal court. They and Tanabe also face state court charges filed by the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office and are scheduled to have a preliminary hearing in that case on March 5. Butler and Wielsch were federally indicted in August on charges of selling methamphetamine and marijuana, stealing from a federally funded program and extorting payments from employees running an illegal massage parlor that Butler and Wielsch allegedly established. They are due to appear before Armstrong in Oakland on Jan. 24.

Lombardi, who was assigned to work with CNET between 2005 and 2009, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in May and revised in October with possessing a stolen gun, selling marijuana and methamphetamine and depriving unnamed victims of their civil rights. He previously pleaded not guilty but is scheduled to enter a change of plea before Armstrong on Jan. 26.

Butler is identified only by his initials in Tanabe’s indictment, but was identified by name in an affidavit filed in the state court case by Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Jason Vorhauer in March. That affidavit alleged that two deputies told investigators they aided Butler and Tanabe in the Jan. 14 and November 2010 “dirty DUI” arrests. The alleged victim in the Jan. 14 arrest was identified as Mitchell Katz, owner of the Mitchell Katz Winery in Pleasanton, when Katz filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on Dec. 1 against Contra Costa County; his estranged wife, Alicia Spenger; Tanabe; Butler and others.

Katz, a Livermore resident, contends in the lawsuit that he was lured to a Danville bar on Jan. 14 by Carl Marino, a Butler employee who was posing as the producer of a television reality show. The lawsuit alleges that Katz was surrounded at the bar by four other women who claimed they were familiar with his winery but were also allegedly employed by Butler. Katz was pulled over and arrested by Tanabe when he left the bar. Katz says in the lawsuit that he was later told by Marino in an e-mail in March that the operation was a “set up” and that Marino had told the U.S. Department of Justice about the alleged scheme. Also in March, county prosecutors declined to file any DUI charges against Katz, telling Katz’s defense lawyer in a letter that the arrest was illegal because Katz “”appeared to be the victim of an intentional conspiracy to entrap targeted victims of Tanabe’s accomplice, Christopher Butler.” The lawsuit is pending in federal court in Oakland.

The 'Norm'!

Posted: Thurs. December 15, 2011 12:14 PM PST - Updated: Wed Dec 21, 2011 04:37pm PST

WALNUT CREEK, CA (WCJB) – A disgraced former police commander was back in state court Thursday morning, along with several other co-defendants, facing state charges from the Contra Costa District Attorney’s office, despite federal officials taking over the case six months ago. Norman Wielsch (pictured below, left) of the now-defunct Contra Costa County Narcotics Task Force, appeared before Judge William M. Kolin in a Walnut Creek courtroom at 8:30 Thursday morning. Christopher Butler, a private investigator, also appeared before the judge along with former Danville cop Steven Tanabe and former San Ramon officer Louis Lombardi. After a brief hearing, the judge ordered the men to return to a Martinez courtroom on February 8, 2012 for a readiness conference. The judge said a preliminary hearing will likely take place in the first week of March.

Prosecutor Jun Fernandez told media sources that the case was proceeding in state court, in part, because it hasn’t been resolved in federal court and that the feds, as a matter of policy, are not sharing the proceedings of their case with the county. “We have our own independent case that needs to go forward,” Fernandez said. Wielsch’s attorney questioned the move. “Usually the state dismisses the charges because it costs a lot of money to handle a case that’s already being prosecuted at the federal level,” said the attorney. “That’s not being done here for whatever reasons. Those reasons are only known to the District Attorney of Contra Costa County.”

“I’ve been told that (the Contra Costa County DA’s office) may want us to plead in the state court so they get their pound of flesh,” continued the attorney. “But whatever time my client gets in federal court will be more than sufficient to assuage any concern the state prosecutor may have. So why would they need us to plead to something? If push comes to shove, we may tell them to take us to trial.”

Tanabe was charged in state court for drug and bribery crimes, but was the only one of the four who has not been charged in federal court.

While Wielsch and Butler were initially brought up on 38 state charges – from reselling confiscated drugs to bribery – Contra Costa County District Attorney Mark Petersen later announced on June 3rd he was handing their cases and those of the two other cops over to the feds, citing budget constraints and conflict of interest concerns. On August 15th, a federal grand jury indicted Wielsch and Butler on narcotics charges, civil rights violations, extortion and added allegations that the two ran a brothel in Pleasant Hill. Lombardi was arraigned in federal court on October 25th for charges regarding stolen cash, jewelry and drugs.

Back in June, Petersen announced, “It is my belief that the people of this county are best served if we enlist the United States Attorney’s Office and federal Bureau of Investigations” as he handed the case over to the feds. At the time, the district attorney made it clear he was not dropping any charges – leaving open the possibility of continuing a parallel prosecution in state court.

All of the defendants remain free on bail.

Honolulu Police
Sex, Drugs & Patrol!

POSTED: 8:35 pm HST November 16, 2011
UPDATED: 04:32 pm PST November 27, 2011

Monday night, the FBI arrested Honolulu Police Department Major Carlton Nishimura (pictured left) after a federal raid found the drug crystal methamphetamine at his home on the Waianae Coast. "I am very concerned about the seriousness of this recent allegation," said Police Chief Louis Kealoha in remarks to reporters Wednesday. The FBI says it found about 231.5 grams, or more than a half pound, of the drug (Meth) in Nishimura’s Waianae home Monday night. The Federal agents returned to Nishimura's home Tuesday night with metal detectors as well as a dog and appeared to search his garage and elsewhere in his house.

Honolulu City Councilwoman Tulsi Gabbard, who chairs the council’s safety committee, said, “It is unfortunate that the actions of these very few cast a shadow over the really great work being done by officers at HPD every day.” “No one is above the law and people need to be accountable for their actions,” Gabbard said. HPD put Nishimura on unpaid leave Tuesday, after the FBI arrested him for intent to distribute crystal meth.

In February, a federal grand jury indicted Nishimura for extortion in another case, with prosecutors claiming he conspired to accept bribes from illegal gambling operations in exchange for steering police away from raiding them. When Nishimura, a 30-year HPD veteran, was indicted earlier this year, he had been assigned to the legislative liaison office of the police department, which lobbies state lawmakers and members of the city council on HPD’s behalf. Sources said until Tuesday, he had been working in the Community Affairs division, on leave with pay.

Winn Sheriff!

August 5, 2011

In a photo take in 2008, Winn Parish Sheriff A.D. "Bodie" Little stands in front of the prison roster at the prison in Winnfield, La. Little and four other people on were arrested Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011, on federal charges tied to the distribution of methamphetamine in northwestern Louisiana.

SHREVEPORT, La. (WCJB) — A federal magistrate has approved house arrest for Winn Parish Sheriff A.D. "Bodie" Little, who is accused of helping his girlfriend cover up her alleged methamphetamine deals. Magistrate Mark Hornsby set Little's bond at $100,000 and said he must wear an ankle monitoring bracelet, submit to alcohol and drug testing, take a leave of absence from the sheriff's office and stay out of its administration. "You are out of the business of being sheriff, effective immediately," he told Little after hearing more than 90 minutes of testimony by a state trooper who investigated the sheriff.

Little was among 11 people indicted Tuesday on charges of dealing methamphetamine in the Winn Parish and Shreveport areas. He has pleaded not guilty. His attorney says the arrest is political. Hornsby says Little's home must be thoroughly searched and monitoring equipment installed before Little can leave the Caddo Parish jail. That probably will be sometime next week, he said.

Master Trooper O.H. "Hank" Haynes IV testified that a state-federal task force began investigating Little after he asked Caddo Sheriff Steve Prator last year to get a drug task force to investigate dealers in Winn Parish. "I think it's clear he wanted everyone arrested except his girlfriend," Haynes testified.

Federal Wiretaps!

POSTED: April 5, 2011 - UPDATED: August 28, 2011 - REVISED: December 28, 2011 - 10:25 AM PST

When federal agents eavesdropped on the telephone conversations of several drug trafficking suspects, they heard talk of marijuana sales, money transfers and cross-country drug shipments. In August, investigators from the FBI and other federal agencies arrested people accused of being members of the alleged Compton-based drug ring that was the focus of the wiretapping. Authorities say Dion Grim, the man accused of being the group's leader, is a Front Hood Crips associate who operated a walk-up drug house in Compton and illegally shipped Xanax and other prescription medications from Los Angeles to Louisiana.

Grim, in his mid-30s, is accused of controlling sales, mostly of marijuana, at a notorious walk-up drug house at 927 W. Stockwell St. in Compton. Grim is also an employee at a trash collection and recycling company. His organization also allegedly had operatives in Louisiana who sold prescription pills there and funneled funds back to Grim. During one raid of the drug house, owned by Grim, so much marijuana was flushed that almost 150 grams of pot stayed clogged in the toilet bowl, according to law enforcement records. In one incident, an associate of Grim's was pulled over on the 10 Freeway with a duffel bag from Waste Management, the sanitation company where Grim works. Law enforcement records say the black bag contained 4,200 Xanax pills and 13 single-pint bottles of codeine with promethazine, also known as "sizzurp" or "purple drank."

While eavesdropping on the wiretaps, the Feds also detected something far more surprising: the voice of a Los Angeles County sheriff's captain. In April, 2011, Captain Bernice Abram, who was, at the time, the commanding officer in charge of the department’s Carson station, was put on leave after federal authorities notified LASD higher ups, that Abrams voice may have been heard on an FBI narcotics wiretap.

Los Angeles Law enforcement sources have confirmed that Bernice Abram (pictured left) who is in charge of the sheriff's Carson station, was put on leave after federal authorities notified sheriff's officials that their captain may have been heard on the narcotics wiretap. In an interview with media sources, Sheriff Lee Baca would say only that the decision to place Abram on leave was spurred by "concerns presented from outside the department … and inside."

"I know it's sensitive enough for her not to be working while we look into it," the sheriff said. Abram has been on leave since April, along with her niece, a sheriff's custody assistant named Chantell White. Abram said in a brief interview that she didn't know why she was on leave. She also said she'd never heard of Grim. Her niece referred all questions to Sheriff's Department headquarters. Investigators from both the FBI and the Sheriff's Department spent several hours inside Abram's Carson station Aug. 9. An FBI spokeswoman declined to say whether the agency is investigating Abram or to provide additional details. The captain is on leave with pay pending the outcome of the internal probe.

Since 2009, Abram has been in charge of policing the city of Carson and the unincorporated areas of Torrance and East Rancho Dominguez. She started at the Sheriff's Department in 1987 and has held various posts there, including with the Special Victims Bureau and at the Compton and Century stations. According to a department release, she was named woman of the year by the Anti-Defamation League for "combating hate." She lists a local rabbi as her spiritual advisor, according to the bio.

Movie Intermission!

Violent Cop (1989)

Description: Afraid of his own frenzy, thirty-nine-year-old Detective Azuma forgets ahead. He hates organizations and they hate him. A group of delinquent boys surround homeless bums and beat them with sticks and lengths of gas pipe. Azuma happens to see. He tails the punks’ leader, storms into his house and beats him as a means to force the boy to turn himself in. One day the corpse of a murdered drug dealer is discovered. Azuma’s investigation takes him to a young businessman named Nindo and Iwaki, another police detective. Iwaki knows he will die of cancer before long and wanted to leave money for his family, so peddled drugs seized by the police. Someone soon murders Iwaki to shut his mouth. When the police try to cover up the death of Azuma’s co-worker, he becomes enraged at Nindo, the boss off the narcotics syndicate. Azuma cannot help but fight against corruption making use of his own frenzy.

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The Global Occupation ... Televised! - 2011

2011-12-15T15:39:00.001-08:00

January 9, 2012

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Brutal Force:
Syria Occupied!

PUBLISHED: 11:34 AM EST, Mon January 9, 2012
MODIFIED: 09:47 AM PST, Mon January 9, 2012

Damascus, Syria (WCJB) -- Opposing protests Monday highlighted Syria's new reality: The country is more divided today than it was just a few months ago. In Damascus, a large pro-government rally felt like a celebration, with a festival atmosphere as demonstrators hailed President Bashar al-Assad. Meanwhile, just outside the capital, a funeral procession and anti-Assad rally was filled with anger. Participants showed media sources what they said were gunshot wounds from forces loyal to al-Assad.

Media sources inside Syria, were able to witness some events on the ground after a long period of the Syrian regime refusing the entry of international journalists. However, the media crew's equipment was confiscated upon arrival, so no live video could be transmitted. And a government minder is assigned to the media source, though he has not accompanied the media source at every turn.

Seven people were killed Monday in Syria, according to opposition activists with the Local Coordination Committees of Syria. The deaths include two women and a child, the activists said. Four deaths were reported in Idlib and one each in Homs, the Damascus suburbs and Hama. State-run news agency SANA reported that seven "martyrs" from the army and security forces were buried Monday. Violence and death have become a daily part of life in parts of Syria amid the government's crackdown on an uprising. A blast on Friday killed 26. The government said the suicide bombing, which also wounded more than 60 people, was a terrorist attack. There were dozens of deaths over the weekend that opposition activists attributed to regime forces. Thousands have been reported killed by security forces throughout the uprising, despite ongoing international pressure on the Syrian regime to halt the crackdown. Death estimates range between 5,000 to 6,000. Arab League officials are scrambling to end the bloodshed.

Media sources followed monitors from the Arab League to a funeral procession. Tens of thousands of people turned out, holding up pictures and lining the streets. Many were in tears. At one funeral, crowds chanted, "Overthrow Assad, overthrow the regime!" They blamed the man's death on government forces. At a separate funeral in Damascus, another crowd mourned a man, this time chanting slogans supporting al-Assad and blaming that death on opposition forces.

The alliance on Sunday decided to bolster its mission to Syria. In a statement released after a meeting in Cairo, the alliance condemned violence against civilians and pledged to add to its 165 observers already in the country. Al-Assad's regime insists it is operating against armed terrorists, whom it blames for the bloodshed. Syria's Foreign Ministry said the government has not hidden anything from the Arab League monitors. The Arab League fact-finding mission under way in the nation is part of a larger initiative to end security forces' attacks on peaceful protesters.

Media sources were not able to independently verify reports from Syria because of the restrictions the government has placed on media.

Brutal Suppression
of a
Global Occupation!

Justified Force:
Chapel Hill!

PUBLISHED SAT, JAN 07, 2012 01:08 PM
MODIFIED SUN, JAN 08, 2012 03:51 PM PST

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The Chapel Hill Police Department’s heavily armed raid on a former downtown car dealership taken over by squatters in November was appropriate and in the best interests of the town, according to a report released Saturday by Town Manager Roger Stancil.

The long-awaited internal review says the goal was to remove a group that had illegally entered the former Yates Motor Co. building at 419 W. Franklin St. without injury to anyone. The building was unsafe for occupancy and the squatters had indicated they planned to stay in the building indefinitely, Stancil said in a statement.

"The actions of the on-scene police commanders on November 13 were the best decisions that could be made given the information available at the time,” Stancil said. The town has also received a petition signed by many residents asking for an independent, outside review of the incident, in which eight people were arrested and about a dozen more people, including two reporters, were detained in plastic zip-tie cuffs. Police charged seven people inside the buildings with breaking and entering and an eighth with delay and obstruct for talking with a police officer at the scene. No weapons were found inside the building.

Occupation Eygpt:
Tahrir Square!

Posted: 2:06 PM EST, Tue December 27, 2011 - Updated: 4:18 PM PST, Sun Janaury 08, 2012

Cairo, Egypt (WCJB) -- An Egyptian administrative court issued an order Tuesday banning virginity tests for female detainees, months after several women alleged they were subjected to such examinations following a March protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square. The ruling comes in the case of Samira Ibrahim, a 25-year-old marketing manager who took the country's military led-government to court in August, alleging she was among those subjected to the test after her arrest during the March 9 protest. She said she faced death threats after bringing the case. "Justice has been served today," Ibrahim told media sources. "These tests are a crime and also do not comply with the constitution, which states equality between men and woman. I will not give up my rights as a woman or a human being."

Egyptian authorities initially denied requiring virginity tests, but in May, a senior general who asked not to be identified acknowledged the practice. Aly Hassan, a judicial consultant affiliated with Ministry of Justice, said the order only affects the use of such tests in military prisons and on women in temporary detention. "Those tests are not considered a crime or else the file would be in the Criminal Court," Hassan said. "It's the circumstances of the alleged test that may be in question here."

In March, the human rights group Amnesty International reported that Egyptian troops beat, shocked and strip-searched women arrested during the protest in Cairo and forced them to submit to virginity tests. The general said the tests were performed as a safeguard against the women accusing authorities of sexual assault, and he defended the tests. "The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine," the general told media sources at the time. "These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and (drugs)."

But Ibrahim said her treatment clearly showed the tests were meant to "degrade the protesters."
"The military tortured me, labeled me a prostitute and humiliated me by forcing on me a virginity test conducted by a male doctor where my body was fully exposed while military soldiers watched," she said. Another protester arrested in the March 9 protest, Salwa Hosseini, offered a similar account, according to an Amnesty International report on the allegations.

In addition to Ibrahim, a member of the No to Military Trials to Civilians group, Maha Mamoun, joined the legal action even though she was not subjected to a test, said Ahmed Ragab, an attorney with the Hisham Mubarak Law Center who handled Ibrahim's case. Ragab said government lawyers initially denied that the tests were administered and the case was repeatedly delayed before Tuesday's ruling.

Occupy Berkeley!

Posted: Wed. December 21, 2011 - Updated: Thurs. December 22, 2011 4:47 PM PST

San Jose: Re-Occupied!

Posted: December 19, 2011 7:59 AM PST - Updated: December 21, 2011 12:46 PM PST

SAN JOSE, CA (WCJB) – Occupy San Jose protesters returned to City Hall Plaza, but the demonstrators are this time trying to skirt the city’s “no camping” ordinance by not actually sleeping in their tents. Over the weekend, a handful of tents went up at San Jose City Hall, but protesters said they were simply assembling them as part of the nationwide anti-Wall Street movement. They pledged to take the tents down nightly. “If we were camping, we would certainly have campfires, s’mores and sing-alongs. We are not camping, we are occupying a minor corner of City Hall Plaza as a free speech manifestation of the vast homelessness caused by corporate manipulation of this nation’s economy,” a member of Occupy San Jose recently told the San Jose City Council. The city, meanwhile, maintains that “no camping” means no tents. The city manager’s office has said it will enforce that rule to the extent that resources allow.

OCCUPY UC Fallout!

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:11am PST - Updated:

Occupation Los Angeles:
Five-O Deepcover!

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 1:49pm EST - Updated: Sun Dec 11, 2011 2:37pm PST

"It's demeaning to the movement. It suggests that we are not who we say we are. It suggests that they don't trust us."

-- Elise Whitaker, an Occupy LA organizer, saying she was not surprised to hear that L.A. police sent undercover officers into the Occupy LA encampment.

Los Angeles Police Department officers arrest an Occupy LA protester at the encampment at LA city hall November 30, 2011.

Los Angeles, CA (WCJB) - Undercover police officers infiltrated Occupy LA's tent city last month to spy on people they suspected of stockpiling human waste and crude weapons for resisting an eventual eviction, police and city government sources said. Authorities also used security cameras mounted outside City Hall, where the camp was located, and monitored publicly available Internet chatter and video on social-networking sites such as Twitter, sources said. Evidence gathered through the surveillance led to more than 40 arrests for drug use, public intoxication and other offenses in the weeks before police shut down the camp on November 30, one senior official in the Los Angeles Police Department said. That official and most other sources spoke to media sources on condition of anonymity because of department policy barring police from publicly discussing undercover operations. They insisted that covert surveillance of the camp was aimed not at anti-Wall Street activists exercising their constitutional right to freedom of expression but at those they considered anti-government extremists bent on violence. "We had reports that there were individuals advocating violence against police and taking steps to commit violence," the senior LAPD source said. "In that vein we investigated that. What we didn't do was spy or monitor or interact with those engaged with First Amendment activities."

Civil liberties advocates said they were troubled by law enforcement's infiltration of peaceful demonstrations, although the LAPD's undercover efforts were not unique. Elise Whitaker, an Occupy LA organizer, said she was not surprised to hear that police sent undercover officers into the camp but said she believes such surveillance proved unwarranted because the demonstration was peaceful. "I'm not thrilled about it," she said. "It's demeaning to the movement. It suggests that we are not who we say we are. It suggests that they don't trust us."

The Los Angeles encampment had been among the largest on the West Coast aligned with a movement that began in New York in September to protest against economic inequality and excesses of the U.S. financial system. At its peak, officials said, some 2,000 people and more than 500 tents were present there. Los Angeles officials had allowed the camp to remain open even as other cities forced the removal of similar compounds. But mounting complaints of sanitation problems, property damage, drugs and the presence of children prompted L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to finally order the tenty city closed. In the end, nearly 300 Los Angeles demonstrators were arrested the night police raided their encampment, nearly all for defying orders to leave but with little violence.

After clearing the encampment, however, police found buckets of feces, water bottles filled with urine and pieces of bamboo with sharpened tips stashed in bushes and trees, police and city sources told media sources. One police source said officers discovered a pickup truck parked near City Hall the night before the eviction with about 100 sharpened bamboo sticks stashed in the bed of the vehicle. Another, LAPD Commander Andy Smith, said bamboo spears were thrown from the crowd at police at the outset of the November 30 eviction raid, though no one was reported hurt.

The City Attorney's Office has so far filed formal charges against seven people arrested before the raid and accused of violations ranging from weapons possession, battery, assault with a deadly weapon and lewd conduct. The cases, all misdemeanors, included an alleged gang-related fight and a person arrested on accusations of masturbating in the presence of children, prosecutors said.

One Law School professor said that while such covert actions may raise questions about intrusions on civil liberties, police officers in or out of uniform have the same right to be in a public space as anyone else. The attorney added that there was nothing to suggest the LAPD's surveillance violated Fourth Amendment safeguards against unreasonable searches and seizures. "It's always worrisome, of course, when you're doing undercover operations, but sometimes it's necessary," the attorney said. "It's completely expected for safety reasons, if nothing else. They wanted to know what they were going to confront."

The founding dean of another school of law, said courts have been unreceptive to claims that protest infiltration by undercover police undermines the First Amendment. Still, he called such surveillance very troubling because it "risks chilling free-speech activity." The executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, agreed. "It should make everybody at least uncomfortable, he said, adding, "That's the fundamental difference between America's free democratic system and the kind of system one would expect to find in Iran."

Police said a key concern about the eviction stemmed from some individuals in the camp identified as belonging to or affiliated with radical organizations such as Sovereign Citizens, which the FBI classifies as an "extremist anti-government group," and the Black Riders Liberation Party, deemed a "domestic terrorist group" by the LAPD.

Asher Simcha, a spokesman for Sovereign Citizens, a group that rejects the legitimacy of government institutions, including tax collection, said he and other members of the group were uniting with Occupy LA protesters against what he called corruption. But he denied that the group posed a danger, saying, "We don't believe in violence." Laa Laa Shakur, chief of staff for the Black Riders Liberation Party, said members of her group dropped into the Occupy LA camp on occasion to pass out literature promoting unity within "oppressed communities," but said that they did not camp there or take part in the protests. "They're slandering the organization," she said. The Black Riders, a spin-off of the Black Panther Party, once threatened to take over four Los Angeles police stations and kill as many officers as possible in furtherance of its black separatist and anti-government agenda, according to a 2009 LAPD report on policing terrorism.

Occupy LA was not alone. According to media sources in New York, NYPD also sent plainclothes officers into Zuccotti Park in Manhattan to gather intelligence on protesters there.

Occupation Moscow:
Demonstrative Opposition!

Posted: 12:39 PM EST, Thu December 29, 2011 - Updated: 4:00 PM PST, SUN January 08, 2012

Moscow (WCJB) -- Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in central Moscow on Thursday to protest the detention of Russian opposition activist Sergey Udaltsov. About 3,000 people said they might attend ahead of the event, according to its Facebook page, although Udaltsov's wife Anastasia said city hall had refused to give permission for the rally. Reporters at the scene estimated that several hundred protesters had turned out. The mood was calm, with no attempt by police to break up the rally despite its unauthorized status. That may reflect an apparent change in approach by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who was initially dismissive of protesters but has in recent days struck a more conciliatory tone.
Udaltsov, the leader of the opposition Leftist Front movement, had his 15-day detention extended by another 10 days on Sunday, Russia's news agency said. He was arrested on December 4 for not serving out the full term of his previous administrative detention and escaping from a hospital, according to a Russian news agency.

Udaltsov is staging a hunger strike in protest of his detention and has been hospitalized twice during it, RIA Novosti reported. He was taken to the hospital again after his term was extended.
Tens of thousands of Russians have taken to the streets to protest the December 4 parliamentary election results amid claims of fraud. Rights groups say hundreds of people have been detained over the protests and have called for claims of police mistreatment to be investigated.

Putin's ruling United Russia Party received 49.5% of the vote, down from 64% four years ago, in an election widely viewed as marred by vote rigging and ballot-box stuffing. It kept Putin's party in power, although in diminished form. Putin intends to run in the country's presidential elections in March.

Posted: Saturday, 10 Dec 2011, 2:33 PM PST

“We exist!” “We exist!”

-- Tens of thousands of Russians chanting, rallying and protesting in central Moscow on Saturday, December 10, 2011, against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin after allegations of fraudulent parliamentary elections last Sunday.

MOSCOW, RUSSIA — Tens of thousands of Russians took to the streets in Moscow on Saturday shouting “Putin is a thief” and “Russia without Putin,” forcing the Kremlin to confront a level of public discontent that has not been seen here since Vladimir V. Putin first became president 12 years ago. The crowd overflowed from a central city square, forcing stragglers to climb trees or watch from the opposite riverbank. “We exist!” they chanted. “We exist!” In Moscow, the police estimated the crowd at 25,000, though organizers said there were more than twice that many. The Moscow protest was accompanied by dozens of smaller rallies across Russia’s nine time zones, with a crowd of 3,000 reported in Tomsk, and 7,000 in St. Petersburg, the police said.

Calls for protest have been mounting since parliamentary elections last Sunday, which domestic and international observers said were tainted by ballot-stuffing and fraud on behalf of Mr. Putin’s party, United Russia. But an equally crucial event, many said, was Mr. Putin’s announcement in September that he would run for the presidency in March. He is almost certain to win a six-year term, meaning he will have been Russia’s paramount leader for 18 years. “People are just tired, they have already crossed all the boundaries,” said Yana Larionova, 26, a real estate agent. “You see all these people who are well dressed and earn a good salary, going out onto the streets on Saturday and saying, ‘No more.’ That’s when you know you need a change.” Older participants were reminded of the oceans of demonstrators who marched on the Kremlin in the early 1990s, heralding the collapse of the Soviet Union.

09:06 AM PST - DEC 06, 2011

Moscow -- Russia's beleaguered opposition has been energized by the vote, staging its biggest protest in Moscow in a number of years. Late Monday, thousands marched chanting "Russia without [Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin!" Anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 15 days in jail for his role in a protest in Moscow Monday, when about 300 people were arrested, media sources reported. "There is not a single doubt that my case is under the special control of the party of crooks and thieves," Navalny tells reporters in a courtroom ahead of being charged, referring to the term he uses to describe Putin's United Russia party. Many opposition leaders and well-known bloggers, including Navalny, were reportedly among those detained. Another source reported that among the detained was Boris Nemtsov, a leader of the liberal opposition. A Moscow court sentenced Ilya Yashin, one of the organizers on Monday's rally, to 15 days in detention. "Of course we will continue protesting," he later told reporters. "This is no doubt a political decision aimed at intimidating me and my colleagues. We are not going to stop our struggle," he said, adding that his verdict could "arouse even bigger discontent among the people."

Earlier at least 50 people has arrested in Moscow amid clashes between police and protesters angry over alleged voter fraud in Russia's parliamentary elections, according to Russian media sources. United Russia won about 50 percent of Sunday's vote, a result that opposition politicians and election monitors said was inflated because of ballot-box stuffing and other vote fraud. It was a significant drop from the 2007 election when the party took 64 percent, gaining a two-thirds majority that allowed it to change the constitution. But Putin said the party had retained a "stable" majority.

Russian media sources say that reports on Twitter from people at the scene say there are about 5,000 opposition supporters, 2,000 pro-government young men, some wearing emblems of the Young Guards, United Russia's youth wing, also were seen at the square and 1,000 police. Russian sources say Pro-government supporters are trying to upstage the protest. The riot police presence, backed by water cannons, are "definitely noticeable" in Triumphal Square, according to the same reports.

On Tuesday evening, American sources reported that hundreds of police had blocked off Triumphal Square, adjacent to the capital's main boulevard, after reports that anti-Putin demonstrators would try to gather there. Police also cordoned off a monument to the 1905 Revolution. Police then began chasing demonstrators, seizing some and throwing them harshly into police vehicles.

An aide to Putin warned Tuesday that police would prevent protesters staging rallies without official permission. "The actions of those who hold unsanctioned demonstrations must be stopped," spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the day after up to 5,000 Russians protested against the result of Sunday's parliamentary election, which they said was rigged.

Occupation: Boston!

Posted: Saturday, 10 Dec 2011, 2:26 PM PST

BOSTON, MA (WCJB) – Police officers swept through Dewey Square early Saturday, tearing down tents at the Occupy Boston encampment and arresting dozens of protesters, bringing a peaceful end to the 10-week demonstration. Officers began moving into the encampment at about 5 a.m. to "ensure compliance with the trespassing law," police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said. The city had set a deadline for midnight Thursday for the protesters to abandon the site but police took no action until early Saturday, making Boston the latest city where officials moved to oust protesters demonstrating against what they call corporate greed and economic injustice.

As police moved in, about two dozen demonstrators linked arms and sat down in nonviolent protest and officers soon began arresting them. The protesters were "very accommodating" to the officers, Driscoll said. Forty-six people were arrested on charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct, police said. No injuries were reported. The entire operation lasted less than an hour.

Occupy Boston said though its space was gone, the movement would continue. The group planned a meeting for Saturday evening in Boston Common. "We might have been evicted, but we shall not be moved," the group said on its website Saturday. "We remain invested in the future of our movement. We will continue to challenge Wall Street's occupation of our government."

Occupation: San Francisco!

Updated: Tuesday, 07 Dec 2011, 9:58 AM PST

Occupy D.C.!

09:30 AM PST - DEC 05, 2011

Occupy Denver!

Posted: 10/14/2011 05:47:17 AM MDT
Updated: 10/14/2011 02:03:22 PM PDT

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LAUSD: Another One!

PUBLISHED TUES., JAN 31, 2012 01:25 PM PST - MODIFIED: TUES., JAN 31, 2012 09:02 AM PST

Mark Berndt, 61 (pictured left) a Miramonte Elementary School teacher who taught for three decades in South L.A., told his elementary school students they would be playing "a game" before tying them up and feeding them from a spoon possibly containing semen, sources said. Berndt, who is charged with lewd acts on 23 children and was taken into custody Monday, told the children the spoon contained something sugary and sweet, but authorities said they believed the substance was his semen, said the sources, who declined to comment on the record because the investigation is ongoing.

A spoon recovered from a trash bin in Berndt's classroom is a key piece of evidence, said Capt. Mike Parker of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. "Early in the investigation, special victims bureau detectives recovered a blue plastic spoon and an empty container from the trash within the suspect’s classroom," Parker said. "The recovered items tested positive for semen." Through further investigation, the suspect’s DNA was obtained and tested, and officials said it matched that of the DNA found on the spoon and container.

The 23 alleged victims are both boys and girls and ranged in age from 7 to 10. The crimes occurred between 2008 and 2010, Parker said. Some girls were allegedly photographed with a blue spoon holding a white substance near their mouths, Parker said.

Berndt's arrest capped a nearly yearlong investigation by the L.A. County sheriff's special victims unit. Berndt was fired in March and was being held Tuesday on $2.3-million bail. The investigation began when a photo processor turned over to authorities, pictured of some alleged acts of bondage and the spoon-feeding, officials said. Investigators recovered photos from the processor and Berndt's home that allegedly showed the students bound and blindfolded and some with large Madagascar cockroaches crawling on them inside the school setting, Parker said. Parker also said that, so far, 10 children in the photos recovered have not been identified. More than 80 children and staff have been in interviewed. Miramonte Elementary is in the Florence Firestone unincorporated area of Los Angeles County and is within the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Un-registered!

Posted: 6:32 a.m. Monday, Dec. 19, 2011 - Updated: 10:22 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — A former Lauderhill Middle School teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a student entered a no contest plea to aggravated child abuse charges Monday, accepting a punishment of three years in prison instead of a lifetime as a registered sex offender. Kristen Nicole Sullivan, 27 (pictured left) was immediately granted a furlough and will have to surrender to begin her prison term by 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 3, 2012. If she fails to appear, Broward Circuit Judge Lisa Porter said, the three years will be increased to 90. As part of the plea bargain, Sullivan's jail term will be followed by five years' probation, during which time she will not be allowed to take a job teaching children. Sullivan was formally sentenced to 30 years in prison on each of two aggravated child abuse counts and 15 years on each of two aggravated battery counts, a total of 90 years behind bars. Porter said that sentence will be applied if Sullivan fails to surrender on Jan. 3, 2012.

Prosecutors offered her another deal that would have kept Sullivan out of prison but convicted her of sexual battery on a minor by a person with custodial authority – a conviction that would have labeled Sullivan a sex offender. Sullivan turned that offer down. Her lawyer said the prison term was preferable in the long run. "This way, she doesn't have to register as a sex offender, which would follow you the rest of your life," he said. Acknowledging that his client was the adult who "should have known better," her attorney said one reason prosecutors agreed to the plea was that the student, who was 13 when the relationship began, was the pursuer. "It was a serious lapse in judgment" on her part, the attorney said. Prosecutor Nicole Alvarez did not comment on the deal.

Police arrested Sullivan in April 2010 after a Lauderhill Middle School student claimed he had a sexual relationship with her lasting almost a year. Police said the relationship was revealed when the boy's girlfriend found incriminating text messages on his cellphone — a gift from Sullivan for the boy's 14th birthday. Alvarez did not lay out the case against Sullivan, instead citing a probable cause complaint filed shortly after her arrest. According to that report, Sullivan met the student at Lauderhill Middle School in the beginning of 2009. In May of that year, the relationship turned sexual. In April 2010, the student's new girlfriend told police that she intercepted text messages from Sullivan to the student. "I'm tired of being the one chasing you," one read. "Why are you ignoring me?" read another. Police monitored a phone call between the student and Sullivan on April 19, 2010, confirming the sexual nature of the relationship, according to the report. She was arrested the next day.

Sullivan, of Plantation, was a high school student when she started working for the Broward School District in 2000 at Silver Trail Middle School in Pembroke Pines. She worked as a bookkeeper at the school and at Glades Middle School in 2003. In August 2006, she went to Lauderhill Middle as a full-time microcomputer technical specialist. She was a teacher from October 2007 to November 2009, when she took a clerical position at the district's Educational Technology Services department.

Clayton Diablo!

Posted: 7:25 p.m. PST - Friday, Dec. 9, 2011 - Updated: 3:25 p.m. PST - Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — A Clayton middle school teacher was arrested Friday on suspicion of having sex with a former female student, a Walnut Creek Police Department sergeant said. At about noon, Walnut Creek detectives and Clayton police served a search warrant and an arrest warrant at Diablo View Middle School and arrested Andrew Bruce Cottrell (pictured above, center) who was a math and science teacher there. The 41-year-old Walnut Creek resident allegedly gave police a full confession. He was booked into Martinez Detention Facility on six counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, two counts of lewd acts with a victim who is 15-years or 14-years-old, and nine counts of oral copulation with a victim under 16-years-old.

Walnut Creek police said Cottrell carried on a year-long sexual relationship with a former student, a girl between 14- and 15-years-old. Earlier this week the girl's parents got suspicious. “The parents did discover some information that led them to believe there was a relationship between the two and at that time they contacted the police department,” said Walnut Creek police detective Tom Cashion. Investigators said Cottrell and the underage girl had sex numerous times at his house in Walnut Creek, and possibly even at the school.

Steve Sherman has a daughter who goes to Diablo View Middle School, but she wasn't in Cottrell's class. “I'm thankful that my daughter didn't have him,” he said Friday. “Just heard about it and it’s awful.” Cottrell’s longtime neighbors were stunned to find out about the arrest. “He's a lovely guy,” said Janet Abrams, a neighbor. ”I've always thought he was a lovely guy and I’m shocked, absolutely shocked.” Abrams said Cottrell is married and the couple has two little boys. “I'm mad at Bruce, but I’m sorry for Kelly and the boys,” Abrams added.

After the arrest on campus, the school district sent out a phone message to parents explaining that children's safety is of paramount concern to the district. Police said they believe Cottrell only had a relationship with the one underage girl, but they would like parents to come forward if they think their child was victimized. Cottrell was being held in jail on just under a million dollars bail. Media sources spoke with someone at Cottrell's home Friday night and she declined to give her name but said the situation was horrible.

Gay Lipstick Predator!

Posted: Fri December 14, 2011 at 9:49 p.m. PST - Updated: Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:14pm PST

MARTINEZ, CA (WCJB) — Declaring her a sex offender who had “created an inappropriate environment not only for the victim, but for many middle school girls,” Judge Clare Maier sentenced a former Moraga middle school teacher and coach to eight years in state prison Wednesday. Julie Gay Correa (pictured below, right) 43, pleaded no contest in October to one felony count of sexual penetration under duress and three felony counts of sexually abusing a child aged 14 or 15 years old, prosecutor Geoffrey Lauter said. Maier also ordered the former teacher and coach to pay nearly $8,000 in restitution to the victim, now 29-year-old Kristen Cunnane of Walnut Creek. Cunnane has chosen to be identified. Correa, a Utah resident and mother of two young boys, is also required to register as a sex offender and will be placed on parole for up to ten years following her release from prison. “It is the teacher’s responsibility… to protect and to shield students at all costs from any inappropriate connection,” Maier said before handing down the sentence. “Ms. Correa breached that promise.” Cunnane reported the abuse in 2010, about a decade after it ended, after she started having frequent flashbacks of the molestation and suffering from severe anxiety and depression, she said. “Saying something and asking for help is what I knew I had to do in order to heal,” she said today in a courtroom filled with her friends and family as well as Correa’s friends and family.

In an emotional statement Wednesday, the victim told the court how she first met Correa—a popular teacher and girls’ sports coach—as an 11-year-old on her first day of sixth grade. “I would come to respect her…more than any other adult,” she recalled. “I wanted to be just like her,” Cunnane said. During her time at the school, Cunnane said Correa manipulated her admiration for the teacher twice her age. The two spent more and more time together outside class, whether during lunchtime chats or one-on-one Slurpee runs, Cunnane said. “She acted more like a peer than a teacher,” she recalled.

When she graduated middle school, Correa gave Cunnane a card and a watch, she said. At 14, the teacher she trusted kissed her for the first time, leading to a four-year pattern of abuse that divided Cunnane’s identity as both “an accomplished Moraga teen and a terrified sex slave”, and has since caused her to suffer from depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, she said. Correa repeatedly raped her former student, at her Walnut Creek apartment, in her car, and at Cunnane’s home, where she would sometimes hide in the teen’s bedroom closet or under her bed, waiting for her parents to fall asleep.

Cunnane said Correa threatened to harm herself if she ever left her and told the teen that she would lose her friends if they thought she was a lesbian. Shortly before turning 18, Cunnane began avoiding Correa’s calls and threatened to report the abuse if the teacher continued to pursue her. Though she said Correa did contact her after she enrolled at UCLA, the two didn’t speak again until 2010, when detectives said Cunnane would need to call her former teacher to build more evidence for a sexual assault case, she said. During those calls and later, in court, Correa admitted to the abuse, referring to her “past connection” with Cunnane.

On Monday, Correa made a tearful statement to the court. “It was never, never my intention to hurt you – I cared deeply for you,” Correa said, addressing Cunnane. “At some point, I began to view you as a peer instead of the teenage girl you were…this was an error in my thinking.” On Wednesday, a bailiff led Correa – wearing a dark green jumpsuit – away in handcuffs before remanding her to police custody.

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Posted: November 23, 2011
Updated: November 29, 2011 | 12:38 PM PST

NEW YORK (WCJB) - A Brooklyn teacher was arrested Tuesday night on charges she raped a sixth grader and gave him drugs and alcohol. According to the New York Daily News, Claudia Tillery, 42, was a humanities teacher at the middle school the boy attended. Police sources reportedly told the paper that Tillery and the boy, who is now 14, had been having a sexual relationship since 2009. The sources said the boy had recently ended the relationship and decided to come forward.

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Posted: January 26, 2012 - Updated: January 27, 2012 3:28 PM PST

"'I wish I knew!'"

Posted: January 14, 2012 5:22 PM EST - Updated: January 14, 2012 3:46 PM PST

Happy Valley, PA -- Jerry Sandusky, 67, a longtime Penn State assistant football coach, has since been accused of more than 50 counts involving sexual acts with 10 boys since 1994. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges, while denying any sexual activity with his accusers. What Penn State officials knew about Sandusky and when is the subject of no fewer than five formal investigations. They range from state Attorney General Linda Kelly's criminal investigation of Sandusky, to an NCAA inquiry, to Penn State's in-house inquiry led by former FBI director Louis J. Freeh. The best-case scenario is that the institutional leaders were guilty of blindness, and an unfeeling self-absorption. The worst case is a criminal cover-up to protect a wealthy university's reputation.

How Sandusky allegedly evaded detection by state child services, university administrators, teachers, parents, donors and Joe Paterno himself, remains an open question. "I wish I knew," Paterno said. "I don't know the answer to that. It's hard." Almost as difficult for Paterno to answer is the question of why, after receiving a report in 2002 that Sandusky had abused a boy in the shower of Penn State's Lasch Football Building, and forwarding it to his superiors, he didn't follow up more aggressively.

On a Saturday morning in 2002, an upset young assistant coach named Mike McQueary knocked on Paterno's door to tell him he had witnessed a shocking scene in the Penn State football building showers. Until that moment, Paterno said, he had "no inkling" that Sandusky might be a sexual deviant. McQueary, sitting at Paterno's kitchen table, told him that he had been at the football building late the evening before when he heard noises coming from the shower.

(Penn State University head football coach Joe Paterno leaves the team's football building on Nov. 8, 2011 in University Park, Penn.) "He was very upset and I said why, and he was very reluctant to get into it," Paterno said. "He told me what he saw, and I said, what? He said it, well, looked like inappropriate, or fondling, I'm not quite sure exactly how he put it. I said you did what you had to do. It's my job now to figure out what we want to do. So I sat around. It was a Saturday. Waited till Sunday because I wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing. And then I called my superiors and I said, 'Hey, we got a problem, I think. Would you guys look into it?' Cause I didn't know, you know. We never had, until that point, 58 years I think, I had never had to deal with something like that. And I didn't feel adequate."

"I didn't know exactly how to handle it and I was afraid to do something that might jeopardize what the university procedure was," he said. "So I backed away and turned it over to some other people, people I thought would have a little more expertise than I did. It didn't work out that way." Paterno insists he was completely unaware of a 1998 police investigation into a report from a Second Mile mother that Sandusky had inappropriately touched her son in a shower. The inquiry ended when the local prosecutor declined to bring charges. "You know it wasn't like it was something everybody in the building knew about," Paterno said. "Nobody knew about it."

Paterno declined to judge Sandusky, or his other Penn State colleagues. "I think we got to wait and see what happens," he said. "The courts are taking care of it, the legal system is taking care of it."

Sandusky maintains his innocence. Former athletic director Tim Curley and school vice president Gary Schultz face charges of perjury and failing to report suspected child abuse, based on their inaction. They have pleaded innocent. Though he is not charged with a crime, Penn State president Graham Spanier was fired on Nov. 9, along with Paterno.

Paterno is accused of no wrongdoing, and in fact authorities have said he fulfilled his legal obligations by reporting to his superiors. Nevertheless, the university Board of Trustees summarily dismissed him with a late-night phone call four days after Sandusky's arrest. At about 10 p.m., Paterno and Sue were getting ready for bed when the doorbell rang. An assistant athletic director was at the door, and wordlessly handed Sue a slip of paper. There was nothing on it but the name of the vice chairman of trustees, John Surma, with a phone number. They stood frozen by the bedside in their nightclothes. Sue in a robe and Paterno in pajamas and a Penn State sweatshirt. Paterno dialed the number.

Surma told Paterno, "In the best interests of the university, you are terminated." Paterno hung up and repeated the words to his wife. She grabbed the phone and redialed. "After 61 years he deserved better," she snapped. "He deserved better."

The firing provoked a riot on campus that night.

'We got a problem'!

Posted: Fri December 16, 2011 - Updated: Mon Dec 19, 2011 - 1:03pm PST

"I didn't want to interfere with their weekends, (so) either Saturday or Monday, I talked to my boss, Tim Curley, by phone, saying, 'Hey we got a problem' and I explained the problem to him."

-- Former Penn State Head Coach Joe Paterno in his grand jury testimony regarding his rationale for not contacting police after being informed of sex abuse allegations against Asst. Coach Jerry Sandusky.

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno (pictured above, center) was in no hurry to forward to authorities a witness' report of a sexual abuse of a young boy because he didn't want to "interfere with their weekends," according to a deposition read in court today. The man Paterno told about the abuse, former athletic director Tim Curley, testified in a deposition today that he didn't think it was a crime, so he didn't call the police. Their testimony was among a series of accounts by Penn State officials who displayed a remarkable lack of urgency after a boy was allegedly sexually assaulted in a Penn State locker room shower in 2002 by former coach Jerry Sandusky (pictured below, center).

Magisterial District Judge William Wenner in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Friday, ruled that Athletic Director Timothy Curley and Gary Schultz, the former vice president, will face trial for perjury and failing to report that a member of the football program told them he saw Sandusky molesting a boy. “The task that was at hand yesterday was to present enough evidence to show the court that the charges should be held,” Senior Deputy Attorney General Marc Costanzo said after the ruling. “We’re not surprised by that.” Curley and Schultz, who remain free on $75,000 unsecured bail, denied the charges, which stem from their grand jury testimony. They face formal arraignment on Jan. 19, according to court records. They face as long as seven years in prison if convicted of perjury.

In a hearing at Dauphin County District Court on Friday, Paterno's deposition was read in which he recounts being told by assistant coach Mike McQueary that he saw Sandusky fondling a boy. Paterno, who is 84 and battling cancer, did not appear in court. His deposition was entered into the record. "He (McQueary) had seen a person, an older person, fondling a young boy," Paterno testified. "I don't know what you would call it, but it was of a sexual nature. I didn't push Mike to describe it because he was already upset, but it was something inappropriate to a youngster."

"I thought that Jerry was molesting him, having intercourse with him. I didn't see insertion or hear protest. Jerry having some type of intercourse with him, that's what I believe I saw. I heard rhythmic slapping sounds, two or three slapping sounds, like skin on skin. I looked into the mirror and shockingly and surprisingly saw Jerry in the shower with a young boy, with Jerry behind the boy. The boy was up against the wall, his hands up, Jerry behind him in a close position, with his hands wrapped around the boy. I thought to myself this is a sexual position."

-- December 16, 2011, Former Penn State Asst. Coach Mike McQueary in his preliminary hearing testimony describing what he believed to be sex abuse by ex-Asst. Coach Jerry Sandusky against a child in the Penn State Showers.

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McQueary (pictured left) testified that he told Paterno the next morning that he saw an incident that was extremely sexual in nature, but did not describe specifics or use the words "rape" or "anal sex." Paterno, he said, was shocked and saddened. "I told Paterno I saw Jerry with a young boy in the showers. It was way over the lines, extremely sexual in nature and I thought I needed to tell him," McQueary said. "You don't go to Coach Paterno and describe in detail those kinds of sexual acts. I wouldn't do that. I told him it was extremely sexual." McQueary was adamant that he told the same story, emphasizing that he witnessed something sexual, to Curley and Schultz when they had him come in for a meeting in the Bryce Jordan center the next day.

"I didn't want to interfere with their weekends, (so) either Saturday or Monday, I talked to my boss, Tim Curley, by phone, saying, 'Hey we got a problem' and I explained the problem to him," Paterno said.

Curley (pictured left) in his deposition, said he did not think the incident constituted a crime worthy of calling the police, despite admitting to the grand jury that he knew Sandusky had been seen showering naked with a boy and inappropriately horsing around and wrestling with him. "I never reported it to University Police. I didn't think that it was a crime at the time," Curley testified. "I said it was an extremely sexual act, and I think it was intercourse," McQueary said. "I told them I heard slapping sounds, I did say that." Curley and Schultz told him they would look into the allegations, and then contacted him four or five days later to say they had put in place some restrictions on Sandusky's access to campus. McQueary said he believed he was talking to the head of campus police when he talked to Schultz, and therefore never contacted police on his own or suggested to the officials that they should contact police. McQueary said he was troubled when he saw Sandusky on campus after the incident.

One of Sandusky's attorneys said that there was a simple explanation for why Sandusky would have been in a shower with the boy that night, and it was not sexual. "Some of these kids don't have basic hygiene skills, teaching a person to shower at the age of 12 or 14 sounds strange to some people, but people who work with troubled youth will tell you there are a lot of juvenile delinquents and people who are dependent who have to be taught basic life skills like how to put soap on their body," the attorney told media affiliates.

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The reactions by Paterno and Curley follow a pattern of lax responses by university and Second Mile officials to sex abuse allegations against Sandusky. McQueary, who witnessed the 2002 incident in the locker room, said that rather than physically stopping the assault, or even saying anything to Sandusky while he was in the shower with the boy, he merely slammed his locker and walked out of the building. Instead of calling the police, McQueary talked about it to his father and didn't call Paterno until the next day.

Schultz (pictured left) the vice president of finance, was informed of two such allegations against Sandusky, once in 1998 and again in 2002, but did not think that he should investigate the claims further, according to testimony given today. John McQueary, Mike McQueary's father, testified that following the 2002 incident he spoke to Schultz during a routine business meeting, and Schultz said he was aware of multiple allegations against Sandusky but had not been able to do anything about it. "I was expecting something to be done," John McQueary testified today. "(Schultz said) 'John, there had been other allegations and we looked into them before and we have never been able to unearth or sink teeth into something that was substantial.' But I got the sense that he was going to investigate what Mike saw."

The former head of university police, Thomas Harmon, testified that in 1998, a mother reported to campus police that Sandusky had hugged her son in the shower. Harmon notified Schultz and the district attorney, who launched an investigation. Harmon said he kept Schultz closely updated on the investigation until it was closed by the DA. He also said he was never told by Schultz of the 2002 incident, despite being head of campus police until 2005. University president Graham Spanier was notified of the 2002 incident by Schultz and Curley but also did not report the incident to police.

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Sandusky:
Shower Scene Testimony!

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:16pm PST - Updated:

"I looked in the mirror and shockingly and surprisingly saw Jerry with a boy in the shower."

-- December 16, 2011, Court testimony by Former Penn State star quarterback and now star witness Mike McQueary regarding his witnessing Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing a boy in the Penn State Locker room showers.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (WCJB) -- District Judge William Wenner ruled that prosecutors had probable cause to send the case against Tim Curley and Gary Schultz to trial. Wenner heard testimony against Curley and Schultz on charges they lied to a grand jury and didn't properly report an allegation that former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused a boy in a locker room shower in 2002. Their lawyers maintain the men are innocent, and contest testimony that they were told about the seriousness of the matter. Former Penn State vice president Gary Schultz, left, and former athletic director Tim Curley are charged with perjury and failing to properly report suspected child abuse. The hearing Friday centered on two hours of testimony by Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary who said he believes he saw Sandusky molesting a boy and that he fully conveyed what he had seen to former athletic director Curley and former senior vice president Schultz.

Former Penn State star quarterback and now star witness Mike McQueary (pictured below, right) testified Friday that he told university officials he saw Jerry Sandusky molesting a boy in a locker-room shower in 2002, saying it was "extremely sexual in nature." McQueary said he met with Curley, then Penn State's athletic director, and Schultz, a university vice president who oversaw campus police, to inform them about the alleged incident about nine days after first alerting head coach Joe Paterno. Curley and Schultz are charged with lying about what McQueary described to them. McQueary was the first witness in a hearing Friday to decide if there's enough evidence to warrant putting Curley and Schultz on trial on charges of perjury and failing to report suspected child sexual abuse. Their fate may hinge on what McQueary, now 38, saw on March 1, 2002 -- as well as what he told others about it. McQueary testified Friday that he walked into a locker room and heard someone in the shower. He said he heard rhythmic, slapping sounds, like that of skin on skin. "I looked in the mirror and shockingly and surprisingly saw Jerry with a boy in the shower," McQueary told the court. He said Sandusky was behind the boy and the boy was up against a wall. He said he believes Sandusky was sexually molesting the boy but he did not see insertion and did not hear protests. He said he believes the two were engaged in intercourse but he cannot be sure. "They were as close as they could be," he said. McQueary said he looked away for a few moments, and when he took a closer look, the two were standing apart. "They had turned so their bodies were both facing me. ... They looked directly in my eyes," he said. "Seeing that they were separated, I thought it was best that I leave the locker room." He added that he felt "shocked" and "horrified" afterward. "I was not thinking straight," he said, adding that he was "sure (the incident) was over" when he left. But McQueary acknowledged he doesn't know what happened after leaving. He testified that he also never tried to find the boy.

McQueary (pictured above, center-left) then a graduate assistant, said he called Paterno (pictured above, center-right) -- who was later fired in the wake of the scandal -- the morning after, telling him that he "saw Jerry with a young boy in the shower and it was extremely sexual in nature and I thought I needed to tell him about it." At Paterno's house the next day, sitting at his kitchen table, McQueary said he described what he saw and that he told Paterno that Sandusky was in a "sexual" act with the child and described it as "extremely sexual." In court he testified that he estimated the boy he saw was about 10 or 12 years old, caucasian and had wet hair, facing the wall. "I believe they were having some kind of intercourse," McQueary said as his mother sat in the courtroom on the verge of tears. McQueary said he moved toward the shower and Sandusky separated from the boy. "I know they saw me," he said. "They looked directly in my eye, both of them." McQueary said he then left. "I was distraught and horrified," he said.

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McQueary testified that the former head coach was "shocked" and "saddened" upon hearing the allegation. "He said, 'I need to think and tell some people about it.' " But McQueary didn't meet with university officials to explain what he saw until more than a week after first informing Paterno, he testified. Paterno also allegedly never tried to find the boy, said McQueary, who he added he can't be certain if he ever used the word "intercourse" when describing the alleged incident to the former head coach. But McQueary added, "There's no question in my mind that I conveyed to (university officials) that I saw Jerry with a boy in the shower and that it was severe sexual acts going on and that it was wrong and over the line." He further testified he did not alert police, saying that he instead told Curley (pictured above, right) Schultz (pictured above, center-left). "In my mind, that is the police," McQueary said. "I want to make that clear." When pressed about why he went to university officials and not police, McQueary said it was "because it was delicate in nature and I tried to use my best judgment."

McQueary said Friday that Schultz never followed up with him but that neither Schultz or Curley told him not to talk to anyone. McQueary said he was left with the impression both men took his report seriously. When asked why he didn't go to police, he referenced Schultz's position as a vice president at the university who had overseen the campus police. "I thought I was talking to the head of the police, to be frank with you," he said. "In my mind it was like speaking to a (district attorney). It was someone who police reported to and would know what to do with it." "Joe Paterno did ask me … two or three months after that … if I was OK in relation to what I saw and if I was handling it OK," McQueary said.

Curley testified to the grand jury that McQueary told him that he saw Sandusky "horsing around" with a child in the showers and that "they were playful," according the transcript of his grand jury testimony. Asked whether the activity involved anal intercourse, Curley told the grand jury: "Absolutely not." He said he didn't report it to police because he didn't believe it was a crime. Schultz told the grand jury, according to the transcript, that McQueary and Paterno related their concerns 'in a general way' that did not involve specific allegations. Schultz said he believed the incident had been referred to the state child protection authorities. Both administrators told the grand jury they did not attempt to find the boy involved in the 2002 incident. Schultz said there was 'no basis' to believe Sandusky was involved sexual activity with a child based on McQueary's account.

McQueary's father, John McQueary, also testified and said he related to Schultz what his son had witnessed in the shower room involving Sandusky. He said he described Sandusky's behavior, as related by his son, as "sexual in nature … and that something should be done about it."
"I told him enough that I feel like he got the picture," John McQueary told the courtroom. "I never used the word 'crime.' "

Sandusky, a longtime Penn State assistant football coach, has since been accused of more than 50 counts involving sexual acts with 10 boys since 1994. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges, while denying any sexual activity with his accusers. Regarding the 2002 incident in the showers, he has said that he and the boy were just "horsing around." Sandusky, who was Penn State's defensive coordinator when he retired in 1998, met his accusers through a youth charity he founded, the Second Mile. According to prosecutors, he would hug, tickle and wrestle with the boys before allegedly crossing the line and sexually abusing them. In November, the summary of a grand jury report was released contending that Sandusky sexually abused the boys in the basement of his home, hotel rooms, a high school wrestling room and -- based on McQueary's account -- the locker room for Penn State's football team.

Former Penn State police chief Tom Harmon testified that he alerted Schultz to a 1998 investigation of abuse allegations involving Sandusky. Harmon said he spoke to Schultz four times during the course of that inquiry. Harmon eventually referred that investigation to the local district attorney, who did not pursue criminal charges. Harmon said Schultz never alerted him to the 2002 allegations.

Sandusky:
Waives Preliminary!

Posted: Tues Dec 13, 2011 9:38am PST - Updated:

Bellefonte, Pennsylvania (WCJB) -- Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky (pictured above, center) who is accused of sexually abusing boys, remains "totally prepared and committed to proving his innocence" after waiving his right to a preliminary hearing Tuesday, his attorney said. The purpose of a preliminary hearing is to allow the presiding judge the opportunity to decide whether the prosecution has enough evidence to take the case to trial. Mr. Sandusky, 67 years old, has denied all of the charges against him and entered a not-guilty plea Tuesday. The developments mean the case is set to go to trial unless there is a plea agreement. Prosecutors had prepared to put 11 witnesses on the stand Tuesday, including some of the young men who accuse Sandusky of sexually abusing them while they were children and teenagers.

"We're ready to defend. We've always been ready to defend," Sandusky's attorney told reporters outside the Centre County Courthouse after the brief court hearing. "Today's waiver has nothing to do with conceding anything. There have been no plea negotiations. There will be no plea negotiations. This is a fight to the death. This is the fight of Jerry Sandusky's life." The former coach faces more than 50 counts related to allegations of sexual molestation revealed in a grand jury report last month. He is accused of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, among other charges. Sandusky also will waive a scheduled January 11 arraignment after entering a not guilty plea Tuesday and requesting a jury trial, his attorney said. It was unclear whether the plea applied to all of the charges or just some.

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