Thursday, December 28, 2017

Stylist goes to jail over haircut

A bad haircut — and a wounded ear — led to a Wisconsin hairstylist's arrest, authorities said.
Khaled A. Shabani, 46, was arrested after he snipped a 22-year-old customer’s ear, Madison police said.
a close up of a persons face: This bad haircut and a wounded ear have left a Wisconsin hairstylist under arrest, authorities said. (Madison Police Department)Police spokesman Joel DeSpain said officers arrested Shabani on suspicion of mayhem and disorderly conduct while armed.
DeSpain said the victim told officers the hairstylist told him to stop fidgeting and moving his head before nicking his ear Friday.
According to The Wisconsin State Journal, DeSpain said the hairstylist then ran the clipper with the shortest attachment down the middle of the customer’s head, “leaving him looking a bit like Larry from ‘The Three Stooges.’”
DeSpain said Shabani told officers it was an accident.

Cop blackmailing wife who wants to murder him

A Pennsylvania police officer has pleaded guilty to a plot to blackmail his wife over having sex with a 14-year-old boy while she has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill her husband.
Image: Robin Transue (left) pled guilty to Solicitation to commit Aggravated Assault and Statutory Sexual Assault. Her husband, Keith Transue (right) pled guilty to Criminal Coercion.Robin Transue (left) pled guilty to Solicitation to commit Aggravated Assault and Statutory Sexual Assault. Her husband, Keith Transue (right) pled guilty to Criminal Coercion.
Keith Transue, a Bushkill Township officer, pleaded guil ty last week to misdemeanor criminal coercion, and Robin Transue pleaded guilty to felony solicitation to commit aggravated assault and statutory sexual assault. The Mount Pocono residents, both 43, are scheduled for sentencing March 20.
Authorities in Monroe County said in court documents that Robin Transue told an informant her husband threatened to expose her 2010 relationship with the boy if she left him. Prosecutors say she suggested several ways to kill her husband, including a drug overdose or a hunting accident.
"Mrs. Transue freely talked about arranging for her husband's murder," District Attorney Michael Mancuso said. "All kinds of potential death scenarios were discussed."
Prosecutors said Keith Transue failed to report the abuse when he learned about it, as he was legally obligated to do as a police officer.
"Transue was using his wife's crime to keep her from leaving or divorcing him. This in turn was essentially the motive for Robin soliciting Keith's murder," Mancuso said.
The police department placed Keith Transue on leave after the charges were filed, and Police Chief Mike McLouth said Wednesday said the officer had submitted a resignation letter.
Mancuso praised an informant who came forward and cooperated with police, saying he "likely prevented a homicide and also brought to light a sordid history of sexual assault and criminal coercion."

Engagement ends in murder

a woman standing in front of a boat
A 27-year-old Florida man murdered his girlfriend on Tuesday before committing suicide with the same gun.
The crime reportedly shocked the man’s parents, who say he was in good spirits just 30 minutes before neighbors heard two gunshots.
PEOPLE confirms with the Riviera Beach Police that investigators believe that Richard Travis Timilty shot Holly Given, 26, inside the apartment they shared. Their bodies we re discovered Wednesday afternoon.
Neighbors reported hearing “two pops” at around midnight on Tuesday evening.
According to police, there are no recorded of domestic abuse calls from the couple. Their investigation into the deadly incident remains ongoing.
A motive for the violence remains unknown.
The Palm Beach Postspoke to Timilty’s parents; PEOPLE was unable to track them down Friday.
Timilty’s parents said he referred to Given as “the one” and told them he was planning on proposing to her.
His parents also said Timilty was recently promoted, becoming a fishing boat captain.
They said that when they picked him up from a restaurant where he’d gone to meet up with friends, he appeared to be in good spirits.
“He was smiling,” Martinez told the paper. “He was happy.”
Given was a waitress, according to multiple media outlets.
She announced her relationship with Timilty on her Facebook on Oct. 20.
Court records confirm that Timilty filed for divorce from another woman on that very same day.
His divorce, from a woman he was married to for less than a year, was finalized on Nov. 29, PEOPLE confirms through online court records.
The day after his marriage ended, Timilty shared a picture of himself and Given on Instagram, calling her “my love.”

4 found dead in 1 house

Four people found slain inside a basement apartment the day after Christmas have been identified as two children, their mother and a second woman, authorities said Wednesday.
The victims were a 36-year-old woman, her 5-year-old daughter, her 11-year-old son and a 22-year-old woman who had a relationship with the mother, Troy police Chief John Tedesco said.
A property manager found the bodies Tuesday after being asked to check on the welfare of the residents of the apartment, one of five in a house located in the city's Lansingburgh section along the Hudson River just north of Albany, police said.
The slayings weren't a random act, Tedesco said during a news conference at City Hall. He called the killings the worst he has seen in 42 years in law enforcement but didn't provide details.
"I don't think there's any doubt that a person who committed this crime is capable of anything," Tedesco said, adding that police don't believe there was an imminent danger to the public.
The victims' names were being withheld pending notification of relatives, he said.
Police didn't know when the slayings occurred, but Tedesco said it was hoped autopsies being conducted Wednesday would provide investigators with clues. State police were involved in the investigation along with New York parole officials, Tedesco said.
"This will be a full-court press, if you will, until we bring someone to justice," he said, adding that police were seeking any information the public may have about the crime.
Investigators remained at the scene Wednesday. Police cars blocked vehicles from approaching the home, which is set amid older, restored houses, and yellow crime tape was stretched across the street, running along the river's east bank. Few people ventured out on the snow-covered sidewalks in temperatures in the teens.

Teen kills girlfriends parents after suspicious incident

A Virginia teen charged in the shooting deaths of his girlfriend’s parents mowed a swastika about 40 feet across into the grass of a community field, according to neighbors.
Penny Potter said Tuesday after the incident two months ago, residents of Reston talked to the 17-year-old’s parents instead of going to authorities.
“We live in a very safe neighborhood where kids can ride their bikes and not worry about anything,” Potter told the newspaper. “For the first time, I was fearful that there was someone living in our neighborhood who was capable of incredibly irrational behavior.”
Potter said the parents admitted that their son mowed the Nazi symbol into the grass and that they were planning on getting treatment for him.
“They were going to take care of it,” she said. “They were aware of it.”
The unidentified teen allegedly killed Scott Fricker, 48, and Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, 43, of Reston, after the couple tried to get their teenage daughter to end a relationship with the youth over neo-Nazi views.
Police said the teen fatally shot his girlfriend’s parents after they caught him in their 16-year-old daughter’s bedroom around 5 a.m. Friday and tried to get him to leave.
The boy then shot himself in the head, but survived, police said. He remains unidentified because of his age.
The police reportedly haven’t discovered a motive but family members and friends blamed it on “the couple’s struggle to keep hate out of their home,” The Post reported, citing family members.
Family and friends say the couple found a Twitter account they believed to be linked to the youth. Friends say the account retweeted posts praising Hitler and making derogatory comments about Jews.
The teen was charged with two counts of murder and, as of Tuesday, was still hospitalized in critical condition.

Saturday, November 25, 2017

Man mistakes woman for deer and shots are fired

Wednesday was a typical afternoon, but an exciting one — Thanksgiving was the next day, and Jamie Billquist and his wife, Rosemary, would partake in one of their favorite traditions: the Turkey Trot.
Rosemary Billquist, 43, got home from work about 5 p.m., and left shortly after to walk the couple’s dogs, Stella and Sugar, near the field behind their Sherman, N.Y., house. Jamie Billquist, 47, stayed at home, watching television.
A little while later, the dogs came racing to the back of the house, barking loudly. Billquist panicked. He tried calling Rosemary’s cellphone but she didn’t pick up.
“I thought, ‘Something might’ve happened to Rosemary,’ ” he said. “Maybe she fell.”
As he put his phone down, ambulances showed up outside the house. An EMT who is a friend of Billquist’s rushed to the field, saying someone had been shot.
Moments later, Billquist learned that it was his wife.
A neighbor, Thomas B. Jadlowski, thought he saw a deer in his back yard 200 yards away and fired a single shot. Then he heard a scream. Realizing he’d shot a person, he ran out to help, said Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office officials in a news release.
Jadlowski, 34, called 911 and applied pressure to Rosemary Billquist’s wound until paramedics arrived, according to the sheriff’s office. The bullet had traveled through her hip and out her back, Billquist said. Billquist rode with his wife to UPMC Hamot in Erie, Pa., where she was pronounced dead.
“That’s it,” Billquist said with a heavy sigh. “My life has changed. Things are never gonna be the same.”
Jadlowski has not been charged and has been cooperating with investigators, officials said. The case will be reviewed by the Chautauqua County District Attorney’s Office, which will determine whether Jadlowski will face criminal charges. Officials said the shooting occurred less than an hour after sunset, when it’s illegal to hunt.
Sheriff Joe Gerace said that Jadlowski used a single-shot handgun permissible for deer hunting.
Dale Dunkelberger, master instructor for firearms for the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s hunter education program, that shooting after hours and not identifying a target correctly is dangerous.
“Hunters have to understand there are other people using trails, using parks in areas where we as sportsmen hunt,” said Dunkelberger, who called Sherman his old hunting “stomping ground.”
“In this case, it appears from what I gathered this was after sunset, and he shouldn’t have been out there hunting after sunset. You’re done. That’s the law.”
Jadlowski could not be immediately reached for comment.
Jamie Billquist still has many questions about the shooting.
“I’m not a hunter but the law is that (after sunset) is when you’re supposed to be done,” Billquist said. “Supposedly it was 200 yards away. He thought it was a deer, which is hard for me to believe. If you don’t know what it is, why shoot?”
Now, Billquist is unsure how to move on without his wife. The holidays were always a celebratory time for them, as their birthdays were both in January, right after Christmas. They’d been together for 27 years, ever since they met at the Chautauqua Mall in Lakewood, N.Y., in 1990.
“I thought she was a beautiful person, something drew me to her,” Billquist said of that day with a laugh. “We’ve been together ever since . . . we decided years ago we didn’t want kids. Just free spirits, I guess. Kind of enjoying life and having fun.”
The couple moved to Sherman in 2002, as Rosemary Billquist wanted to return to the town where she grew up. They rebuilt her family’s house on Armenian Road, which was significant to Rosemary Billquist, who had Armenian roots.
She was an avid runner who competed in marathons and triathlons. The Billquists had planned to run in the YMCA Buffalo Niagara Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning.
That morning, Jamie Billquist opened up Facebook, which sent him a reminder of the photos he took with his wife at last year’s event. He wore a pointy Santa hat; she wore a giant grin.
Instead, Billquist spent Thanksgiving planning his wife’s services, wondering how to best commemorate her.
“We always had fun. Just together, or with the dogs. There were so many thousands and thousands of fun stories,” he said.
Like the time Rosemary Billquist went out on her lunch break while working at WCA Hospital in Jamestown, N.Y., and saw a man struggling to stand in the hospital parking lot as he waited for a ride. So she decided to install a bench in front of the hospital. She etched a quote onto it: “In a world where you can be anything . . . be kind.”
Billquist remembers hauling the bench into their car and planting it in front of the hospital. He was in his work clothes and she wore a dress, he said.
He remembers her coming home from work some days, exclaiming, “Three more people sat on that bench!”
“She was a private person. She did things from the heart. She didn’t want people saying ‘Oh, good job,’ that just wasn’t like her,” he said.
Now, the bench is covered with tea lights and flowers.
Dozens of friends and family gathered for a vigil Thursday, singing and praying. Billquist posted a video on Facebook, and wrote that the vigil “took his breath away.”
“She touched a lot of lives, she did,” he said, recalling how his wife would go out of her way to say hello to people at the hospital, “just to brighten up their day for a second.”
“She was definitely an angel. That’s for sure.”

Cop who shot 17 times at stolen car full of teens faces sentencing

The former Chicago police officer who fired several shots into a stolen car full of teenagers four years ago has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Marco Proano leaving federal court after sentencing on November 20, 2017: marco-proano-112017.jpg
U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feinerman on Monday said while Marco Proano m ay have been wearing a police uniform at the time of the shooting, he was the one bringing the chaos and violence.
Proano fired 16 shots at the car carrying six African-Americans in December 2013, authorities said. Two were wounded as the car sped away from him. The shooting was caught on video and became the centerpiece at Proano's trial.
His defense attorney painted Proano as a victim of growing anti-police sentiment and asked for supervised release. Proano told the judge he didn't set out that night to hurt anyone.
In August, jurors found Proano guilty of two civil-rights violations. Prosecutors maintained Proano used unreasonable force.
The 42-year-old former officer is expected to report for federal prison in January. He has a wife and three children.

Woman found dead, grandson is suspect


The body of a Florida grandmother reported missing Wednesday along with her teen grandson is believed to have been found in a shallow grave in the backyard of her son's home, police announced Friday.The 15-year-old grandson, Logan Mott, remains missing and is considered a person of interest in the death of the person believed to be Kristina French, 53, Jacksonville Sheriff's Office director Ron Lendvay said Friday. Surveillance video leads investigators to believe Mott is still alive and is driving French's car, a silver Dodge Dart with Florida tags DLLT42.
On Wednesday, the teen and his grandmother were supposed to pick up his father and the father's girlfriend at the airport, who were flying back to the Jacksonville area after a vacation. When they didn't show up, the couple took an Uber back to their Neptune Beach home to find it ransacked with the door open and guns missing from a gun safe.
Neptune Beach Police and the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, where Mott's father works as a corrections officer, launched an investigation. Lendvay said investigators uncovered evidence of foul play and "possible criminal violence" inside the home, and later uncovered the buried remains that appear to be consistent with French. The remains have not been officially identified.
Lendvay said authorities are in the process of obtaining an arrest warrant for Mott on auto theft charges. He said police want to interview Mott to find out what happened in the home.
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Lendvay said investigators now believe he is in possession of his insulin packs.
Campbell-Mott, who lives in Missouri, told WJAX that Logan's father, who is her ex-husband and French's son, last heard from French via text on Tuesday when she confirmed she would pick him up at the airport the following day.
She the station that the last time she spoke to her son was Sunday night, and everything seemed fine.
Lendvay said that because guns were taken from the home, anyone who sees Mott or the car should use extreme caution and call 911. Mott should be considered armed and dangerous, he said.

Monday, May 1, 2017

Racially motivated shooting leaves one dead several injured

 A gunman opened fire at an apartment complex swimming pool in San Diego on Sunday evening, killing one person and injuring seven others before being fatally shot by officers, police said.
The gunman, identified as Peter Selis, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police described him as a white male who may have lived in one of the buildings, and said all of the victims were African American or Hispanic. Police said they did not know whether race was a factor in the attack.
Officers responded to reports of a shooting about 6 p.m. at the upscale La Jolla Crossroads apartments in San Diego’s University City neighborhood, where about 30 people had gathered for a birthday party at the pool.
A police helicopter arrived on the scene first and reported seeing a suspect armed with a handgun, surrounded by “numerous victims,” San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman said in a news conference. The pilot watched the suspect reload his weapon once and open fire again on the partygoers, she said.
A witness who saw the chaos from his apartment window said the shooter appeared calm as his victims struggled on the ground in front of him.
“We could see the shooter sitting there with a beer in one hand and a gun in the other,” the witness, who was not identified said.
Lauren Seed said she was inside her apartment when she heard six or seven shots ring out at the pool.
“We got down, we closed the windows and then about a minute later, six or seven more shots, lots of screaming, lots of people screaming,” she said. “From the screams, you could hear that somebody or multiple people were hit.”
A sergeant and two officers arrived and cornered the suspect in the pool area. The suspect pointed a large caliber handgun at them, and all three opened fire, killing him, Zimmerman said. She added that the suspect may have fired at police first.
Police said seven people were struck by gunfire: four African American women, two African American men and one Hispanic man. Another African American man broke his arm while running away from the shooting. All the victims were adults.
One of the women died at the hospital. Police did not give her name. Several of the others were listed in critical condition Sunday night, police said. It was unclear whether the suspect knew any of the victims.
Zimmerman said it was too early in the investigation to pinpoint a motive. Police were still interviewing witnesses and had not yet spoken at length with the three officers who opened fire, she said.
“Our hearts go out to the victims,” she said. “There’s a lot of work to be done.”
The La Jolla Crossroads apartments are located near the northernmost edge of San Diego, near the University of California campus. Community pools and spas are located throughout the complex, according to the La Jolla Crossroads website.
Witnesses said most of the people at Sunday’s party were black.
Amberjot Riat, 22, and Kaela Wong, 20, said they were sitting in a hot tub when the shooting began. As they took cover behind a wall, they told the Times, they could hear the gunman say to some of the partygoers, “You can either leave or you can stay here and die.”
A resident of the complex told ABC 10 that he was outside when the gunfire erupted.
“It was surreal, you know, because we live here,” he said. “We literally saw people jumping out from the fences and running away like crazy.”
A man who said he was a guest at the party told the station it took him a few seconds to realize what was happening. There were “more rounds and then more sounds,” he said. “And that’s when I realized, oh, someone is actually shooting a gun at people. So that’s when all the scrambling started.”

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Cocain body suit

Ariel Garcia was arrested on federal narcotics smuggling charges after Customs and Border Protection officers found cocaine taped to his legs.Two plane passengers took the idea of “carry-on” to another level on their flight to New York.
The men, on the same Delta Airlines flight, but traveling separately, were arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport last week after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found a combined 23 pounds of cocaine under their clothes in separate searches, authorities said Wednesday. The combined street value of the cocaine was nearly $400,000, authorities said.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Ariel Garcia, a U.S. citizen, and Elvin Montilla-Sosa, of the Dominican Republic, had both arrived in New York from Santo Domingo on April 19 when they were stopped for searches. An agency spokesman said they were not traveling together. In both cases, officers took the men to private search rooms.
Charging documents from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York said officers observed that Garcia was wearing baggy clothes, with “unusual bulging” around his calves.
Officers searching Garcia found about 11 pounds of cocaine, valued at more than $180,000, according to Customs and Border Protection. The packages were taped to his legs, the agency said. Garcia admitted he was being paid about $8,000 to bring the drugs to New York, according to the charging documents.
Elvin Montilla-Sosa was arrested on federal narcotics smuggling charges after Customs and Border Protection officers found cocaine taped to his legs and back. Customs and Border Protection Elvin Montilla-Sosa was arrested on federal narcotics smuggling charges after Customs and Border Protection officers found cocaine taped to his legs and back. In Montilla-Sosa’s case, officers found about 12 pounds of cocaine, valued at more than $200,000, according to CBP. A photo showed the cocaine wrapped around his calves, thighs and back.
Charging documents said Montilla-Sosa initially gave officers a brown suitcase for inspection, and told them he was an attorney traveling to the United States to attend an immigration law conference. Officers then patted him down and found multiple “bulges” concealed by spandex. The transparent packages of cocaine were underneath, according to charging documents. Like Garcia, Montilla-Sosa admitted he was being paid to smuggle the drugs, according to charging documents.
“This latest seizure demonstrates our CBP officers being ever vigilant in protecting the United States from the distribution of these illicit drugs,” Leon Hayward, acting director of CBP’s New York Field Operations, said in a statement.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York is prosecuting the case on federal narcotics smuggling charges, officials said.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Is this Aaron Hernandez prison lover???

Kyle Kennedy was the last person to see the former New England Patriot alive and is now on suicide watch inside maximum security Souza-Baranowski Corrections CenterIs this the prisoner who Aaron Hernandez wrote to before his shocking suicide is a 22-year-old man jailed for a knife point robbery at a gas station near his home, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
Kyle Kennedy was the last person to see the former New England Patriot alive and is now on suicide watch inside the maximum security Souza-Baranowski Corrections Center, sources say.
He is the man to whom Hernandez gave a $50,000 watch and other property shortly before he took his life.
 Kennedy was arrested in January 2015 for an early morning robbery at a Cumberland Farms gas station in Northbridge, Massachusetts. He was wearing a black mask and carrying 'a long butcher-style knife,' according to a report. He got away with just $189
DailyMail.com exclusively reported last week that Hernandez, 27, who was found dead hanging from a bed sheet in his cell early on Wednesday morning last week, left three suicide notes.
One was addressed to his fiancée Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, the second to their four-year-old daughter Avielle and the third to a prisoner, who high level prison sources described as his prison lover.
 That man is Kennedy, the son of a businessman from Uxbridge, Massachusetts, close to the Rhode Island state line, the sources reveal.
When approached at his home at the end of a leafy cul-de-sac, Kennedy's stepmother Deborah, refused to comment and drove in through the automatic gates.
Within minutes his father Matthew, 42, ran out of the home, which is set on more than four acres of land, and furiously berated a DailyMail.com team sitting on a public road outside his house, yelling: 'Get the f**k away and don't f**king come back.' 
Court documents show that Kennedy's own father accused him of using heroin. Daily Mail.com has also leaned the 22-year-old In 2012 was sentenced to nine months for trafficking heroin in 2012 and a year for heroin possession in 2013.
  It's been reported that Hernandez had given his jailhouse lover's family a $50,000 watch before his suicide. The station did not say which member of the family received the watch.
Kyle Kennedy was arrested in January 2015 for an early morning robbery at a Cumberland Farms gas station in Northbridge, Massachusetts. He was wearing a black mask and carrying 'a long butcher-style knife,' according to a report in the local news. He got away with just $189.
He then led police on a high speed chase and after being arrested ran out of the police station in an attempted escape, according to reports at the time.
After being stopped by police officer Peter Bates, Kennedy drove his red sedan off at speeds of up to 110 mph on Route 146 near his home town, court documents show.
'The sedan drove down the off ramp of the exit, Bates said, striking several signs and scraping the side of the guardrail,' the newspaper reported.
  When approached at his home at the end of a leafy cul-de-sac, Kennedy's stepmother Deborah, refused to comment and drove in through the automatic gates. Within minutes his father Matthew, 42, ran out of the house furiously berated a DailyMail.com team sitting on a public road outside his house, yelling: 'Get the f**k away and don't f**king come back'
Matthew Kennedy's home, the address listed by local press when Kyle was arrested,   is set on more than four acres of land.
 'According to Bates, the sedan attempted to circle back onto Rte. 146 by going up the ramp, but could not make the maneuver and stopped.'
While being held at Northbridge Police Station over the Martin Luther King Day weekend, Kennedy asked to make a phone call and while the officer was dialing he made a dash for freedom out of the door.
 'Police pursued Kennedy through three residential yards until he eventually gave up on Edgemere Avenue,' the newspaper reported.
The final entry on Kyle Kennedy”s Facebook page was posted minutes before his arrest at 12.58 am on Sunday January 18, 2016. It said simply: ‘Pray 4 Me.’ A post 35 minutes earlier said: ‘Who got wheels and wanna make $.’ The final entry on Kyle Kennedy's Facebook page was posted minutes before his arrest at 12.58 am on Sunday January 18, 2016. It said simply: 'Pray 4 Me.'
 A post 35 minutes earlier said: 'Who got wheels and wanna make $.'
Other posts show him holding huge wads of cash.
  In a letter to the Worcester Superior Court Matthew Kennedy wrote: 'I am requesting the court to revoke Kyle's bail. 'Kyle had begged me to bail him out of the house of corrections with the understanding Kyle would attend and complete a program that I had lined up in Boston,' added the older Kennedy.
 But three months earlier, in October 2014, he had written: 'today is the start of my new life…getting all my s**t prioritized for my long week ahead of me. im about to make a lot of changes in my life so please don't take anything personal if I stop answering you. Thanks.' 
Papers show that Matthew Kennedy bailed his son out, paying $12,500 of his $125,000 surety. But in September 2015 he had a change of mind.
 In a letter to the Worcester Superior Court Matthew Kennedy wrote: 'I am requesting the court to revoke Kyle's bail.
 'Kyle had begged me to bail him out of the house of corrections with the understanding Kyle would attend and complete a program that I had lined up in Boston,' added the older Kennedy.
'I also hired an independent counselor to bring him to the program and keep an eye on him so he would complete and hopefully live a normal life.
 'This person brought him to Boston the day after he was bailed and checked him in. Kyle stayed one day and left the program! To the best of my knowledge he is living in Worcester with no job and back using heroin.
 'I believe Kyle is a threat to himself and anyone around him. Also, given his history, he is a flight risk.'
  Kennedy was charged with armed and masked robbery but in a deal he agreed to plead guilty to the lower charge of armed robbery. He was sentenced to 3-5 years in state prison in December 2015.
 He was originally sent to the Cedar Junction maximum security facility in Walpole, Massachusetts. 
 In an online profile on the website Write A Prisoner, Kennedy described his sexual orientation as 'straight.'
 'Hello, my name is Kyle,' he wrote on the site in May last year. 'I signed up on this website so I can correspond and possibly build friendships with people from around the world.
  'I stand at 5' 10', I weigh 175 pounds, I have brown hair and brown eyes. I am also heavily tattooed. I work out, read books and write to help me pass the time while incarcerated,' he added
  Kennedy — prisoner number W107335 — revealed on the site that he is serving time for armed robbery and said his earliest date for release is March 1 next year
'I stand at 5' 10', I weigh 175 pounds, I have brown hair and brown eyes. I am also heavily tattooed. I work out, read books and write to help me pass the time while incarcerated,' he added.
'My hobbies on the street include racing motocross, building and customizing cars and motorcycles and doing anything that includes the outdoors. I am currently working to attain my Barbering license.'
He ended his profile with the words: 'If you want to get to know me, I'm just a stamp away! Thank you, Kyle.'
 Kennedy — prisoner number W107335 — revealed on the site that he is serving time for armed robbery and said his earliest date for release is March 1 next year.
 Lawrence Army, the Kennedy family attorney, told DailyMail.com he had no comment. He said he was visiting Kyle in prison on Monday 'to see what's going on.'
 Calls to Massachusetts Department of Corrections spokesman Christopher Fallon were not immediately returned.
 Hernandez, a Super Bowl-winning tight end with the Patriots, killed himself last week. His family has donated his brain to a team from the University of Boston to see whether he was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition caused by repeated hits to the head.
  Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, 27, looked drawn as she and daughter Avielle stepped out just before sunset on Wednesday, the day after her life partner and fiance, Aaron Hernandez, committed suicide in jail
 He had been serving a life sentence without possibility of parole for the murder of his close friend Odin Lloyd, but just five days earlier had been acquitted of a separate double murder.
Kennedy was arrested in January 2015 for an early morning robbery at a Cumberland Farms gas station in Northbridge, Massachusetts. He was wearing a black mask and carrying ‘a long butcher-style knife,’One theory for Lloyd's murder is that he knew about Hernandez's bisexuality and might tell Shenea Jenkins — Hernandez's fiancée's sister — who Lloyd was dating.
Hernandez had a long-term gay lover before he was imprisoned who was due to give evidence at his murder trial. But shortly before the case he transferred a large sum of money into the man's bank account.
 As exclusively revealed by DailyMail.com, Hernandez — prisoner number W106228 — had carefully planned his death. He had soaped the floor in his cell, so he would not be able to stand if he changed his mind after attempting to take his own life.
He had also given away his property to fellow inmates and left the three notes next to a Bible opened to John 3:16, the number scrawled that on his forehead in red marker.
 The Cumberland Farms store Kyle Kennedy robbed at knife point
John 3:16, often described as 'the gospel in a nutshell' reads: 'For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.'
He jammed the door to the cell — number G2-57 — with cardboard and piled furniture against the door to slow down anyone trying to enter. He also covered the interior window with a curtain to cover up his nakedness, according to Boston's CBS affiliate.

Killed for a designer belt

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Multnomah County Sheriff's office shows Kole Jones. Authorities say one of two teenagers arrested after a fatal shooting in a Portland, Ore., park told a homicide detective they had wanted to steal the victim's belt. Police arrested Jones last week on charges of murder and robbery in connection with the shooting. (Multnomah County Sheriff's Office via AP, file)Kole Jones (pictured) is one of two teenagers arrested after the shooting death of a high school student in an Oregon park told a detective they had wanted to steal the victim's belt, according to court documents.
The 17-year-old boy charged with first-degree robbery told the Portland detective that stealing the belt was the objective when he and others approached Shawn Scott Jr. in broad daylight last week, a probable cause affidavit filed by a prosecutor says.
The park is near a busy light-rail stop and a shopping mall. Detective Erik Kammerer said surveillance video from a business showed a gun being pointed at the belt before the April 11 shooting.
"Kammerer told me that (the suspected robber) was present and puffed up, trying to intimidate the victim," prosecutor Laura Rowan wrote in the affidavit.
Scott, 17, died from a single gunshot wound to the head. He was a junior at Union High School in Vancouver, Washington, a few miles north of Portland.
The teen accused of firing the gun, 18-year-old Kole Jones of Gresham, was booked into jail last week on charges of murder, first-degree robbery and unlawful use of a vehicle. A preliminary court hearing is scheduled for April 25.
Jones' court-appointed lawyer, Joe Calhoun, was out of the office Tuesday and did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
In January, Jones was charged with second-degree theft after police said he stole merchandise from Macy's, court records show. He was arrested that same month in Oregon for unauthorized use of a vehicle. He pleaded guilty in the vehicle case and was sentenced to 20 days in jail and probation.
The minor charged with robbery after the park shooting was arraigned in juvenile court Monday. He will be assigned a court-appointed lawyer and return to court next week.
Police are searching for at least one other suspect in the crime.

Monday, April 24, 2017

Father of misssing boy is suspect

The search for a 5-year-old boy who vanished from a South Pasadena park continued Monday after police announced his father had been arrested in connection with his disappearance.
This undated photo provided by the South Pasadena, Calif., Police Department shows Aramazd Andressian Sr., whose 5-year-old boy has been missing. South Pasadena Police Chief Art Miller said at a news conference Sunday, April 23, 2017, that investigators have had a difficult time getting answers from Andressian. He was arrested Saturday after paramedics found him passed out in a park. Officials have said the boy's mother reported Saturday that her estranged husband, Andressian, had failed to drop the boy off at a pre-arranged meeting place. The parents are divorcing and share custody. (South Pasadena Police Department via AP)
Officers from the South Pasadena, San Marino and Los Angeles police departments, along with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, searched Arroyo Park and neighboring areas Sunday for the boy, Aramazd Andressian Jr., but found no signs of him. Meanwhile, authorities have called on the public for help in finding the boy.
South Pasadena Police Chief Art Miller said at a news conference… "There's got to be someone out there that knows the whereabouts of Aramazd Andressian," South Pasadena Police Chief Art Miller told reporters Sunday. "There's got to be someone out there that knows where he is at. I am asking as a law enforcement official and as a parent if you know anything, please contact us."
The boy was last seen about 8 a.m. on April 15, when his mother had handed him off to his father in Baldwin Park. The mother told detectives she last saw her son Tuesday during a Skype video conversation. The couple are in the process of getting a divorce, but share custody of their child, Miller said.
She reported her son missing about 8:30 a.m. Saturday after the child's father never showed up to drop off their son in San Marino, the chief said.
The woman gave officers a description of her estranged husband's vehicle, a 2004 gray BMW. Police discovered the car had been impounded earlier that morning in South Pasadena.
The boy's father, Aramazd Andressian Sr., 35, had been found alone and unconscious about 6:30 a.m. outside his car in Arroyo Park. He was hospitalized.
When the father was found, the boy was nowhere to be found.
"We [don't] know if he crawled out of the car himself, if he walked away, if he was abducted - we have no idea," Miller said.
Police interviewed the father, but "his story was all over the place," the chief told reporters.
"We don't really know what he truly knows," Miller said.
South Pasadena police said Andressian was arrested late Saturday on suspicion of child endangerment and child abduction. Andressian's bail was set at $10 million, far higher than the $100,000 originally planned due to the seriousness of the case.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Capt. Chris Bergner said Andressian had given "convoluted and not consistent" statements.
"We are working to get to the truth," he said.
Investigators said that Andressian's BMW had previously been seen early Friday morning in Orange County. They urged anyone with any information about the car to contact police.
San Marino Police Chief John Incontro said the boy's mother was concerned and upset, but "she didn't express directly to us that she felt the father was going to do the child any harm."
Police said Aramazd is 3 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs about 55 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes, as well as a small mole on his right shoulder, authorities said. Aramazd was last seen wearing a turquoise shirt and plaid shorts.

Sean Hannity of Fox News sexual harassment

- NICHOLAS KAMM/GettySean Hannity is the latest Fox News personality facing allegations of sexual harassment.
During a Friday interview with Tulsa, Oklahoma-based radio host Pat Campbell, former Fox News contributor Debbie Schlussel accused Hannity of inviting her to his hotel room before and after a debate with a pro-Palestinian guest in Detroit. Schlussel said she rejected Hannity’s alleged advances and that she was never invited on his show again.
Schlussel and Hannity were scheduled to speak together at the Detroit show, Schlussel said. But before the show, Hannity allegedly invited her to an event at a nearby bookstore.
“He had some event at a bookstore where he signed his book for people standing in line. He asked me to come meet him at this book signing,” Schlussel said on Campbell’s show. “So I met him there and it was very awkward. He had me up there with him while he signed books and I felt very weird. These people don’t know me and they didn’t come for me to sign their books. Then I left to get ready for the show, and he said, ‘Why don’t you come back with me to my hotel?’ and I said no, I have to get ready for the show.”
Shortly before the show, Hannity allegedly told Schlussel they would team up against another panelist. But Schlussel told Campbell that the move was a “head-fake” against her.
“Sean came up to me and said we’re gonna double-team (which was a weird phrase to use) this Palestinian guy that I was up against on the show,” Schlussel said. “And then every time I tried to open my mouth and say something, they yelled at me and said obey your host, you can’t say anything or else we’re gonna shut off your microphone.”
After the show, Schlussel claims Hannity made another advance on her. “My dad and my brother were there in the green room,” Schlussel said, claiming that Hannity “tried to get me to go back with him to the hotel after the show.”
Schlussel claimed she rejected the offer a second time, and was not invited on any future Hannity programs.
“After that, I wasn’t booked on his show again. And he called me and yelled at me,” Schlussel said. “I got a very weird feeling about the whole thing, and I kind of knew I wouldn’t be back on his show.”
In a statement to The Daily Beast, Hannity denied Schlussel’s allegations and accused her of seeking attention.
“LET ME BE CLEAR THE COMMENTS ABOUT ME ON A RADIO SHOW THIS WEEK by this individual ARE 100 percent false and a complete fabrication,” Hannity wrote. “This individual is a serial harasser who has been lying about me for well over a decade. The individual has a history of making provably false statements against me in an effort to slander, smear and besmirch my reputation.”
“The individual has not just slandered me over the years but many people who this individual disagrees with,” Hannity wrote. “This individual desperately seeks attention by any means necessary, including making unfounded personal attacks and using indefensible and outrageous political rhetoric.”
He went on to threaten legal action against Schlussel.
“My patience with this individual is over. I have retained a team of some of the finest and toughest lawyers in the country who are now in the process of laying out the legal course of action we will be taking against this individual. In this fiercely divided and vindictive political climate I will no longer allow slander and lies about me to go unchallenged, as I see a coordinated effort afoot to now silence those with conservative views. I will fight every single lie about me by all legal means available to me as an American.”
Hannity and Schlussel have a history of clashing, after she wrote a 2010 blog post accusing him of running a scam charity for military families. Schlussel alleged that less than 4 percent of the revenue from Hannity’s “Freedom Concerts” went to U.S. troops and their families, and that most of the concerts’ earnings went to lavish expenses. Hannity and his colleagues denied the allegations.
In 2007, Schlussel wrote a blog post accusing Hannity of “deliberately ripping off” an anti-Muslim column she wrote in the New York Post.
“That’s Sean Hannity for you,” she wrote in the 2007 post. “This is not the first time he’s done this to me, just the latest.”

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

100+ phones found on man during concert

A suspected pickpocket faced charges Monday for allegedly stealing more than 100 cell phones at this weekend’s Coachella music festival.
Police say Reinaldo De Jesus Henao was arrested Friday at the Empire Polo Club on suspicion of grand theft and possession of stolen property.
Several people noticed their phones were missing during the festivities and activated the Find My Phone app, which led the victims to Henao, according to Indio police.
He was detained by event security until police arrived and found Henao with a backpack contained over 100 phones, police said.
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All the phones were either returned to their rightful owners or turned over to the lost and found area at the concert site, police said.
Henao was released Saturday from the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning after posting $10,000 bail, according to jail records.

Monday, April 10, 2017

Woman told to stop calling 911 ends up dead

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Three hours before Latina Herring was murdered, she can be seen on Sanford police body camera video arguing with her boyfriend, Allen Cashe, the man accused of taking his AK-47 and going on a shooting rampage, killing Herring, her 8-year-old son and attempting to kill her 7-year-old son, her father and two bystanders.
At 3:20 in the morning Monday, police were called to a Wawa.
“I don’t have her house keys,” Cashe says on the body camera video.
“Man, you got my keys,” she yells.
“I’m not trying to play games,” said Cashe. “You have an attitude coming home from the club drunk.”
Twenty minutes later, police were called again, to a home on Hays Drive. According to video released by Sanford police Friday, officers on scene dismissed Herring’s concerns.
“She’s making false accusations,” an officer said. “It’s the second time she’s done it.”
At one point, police tell Herring to “stop calling 911.”
“We’re going to handle it,” an officer tells Herring. “Just stop calling 911 and making accusations that you don’t know about.”
Police, in the video, say the couple was just arguing and it was not physical. They call it a “civil matter.” At one point Cashe is handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car but is released. Police say there was no reason to arrest anyone.
One officer says Herring, frustrated, said she should have just lied and said Cashe hit her.
It is unclear why Cashe, or Herring, called 911. Officers on scene remarked he may have wanted to harm her.
“I think he’s calling because he’s afraid he’s going to do something to her,” an officer said to another.
Herring’s friend Ladasha Beasley says Sanford police should have done more.
“Sanford PD’s a big disappointment to me and to others,” said Beasley. “To protect and serve who man? Who? Justice needs to be served.”
Sanford police did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the newly released body camera video and how officers handled the scene.
Cashe is accused of going on his shooting spree around 6:30 a.m. Police let him leave the scene after he got his keys, which sparked the argument.
The four shooting survivors remain in the hospital. Three are stable and one is in critical condition.

Bill O’Reilly Sexual Harassment Case

Image result for bill o'reillyPressure continued to mount on Fox News on Tuesday to address harassment accusations against its top-rated host, Bill O’Reilly, as the National Organization for Women called for his ouster and five companies said they were pulling their advertisements from his show.
NOW has called for Mr. O’Reilly to be fired and for an independent investigation to be conducted into the culture at Fox News.
“Mr. O’Reilly’s case is part of a larger culture that condones the harassment and objectification of women at Fox News,” Terry O’Neill, president of NOW, said in a news release Tuesday. “Men like Mr. O’Reilly and Mr. Ailes will never be stopped as long as their behavior is allowed to continue, even supported, by their employer.” She referred to Roger Ailes, the former chairman and chief executive, who left Fox after he was accused of sexual harassment. Mr. Ailes has denied the accusations.
“For too long women have endured dangerous sexism at the hands of powerful men and powerful institutions,” Ms. O’Neill added. “Fox News is too big and too influential to simply let this go. Women have the right to go to work without facing harassment. Fox News apparently doesn’t get that basic concept.”
Also on Tuesday morning, three more advertisers — BMW of North America, Untuckit and Constant Contact — joined the list of firms who have said that they were withdrawing their ads from Mr. O’Reilly’s show, “The O’Reilly Factor.’’ BMW North America said the company had made the decision “in light of the recent New York Times investigation.”
This weekend, The Times published an investigation that found that five women who had accused Mr. O’Reilly of sexual harassment or inappropriate behavior received settlements totaling about $13 million.
The move by BMW came after Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai said on Monday that they were canceling their ads on Mr. O’Reilly’s show. Mercedes-Benz cited “ the importance of women in every aspect of our business.” Hyundai cited “the recent and disturbing allegations” and a desire to work with companies that “share our values of inclusion and diversity.”
Aaron Sanandres, the chief executive of Untuckit, a men’s clothing marketer, said: “This morning we instructed our media buyer to reallocate our ad dollars to other shows. We will continue to closely monitor the situation but believe this is the right decision at this time.”
 © Lucas Jackson/Reuters A likeness of Bill O’Reilly on the News Corporation building in Manhattan. Mr. O’Reilly’s program draws millions of viewers. Lark-Marie Antón, the chief communications officer for the Endurance International Group, which owns Constant Contact, said: “Based on the recent allegations and our strong commitment to inclusion, respect and tolerance in the workplace, we have decided to pull Constant Contacts ads from ‘The O’Reilly Factor.”’
Ms. Anton said it was possible that Constant Contact ads could appear during Tuesday’s broadcast of “The O’Reilly Factor.” “While the cancellation request is effective immediately, it may take up to 24 hours to be implemented,” she said.
If more advertisers flee Mr. O’Reilly’s program, Fox News and its parent company, 21st Century Fox, may be forced to respond. “The O’Reilly Factor,” which draws almost four million viewers a night, generated more than $446 million in advertising revenue from 2014 through 2016, according to the research firm Kantar Media.
Representatives for Fox News and 21st Century Fox could not immediately be reached for comment. Mr. O’Reilly has said that the accusations against him are without merit and that his fame has made him a target “for those who would harm me and my employer, the Fox News Channel.”
Twenty-first Century Fox has extended Mr. O’Reilly’s contract, which had been set to expire this year, according to people familiar with the matter. When the company agreed to the extension, it was aware of multiple settlements that had been reached with women who had complained about his behavior, and it structured the deal to include more leverage over his behavior, according to people familiar with the matter.
At the same time, the legal troubles for Fox News continued. Monica Douglas, a black Fox News employee, on Tuesday joined a lawsuit that was filed last week against Fox News by two other women, asserting that they were subjected to racial harassment at the network. The suit was filed in State Supreme Court in the Bronx.