Woman sentenced for spraying breast milk at police officer

From: http://www.globalpost.com/

A U.S. woman accused of spraying sheriff's deputies with breast milk has been sentenced to two years' probation

News DeskAugust 3, 2011 08:15

A U.S. woman accused of spraying sheriff's deputies with breast milk has been sentenced to two years of probation.

Stephanie Robinette, 37, of Westerville, Ohio, pleaded guilty last month to charges of assault and obstruction of official business.

She was sentenced in Delaware Municipal Court on Tuesday and ordered to pay $200 in fines on top of court costs, AFP reports.

The 30-year-old was reportedly drunk at the time and had just had a fight with her husband at a wedding reception.

She has been ordered by the court to undergo anger management classes, the New York Daily News reports.

The woman was arrested June 25 after deputies responded to reports of a domestic dispute.

However, when sheriff's officials attempted to remove her from car she refused to co-operate. Disturbing footage shows her passed out inside the car and officers unable to rouse her.

She then apparently told the officials from central Ohio's Delaware County she was a breastfeeding mother and exposed part of her chest, spraying them with breast milk.

The New York Daily News reports:

Police arrived about 1am and tried to make her leave the car, but in an attempt to keep them away, Robinette "pulled out one of her breasts and started literally milking it, then spraying breast milk towards the officers," Delaware County Sheriff Walter Davis III said in June.

Surveillance footage shows Robinette becoming increasingly violent and verbally abusive as she is pulled from the car.

When told the arrest was being captured on video, she yells: "Record it all! Record it all!"

During the hearing, her husband told the court his wife needed to get help.

A message left with Robinette's attorney wasn't returned. He had previously said his client was embarrassed and humiliated, AFP reports.

Robinette was an elementary school teacher at Summit Academy, a charter school specializing in students with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and Asperger syndrome. She was fired in July, according to WBNS 10 News.

Serial Butt Slasher on the Loose in Virginia; Has Attacked 5 Women at Malls

By Pete Kotz
From http://www.truecrimereport.com/

Detectives in Fairfax, Virginia are hunting for a man who really likes malls -- as well as cutting the butts of young women. They believe he's responsible for slashing the butts of at least five women since Valentine's Day. His first attack came outside a Champps Restaurant...

Then he hit again in an Ann Taylor store. His modus operandi is to distract women in their late teens and early 20s, then use either a razor or a box cutter to slice their butts.

In June, he attacked twice more, this time assaulting women at an H&M and a Marshalls store.

The most recent incident occurred at the Fair Oaks Mall, the site of two previous assaults. An 18-year-old girl was shopping for clothes at Forever XXI when a man -- described as short, fat, Hispanic, and in his late 20s -- bent down as if to pick up some clothes that fell off the rack.

The woman felt a prick, but dismissed it as being poked with a hangar. Then she saw blood. The perv had sliced her, leaving an inch-and-a-half cut.

Police believe the guy has a fetish where he gets off on slicing women. They say he may have tried this before with a girlfriend, and have been urging anyone who's encountered such a degenerate to call the cops.

But so far, all they have is a grainy surveillance camera photo of the creep.

Proof that British cops are 500% kinder than American cops

By Ross Borden
Drunk napper

“Can we give you a lift?” Wow. I was shocked when I saw this.
In America, this guy, who obviously stumbled into the wrong house when he was blacked out drunk and proceeded to pass out cold on a stranger’s floor, would have woken up to a knee being dropped on his back and probably a taser to help him wake up – had this been a scene from a house in the US.
He almost certainly would have been taken to jail too, and charged with trespassing and maybe breaking and entering or reckless endangerment. In England, he was helped to his feet and offered a ride home.
No, I don’t believe this behavior should be condoned, but it is refreshing to see police officers in some countries show a bit of compassion and react in a way that is somewhat constructive, instead of just being violent because they have an excuse to.

New Mexico Mother's WoW Addiction Kills Daughter - Gets 25 Years In Jail

Published June 03, 2011 | Associated Press

From : http://www.foxnews.com/

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A New Mexico woman has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the death of her young daughter, who withered away from malnutrition and dehydration while the mother spent hours chatting and playing World of Warcraft online.

Rebecca Colleen Christie was sentenced in federal court for her November 2009 conviction on second-degree murder and child abandonment charges, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported.

Prosecutors said 3½-year-old Brandi Wulf gained just a pound and a half in the last year of her life and weighed 23 pounds when Christie called 911 on Jan. 26, 2006, to report her daughter was limp and unconscious.

Christie's ex-husband, U.S. Air Force Sgt. Derek Wulf, pleaded guilty to child neglect and will be sentenced June 15.

He was stationed at Holloman Air Force Base but was away on a nine-day assignment when the girl died. The newspaper reports he had expressed reservations about his wife's ability to take care of their child; her older daughter had already been placed with Christie's parents.

For 15 hours the day the girl died — from noon to 3 a.m. — the computer showed "continuous activity" as her mother chatted with friends from the online fantasy role-playing game, according to court documents.
Wulf told an FBI agent he would regularly come home from work and find his daughter with an empty water glass as his wife was busy "playing on the computer," according to court documents.

The house had an overflowing litter box and pervasive smell of cat urine. And there appeared to be so little food that the child ate cat food, according to the U.S. attorney's office. There also was no PediaSure, police said, which a year prior had been prescribed to the child for digestive problems and frequent diarrhea.
At a sentencing hearing in mid-May before U.S. District Judge Robert Brack, Christie sobbed that she was sorry, the Sun-News reports.

"I'll never get to see her grown up. ... That weighs on my heart. That was my little girl," Christie said slowly, with difficulty, her shoulders hunched and the chains on her wrists shaking. "It was my responsibility to take care of her, and I failed her, and I'm sorry."

Anthony Garcia, Dumbest Killer Ever, Got Murder Scene Tattooed on His Chest

By Gustavo Arellano
From http://blogs.ocweekly.com/

​Cholos aren't exactly the brightest bulbs in the criminal marquee, but the actions of the pendejo at right take the tamale for sheer stupidity.

Anthony Garcia was a seeming run-of-the-mill hood when Los Angeles County's sheriffs arrested him for a routine traffic stop and took the snapshot at right. In 2008, an investigator randomly saw Garcia's photo and recognized the elaborate scene depicted as the exact scene of a 2004 murder in Pico Rivera that had long been declared a cold case--until the investigator saw Garcia's tattoo and figured it out.

The Los Angeles Times has the rest of this incredible story, with the local angle being detectives eventually tracked Garcia to La Habra, where he lived with relatives. He bragged about the murder to someone wearing a wire, and just got convicted of first-degree murder--all of this avoidable if he hadn't tattooed the damn murder scene on his pinche chest. HILARIOUS...

Police arrest man INSIDE his house for taking cell phone video of traffic stop

"There are police who use the badge to bully, and I believe that's who I met."
Chris | InformationLiberation



Wow, this video is scary. The man is recording some police officers from his own garage and some thug cop out of nowhere walks up to him and tries to steal his phone under the obvious lie it's "evidence."

"I'ma take the phone... 'cuz that's gonna be evidence... (Man refuses)... You want to go to jail?... Withholding evidence."

It's clear from the way he's acting it's pure brazen intimidation and thuggery.

CBS reports:

VALLEJO (CBS 5) — The Vallejo Police Department is under scrutiny after a man was handcuffed and cited for recording four people being arrested near his home. [...]

While Duchine was recording, Officer Scott Yates approached and asked for his cell phone, saying it was evidence. After Duchine refused, he was handcuffed and issued a ticket for obstructing justice. Video of the incident was then posted on YouTube.

The article claims police "may be backing down."

But police may be backing down. Duchine said he was recently contacted by Internal Affairs, asking that he may be interviewed for their investigation.

They don't cite any evidence to support the claim they "may backing down." Instead, it sounds like they're trying to lure him into some sort of scam to have him talk without a lawyer, that's hugely problematic, no way in hell should he talk with these criminals.

Reggae star Buju Banton faces life in US prison

From: http://news.yahoo.com/

 

AP – FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2003 file photo, Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton poses at the Source Hip-Hop …

By JENNIFER KAY, Associated Press Jennifer Kay, Associated Press – Sun Feb 13, 7:38 pm ET

MIAMI – Grammy-winning singer Buju Banton checked out some cocaine, put some on his finger and tasted it — all of it caught on law enforcement video inside a Florida warehouse. Now he has another chance to explain why.

His second trial is scheduled to begin Monday, just a day after his 2010 album "Before the Dawn" won the Grammy award for best reggae album. The trial comes five months after a previous jury hung on federal drug trafficking charges that could put him in prison for life.

Banton, whose real name is Mark Myrie, claims he was entrapped by a confidential informant and got in over his head while trying to impress the man, who implied he could help Banton's music career. The U.S. government says Banton conspired with two associates to buy a shipment of cocaine from an undercover officer.

The two other men pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with investigators. Their sentencing hearings are scheduled next month.

Banton, 37, was arrested in December 2009 at his Miami-area home.

He remained in custody until November, when another Jamaican singer, Stephen Marley, reggae legend Bob Marley's son, posted his South Florida home as bond. Banton has been on house arrest except for a Miami concert last month to raise money for legal expenses.

Federal prosecutors initially charged Banton with drug conspiracy and gun charges, and in November added two more drug-related charges.

"Buju is not guilty. The number of charges doesn't change that," Banton's attorney, David Markus, said in an e-mail. "The prosecution wasn't happy with the first trial, so now it is trying to throw as many charges against the wall in the hopes something sticks."

Markus has argued the singer, who rose from the slums of Kingston to massive success in the 1990s, was a victim of entrapment by an informant who's been paid $3.3 million for working with law enforcement over several years.

During his first trial, the Rastafarian singer, his long dreadlocks tied in a braid, testifed that he talked a lot about cocaine with the informant, Alexander Johnson. But he said he was only trying to impress the man, who claimed to have music industry connections. He said he had no interest in buying or selling drugs.
"I talk too much, but I am not a drug dealer," Banton said on the stand.

In excerpts from their recorded conversations from July 2009 through December 2009 that were played for the jury, the husky-voiced singer told Johnson that he financed drug deals and that he wanted to sell drugs in Europe, buy drugs from the Caribbean and South America, and use Johnson's boat to transport drugs. The men met on a trans-Atlantic flight at the end of Banton's European tour for his album "Rasta Got Soul."
Assistant U.S. Attorney James Preston argued Banton's conversations with the informant put the conspiracy into motion. Banton testified that he never wanted nor expected Johnson to set up a cocaine deal, despite what he said in the recordings.

Johnson testified that he surprised Banton with cocaine at an undercover police warehouse in Sarasota on Dec. 8, 2009. Surveillance video shows Banton tasting the drugs.

The singer was not present two days later when his two associates, Ian Thomas and James Mack, were caught on video trying to buy the drugs at the warehouse.

His Grammy-winning album's 10 songs were recorded in Kingston, Jamaica, before his arrest. The singer worked with producers and engineers over the phone from jail to finish the album before its September release.

In an e-mail from his manager last week, Banton thanked his fans for their support and celebrated his fifth Grammy nomination.

"'Before The Dawn' is a prophetic album and if it happens to win I am grateful," Banton said. "If it doesn't, I still say thanks for the appreciation and the recognition because music is an art form that cannot be denied by any living soul. Music is my life."

In Jamaica, some fans have theorized Banton was framed by the U.S. government or gay activists who have protested violent, homophobic lyrics from early in Banton's career as a brash dancehall singer. Shows in several U.S. cities were canceled on his 2009 tour because of the protests.

Banton jabbed at his detractors during his Jan. 16 performance in Miami, referencing one of his controversial songs and the messiah of his Rastafarian faith.

He said: "Why they want to see Buju Banton cry? Is it because I said 'Boom Bye Bye'? Is it because I say Selassie I? Is it because I'm black and not shy?"

Man playing real-life 'Frogger' hit by SUV

CLEMSON, S.C. – A man has been hospitalized after police in South Carolina say he was hit by an SUV while playing a real-life version of the video game "Frogger."
Authorities said the 23-year-old man was taken to a hospital in Anderson after he was struck at around 9 p.m. Monday.
In the "Frogger" arcade game, players move frogs through traffic on a busy road and through a hazard-filled river. Before he was hit, police say the man had been discussing the game with his friends.
Chief Jimmy Dixon says the man yelled "go" and darted into oncoming traffic in the four-lane highway.
No charges are expected against the driver. The name of the man who was struck has not been released. He was in stable condition Monday night.

Greatest Mugshot Ever - and one smart ass dude!!

From: http://www.bannedinhollywood.com/

 

It was a typical day in the life of 18-year-old Art Taylor of Massachusetts until reds and blues lit up behind him while attempting to change lanes without signaling.


The teen pulled his vehicle over without a problem, but when officer Brandolini approached and asked for his License and Registration, Taylor refused.

“He made a quick movement to the center console, and there was small baggie with a white powder in it,” Brandolini said. “He immediately made a movement to put it in his mouth,” at which point another officer stepped in and attempted to stop him from consuming what they expected was cocaine.

The struggle quickly turned aggressive, at which point the officers pulled Taylor from the vehicle and cuffed him… but not before the teen had consumed the entire bag of “white powder”.

Art Taylor was arrested and charged with assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, refusing to give police his license and registration and was also cited for not using a turn signal — a drug possession charge however was never filed.

Moral of the story? Always eat your drugs, because if nothing else, at least you’ll have an awesome time in jail.
Source: Metro West
And in a similar story, what evidence?

Man Gets 5 Years For Killing Calf With Shovel After Cowboys Beat Saints

By Ryan Wilson

Back Porch Editor

Not even Joey Porter's pitt bulls would condone this: a 22-year old Louisiana man has been sentenced to five years in prison for stealing a calf and beating it to death with a shovel after the Saints lost to the Cowboys during the 2009 season.

According to the Time Picayune David LeBlanc Jr. was one of several men convicted in the case.

LeBlanc helped Dwayne J. Jenkins, 36, and Carnie B. Smith, 29, steal the 3-day-old calf on Dec. 19, 2009, from Folsom's Red Bluff Farms, famous for a petting zoo frequented by schoolchildren. They dragged the animal to the parking lot of a nearby apartment complex on Louisiana 1078, where they had attended the Saints party.

There, LeBlanc pummeled the calf with the shovel until it died while Jenkins and Smith watched, according to authorities.

Obviously a horrific crime and the judge slapped LeBlanc with the harsh sentence because he used "a dangerous weapon" that resulted in the "painful death" of a defenseless animal.

The judge ignored pleas from LeBlanc prior to the sentencing in which LeBlanc said he deserved either the same punishment if not a lighter one than his fellow defendants got because he was "the only one who came forth and told the truth" to investigators.

"The others lied the whole time," added LeBlanc, who wore a black-hooded sweatshirt and dark-blue jeans to the hearing. "(Prison) would ruin my life completely. I have a kid on the way. I could not do that."

I'm still not sure how killing a calf makes up for the Saints losing a football game. Whatever, there were a lot of people (myself included) who thought Michael Vick's prison sentence had more to do with his celebrity than justice being served. Given LeBlanc's punishment, that's apparently not the case.

via NBCDFW

Botched Raid: Mayor To Meet With Cops About Pot Enforcement

By Steve Elliott
From http://www.tokeofthetown.com/

Photo: The Washington Apple

Way cooler than your average mayor: Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn is reviewing marijuana enforcement policies after the botched raid of a legal patient

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Battering Ram Raid Of Legal Seattle Patient By Machine Gun-Toting Officers Results In Review

Activist Group Invoices City For Cost Of Patient's Door

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn will sit down Monday with top law enforcement officials to talk about how city police and King County deputies are enforcing marijuana laws.

McGinn, who supports legalizing marijuana, said a recent Seattle police raid in which only two legal medical marijuana plants were found shows the difficulties law enforcement officers face, report Emily Heffter and Sara Jean Green of The Seattle Times.

Seattle Anti-Crime Team officers brandishing machine guns burst through the door of Will Laudanski, a renter who was following state law and city policy on marijuana, according to a Seattle Police Department spokesman. The officers had a search warrant they had obtained after sniffing around Laudanski's apartment and claiming to smell marijuana.

When officers realized the tenant had valid medical marijuana documentation, they left without arresting Laudanski. While the Seattle Times reported that the cops fixed the man's door, they got it exactly wrong. The repair was in fact paid for by the Cannabis Defense Coalition (CDC), a Seattle-based activist group which advocates for medical marijuana patients in Washington state.

"The CDC paid for, and replaced, Will's door," spokesman Ben Livingston confirmed to Toke of the Town Monday morning. "End of story."

The CDC had pledged to repair Mr. Laudanski's front door after it was severely damaged by a police battering ram during the October 25 raid. Police left the door in disrepair and the disabled Gulf War veteran lacked the resources to replace it.

"Wasting our limited tax dollars on these worthless pot raids is bad public policy," Livingston said. "Failing to repair Will's door is just plain bad manners."

The CDC announced on Monday that it will invoice the City of Seattle for the cost of fixing Laudanski's front door. The group said it would hand deliver the invoice at 3 p.m. Monday at the executive forum called by the mayor to discuss the incident.

"This makes my blood boil," commented CDC activist Phil Mocek on Facebook. "The police are apparently lying about cleaning up the mess they made -- that we at CDC cleaned up because they didn't do a damned thing about it.

"We're not going to let this drop," Mocek said. "They bust into this guy's home with no indication that he was doing anything illegal other than possibly using marijuana, and in this city, busting adults for marijuana is, by law, our police department's lowest law enforcement priority."

"They went in with a half-dozen cops in SWAT gear with a battering ram," Mocek said. "And found two plants. Legal ones."

Mayor McGinn, meanwhile, is questioning whether there's not a better way to guide police behavior on pot raids.

"We're not giving -- the law doesn't give -- clear policy guidance to the police or prosecutors necessarily, or even the public, and the recent raid highlighted that issue," he said.

Joining the mayor for the meeting will be City Attorney Pete Holmes, who has followed through on his promise he made while running for office a year ago to stop prosecuting people for simple marijuana possession. Also planning to attend the meeting are Police Chief John Diaz, King County Sheriff Sue Rahr, King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg, and City Council member Nick Licata.

McGinn has already asked Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel to "review" all marijuana investigations when officers are asking for a search warrant.

"We just want to give them greater security and determine whether there are other methods that we could use... but the raid reflects the fact that we don't necessarily give police officers the clarity they need to do their job," McGinn said.

In Washington state, patients who are authorized by their physicians to use cannabis for medical conditions can legally grow it. Washington allows medical marijuana patients to grow 15 plants and possess 24 ounces of dried marijuana. Patients can be authorized to have more under certain conditions.

Seattle Police Department spokesman Sean Whitcomb claimed the laws put officers in a tough position, because they don't know who is legally authorized to grow marijuana.

"Is it our job to compromise the investigation to give the benefit of doubt to people?" Whitcomb whined. You know, when your potential pot raid targets could be chronically or terminally ill patients -- as is required by Washington's medical marijuana law -- I'd say maybe that is your damn job, Officer Whitcomb.

But of course, just knocking on the damned door and asking is out of the question for these bush-league Rambos.

But without a state database of legal marijuana patients, it's difficult to know if a grower is authorized, according to Ian Goodhew, deputy chief of staff to King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg. Goodhew said for-profit, large-scale marijuana growers "are often well-armed," and officer safety is always a consideration.

A quick check was unable to turn up any instances of Seattle officers ever being shot or even fired upon in a marijuana grow raid.

In the Laudanski case, officers claimed they were following up on a citizen complaint. They went to his apartment and spotted ventilation equipment "common to marijuana grow operations."

Anti-Crime Team Officer Tyrone Davis and Sgt. Garth Green saw that a window was boarded up and rigged with a fan. They climbed the stairs to a second-floor landing and smelled "an odor consistent with the smell of marijuana plants," according to the search warrant.

Davis and Green got a search warrant and returned on Oct. 25 about 9:45 p.m. According to their incident report, they knocked on Laudanski's door and then broke the door and entered after nobody answered.

Laudanski, 50 said he was tying his robe and trying to answer the door when officers barged in and forced him face down to the floor.

They found two scrawny potted cannabis plants in the bedroom, and two glass jars containing dried marijuana.

Laudanski had valid paperwork showing the marijuana was for medical purposes.

"In hindsight, it looks like more force" was used than necessary, Goodhew admitted, "but you have to remember that police didn't know what they would find."

Whitcomb claimed the officers had "no reason" to consider Initiative 75, the 2003 measure Seattle voters approved that made arresting and jailing adults for possessing personal amounts of marijuana the departments lowest law-enforcement priority.

The Laudanski search wasn't considered a "possession" case, Whitcomb claimed.

While that's technically true, Mayor McGinn said I-75 does apply to the situation "on a practical level" because it reflects the public's changing attitude toward marijuana.

"Both the medical marijuana law and I-75 reflect the public's intent with regard to marijuana, and that does influence how you think about your policies regarding it," the Mayor said.

Shocking Pics of Deputy Posted on Facebook by Soon-To-Be-Ex

by admin

from: http://rawjustice.com/2010/10/23/

The estranged husband of a Tampa sheriff’s deputy recently posted some pictures of her on Facebook that raised a few eyebrows. The photos of veteran Deputy Lisa Latimer show her in uniform, seated in her police cruiser, putting a gun in her mouth, drinking alcohol and smoking what looks to be a marijuana cigarette.

Todd Latimer says that his estranged wife has become a different person since he married her because of her job and the pressures that exist for female officers to be “one of the boys.” He claims that while he was with Lisa, male deputies sexted her constantly and that a career in law enforcement exposes women to a sexually-charged culture.

The Latimer’s divorce is messy due to allegations of domestic violence and an Internal Affairs Investigation regarding a mysterious discharge of Lisa’s department-issued Tazer gun. Todd denies that he was trying to get back at Lisa by posting the pictures, but honestly, what other motive could he have had?

The Tampa Sheriff’s Office says it will investigate the pictures and Lisa Latimer will likely be suspended pending the outcome. She is currently on vacation.

Policeman stages fake arrest of boy for having sex with his daughter

A police officer has been suspended for staging a fake arrest of a 15-year-old boy after discovering the teenager was having sex with his stepdaughter.

 

By Nick Allen, Los Angeles
from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The motorcycle officer, who was in uniform and armed, went to the boy's home in San Jose, California where he handcuffed him and lectured him for more than five minutes.

He told the boy, who had been seeing the 14-year-old girl for some time, that he was going to face criminal charges of having sex with a minor.

The officer said: "It does not bode well for you. Do you know what that means? No? Not a good thing that the person you had sex with is a cop's daughter. The district attorney will probably file charges.

"A cop's daughter is not somebody you mess around with. You're stupid."
One of the boy's parents videoed the incident and complained to police.

The case sparked a national debate in the US about whether the officer had abused his position, or was simply acting as a concerned father.

Tony Boskovich, a lawyer for the boy's family, said: "Applying force, applying handcuffs, threatening the young man with things such as rape in prison, he acted like a cowboy. He lost it, he came in and he abused his authority."

However, the officer's lawyer Terry Bowman said the boy's parents had not objected at the time.
Mr Bowman said: "Everything was done in the spirit of reaching a troubled young man who is heading down the wrong path."

The officer has been placed on leave and prosecutors are considering criminal charges of false imprisonment.
The boy later told the San Jose Mercury News he had been "terrified" and the officer should be punished.
He said: "I think he should go to jail and feel how I felt. I thought he would be a good dad by just showing up and talking to my parents, rather than taking advantage of his position."

Police: Dad Admits to Slashing His 5-Year-Old Stepdaughter's Throat, Killing Her

By Caleb Hannan

From: http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/

​UPDATE: Police have released a transcript of the mom's 911 call. The British Columbia family was on vacation when something horrible happened. When police arrived, the 29-year-old father was sitting on the front porch of the Lake Cushman home (pictured at right). He told them his five-year-old daughter was inside, dead. And that it was he who'd slashed her throat after she'd made him upset. Video after the jump.

UPDATE: Peter James Wilson allegedly admitted to police that he killed his daughter, Clare Louise Shelswell, with a kitchen knife.

According to police, Wilson told them he was having an argument with his wife about punishing one of their kids. He told her not to worry and that he'd "take care of it."

Wilson then apparently took the girl downstairs. When she heard screaming, his wife came down to find her daughter holding her throat in a pool of blood.

He's been booked into the Mason County Jail for investigation of first-degree murder and is currently being held on $3 million bail.

UPDATE: Wife and mother Sarah Wilson is a nurse, but even she couldn't do anything to help save her daughter's life.

Warning: If you're a little squeamish, just the thought of what this mom is going through might be enough to make you feel sick. Or just overwhelmingly sad.

Wilson:"My daughter's throat has just been cut. I need you to come right now! I can't stop the bleeding."

911 operator: "OK, what's the address?"

Wilson: "I don't know. Near Cushman Lake. I don't know! I don't know where!"

911 operator: "Ma'am, you need to calm down and give me an address, or we can't come."

Wilson: "North Cushman Lake- she's bleeding so much, I can't stop it. Oh, my God! Oh, my God...Oh my God, my baby."

911 operator: "Keep pressure on it, please."

Wilson: "You have to come right now."

911 operator: "Ma'am, we're getting people en route right now, OK? ... Hang on. We're dispatching the fire department right now."

Wilson: (panting) "You have to come now, please."

911 operator: "Ma'am, they are. Please keep pressure on that wound. Don't take anything off of it."

Wilson: "Oh, my God, please. I don't think she's breathing."

Wilson tried to calm down enough to explain to the 911 operator what had just happened.

911 operator: "How did this happen?"

Wilson: "My husband took a knife to her throat."

911 operator: "Your husb- purposely?"

Wilson: "Yes."

911 operator: "Where is he now?"

Wilson: "He's here, but he's away from her."

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911 operator: "Does he still have the weapon, ma'am?"

Wilson: "No, he does not."

911 operator: "OK, where is the weapon?"

Wilson: "It's on the floor in the kitchen - where I am, not where he is."

911 operator: "OK, where is he in the house?"

Wilson: "He's sitting in the next room, but he's pretty docile right now."

911 operator: "OK, why is he so docile?"

Wilson: "Probably because he's in shock over what he just did."

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Wilson: "She is not breathing."

911 operator: "OK, then you're going to get her some air. Is there anybody else there who can hold that bandage on while you tilt the head back and give her CPR?"

Wilson: "Yeah, but I'm going to have to keep the phone down."

911 operator: "OK, just keep it as close to you as you can, and let me know what's going on."

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Wilson: "Nothing is getting through to her chest. When I breathe through her mouth, it is all exiting out through the gash in her throat."

Joran van der Sloot, suspect in Natalee Holloway case, confesses to murdering Stephany Flores

From: http://www.examiner.com/

Crime ExaminerCindy Adams

According to Peruvian police, Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, 22, confessed Monday to the murder of Stephany Flores.

Joran van der Sloot, left, and Stephany Flores are seen as they enter his hotel room May 30, 2010.

(AP Photo/Lima Police Department)

Authorities say that he admitted to murdering the Peruvian woman because she saw “something” about Natalee Holloway on his laptop computer.

Van der Sloot met Flores at a Lima casino and the two were captured on surveillance video as they entered the hotel where he was staying.

Stephany, 21, was found on May 30 in his room in pool of blood. She had been stabbed and severely beaten with a baseball bat found in the hotel room.

Van der Sloot reportedly told police “I did not want to do it… The girl saw private things. She had no right. I approached her and she was scared.”

He continued, “We discussed it and she tried to escape, and I took her neck and hit her.”

Stephany’s murder took place five years to the day that Natalee Holloway, 18, disappeared in Aruba after leaving a nightclub with van der Sloot. She was on a high school graduation trip with classmates and was never heard from again after her encounter with the Dutchman

Van der Sloot has not been charged in Natalee’s disappearance, however, in 2007, he told a Dutch reporter, who surreptitiously recorded their encounter, that he was with Natalee when she passed out drunk and then asked his two friends dump her into the sea.

The Dutchman has been charged with extortion in the U.S. after allegedly contacting one of Natalee's family members claiming he could provide information regarding her whereabouts for a large some of money.

Suspect Eats Evidence During Arrest .. Cops get OWNED

Pure Genius!!!

Teacher Fired Over Student Beating Video

First on FOX

DAMALI KEITH Reporter
From: http://www.myfoxhouston.com/

HOUSTON - It's a story you saw First on FOX: A charter school has fired one of its teachers -- accused of beating up a student on video.

A classmate captured the entire incident on their cell phone.

The teacher in question, identified by school officials as Sherri Davis, was officially terminated on Monday night.

“Now that officials at Jamie’s House Charter School have been able to review the video on Fox News, we are horrified at the actions of the teacher,” principal David Jones said in a statement.

The video, shared with FOX 26 News by a parent, shows a sixth grade student being kicked and pummeled. The student's parent says the video is now in the hands of Harris County Sheriff's investigators. She says the teacher attacked 13-year-old Isaiah Johnson at the north Harris County charter school in late April.

"I'm horrified. I just can't believe something like that would happen to my child," Alesha Johnson told FOX 26 News.

The attack goes on for nearly a minute. Isaiah Johnson said it felt much longer.

"I was on the wall like this trying to get away from her and she started hitting me, banging my head to the wall and kicking me," Isaiah said.

"He's had a knot on his head for a week. He had a black eye, bruises on his cheek," Alesha added.

Other children in the class were watching and videotaping the attack. You can even hear some laughing.

The alleged incident happened just after TAKS testing two weeks ago.

Isaiah Johnson said it all started as he and other classmates watched and laughed as a mentally challenged girl danced.

That's when he says the teacher attacked the 13-year-old. Isaiah said he was beaten by the teacher, with other teachers looking on, right there in the classroom.

"The teachers piled up and they were looking over each others shoulders just watching," Isaiah said.

David Jones, the principal of the school, released a statement later in the day.

"There is no excuse for a teacher to behave in this way with a child," Jones said. "Although we had already removed the teacher from the classroom and put her on administrative duty, we now plan to terminate the teacher and make an apology to the student and his mother."

Jones said the school will be investigating whether other teachers saw the incident and did not report it.

Alesha Johnson has taken the tape and filed criminal charges with the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

Jamie's House Charter School is a Texas Accredited Charter School. It opened in 1999 and is currently in good standing.

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Drone makes first UK 'arrest' as police catch car thief hiding under bushes

By Liz Hull
From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk

It has been nicknamed the flying saucepan and looks an unlikely weapon in the war against crime.

But yesterday it emerged that a suspected car thief had become the first person to be arrested in Britain thanks to the help of this miniature remote-controlled helicopter.
The Air Robot or drone was deployed by Merseyside police after officers lost the alleged offender who had escaped on foot in thick fog. 


Scroll down to see the drone in action

Using the device's on-board camera and thermal-imaging technology, the operator was able to pick up the suspect through his body heat and direct foot patrols to his location.
It led officers to a 16-year-old youth, who was hiding in bushes alongside the Leeds-Liverpool canal, in Litherland, Merseyside. 

The drone, which measures 3ft between the tips of its four carbon fibre rotor blades, uses unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology originally designed for military reconnaissance. 

The battery-powered device can have a range of cameras attached to its main body, including CCTV surveillance or thermal imaging cameras. 

It is designed to hover almost silently above crime scenes and send live footage to officers on the ground, but the unit can also 'perch and stare' from a solid platform, allowing the operator to capture hours of footage from a hidden vantage point. 

The £40,000 aerial surveillance drone, which is near silent and can operate video, night vision, infrared or stills cameras caught its first criminal in Merseyside

Merseyside Police is one of a handful of forces trying out the devices which, at £40,000 each, are far cheaper to use for small-scale operations than a conventional helicopter.
They have been using the drones for two years, mainly to help in search and rescue operations, to execute drug warrants and to crack down on anti-social behaviour.

 

In August, Derbyshire police used a similar drone to monitor protests at the British National Party's Red, White and Blue festival in Condor, Derbyshire. 

However, this is the first time an arrest has been directly linked to the use of the Air Robot. The incident happened at around 4.30pm on January 26 after officers were told about a stolen Renault Clio in Bootle, Merseyside. 

After a pursuit, two suspects abandoned the vehicle and tried to make off on foot.
One of them, a 20-year-old man, was quickly arrested but the other managed to escape into the thick fog and darkness along the canal towpath. Police chiefs decided to draft in the drone, which can reach heights of 500ft and is controlled by an officer up to 1,500ft away.

The drone used its heat-seeking technology to catch the suspected car thief 

Using its thermal imaging equipment the device quickly located its target in bushes beside the canal through his body heat and relayed live pictures to a police van nearby. Foot patrols then went and arrested him. 

Both men who were arrested have since been released on police bail pending further inquiries. 


Chief Inspector Nick Gunatilleke, of Merseyside anti-social behaviour taskforce, said: 'These arrests demonstrate the value of having something like the UAV. 

'The live footage was being viewed by the UAV's operator in the mobile command vehicle and they were able to direct patrols on the ground.' 

The Home Office is now exploring how the craft can be used to give back-up to police, ambulance and fire services. 

Spy drones are considered the future of policing, although critics have voiced concerns that they could be a worrying extension of Big Brother Britain. 

Last month arms manufacturer BAE Systems said it was adapting military-style UAVs for a consortium of government agencies led by Kent police. Documents showed the force hoped to begin using the drones in time for the 2012 Olympics. 

But they also indicated that the drones could eventually be used to spy on the civilian population, by rooting out motorists suspected of antisocial driving, for covert urban surveillance and to monitor 'waste management' for local councils.

Man Tries Out Baseball Bat By Smashing 29 TVs in Walmart

From: http://gizmodo.com/

Maybe he was trying out the TVs or the baseball bat, maybe he was struck by Walmart rage. Whatever the case, this guy destroyed a row of TVs before sitting down in the electronics aisle and waiting for the police.
The smashed televisions add up to about $22,000 in damaged goods, 29 counts of criminal damage to property, and one bottle of confiscated anti-depressants. I suppose that's just an itsy-bitsy bit worse than what went down with that foul-mouthed Australian guy. [Huffington Post via Engadget]

This EMP Cannon Stops Cars Almost Instantly

From: http://gizmodo.com/
By: Rosa Golijan, rgolijan@gizmodo.com.

We've heard of electromagnetic pulses cutting steel in milliseconds, but apparently they can also be used to stop moving cars just as fast. The cannon demonstrated in the video here is still a prototype, but it definitely seems to work.

The idea is that an electromagnetic pulse would be used to disable a car's microprocessors, chips, and whatever other electronics are keeping it running. The final "cannon" system, built by Eureka Aerospace, will apparently a bit smaller and lighter than what we see in the video—it'll be suitcase-sized and about 50 pounds—and it will "stop cars in their tracks up to 656 feet (200 m) away."


I wish they tested that cannon on a moving car, but it does just what it should by disabling the car's electrical system. Only trouble is that even once the system is perfected and in use it can still be foiled easily: By using a pre-1970s car which doesn't "rely on microprocessors." Whoops. [Flight Global via Pop Sci]