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Would-be smoker who caused hospital flood headed to prison

ELIZABETH EVANS - The York Dispatch

A York City man must go to prison for flooding part of York Hospital when he decided to sneak a smoke and tried to disable what he thought was a bathroom smoke detector. Instead, Steve Eugene Mummert set off the bathroom's sprinkler system, flooding part of the third floor of the hospital's South Tower, York City Police said. On May 16, Mummert was visiting a friend who was a patient in the hospital, when he ducked into the bathroom in her room to smoke a cigarette, then caused the flooding, police said. "In some spots the water was over the tips of my boots," city Officer Sheldon Hooper wrote in Mummert's arrest affidavit. When Hooper arrived at Room 312, Mummert had oil covering his face, his affidavit states. The oil was from inside the water line that's connected to the automatic sprinkler's head unit, police said. Heard 'pop': The affidavit alleges Mummert was visiting patient Samantha Potter when he told her he needed to use the bathroom. He was in the bathroom about five minutes when Potter heard a loud pop, police said. Potter told officers that when Mummert opened the bathroom door, water began to pour out, the affidavit states. Potter pressed her patient "help" button and saw Mummert throw a box cutter in a trash can, police said. Mummert, 46, of the 1200 block of East Prospect Street, told responding officers he wanted to disable the bathroom's smoke detector so he didn't get in trouble for smoking a cigarette there, according to the affidavit. He didn't realize the smoke detector was actually the sprinkler unit until water started spraying out of it, police said. Ten patient rooms sustained water damage from the flooding, but the damage was minimal, hospital spokesman Barry Sparks said at the time. Mummert pleaded guilty Feb. 4 to risking a catastrophe, criminal mischief and tampering with fire apparatus. On Tuesday, he was sentenced to three to 12 months in prison, court records state. Assault conviction: But because of a second, unrelated case, Mummert will be spending more than three years in state prison. On Jan. 12, he was found guilty of aggravated assault for an incident at the Flamingo Hotel, 3600 E. Market St. in Springettsbury Township. For that, he was sentenced Tuesday to 3½ to seven years in state prison, according to court records. Springettsbury Township Police said Mummert was in Room No.7 about 7:30 p.m. May 13 with victim Brady Traversie, 42, of the York area. The two men had been drinking together for several hours when a play fight between them turned real, charging document state. Mummert beat Traversie into unconsciousness, then continued to pummel him, causing Traversie's head to repeatedly bounce off the ground, documents state. At York Hospital, Traversie was placed in a medically induced coma because of the amount of facial trauma he suffered, according to documents, which also state the attack left him with weakness in his lower extremities. Defense attorney Scott Lineberry did not return a phone message seeking comment. - Reach Elizabeth Evans at levans@yorkdispatch.com, 505-5429 or twitter.com/ydcrimetime. Read more at www.ydr.com

 

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Mom shares story of capturing serial killer poised to slay her daughter

ELIZABETH EVANS The York Dispatch

Lane Armed with his murder kit and a DVD called "Hunting Humans," long-haul trucker Adam Leroy Lane prowled the northeastern United States looking for women to slash and kill during the summer of 2007. The serial killer murdered Darlene Ewalt of Dauphin County and Monica Massaro of New Jersey. He tried to kill York County resident Patricia Brooks, but she survived the vicious attack. Lane slashed the throats of Ewalt and Brooks and stabbed Massaro, police said. Then Lane -- called "every person's worst nightmare" by one prosecutor -- headed to New England, where he targeted 15-year-old Shea McDonough as she slept in her Chelmsford, Mass., home. Lane didn't know it as he crept through the back door and made his way In "Caught in the Act," Jeannie McDonough shares the story of how she and her husband stopped serial killer Adam Leroy Lane. (AMAZON.COM) to Shea's bedroom, but his days of hunting humans had ended. Shea's parents, Jeannie and Kevin McDonough, saw to that. Investigating a noise in Shea's bedroom, the McDonoughs found Lane wearing a mask as he held a knife to Shea's throat. They overpowered him, took the hunting knife and held him there until police arrived. New book: Now, Jeannie McDonough is telling her story to the world in her new book, "Caught in the Act," scheduled for release March 1. Co-written by Rhode Island-based author Paul Lonardo, the paperback is available for pre-order at Amazon.com. "It was therapeutic for me," Jeannie McDonough told The York Dispatch. "I was overwhelmed by what went on." It was about three weeks after Lane's arrest when she learned he'd killed Massaro. "I started to write (that) night," she said. "It started pouring out of me." Life has been hectic for McDonough recently. In addition to the release of her first book, she and her family will be featured on the CBS show "48 Hours Mystery" at 10 p.m. Saturday, as part of the show's "Live to Tell" series. And Reader's Digest magazine will run an excerpt from the book next month, according to Lonardo. "The damage (Lane) did in that week and a half was just amazing," Lonardo said, as are the details of Lane's arrest. "Has anyone ever captured a serial killer in their home? Has it happened? I don't think it has," Lonardo said. "It's too astounding to even believe." 'Survival mode': McDonough said she and her husband were "dumbfounded" at the enormity of what they accomplished. "The two of us, we've been through a lot together," she said. "But to think that it was us? Our family and friends were like, 'Are you kidding me?' "We just were in survival mode in that room," McDonough said. "We were protecting our daughter and ourselves. We had no idea what we'd just caught." Lonardo said he thinks McDonough suffered from survivor's guilt that spurred her to reach out to the victims' families and to write "Caught in the Act." Families close: McDonough said she's now close with the families of Ewalt and Massaro. She and Massaro's family attended Lane's sentencing last summer in Dauphin County Court for Ewalt's murder and the attack on Brooks. McDonough said she so far hasn't succeeded in contacting Brooks, but hopes to in the future. "I wanted to just give her a hug. She lives with the scars every day," McDonough said. "Thankfully, my daughter doesn't have those physical scars, so she doesn't have to be reminded every day when she looks in the mirror." Shea is now 19 years old and doing well, her mother said. "She really hasn't let the negative events affect her attitude toward life at all," McDonough said. "She still believes in the goodness of people. ... This one violent act really just brought out the kindness in people." What ifs: McDonough knows things could have ended much differently the night of July 30, 2007. Had Shea been sleeping on the family couch, her parents would certainly not have been alerted, McDonough said. And if the air conditioner had been working that night, it's also likely Jeannie and Kevin McDonough would have slept through the attack, she said. "If the dog would've barked, I would have gone outside (to investigate), and my fate would have been the same as Darlene's," McDonough said. "Everything just went our way." Locked up: Lane, 46, is serving his time at the state prison in Fayette County. He pleaded guilty to murdering Ewalt outside her home on July 13, 2007, and was sentenced to life in prison. He also pleaded guilty to attempting to murder Brooks four days later, for which he received a consecutive 10 to 20 years in state prison. A New Jersey judge sentenced Lane to 50 years in prison for murdering Massaro on July 29, 2007. And for his attack on Shea, Lane was sentenced to 25 to 30 years in prison. -- Reach Elizabeth Evans at levans@yorkdispatch.com, 505-5429 or twitter.com/ydcrimetime. Read more at www.ydr.com

 

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Investigative Journal » Sinead O’Connor Rips Up John Paul II Picture On 1991 Saturday Night Live Show

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Sinead O'Connor: 'War' live at the Bob Dylan Tribute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKeJifOXAnA

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More Dead Dolphins in the Gulf Raises Questions

AssociatedPress | February 23, 2011

Scientists have found four more dead baby dolphins on Horn Island in the Mississippi Gulf of Mexico and another on Ono Island off Orange Beach, Ala., adding to the unusually high number of dead dolphins found in the past two months. (Feb 23)

Spill Children: The Untold Story of the BP Gulf Oil Disaster Blood Tests Show Chemicals In Gulf Citizens Blood, US Gov Lied About Gulf Seafood Gulf still loaded with chemicals, but FDA says seafood safe to eat Scientist Finds Gulf Bottom Still Oily, Dead, PICTURES TELL FULL STORY! Gulf Human Rights Hero Thomas B. Manton Falsely Imprisoned, Murdered Questions the Press Needs to Ask About the Gulf Oil Disaster Kindra Arnesen: EXPLOSIVE New Revelations, “Wake Up America” New Year, Same Goal: Defeat the Globalists Read more at theintelhub.com

 

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InfraGard Examines the Domestic Threat

PR.com February 23, 2011

The InfraGard National Members Alliance held a critical sector forum examining the domestic threat and radicalization issues. INMA Chairman Dr. Kathleen Kiernan and Advisory Board Member Bryan Ware welcomed a distinguished panel consisting of Dawn Scalici, Deputy Under Secretary for Analysis at the DHS; James McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office; and Russ Porter, Director of Law Enforcement and Homeland Security in the ODNI.

Washington, DC, — The InfraGard National Members Alliance (INMA) held a critical sector forum examining the domestic threat and radicalization issues. INMA Chairman Dr. Kathleen Kiernan and Advisory Board Member Bryan Ware welcomed a distinguished panel consisting of Dawn Scalici, Deputy Under Secretary for Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security; James McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office; and Russ Porter, Director of Law Enforcement and Homeland Security in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

“Threats to our nation’s critical infrastructure do not solely originate from outside our borders,” said INMA Chairman Dr. Kathleen Kiernan. She added, “We have seen a number of domestic incidents occur ranging from explosive devices and active shooters which create public panic to targeted attacks on our infrastructure. InfraGard is pleased to utilize its strong relationship with DHS, FBI and ODNI as we strive to build seamless coordination and leverage each other’s capabilities to protect the nation’s infrastructure and increase our country’s readiness and resiliency.”

Bryan Ware, InfraGard Advisory Board member and CEO of Digital Sandbox remarked, “Digital Sandbox is proud to sponsor an event with such an important and timely topic and with such knowledgeable panelists. The domestic threat picture is changing rapidly and our country needs to adapt to this evolving threat situation. We at Digital Sandbox are committed to continuing to provide the analytical and operational tools that agents, security officers, analysts and decision makers need to support this critical mission.”

Dawn Scalici currently serves as the Deputy Under Secretary for Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security. In this capacity she leads the analytic efforts of DHS I&A, with a special focus on advancing analysis and developing intelligence products to support the DHS leadership and state, local, tribal, and private sector partners. Prior to assuming her position at DHS, Dawn served as the Director for Production and Strategic Planning at CIA’s Office of Iraq Analysis where she oversaw current and strategic analysis on Iraq and led efforts to advance planning, analytic tradecraft, and community collaboration. Ms. Scalici discussed the emerging threat from homegrown violent extremists and DHS’s strategy for information sharing with state and local law enforcement and the private sector to mitigate the threat.

James W. McJunkin currently serves as the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office. With over 24 years of service as an FBI Special Agent, he previously served in numerous senior leadership roles to include Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division, Chief, International Terrorism Operations Section (ITOS) and Deputy Director for Law Enforcement at the CIA. Mr. McJunkin discussed radicalization and the law enforcement response.

Russ Porter is the Director of Law Enforcement and Homeland Security in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Prior to accepting this position he served for 32 years in state and local law enforcement culminating in his leading the Iowa Department of Public Safety’s Division of Intelligence and the State of Iowa Intelligence Fusion Center. Mr. Porter discussed the long term impact of these issues and their effect on policy and programs.

The attendees included leaders from the FBI, DHS, DoD, the military services, the intelligence community, academia, and the private sector. David Pekoske, A-T Solutions Global Security Group President said, “the combination of the experts on the panel, as well as those throughout the room, made this an incredibly valuable session to highlight the issues facing our critical infrastructure.”

Dr. Kiernan added, “InfraGard and all attendees appreciate the tireless efforts and dedication these three valuable public servants give each and every day, ensuring the safety and security of our citizens, our nation, and its’ critical infrastructure. We are grateful for their contributions to this continuing forum.”

About InfraGard and the InfraGard National Members Alliance

The InfraGard Program began in 1996 as a collaborative effort between private sector cyber professionals and the FBI field office in Cleveland Ohio. The FBI later expanded the program to each of the FBI’s 56 field offices. In 2003 the private sector members of InfraGard formed the “InfraGard National Members Alliance” (INMA). The INMA is a non-profit Delaware LLC with 501(c)3 status. The INMA LLC is comprised of 86 separate 501(c)3 InfraGard Member Alliances (IMAs) representing over 42,000 FBI-vetted, InfraGard Subject Matter Experts. The INMA has a dual-focus value proposition. First, InfraGard provides its members with unmatched opportunities to promote the physical and cyber security of their organizations, through access to a trusted, national network of Subject Matter Experts from the public and private sectors. Secondly, it provides government stakeholders, at the local, state, and Federal levels, with unmatched access to the expertise and experience of critical infrastructure owners and operators.

For more information about InfraGard, please visit www.infragard.net. For more information about the INMA, please visit www.infragardmembers.org.

Digital Sandbox provides analytic software applications, services, and information products to government agencies and large enterprises, enabling them to optimize their strategic, policy, and budgetary decisions for risk-based resource allocation. Since 1998, Digital Sandbox’s analytic risk management solutions have helped customers in the National Security, Homeland Security, and Corporate Security fields to lower their risk exposure, increase the effectiveness of their risk management budgets, and maximize the return on their finite resources. Visit Digital Sandbox on the Web at http://www.dsbox.com. Read more at www.infowars.com

 

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Greek Mass Rally Turns Violent

AllVoices February 23, 2011

Last year Greece faced finacial ruin and bankruptcy. Its financial affairs were in a mess and stringent financial measures were needed. Greece was not alone though, as many Eurpoean countries struggled to balance their books. The Greeks though are not armchair revoluntionaries, unlike UK citizens, but rather prepared to protest. So began a series of protests and strikes.

As is so often the case when many people gather in close proximity, the protests often ended in violence. Little has been heard lately about Greece but it seems the country’s problems are far from over.

30,000 people attended a rally in Athens today. Today’s rally was organised as part of a general strike, which caused chaos. Whether it was recent events in the middle east that caused the police to overreact is hard to determine but they used tear gas and stun grenades.

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Seattle Business Refuses To Serve TSA Agents

Paul Joseph Watson Infowrs.com February 23, 2011

A Seattle cafe has sensationally banned TSA workers from entering its business premises, refusing service as a consequence of the odious reputation the agency has required in the aftermath of a nationwide revolt against invasive pat down procedures and naked body scanners.

As a symbolic protest against “enhanced pat down procedures” that involve TSA agents literally touching the genitalia of passengers, including young children, the boss of a cafe near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has blacklisted TSA workers in retribution for their role in eviscerating the Fourth Amendment and assaulting all notions of decency.

“We have posted signs on our doors basically saying that they aren’t allowed to come into our business,” cafe worker KC McLawson told Christopher Elliott. “We have the right to refuse service to anyone.”

My boss flies quite a bit and he has an amazing ability to remember faces. If he sees a TSA agent come in we turn our backs and completely ignore them, and tell them to leave.

Their kind aren’t welcomed in our establishment.

A large majority of our customers — over 90 percent — agree with our stance and stand by our decision.

We even have the police on our side and they have helped us escort TSA agents out of our cafe. Until TSA agents start treating us with the respect and dignity that we deserve, then things will change for them in the private sector.

As we have documented, TSA workers have proven themselves time and time again to be prone to predatory criminal behavior, the exact opposite psychological profile that is suitable for people involved with airport security. Perhaps this is why they are almost universally loathed by the Americans people and why many airports are trying to turf out the agency entirely and replace TSA workers with private screeners.

Over the past few years, TSA agents have been caught in numerous acts of criminality and abuse of their positions, including;

- Stealing thousands of dollars of cash and other valuables from airport travelers - Repeated assault of passengers and their own TSA colleagues - Drug abuse while on the job leading to maniacal bouts of screaming and insane power trips - Stealing laptops and other expensive electrical items - Sabotaging sensitive screening databases - Offensive jokes about planting drugs on travelers - Hundreds of cases of forcefully groping travelers, exposing breasts, removing sanitary towels from vaginas, and brazenly targeting attractive women for enhanced screening and sexual abuse - Abducting and sexually assaulting women - Multiple sex crimes targeting underage minors - Downloading thousands of child porn images - Abusing naked body scanners to sexually harass female colleagues and taunt male colleagues about the size of their penis

Given the nature of that list, and it’s barely scratching the surface, it’s hardly surprising that businesses across America are starting to blacklist TSA agents and refuse them service.

On the flip side, the list also explains why prank callers who contact the TSA about job opportunities while pretending to be sexual perverts, porn addicts and pedophiles are also treated seriously by TSA staffers.

TSA workers have earned a reputation not too far removed from Nazi troops who occupied Europe during world war two, many of whom were treated similarly in that some businesses refused to serve them even under threat of arrest.

The motivations of someone who wants to apply for a job that involves them sexually molesting the bodies of young children and ogling naked images of people’s genitalia tells you everything you need to know about the psychological disposition of any TSA worker, before they’ve even got the job.

Legislation aimed at making the misuse of body scanners a federal crime punishable by a $100,000 fine and a year in jail is a start, but the only real solution that will end the tyranny of the TSA is to disband the agency entirely and confine it to the scrap heap of post-9/11 paranoia.

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show. Read more at www.infowars.com

 

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House Votes to Defund U.N. Climate Change Panel

Chris Neefus CNSNews.com February 23, 2011

The House of Representatives has voted to defund a United Nations climate change panel after the Republican who introduced the proposal said the body had “whipped up a global frenzy” over climate change because its members were politically motivated.

“It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomenon which is statistically questionable at best,” Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) said on the House floor late Saturday night.

Luetkemeyer introduced the amendment to the Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act, a bill that will fund the federal government for the balance of the year. His amendment prohibits any of the money the government plans to spend this year from supporting the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the U.N. body that reports on climate change science.

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In twist, Philly man sues bank over mortgage, wins

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA -- A Philadelphia man who sued Wells Fargo & Co. over a mortgage dispute feels he's gotten "a little taste of justice" with the case settled at least partly in his favor. Wells Fargo had ignored the lawsuit filed by music promoter Patrick Rodgers, prompting Rodgers to win a $1,000 default judgment -- and the scheduled sheriff's sale of a Wells Fargo branch so he could collect. The March 4 sheriff's sale got the bank's attention, and the two sides have now settled the suit, if not their differences. "It seems to me they felt they're above the law," said Rodgers, who paid $180,000 in 2002 for his six-bedroom Tudor at the outskirts of the city. "It felt like the sheriff's sale was a little taste of justice for me." The dispute, which The Philadelphia Inquirer has reported on, involves how much homeowners' insurance he must carry. Rodger refinanced with Wells Fargo in 2004 and had long had the house insured for $255,000, he said. In 2009, his insurer told him that Wells Fargo was insisting he carry enough coverage to rebuild the house in the event of a catastrophe, he said. An appraiser put that amount at just over $1 million. The insurance premium would quadruple. So Rodgers read up on real-estate law, and eventually sued Wells Fargo under the federal Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, known as RESPA. Among other things, he said, the act requires lenders to respond to customer queries and prohibits

them from reporting delinquencies while related litigation is pending. "If mortgage companies are not treating (borrowers) properly, RESPA is a great tool in their arsenal," Rodgers, who declined to give his age, told The Associated Press. Wells Fargo insists it never demanded he get $1 million worth of insurance coverage, but only enough to rebuild the home, according to Vickee J. Adams, vice president for communications at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. The bank was not involved in the appraisal, she said. Rodgers noted that many historic homes, especially in inner cities, are worth only a fraction of what it might cost to rebuild them, given original floors, windows and other period features. Under the settlement, Rodgers will get the $1,000 default judgment, court costs and, according to Tuesday's Inquirer, which quoted Rodgers, an amount taken off his mortgage to reflect the time he spent on the case. Rodgers declined to confirm that detail, saying he had since agreed to keep some portions of the settlement private. For now, Rodgers' home is insured through a program Wells Fargo uses when borrowers fail to secure coverage. The annual premium is $2,400. He has until June to find a cheaper policy, Adams said. She blamed the bank's failure to respond to Rodgers' lawsuit on "a miscommunication." "Clearly, we could have handled this better. However, we have done everything possible to resolve it," Adams said. Read more at www.inyork.com

 

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Louisiana Woman Convicted of Using Her Children in Medicaid Fraud Scheme

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Parent of Medicaid Recipients Convicted of Federal Health Care Fraud

NEW ORLEANS, LA—JO ANN GIROD, age 36, a resident of Marrero, was convicted as charged today by a federal jury of nine counts of health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.

According to evidence introduced at trial, A New Beginning of New Orleans, Inc. (ANBNO) was a Medicaid provider located in Harvey, Louisiana that made claims for personal care services it claimed to have provided to Medicaid recipients. Personal care services (PCS) are Medicaid services provided by attendants to eligible recipients meeting the medical necessity criteria who are unable to care for themselves. ANBNO solicited mothers with children who had Medicaid benefits to apply for PCS.

GIROD, the mother to three children who were Medicaid recipients, signed forms and represented that ANBNO provided PCS services to each of her children for two hours a day every day between April 2001 and February 2005. Instead of providing PCS, ANBNO workers assigned to care for GIROD’S children paid GIROD cash kickbacks for the use of her children’s Medicaid information. Based upon this fraudulent information, Medicaid paid approximately $65,131 to ANBNO for services that were not performed related specifically to GIROD’S children.

From the time of the inception of ANBNO, through May 4, 2005, Medicaid paid approximately $3,977,288 as a result of the fraudulent claims made by ANBNO and its employees. On September 9, 2009, three other workers and parents associated with ANBNO were convicted after a jury trial. Additionally, several other employees were convicted after guilty pleas, as was AKASIA LEE, the owner of ANBNO.

JO ANN GIROD faces a possible maximum sentence of 90 years’ imprisonment and $2,250,000 in fines.

Special Agent in Charge Mike Fields of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Office of Investigations, stated: "The jury’s verdict of guilty on all counts sends a message to those who take advantage of the Louisiana Medicaid Program. The Office of Inspector General, Dallas Regional Office, will continue to work aggressively with our federal and state partners to eliminate this type of fraudulent conduct in our health care system."

This investigation was conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Louisiana Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. The prosecution was handled by Assistant United States Attorney Patrice Harris Sullivan and Jordan Ginsberg. Read more at neworleans.fbi.gov

 

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Indiana High School Coach Indicted on Child Pornography Charge

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Week in Review – Federal Court

HAMMOND, IN—The United States Attorney's Office announced:

Carl Ross Agnew, 27, of Lafayette, Indiana, was charged by felony complaint with distribution of child pornography. In September, 2010, an FBI special agent using a computer connected to the Internet launched a P2P file sharing program from the Cyber Crime Task Force located in Kansas City, Missouri. The agent subsequently observed that an individual, later identified as Agnew, was sharing images depicting children engaged in sexual activity. According to the complaint, Agnew is one of two coaches for the Robotics team at West Lafayette High School. Agnew was arrested on February 22, 2011 and remanded to the custody of the United States Marshals Service. These charges were filed as the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Cyber Crime Task Force and the Kokomo City Police Department. This case has been assigned to and will be prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jill Trumbull-Harris.

The United States Attorney's Office emphasized that a complaint is merely an allegation and that all persons charged are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in court.

The specific sentence in each case to be imposed upon conviction will be determined by the judge after a consideration of federal sentencing statutes and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Read more at indianapolis.fbi.gov

 

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South Dakota Man Convicted of Child Abuse

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South Dakota Man Convicted of Child Abuse

PIERRE, SD—United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Donovan Tom Yazzie, age 28, of Eagle Butte, South Dakota, was convicted February 18, 2011 of child abuse as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre.

This charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years’ imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine.

Yazzie was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2010 for assault resulting in serious bodily injury of a child and child abuse. The charges stem from the abuse of an Eagle Butte child in April 2010. This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Mikal Hanson.

The defendant was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals. Read more at minneapolis.fbi.gov

 

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Erie Man Convicted of Child Pornography and Obscenity Crimes

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Erie Man Convicted of Child Pornography and Obscenity Crimes

ERIE, PA—A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania was convicted after a jury trial in federal court to charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

Jeremy Noyes, 33, of the Erie County Prison, Erie, Pennsylvania, was convicted of one count of transportation of child pornography, one count of receiving child pornography, one count of possession of child pornography, and one count of transportation of obscene material after a jury trial before United States District Judge Sean J. McLaughlin.

After a six-day trial, the jury deliberated for approximately one hour before returning a verdict on all counts. Noyes, a former LECOM student, possessed, received, and transported numerous images of child pornography on two computers in his home. The investigation began when the FBI received an anonymous tip regarding Noyes' activity. Based on the information received, the FBI searched Noyes' home and seized two computers containing numerous images of child pornography and obscene material.

Launched in February 2006, Project Safe Childhood is a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Led by the U.S. Attorneys' Offices, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

Judge McLaughlin scheduled sentencing for June 23, 2011. The law provides for a total sentence of 55 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000, or both. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed is based upon the seriousness of the offense and the criminal history, if any, of the defendant.

Assistant United States Attorney Christian A. Trabold prosecuted this case on behalf of the government.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Pennsylvania State Police conducted the investigation that led to the successful prosecution of Noyes. Read more at pittsburgh.fbi.gov

 

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3rd St. Petersburg, Fla., officer killed this year

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3rd St. Petersburg, Fla., officer killed this year

AP – Nicholas Lindsey, 16, stands before a Pinellas County judge in a St. Petersburg, Fla. courtroom during … By TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press Tamara Lush, Associated Press – Tue Feb 22, 5:42 pm ET ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – City police officers are mourning their third colleague slain in the line of duty in 30 days, but they have been forced to put their emotions on hold as they work overtime to search for the suspected killer. Officer David Crawford was shot Monday night investigating a report of a suspicious person in a neighborhood just south of Tropicana Field — where the Tampa Bay Rays play baseball. "You have a job to do, you're a professional," said St. Petersburg Detective Mark Marland. "You kind of have to push a little bit of the somberness and the heavy heart to the back." So far, there are few leads. The suspect left behind his Nike flip-flops and witnesses gave detectives a vague description of a young man wearing dark shorts and white socks. Officers at the department of about 540 people are working 12-hour shifts to help the investigation. "We're torn between grieving and our jobs and the mission," said St. Petersburg Police Chief Chuck Harmon. "But everybody is committed to the mission at this point." Officials said the shooting happened after two officers were called to investigate a report of a prowler. Crawford, 46, spotted a suspect and got out of his vehicle. At 10:37 p.m., another officer, Donald J. Ziglar, reported an exchange of gunfire and told dispatchers an officer was down. Ziglar found Crawford lying on the pavement near his cruiser, police said. He had been shot multiple times at close range. Officials said Crawford was not wearing a bullet proof vest. Helicopters, SWAT teams, dozens of law enforcement and dogs searched for the gunman. There was no evidence that the suspect was injured during the gunfire exchange, Chief Harmon said. An entire swath of the city was inaccessible to traffic; Harmon said the department will keep the perimeter "until we knock on every door." The FBI, the St. Petersburg Police and other groups also were offering a reward of $100,000 for information leading to the identification and arrest of the suspect. Crawford, who was married, eligible for retirement and the father of an adult daughter, was pronounced dead at a hospital. Officers saluted the van that carried his body to the medical examiner's office Tuesday morning. On Jan. 24, two St. Petersburg officers — Jeffrey A. Yaslowitz and Thomas Baitinger — were killed as they helped serve a warrant on a man with a long criminal history. Their killer died in the seige. Prior to that, the St. Petersburg Police department hadn't had an officer killed in the line of duty in more than 30 years. "We're not even done healing from the first tragedy, then boom, we have a second one," said Marland, who is also the St. Petersburg police union president. Lorie Fridell, an associate professor of criminology at the University of South Florida in Tampa, said such tragedies reinforce the resolve of the officers. "I don't think that there are many officers that are rethinking their careers," said Fridell. "They understand the danger. If anything, tragedies like this strengthen their commitment, particularly the commitment they have for fellow officers. "I expect that particularly right now, officers are ever vigilant, maybe even increasingly vigilant, in the Tampa-St. Pete area as a result of these tragedies." Maki Haberfeld, chair of the Department of Law & Police Science at John Jay College in New York, said she suspects officers in St. Petersburg will be more anxious in the coming months. "Certainly there is always a level of preparedness that the police officers have to be ready for," said Haberfield. "Of course now they will be more on guard. The issue is whether or not they are going to be more willing to use force, lethal force." Crisis counselors have been called to help officers in the department. "Officers unfortunately don't get downtime to show their emotions," said Michael Krohn, the executive director of the Suncoast Police Benevolent Association, the union that represents St. Petersburg officers. "They have to get the job done and be safe. The time to break down is after the shift, at home." . Source . Related Fla. police-killing suspect known as quiet teen 16 minutes ago Police have sealed off dozens of blocks in St. Petersburg to search for the man who shot and killed St. Petersburg police Officer David Crawford, 46, ... . Read more at endrtimes.blogspot.com

 

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Four Americans Killed on Yacht Hijacked by Somali Pirates

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Four Americans Killed on Yacht Hijacked by Somali Pirates

Four Americans Killed on Yacht Hijacked by Somali Pirates Published February 22, 2011 FoxNews.com Four Americans aboard a yacht hijacked by Somali pirates were gunned down by their captors Tuesday. U.S. forces responded to gunfire aboard the yacht Quest at approximately 1 a.m. Tuesday, but discovered all four hostages had been shot by their captors. Despite attempts to save their lives, all four hostages died of their wounds. “We express our deepest condolences for the innocent lives callously lost aboard the Quest,” said Gen. James N. Mattis, U.S. Central Command Commander in a news release. Two pirates died during the confrontation and U.S. forces found the remains of two other pirates already dead aboard the vessel. Thirteen pirates were captured and detained, along with two already in custody. A total of 19 pirates were involved in the hijacking. The remains of the four Americans were taken aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, as were the 15 pirates in custody. There is no word yet on where the pirates will be taken for trial. They could go to Kenya or they could come back to the U.S. There is a precedent for both. Owner Says The yacht Quest was hijacked on Friday off the coast of Oman and U.S. forces had been closely monitoring the vessel. Unlike most pirate incidents, these pirates boarded the Quest directly from their mother ship, rather than using faster skiffs. The mother ship remains free. Vice Admiral Mark Fox, Commander of Centcom's Naval Forces, explained the timeline of events during a press briefing with Pentagon reporters. According to Fox, there was "absolutely no warning" before the hostage situation turned deadly. On Monday two pirates boarded the USS Sterett (one of four U.S. Naval ships monitoring the situation) to conduct negotiations for the release of the American hostages. They stayed on board overnight and it's unclear if any ransom was offered before the killing took place. At 8:00 am local time Tuesday morning a rocket propelled grenade was fired at the Sterett from pirates on board the Quest. The shot missed, but immediately after gunfire erupted inside the cabin of the Quest. "Several pirates appeared on deck and moved up to the bow with their hands in the air in surrender," Fox said. That's when SOF approached on small boats and boarded the yacht. When U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) soldiers -- from a classified Navy SEALS unit -- reached the yacht, they found two pirates had already been killed by small arms fire. As they went below deck there was an exchange of fire that killed one pirate. The other pirate was killed by an SOF member who used a knife in close combat, Vice Adm. Fox said. The SOF found some of the Americans still alive, but all four soon died of their wounds. Vice Adm. Fox called it the deadliest pirate incident to date. "We did everything we could," said a senior military official. "But I don't think our guys would see this as a good outcome." Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the killings "deplorable." She said in a statement that the killings underscored the need for international cooperation on fighting the scourge of piracy in waters off the Horn of Africa. She urged international partners to provide material, financial and logistical support to an African peacekeeping mission in Somalia, the country the pirates use as the launching point of their attacks. The organizers of an international yacht race called the Blue Water Rally said the Quest had been taking part in the race but left it Feb. 15 to chart an independent course from India to Oman. The Quest is owned by Scott and Jean Adam, a couple from California. The two other Americans on board were Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle, of Seattle, Washington. At the Seattle Singles Yacht Club, where Riggle and Macay were well known, Joe Grande said the two were "great sailors, good people. They were doing what they wanted to do, but that's small comfort in the face of this." The Adams have been sailing the world with a yacht full of Bibles since 2004. The hijacking of their yacht came two days after a Somali pirate was sentenced to 33 years in prison by a New York court for the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama. That case ended when Navy sharpshooters killed two pirates holding the ship's captain. Pirates have increased attacks off the coast of East Africa in recent years despite an international flotilla of warships dedicated to protecting vessels and stopping the pirate assaults. Multimillion-dollar ransoms are fueling the trade, and the prices for releasing a ship and hostages have risen sharply. Pirates currently hold 30 ships and more than 660 hostages, not counting the attack against the Quest. Before this incident there were less than 10 pirate related deaths this year. The best-known case of Westerners being held hostage in Somalia was that of Paul and Rachel Chandler, a British couple held for 388 days. The two, who were captured while sailing in their private yacht, were released in November. The Adams -- who are members of the Marina del Rey Yacht Club in Marina del Rey, Calif. -- run a Bible ministry, according to their website, and have been distributing Bibles to schools and churches in remote villages in areas including the Fiji Islands, Alaska, New Zealand, Central America and French Polynesia. Source .. Read more at endrtimes.blogspot.com

 

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What Happens When Female Muslim Cop Becomes Christian . . . & Lesbian?

By Debbie Schlussel

Detroit policewoman Wedad Elhage is in trouble for stalking her ex-lover.  Regardless, I’m sure the very existence of Elhage makes the Muslims of Dearbornistan and the surrounding Dar Al-Harb very angry.  She’s twice an apostate.  Not only did the Beirut-born immigrant dump Islam and convert to Christianity, but she’s also a lesbian.  Back in the “civilized” Mid-East, they’d probably be busy right now, trying to figure out how to behead someone twice.  But I wouldn’t be surprised if, regardless of no longer being a Muslim, she still hates Jews and Israel.  Still, it’s a two-fer in driving Muslims nuts. . . or was, until the stalking part (and the illegal accessing of police records).

Detroit Cop Wedad Elhage & Ex-Lover

On the other hand, there’s the Muslim point of view: once a Muslim, always a Muslim. And this kinda stalking and harassment thing is hardly foreign to Muslims, especially those who brought their Third World, Mid-East “values” with them. Check out the details of the story. If I wrote a piece of fiction with this information and these characters in it, you wouldn’t believe it.  (And neither would I.)

Testimony began Tuesday in the case of a Detroit police officer accused of stalking her ex-lover, an assistant Wayne County prosecutor.

Wedad Elhage, 46, is charged with aggravated stalking, a five-year felony. State prosecutors say she sent threatening e-mail and text messages to her ex-girlfriend, Shelley Drain. Elhage, who lived with Drain for seven years, also is accused of driving past Drain’s Plymouth home dozens of times, in violation of a judge’s order.

Michael King, a special prosecutor appointed by former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox after the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office was removed from the case because the alleged victim was an employee, said in his opening arguments Tuesday that Elhage made Drain’s life a “living hell” after they broke up in October 2008.

“(Drain) moved out and found a boyfriend; this is when the trouble starts,” King said. “Miss Drain was trying to move on with a new life, but the defendant harassed and intimidated her, and put Miss Drain’s house under surveillance.”Elhage’s attorney, Charles Busse, said his client still loves Drain, and claimed Drain also contacted her.

“It was a two-way street,” he said.

Elhage claimed during a telephone interview last week that she is being unfairly persecuted because of her ex-girlfriend’s political connections.

In addition to being employed as an assistant prosecutor, Drain’s father is longtime Wayne Circuit Judge Gershwin Drain.Elhage claimed that’s why she hasbeen incarcerated without bond since Dec. 3 in the same isolated Wayne County Jail cell once occupied by former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

Hmmm . . . I wonder what allah and Mohammed would say about this. Say nice things about Detroit. Read more at www.debbieschlussel.com

 

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Islamists Suspected in Abduction of Christian Girl in Sudan

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Islamists Suspected in Abduction of Christian Girl in Sudan

Hiba Abdelfadil Anglo

Widow loses her job after taking time off to try to recover kidnapped daughter.

NAIROBI, Kenya, February 22 (CDN) — A Christian widow in north Sudan is agonizing over the kidnapping of her daughter eight months ago by suspected Islamic extremists in Khartoum. “Since my daughter was kidnapped, I have been living in a state of fear and terror,” said Ikhlas Anglo, 35, a mother of two daughters. She said her 15-year-old daughter, Hiba Abdelfadil Anglo, went missing while returning from the Ministry of Education in Khartoum on June 27, 2010. Hiba, a member of Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church in Khartoum, had gone to the education ministry office to obtain her transcripts for entry to secondary school. Two days later, the family received threatening telephone calls and SMS messages from the kidnappers telling them to pay 1,500 Sudanese pounds (US$560) in order to secure her return. “Don’t you want to have this slave back?” one of the kidnappers told Anglo from an unknown location by cell phone, she said. Anglo and others said they believe the kidnappers are Muslim extremists who have targeted them because they are Christians, and that police are aiding the criminals. She said that when she went to a police station to open a case, police bluntly told her she must first leave Christianity for Islam. “You must convert to Islam if you want your daughter back,” officer Fakhr El-Dean Mustafa of the Family and Child Protection Unit told Anglo, she said. Recently transferred to another station, Mustafa was not immediately available for comment. A relative of the girl said police are fully involved in the crime, as officers had traced the phone number of the kidnappers but were reluctant to admit that to the girl’s family. ‘‘The police have a direct link with the kidnappers,’’ the relative said.         Adding to the anguish of the kidnapped girl’s family was Anglo’s dismissal from her job when she took time off to search for Hiba. Anglo said her supervisor at Asia Health Center, where she had worked for many years as a cleaner, had told her to report back to work after recovering her daughter, but after a month she was surprised to learn that she had been fired as of July 1, 2010. “They dismissed me because I was looking for my daughter, although they have given me permission,” she said. Christians in north Sudan are anticipating increased persecution due to a referendum that gave the right of self-determination to the people of south Sudan, the majority of whom are Christians.  On Jan. 9, south Sudan voted for secession in order to establish a zone free of sharia (Islamic law). Northern Christians fear further dangers after July 9, when south Sudan will officially become an independent nation. President Omar al-Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in Darfur, has stated that the rights of southern citizens remaining in the north after secession will be respected. But Christians’ fears grew after he said in December that an altered constitution would be based on sharia and that Islam would be the official religion. Nearly four months ago, police allegedly helped a Muslim businessman to seize property belonging to the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church in Khartoum (See www.compassdirect.org, “Police in Sudan Aid Muslim’s Effort to Take Over Church Plot,” Oct. 25, 2010).   END *** A photo of Hiba Abdelfadil Anglo is available to subscribers, to be used with credit to Compass Direct News. A high resolution photo is also available; contact Compass for transmittal. Read more at www.compassdirect.org

 

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