Isabella Thallas (photo, left) didn’t see her 22nd birthday, because Michael Close (photo, below right), 38, killed her over dog poop. Thallas and her boyfriend, Darian Simon, were walking a dog on June 10, 2020, outside Close’s apartment building in Denver. They stopped and encouraged t[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
September 20th, 2022 - 3:50 pm § in Law and Courts
Going after Covid relief thieves
Federal prosecutors have indicted 47 people who participated in a massive fraud scheme to steal $250 million of Covid relief money, CNN and other news sources reported on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 (see story here). The defendants are charged with conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, bribery, [...]
September 19th, 2022 - 10:39 pm § in Politics, Republicans
What’s wrong with this photo of an election office?
“A Republican county official in Georgia and operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump spent hours inside a restricted area of the local elections office on the day voting systems there were breached, newly obtained surveillance video shows,” CNN reported on M[...]
September 19th, 2022 - 12:40 pm § in Politics
Crazy Trumper, or just crazy sociopath?
David Frick, 29, of Gainesville, Florida, likes to assault people, especially defenseless women. Florida court records show unspecified criminal charges filed against him on December 16, 2021 (here), and January 7, 2022 (here). A Florida TV station reported in March 2022 (here) he was arrested in De[...]
September 18th, 2022 - 6:58 pm § in Law and Courts
No. No, no, and no.
On December 1, 1997, a 14-year-old boy named Michael Carneal walked into a Paducah, Kentucky, high school with a gun and “and opened fire in the lobby where students had gathered for a prayer circle.” Three girls died. They were Nicole Hadley, 14; Kayce Steger, 15; and Jessica James, 17.[...]
September 15th, 2022 - 7:10 pm § in Politics
Hey, we’re all Trumpers here
Most of the time, not much happens in Delmont (photo, left), a bucolic hamlet where a couple of important highways intersect in Western Pennsylvania Appalachian coal country. Until some guy a 911 caller reported for driving erratically pulls off the highway, gets out of his car wearing a safety vest[...]
September 15th, 2022 - 1:34 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Stupid defendants get more time
Josiah Kenyon, 35, of Winnemucca, Nevada, likely will be in his 40s when he gets out of prison, as he’s looking at 76 to 97 months for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection (see story here). Kenyon (mugshot below), who claims to have an IQ above zero (I’ll discuss this furth[...]
September 13th, 2022 - 12:54 am § in Misc.
Why the public is losing patience with homeless camps
In a suburb of Tacoma, Washington, homeless people took over a privately owned vacant lot across the street from a public park. They had no right to be there, and the owners didn’t want them there, but that’s the least of what was wrong with that encampment. Until it was cleared out by s[...]
September 12th, 2022 - 12:01 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Deranged QAnon Trumper even shot the dog after shooting his family
A QAnon Trumper driven insane by Trump’s 2020 election defeat shot his wife and daughters, then shot the family dog, too. Igor Lanis, 53, of Walled Lake, Michigan (a Detroit suburb), was killed by police when he shot at them, too. His wife, Tina Lanis, 56, died at the scene from multiple handg[...]
Hillary is too easy on Trump
The object of countless “Lock her up!” chants says indicting Trump is “a really hard call” (see story here). No, it’s not, if he broke the law. She herself explained why it’s a simple, easy call: “I do think the rule of law holding people accountable is cent[...]