Ashley Biden left her diary and some other personal belongings at a friend’s house in Florida where she had stayed briefly, planned to collect them later. An acquaintance of the friend named Aimee Harris, who also stayed at the house, stole the diary and some of the other items; then she conta[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
August 25th, 2022 - 4:51 pm § in Law and Courts
He fought the law, and the law didn’t notice
In Chicago, at the local FBI building, a man climbed over a security fence and threw rocks at the building on Thursday, August 25, 2022. The building didn’t say anything or even blink. The rock thrower was taken away for a mental evaluation. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
August 24th, 2022 - 10:44 pm § in Law and Courts
Should a domestic terrorist get leniency for turning state’s witness?
It’s a fact of life that prosecutors offer leniency to small fish in order to catch bigger fish. So far the rightwing militia plot (details here) to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, has produced jury verdicts against two ringleaders, guilty pleas by two followers, and two acq[...]
August 23rd, 2022 - 6:26 pm § in Law and Courts
Another guilty plea in Lynnwood skinhead assault case
Randy Aaron Smith, 42, of Eugene, Oregon, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, August 23, 2022, to federal charges for participating in a skinhead gang’s brutal beating of a black disc jockey in 2018 at a Lynnwood, Washington bar (read story here). He was one of a group of at least 16 belligerent white [...]
Paul Pelosi isn’t above the law
Paul Pelosi, 82, a wealthy San Francisco real estate investor and husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is paying a price for driving impaired and injuring another driver. Pelosi crashed his late-model Porsche into an SUV while driving after dark in California’s wine country on May 28, 2[...]
August 21st, 2022 - 10:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Misfit arrested for threatening rightwing group
The FBI arrested a Texas man for making “credible threats” on social media “to carry out a mass attack” against a conservative gathering in Florida in July, ABC News reported on Sunday, August 21, 2022 (read story here). Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez, 19, of San Antonio, [...]
August 17th, 2022 - 2:16 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Missouri Trumper indicted for threatening Arizona election official
A Missouri man who left a veiled death threat in an Arizona election official’s voicemail is looking at federal prison time, and he should be. Walter Lee Hoornstra, 50, of Tecumseh, Missouri, was indicted by a federal grand jury for making an interstate threat and communicating it by an inters[...]
August 16th, 2022 - 3:38 pm § in Donald Trump, Health
Playing football without a helmet
The late President Gerald Ford grew up when college football was played with leather helmets, and years later critics snidely sniped that’s how he got to be “soft in the head.” Then there’s Richard Aaron York III, who on Sunday, August 15, 2022, smashed a car into a concrete [...]
California Democrat indicted for financial crimes
Terrance “TJ” Cox (photo left, bio here), a Central California ag-sector businessman who served a single term in Congress (2019-2021), has been indicted for wire fraud, money laundering, financial institution fraud, campaign funds fraud, CNN reported on Tuesday, August 16, 2022 (read sto[...]
August 15th, 2022 - 1:09 pm § in Law and Courts
What happens to morons who threaten to kill FBI employees
For purposes of this posting, I’ll assume children under 12 don’t read this blog, and kids over that age already know all the dirty words in the English language. I’m pretty sure that in Soviet days, Russian citizens frustrated with the regime didn’t call up the KGB and say, [...]