The flight attendant who dropped two suitcases full of cocaine at Los Angeles International Airport -- along with her Gucci shoes -- before fleeing in panic turned herself in to authorities in New York on Wednesday, sources said.
Marsha Gay Reynolds was arrested by Drug Enforcement Administration agents, sources said.
The JetBlue flight attendant, a former beauty pageant contestant, was randomly stopped last Friday at a checkpoint for airline workers. She kicked off her Gucci heels, dropped the drugs and bolted, according to sources.
She then boarded a flight to New York and went to her Queens apartment before holing up in the Hilton Hotel near JFK Airport, the sources said.
The nearly 70 pounds of cocaine found stashed in her suitcases was estimated to be worth $2 million.
During the LAX incident, Reynolds was escorted to the front of the screening area and apparently became alarmed when she realized she'd be caught.
After walking about 15 feet with her carry-on bags, the former NYU track star threw them down and made a run for it, leaving behind the dope.
"She kicked her high heels off and left her shoes and bag behind," said Marshall McClain of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association.
"She knew if she dropped both of them, she'd be able to run away more quickly," he explained. She could probably walk and get away from most of them.
"She was then able to high-foot it out of the terminal, down an Los Angeles on Wednesday.
In her bags, TSA agents found clothes, Trojan Magnum condoms and 68.49 pounds of cocaine wrapped in green saran wrap and labeled "BIG Ranch," cops said.
She also left behind her leather, size-8½ Gucci shoes.
But because TSA agents did not get her name, Reynolds may have been able to board her red-eye flight to LaGuardia on Friday night. After being apprehended in New York, she was charged in a criminal complaint filed in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Reynolds is listed as a member of NYU's 2004 women's track and field team, according to the school's website. That may come in handy depending on who's chasing her in the prison exercise yard.
She was also a runner-up in the 2007 Miss Jamaica Universe pageant, according to the Jamaica Gleaner. Aaaand that'll probably make her popular in the jailhouse boom-boom room.
Reynolds was awaiting arraignment at Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday night.
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"In her bags, TSA agents found clothes, Trojan Magnum condoms and 68.49 pounds of cocaine wrapped in green saran wrap and labeled "BIG Ranch," cops said."
Channeling Slim Pickens: "Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all this stuff."
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The pitfalls of being a drug mule. My guess is the cartel bosses won't take kindly to her "bad parenting" of the shipment. Bet she turned herself in fearing a Vince Foster/Ron Brown type of ending..
A 12-year-old girl was arrested and booked into juvenile detention after she allegedly pinched a boy’s butt in school during what she described as a popular game at her Florida school.
The girl is facing misdemeanor battery charges after the incident at Milwee Middle School, which is outside Orlando, and was reportedly read her Miranda Rights, put in the back of a patrol car and later charged.
"Lord, lord, lordy. . . what has this world come to?" asked the girl’s father, whose first name is Ray. "Kids can’t even be kids, and that’s basically what it is. She’s 12 years old, she was acting like a 12-year-old child." Fox News typically neither names minors charged with crimes, nor reveals the last names of their parents, to fully protect the identities.
The boy’s mother apparently disagrees, ClickOrlando.com reported. The boy reportedly told the school’s resource deputy that he did not want to press any charges. The accused, who said she didn’t know the boy, was suspended. The boy’s mother, however, asked that the girl be prosecuted for battery.
"I regret it," the girl reportedly said in an interview. "I didn’t know it’ll lead to this."
Authorities said the pinching incident occurred in March. KABC reported that the state attorney said the charge will be dismissed once the girl completes a diversion program that includes community service and a drug test.
The girl's father offered some parenting advice to the boy’s mother.
"I’m sorry my kid touched your kid. But I’m sorry because you need some help, I think -- too overprotective -- let your kid be your kid. He might get some friends, and that’s all I have to say."
I don't know but I'll wager that victim of this atrocity was a scorned kid for whatever reason, and further that this gal by her actions was trying to drag him back into the larger community. Trust me, crazy starts earlier these days.
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My guess is the kids were horsing around. An adult saw the pinch and broke it up. Boy victim said "he didn't want to press charges" but then someone told the boys parents and mom made a mountain out of a mole-hill.
Whole thing is embarrassing and the school should be seriously considering dismissing whomever made a big deal out of this initially.
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Of course this is stupidity writ large - our Educrat Imbeciles.... but as long as it's "no tolerance" for boyish behavior, a girl should face the same. NO double standards as long as we're uniformly stoopid
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mom made a mountain out of a mole-hill
Mom must have had a SJW Diversity class back in school. You know the type that says if you had regrets the morning after (consensual) extra curricular activities, its ex post facto rape.
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A military grade movement barrier needs to be put into place in these areas. As any combat engineer would tell you, you do not need a continuous barrier, but one that slows and funnels to where they are forced to come across areas where you can control and counter the enemy. Barrier here with patrols and obstacles in the more remote areas makes sense. The Israelis can teach the US how to prevent tunneling.
The problem is the US does not have the political will to do these things.
Radar software being tested for the F-35 stealth fighter jet made by Lockheed Martin Corp is not stable enough, Pentagon officials said in a written statement at a U.S. House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday.
The issue caused sensors to restart once every four hours of flying due to the timing of software messages from the sensors to the main F-35 fusion computer and the aim was to improve this to one in every eight to 10 flying hours, the statement said.
Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon's chief weapons tester, said the program would not be ready for operational testing until mid-2018, a year later than expected, due to delays in completion of the jet's software and other issues. He said more than 300 planes would have been produced by the end of fiscal 2017, when that testing is now due to start.
The software during flight test was not as stable as it needed to be, according to the statement by Sean Stackley, assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy, and Air Force Lieutenant General Christopher Bogdan, in charge of the F-35 program.
"We will be flight testing these fixes in the March-April timeframe," the statement said, adding that in testing the F-35C variant, cracking in part of the wing was found after a certain number of flying hours and efforts were being made to fix this.
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I've become bored with the subject, I'm afraid. To summarize what I have read in these pages: Some people love the idea, some hate it. It is behind schedule, over budget, burdened by too many bells and whistles, and takes funding from a variety of other platforms some people prefer for a variety of reasons. Further delays and cost overages are highly likely, but some of the improvements are in the meantime being put into the next iteration of the current thing in use as well as retrofitted onto those machines currently flying, so the pilots are getting some benefit from it, despite not having got any of the thing itself.
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...the graft (work in somebody's district/state), the medals for (un)service, and irrational fetish for 'the next big thing'. Perfect is the enemy of just good enough.
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tw, if you think about the airplane, then you have it about right. And it is boring. However, if you think about this as an international competition like the Olympics or soccer, it is much more interesting.
Our team has built 3 different version of this plane. They all fly, they are kind of expensive, but not more than the planes we have been using since the 70's. It is pretty good at most things, really good a some. All of our allies are going to buy a bunch of them, reducing our costs over time. And we are planning to build thousands of these things.
Next the Russian team is building the T-35. They have only flown test flights. If they can work out the bugs, it will be really good at some things and terrible at others. They can't afford to make very many, and almost no one else in the world wants to buy one. Even if they get a hundred of these some day, they will be hopelessly outnumbered.
Then there is the Chinese team. They are building prototypes of stuff they copied from the internet. It barely flys, and their engines are terrible. No one wants them. So, the Chinese are buying the Russian stuff and trying to fit it out with Israeli upgrades to sort of get a few planes that can hope to fight for a few days.
The European's don't have a team, except for the Swedes, who are just now getting to where we were 25 years ago.
The Israeli's are on our team.
Everyone else is watching on TV.
So, yes the F-35 is not an airplane that will make anyone excited. But it will overwhelm everyone else.
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..to include the maintenance teams trying to keep it out of red line. Given that maintenance and spare parts are among the primary cuts when cuts are due. That and training. (You got to pay the troops and make sure they're feed, they're use to ghetto housing and self repair cause that's another maintenance cut as well)
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The rest are 'trialing prototypes, working models and simulations'. We are building a air superiority strategy dependent on a platform that doesn't fly.
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BC, the plane flies fine. And the radar works fine for a few hours. How long is a mission for this plane? A few hours, and then it is out of gas and lands.
Is this a problem? Well with air refueling it could be. So we are going to fix it.
Is this a problem in real missions? No, not really.
[The Intercept] The State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, which issues the licenses, told The Intercept that it would not comment on what licenses companies possess or lack, calling them "proprietary corporate data," and asserted that information on the licenses is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. The Intercept has a long-standing FOIA request with the State Department seeking information on licenses granted to Prince and his former network of companies. To date, no information has been provided. The paragraph above was found deep within the article. Outsourcing to fill a vacuum left by someone else's cock-up? You decide.
[An Nahar] War crimes judges Wednesday confirmed 70 charges against notorious Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen for crimes committed in Uganda, including keeping sex slaves and recruiting child soldiers.
Judges at the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... "confirmed 70 charges brought by the prosecutor against Dominic Ongwen," the Hague-based court said, paving the way to a trial on the alleged crimes.
Known as the "White Ant" in his native Acholi language, Ongwen is charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role from 2002 to 2005 in the rebel group's reign of terror in northern Uganda, led by its runaway chief Joseph Kony ... The Lords Resistance Army is a religious and military group formed in 1987. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and who is periodically possessed by demons, Beelzebub and Legion prominent among them. Kony advises his soldiers to draw crosses on their chests as a protection against bullets. This does't work, but nobody outside the LRA minds. The group is based on a hodge podge of apocalyptic Christianity, mysticism, and traditional Acholi religion, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on an odd interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The LRA is famous for systematic criminal conduct, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children, forcing children to participate in hostilities, and occasional cannibalism. The LRA operates mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo... Ongwen will be the first LRA member to face trial at the ICC, set up in 2002 to try the world's worst crimes.
A former child-soldier-turned-warlord, Ongwen was Kony's one-time deputy and one of the most senior commanders of the LRA, which is accused of slaughtering more than 100,000 people and abducting 60,000 children in a bloody rebellion against Kampala that began in 1986.
Prosecutors in January told the ICC's judges that Ongwen was the "tip of the spear" of the group that has sown terror in several countries across central and eastern Africa.
Ongwen, who is about 40 years old, allegedly ordered the killings of civilians as well as the abduction and enslavement of children to be rebel soldiers as the LRA attacked helpless villages across the Ugandan countryside, prosecutors said.
Witnesses to the carnage said Ongwen ordered his hostages, at least on one occasion, to "kill, cook and eat civilians," prosecutors said.
The LRA first emerged in northern Uganda in 1986, where it claimed to fight in the name of the Acholi ethnic group against the government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
But over the years it has moved freely across porous regional borders, shifting from Uganda to sow terror in southern Sudan before heading into northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , and finally crossing into southeastern Central African Republic in March 2008.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A gang of miscreants hacked a man, who is accused in several criminal cases, to death at Sitakunda upazila, Chittagong on Tuesday night.
Local sources said Riaz Uddin Nayon, 28, son of Saleh Ahmed of Boro Darogarhat area of Sitakunda was involved with Jubo League ... the youth wing of the Bangla Awami League... ’s politics, but police could not confirm his any political identity.
Riaj was a local goon in Sitakunda area and accused of six cases filed in connection with murder and extortion with Sitakunda cop shoppe, said Officer-in-Charge of the cop shoppe Iftekhar Hasan.
A group of miscreants swopped on Riaj with sharp weapons in front of Molla Market and hacked him indiscriminately around 8pm, leaving him critically injured, said the OC.
He was first taken to upazila health complex from where he was shifted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH). Later, he died.
OC Iftekhar said Riaj had a long standing rivalry with another local terrorist "Harun group". He also suspected that he might have been killed over previous rivalry.
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After the heady excitement of seeing President Barack Obama shatter decades of US-Cuba hostility, Cubans woke up Wednesday wondering how much will really change on the communist island.
The climax of Obama's trip was a speech Tuesday in which his oratorical skills were on full display, urging Cubans to embrace democracy and vowing that the United States will drop its punishing economic embargo, even if that decision has to come from the more hawkish Congress.
The cheers for Obama in Havana's Gran Teatro showed how far the visit -- the first by any US president in 88 years -- has shifted Washington's old policy of treating Cuba like enemy territory. And while all-powerful President Raul Castro seemed less than happy, listening stone-faced, he had let the speech go ahead live on state television.
But after the euphoria came something of a hangover for Cubans who say there will be no easy answers.
"We appreciate his good intentions. He's a man who talks very well, but at the end of the day they're just words," said retiree Estrella Mora, 61. "Another thing is reality: Obama came and went, but the embargo is still there."
Cley Poll Betacourt, 41, praised Obama's speech and visit. "He said things as they are."
The problem, Betacourt said, "is that he wants to achieve very quickly things that will take years. We need time to change things here."
Betacourt said Cubans are not ready for radical political change and that reform of the country -- ruled by one party and with a sclerotic economy -- should come from within. "We are fine with our president. We listen to what he says, because he wants the best for us. We don't need anything else."
- Thinking for themselves -
Those who have experienced the hard end of Castro's rule cautioned that Obama -- however spectacular his visit -- has only limited power.
"I think the government will not listen to Obama's words on political change," said Mirian Leiva, a former member of the Ladies in White dissidents group. "I think these ideas of his were aimed at the population and that anything further is up to Cubans themselves."
And former political prisoner Jose Daniel Ferrer, 75, said Cubans will have trouble following through on Obama's call for them to build their own future.
He said Cubans are used to having a "paternalistic" figure "who will resolve all the problems, with everyone else like children who need being taken in hand and are waiting for a pope or a US leader."
That mentality, he said, is gradually easing but Cubans need to understand that "we are the ones with the main role for changing Cuba."
Certainly the state media have been quick to reinterpret Obama's speech for the population, warning that Obama's slickness could not be trusted.
"Obama's visit to Cuba was a masterclass in political marketing that we Cubans are not used to," state television commented.
"Maybe there won't be another US president for another 88 years. What will be more important is what happens and what happens depends not on what (Obama) thinks, but on the plans of an elite that he must now represent."
Terrorism seems to be a distraction from President Obama’s life of being a celebrity. He wants to be hanging out with Communist dictators and going to ballgames. ISIS is simply not treated as a threat by this president or at least, he doesn’t give the impression that he really cares about our allies or the Americans that were wounded. How are we going to defeat the terrorists while he’s watching a ballgame and giving interviews to ESPN? The fact is we have to do something concrete. The statements made by the president smack of the Marie Antoinette-ish attitude, ‘Let the people eat cake.’ I was on The Kelly File talking about this.
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The proggies and Zero wannabes will never worry about terrorism until they are directly attacked.
Lets see what their response would be if the Muzzies blew up the Oscars or a Democrat fundraiser. Sometimes I think the terrorists don't attack the proggie icons cause they believe in professional courtesy.
This is communism; the score was 0-0 , the umpires won.
Anyone mentioning Earned Run Average will be purged.
Obama is truth. Truth is power. You have 10 minutes amnesty to turn in any single piece of metal of value over $100. This is a green request to save Cuban polar bears. Greetings and salutations.
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I guess the Cubans didn't get the memo about the emperor having no clothes? Maybe they are isolated. We caught on to the empty or invisible suit long ago.
[AP] RYONGYON-RI, North Korea -- The village elder put his shovel aside, stooped down by a scraggly bush and pulled a sack from the freshly turned dirt. Spreading open the sack, he reached in to reveal femurs, skull and jaw fragments, boots and a rusted green helmet.
"These are your American GIs," Song Hong Ik said at a burial mound near the top of a small hill.
Perhaps they are. But for more than a decade, no one has been trying to find out.
"Until They Are Home" is one of the most sacred vows of the U.S. military, yet Washington has long suspended efforts to look for 5,300 American GIs missing in North Korea whose remains are potentially recoverable. The countries' abysmal relations suggest that no restart is coming soon.
In the meantime, possible remains and recovery sites are being lost as North Korea works to improve its infrastructure with projects such as the Chongchon River No. 10 Hydroelectric Power Station. The bones Song revealed came from that project's construction site.
His village, the hamlet of Ryongyon-ri, is nestled among low rolling hills in the heart of a Korean War battleground about 150 kilometers (almost 100 miles) north of Pyongyang. The 90-minute drive from the capital runs through mostly flat land covered by rice paddies or fields of corn and potatoes. The scene is quietly rustic. Farmers use oxcarts to transport produce and villagers can be seen walking in the distance on narrow dirt roads.
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And will be a national hero when he gets out of prison and returns to China. I bet if he's got family back in China they will be well cared for and his stay in prison will be a white collar don't dare let the foreign national get hurt style situation.
All in all this guy will come out a winner and the US will look the fool.
North Korea conducted a ground ejection test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile last week, according to a U.S. website.
Quoting U.S. defense officials, the Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday reported that the test on March 16 "involved a 'pop-up' or 'ejection test' of the developmental SLBM from a canister ashore at the Sinpo shipyard… on North Korea's east coast" where it is being developed.
The test, the first since the UN unanimously passed powerful sanctions against the North on March 2, violates UN Security Council Resolution 2270 aimed at deterring the North from continuing nuclear and missile development.
The UNSC will, of course, be all over this...
The North also conducted a test of the missile from a submarine in waters near Sinpo on Dec. 21 last year, which the website reported on Jan. 5. The test failed.
The rocket is apparently an improved version of the Russian-made SS-N-6.
The North would need to miniaturize a nuclear warhead to 500-600 kg to mount it on a submarine-launched missile.
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With all the recent Nork submarine activity, it is time to seriously consider a baking soda embargo.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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A 12-year-old girl was arrested and booked into juvenile detention after she allegedly pinched a boy’s butt in school during what she described as a popular game at her Florida school.
Radar software being tested for the F-35 stealth fighter jet made by Lockheed Martin Corp is not stable enough, Pentagon officials said in a written statement at a U.S. House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday.
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After the heady excitement of seeing President Barack Obama shatter decades of US-Cuba hostility, Cubans woke up Wednesday wondering how much will really change on the communist island.
