[SOUTHAFRICATODAY.NET] Michelle Martens kept her new relationship with a man convicted of child endangerment a secret from friends and family for weeks -- as she helped plan her daughter’s 10th birthday party, sent the girl off daily to the school bus and held down her job at a local grocery store.
Now relatives and friends of the 35-year-old single mother are trying to figure out why they never knew about her involvement with the boyfriend and her invitation for his cousin who is a convicted felon to live in her apartment.
Court records show all three face charges in the death of Victoria Martens, who was expected to celebrate her 10th birthday the day her body was found last week after police say she was drugged, raped and killed in the apartment as her mother watched.
"Whatever demons she had we don’t know because she didn’t share them with us," said Laura Bobbs, who lived in Martens’ apartment complex for five years and now serves as a spokeswoman for Victoria’s relatives. "I should have been the one to see all this and I didn’t."
An officer responding to a report of a pre-dawn Aug. 24 disturbance at the apartment found Victoria’s remains in a bathtub, partially wrapped in a blanket that had been set on fire.
Bobbs, a local minister who lived until recently in an apartment below Martens, said she and the girl’s grandmother spoke to Martens almost daily. She recalled the mother was planning to order a cake for her daughter days before Victoria died.
The girl’s grandparents, who moved from New York to New Mexico to be closer to their grandchildren, were also in on the party planning, Bobbs said.
All are mystified over how Martens got involved with Fabian Gonzales and his cousin Jessica Kelley, Bobbs said. The three face charges of child abuse resulting in death, kidnapping and tampering with evidence and are placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! for lack of $1 million bail each.
At a news conference Monday held at Victoria’s favorite park, Bobbs thanked Albuquerque residents on behalf of the girl’s family for an outpouring of support and prayers.
The grandparents and other relatives did not speak but clutched each other, and some cried while wearing buttons showing a smiling Victoria adorned in purple, her favorite color.
Police said Martens and Gonzales met on a dating site online about a month before the killing, and that Martens allowed Kelley to move into her apartment after her release from prison about four days before the killing.
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Apologies, they did away with the death penalty several years ago. She'll get no justice cause the state abrogated its responsibility to provide justice in turn for ending other methods the citizenry often employed.
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I know I shouldn't be advocating for this, but you'll see no tears if a lifer inmate decided to "Settle Scores" while the guards were to far away...
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Meth mouth in mug shots
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Of course.
Someone put it nicely to me the other day,
"With meth heads, the only thing you can count on is them being where the meth is."
If you have never spent time around a meth head, they have a personality like a car dent - once you see it, you always see it.
Wonder if they got it from one of those super labs in north Mexico.
[NYDAILYNEWS] An accidental bump on the shoulder after a party at Cornell University may have led to the stabbing death of a promising college student from Brooklyn, his heartbroken sister said Monday.
Anthony Nazaire, a sophomore at neighboring Ithaca College, had just returned to school after spending the summer in Flatbush with his mother and older sister. The 19-year-old business major was stabbed several times during a bloody brawl early Sunday morning.
Nazaire's friend, identified by sources as Rahiem Williams, was also stabbed in the fight but survived.
Kiara Nazaire said police told the family they have one suspect in the senseless slaying. A knife was recovered from the scene, but it was not known if it was the murder weapon.
"(Anthony Nazaire) was with his friend, his friend bumped a girl by accident and he apologized. The both of them apologized - even my brother apologized and he didn't bump the girl," Kiara Nazaire, 24, told the Daily News.
Kiara Nazaire said the friend, Williams, is distraught and called her crying to apologize.
"It's not his fault," she said. "They didn't ask for it. I know my brother - my brother's not gonna argue with any girls."
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I could speculate on the ethnic background of the stabber (I wuz dissed!), but that would just be scoring cheap political points.
With a single shotgun blast, a 65-year-old woman in rural northern Virginia recently shot down a drone flying over her property.
The woman, Jennifer Youngman, has lived in The Plains, Virginia, since 1990. The Fauquier Times first reported the June 2016 incident late last week. It marks the third such shooting that Ars has reported on in the last 15 months--last year, similar drone shootings took place in Kentucky and California.
Youngman told Ars that she had just returned from church one Sunday morning and was cleaning her two shotguns--a .410 and a .20 gauge--on her porch. She had a clear view of the Blue Ridge Mountains and neighbor Robert Duvall’s property (yes, the same Robert Duvall from The Godfather). Youngman had seen two men set up a card table on what she described as a "turnaround place" on a country road adjacent to her house.
"I go on minding my business, working on my .410 shotgun and the next thing I know I hear ’bzzzzz,’" she said. "This thing is going down through the field, and they’re buzzing like you would scaring the cows."
Youngman explained that she grew up hunting and fishing in Virginia, and she was well-practiced at skeet and deer shooting.
"This drone disappeared over the trees and I was cleaning away, there must have been a five- or six-minute lapse, and I heard the ’bzzzzz,’" she said, noting that she specifically used 7.5 birdshot. "I loaded my shotgun and took the safety off, and this thing came flying over my trees. I don’t know if they lost command or if they didn’t have good command, but the wind had picked up. It came over my airspace, 25 or 30 feet above my trees, and hovered for a second. I blasted it to smithereens."
When the men began to walk towards her, she told them squarely: "The police are up here in The Plains and they are on their way and you need to leave."
The men complied. "They got in their fancy ostentatious car--I don’t know if it was a Range Rover or a Hummer--and left," she said. The Times said many locals believe the drone pilots may have been paparazzi or other celebrity spotters flying near Duvall's property.
Youngman said that she recycled the drone but managed to still be irritated by the debris left behind. "I’ve had two punctures in my lawn tractor," she said.
The Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office said it had no record of anyone formally complaining about this incident. When Ars asked if the office had heard of any other similar incidents in the region, Sgt. James Hartman replied: "It's happened around the country but not in this region to my knowledge."
A gray zone
For now, American law does not recognize the concept of aerial trespass. But as the consumer drone age has taken flight, legal scholars have increasingly wondered about this situation. The best case-law on the issue dates back to 1946, long before inexpensive consumer drones were technically feasible. That year, the Supreme Court ruled in a case known as United States v. Causby that a farmer in North Carolina could assert property rights up to 83 feet in the air.
In that case, American military aircraft were flying above his farm, disturbing his sleep and upsetting his chickens. As such, the court found he was owed compensation. However, the same decision also specifically mentioned a "minimum safe altitude of flight" at 500 feet--leaving the zone between 83 and 500 feet as a legal gray area. "The landowner owns at least as much of the space above the ground as he can occupy or use in connection with the land," the court concluded.
Last year, a pilot in Stanislaus County, California, filed a small claims lawsuit against a neighbor who shot down his drone and won. However, it is not clear whether the pilot managed to collect. Similarly, a case ensued in Kentucky after a man shot down a drone that he believed was flying above his property. The shooter in that case, William Merideth, was cleared of local charges, including wanton endangerment.
But earlier this year, the Kentucky drone's pilot, David Boggs, filed a lawsuit asking a federal court in Louisville to make a legal determination as to whether his drone’s flight constituted trespassing. Boggs asked the court to rule that there was no trespass and that he is therefore entitled to damages of $1,500 for his destroyed drone. The case is still pending.
Youngman said she believed in 2nd Amendment rights and also was irritated that people would try to disturb Duvall.
"The man is a national treasure and they should leave him the fuck alone," she said.
[TRIBUNE.PK] An Indonesian man who has emerged as the world’s oldest at an incredible 145 years has revealed he is ready to die. He's so old they had to radiocarbon date him.
Documents recognised by Indonesian officials show Mbah Gotho is 145 and was born on December 31, 1870. If his documentation is authentic, it would make him the oldest human on earth; a title currently held by by French centenarian Jeanne Calment, who was 122 when she died. But if the documents cannot be independently verified, Mr Gotho will not go down in the record books.
During an interview with a regional news network, he revealed that he wants to die. For the past three months he has needed to be bathed and spoon-fed, and is becoming increasingly frail. When asked the secret to a long life, he replied, "The recipe is just patience." Gotho said he began preparing for his death in 1992, even having a gravestone made, but 24 years later he is still alive. He has now outlived all ten of his siblings, his four wives and his children.
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I think there was a South Park episode along the same lines.
[DAILYCALLER] As Justice Department civil rights lawyers held a meeting to talk about overhauling the Baltimore police department, another group of Baltimore residents gathered to beg the police to fix the crime in their neighborhoods.
The meetings show a disconnect between those who are concerned about crime and those worried about police reform, reports the Washington Post. Neither group was aware the other one was meeting.
About 40 people, most of them older black women, gathered in a West Baltimore church basement to ask police to return order to their community.
A gas station owner whose parking lot had been taken over by loiterers begged for help; a 17-year old was also fatally shot there. Another man asked about the foot patrol officers that were promised to the community.
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One should not foul their nest. Baltimore, send your complaints to Obama and the disgraced "Fast-And-Furious" Holder. They started this fire.
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Unfortunately these folks are probably in the majority but are afraid of the more silent minority.
It was black preachers that convinced Reagan to increase punishment for Crack laws. Those same preachers disappeared when it turned out harsher punishments didn't detour junkies and folks were calling Reagan racist for the law.
W. tried to speak to these same groups. The stable core of the black community but they were silent when Katina hit and everyone was calling W a racist.
The black community is not a monolith and the stable ones are easily cowed by social pressure.
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What we need to do is rebuild Detroit as a welfare city and anyone who is on lifetime welfare and hates the police can move there, leaving the other communities alone. As if.
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What we need to do is rebuild Detroit as a welfare city and anyone who is on lifetime welfare and hates the police can move there, leaving the other communities alone.
The Kremlin uses both conventional media -- Sputnik, a news agency, and RT, a television outlet -- and covert channels, as in Sweden, that are almost always untraceable.
Russia exploits both approaches in a comprehensive assault, Wilhelm Unge, a spokesman for the Swedish Security Service, said this year when presenting the agency’s annual report. "We mean everything from internet trolls to propaganda and misinformation spread by media companies like RT and Sputnik," he said. Trolls? Those bad, bad Russians are using Trolls? Imagine that.
This is a long New York Times article. Much more at link.
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So the NYT just figured out the Russians are good at agitprop, eh? Must have slept through the last half of the 20th century.
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The NYT bent over for Stalin in the 1930's - Walter Duranty, anyone? The Russians have this shit down cold, and the NYT have always been willing dupes, then and now.
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So what? Is the Time jealous that someone else is using their approach to disseminating propaganda? At least the Russians don't engage in burying bad news about certain prominent Americans.
[Breitbart] The Huffington Post has locked out a contributor and deleted his articles from the site questioning the health of Hillary Clinton.
Blogger David Seaman wrote two separate articles for the site, entitled "Hillary's Health Is Superb, Aside From Seizures, Lesions, Adrenaline Pens," and "Donald Trump Challenges Hillary Clinton To Health Records Duel."
However, the articles were since pulled from the site, with Seaman claiming on his Twitter feed that HuffPo had failed to give him "reason nor notice."
[SIASAT] Former Pak ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani said he has finally received his passport after much delay as he was being forced to give up his Pak citizenship over his alleged anti-Pakistain views.
Haqqani has been living in the United States for more than a decade but retains his Pak citizenship and travels on a Pak passport.
He had applied for a new passport several months ago, after his old passport expired, but he received it only on August 25.
Haqqani said in a statement on Friday that the passport he received at the Pakistain Embassy in Washington on Aug 25 was dated June 9, showing that it was issued almost three months before the embassy gave it to him, reports the Express Tribune.
"The Interior Ministry, Islamabad, had also informed me that it was dispatched to Washington in June," he said.
The normal process of issuance of passport requires the embassy to inform the applicant once it receives the passport as after the introduction of the new computerised filing system, passports for overseas Paks are issued in Islamabad.
"I never received the call and whenever I asked, I was told that the passport had not been received. Someone probably wanted to force me to get a US passport, something I have avoided so far," he said.
Haqqani noted that after the Pak media reported that Pak authorities were reluctant to issue him a passport, the Interior Ministry released a statement saying they had not delayed the passport.
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[TRIBUNE.PK] In a scathing criticism of the Pak elite, the former director of United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Development Programme (UNDP) for Pakistain Marc-André Franche, said the only way a critical change could happen in the country was when the influential, the politicians and the wealthy, would sacrifice short term, individual and family interests for the benefit of the nation.
"You cannot have an elite that takes advantage of very cheap and uneducated labour when it comes to making money, and when it is time to party it is found in London, and when it’s time to buy things it is in Dubai, and when it’s time to buy property it invests in Dubai or Europe or New York. The elite needs to decide do they want a country or not," Franche said, according to the Business Recorder.
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Are you sure he's not offering 'a scathing criticism' of the BostWash elite?
PENTAGON: A sleek little model sits on the desk of Lt. Gen. Jon "Dog" Marine Commanders have such cool nicknames!
Davis, Marine deputy commandant for aviation. What is that, we asked? The next tiltrotor Bell Helicopter Textron hopes the Marine Corps will buy. But it's not the V-280 Valor, the new manned tiltrotor Bell plans to fly next year. It's an unmanned tiltrotor designed to give the Marines a drone that can do everything the Air Force's armed MQ-9 Reaper does - and more. Especially taking off and landing from ships or from land where there's no runway.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[SOUTHAFRICATODAY.NET] Michelle Martens kept her new relationship with a man convicted of child endangerment a secret from friends and family for weeks -- as she helped plan her daughter’s 10th birthday party, sent the girl off daily to the school bus and held down her job at a local grocery store.
With a single shotgun blast, a 65-year-old woman in rural northern Virginia recently shot down a drone flying over her property.
[DAILYCALLER] As Justice Department civil rights lawyers held a meeting to talk about overhauling the Baltimore police department, another group of Baltimore residents gathered to beg the police to fix the crime in their neighborhoods.
