[WAPO] CHICAGO -- When street-gang thieves slipped with ease into a Norfolk Southern rail yard on Chicago’s South Side and ripped locks off one train, they likely expected to see merchandise like toys or tennis shoes. What they beheld instead was a gangster’s jackpot: box after box of brand new guns.
The guns had been en route from New Hampshire weapon maker Sturm, Ruger & Co. to Spokane, Washington. Instead, the .45-caliber Ruger revolvers and other firearms spread quickly into surrounding high-crime neighborhoods. Along with two other major gun thefts within three years, the robbery helped fuel a wave of violence on Chicago’s streets.
The 2015 heist of the 111 guns, as well as one in 2014 and another last September from the same 63rd Street Rail Yard highlight a tragic confluence. Chicago’s biggest rail yards are on the gang- and homicide-plagued South and West sides where most of the city’s 762 killings happened last year.
Chicago’s leaders regularly blame lax gun laws in Illinois and nearby states that enable a flow of illegal weapons to the city’s gangs and criminals. But community leaders and security experts say no one seems to be taking responsibility for train-yard gun thefts.
Only 16 of the stolen Rugers have been recovered since the 2015 break-in, according to hundreds of recent court records reviewed by The Associated Press. One was used in a Jan. 22, 2016, shooting. Police woke an attempted-murder suspect and found one by his bed. Another was in a dealer’s home alongside 429 bags of heroin. Police recovered another during a traffic stop; the driver said his friend had just been shot 10 times and he had to protect himself. "It’s a war going on over here," he told police.
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As I understand it, part of Obama's last-minute regulation barrage was one that broadened which organizations could see the results of the FISA taps. This enabled a whole army of leakers which makes it harder to track down the source.
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An airport baggage handler formerly employed at Austin-Bergstrom International Airpor has been arrested after authorities said he stole handguns from checked luggage to trade for marijuana.
According to a press release issued Wednesday by the U.S Attorney’s Office, Western District of Texas, 25-year old baggage handler, Ja’Quan Johnson of Austin, Texas surrendered to FBI agents
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[NYPOST] Two undocumented Democrat members of the ruthless MS-13 gang were locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in Texas this week and charged with killing a woman as part of a Satanic ritual, according to reports.
The El Salvadoran suspects, Diego Rivera and Miguel Alvarez-Flores, allegedly killed a woman they were holding hostage in an apartment when she spoke out against the group’s devil worship, ABC 13 reported.
After the woman, known only as "Genesis," made the comments, Alvarez-Flores -- the group’s ringleader -- attempted to give a lit cigarette to a Satanic statue as an offering.
But he said Satan wasn’t having the offering, telling his fellow gangbangers that "the Beast" wanted a soul instead, the station reported.
He and Rivera then brought Genesis to the side of a road, where Alvarez-Flores, whose nickname is "Diabolical," allegedly handed his accomplice a gun, officials said.
Rivera shot Genesis once in the head on the side of the road before Alvarez-Flores blasted her in the chest, the station reported.
Cops found the body Feb. 16 but are still struggling to positively identify her.
Another 14-year-old girl claimed she bravely ran away from school late last month and met the duo at an apartment in southwest Houston, according to court documents cited by ABC 13.
She stayed there for four days and claimed another man known as "Flaco" sexually assaulted her there, according to the station.
She was then taken to the apartment where Genesis was being held, and remained there against her will for 14 days. Her captors -- six members of the gang -- force-fed her drugs and alcohol, and at one point, Alvarez-Flores tattooed an image of the Grim Reaper from her knee down to her foot, the station reported.
Alvarez-Flores and Rivera -- who are in the country illegally, according to KHOU -- were arrested during a SWAT raid Monday.
They were taken to the Harris County Jail, where they are being held on $150,000 bond, according to ABC 13.
An immigration hold on both suspects will keep them from getting out of jail, according to KHOU.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the enormous newt was trying to decide if Gloria was edible... 10 members of the same gang -- also illegal immigrants colonists -- were indicted Thursday in a wave of Long Island violence that included the slaughter of two teenage girls.
Best friends Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16, were beaten with baseball bats and hacked with a machete during an attack that began when gang members spotted them walking together in Brentwood.
The illegal immigrants colonists indicted in the case are all from El Salvador or Honduras, and are among 13 people charged with crimes including racketeering and multiple counts of conspiracy to murder.
One of them was deported to El Salvador back in 2010 and sneaked back into the US by July 14, 2014, when he allegedly murdered Jose Lainez-Murcia, with whom he had worked at a landscaping company in Kings Park.
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Illegal Aliens - doing the work ritual killings Americans won't do
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[Dhaka Tribune] Police have nabbed Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a madrasa superintendent from Charbaria of Barisal for attempting to rape his daughter’s classmate, a 10-year-old girl.
The detainee is Maulana Md Masum Billah, superintendent of Sapania Dakhil Madrasa. He hails from Kalapara of Patuakhali district, but used to live on the madrasa premises with his family.
He was arrested from his house Friday morning soon after the girl’s father filed a complaint with Kaunia police.
Police said the girl went to meet her classmate, who is a daughter of the accused, on Thursday afternoon. But no one except the accused was present in the house.
"Maulana Masum tried to rape her at that time," Barisal Kaunia police’s Sub-Inspector Pabitra Kumar Mandal told the Dhaka Tribune quoting family members.
"She escaped somehow, and later shared the matter with her parents at night," the official said.
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"She was a sultry minx, seducing me. A little old for my tastes, but I was hypnotized"
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"She was 10"
Mo took his bride when she was 9.
I worked on a project where there was a palestinian
man(?) who wanted to hurry home to meet his new wife of 12 yrs old who he married by proxy.
Former militant commander and Lugansk political deputy Vitaly Kiselev was killed in Lugansk police custody Thursday, according to a Russian language news account.
The korrespondent.net news account said that Kiselev was a prime suspect in the bombing attack on Lugansk president Igor Plotnitskiy in August, 2016.
Quoting a BBC report, Lugansk prosecutors conducted an interrogation that the source said was "overdone," which led to Vitaly Kiselev's death.
Despite early denials that the attack was by Ukrainian operatives, Kiselev's death represents a long line of deaths of Lugansk separatist commanders beginning in January of 2015. At that time, a deputy commander of a separatist military unit, Aleksandr Bednov and six others were killed in an attack by police in Georgievka, which is a suburb south of Lugansk city. Reports at the time said police used a thermobaric rocket to hit the vehicle Bednov was traveling in. At the time of the attack Bednov was chief of staff of the Lugansk 4th Separate Rifle Brigade. He was said to be under suspicion for murder, rape and robbery.
Vitaly Kiselev was said to be a communist, and was one of several commanders, including most of the Cossack military formation commanders said to be Stalinists. Those commanders expected the political changes after the takeover by Russian speaking militants would include communization of agriculture. Nearly every one of those commanders died in violent attacks. Several other minor Cossack formation commanders also died in Donetsk as well. Separatists in both Lugansk and Donetsk say that those deaths can be traced to Plotnitskiy.
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Multiple compound self-sustained fractures about the head and shoulders. Possibly torso soft tissue injuries. Phalanges removal from stressful nail biting.
[SCMP] Malaysia issued an arrest warrant for a North Korean airline employee on Friday over the liquidation of the half-brother of Pyongyang’s leader, after frustrated police had to release their only other suspect from the isolated nation.
Ri Jong-chol is among eight North Koreans suspected of involvement in the dramatic killing of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the reclusive nation’s leader, who was poisoned with a banned nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Malaysia’s attorney general has announced there was insufficient evidence to charge 47-year-old Ri.
"The deportation will take place tonight. He will be escorted by two North Korean officials to Beijing and from Beijing to Pyongyang," deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi told news hounds.
"The police probe showed he was not working as stated in his documents but was involved in illicit activities detrimental to our security."
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The only North Korean enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! over the liquidation of Kim Jong-Nam was released Friday as diplomatic wrangling between Pyongyang and Kuala Lumpur intensified over the murder.
47-year-old Ri Jong-Chol was freed a day after attorney general Mohammed Apandi Ali announced there was insufficient evidence to charge him and that he would be deported on Friday.
The vehicle carrying Ri, who wore a bullet proof vest, was escorted by a six police-car convoy and cycle of violence outriders. Roads were sealed off as the motorcade left the cop shoppe where he has been held.
A senior police official who asked not to be named told AFP that Ri had been handed over to immigration authorities in the administrative capital of Putrajaya.
"I do not know when he will be deported as they will need to sort out the travel documents," he said.
Ri’s release came two days after two women -- one Vietnamese and one Indonesian -- were charged with murdering the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un with a deadly nerve agent.
Seven other North Koreans are wanted in connection with the killing, including a diplomat and an airline employee who are believed to be in Malaysia.
Four others are thought to have fled to Pyongyang on the day of the murder.
Ri was arrested days after Kim suffered an agonizing death when he was attacked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport as he waited to board a flight to Macau.
CCTV footage shows two women approaching the heavyset 45-year-old and apparently smearing his face with a cloth.
Police say he suffered a seizure and died less than 20 minutes later, without reaching hospital.
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[USA Today] Home Depot is the latest retailer to announce that it's hiring, saying that it's aiming to fill more than 80,000 jobs in time for the spring time rush.
The home improvement retailer will be bringing on a range of employees, from cashiers to freight handlers to customer service representatives. To hasten the hiring, It’s even shrunk the application, and is enabling potential workers to apply by clicking on a smartphone or tablet.
"We want everyone to have an easy and convenient experience with The Home Depot, whether they're shopping with us or applying for a position," Tim Crow, the retailer’s executive vice president, human resources, said in a statement.
The jobs will consist of permanent, part-time positions, as well as seasonal jobs. There's also a chance that some of those hired just for spring could land a long-term position, with Home Depot saying that typically half of its seasonal hires stay on permanently.
[Free Beacon] President Donald Trump tapped respected scholar and leading Vladimir Putin critic Fiona Hill to serve as the top Russia adviser on the National Security Council, signaling a shift in attitude toward Moscow.
Hill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who earlier served at the National Intelligence Council, was offered the position of White House senior director for Europe and Russia prior to the ousting of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, an administration official told Foreign Policy on Thursday.
It is not yet clear whether Hill has accepted the post. Her appointment is likely to garner bipartisan support from lawmakers who have expressed concerns about President Donald Trump's expressed desire to forge closer ties with Moscow at the expense of NATO allies.
Michael McFaul, the U.S. ambassador to Russia under the former Obama administration, told Bloomberg that Hill's selection marked a "great hire" given her prestige as a "first-class scholar" on Moscow.
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[SCMP] Cambodia’s opposition party chose its new leader on Thursday, less than a month after its former leader Sam Rainsy resigned.
Kem Sokha, former vice president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, was elected at the party congress to the top post. Three vice presidents were also chosen, including female politician Mu Sochua.
The election of the four came after Sam Rainsy, 67, announced his resignation on February 11 from La Belle France, where he has been in self-exile since November 2015. He faces a number of defamation and disinformation court cases in Phnom Penh filed against him by politicians from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, and faces arrest if he returns to Cambodia.
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[SFGATE] It is normal for the USCIS to suspend expedited processing for a few weeks each year so it can deal with the high volume of applications. But Martin Lawler, a Bay Area immigration attorney, said this is the most widespread and longest suspension he’s seen.
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About time!!!
End this Indentured Servitude replacement. If you really need foreign workers make real visas like green cards easier to get. A greencard holder is on job parity with a citizen. Taxes, benefits etc.
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Sadly, it's not just a matter of evil capitalists playing the least they can, Darth. Western educational system --- with USA's leading the way, has been systematically sabotaged in the name of various Social Justice causes for the last half-century. Programmers and engineers, from countries where less progressive ways still hold sway, are really better.
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While I generally agree with your sentiment g(r)om. I have to say that Darth is more correct here.
How many times have we seen that Disney model of laying off all the 'murricans and replacing them with H1Bs? In my IT Consulting days I saw many a client that had H1Bs in preference due to the money.
One example was Kodak where they had gotten rid of about 2 dozen IT folks and brought in more H1Bs who were dormitoried by there agent 6 to an apartment. Once a year they went home to India for a couple of weeks.
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grom, methinks you are exaggerating. What I would say is a lot of American kids are discouraged from computer science majors because of H1Bs and outsourcing. Also, I've seen Indian programmers in action but I've seen no evidence that they're any better than Americans. Quite the contrary, actually. They may be more willing to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week for less money than American kids but that doesn't mean they're any better.
I would also say that if the likes of Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft think Indian IT workers are better than Americans they should move to India and pay appropriate tariffs when they try to sell their bloatware in this country. I won't miss them.
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grom, methinks you are exaggerating
But not by much. And I've seen it twice: once in USA in the 90es, and then in Israel 20 years later.
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There are a lot of problems with American schools and Ritalin is certainly one of them. In my day teachers could always arrange for disruptive young lads to have a meeting with the Board of Education. With his backsides suitably warmed the trouble maker was almost always ready to return to class with an improved attitude. I may have been subject to such discipline a time or two myself and I made a fairly decent career as a programmer. Dunno how I would have done on ritalin.
But I would still assert that H1Bs and outsourcing discourage a lot of prospective computer science majors in this country. I would also assert that requiring a four year college degree on top of a high school education before a student can get a job as a programmer is wasting a helluva lot of time and money. I think a minimum of two years could be cut from that time and we'd probably get better programmers to boot.
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We made it too easy to write software.
It is still VERY tough to build systems, even without Out-of-Culture business analysts, coders and mail order MBAs.
The lower cost headcount allows lower bids which do not include the 60% rework of 'phase II'. The H1b ("Gates initiative") establishes a lower entrypoint but lower total cost savings are unlikely.
[DefenseOne] How can the U.S. Air Force finally end its decade-plus quest to replace the 1960s-era Huey helicopters that guard its midwestern ICBM fields? Sikorsky has a new pitch: buy more of the Black Hawk variant that supports Area 51.
Formally designated the HH-60U, the helicopter already flies in the Air Force’s "Ghost Squadron," a unit that supports missions at the Nevada Test and Training Range and the top-secret Air Force testing base near Groom Lake known as Area 51.
"For us, obviously, that makes it a low-risk approach; the fact that they have three of these and the fact that we’ve already integrated these various components into the aircraft," Sam Mehta, president of Sikorsky defense system and services, said in an interview.
Boeing, Leonardo, Bell, and Airbus are among the other companies likely to compete for a contract to build 84 helicopters. In addition to guarding missile fields, some of the new helicopters would be staged in Washington to evacuate politicians and key government officials if catastrophe struck.
The Air Force has been trying to replace the UH-1 Huey for more than a decade. In 2011, it actually moved to buy Black Hawks for the nuclear-security mission, but eventually shelved that plan in favor of competition. The latest delay came last month, when service officials said they would revise a request for proposals that some companies said would have kept them from bidding.
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The Air Force has been trying to replace the UH-1 Huey for more than a decade.
...I think I see your problem right there.
You want to call the F-35 program a disgrace? This is worse by several orders of magnitude, because there is no - REPEAT, NO reason that the USAF can't buy off-the-line UH-60s and put their own comm gear in. There is nothing about the mission or its requirements that require a serious modification to the standard Blackhawk...except for the fact that they want one.
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This sounds like a parallel to the OH-58 Kiowa program in the Army. They've been trying to replace them for almost 20 years now, and keep not making any progress.
The Kiowa Warrior is the 'light accompany' and target finder for the Apache, and is supposed to be easy fly and fix. It's a freakin' Bell Jet Ranger. You know, news helicopter?
When I talked to procurement guy about the replacement requirements, his answer was "just like the Jet Ranger. Only not one."
I note that the upfix versions have now reach the -D model.
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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.
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[Free Beacon] President Donald Trump tapped respected scholar and leading Vladimir Putin critic Fiona Hill to serve as the top Russia adviser on the National Security Council, signaling a shift in attitude toward Moscow.
