[Houston Chron] A federal judge this week approved an order revoking the naturalized citizenship of a Harris County man convicted of a sex offense more than 20 years earlier, one of a growing number of immigrants stripped of citizenship in a push that began in the final years of the Obama administration.
Jose Arizmendi, a native of Mexico, failed to disclose his 1996 conviction when he applied for citizenship, according to federal prosecutors.
"The Justice Department is committed to preserving the integrity of our nation's immigration system," Acting Assistant Attorney General Chad A. Readler said in a statement.
"We will aggressively pursue denaturalization in cases where individuals lie on their naturalization applications, especially in a circumstance like this one, which involved a child sex abuser. Civil denaturalization cases are an important law enforcement tool for protecting the public, including our children."
The 54-year-old Arizmendi pleaded guilty in Harris County to aggravated sexual assault of a child in April 1996, accepting 10 years of probation as part of a deferred adjudication agreement.
He applied to become a citizen later that month, and during his October 1996 immigration interview, he said "no" when asked if he'd ever been arrested or convicted of a crime more serious than a traffic violation.
[MYSANANTONIO] Charles Ransier had an abnormal history with vegetables, according to authorities.
A Comal County jury sentenced the 56-year-old New Braunfels man to life in prison Wednesday on charges of drug possession and tampering with evidence after a Texas state trooper found him sitting in his truck with melted candle wax on his bare chest and a collection of meth-filled syringes, male enhancement pills, lube, children's clothing and a cooler of frozen cucumbers with him.
When the trooper found him on March 23, 2015, along Interstate 35, Ransier had a syringe in his hand and was trying to break the end off of it, according to the Comal County District Attorney's Office.
Texas man caught covered in wax with veggies used for sex, sentenced to life in prison
Ransier refused to comply with the trooper's command to stop, and a struggle ensued, a video of which was presented as evidence during Ransier's trial. The trooper eventually placed Ransier in handcuffs and recovered the broken syringe, which tested positive for methamphetamine.
But "the rest of the story" was also presented to the jury during Ransier's trial.
After Ransier was detained, troopers searched his pickup truck and found a mishmash of startling items: Barbie dolls, candy, children's clothing, balloons, baby oil, Viagra, Extenze male enhancement pills, duct tape, rope and a cooler with frozen cucumbers inside.
Further investigation revealed it was not the first time Ransier had been caught less than fully clothed with vegetables in tow.
On Nov. 10, 2012, a Comal County deputy found him naked inside his truck. Ransier admitted to the deputy he had been engaged in a "deviant sex act involving a squash," according to the district attorney's office.
On March 9, 2014, a "concerned citizen" notified a state trooper of a suspicious pickup truck at the nearby baseball fields. The trooper found Ransier engaging in a deviant sex act with a vegetable "wearing nothing but women's stockings."
State prosecutors disclosed such incidents to the jury, as well as other evidence from court records of Ransier's nine previous felony convictions. One such conviction involved the death of a reserve sergeant with the Arizona State Troopers and father of twins. Ransier was found to be high on meth when he crashed into the trooper and killed him.
The jury took less than an hour to sentence Ransier to life in prison on the charge of tampering with evidence connected to the March 23, 2015, incident. He was also sentenced to 20 years in prison on the meth possession charge and fined $10,000.
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Was he out of his gourd?
(I know. Corner.)
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He's going to jail. He'll have to switch to fruits.
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sitting in his truck with melted candle wax on his bare chest and a collection of meth-filled syringes, male enhancement pills, lube, children's clothing and a cooler of frozen cucumbers with him.
AKA: "Friday night"
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Something isn't right here. Isn't cucumber a fruit?
[FOX8LIVE] The third and fourth suspects in a violent attack on two tourists in the French Quarter are in jug. As seen on CCTV.
Rashaad Piper, 20, was booked into the Orleans Parish Jail around 4 a.m. Wednesday. Nicholas Pogozelski, 18, was also taken into custody shortly after 6 a.m. Wednesday and also booked on a charge of second-degree robbery. Piper is charged with second-degree robbery in connection with a violent Saturday night attack on two tourists in the 200 block of Bienville Street. Smile, boyz. You were on Candid Camera!
Pogozelski's mother spoke to the media for the first time Wednesday. She said her son was a smart boy who left home late last month after he began stealing. She said he knows better. She asked that we not show her face or use her name. Apparently Nicky's not as brilliant as Mom thinks.
"He needs to be held accountable for what he's done," she said. "I'm not going to condone violence, but I will keep up what's going on with him just to make sure his legal rights are violated and that he's not gonna get messed over I will make sure of that, but I'm not going to condone violence, and he won't get any bail money from me. I'm not going to support him, I'm just not gonna do it." The tone of voice suggests Mom mighta gotten him out of a few scrapes before.
The first two suspects to be tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! by the NOPD were 21-year-old DeJuan Paul, who police say was the main aggressor and 18-year-old Joshua Simmons. "Here, Josh! Hand me ma club!"
"Which one, DeJuan?"
"The one with the spike stickin' out!"
"We told you all along we knew their names, we knew who they were, and last night Joshua Simmons was arrested with the help of a citizen who alerted us to his location," said New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Michael Harrison. "Hello? Is this the cops? Look, this is Mrs. Simmons..."
Paul and Simmons both face a charge of second-degree robbery, but prosecutors say that could be upgraded to homicide. It's a homicide if there's a corpse involved.
"I think that's a starting point for the D.A.'s office. I think they're also going to be charged with possibly attempted murder and possibly first-degree murder, unfortunately, if this gentleman doesn't pull through so there's just so many ways the D.A. can go with this charge. That that's the starting point, but it won't be the ending point," said Fox 8 legal analyst, Joe Raspanti. Depends on whether the poor guy pegs out.
Dejuan Paul, 21, and 18-year-old Joshua Simmons, both former residents of reform schooljuvie Covenant House, are already in jug. They sat side-by-side in magistrate court as a judge ordered them held without bond until another hearing on Friday, a move supported by Harrison. "DeJuan! This is really different from juvie!"
Prosecutors argued that tourist Tim Byrne, who was hit in the back of the head by attackers Saturday night, was in extremely critical condition, but the chief said there has been some physical improvement. "He ain't dead yet."
"He has somewhat improved, off the ventilator and breathing on his own, but he can't fully engage as we need. He's improved but still critical," said Harrison. "'Can't engage?'"
"Doesn't know where he is, who he is, what he is."
Harrison did not have an update on the victim's condition during a Wednesday morning presser. "He's there, but he ain't there, y'know?"
Paul turned himself in after visiting a pastor at Mount Kingdom Missionary Baptist Church Monday night. When he was arrested, he had two bags of a powdery white substance in his pocket and he also faces drug charges. Paul had an outstanding warrant for an out-of-state crime. "What this stuff, DeJuan?"
"Tooth powder."
"Tastes like heroin!"
"Heroin-flavored tooth powder!"
In a statement, Covenant House Director Jim Kelly said: "Covenant House cares for runaways and homeless youth-- many of whom are troubled and suffer from mental illness. We are deeply saddened by the incident and are praying for the victims and their families."
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Apparently Nicky's not as brilliant as Mom thinks.
Whaddaya expect from a polack?
From the Advocate (in case anyone else is wondering about that moniker):
A relative who asked not to be identified said Pogozelski was raised in Florida by adoptive parents, had been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder at an early age and had acted violently toward family members on numerous occasions.
That person said Pogozelski's biological mother is from New Orleans and he recently tried unsuccessfully to join the U.S. Army, something the Army said it could not comment on.
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People who go party in NawLins don't generally understand that the third word is only about half a block away.
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I don't understand it. Mitch Landrieu assured me that this kind of thing would stop happening if we took down the Confederate statues.
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People who go party in NawLins don't generally understand that the third word is only about half a block away
That part of Bienville borders a couple large parking lots used primarily by tourists (read - 'easy target areas for picking up quick funding and making a hasty getaway').
The 'victims' were probably drunk and therefor forgot to heed your wisdom, Ed.
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[RT] A forest fire has erupted in the Chernobyl exclusion zone forests during tree cutting works, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. While a helicopter and two planes were dispatched to the site, the fire is still ongoing.
“At 12:35pm [local time] during technological tree cutting works in the exclusion and obligatory evacuation zone at the territory of Lubyanskoye Forestry, tree residue and the forest bed have caught fire. The fire spread out to an area of some 20 hectares,” the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said in a statement.
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Sounds like a job for Smokeski the giant mutant bear/ firefighter/ gypsy dancer.
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Sadly, absolutely nobody cares but their significant others, for those among them who have such things.
[MarketWatch] After a pair of letters sent to Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joseph Kahn by Times reporters and copy editors, the New York Times editorial staff walk[ed] out of the newsroom on Thursday as a demonstration of solidarity as management threatens jobs. Good idea. Somebody sez you might get fired, walk out. That'll secure yer cubby hole.
In the copy editors' letter to Baquet and Kahn, they say they feel betrayed and disrespected in the newsroom, and ask that management reconsider staffing cuts that are expected as the paper plans to restructure.
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The "walkout" lasted 20 minutes. A headline at rightwing news site Breitbart.com is calling it a "coffee break".
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And while they were standing around at Starbuck's, the company went bankrupt.
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They are not a fake news company. They are not a news company. After they released their editing staff it made the shift complete. They are now a marketing and propaganda company.
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He did well, however, opening the door to a stranger, especially after a previous robbery could have been a dangerous or fatal event. Always something to learn from these incidents. It would have been good if he had some way to see the people on the other side of the door, without opening it, or standing behind the door in the "Fatal Funnel."
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Cancer patients often have opioids
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standing behind the door in the "Fatal Funnel."
Cancer patients often don't care.
Murdered in his home pays off more than dying in the hospital.
[DAWN] Nearly 80 police officers were injured in two days of clashes with protesters in Morocco’s restive Rif region, an official said on Wednesday, although the number of demonstrators hurt was unknown.
The Rif region has been rocked by unrest since a fishmonger was crushed to death in a rubbish truck in October as he tried to retrieve swordfish confiscated for being caught out of season.
Around 50 members of the security forces were hurt on Monday in the northern city of Al Hoceima, most of them struck by stones, a high-ranking interior ministry official said. On Tuesday, 29 police officers were injured during fresh clashes in the neighbouring town of Imzouren, the same source said, adding that they were all later released from hospital.
The Rif region has been rocked by unrest since a fishmonger was crushed to death in a rubbish truck in October as he tried to retrieve swordfish confiscated for being caught out of season.
In the eight months since then, demands for justice and anger over the region’s perceived marginalisation snowballed into a grass-roots movement centred on Al Hoceima.
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[AFRICANEWS] Chukwudubem Onwuamadike popularly known as Evans, a notorious kidnapper in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, has dragged the country’s police chief and three government agencies to court over his continued detention without charge.
In court documents filed on June 28, 2017; at the Federal High Court in Lagos, Evans said he had been held since his arrest for close to three weeks and detained without a court order. He also accused the security services of subjecting him to a media trial.
Due to his detention, the suit was deposed to by one Stephen Onwuamadike, a businessman and farmer ‐ who happens to be Evans’ father. ’’The applicant has a constitutional right to be arraigned and charged before a court of competent jurisdiction for any offence or crime allegedly committed by the applicant,’’ it read in parts.
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Kill him. The suits go away
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[AFRICANEWS] Copper and cobalt alone account for nearly eighty percent of the democratic republic of Congo’s revenue. With the slump in global mineral prices and a stagnant economic growth, the government has directed all mining operators to repatriate forty percent of their gross revenue.
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Why not auction the extraction rights based on how much of the product they dig up?
[AFRICANEWS] Unknown attackers killed a police officer during a raid on a jail in 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... ’s capital Kinshasa on Thursday, police and diplomatic sources told Rooters.
The raid took place just hours after the government said it had cancelled a major independence day military parade for security reasons.
It was not clear how the officer died, but gunfire was heard at the jail in the Matonge neighbourhood and dozens of heavily-armed police and soldiers were deployed to the area. Security was also reinforced around the state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
building several kilometres away.
Sources were unable to say if any prisoners escaped. Government and local officials were not immediately available for comment.
"There was gunfire. I saw a woman maimed in her leg by a bullet," said one witness who asked not to be named.
Thousands of inmates have beat feet from jails this year in Congo, including about 4,000 from the capital Kinshasa’s main high-security prison last month, stoking fears that the security situation is deteriorating amid a growing political crisis.
President Joseph Kabila, in power since 2001, refused to step down ...Hell no! The money's too good!... at the end of his mandate in December, raising fears of a return to the civil wars of the turn of the century that killed millions.
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[Al Jazeera] Authorities launch drive against military police accused of selling arms and being part of drug trafficking.
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More importantly both municipal and military police enrich themselves on bribes in exchange from favela gang members in exchange for non arrest.
The military and municipal police work side by side but they are not always cooperative with each other. The military does thrive on a certain degree of discipline. I saw a Military Sargent standing over a private who was pulling grass from cracks in a sidewalk in a major Brazilian city as some sort of public humiliation punishment.
[Al Jazeera] A Russian jury has found five men guilty of organising and carrying out the contract killing of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov two years ago, after a trial his allies say failed to unmask the masterminds.
Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and fierce Kremlin critic, was gunned down in central Moscow as he walked home with his girlfriend late in the evening of February 27, 2015.
The murder just steps from the Kremlin in the Russian capital was the most high-profile political killing in the capital since President Vladimir Putin rose to power some 17 years ago.
The 12-person jury ruled after the third day of deliberations that defendants Zaur Dadayev, Shadid and Anzor Gubashev, Temirlan Eskerkhanov and Khamzat Bakhayev - all ethnic Chechens from Russia's volatile North Caucasus - carried out the hit as part of an organised gang.
Murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov remembered at rally
Dadayev, a former officer in an interior ministry battalion in Chechnya, was found guilty of firing the four fatal shots.
The Gubashev brothers, Eskerkhanov and Bakhayev were found guilty of helping to organise and carry out the killing.
The jury's decision was reached by majority vote after they first failed to come to unanimous decisions on the long list of charges against the defendants at the end of ten months of hearings.
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[Reuters] The United States plans to sell Taiwan $1.42 billion in arms, the first such sale under the administration of Donald Trump and a move sure to anger China, whose help the president has been seeking to rein in North Korea.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters the administration had told Congress of the seven proposed sales on Thursday.
"It's now valued about $1.42 billion," she said.
The State Department said the package included technical support for early warning radar, high speed anti-radiation missiles, torpedoes and missile components.
Nauert said the sales showed U.S. "support for Taiwan's ability to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability," but there was no change to the United States' long-standing "one China" policy, which recognizes Beijing and not Taipei.
The United States is the sole arms supplier to Taiwan, which China deems its own and has never renounced the use of force to bring the self-ruled island under its control.
Beijing has given Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen the cold shoulder since she took power last year because she leads an independence-leaning ruling party and refuses to recognize the "one China" policy.
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China better consider not trying to seize control of the area around their stupid little artificial island. There are more weapons where those came from.
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Every single time I read about someone doing something outrageous and/or stupid, the first thought that goes through my mind is -- this person can vote.
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Thanks for being on top of this for us, DarthVader.
Fascinating, the things people say in private. Though I think those who loathe President Trump will agree with everything the gentleman said, while the Deplorables will find it is as they expected. Where minds will change is objection to harping on the subject for ratings, and what they bring out about deceptive editing from that 90 minutes of raw tape.
And it swings back to illegal voting, about which Project Veritas released a number of videos back in 2015 and 2016 -- just as President Trump's commission is gearing up to examine the evidence, This is going to be fun.
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The Dems and their media wanted a compliant little lap dog that wasn't too yappy. The voters wanted a junk yard dog who would speak up and fight for them. That is why Trump got elected.
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Gotta' hit the link. Sorry
I didn't see a classification on it.
In 1963 offices relied on file clerks and stenographers, a different world entirely. Still, after 54 years, the internal office guidance does look quaint.
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.
[Houston Chron] A federal judge this week approved an order revoking the naturalized citizenship of a Harris County man convicted of a sex offense more than 20 years earlier, one of a growing number of immigrants stripped of citizenship in a push that began in the final years of the Obama administration.
[MYSANANTONIO] Charles Ransier had an abnormal history with vegetables, according to authorities.
[RT] A forest fire has erupted in the 
