TARRANT, Alabama -- A Tarrant man who drew attention to himself by posting an implied threat to police on Facebook is now under arrest for possession of child pornography, authorities said today.
Montigo Arrington, 34, last week posted the following status update on his Facebook page: "Has any1 else eva thought bout strappin a bomb on n walk n a police department n blowin da (expletive) up."
An anonymous source alerted deputies with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office Street Crimes Unit, who learned that Arrington was on probation for manufacturing methamphetamine, said Chief Deputy Randy Christian.
The deputies told Arrington's probation officer, who went to his home on Waverly Street to conduct a home visit. During that visit, Christian said, the officer discovered pornographic images of children store on his computer.
He was arrested on charges of possession of child pornography and probation violation. He is in the county jail with bond set at $20,000.
The FBI charged a man on Thursday for allegedly threatening House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). The FBI said that Glendon Swift was charged for leaving threatening messages on Cantor's work voicemail in Richmond, Va. According to the FBI, Swift threatened to assault or murder a member of Cantor's family.
"Threatening to harm the family of a public official is a very serious charge, and we are grateful to the FBI and their law enforcement partners for their quick action in this case," U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Neil H. MacBride said in a statement.
The profanity-laced messages, according to the FBI, included threats of rape and murder on Cantor's immediate family.
Swift was linked to the phone number from which the calls were made. He faces up to 10 years in prison if he's found guilty.
Wonder if he was recently sleeping in a tent in Zuccotti Park...
Asked by The Hill about the threat, Cantor declined to comment. "I'm really not going to comment on that. Its up to the law enforcement. I just want to thank the law enforcement for all they do everyday," he said.
Somewhat OT for the Burg, but as it is an analysis by a long time regular here, I'm sure Fred will indulge me. And I think some of you will find it interesting.
[Dawn] LAHORE: Dengue fever claimed another three lives in the city on Wednesday raising the corpse count to 321.
A source claimed a senior lady doctor also died of dengue fever at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
Fatima Jinnah Medical College/Ganga Ram Hospital Principal Prof Rakhshanda Rehman, however, denied the claim, saying the cause of her (lady doctor) death was some other health problem.
A health department report issued on Wednesday said some 154 new confirmed dengue cases were reported in Punjab during the last 24 hours. Of them, 86 patients were from Lahore.
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Businesses in Chechnya have been targeted for displaying advertisements of bareheaded women. A spokesman for President Ramzan Kadyrov denies any government ban on such advertisements.
Chechen businesses that display advertisements featuring bareheaded women have been subject to attack and ordered to remove any images of women not wearing a headscarf. Kadyrov's spokesman has denied any government orders to target businesses in this manner. However an anonymous source in the regional government was reported by Alarabyia to have stated that the attacks actually were ordered by the local government.
Islamic law is increasingly being forced on the women of Chechnya. Four years ago, Kadyrov introduced a law stating women must cover their hair before entering public buildings. There are reports of armed men threatening women if they don't cover up.
A Chechen who participated in paint ball attacks against women who failed to cover their hair defended his actions by saying, "We are trying to warn women of their possible sins before God. We do this through force, fighting and battles."
The latest attacks have targeted businesses including hair salons. The men who have forced advertisements to be removed or covered have not gone as far as demanding the salon's customers cover their hair while in the salons.
[Dawn] Demanding that the prime minister resign, the main Greek opposition leader led his party in a dramatic walkout Thursday during a parliamentary debate about the viability of the government.
Antonis Samaras' statements came amid an intense political crisis in Greece, after Prime Minister George Papandreou shocked the country, European leaders and financial markets earlier this week by saying he wanted to put a hard-fought new European debt deal to a popular vote.
World markets tanked as investors fretted over the prospect of Greece being forced into a disorderly default or out of the 17-nation eurozone.
Papandreou abandoned that plan Thursday as the uproar spread even to his own ruling Socialist party.
Greece's new debt deal would give the country an extra (euro) 100 billion ($138 billion) in rescue loans from the rest of the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund _ on top of the (euro) 110 billion ($152 billion) it was granted a year ago. It would also see banks forgive Athens 50 percent of the money it still owes them. The goal is to reduce Greece's massive debts to the point where the country is able to handle its finances without constant bailouts.
Samaras, the opposition leader, did not indicate whether he would vote in favor of the deal when it comes before parliament. But he claimed that he had said from the start that the latest European agreement was "unavoidable."
Earlier, Samaras had called for a transitional government to take over in order to safeguard the new deal agreed on barely a week ago after a marathon European summit in Brussels, and to ensure Greece gets a vital (euro) 8 billion ($11 billion) installment of its existing bailout agreement.
Papandreou ignored widespread calls for his resignation but withdrew the referendum plan, with his finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos, saying there was no longer need for one as the opposition indicated it backed the debt deal.
But a furious Samaras said Papandreou had misunderstood.
"Mr. Papandreou pretends that he didn't understand what I told him. I called on him to resign. He set fires everywhere, and returned as if nothing happened," he thundered in Parliament. "A return to normality means elections _ within the next six weeks if possible."
Samaras said Papandreou "nearly destroyed Europe and the euro ... and all this to claim that he wanted to blackmail us into accepting the loan arrangement, even though I had said it from the beginning that it was unavoidable."
The Greek public has been in an uproar for months over the government's repeated rounds of austerity measures, holding near-daily strikes, sit-ins and protests that sometimes degenerate into riots.
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In an interview with The Daily Caller, former National Restaurant Association board chairman Joseph Fassler offered a firm defense of GOP presidential front-runner Herman Cain, along with an explanation for how Washingtons best-kept secret the identities of Cains sexual-harassment accusers was also kept from the associations board.
The accusations? Its a hatchet job, in my opinion, Fassler told TheDC from his Phoenix, Ariz. office. My gut tells me its a hatchet job. He gets a lead, he gets some traction, and the next thing you know, here come these allegations. Its sad.
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I wonder if there is some lawyer who once worked for NRA feeling like crap right now because he pushed for settlement to make a non-existant charge go away. I mean who would have thought such a fiarly common move might become a huge deal.
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Yes, the amount that was awarded is within the amounts typically given in a nuisance suit to get the person to go away and avoid further legal costs.
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The timing of these allegations seems too convenient. So far there hasn't been anything coming out except for innuendos, assertions, and allegations. It is fairly common to give people severance packages just because they are not working out. It is also fairly routine to pay off people who have claims (whether they are true or not) just to go away. Somewhat apart from this, I knew of a company that paid a flat amount to make product liability claims to go away because it was cheaper than going to court. I haven't seen anything yet that makes me think there is something here. This brouhaha has not seemed to hurt Cain's polls. People are so sick of the professional political class that just maybe that is why they are going for Cain. He is a novice. He also seems like an honest guy. People are so sick of the main stream media picking the winners for them. Maybe this is another reason Cain is popular.
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What is really funny is how Cain is moving UP in the polls after these allegations started showing up in the lamestream media. Since they cannot use race on Cain, they are trying to use the modern witchcraft accusation of 'sexual harassment' against him. Although after Clinton, how the Dems think they have any credibility on that issue is beyond me.
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Trust me, if it were the liberals behind this, they'd have waited until the field had been reduced to Cain and Romney, or just Cain vs. Obama. We're damn lucky with the timing.
And no, these are not illusory charges, IMHO. They _settled_ and _paid_ on three separate occasions, over a decade ago. With cash totals apparently good enough to buy a nice house.
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Heard this afternoon that one of the accusers' lawyer basically said as much (a hatchet job) and now the NRA is allowing the original accuser out of her confidentiality agreement, if she wants to.
She is now declining that invitation, so my guess is she got paid to go away (whether or not the accusations were true).
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Of course, it may be that this news happened to early, and she was supposed to stay anonymous until it could do the most damage to the conservative cause (which many people have yet to realize is something different than Cain's cause).
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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TARRANT, Alabama -- A Tarrant man who drew attention to himself by posting an implied threat to police on Facebook is now under arrest for possession of child pornography, authorities said today.
LAHORE: Dengue fever claimed another three lives in the city on Wednesday raising the 
Demanding that the prime minister resign, the main Greek opposition leader led his party in a dramatic walkout Thursday during a parliamentary debate about the viability of the government.
