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Month: March 2014
This one got away, unlike the teen that was shot to death after he was found hiding in his girlfriend’s room.
A Florida man pulled a gun on a teen boy after finding him hiding inside his stepdaughter’s closet before making her do squats as punishment, police said.
Timothy Estes, 39, allegedly freaked out Tuesday after finding the 16-year-old boy inside the 14-year-old girl’s bedroom at his DeLand house.
Cops say he pointed a pistol at the boy’s head and marched him out the door.
“You’re lucky I don’t kill you, next time I see you I am going to kill you,” he reportedly screamed at the terrified teen.
Returning to the house, Estes then allegedly decided to seriously discipline his stepdaughter.
Slapping the girl across the face, he is then accused of handing her a pencil and forcing her to do squats without dropping it.
He then allegedly made her do push-ups, threatening to beat her if they weren’t perfect, reports The Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Rep.Louie Gohmert, the Texas Republican Representative said that he was ‘shocked’ to learn that Corporations can’t have religious beliefs and be allowed to deny women the right to contraceptives.
“This is a Justice Department that has indicted corporations for forming intent to commit a crime,” the former Texas judge said. “Well, Tony, if you can as a corporation through your directors and officers, form the intent to commit a crime, then you can certainly, through your officers and directors form an intent to have religious beliefs.”
“And if every one of your directors and officers has the same exact religious beliefs, whether your Amish and have formed a corporation or any other religious group — Quakers or whatever the group is — certainly a corporation can, if they can have intent as the Justice Department repeatedly proves in court, then they can certainly have religious beliefs.”
An Oregon mother of four is on trial in Portland for the murder of her four-year old boy. Prosecutors says that Jessica Dutro complained on Facebook to her boyfriend that her son, Zachary, was gay, and beat him on several occasions because of it.
In the Facebook message to her boyfriend Brian Canady, which was read in court today, Jessica Dutro said that her son Zachary was “facing the wall” because he had made her mad, OregonLive reports:
Her son was going to be gay, she wrote, using a slur. “He walks and talks like it. Ugh.”
Canady would have to “work on” Zachary, she wrote.
On August 12, 2012, Canady allegedly violently kicked four-year old Zachary in the stomach. He reportedly refused to take the child to the hospital. When the boy finally was taken to the emergency room — two days later — it was too late. He was taken off life support August 16, 2012. The cause of death was blunt force trauma “to his abdomen that caused tears in his bowel,” OregonLive reported.
Zachary “was covered in bumps and bruises,” OregonLove notes in a separate report, “but he died from two holes in his intestines caused by blunt-force trauma. Urine and feces seeped from the holes and harmed his vital organs.”
What would you do if you check your bank account one day and realized that you had an extra $31,000 in your account?
Would you return the money to the bank? Or would you go on a spending spree before anybody realized what happened?
Well that very same scenario happened to a teenager in Georgia. After finding the loot in his bank account, the 18 year old went on a shopping spree spending $25,000 in 10 days, only to get caught when he returned to the bank to withdraw more money.
The bank teller realized that they had deposited the money into the teenagers account after the real owner – who happened to share the same name as a teenager – called to inquire about the missing funds. The teem returned for more cash and was told that he needed to return what he had already spent.
But he already had a story – the teen explained that the extra money in his account was actually an inheritance from his grandmother and he insisted that he will not be returning the funds.
He left the bank.
The cops paid the teen a visit at his home and explained that he will be taken to jail if the $25,000 was not returned, but the teen already had a solution; he would return to the bank and try to work things out with them.
He never showed up and the money is still not repaid.
The bank will press charges.
The police was called and made the trip
WASHINGTON — More than 6 million people have enrolled in the federal and state health exchanges as of Thursday, President Obama announced this afternoon.
This means the administration has met its latest goal, as projected by the Congressional Budget Office, to ensure the insurance system is sustainable.
Obama made the announcement on a conference call with health care navigators and volunteers while he was traveling in Italy. He thanked them for their help.
The latest milestone comes after the troubled opening of the federal exchange Oct. 1. Software problems and other issues rendered the site virtually unusable for weeks, and it took a surge of technology support to have it fixed by Nov. 30. Since then, however, enrollments have risen dramatically, particularly as the Dec. 31 and March 31 deadlines approached.
Sometimes, some people just don’t get it, and in this case, Kobe is one of those people.
Kobe Bryant was recently asked by The New Yorker magazine to weigh in on a widely publicized Miami Heat photo where the team posed in hoodies to show their support for the late Trayvon Martin and his family.
Bryant’s comments have been interpreted by some as an insult to the reigning NBA champions.
“I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American. That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, we’ve progressed as a society, then don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.”
Bryant was quickly pounced on by commentators on social media.
“Kobe could’ve just shouted out love for Trayvon’s parents, said he couldn’t imagine their loss and kept it breezy. He didn’t,” tweeted Grio columnist Goldie Taylor.
“My issue is that Kobe reduces the Trayvon Martin outrage to blind racial solidarity, when it was about so much more than that,” added ESPN commentator Jemele Hill.
Bryant has yet to respond to the backlash towards his remarks.
Columbus Short, a lead actor on the television series “Scandal,” was arrested Wednesday on a felony charge that he seriously injured a man during an altercation at a restaurant earlier this month.
Short was arrested by police in Claremont on a warrant issued in a case that alleges he committed a battery that caused serious bodily harm.
The actor was involved in a dispute with a man at a West Los Angeles restaurant March 15 before Short hit the man and knocked him out, according to Los Angeles police and prosecutors. Further details about the altercation were not released.
Short, 31, plays attorney Harrison Wright on ABC’s hit series “Scandal.” Records show he was released Wednesday after posting $50,000 bail.
So if President Obama teams up with Pope Francis, who are Republicans tag teaming with?
I shudder at the thought.
You’re a Republican and running for public office? Here’s your sure and simple way to get elected. No policy ideas needed, just show your gun and maybe shoot at a copy of Obamacare.
That’s it. That’s all you need to do to satisfy the small minded, two-issue voter base of today’s Republican party. Alabama congressional candidate Will Brooke realizes this fact and his campaign video showing him shooting at the healthcare law means he has already won.
“We’re down here to have a little fun and talk about two serious subjects,” Brooke says. “The Second Amendment and see how much damage we can do to this copy of Obamacare.”
Yep. Those are the two major issues plaguing this country. The Republican brain at work.
A Belgian husband has spoken of his ‘horror’ after learning his wife of 19 years used to be a man.
The duped 64-year-old – named only as Jan – said he had ‘no clue’ his bride had been born a boy.
The shocking revelation only emerged after almost two decades of marriage when a cousin from his wife’s native Indonesia finally exposed the truth.
Jan told how he met ‘Monica’ in 1993 when she arrived in his home town of Antwerp as an au-pair to his sister’s children.
Picturesque: The city of Antwerp, where the pair have lived since they married 19 years ago. The marriage is on the rocks after Jan discovered ‘Monica’ was born a man and had undergone a sex change operation
He described as her ‘very beautiful and feminine’ – but said he now understood why she was ‘no good at ironing’.
Jan told Belgium’s Nieuwsblad daily paper: ‘My second marriage was on the rocks at the time and we quickly fell in love.
‘I thought she was an attractive woman, and she was all woman – she had no male traits.
‘She was 27 years old at the time, so I asked her if she wanted children.
‘I was glad when she said she didn’t as I was 44 and already had two of my own.
‘Over the years she said she was taking the pill, and even during sex I never noticed anything, though now I understand why she always used a lubricant, which is apparently normal among transexuals.
‘She was always a good mother to my children, and also a fantastic cook, though we wasn’t that great at cleaning and ironing – and now I know why!’
But Jan said the relationship had begun to suffer over the past two years as she insisted on staying out late on her own wearing ‘very revealing outfits’
He added: ‘She would wear tiny tops that revealed a lot of flesh and had more than 100 pairs of shoes.
‘I also caught her ogling pictures of young men on the Internet.
‘But I didn’t suspect a thing until a cousin of hers came to visit and let something slip.
‘I mentioned it to my son and he said he’d heard a rumour too that Monica used to be a man.
‘One evening I confronted her and she finally confessed she had been born a boy and had a sex change operation.
‘My world collapsed in a few seconds. I was horrified. I feel like have been violated for almost 20 years.’
The couple are still living under the same roof after a judge refused to grant Jan an order to evict her.
But he added: ‘We live in separate rooms and rarely speak. What Monica has done to me and my family is unforgivable. I just want her out of my life.’
h/t: DailyMail
He’s 5 ft 4inches.
A Salvadoran thug who executed his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend and let fellow gang members shoot her terrified two-old-son as he grabbed his leg for help has been added to the FBI’s ‘Ten Most Wanted Fugitives’ list.
MS-13 gang member Juan Elias Garcia, 21, whose last reported sighting was somewhere in Honduras in 2011, is the fourth person sought by federal authorities in the Long Island killings of 19-year-old Vanessa Argueta and her 2-year-old son Diego Torres, said George Venizelos, the FBI assistant director of the New York field office.
Garcia, who is 5 feet 4 inches tall, and weighs 125 pounds is a native of El Salvador and is the first MS-13 gang member to make the bureau’s most wanted list.
He allegedly brought Argueta to the woods of Central Islip, Long Island in February 2010 under the ruse of taking her to to dinner, Venizelos said.
Most wanted: Juan Elias Garcia, an alleged member of the MS-13 gang, is seen in an undated picture released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on March 26, 2014. Garcia, 21, has been added to the FBI’s list of ‘Ten Most Wanted Fugitives’ for his role in the 2010 killing of his girlfriend Vanessa Argueta and little Diego Torres (right)
Argueta was accompanied by two other reputed MS-13 members who had received permission from the gang’s leader to carry out the killing, Venizelos said.
One of them shot her in the chest and head because of alleged threats made toward Garcia by rival gang members to whom she had ties, according to Venizelos.
Her son who witnessed his mother’s death began crying the thugs shot him in the head — but the wound proved not fatal and the terrified boy grabbed Garcia’s leg.
Then another gang member, Adalberto Ariel Guzman, shot him in the head a second time, killing the boy.
‘Once on his feet, Diego saw Garcia, a familiar face in the crowd, and clutched onto his leg. However, the violence did not stop. Guzman fired the second shot that struck Diego in the head and killed him,’ Venizelos said.
‘Garcia decided that penalty for disrespecting the gang was death,’ Venizelos said. ‘While crime and gang-related activity often goes hand in hand, the execution-style murders of Vanessa and her 2-year-old son is a new low even for MS-13.’
Announcement: US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch (2nd L, at podium) and FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge George Venizelos (3rd L) announce that Juan Elias Garcia (R, in poster), also known as ‘Cruzito’, from El Salvador, has been added to FBIs Ten Most Wanted list
Heinous crime: US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch (L) and FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge George Venizelos (R) announce that Juan Elias Garcia has been added to FBIs Most Wanted
Garcia, who was only 17 when the crime took place, is alleged to be a member of the violent Mara Salvatrucha gang, known as MS-13, and is believed to be hiding in El Salvador, authorities said Wednesday.
‘MS-13 is the most violent gang here of any of the street gangs,’ said Special Agent Reynaldo Tariche, who investigated the case with other members of the FBI’s Long Island Gang Task Force.
Authorities say Garcia had a romantic relationship with Argueta, but she had ties to rival gangs.
Last October, the Treasury Department designated MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, as an international criminal organization.
h/t Daily Mail