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Special Agent Vince Cefalu has worked for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms for more than 25 years. On top of successfully placing dozens of hard criminals behind bars throughout his career, Cefalu has received promotions and consistently positive evaluations. When he started raising his voice about ATF corruption and illegal wiretapping in 2005, things changed. Tuesday evening, Cefalu was asked to meet Special Agent in Charge of the San Francisco Field Division Joseph Riehl at a Denny’s Restaurant near Lake Tahoe. When he arrived, he was served termination papers in the parking lot. Classy move. The exchange was secretly recorded by a confidential source.-[source]
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The intersection of Van Buren and 59th Avenue was closed to traffic early Saturday morning. Just a few hundred feet away from the barricades sat a police car riddled with bullet holes. “This particular individual stopped in the middle of the roadway, facing north bound, stops in the middle of the road, steps out of the vehicle and the officer begins to take multiple rounds into the vehicle,” said Sgt. Steve Martos, with the Phoenix Police Department. According to Sgt. Steve Martos, the officer wasn’t hurt. The officer was attempting to pull the suspect over for failing to stop at a stop sign, unaware 35-year old Angel Padilla had his estranged girlfriend in the vehicle with him. Padilla took off, triggering a massive search and creating concern among residents who watched it all unfold. Police said it all started in the area of 65th Avenue and Pima. The suspect allegedly kidnapped the victim from her home and police said as he was taking her, her three children called 911. Neighbor Ty Stout didn’t hear the commotion take place next door at 3 a.m. but did recall previous incidents between the couple. “The rifle has been retrieved, the vehicle has been retrieved and the victim has been [retrieved], she is at an area hospital…she sustained some injury,” said Martos. Sgt. Martos said the woman called police herself from the area of 59th Avenue and Encanto, where she was set free and the search for her ex continued. Police said Padilla will likely face several charges, including kidnapping and aggravated assault on a police officer.-[source]
bkruggel, whose son participated in the Sea Turtle Tri kids triathlon on Sunday, was watching the other kids cross the finish line, when ‘the race announcer told everyone over the loudspeakers about the boy’s problem with his prosthetic limb and that the Marines were carrying him to the finish,’ he said. ‘As the group came into view, everyone started cheering louder than usual, and I saw more than a few people crying as they crossed the finish line.’ The boy was 11-year-old Ben Baltz of Valparaiso, Florida. At six years old, Ben was diagnosed with bone cancer in his right leg and had his fibula and tibia removed. He walks with a mechanical knee and prosthetic walking leg, which he switches out for a running leg to play sports (including soccer, baseball and children’s triathlons). On Sunday, Ben completed the 150-yard swim and 4-mile bike ride and half the one-mile run when a screw came loose and his running leg broke in half. His mom was standing at the finish line, wondering what happened. ‘It was only a mile, I knew he was tired, I was like, ‘Where is he, where is he, where is he,’ his mother, Kim Baltz, told CNN iReport. ‘All of a sudden the announcer just said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to turn around and look at what’s happening on the course’ … Everybody was crying. It was just very touching that the Marines were there. They picked him up and everybody was cheering and just giving them support and Ben support.’ Ben’s mom said he was a little discouraged he wasn’t able to finish on his own, and a bit embarrassed that he had to be carried, but his parents told him that he was an inspiration to a lot of people that day. ‘We want to give him the message that he can do anything, and he has an inspirational story, and he just needs to be thankful that he is able to do it because there are a lot of kids out there that are still fighting cancer. We just want him to get out there and participate in life.’-[source]
The raid was handled by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, decease Director of Central Intelligence Leon Panetta and others in this way because Obama had vetoed multiple earlier opportunities to attack the man behind the 9/11 terror attacks, more about the report said. The report comes from retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, now chairman of Stand Up America, which calls itself the standard bearer for the conservancy of the U.S. Constitution. The group has briefed the FBI, Congress, law enforcement and other agencies on terrorism and “anything that affects the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of our citizenry and way of life.”-[source]
The South Bend Police Department confirmed that three officers did tase and handcuffed 18-year-old DeShaun Franklin. “They beat him. They tased him and they hit him in the jaw, cheap ” said DeShaun Franklin’s mother Vivian Franklin. Franklin said she did not know what to do, when police woke her up, guns in hand, in the middle of the night. She said they made her sit on the porch, pushed their way inside her home and tased her son. “They just came straight in my house went in my bedroom and then my son’s room and started tasing him,” said Franklin. Police put DeShaun in the back of their squad car, but when they went to talk with the teen, they realized they got the wrong guy.-[source]
Such a tax alone wouldn’t close a $115 million budget gap in 2013, pilule but it could at least funnel money into the county’s $3 billion operation — where roughly two-thirds of the budget pays for both the county’s public health clinics and two hospitals along with the criminal justice system that includes the courts and jail. “If we were to pursue a tax on something like guns and ammo, clearly that wouldn’t be popular with the [gun lobby] out there, and it may not generate $50 million, but … it is consistent with our commitment to pursuing violence reduction in the city and in the county,” Kurt Summers, Preckwinkle’s chief of staff, said on Monday.-[source]
Initially, Facebook told some who reported the page that it did not violate their terms of service. The page, named “Kill Mitt Romney,” was the brainchild of Staphmeal blogger Joshua Scott Albert, the Philly Post reported Monday. According to the Post, Scott also created a page supporting two alleged killers of a Philadelphia police officer.-[source]
According to the Washington Post, mind Marvin Potter, 60, is being charged with two accounts of first-degree murder for the deaths. He is believed to have entered the home between 5:30am and 11:00am on Wednesday and shooting both Billy Payne Jr., 36, and his girlfriend Billie Jean Hayworth, 23. Both were found with gunshot wounds to the head, and Payne’s throat had been cut.-[source]
The Border Patrol has identified the slain agent as Nicholas Ivie, 30, who had been with the agency since January 2008. Ivie was married with two children and a native of Provo, Utah. The Ivie family lives in Sierra Vista. Both agents were assigned to the Brian Terry Station in the Tucson Sector. They were shot while patrolling shortly after midnight Tuesday. A third agent was patrolling with these agents, but was unharmed during the shooting, according to Carol Capas of the Cochise County Sheriff’s Department. The shooting occurred off of Highway 80, seven miles east of Bisbee, Capas stated. The injured agent was airlifted to University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson, according to a UAMC spokesperson. Homeland Security says the agent was shot in the ankle and buttocks. The injuries are not considered life-threatening.-[source]
This time, Univision claims it has linked 57 guns from Mexican crime scenes to the “Fast and Furious” operation — 57 weapons that were not included in Congress’ July report that 122 weapons from the “gunwalking” operation had been recovered in Mexico. Additionally, according to Univision, some of those guns were recovered not just at crime scenes, but at the scenes of two massacres. One of those massacres was on January 30, 2010 in Ciudad Juárez, in which cartel members started shooting at a birthday party being celebrated by about 60 teenagers. Fourteen were killed, and another 12 were injured. The other massacre is described by Univision as an attack on a Juárez rehab center, which left 18 people dead in 2009. Univision was able to find this out by comparing serial numbers in the “Fast and Furious” operation to serial numbers of guns found out crime scenes, provided by Mexico’s national defense agency. As of a year ago, 11 firearms were found at crime scenes in the United States that were linked to “Fast and Furious,” and four of those were in Arizona — five, if you include firearms found at the scene of slain U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.-[source] |
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