Arrest warrant issued for Jackson

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[Happy2BMe]

This is LONDON 19/11/03 - News and city section

Arrest warrant for Jackson By James Langton in New York, Evening Standard

An arrest warrant has been issued for Michael Jackson over new allegations of child abuse.

US police were reported to have been ready to handcuff the singer and take him into custody when they raided his Neverland Ranch in California.

According to TV reports, they were unable to serve the warrant because Jackson and his three children were in Las Vegas.

Investigators are expected to spend a second day at the estate, investigating claims of child molestation, believed to involve a boy of 12 or 13.

After arriving with a search warrant yesterday, more than 60 officers from the Santa Barbara County sheriff 's department spent the day gathering evidence for what was described as "an ongoing criminal investigation".

Police remain tight-lipped about the allegations which were made in a sealed court affidavit. They arrived in a caravan of vehicles including an ambulance, mobile crime laboratory and a portable lavatory.

The investigation is headed by district attorney Thomas Sneedon, who examined earlier claims of child abuse by Jackson in 1993.

Although Jackson avoided prosecution, he later made a multi-million-dollar outofcourt settlement to 14-year-old Jordy Chandler who claimed he had been molested by the singer during sleepovers at the mansion.

The two cases are said to be unrelated, although police say the first case still remains open.

One report said the boy in the latest allegations had been talking to prosecutors for several weeks and may also have tried to reach a settlement.

Police say they will hold a press conference later today. Jackson was staying at the Mirage hotel in Las Vegas at the time of the raid, recording a video. His new greatest hits CD, Number Ones, was released yesterday.

Jackson's attorney Brian Oxman confirmed: "The Santa Barbara Sheriff 's Department did issue an arrest warrant. They will be working through myself to negotiate a surrender."

In a rambling statement released by the lawyer, Jackson, 45, said: "I've seen lawyers who do not represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to surface with a dreadful allegation just as another project, an album, a video, is being released."

He promised to cooperate with the investigation.

His friend, Uri Geller, said he was "very concerned" about the singer, adding: "He is very gullible and he is naive. I believe he is innocent."

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[biblewonk]

They finally discovered it's "Never tell Land".

[sheik yerbouty]

Maybe he can reverse the "bent" procrss with America's Elephanr Man.

[Jackie-O]

Dev, you have freepmail!

[TastyManatees]

My question is this, if Uri Geller is Michael Jackson's "friend", and Geller is able to predict the future (as he has claimed on a few occasions), did Geller warn Jackson that the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department was coming to Jackson's ranch to serve an arrest warrant? Is that the real reason Jackson is in Las Vegas?

Tasty Manatees

[G L Tirebiter]

In England, they worship pedophiles but despise liberators of nations.

Didn't Roman Polanski flee to France when he faced similar charges?

Time to warm up the old Gulfstream.

[TheSpottedOwl]

They must have something concrete. The Sheriff's dept. was swarming the place. It was all over the news this morning. Fox 11 news. Interesting commentary from the show's hosts.

[Happy2BMe]

"Michael is just ahead of the curve by a few years. Now that sodomy isn't a problem its just a matter of time before we can shed our neanderthol thinking and accept that children can have rich loving physical relationships with adults also."

Mikey is BUSTED ping!

(BTW: About those "sodomites" . .)

[cars for sale]

seems to me ole Michael is either gonna split to France or already has, I just don't se him "giving up". And to add
if we handcuff him,I don't see us letting him out.

[pepsionice]

Pellicano is the key to this episode...and there will likely be other cases coming out quickly too. We may all be surprised who else gets nabbed.

[taxed2death]

...reminds me of another one I heard this morning...


"What's black and comes in a small can"?

Michael Jackson

[cars for sale]

KFYI in Phoenix is hinting that MJ will turn himself in in
Santa Barbara before the presser in 90 minutes

[PBRSTREETGANG]

seems to me ole Michael is either gonna split to France or already has

Jackson could eventually be extradited from France. He is not a French citizen like Polanski.

[cars for sale]

it's just an accent and color shade away

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"Jackson's attorney Brian Oxman confirmed: "The Santa Barbara Sheriff 's Department did issue an arrest warrant. They will be working through myself to negotiate a surrender."

I presume that Ox Man couldn't persuade the sheriff to work through "me" or even "I."

No doubt because the consigliari clearly is a graduate of a US public high school who didn't major in English in college..... 8~]

[TheSpottedOwl]

Heard a little while ago on Fox a comment by a noted PI named Ernie Rizzo, who said that there's probably a connection between Anthony Pellicano going to jail a day or so ago, and all this coming out now.

Rizzo said he thinks Pellicano flipped, since he was working for MJ for years, and has tons of info on MJ.

This is interesting. I'd like to know what happened to the threatened investigation regarding child abuse by social services. This stemmed from the pic of MJ dangling the baby off the hotel balcony. Very stupid, dangerous, and irresponsible. For that matter, wrapping his kids up in tulle or netting, or whatever the hell that material is, is psychologically abusive, imo...

[Sabertooth]

Take him quickly. If he thinks he's cornered, he's likely an even greater danger to children around him.

Agreed. Jackson appears to me to be perfectly capable of murder-suicide when the knock comes at the door.

[maggief]

Gee ... what rotten luck. SeeBS is set to air his special November 26th. What a blow! They may have to pull a second special, within a month. I'm deeply saddened. ; )

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"Arrest Warrant Issued For Jackson.....

Headlines are your friends.... 8~]

[CheneyChick]

2. Jackson believes he has done nothing at all wrong, in any sense of the word.

Jackson is the "poster child" for NAMBLA.

[johnb838]

I've always wondered, not that often, but for a long time whether those innocent sleepovers he's talked about included ejaculation. I suppose the port-a-pottys mean the investigators were going to be taking swabs from the bathrooms and therefore could not soil them. Hmmm... I wonder whether search warrants *ever* include bathroom privileges.