Posted on 03/02/2016 1:53:40 PM PST by jazusamo
A convicted crack dealer who left prison early as part of the Obama administrations mass release of federal inmates has been indicted by a grand jury for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend and her two kids in Columbus, Ohio. The gory crime drew national attention because the children, ages 7 and 10, were murdered to eliminate them as witnesses in the brutal massacre of their 32-year-old mother.
This week a grand jury in Franklin County returned a 10-count, death-penalty indictment against the ex-con, 35-year-old Wendell Callahan, for the triple murders. Callahan broke into his ex-girlfriends apartment and stabbed the three victims, according to a statement issued by Franklin County Prosecutor Ron OBrien announcing the indictment. The bloody crime scene was discovered by the womans current boyfriend, who subsequently engaged in a fight with Callahan before he fled. The indictment includes charges of aggravated murder with prior calculation and design and aggravated murder of victims under the age of 13. There are multiple charges regarding the three victim deaths because there are different methods to commit the crime of murder and the Prosecutors Office typically charges all methods, OBrien stated. Callahan is in jail on $3 million bail and is scheduled to be arraigned later this week.
Callahan should have been in jail when the crimes occurred, but he was released four years early because federal sentencing guidelines for crack dealers got reduced. The change is part of President Obamas effort to reform the nations justice system as a way of ending racial discrimination. The initiative was technically launched back in 2010 when the president signed a measure that for the first time in decades relaxed drug-crime sentences he claimed discriminated against poor and minority offenders. This severely weakened a decades-old law enacted during the infamous crack cocaine epidemic that ravaged urban communities nationwide in the 1980s. As part of the movement the U.S. Sentencing Commission lowered maximum sentences for drug offenders and made it retroactive, leading to the early release of thousands of violent thugs like Callahan.
In November the administration began releasing 6,000 drug convicts coined non-violent offenders whose sentences were too long under the old guidelines. News reports quickly surfaced contradicting the administrations assessment that the newly released convicts were not violent. Among them was the leader of a multi-million dollar operation that smuggled drugs from Canada to Maine. Prosecutors refer to the 29-year-old con as a drug kingpin who was one of Americas Most Wanted. Shortly before the administrations mass release of drug convicts, federal prosecutors warned that drug trafficking is inherently violent and therefore the phrase non-violent drug offenders is a misnomer. The nations prosecutors also cautioned that reducing prison sentences for drug offenders will weaken their ability to bring dangerous drug traffickers to justice.
As if it werent bad enough that the administration is rewarding thousands of criminals with get-out-of-jail cards, huge amounts of taxpayer dollars are being spent on programs to help them find housing and jobs. In the aftermath of the mass release of federal prisoners Judicial Watch reported on two re-entry programs to ease the transition from jail. One received $1.7 million and ordered public housing facilities not to reject tenants with criminal records. The other allocated $20 million to the Department of Labor (DOL) to help ex-cons find work and thus end the cycle of poverty, criminality and incarceration.
I’m gonna lemme guess his boo was cheezin’ with another bro while he was in the big house and now he’s out he gonna carve out some respect.
Hopefully his is eradicated, he’s most deserving of it.
One of the reasons I couldn’t support Rand Paul. He was on the blacks are disproportionately incarcerated for drug crime BS too. That and his McConnell treason.
Not the least bit surprised. There will be more.
Proving once again that “Crack Dealers” are not NON-VIOLENT.
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You mean some of them are violent thugs?
How is this possible?
#StopBlackViolence
Well, the important thing is Obama and company can’t be accused of being raciss like all dem Crackas dat put dis brudda into da pen.
So, In other words all is going pretty much as 0bama intended.
More blood on soretoro’s hands.
OMG!! He’s BLACK!!!
There are LOTS OF CONVERSITIVES and Republicans that agree with the left that minorities don’t get fair sentences.
Well, this man achieved SOCIAL JUSTICE from President Obama, so that he could ‘get back to work’, and so he did.
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