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  • Are More Migrants Being Arrested for Murder?

    03/18/2024 10:24:00 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 5 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Mar 18, 2024 | Nick Mordowanec
    Rates of homicides committed by illegal migrants in the United States have increased overall during the Biden administration, though rates at this point in the fiscal year are about average compared with past years dating to 2021. The hot-button issue of illegal immigration is encompassing the nation and has galvanized Republicans who have consistently kept the topic front and center leading up to November elections. President Joe Biden has allowed an influx of illegal migrants on his watch, most recently drawing condemnation for the February killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley allegedly committed by illegal migrant Jose Ibarra.
  • Sheriff: Cocaine and Meth Use Surges Along With Synthetic Fentanyl, Aided by Border Crisis

    03/18/2024 10:17:08 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 3 replies
    Fox2Detroit ^ | March 18, 2024 | Dave Kinchen and David Komer
    Police tracking drugs in our area are sounding the alarm with cocaine and meth making a comeback. Metro Detroit law enforcement is warning of an uptick in meth and cocaine use across the area. "The danger of this is significant to everybody," said Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. "Basically the cost of cocaine, the cost of meth, all of that has gone down to about a third of what it was two years ago." Bouchard says it is a supply and demand issue, combined with the already troubling amounts of fentanyl coming into the states. He says it is a...
  • The end of the self checkout? Dollar General, Target and Walmart row back on self-service registers - but it’s not because they care about customer service

    03/18/2024 8:17:28 PM PDT · by Morgana · 42 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | March 18, 2024 | Tilly Armstrong
    They were introduced as a way to cut lines, boost efficiency in store and reduce staffing numbers - and boomed in popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic. But is the self checkout falling out of favor with big-name retailers? In recent weeks, Dollar General, Target and Walmart have all announced sweeping changes to automated registers in stores across the US. Experts say the rollback is linked, mostly, to fears around theft - as it is much easier for customers to shoplift items at the self checkout rather than a checkout with a cashier. But retailers say they are also trying to...
  • Nolte: ‘Burglary Tourists’ Fly in from South America to Rob Dem-Run Los Angeles

    03/18/2024 9:26:44 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 7 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/18/2024 | JOHN NOLTE
    Tourism is up in Democrat-run Los Angeles — “burglary tourism”: from South America. Well, at least someone wants to visit that *&*&^&^&. LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton told the far-left and slowly dying Los Angeles Times that “South American theft groups are not new in L.A., but they have become more active in recent months.” The Times adds: “He cautioned that it’s difficult to know for certain how many robberies can be attributed to foreign burglars, but said evidence indicates they are behind scores of break-ins.” In one area, north of the 118 freeway, he estimates there “were 94 burglaries,...
  • Pulse-pounding video shows Denver cops gun down suspect holding 7-Eleven clerk hostage

    03/18/2024 9:55:13 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 27 replies
    NY Post ^ | 03/18/2024 | Jesse O’Neill
    Denver police released bodycam footage last week of the moment officers rammed down the back door of a 7-Eleven and fired 36 rounds at a suspect who was holding a store clerk hostage with a nail-pulling tool, killing him. The fatal police shooting came after Christopher Cauch, 43, had barricaded himself and two others in the back of the convenience store on the evening of March 1, according to the Denver Post. Four officers responding to reports of a stabbing and robbery at the convenience store found that a store clerk was “under duress” in a back room, Chief Ron...
  • Haitian National Arraigned For Rape Of 14-Year-Old Girl At Massachusetts Hotel

    03/18/2024 9:53:47 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 03/18/2024 | Alice Giordano
    A 26-year-old Haitian national has been charged with raping a 14-year-old girl at a Massachusetts hotel being used to house illegal immigrants under the Gov. Maura Healey administration.Cory Alvarez was arraigned on the charges of child rape on Thursday, March 14, at the Hingham District Court. The alleged assault took place at the Comfort Inn in Rockland, according to a press release issued by police. Rockland is located about 22 miles south of Boston.Patrol Lt. Thomas MacDonald of the Rockland Police Department told The Epoch Times that since the state secured the 100-room hotel as a shelter for illegal immigrants...
  • LA battles spate of 'burglary tourists' as marauding gangs from Chile, Ecuador Colombia and Peru jet in on 90-day visas and ransack millionaire mansions before fleeing back to South America

    03/18/2024 1:16:31 AM PDT · by Libloather · 36 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 3/18/24 | Stephen M. Lepore
    The Los Angeles Police Department has launched a task force to try to crack down on 'burglary tourists' who use the US tourism visa system to commit crimes. Cunning criminals from Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru target wealthy neighborhoods in places with relaxed criminal justice laws to conduct home burglaries - before returning home with the loot while out on bail. The troubling trend of 'lanzas internacionales' - translated to 'international thieves' - dates back at least two years across America, while the problem has also reared its ugly head in the United Kingdom. Authorities in Los Angeles announced the...
  • Homeless man charged for slaughtering 3 family members in NJ, Pa. after nailbiting police standoff

    03/17/2024 3:57:53 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 24 replies
    Nypost ^ | 03/17/2024 | Priscilla DeGregory
    The homeless man who fatally shot three relatives and carjacked two vehicles in a crime spree in New Jersey and Pennsylvania Saturday has been hit with a slew of charges in both states. Andre Gordon Jr., 26, was charged with murder and other crimes in the Keystone State and he was charged with carjacking and weapons offenses in the Garden State after his violent rampage Saturday. Gordon shot and killed his stepmother Karen Gordon, 52, sister Kera Gordon, 13, and the mother of his two kids, Taylor Daniel, officials said.
  • 2 armed robbers got into a shoot-out with a security guard, then returned and got shot at by a concealed carry holder, Chicago police say

    03/17/2024 6:32:25 AM PDT · by george76 · 27 replies
    CWB Chicago ^ | March 17, 2024
    CHICAGO — Prosecutors say two Chicago men robbed a construction crew, exchanged gunfire with an off-duty sheriff’s deputy at the scene, fled, then returned to fire another shot, only to have one of the victims pull out a gun and open fire on them, too. No injuries were reported. And, according to court records, one of the men was eyed as a suspect in a series of robberies last fall but ended up being charged only with a misdemeanor. He’s also on “first-time weapon offender probation” for a 2022 gun case. The robbery occurred on March 1 in the 11500...
  • The Long Beach Police Department shut down The Pike Outlets following multiple fights (Video)

    03/17/2024 10:45:05 AM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 17 replies
    The Long Beach Police Department shut down The Pike Outlets following a large disturbance and multiple fights among juveniles on Saturday Just moments after the fight broke out between the two females, there were reports of a shooting involving a juvenile male. Officers found the boy nearby at The Promenade suffering from a gunshot wound to his lower body. The victim was taken to a local hospital where he was listed in stable condition.
  • NYC Burger King hit with $15M suit, accused of allowing ‘open air drug bazaar’ run by ‘professional’ dealers

    03/17/2024 12:15:30 PM PDT · by grundle · 42 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 17, 2024 | Matthew Sedacca and Social Links for Kathianne Boniello
    A Burger King blocks from City Hall is so overrun with drug dealers, junkies and unhinged vagrants that an angry neighbor is suing the fast-food operator for $15 million for helping to turn “Fulton Street into an open air drug bazaar.” A group of eight to 10 “professional drug dealers” are allegedly having it their way at the BK at 106 Fulton St., near Dutch Street, which they use as a “base of operation, selling illegal drugs either at the entrance . . . or during inclement weather, selling illegal drugs within the Burger King restaurant itself,” according to the...
  • NYC Subway Shooting Is What Happens When Lawlessness Collides With ‘Tolerance And Diversity’

    03/17/2024 12:38:55 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 17 replies
    The Federalist ^ | MARCH 16, 2024 | EDDIE SCARRY
    The men involved in the New York subway shooting this week were nonwhite. That creates a problem for the pro-crime left. During a press conference immediately following the incident, subway system CEO and Chairman Janno Lieber rushed to get ahead of any obvious questions about how and why this happened. “When you bring a gun on the train and you start a fight, it’s just — it’s not right and it’s absolutely outrageous,” he said. “That’s what happened here. Someone brought a gun on the train and started a fight. That’s why we need to keep fighting against guns.”Suffice it...
  • A Chilling Batch of Evidence Could Revive the Unsolved Black Dahlia Murder Mystery

    03/16/2024 7:19:53 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 24 replies
    Popular Mechanics ^ | March 13, 2024 | Michael Natale
    Emerging clues may shine a new light on Hollywood’s darkest tale: the shocking 1947 death of Elizabeth Short. On January 15, 1947, an aspiring 22-year-old actress named Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered in a vacant lot near Leimert Park in Los Angeles, California, her nude, posed body cut in half and severely mutilated. “It was pretty gruesome,” Brian Carr, a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department who worked on Short’s case, later said. It was an understatement; Short’s killer had also drained her corpse of blood and scrubbed it clean. “I just can’t imagine someone doing that to...
  • 'These are professionals': Latest arrests in East Valley burglary cases tied to Chilean crime ring, Scottsdale police say

    03/16/2024 7:52:06 PM PDT · by george76 · 15 replies
    12News ^ | March 12, 2024 | Haley Williams, John Tanet
    Scottsdale police said the three suspects arrested over the last few days came into the country on the Visa Waiver Program.. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Three people from South America arrested in Scottsdale have been accused of breaking into homes in the East Valley as part of a professional crime ring based in Chile. "These are professionals," Scottsdale Police Chief Jeff Walther said during a news conference Tuesday. "These are Chilean burglary crews that are coming into the country on a Visa Waiver Program." The department used helicopters and drones to search neighborhoods near Pima and Jomax roads after it was...
  • Gov. Kathy Hochul claims National Guard subway plan ‘working as expected,’ even after man shot with own gun on train

    03/16/2024 5:22:56 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 29 replies
    Nypost ^ | 03/16/2024 | Georgia Worrell and Rich Calde
    Gov. Kathy Hochul defended her controversial initiative to flood the city’s public transit system with National Guardsmen, saying it’s going as planned — even as terrified straphangers vowed to avoid the rails after this week’s shooting on a packed A-train. “My objective was to make sure [the National Guard is] in our main transit hubs – you see them at Grand Central [Station] and other places, so they can free up [NYPD cops],” Hochul told reporters at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Midtown Saturday. “So the plan is working as we had expected.”
  • CTA union leader supports deploying National Guard on Chicago transit system

    03/16/2024 5:32:21 AM PDT · by Salman · 23 replies
    CWB Chicago ^ | March 15, 2024 | Glenn Minnis
    Only days after one passenger shot and killed another aboard a West Side bus filled with other riders, Chicago Transit Authority union leader Keith Hill says he’s now open to seeing the Illinois National Guard provide security for the long-troubled system. “Since 2017, my call has been for extra security, a presence on the transit system,” Hill told The Center Square. “From a worker standpoint, the workers need to feel safe. When a person rides the system, they should feel safe getting from point A to point B.” Late Tuesday night, a 53-year-old man began waving a knife around while...
  • Laken Riley murder inspires Georgia pizzeria owner to run for office: ‘I had a reality check’

    03/16/2024 9:29:43 AM PDT · by CFW · 6 replies
    NYPost ^ | 3/16/24 | Dana Kennedy
    The murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley has inspired a local pizzeria owner to run for office. Sidney Anne Waters, who owns Mama Sid’s Pizza, is running for a slot on the Athens-Clarke County Commission because of Riley’s death — and the illegal immigrant who’s been arrested in connection with the brutal slaying. “I… all of a sudden… had a reality check… There are a lot of us in Athens that really didn’t know what our government was doing… The day before… qualifying ending, I decided I would go in and put my name on the ticket,” Waters told...
  • Female alleged gangster wanted in connection with gruesome human sacrifices in Mexico arrested in Texas

    03/16/2024 10:05:27 AM PDT · by Twotone · 17 replies
    The Blaze ^ | March 13, 2024 | Cortney Weil
    A woman wanted in connection with several brutal, gang-related murders in Mexico was recently arrested inside the United States. On February 15, the combined efforts of the FBI Safe Streets Gang Task Force, the El Paso Police Gang Unit, County Sheriff's Narcotics Division, and Border Patrol resulted in victory when agents arrested Mexican fugitive Michelle Angelica Pineda, sometimes referred to as La Chely, in a motel in eastern El Paso, Texas. American and Mexican law enforcement officials believe that Pineda, a Mexican national, crossed the U.S. border illegally as part of a drug-trafficking ring perpetrated by the violent street gang...
  • Canada Distopia Making Headway [semi-satire]

    03/16/2024 10:28:47 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 1 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 17 March 2024 | John Semmens
    Disappointed that his 2022 abuse of the Emergencies Act to suppress public protest against his draconian Covid restrictions was ruled unjustified by Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is now pushing legislation called the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63). This law would allow the government to impose prison sentences of up to life behind bars on persons who post "hate speech" on social media. Civil liberty advocates have called the proposed law "totalitarian" and "Orwellian." George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley asserted that "the proposed law constitutes a doubling down on Canada's totalitarian commitment to...
  • 'Traumatized' residents of wealthy San Francisco neighborhood resort to using CHICKEN WIRE to protect their homes against intruders as crime spirals - with even 'hard-core natives' feeling so unsafe they want to move

    03/15/2024 9:41:32 PM PDT · by Morgana · 22 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | March 15, 2024 | Alex Hammer
    Citizens in a residential area of San Francisco are bolstering their homes with chicken wire in a bid to keep out intruders. Happening in the city's Richmond District, the safety measures come amid a recent jump in burglaries, robberies, and homicides in the affluent neighborhood. Headline-grabbing incidents like thieves making off with a Bank of America ATM earlier this year have even longtime residents on edge - with some installing cameras and safety locks along with the unconventional farm equipment. Several have attended community meetings and made posts on social media as the rampant crime wave persists. In interviews with...