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In Charlotte, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County Judge Tracy Hewett reduced the bond for serial rapist Octavis Wilson from from $2 million to $50,000, and said, “We’re gonna help you out.”In Charlotte, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County Judge Tracy Hewett reduced the bond for serial rapist Octavis Wilson from from $2 million to $50,000, and said, “We’re gonna help you out.”The serial rapist said, “I will not mess up no more. You have my word. I will stay out of trouble.”Judge Hewett is either pro-rape, or a gullible idiot.Either way, she never should have been allowed to be a judge.Sources:https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-carolina-police-chief-slams-212939359.htmlhttps://www.wbtv.com/2022/11/10/were-going-help-you-out-with-that-judge-reduces-bond-suspect-sexual-assault/https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/mecklenburg-county-judge-bond-reduced-significantly-for-charlotte-rape-suspect/275-057136f0-82c0-4acc-b755-0eadc584045d

Dual announcements by U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn and N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore have shaken the Republican establishment of Mecklenburg County — potentially the new stomping grounds of North Carolina’s most controversial politician. Cawthorn said Thursday that he would run for the newly-created 13th congressional district, a seat political observers had assumed Moore would seek. Once Cawthorn announced his move, Moore promptly said he would stay in the state legislature. It also created an opening in western North Carolina, where Democrats have been campaigning for months in hopes of unseating Cawthorn. One of them, Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, has already raised more...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The Mecklenburg County Health Department is bringing the COVID-19 vaccine to your doorstep. On Monday, health staff launched the ‘Doses to Doors’ program. Volunteers with non-profits like Action NC have been knocking on doors and providing vaccine information to people since May, but now they also have county health department staff on standby nearby so that if someone wants a shot, they can get it from the comfort of their home. The program is focused on priority zip codes with low vaccine uptake. On Monday, they started their efforts at the South Side Homes apartment complex...

Noncitizens are embedded in North Carolina jury and voting pools, raising new questions about the integrity of elections, according to an immigration reform group. The Immigration Reform Law Institute on Monday said it had uncovered examples of noncitizens, and likely also illegal immigrants, in the pools in Charlotte, North Carolina, and other key areas dating back to 2012. Working with the Voter Integrity Project, IRLI conceded that the numbers were not enough to overturn election results but point to the lack of “political will” by government officials to clean up their rolls. Voter Integrity Project co-founder Jay Delancy said, “The...

A teenager charged with murder has been released from jail without an ankle monitor in Mecklenburg County. (Source: WBTV) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - A teenager charged with murder has been released from jail without an ankle monitor in Mecklenburg County. 17-year-old Michal Sio-Somah is one of two people charged for the shooting death of 24-year-old Calvin Haines. Haines was one of four people shot during a graduation party in uptown Charlotte in June of 2019. A few weeks after the shooting, Sio-Somah was arrested and charged in connection to the killing. The teen was charged with first degree murder....

Javier Rubio Chavez (Source: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police (CMPD) is asking for the publicÂ’s help locating a man wanted on multiple charges, including sex offenses involving a child. Javier Rubio Chavez, 27, is wanted for four counts of indecent liberties with a child, statutory rape, statutory sex offense on a child and damage to and interfering with an electronic monitoring device. Police say Chavez was court-ordered to wear an electronic monitoring device as a condition of his pre-trial release. However, Chavez cut off that monitor on Wednesday and was last seen near the 3900...

CMPD will be ending the electronic GPS monitoring system for homicide suspects in the Queen City. CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney announced Friday that the department would be ending the electronic GPS monitoring system for homicide suspects. According to CMPD, the department is currently monitoring 463 suspects who have been ordered by a judge or magistrate to wear a monitoring device as a condition of their pre-trial release, including 31 people charged with murder. To date, 127 of those out on electronic monitors have cut theirs off and ran - with 18 still being sought....

Putney told WBTV News he will stay in his current position through the “preparation and execution” of the Republican National Convention in late August but didn’t give an exact retirement date. (Source: Paige Pauroso) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - At the tail end of a press conference discussing how to improve electronic monitoring of homicide suspects, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney altered his plans to retire at the end of the year. “I intend to retire,” said Chief Putney. “It will not be January 1, 2020.” Putney told WBTV News he will stay in his current position through the “preparation...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has thousands of confiscated firearms stored in their facilities, according to Chief Kerr Putney. In an interview with WBTV anchor Molly Grantham, Putney explained why the department is keeping the confiscated guns locked behind closed doors when some of the firearms could be sold to vendors. “I don’t want to be responsible for having one of those weapons take a life here in Charlotte when we could have done something that’s within our purview because of a law enforcement reason to keep that from happening and that’s what I stand by,” said...

A national crisis generated by local law enforcement agencies offering even the most violent illegal immigrants sanctuary is driving federal officials to resort to desperate measures. Under a local-federal partnership known as 287(g), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is notified of jail inmates in the country illegally so that they can be deported after serving time for state crimes. Unfortunately, a growing number of local law enforcement agencies are instead releasing the illegal aliens—many with serious convictions such as child sex offenses, rape and murder—rather than turn them over to federal authorities for removal. Judicial Watch has reported on this...

Full title: Charlotte Observer Report Shows Half of All Weapons Offenses in North Carolina Are Dismissed: Because Cracking Down on Gun Crime Means More Non-Whites (Blacks) in Jail Criminal Justice Reform pushed by both Democrats and Republicans represents treason to the law abiding citizens of this nation, for it ensures violent criminals will be released into the public to prey upon us. We aren’t tough enough on crime in America, where violent, homicidal, convicted criminals sit on death row for decades, instead of immediately being executed to serve as a reminder “punishment must be unusual or else it serves no...

The left’s latest charge against North Carolina Republicans is a doozy: They’re too cheap to prosecute criminals. That’s how they’re spinning a recent Charlotte Observer report that about half of all weapons charges in the state are dismissed —including 68% of cases in Mecklenburg County, 58% in Durham County and 45% in Wake County. The left’s attempt to blame the GOP rests, of course, on the idea that we can solve this — like every other problem — by spending more money. There’s some truth to this, as the Observer reports that North Carolina spends less per capita on its...

After a North Carolina sheriff released an illegal immigrant on bond in a child rape case, former acting ICE Director Tom Homan said the law enforcement officer should have called the federal government and had the suspect detained. The suspect was finally apprehended by federal authorities, two months after Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden ignored an ICE detainer order and released him from custody. "Mecklenburg County wants to be a sanctuary county. This sheriff has made a choice to stop being a cop and be a politician," Homan said on "Fox & Friends Weekend." Homan said this is a common...

The man arrested Friday on suspicion of mailing a dozen pipe bombs to President Trump's political enemies formerly worked as a male stripper, his former employer told the Washington Examiner. Event promoter Tony Valentine said he hired Cesar Sayoc in the 1990s to strip on multiple occasions in Ohio and that Sayoc traveled the country for similar appearances. "He really couldn't find his niche in life, and I guess he found it now," Valentine told the Washington Examiner. "Back in the '90s, he was running around from Minnesota to the Carolinas to Florida. He was like a gypsy."

Cesar Altieri Sayoc has been arrested in connection with the suspicious packages that were sent across the country to various liberal personalities and to CNN’s headquarters in New York City. Sayoc was first named as the suspect by NY1’s Myles Miller. Sayoc is 54 years old and is a resident of Aventura, Florida. Sayoc is originally from the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. It was that CNN’s reporter, Shimon Prokupecz, who first tweeted that a suspect had been taken into custody. The arrest took place in Plantation, Florida, on the morning of October 26. Plantation is a suburb of...

Federal authorities on Friday arrested a man in Plantation, Florida in connection to a series of apparent mail bombs sent to prominent Democrats and progressive activists, according to reports. 1:03 PM — More information comes to light about suspect Cesar Altieri Sayoc’s past legal troubles. Nathan Morabito @NateMorabito BREAKING: Just confirmed with @MeckSheriff: A man with the same name and age as the suspect behind the bomb packages, Cesar Altieri Sayoc, was arrested in Mecklenburg County on 4/10/99 when he was 37 for possessing a stolen vehicle. The case stems out of Matthews #BreakingNews 12:03 PM - Oct 26, 2018...

MIAMI (CBSMiami/CNN) – Federal authorities have arrested a man in Plantation in connection to a series of package bombs that have been sent to top Democrats and President Trump critics, according to CBS News. The man was taken into custody at an Auto Zone store on State Road 7 at SW 6th Street around 10:30 a.m. A “loud explosion” was heard at the time of the arrest, possibly from a flash bang device used by FBI in the course of making the arrest. A law enforcement source told CBS4 the man is 56-years-old Cesar Sayoc and they were led to...

A Florida resident was identified Friday as the suspect who sent a dozen pipe bomb packages to prominent critics of President Donald Trump, several law enforcement officials said. DNA evidence played a role in the arrest of Cesar Sayoc, Jr., 56, the officials said. Sayoc's white van, which had pictures of Trump and the presidential seal plastered to the windows, was seized by the officials and hauled off to a secure facility. The suspect is a registered Republican, according to records. The dramatic development came on the same day that two new suspicious packages were found, one addressed to Sen....

Federal authorities arrested a man in Florida on Friday suspected of sending at least a dozen parcel bombs to high-profile critics of U.S. President Donald Trump days ahead of congressional elections, officials said. The man was taken into custody in the parking lot of an AutoZone store in Plantation, near Fort Lauderdale, where two witnesses told Reuters they heard a loud blast at the time of the arrest. Local television stations showed investigators using a large blue tarp to cover a white van that was plastered with decals and stickers, before removing it on a truck.

Cesar Sayoc goes by Cesar Altieri. I found his LinkedIn profile and his Twitter feed: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cesar-altieri-45424988https://twitter.com/hardrock2016