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A Florida man pleaded guilty to planning a double-homicide, one he had hoped to blame on the Black Lives Matter movement. Daniel Slater, 51, of Palm Beach County, Fla., elocuted in a Fort Lauderdale federal district court that he had met with someone to plan the murder of his ex-girlfriend and her husband. The identity of his co-conspirator was not revealed. Among the revealed details of his plan, Slater said he instructed his accomplice which windows of the couple’s home to shoot through as well as instructions to spray-paint “Black Lives Matter” on the house. In return, Slater told his...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Massachusetts hospital police official linked to the so-called cannibal cop case pleaded guilty on Thursday in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to kidnap and kill women. New Hampshire man Richard Meltz, 65, faces up to five years in prison on each of two conspiracy counts when he is sentenced later this year. The plea deal came just weeks before Meltz and two co-defendants were scheduled to go to trial on charges that they hatched a kidnap plot online. The case stems from an investigation into New York police officer Gilberto Valle, whose trial and conviction...

(Video at the link) KTLA News 5:34 p.m. PDT, May 23, 2012 HESPERIA, Calif. (KTLA) -- Three middle school students were arrested Tuesday in Hesperia on charges of attempting to murder the mother of one of the students. The mother called the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department Tuesday morning to report that she had been attacked in her home in the 8500 block of C Avenue. "I don't know what to say. I just can't believe it," Angelica Aquirre told the L.A. Times. Sign up for KTLA 5 Breaking News Email Alerts Aquirre said she was in bed asleep early...

Glendora, California (CNN) -- It's the kind of Southern California town made for daydreaming: Quiet streets and sunny skies, a place where tranquility seems rarely to be disturbed. But according to police, as well as classified U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks, the Los Angeles suburb of Glendora was the scene of an international assassination plot. The scheme involved would-be killers hiding out in a low-budget motel and an elaborate plan that, at first, involved shooting the victim, but later centered on running him over with a van, police documents disclose. "I've been a police officer here for more than...

SNIPPET: "ROME (Reuters) - Two Moroccan students deported from Italy last month were suspected of plotting to assassinate Pope Benedict, an Interior Ministry source said on Friday. Mohamed Hlal, 26, and Ahmed Errahmouni, 22, students at the University for Foreigners in the central Italian city of Perugia, had been under surveillance by anti-terrorist police for months before they were expelled on April 29." SNIPPET: "Six other foreign students, suspected of contacts with militant Islamic groups, are still under investigation." SNIPPET: "The magazine said police discovered a map of Turin at Errahmouni's house annotated with numbers and circles, ahead of a...

At least a half-dozen friends and relatives of Maurice Clemmons helped him flee the Parkland coffee shop where he killed four police officers, helped him clean up and treat a bullet wound and took him to a house in the Leschi house in Seattle. Two of them have been arrested for rendering criminal assistance based on a probable cause declaration. They are Eddie Lee Davis and Douglas Edward Davis who live in a residence on 132nd Street South. According to the declaration of Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist, the two were among six who helped Clemmons after the Sunday morning...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. - Two men who allegedly tried to use rattlesnakes as deadly weapons to collect on a debt have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, authorities said. The Lakewood men were allegedly trying to kill Matthew Sowash, owner of Amateur Poker Tour in Wheat Ridge, because he owed them $60,000, Jim Shires of the Jefferson County Sheriff's office said. Arrest affidavits say Sowash's company stages Texas Hold'em-style poker games in Denver area bars. Herbert Paul Beck, 56, was arrested Thursday in Raton, N.M., and Christopher Lee Steelman, 34, was arrested Wednesday in Lakewood. Bail for each suspect was...

ISLAMABAD, 21 September 2006 — The Supreme Court of Pakistan yesterday disposed of the appeal of one of the suspects in President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s assassination attempt. The suspect, Nazir Ahmad, who was acquitted by the top court due to lack of substantial evidence, was immediately detained for three months under “Security and Protection Act” for his alleged links with Al-Qaeda. Ahmad was acquitted by the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court some time ago. After his acquittal, Punjab government had filed another case against him under Terrorists Act and Ahmad was detained. He later challenged his detention in...

Original song Lyrics by Patrick S. Gilmore, (1863) Update-Parody by Coral Snake (2003) MIDI: WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME1. Ms. Labyak drives a fancy car, Put them! Away! Because her hand's in the cookie jar. Put them! Away! Part of the plot full of bitter strife, By Michael Schiavo to kill his wife. It is time we put, These felons in orange suits. It is time we put, These felons in orange suits. 2. Now There's George Felos the bearded Ghoul. Put them! Away! Plays a deadly game of dirty pool. Put them! Away! Part of the plot full of...