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Last month, Senator Dianne Feinstein and other Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released the executive summary of their final report investigating the CIA's controversial detention and interrogation program. As part of their study, the Democrats compiled twenty case studies, which were intended to address claims made by the CIA regarding the efficacy of its interrogations. One of those case studies focused on the identification and arrest of Ali Saleh Kahlah al Marri, who was freed from a US prison just days ago. Al Marri served as a "sleeper" operative for al Qaeda inside the US in 2001....

She allegedly placed her son in the trunk of her car to avoid being exposed to the teen, who she told authorities had COVID-19. She allegedly told officials that the two were there to do additional testing for her son. Officials first became aware of the incident after a noise coming from the trunk was heard by a witness, and the trunk was later unhatched by the Texas teacher, KPRC 2 Houston reported. The witness then contacted police after Beam was reportedly told that the teen needed to be removed from the trunk and placed in the back seat, or...

HOUSTON – A mother has been charged after her 13-year-old son was found in the trunk of her car at a Cy-Fair ISD drive-thru COVID testing site, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office confirmed. Sarah Beam has been charged with endangering a child. Cy-Fair ISD Police Department said a warrant has been issued for her arrest. According to court documents, on Jan. 3, Beam pulled into the drive-thru testing site located at 11355 Falcon Road in northwest Harris County, when a witness reported hearing something in the trunk. The witness said when Beam unlatched the trunk, the boy was found...

MANSFIELD, Ohio - A Texas woman who was reported missing Friday was found dead in her husband’s trunk over 1,000 miles away in Mansfield, Ohio. According to WFAA, Tamara Harris, 33, was found dead in the trunk of car belonging to her husband, 35-year-old Dequalan Harris. The two were in the process of getting a divorce, according to Cedar Hill police. Dequalan Harris traveled to Ohio “for love” or “an internet connection,” Mansfield police said. While there, he stayed with his girlfriend, Demika Rucker, starting on Friday. By Monday, police caught up to Harris and discovered Tamara Harris’ body in...

Eyewitnesses told officers that the woman locked her two children – aged 2 and 5 – in the trunk of her car before going to the local Walmart to shop. They heard the kids scratching and making other noises inside the car and guided them to reach for an emergency latch to free themselves. Police: Utah woman locked her kids in trunk while she shopped https://t.co/c3hKBRu7M4 — Supra1BqTeam (@supra1Bqteam) May 27, 2017 The police were called to the scene and arrested the careless woman on her return to the parking lot. She remains in custody while her children have been...

CATOOSA, Okla. — A middle school teacher in Oklahoma was fired Wednesday after she took a group of students on a snack run, piling them all into her car. Heather Cagle, a yearbook and math teacher, decided to do “something sweet” for her journalism students and take them to Wal-Mart for snacks, according to Tulsa World.

FULL TITLE: Teen mom drove with 5-month-old baby in trunk to avoid getting ticketed for not having a car seat A young mother was arrested early Tuesday after she put her 5-month-old baby into the trunk of her car, to avoid getting a ticket for not driving with a car seat. Broward County, Florida sheriff's deputies first spotted 19-year-old Breona Synclair Watkins driving a car with a headlight out around 1am, when she pulled out 15 feet into an intersection at a red light, and then backed up. They then attempted to pull her over, but she continued through the...

According to Joe Williams, the senior White House reporter for Politico, Rush Limbaugh is like the "serial murderer" who was caught with "three bodies in the trunk." The veteran journalist made the outrageous comparison on Tuesday's Martin Bashir show, a program that included other liberal smears against the conservative radio host. Before making his offensive connection, Williams highlighted his background covering the police. Regarding Limbaugh's comments about Sandra Fluke, the journalist linked: "... [Law enforcement] always would catch the serial murder because he was driving around with a busted taillight, not because he had, like, three bodies in the trunk."...

Morning all, didn't see a thread for today so I created one.

Cops: Ore. Man Puts Kids in Car Trunk   Police Say Ore. Man Put Kids in Car's Trunk for Family Vacation Because Car Was Too Small PORTLAND, Ore. Apr 1, 2007 (AP)— An Oregon man on vacation with his family is accused of putting two of his four children in a car trunk because the vehicle was too small to hold all of them. Douglas Willy, 40, was arrested Saturday after police received a tip from a person who saw the family at a gas station, authorities said. He was charged with two counts of reckless endangerment. Willy, his fiancee and their four...

Quito, Nov 4 (EFE).- Hundreds of Ecuadorians are visiting an area in the southern province of Loja where people say an image of Christ's face is visible on the trunk of a tree. The face was first seen on Oct. 19, and since then hundreds of people have visited the site, located in the village of Zamora Guayco. The Catholic Church has asked several priests to examine the tree trunk privately, the TV channel said. Most of Ecuador's 12.5 million people are Catholic. The face on the tree trunk has aroused much interest and drawn increasingly large crowds to the...

New Orleans Police are trying to identify a body which was found Friday morning among debris left over from Hurricane Katrina. At about 9 a.m., someone on North Rampart and Elysian Fields found the body on the neutral ground and flagged down some National Guard troops. The body had been put in a trunk and was badly decomposed. Authorities have not identified the body, and were unsure of the gender of the body. Police ruled it an unclassified death as of Friday afternoon.

Man says Dr. Phil was inspiration to scare wife Fredonia man to serve 6 months, undergo counseling Port Washington - A Fredonia man who says he was influenced by TV talk show host "Dr. Phil" McGraw to hire someone to give his wife "a terrific scare" by kidnapping her and locking her in a truck of a car was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail and ordered to undergo mental health counseling With the man's wife, five grown children and several friends looking on, Ozaukee County Circuit Judge Tom R. Wolfgram also sentenced Ronald J. Schueller to three years...

Thurmont police Sgt. Shawn Tyler said he could barely believe his eyes: Before him, at a Frederick County shopping mall, a woman was helping three young children into the trunk of her car. Two boys -- one the woman's 9-year-old son and the other an 8-year-old friend -- hopped into the trunk of the teal Volvo 850 on their own, according to court documents charging Lanora Adele Lucas with three counts of reckless endangerment. The 3-year-old, Lucas's daughter, came last, set inside by Lucas, the officer said. With that, she drove off southward. ... "Yes, you did," Tyler replied. "I...

- German police, alerted to a potential kidnapping, “freed” a man from a car trunk only to discover the would-be victim was actually a willing sex slave, authorities said on Thursday. advertisement Police stopped the car after a concerned caller told them he had seen a woman locking someone in the trunk. However, on opening it, they were greeted by the sight of the 39-year-old man wearing nothing but a leather thong and a collar. “It turned out they

February 8, 2005 Release Number: 05-02-08 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TASK FORCE BAGHDAD TROOPS RESCUE TWO KIDNAP VICTIMS BAGHDAD, Iraq –Soldiers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, stopped a vehicle they thought was suspicious at approximately 4:20 p.m. on Feb. 7. When they searched the vehicle, inside the trunk, the Soldiers found two blindfolded and bound men. The men were two of four Egyptian kidnap victims, taken captive on Feb. 6. When the vehicle first stopped, the three occupants fled the scene on foot. The Soldiers followed in pursuit, catching two. The two men caught are being held for...

SAN DIEGO – A mother who locked her 7-year-old son in the trunk of her car while celebrating her birthday at an Ocean Beach bar pleaded guilty today to felony child abuse and false imprisonment.

Police arrest an Indianapolis woman after she openly told them three children were riding in the trunk of her car. It started with a 9-1-1 call from 21st and Post Road around 1:30 Saturday afternoon. The caller said she'd just seen a woman put three small children in the trunk of a car and close it. The driver went south on Post Road and police stopped her at 10th and Post. Inside,45-year-old Linda Crenshaw and six children. Two of the children were in the front seat, four others in the back seat The officer asks her is she has kids...

A Coon Rapids couple discovered the remains of a third infant Tuesday, a day after finding the bones of two others while sifting through storage trunks inherited from a deceased family member. The bones of the three infants, believed to have been dead for at least 10 years, were discovered by Michael and Kathleen Manning, authorities said. The storage trunks had belonged to Kathleen Manning's mother, who died four years ago, according to the Anoka County Sheriff's Office, which would not reveal the mother's name. The locked trunks had been kept at Manning Transfer, a Blaine storage facility run by...

HUNTINGDON, Pa. -- A woman who locked her 3-year-old daughter in the trunk of a car while she visited her husband in prison has been charged with endangerment. Tammy Denise Swittenburg-Edwards, 31, was arrested Saturday at a state prison about 95 miles east of Pittsburgh after prison guards heard crying and yelling from the vehicle and found the girl in the trunk, state police said. Swittenburg-Edwards apparently locked her in after prison officials refused the child's entry because she wasn't on a visitor's list, state police said. The girl was in the trunk for about 40 minutes while Swittenburg-Edwards visited...