Two women were caught allegedly stealing $1,900 worth of electronics from a Bloomfield Township Target on the same day the store was packed with police for a Shop with a Cop event.
"I couldn't believe it," Bloomfield Township Police Sgt. Dan Brown said.
About 15 police officers from four departments ‐ Sylvan Lake, Keego Harbor, Orchard Lake and Bloomfield Township ‐ were at the Target at 2400 Telegraph Wednesday night, helping 22 disadvantaged children pick out Christmas presents for their families.
Keiana Wilson, 40, of Burton and Dana Johnson, 18 of Flint were also there.
Brown said store loss prevention officers watched on cameras as the women loaded a cart with two Apple watches, two iPads and a Nintendo gaming system. At about 7:30 p.m., they walked past the registers without paying.
They never made it to the parking lot.
"The loss prevention (officers) actually apprehended them, then they asked for police assistance," said Sylvan Lake Police Sgt. Michael Mondeau, who organized the Shop with a Cop event. "The police officers were only about 20 feet away when they tried to walk out of the store."
[The Hill] A man climbed the National Christmas Tree near the White House on Friday night and refused to come down before he was taken to a hospital, NBC4 Washington reported.
U.S. Park Police told the outlet that they negotiated with the man, who they said is emotionally distressed. The man was reportedly taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation after getting out of the tree.
Police closed the surrounding area, telling the news site that it will be closed for the remainder of the evening. Some tree lights were damaged, according to NBC4.
The Hill has reached out to D.C. police and U.S. Park Police for comment.
The tree, located on the Ellipse near the White House, is a popular winter attraction for Washington tourists.
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U.S. Park Police told the outlet that they negotiated with the man, who they said is emotionally distressed. The man was reportedly taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation after getting out of the tree.
[Breitbart] Mass deportations effectively deter the violent El Salvadoran MS-13 gang from expanding across the United States, an investigation finds.
Research conducted by the State of New Jersey Commission of Investigation found that mass deportations of illegal aliens, which took place in the 1990s and 2000s, helped deter the expansion of the MS-13 gang across the U.S.
The report reveals:
In the 1990s and through the 2000s, law enforcement sought to counter MS-13’s growing influence by enlisting U.S. immigration authorities to deport tens of thousands of immigrants who had been convicted of crimes in the United States [emphasis added].
The strategy proved a stopgap solution. While it initially diminished MS-13 in California, it exported the gang’s culture to Central America, where deep poverty and corruptible law enforcement agencies allowed the gang to flourish [emphasis added].
The study also notes that mass immigration to the U.S. ‐ where more than 60 million immigrants have arrived since 1965 ‐ helped the MS-13 gang grow in membership and size, now spanning across 40 states with more than 10,000 members.
"Migration, both within the United States and from Central America to the United States, contributed to the gang’s spread through the 1990s and 2000s," the report states. "MS-13 established beachheads in Texas, Charlotte, N.C., Washington D.C., Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Long Island, and Massachusetts. Numerous cliques are now entrenched in these strongholds, fed by the recruitment of teens and young men."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Indian police nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on Friday 126 people working for an allegedly fake call center making up to $50,000 a day by duping US citizens, officials said.
India became the global call centre capital in the early 2000s as foreign firms, drawn by an educated and cheaper English-speaking workforce, farmed out jobs answering customer phone enquiries.
The suspects arrested in Noida outside Delhi would tell Americans there were problems with their social security numbers and solicit money to fix it, police said.
Another scam was telling people they had committed tax offences and that they had to pay to settle, Noida police official Ajay Pal Sharma told AFP.
"Your warrant is on my desk and if this issue is not resolved we will have to freeze your account and put you behind the bars," one caller is heard to say in a recording made available to AFP.
In Indian-accented English, he says that the man can either fight the US Inland Revenue Service (IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... ) in court and face a $75,000 fine as a "tax defrauder" or pay immediately an "out-of-court settlement".
"Many responded to the call and fell for their trap," Sharma said.
The local authorities have also contacted the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and shared the details of the case.
The call center had been in operation for three years. Around 300 computers were seized.
Mumbai police in October 2016 detained more than 770 people suspected of defrauding Americans by impersonating IRS agents and demanding payments.
The US Justice Department subsequently charged 61 people for involvement in India-based schemes that defrauded nearly 15,000 US citizens.
Later in April 2017 they arrested the alleged criminal mastermind of the racket, 24-year-old Sagar Thakkar, who was making more than $155,000 a day at the height of the scam.
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Meanwhile the list of spoofed fake caller ID numbers continues to pile up on my ZTE cell phone. The phone companies allow this to happen.
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The FBI prefers to investigate Trump for imaginary crimes and ignores real crimes like these involving millions of US citizens. Meanwhile all the #%@ political hacks make our simple tool of a telephone useless each election season.
[Townhall] Well, the GoFundMe campaign to build President Trump’s border wall raised over $500,000 in two days. On the third day, it blew past $5 million. We’re now four days into the campaign and it’s raised more than $13 million. The effort launched by Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage has a goal of $1 billion. He said he’s mirroring this effort off of the $7.5 million donation that was forked over to repair the Washington Monument. With the government is hours away from a shutdown over border wall funding, why not donate if you support border security. In the meantime, an alternate liberal fundraiser to collect money for ladders to scale Trump’s wallis not nearly as successful (via Axios):
A GoFundMe created to raise money for President Trump's border wall has raised over $11 million [UPDATE: Over $13 million] in four days, but that's a small fraction of its $1 billion goal.
Why it matters: Congress is in a stalemate over the border wall. The House passed a short-term funding that includes $5.7 billion for border security, but the Senate, which passed their own bill that did not include the amount of wall funding Trump has demanded, will likely shoot it down. President Trump said last week that he'd accept full responsibility for a shutdown over wall funding, but said this morning that Democrats will be to blame if the Senate fails to pass the House's bill.
The other side: A counter-fundraiser has raised over $74,000 of a $100 million goal for ladders to get over the border wall. If either of the fundraisers' goals are not met, the ladder GoFundMe will donate its cash to the Texas-based nonprofit Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES).
Kolfage has updated the page regularly, adding an address for people to mail checks and noting that donations made in the name of celebrities would be refunded. If you wish to donate, please go here.
$15,578,027 of $1.0B goal
Raised by 255,512 people in 5 days
The latest update:
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Hey guys people out there are trying to discourage you and spreading lies. I'll set it straight.
If the wall gets funded by the govt, this fund will no longer be needed. My original promise stands true to refund. However many people also don't want a refund and would like it to go to a charity since it's such a large amount; actually most people have said donate it . IF... the wall gets funded, you will have two options, refund or donate.
Wepay will process all refunds, and then what is left over we will donate to a recognized charity that we agree on.
Furthermore, we are pushing on, the wall has not been funded yet. DON'T STOP! THE MISSION CONTINUES!
Sign our petition, we are taking it to DC to show the support! WeFundTheWall.com
Help spread the word!
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Recently Trump said there is $100 bin for enterprise zones. He should declare border areas as enterprise zones and allocate 25 bin for enterprise zone infrastructure and security (wink, wink)
[Daily Caller] Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly found himself in hot water after he posted what many considered to be an insensitive tweet about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s cancer surgery.
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that Justice Ginsburg underwent a successful medical procedure that removed cancerous nodules from her lung.
"Justice Ginsburg is very ill," O’Reilly tweeted. "Another Justice appointment inevitable and soon. Bad news for the left."
O’Reilly caught plenty of heat for his comment. "The View" co-host Meghan McCain called it "gross and ghoulish."
"There’s really nothing more gross and ghoulish than people in the media pontificating on a public persons health and the hypothetical political ramifications of their death," McCain tweeted. "Join me in praying for RBG to have a speedy and healthy recovery ‐ we are Christians, aren’t we Bill?"
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Well, Meggie Moo is gross, and the way she and the rest of her family used daddy McSssssschtain's funeral to advance their petty political ends was ghoulish, so, I guess she knows what she's talking about for once, anyway...
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If Ruth Buzzy Ginsberg had any integrity she would retire as she is incapable of serving.
But no.
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Considering all the vitriol I've seen lefties tweet whenever a Republican pol is in ill health, O'Reilly's comment was downright respectful.
[Telegraph] A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with the "criminal use of drones" which sparked chaos for three days at Gatwick Airport.
The arrests came as passengers braced for further disruption while the airport tried to recover from the turmoil.
Sussex Police said the people were arrested in the Gatwick area just after 10pm on Friday night.
Superintendent James Collis of Sussex Police said: "Our investigations are still ongoing, and our activities at the airport continue to build resilience to detect and mitigate further incursions from drones by deploying a range of tactics.
"We continue to urge the public, passengers and the wider community around Gatwick to be vigilant and support us by contacting us immediately if they believe they have any information that can help us in bringing those responsible to justice.
"The arrests we have made this evening are a result of our determination to keep the public safe from harm, every line of inquiry will remain open to us until we are confident that we have mitigated further threats to the safety of passengers."
In the animation of the Long March 8 landing here (at sea no less, so launching from Wenchang then) the side boosters stay attached to the 1st stage, apparently as ballast that addresses lack of throttling down/variable thrust engines. Let's see. Source: http://t.co/c3elMW5axypic.twitter.com/REBRfUt1ai
[News24] A South African teenager who was detained in China says she'll never leave the country to work overseas again after her month-long detention.
Tristan-Lee Niemand, 19, spoke to News24 about her ordeal shortly after landing at OR Tambo International Airport on Saturday.
She opened up about how she found herself detained after working as a teacher in Nanjing, China, for three weeks.
Niemand and six other South Africans working as teachers in Nanjing were detained after it emerged that they didn’t have the proper work permits to teach in the country. They only had student visas and they were promised to be provided with work permits by the school that employed them.
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Better find a good plan B country to plan A South Africa. Just sayin’,
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China is stricter on immigration stuff than the USA. Here, you can work as a student, but you need to get permission from the school, and have special paperwork. Also, if you do have a work permit (about the size of a US drivers license), it contains a QR code that specifies where you can work, with a specific address. If you are found working at a different address, various sorts of spanking will ensue. I've met English teachers(with valid work permits for one address) that have been naughty and detained for 4-12 hours after being caught working at a different address than allowed, then usually fined and let go.
Working with no proper work permit at all in a foreign country is just asking for trouble. I think that is how is should be. It's rife in China, many college students (M-F) get tempted into Sat/Sun jobs at training centers, because all college kids need a little cash, here or there.
[Euro News] Catalan separatists have blocked roads and clashed with police as Spanish ministers held a cabinet meeting in the regional capital Barcelona, and not in Madrid.
The decision to move the meeting failed to reduced tensions months after Catalan leaders were jailed for trying to break away from Spain.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Catalan leader Quim Torra had agreed on Thursday to an "effective dialogue" but there were violent scenes near the venue where the cabinet assembled.
Friday's meeting was convened exactly a year after the previous Spanish government held snap elections in Catalonia, a decision seen as provocative by pro-independence groups.
[Daily Caller] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is blaming President Donald Trump and his "domestic realities" for the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants coming into Canada.
Trudeau made the comments Friday during a year-end interview with Global News.
Dubbed a "border crisis" by the Official Opposition Conservatives, an increasing number of Canadians are also concerned about the steady stream of illegals coming into Canada, according to polls. The flood of would-be refugees began shortly after Trudeau issued the now infamous #WelcomeToCanada tweet in January 2017 that invited the refugees of the world to come to Canada, even as Trump aimed to tighten American borders.
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Ok, Trudeau. I propose a deal. You apologizd and stop trash talking us for not treating illegals as legals, and we won't remind you how hypocritical you are.
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Wasn't that long ago the Burg had its own Canadian troll taunting us about our immigration policies. Revenge is a dish best served up cold (in December, you bet its cold).
[DAWN] The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday sought record of the private land where a mosque and seminary had been allegedly built on an encroached piece.
A three-judge bench, headed by Justice Gulzar Ahmed, issued this directive while hearing a civil application filed by a private company, International Brands (Private) Limited, against alleged attempts to encroach upon some portion of a piece of commercial land by the prayer leader of a mosque.
The counsel of the company, Arshad Mohsin Tayebaley, told the court that his client had purchased Plot number F/2 X in Trans Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... Quarters, Site, from the Pakistain Tobacco Company Limited, which executed a deed of assignment in respect of the land in favour of the applicant in 1996.
According to the lawyer, in 1965 the PTC had constructed a mosque named Mubarak Masjid with a Hujra on 7,015 square feet for the religious benefit and use of the workers and appointed Maulana Noor Muhammad Qureshi as its Pesh Imam (prayer leader).
Later, the holy man started unauthorised construction for an accommodation for his family adjacent to the mosque, but it was demolished by the district magistrate concerned after an inquiry.
The counsel contended that the holy man still claimed the portion of the demolished structure and later involved religious organizations in this matter.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the Sindh High Court in Nov 2011 decreed a lawsuit instituted by the applicant in its favour, ordering the holy man to vacate the premises and refrain from interfering with the property.
The high court also restrained the applicant company from demolishing or disturbing the mosque or the seminary and told it to continue to use it for offering prayers and religious purposes.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the counsel submitted that in addition to the existence of the mosque and seminary now attempts were being made by the respondent to encroach upon the adjacent portion of the land for a graveyard.
During Thursday’s proceedings, a bench member, Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, asked how prayers could be offered in a mosque allegedly built on an encroached piece of land. Justice Ahmed observed that whether the illegal occupation could be legitimised even after the passage of a century.
Addressing the respondent’s counsel, the judge asked whether they had forgotten the example of the Masjid-e-Nabvi and asked him to cite a single example where the Khulfa-e-Rashideen had built a mosque on encroached land.
The judge further observed that if anyone wanted to build a mosque, it must be done in a legal way as building a mosque on encroached land amounted to defaming the Islam.
The bench members noted that Allah had not permitted building of a mosque on government land or on the property of private persons.
The counsel said that the applicant company was ready to offer the portion of the land where the mosque and the seminary had been built, but requested the court to restrain the respondents from unlawfully occupying the rest of the land for a graveyard.
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[DailyMail]A poisoning plot was allegedly hatched by the cleric to defame an official at the Kichguth Maramma temple in Karnataka and take control of its treasury of 3.4 million rupees (£38,000).
So it was not merely accidental food poisoning. Good to know.
[DAWN] Police in Attock on Thursday started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the owner of a welfare institute for allegedly assaulting maiden of tender yearss and making their videos.
The suspect was tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on December 19 after police conducted a raid at the welfare institution near the Gora Qabristan in Attock, said police officials at the City station.
16 girls, between the ages of five and 14 including orphans as well as others who belonged to low income families, were found at the institute. Two women ‐ a matron and a caretaker for the girls ‐ were also rescued.
The police officials added that mobile phones and laptops were retrieved in the raid.
According to the first investigation report (FIR) registered on Dec 20 by a girl's father, who said his daughter had been at the institute for three months, the suspect used to take the girls in a room at night, assault them and make videos.
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[DAWN] The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has jugged You have the right to remain silent... a Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... resident for allegedly blackmailing a woman in Lahore and forcing her to marry him, read a statement issued on Friday.
According to the FIA statement, the suspect, who is a resident of North Karachi, had been blackmailing the Lahore woman by threatening to post private photos and videos of her on the internet if she did not agree to his marriage proposal.
He travelled to Lahore from Karachi along with his family and baraat (wedding party) to marry the complainant. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... upon arrival at the Lahore railway station, a team of FIA's Cybercrime Wing arrested the suspect.
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[The Saturday Paper Auz] The Indonesian military has employed airstrikes in West Papua – suspected to include the banned chemical weapon white phosphorus – as a retaliation for murders following a flag-raising protest.
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Why is this important? Because there are allegedly gold reserves in the area. And the New Guinea population in the area is either tribal or Catholic, and Indonesia is Muslim. You do the math.
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How many thousand US troops are needed to rectify this?
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Howe many? A few advisers, some weaponry. And that is already in place. Locals should be able to handle this with support.
Or would you rather let Islamic Fundamentalists flourish here until they strike at the US - like we did in Afghanistan in the 90's.
Their blood now vs Our Blood later.
Islamic fundamentalism needs to be opposed, it is a threat to the US. And you are being short sighted if you dont realize this is a long game. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.
[RoadsideAmerica] The secret of the tasty-taste of Dyer's hamburgers, according to Dyer's Burgers, is that they're cooked in the grease that the restaurant started with back in 1912. Or at least some of that grease (The restaurant adds fresh grease to the old grease every now and then). To its credit, Dyer's Burgers has been very protective of its grease over the years, moving it under armed guard as the restaurant has relocated to various Memphis addresses.
If you feel uneasy about burgers fried in "ancient grease," the restaurant does say that the grease is strained every day. So it's clean 100-year-old grease.
PLANO, Texas, Dec. 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Liberty Institute sent a letter today to the United States Postal Service ("USPS") seeking clarification of its policies regarding custom postage. The letter follows the adoption in 2017 by the USPS of a regulation barring "any depiction" of religious content, which forced vendor Zazzle and Stamps.com to deny First Liberty client Tavia Hunt the purchase of a personalized, custom Christmas card stamp featuring her family’s vacation photo in front of a historic cathedral.
"No one should have to go to court to send a Christmas card," said Hiram Sasser, General Counsel for First Liberty Institute. "USPS policies are so ambiguous and unequally applied that even its approved vendors don’t know what is allowed and what isn’t. The USPS has made Zazzle and Stamps.com agents of discrimination."
In late November, Mrs. Hunt sought to purchase a personalized, custom stamp through Zazzle, which partners with Stamps.com to print custom postage, that included a photo of her family in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral taken this year while in Moscow for the World Cup. After initially accepting her order, Zazzle informed Mrs. Hunt that her order was being cancelled because of its "religious" nature, specifically the presence of St. Basil’s cathedral in the background. Zazzle then indicated that Mrs. Hunt’s order would be approved if the photo were cropped to make the cathedral "less obvious." Ultimately, Zazzle chose to indefinitely "pause" its production of custom postage for the entire nation rather than run afoul of the Postal Service’s comprehensive ban on religious images.
In response to the rejection of her stamp, Mrs. Hunt said, "All I wanted was to add something personal to my family’s Christmas cards. I was shocked that a family photo that includes a historic cathedral in the background is considered too religious by the Post Office."
First Liberty explained that the USPS regulation is overly broad and as applied may violate the First Amendment’s free exercise clause. Both Stamps.com and Zazzle.com commented against the breadth of the religious restriction when it was published in the Federal Register, but the offending provision was not changed. Without clarification, legal action is possible.
"American taxpayers who fund the Postal Service deserve to know whether they can order a customized stamp or not," added Sasser.
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if the usps were serious about fiscal discipline they would cancel all commemorative stamp work and issue generic ones.
do we really need flower stamps or other bs?
and toss the union
Idiots. The simple solution is to not issue religious stamps themselves, but to make them for customers who want them. That way the government doesn't interfere with their right of expression. Just avoid vulgar stuff.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Detroit Free Press] Talk about terrible timing.
[Breitbart] Mass deportations effectively deter the violent El Salvadoran MS-13 gang from expanding across the United States, an investigation finds.
[News24] A South African teenager who was detained in China says she'll never leave the country to work overseas again after her month-long detention.
[Daily Caller] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is blaming President Donald Trump and his "domestic realities" for the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants coming into Canada.
