[MAIL] An off-duty correction officer was lured to a date with a woman in the Bronx and ambushed by two armed robbers who ended up in the hospital after the victim shot them Saturday night.
The unnamed officer and a young woman were sitting in a car at East 183 Street and Tiebout Avenue in the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx at around 6pm, according to the New York Police Department.
The officer thought he was meeting Diamond Sanchez, 21, for a date, police sources told the New York Daily News.
They were sitting at the intersection when two men - Christopher Santana, 22, and Leonel Cuevas, 26 - walked up to them and tried to rob them, sources said.
Santana and Cuevas both ended up in the hospital after the correction officer - whose name and age have not been revealed - shot them multiple times. The pair was arrested along with the young woman, who seems to have been working against her 'date' from the very beginning.
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The people who were shot are the victims. What kind of journalist wrote this? Doesn't she know how to frame stories correctly, particularly when Hispanic surnames are involved?
[Newsweek] A woman is accused of using a fatal robbery to carry out a theft of her own, according to police.
Lakiesha Deshawn McGhee, 43, a registered nurse from Bonaire, Georgia, was arrested on Monday and charged with theft by taking and tampering with evidence, according to local paper The Telegraph. McGhee allegedly stole several lottery tickets from a store after the clerk, Sabrina Renee Dollar, 43, was gunned down by robbers.
The incident played out on January 18, when McGhee was a patron at the J&J Dollar Store, a store that sells lottery tickets and operates video poker machines, in Warner Robins, Georgia. Following the fatal robbery, McGhee was reportedly the one who called 911. Despite attempting to help in the aftermath, she was eventually caught pocketing the tickets from the back office. The exact value of the tickets that she stole is unknown at this time.
[Epoch Times] Two New York-based healthcare workers were arrested for allegedly forging and selling thousands of COVID-19 vaccine cards, allegedly selling fake vaccine cards and entering that information into the New York State Immunization Information System.
"As nurses, these two individuals should understand the importance of legitimate vaccination cards as we all work together to protect public health," Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said in a statement.
Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney told news outlets that DeVuono, who owned Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare in Amityville, and Urraro provided fake vaccination cards. They charged $220 for adults and $85 for children, he said. That says how much some folks do not want the vax.
When law enforcement officials searched DeVuono’s home, they discovered about $900,000 in cash and a ledger showing profits of $1.5 million from the alleged scheme, prosecutors told AP.
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When law enforcement officials searched DeVuono’s home, they discovered about $900,000 in cash and a ledger showing profits of $1.5 million from the alleged scheme, prosecutors told AP.
I see a couple flaws in their brilliant plan right there.
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...A funny, funny man and by all accounts a decent one. Everybody remembers the WKRP ep with the turkeys, but for me the hand-down funniest one was where Johnny Fever and a Ohio Highway Patrolman do a reflex test intended to show you how the more you drink, the worse your reflexes get...except the more Johnny drinks, the faster he gets.
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Having grown up in the Cincy area (go Bengals) I of course watched this show. Loni Anderson was good eye candy but Jan Smithers was stunning.
Forever 29.
[FoxNews] Cheslie Kryst, the 30-year-old winner of Miss USA 2019, jumped to her death from the 29th floor of the Orion condominium building on Sunday morning, according to the NYPD.
Police were called to the 60-story high-rise in the theater district of Manhattan at 7:05 a.m. on a report that a woman jumped from a terrace.
The NYPD said that they suspect Kryst's death was a suicide, but the medical examiner will ultimately rule on the cause of death after an autopsy. She was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Kryst, a former civil litigation attorney who received her MBA and law degree from Wake Forest University, won Miss USA in 2019.
Kryst worked as an entertainment news correspondent for Extra TV, where she was nominated for an Emmy.
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A friend told me of college course where they mentioned a Chicago medical examiner that once opined that a cause of death was "obviously suicide, shot himself seven (7) times in the heart with a revolver." Back in the Mayor Richard J. Dayley years...
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Something similar back in the 80's. Two guys were found duct taped in the back of a burned out car near Steubenville, OH. The media's take: "If the deaths are determined to be homicides, they will be the nth and n+1th murders of the year.
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Every time I see some title like that I read it as "Master Chef fighting the Covenant..." and I imagine a character that's half Marine Cyborg, half Gordon Ramsay...
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^ Wall of Voodoo
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You're right. I'm so old I confuse ban names all the time.
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Comedy writer Dave Barry posted that his neighbor just finished shoveling the iguanas off his (Dave's) driveway. That's how neighborly they are in Florida.
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Christopher Flanigan posted an Instagram photo of cops lining Fifth Avenue for the funeral of Det. Jason Rivera on Friday
Rivera died in the line of duty earlier this month
Flanigan wrote in the caption for the picture that it was an 'ideal' condition for 'reciprocity' after a police van ran into a group of protesters in May 2020
People on Twitter are now calling for him to be fired from Coney Island Prep, where he teaches math
His comments came as an actress was fired for a TikTok rant about street closures during the funeral
[Daily Beast] BUJA, Nigeria—Prince Ngoma was just about to depart a mining site in Central African Republic’s (CAR) eastern village of Aïgbado when heavily armed Russian mercenaries in a pickup truck drove in, opened fire, and burned down the houses in the area.
"They didn’t speak a word to anyone, only their guns did the talking," said Ngoma, who was only there to meet a friend. "I saw people screaming and falling on the ground. It was only by luck that I survived."
For about 20 minutes at around noon on Jan. 16, Ngoma said, the Russians opened fire repeatedly before fighters from the Union for Peace (UPC) rebel group, which the mercenaries have constantly targeted, showed up and began to fire back, wounding about four fighters and causing the Russians to retreat.
"We counted eight bodies after the Russians had left," he told The Daily Beast. "These were civilians killed at the spot during the shooting."
But the Russians weren’t satisfied. As hundreds of frightened villagers ran to the nearby Yanga community (located 40 miles from Aïgbado), the Russian mercenaries, this time accompanied by CAR government forces commonly referred to as FACA, chased them there and slaughtered as many people as they could.
"The killings went on for two days." Abdoulaye Ishmael, a farmer in Yanga, told The Daily Beast. "Since the incident happened, we've counted up to 70 dead bodies."
The United Nations, through its spokesman Stéphane Dujarric, said it has received reports of the incident involving CAR troops and "other security personnel" and is "currently confirming the number of casualties and displacement." The human rights team in the country known as MINUSCA has been dispatched to the area—and they may be shocked by what they find.
Locals say there are corpses littered in the forest between Aïgbado and Yanga, while fishermen at the Kotto River that passes through Yanga have retrieved 14 dead bodies, including women and children, according to local reports.
The FBI reportedly spent two years considering whether it should have used a clandestine spyware tool from an Israeli firm that can hack into any phone in US
The spyware has been found in the cellphones of the likes of a Human Rights Watch investigator as well as Finnish diplomats working abroad
US government agencies were contacted by the NSO Group, an Israel's notorious cyberweapons firm, multiple times between 2019 and last summer
The two-years where US agencies considered procuring the spyware, dubbed 'Phantom,' happened at a time when NSO became the subject of controversy
The country's top law enforcement agency ultimately did not purchase or procure the spyware software
Critics of the firm had levied accusations of worldwide human rights abuses
The US's interest was due to the fact that the firm's primary spyware does not work on US phone numbers and therefore couldn't be used in investigations Uh huh
[DW] A pipeline intended to carry gas from Russia to Germany still has administrative hurdles to pass, according to a German regulator. Many hope it will remained stalled.
The controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline may not be able to start operations for several months, the head of Germany's Federal Network Agency has warned.
Jochen Homann told the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that "further steps are missing" before a German-based subsidiary set up by Russian owner Gazprom could be added to the commercial register.
"A conclusion will unlikely be possible in the first half of the year," Homann said in an interview to be published on Monday. "That are unpossible"
The mammoth project was completed in September last year, but no gas is flowing. With tensions escalating in Ukraine, both Berlin and Washington have warned that the project could be sanctioned if Russia launches an invasion of its neighbor.
WHY IS THERE A DELAY?
The EU gas directive requires the operation of the pipeline and the distribution of gas to be managed separately.
Nord Stream 2 AG, based in Zug, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , had applied to the Federal Network Agency for certification last year as an independent operator. But that application did not go through, as the rules require the network operator to be registered in Germany.
The new German-based subsidiary set up by Gazprom, Gas for Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... GmbH, which is headquartered in the city of Schwerin, must now submit the documents necessary for certification. A Gas for Europe front man said on Wednesday that this would occur "as soon as possible."
WHY IS THE PIPELINE CONTROVERSIAL?
Nord Stream 2 is intended to deliver Russian gas to Germany via a pipeline in the Baltic Sea. It would effectively double German gas imports from Russia.
The US and a number of Eastern European countries have said it will give Russia too much leverage over European energy markets. Gas through the pipeline would also bypass Ukraine, depriving that country of much-needed transit revenue.
Berlin has long insisted that the pipeline is purely an economic issue. But the ongoing administrative delay has prompted hopes that Germany is willing to change course.
Recently, the pipeline has also been a focus of deliberations over potential sanctions on Russia should it invade Ukraine. Fears of such an invasion have been prompted by a massive military buildup at Russia's border to its neighbor.
The US and the EU are threatening new sanctions on Moscow over fears about an invasion of Ukraine. Excluding Russian banks from the SWIFT global payments system has been ruled out, according to reports, so what is left?
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When there are widespread clandestine ops with assets unknown to each other, some form of rapidly identified clothing, color or easily visible symbol is needed to reduce the risk of blue-on-blue mistakes.
[IsraelTimes] Initial results suggest significantly impaired air transfer from lungs to bloodstream, linked to breathlessness, indicating possible microscopic damage to respiratory system
Researchers have discovered abnormalities in the lungs of long COVID patients who suffered from breathlessness a long time after they were infected, which could not be detected with routine tests, according to media reports.
The pilot study used xenon — an odorless, colorless, tasteless and chemically non-reactive gas — to investigate possible lung damage in patients who recovered from the disease but continued to experience shortness of breath.
Initial results suggested significantly impaired gas transfer from the lungs to the bloodstream even though other tests — including CT scans — came back as normal, raising the possibility that COVID causes microscopic damage to the respiratory system.
Breathlessness is a symptom in the majority of long COVID patients, but it has been unclear whether this is linked to other factors such as changes in breathing patterns, tiredness, or something more fundamental.
The study’s chief investigator, Fergus Gleeson, professor of radiology at the University of Oxford and consultant radiologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We knew from our post-hospital COVID study that xenon could detect abnormalities when the CT scan and other lung function tests are normal.
"What we’ve found now is that, even though their CT scans are normal, the xenon MRI scans have detected similar abnormalities in patients with long COVID. These patients have never been in hospital and did not have an acute severe illness when they had their COVID-19 infection. Some of them have been experiencing their symptoms for a year after contracting COVID-19," he added.
"There are now important questions to answer. Such as, how many patients with long COVID will have abnormal scans, the significance of the abnormality we’ve detected, the cause of the abnormality, and its longer-term consequences.
"Once we understand the mechanisms driving these symptoms, we will be better placed to develop more effective treatments."
While the full study will recruit about 400 participants, the initial pilot had 36 participants making up three groups: patients diagnosed with long COVID who have normal CT scans, people who had been hospitalized with COVID more than three months previously and were not experiencing long COVID, and a healthy control group.
The findings, which have not been peer-reviewed, have been posted on the bioRxiv pre-print server.
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.
[Newsweek] A woman is accused of using a fatal robbery to carry out a theft of her own, according to police.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[Gateway] Either this was just your normal group of Trump supporters in matching white facemasks that cover their ears and necks...
I'm sure no one noticed. 
