[FoxNews] DA announces over 40 people face serious charges, including alleged attacks on police horses and officers with flagpoles
Los Angeles officials announced on Tuesday that over 40 individuals have been slapped with new charges stemming from violent riots against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement efforts last month.
Of the charges, prosecutors pointed to a 17-year-old juvenile accused of attempted murder, two separate instances of protesters allegedly assaulting Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department horses and a man accused of injuring a police officer with a flagpole, LA District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a press release.
"The large-scale protests may have ended for now, but our work has not," Hochman said.
One of the suspects, a 17-year-old juvenile, is charged with one felony count of attempted murder, assault upon a peace officer, vandalism and two misdemeanor counts of rioting, according to officials.
Another protester, identified as 37-year-old Patrick Munoz, is accused of jabbing a flagpole at an officer as they attempted to break up a gathering outside a local hotel on June 11. If convicted, Munoz could spend up to nine years and two months in prison.
Munoz's attorney did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Additionally, prosecutors allege 49-year-old Robert Amaya approached a family as they were leaving a protest on June 10, and subsequently pulled out a knife while approaching an 11-year-old girl and making stabbing motions at her. Amaya is charged with one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon and faces up to 13 years in state prison if convicted.
Fox News Digital was unable to immediately locate an attorney representing Amaya.
Another suspect, 29-year-old Iran Castro, is accused of pulling the bridle of a sheriff’s mounted deputies’ horse and grabbing the reins of another horse at a June 14 protest after being released on her own recognizance for separate felony charges, according to authorities. Castro is charged with two felony counts of assault upon a peace officer, two felony counts of animal cruelty and one felony count of resisting arrest. If convicted, she faces the possibility of up to 10 years and four months in prison.
A second protester is also charged with allegedly assaulting an LASD horse in a separate incident, according to the press release. Authorities have accused 66-year-old Dana Whitson of pushing the animal "several times," before hitting the horse’s muzzle and pulling on its rein at a June 13 protest. Whitson faces the possibility of up to six years and four months in prison if convicted.
Attorneys for both Castro and Whitson did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
The charges come after officials spent weeks battling rioters on the streets of Los Angeles, leading to hundreds of arrests as local, state and federal law enforcement officers looked to tame the chaos stemming from outcry over immigration raids throughout the sanctuary city.
"We are continuing to review evidence, identify suspects and file charges where the law has been broken," Hochman said. "I want to thank the team of investigators and prosecutors for their tireless efforts to ensure that those who committed criminal acts under the guise of protest are held accountable."
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[FoxNews] Four decapitated bodies found hanging from freeway overpass as rival cartel groups battle for control
Mexican authorities said 20 dead bodies, including five decapitated corpses, were discovered in the cartel-plagued city of Culiacan on Monday.
Four decapitated corpses were found hanging from a highway bridge leading out of the city. The bodies' heads were discovered nearby in a plastic bag, authorities said, according to the Associated Press.
That same day, 16 additional dead bodies with gunshot wounds were found stuffed into a white van on the same freeway. Along with the corpses – one of which had also been decapitated – authorities found a note seemingly from one of the cartel groups. The contents of that note were not immediately disclosed, AP reported.
Culiacan, which has around 1 million residents and is the capital of western Mexico's Sinaloa state, has been wrought by a war for control between two rival drug trafficking groups of the Sinaloa cartel – Los Chapitos and La Mayiza.
Mexican authorities condemned the deadly acts on Monday. However, many Sinaloa residents say authorities no longer have control of the violence, according to AP.
"Military and police forces are working together to reestablish total peace in Sinaloa," Feliciano Castro, Sinaloa government spokesperson, said in a statement on Monday.
Last month, the U.S. imposed sanctions on Los Chapitos and designated it a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. In a statement at the time, the U.S. Treasury Department said the group facilitates the production and trafficking of fentanyl.
"Los Chapitos is a powerful, hyperviolent faction of the Sinaloa cartel at the forefront of fentanyl trafficking in the United States," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said last month. "At the Department of the Treasury, we are executing on President Trump’s mandate to completely eliminate drug cartels and take on violent leaders like ‘El Chapo’s’ children."
Gunmen linked to the Sinaloa cartel were also involved in the Oct. 18, 2024, killing of U.S. Marine veteran Nicholas Quets in Sonora, Mexico.
The Attorney General's Office of the State of Sinaloa did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
[IsraelTimes] A Palestinian family of five were detained for more than 24 hours at Ezeiza airport in Buenos Aires before being deported, despite traveling with tourist visas issued by the Argentine embassy in Herzliya, a letter of invitation, certificates of good conduct, medical insurances, hotel reservations and return tickets, according to reports in left-leaning local newspaper Pagina 12 and Tiempo Argentino.
According to the newspapers, the family arrived in Buenos Aires on June 16 after having been delayed leaving the West Bank for Jordan, from where they travelled to Istanbul and then Brazil before arriving in Argentina.
The family says they were tricked into signing documents entirely in Spanish at the airport stating they were “false tourists,” thus allowing them to be deported.
The newspapers also reported that the Palestinian Authority ambassador in Argentina tried to intervene on their behalf but did not help.
Argentine Attorny Uriel Biondi filed a writ of habeas corpus with the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court of Lomas de Zamora for violation of their constitutional rights and international human rights treaties. The family, which has boarded a plane to Istanbul, claims their rights were violated and they were mistreated by being detained inhumanly.
This incident came as pro-Israel President Javier Milei’s has toughened his stance on immigration with increased deportations, restrictions on citizenship and charging foreigners for using public healthcare and universities. Milei seemingly has modeled his reforms on US President Donald Trump.
Perhaps the family looked like they planned on overstaying their visa.
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[Regnum] All eight Russian citizens who were previously detained in Azerbaijan on suspicion of drug transit from Iran, their distribution via the Internet, and cybercrime have been arrested. The corresponding decision was made by a court in Baku, the APA agency reported on July 1.
“In the Sabail District Court... a preventive measure in the form of detention for a period of four months was chosen for eight detained Russian citizens,” the article clarified.
It is noted that the detainees appeared before the court separately.
Earlier, photographs emerged showing Russian citizens detained in Azerbaijan on suspicion of drug trafficking. Their faces showed signs of beatings.
As reported by Regnum news agency, on June 30, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan announced that law enforcement agencies were conducting an operation in Baku at the office of the Sputnik agency, which is part of the Rossiya Segodnya media group.
On the same day, security forces detained the head of the editorial board of the Sputnik Azerbaijan agency Igor Kartavykh and editor-in-chief Yevgeny Belousov in Baku. Sputnik representatives called the accusations leveled against the detainees that they are “FSB agents” absurd.
The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Azerbaijani Ambassador Rahman Mustafayev against the backdrop of the illegal detention of Russian journalists and Baku's unfriendly actions. The Russian diplomatic mission recalled that Azerbaijan had no complaints against Russian journalists in previous years. The ambassador was given a verbal note demanding the immediate release of the agency's editorial board chief and editor-in-chief from custody.
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BREAKING: Armed militants have reportedly seized control of #Mastung city in #Balochistan, torching key govt buildings including the Levies HQ & National Bank. Hospitals on emergency alert, at least 8 injured so far. This is a major escalation. #Pakistanpic.twitter.com/4a81BnIXU6
[Rudaw] Iraqi counterterrorism forces said on Monday that three suspected Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) members were killed in a clash in Kirkuk province, a day after another operation in the province killed three murderous Moslems.
"Our forces clashed with a group of bully boyz in an area of Kirkuk governorate, the festivities resulted in the killing of three ISIS terrorist organization members," Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service (ICTS) said in a statement.
It stressed that campaigns against ISIS remnants in the country are ongoing "to eradicate the remains of the terrorist gangs."
[IsraelTimes] Security forces last night arrested four Arab Israelis who fled to Ramallah after allegedly murdering a security guard in Lod last week, police announce.
The four are suspected of involvement in the shooting of 54-year-old Pavel Rozov, who was on his way to work at the city’s police station Friday evening when he was hit with a round of bullets, killing him instantly.
IDF soldiers and police officers in the police force’s Yamam counterrorism unit arrested the four suspects based on intelligence provided by the Shin Bet, a law enforcement spokesman says.
Officers detained the suspects for interrogation in the Central District police’s investigations and intelligence unit. They will be brought to court later today where cops will request to extend their remand.
Police previously announced Saturday that they arrested five others on suspicion of involvement in the murder, including two women, who were probed for allegedly aiding Rozov’s killers.
[IsraelTimes] In response to reports earlier today by the Palestinian Health Ministry that Israeli forces killed two individuals in separate incidents in the West Bank, including a 15-year-old boy in Ramallah, the IDF issues statements addressing both cases.
Regarding the incident in Ramallah, the military says that during an overnight operation in the central West Bank, several suspects hurled stones at Israeli troops. In response, soldiers fired warning shots into the air. No Israeli forces were injured, and the incident is under investigation.
Life lesson: Don’t throw stones at people with guns, because guns throw bullets back much harder.
In a separate incident near the town of Ramadin, southwest of Dhahiriya, the IDF says troops identified a suspect attempting to cross the security barrier overnight and opened fire in accordance with the rules of engagement. The IDF says the suspect was struck, and the incident is currently under further investigation.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 15-year-old Amjad Nassar Abu Awad was killed in Ramallah, and 24-year-old Samer Bassam Zagharneh was killed near Dhahiriya.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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