[Richmond Times-Dispatch] NORFOLK, Va. (AP) ‐ A recently unsealed court document says a former contestant on both "American Idol" and "Fear Factor" worked as a courier for a drug ring and was trying to deliver nearly 2 pounds (830 grams) of fentanyl when she was arrested last year.
The Virginian-Pilot reports 32-year-old Antonella Barba was back in custody Monday, following a federal indictment charging her with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, heroin and fentanyl. Barba was originally arrested last October in Norfolk Virginia.
She was previously charged with shoplifting in New York and has a felony marijuana case pending in Kansas.
Barba, of New Jersey, reached the top 16 on "American Idol" in 2007, the year Jordin Sparks won. She competed on "Fear Factor" in 2012.
Her public defender didn't immediately respond to the newspaper's request for comment.
[News & Obserber) A man believed to be one of the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives was shot and killed by an FBI agent at an Apex hotel Wednesday.
An Apex police officer spotted a "suspicious vehicle" with South Carolina plates at the Woodsprings Suites at 901 Lufkin Road in Apex, according to the FBI. The officer linked the car to Greg Carlson, who was wanted in connection with multiple armed sexual assaults in California.
The FBI was notified, leading to the deadly altercation early Wednesday morning. An FBI agent fired one shot inside Carlson’s hotel room, FBI Special Agent John Strong said during a Wednesday afternoon press conference.
"What happened here today is not what we want to happen," Strong said. "We want to capture the individual, give them their day court and bring them to justice. What happened today is unfortunate. ... We feel fortunate that no one else was injured."
Carlson was charged with burglary, assault with intent to commit rape and assault with a deadly weapon on Sept. 3, 2017, in Los Angeles, but fled after posting bond. He was spotted in areas across the South, including Dayton Beach and Jacksonville, Florida, and Hoover, Alabama, throughout 2017, according to the FBI.
It’s unclear why Carlson was in North Carolina, but the FBI is "not aware" of any crimes he may have committed in the state, Strong said.
(Reuters) - A man accused of pulling the trigger in the 2010 killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona was convicted of murder on Tuesday in a case tied to an ill-fated U.S. government gun-running sting known as "Fast and Furious".
A U.S. federal jury found Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes guilty of murdering agent Brian Terry, 40, during a firefight on Dec. 14, 2010, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.
Osorio-Arellanes was the sixth of seven defendants convicted in connection with the killing in a rural area north of Nogales.
He was part of a "rip crew" looking to rob smugglers transporting drugs from Mexico into the United States. The group confronted Terry and three other Border Patrol agents in a shootout.
Osorio-Arellanes was convicted of nine counts, including first degree murder and attempted robbery. He will be sentenced on April 29.
Terry was shot to death and one gang member was wounded in the gun battle. The rip crew were carrying four loaded AK-47 assault weapons, an AR-15 semiautomatic assault weapon and 180 rounds of ammunition, according to the Justice Department.
Two AK-47 rifles found at the scene were later traced back to the bungled gun-running investigation of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that embarrassed the administration of former President Barack Obama and strained relations with Mexico.
In that investigation, the ATF aimed to trace weapons bought legally in the United States by "straw" buyers and then resold into the black market, but federal agents lost track of some weapons, many of which ended up in the hands of drug traffickers.
[WBIR] A bystander is being called a hero for shooting a man who investigators say had just gunned down his wife in a Kingsport dental office Wednesday morning.
It happened this morning at the offices of dentist David A. Guy, DDS in the Colonial Heights community of Kingsport.
"It was a husband and wife. He just came in the front door with the intention of harming his wife," Sullivan Co. Sheriff Jeff Cassidy told WCYB. So sorry for the wife's family. This is in East Tennessee. Not much about it in the news yet.
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Turns out I know the lady's brother. Worked with him for many years. The x-husband died in the hospital.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday said Congress would oppose U.S. military intervention in Venezuela and challenged the credibility of President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Elliott Abrams, over his past embrace of American covert action.
The Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Eliot Engel, expressed concern about Trump’s hints that military action was an option in Venezuela, where President Nicolas Maduro is under intense international pressure to step aside and the country’s economy is in chaos.
"I do worry about the president’s saber rattling, his hints that U.S. military intervention remains an option. I want to make clear to our witnesses and to anyone else watching: U.S. military intervention is not an option," Engel told a hearing on the OPEC nation.
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Trump doesn't need to do it, just keep that option on the table. Worst thing we could do would be making the legitimate overthrow of these Commie totalitarians an "Uncle Same" issue. Leave it to the domestics, but always on the table. CIC Engel should stick his d*ck in his mouth, he's used to it by now
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or "Uncle Sam, even"
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[Jerusalem Post] Somewhere in Southern Israel, a first-of-its-kind venture trains dogs to locate early signs of cancer.
The name of the laboratory is "Dog Prognose". It allows a person to send a saliva sample (in a small plastic container), and receive an immediate answer as to whether they have cancer. The cost of the test is NIS 399, just a little over $100.
Uri Bakeman, professional dog trainer and owner of the laboratory, told Army Radio that "the most important issue is that this test detects the disease at its earliest stage, since the dogs can identify the characteristic signs of the smell of the disease. If the dog sits down after sniffing the sample, it means it is suspicious."
In a recent study conducted by Prof. Pesach Schwartzman of Ben-Gurion University, it was determined that various types of cancer share an odor that dogs are capable of identifying.
A famous case involved Daisy, a dog who managed to correctly identify 500 cases of cancer, and smell a total of 6,500 samples. Daisy, who worked for "Medical Detection Dogs"- a foundation in the UK - passed away last year.
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How long can a dog work before it gets distracted? I've read that the drug-sniffing dogs get bored after too long on the job--but I don't remember if that was half an hour or more than that.
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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.
(Reuters) - A man accused of pulling the trigger in the 2010 killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona was convicted of murder on Tuesday in a case tied to an ill-fated U.S. government gun-running sting known as "Fast and Furious".
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday said Congress would oppose U.S. military intervention in Venezuela and challenged the credibility of President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Elliott Abrams, over his past embrace of American covert action.
[Jerusalem Post] Somewhere in Southern Israel, a first-of-its-kind venture trains dogs to locate early signs of cancer.
