HEBRON, Ky. (AP) — Former Cincinnati Bengals defensive back Adam "Pacman" Jones was arrested early Monday after police responded to a report of an "unruly passenger" at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, authorities said.
Jones was booked on misdemeanor counts of alcohol intoxication, disorderly conduct and terroristic threatening, Captain Kevin Klute of the Boone County Jail said.
Airport spokesperson Mindy Kerschner said that police were called at 6 a.m. Monday to help crew members with an unruly passenger on a flight scheduled for departure. Kerschner confirmed that Jones was the passenger "arrested prior to takeoff and taken to Boone Country Detention Center."
Details about Jones’ arrest weren’t immediately released. Jones told WKRC-TV after he was released that he asked to be moved to another seat because the phone charger for the two seats he had purchased wasn’t working and was told that they would have to turn the plane around. He vehemently denied being intoxicated and also rejected the terroristic threat allegation.
"I’m hurt, this is embarrassing," Jones told WLWT-TV while leaving the jail. He's been an asshole for a LONG time, given multiple chances and still makes bad decisions
[FoxNews] One of Sean Williams' thumb drives also allegedly contained more than 5,000 images of child porn
The suspect went on to accuse law enforcement officials of stealing his money and "planting" drugs on him, saying his phone was "illegally taken and searched, revealing nothing." He maintains that the images and videos on his devices obtained by police are "limited to many video and photo shoots with various female friends together and alone, all of which were of age."
Unfortunately, the FBI has a bit of a reputation for occasionally planting evidence or creating lab results, which makes it harder for them to repudiate spurious claims.
ALLEGED ESCAPE
In July, Williams allegedly tried to escape the Washington County Detention Center.
Details of the escape are not included in the federal lawsuit filed against Williams, but later that month, a federal grand jury indicted him on an additional charge for the effort to escape the county jail. Williams did not provide many details about the apparent escape attempt but said the escape charge was filed against him on the same day of his hearing "to suppress evidence of ammunition allegedly found" in his "safe" at home.
"The hearing that would identify that the safe was searched illegally," he wrote.
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST JCPD
Prior to Williams' alleged escape attempt, in June, lawyers representing the 10 "Jane Does" who have accused Williams of drugging and sexually assaulting them filed suit against the city and its officials.
"From November 2019-2020, JCPD received at least six reports alleging Williams had attempted to drug and/or sexually assault women in his apartment in downtown Johnson City. Instead of arresting Williams, however, JCPD officers treated Williams as though he were, in the words of Detective Toma Sparks, ‘untouchable.’"
The federal complaint alleges that between 2018 and 2021, Williams, "a known drug dealer and convicted felon," conspired with a man named Alvaro Fernando Diaz-Vargas, who is described as "young and good-looking," and an unnamed woman "to recruit local women and bring them directly to Williams’ garage and apartment, where he would drug and sexually assault them." In return, Williams allegedly gave Diaz-Vargas and the woman free housing.
All the victims mentioned in the lawsuit allegedly became incapacitated after drinking or using drugs at Williams' apartment or with his accomplices. They also all allege that Williams tried to rape or assault them while they were incapacitated.
One victim allegedly became incapacitated after having a drink at Williams' apartment, left in her car and crashed into the concrete base of a lamppost, dying on impact. Two of the victims went to police to report the incidents, and one victim contacted the FBI.
The complaint alleges that police "failed to investigate Williams’ crimes against women; knowingly failed to refer charges for prosecution and/or referred charges in a piecemeal and incomplete manner so as to undermine the prosecution; knowingly intimidated and dissuaded Plaintiffs from pursuing criminal charges; and… knowingly made false statements to Plaintiffs in an effort to obstruct and interfere with the criminal investigation."
JCPD told Fox News Digital in a statement that "[t]he remainder of facts will present themselves in a court of law" and that the department is asking "that judgments be reserved until that process unfolds."
"In the meantime, Johnson City remains diligent in working to ensure that our police department is providing the best possible service to victims of sexual crimes," a spokesperson said. "It is unfortunate that anything would aim to take away from those efforts instead of targeting the perpetrators of horrific crimes."
KATERI DAHL'S WHISTLEBLOWING
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Dahl is now acting as a whistleblower in raising awareness about JCPD's alleged mishandling of the victims' cases and concerns. She has filed her own lawsuit against Johnson City and a disclosure with the Justice Department, according to Whistleblower Aid.
An independent audit, commissioned by the city, of JCPD's handling of sexual assault appeared to confirm Dahl's concerns. Findings concluded that JCPD had "material deficiencies" that "can hinder the ability to collect necessary evidence for a complete and accurate investigation," according to a city press release. The department's reports "were found to be inconsistent, ineffective, and incomplete" and its "process of closing investigations is flawed and inaccurate," among other findings, the press release continued.
"Our client Kat Dahl was the first to raise the alarm about Sean Williams and the failure of the JCPD to effectively investigate sex crimes," Andrew Bakaj, lead counsel for Whistleblower Aid, told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Her tenacity and refusal to give up on seeking justice for the victims have been vindicated by this summer’s report into the JCPD. The latest revelations about the sheer number of Williams' victims drive home the grave consequences of these police failures, and represent a historic reckoning for this community, police department and government."
Bakaj added that "[n]ow is a time for local and national authorities to do all they can to swiftly deliver justice for the victims and bring accountability and reform to this police department."
Williams described Dahl as "the fired federal prosecutor with a chip on her shoulder" who "started her smear campaign" against him. He went on to refer to the allegations made against him as a "witch hunt."
"It wasn't about assaults, it was about drug money and extortion coverup (sic), and Kat knew it," Williams said.
Williams further claimed that all 10 Jane Does had a vendetta against him for various reasons, including "Spite for being banned from my parties," a "[s]tatus upgrade by associating themselves with me or insinuating that I was attracted to them," "potential settlement money from the jcpd to avoid an expensive lawsuit" or "simple fame or a moment in the spotlight," he wrote.
"Or in the case of the dead girl (who I've never met) her family just feels the need to blame someone for her terrible accident," Williams said. "What they all have in common is that I was the perfect target."
[MAIL] A former CIA software engineer who was convicted of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks in 2017 now faces a trial in New York City for allegedly possessing over 10,000 images and videos child pornography.
Joshua Schulte, 34, was found guilty in federal court in July 2022 on eight espionage charges and one obstruction charge over the so-called Vault 7 leak. He had the charges upheld by an appeals court just two weeks ago.
Now he stands trial over accusations that he possessed and transported thousands of images showing rape and sexual abuse of children.
According to federal prosecutors, Schulte took the disturbing files with him to New York after moving from Washington, DC, to work at a financial services firm. JPMorgan by chance ?
He organized it based on the victims' identities and characteristics and buried it under several layers of encryption.
[GEO.TV] Rescue efforts continued Monday to search for survivors under the rubble as the latest corpse count by the Moroccan authorities was estimated at over 2,862 with another 2,562 injured days after a devastating 6.8 earthquake struck Friday near the tourist hotspot.
The powerful earthquake struck the Atlas Mountains.
Moroccan and Spanish rescuers there were hard at work trying to extract five members of a family from a house that had been crushed by the quake.
According to AFP, Moroccan troops were handing out hundreds of blankets to residents who had lost their homes.
"My mother died, her house is ruined. My place in Amizmiz no longer exists so we sleep outside in tents with my two children aged four months and six years," said a 32-year-old construction worker.
"No one from the authorities has offered us accommodation. We are completely lost."
In the rural commune of Ighil, at the epicentre of the quake, helicopters made several round trips to ferry aid, AFP reported.
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A few years ago one of the weather orgs in southern Europe decided to name storms in the Mediterranean that had the warm core characteristics of tropical storms in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. They form in Sept-Nov when the surface of the Mediterranean is very warm and upper air currents have enough energy to activate a fairly large column of air to rotate.
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[Breitbart] Police in Northern Ireland have seized weapons from New IRA terrorists that reportedly came to the country from the frontlines of the war in Ukraine.
The New Irish Republican Army (NIRA) is believed to have acquired Russian military grenades that “may have been stolen from Ukraine front line,” police sources told the Belfast Telegraph.
The Terrorism Investigation Unit of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on Thursday conducted raids against suspected terrorist cells in the city of Derry and the town of Strabane that uncovered two military hand grenades, a handgun, over 50 rounds of ammunition, and over a kilogram of plastic explosives.
The searches were followed by an outbreak of public disorder, with police officers being attacked with petrol bombs and other makeshift missiles. In total, 16 police officers suffered injuries during the aftermath, including burns and suspected fractures.
On Friday, in the Rosemount area of Derry, police also recovered a machine gun pistol and six explosive devices. So far, three people, two men and one woman, have been arrested under the Terrorism Act, with connections to the New IRA being the “primary” line of inquiry.
The New IRA — believed to have been formed around 2011 as an outgrowth of the original IRA and other paramilitary groups — is one of the most active paramilitary terror groups in attacking Northern Ireland police and British security forces in the UK country.
While there is currently considerably less violence than during “The Troubles”, tensions have been rising in Northern Ireland, particularly amid efforts from the European Union to isolate the country from the rest of the United Kingdom economically following Brexit.
Police sources, speaking to the Belfast Telegraph, claimed that the hand grenades recovered during the operation are believed to be of a newer type used by the Russian Army.
The sources said that weapons from the Ukrainian war were increasingly appearing in the possession of criminal gangs and paramilitary groups operating in Northern Ireland.
It is believed that the weapons may have been smuggled into the country after being stolen by foreign mercenaries who flooded into the war zone last year, with an estimated 20,000 foreign fighters joining the Ukrainian Army during the outset of the war.
It is unclear as to which side of the war the grenades recovered by the Northern Ireland Police came from, given that Ukraine has used Soviet-era weaponry and has captured Russian weapons throughout the fighting.
At a press conference following the raids, Assistant Chief Constable Mark McEwan said: “The significance of this recovery cannot be underestimated.
“These items are military grade and we believe the intention was to mount attacks in an attempt to kill Police Officers.
“Not only was the intention here to kill and maim but there is a total disregard for the wider community.
“These items were being stored in a residential area in close proximity to a children’s play area and any attack that would have been mounted would have taken place within our communities.”
[Breitbart] “The traditional political class has not been able to solve the problems that Mexico has suffered for decades, but they make everything worse,” Sound of Freedom producer Eduardo Verástegui said in a four-minute video in which he announced his decision to run for president of Mexico in 2024 as an independent.
“Today we have more corruption in Mexico, more violence, more poverty and Mexicans continue to migrate to the United States in search of a dream that many times turns, sadly, into a terrible nightmare,” Verástegui continues.
Verástegui also took to his Instagram and told his 800,000-plus followers that “After a period of discernment, I made the most important decision of my life: I have just registered with the [National Electoral Institute] my intention as an aspiring independent candidate for the presidency of the Mexican Republic, for the elections on June 2, 2024.”
Mexico’s major political parties have tapped their candidates for next June’s general election. Indeed, Verástegui has the backing of the Republican Mexico party, several religious groups, and former President Donald J. Trump, who called the 49-year-old producer “the next president of Mexico,” Milenio reports.
His announcement comes just as his hit anti-trafficking drama Sound of Freedom is breaking global box office records and is currently dominating in 18 Latin American countries.
As of Thursday, the Jim Caviezel-starring film has grossed over $182 million on a budget of $15 million.
The Mozilla Foundation works for better online privacy and internet safety
It found half of cars studied could share your information' with the government
Researches say cars can collect information about your genetics or even sex life
The Mozilla foundation, which is behind the Firefox browser and works for better online privacy and internet safety, said cars are the worst product they have ever reviewed for privacy concerns, adding vehicles are a 'privacy nightmare.'
It found that Tesla, Nissan, Hyundai, Cadillac, and GMC were the top five worst companies when it came to driver privacy.
It also found that 92 percent of the cars, which they called 'data-gobbling machines,' say they can share your information with the government upon an 'informal request.'
Moreover, all but two, Renault and Dacia, gave 'drivers little to no control over their personal data,' including the choice to delete it.
The study notes that Nissan's privacy policy says the company can share sensitive personal information, 'including driver's license number, national or state identification number, citizenship status, immigration status, race, national origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, sexual activity, precise geolocation, health diagnosis data, and genetic information.'
None of the car brands studied met Mozilla's minimum security standards.
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Since 2020 car systems a number brands have had 3rd party polled or live access many vehicles. Your Privacy vs. Your Car
Since 2019 "The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that law enforcement must obtain a warrant before they can access navigation, engine, and other data stored in your car’s computer systems."
BUT !Does that apply to the LSD's _ _ _ agencies ?
Either way, once again ..
Old School is the best school.
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Called a new car dealership to inquire about a certain new vehicle I saw on their lot but hung up after instead of answering a simple question, the guy started a high pressure sales pitch into more expensive cars.
They started spamming my phone with unwanted voice and text sales spam several times a day until I blocked their spamming numbers. Cockroaches.
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^^^
Called about specific new, unsold 2022 F-150 with precise options, got a sales guy who started "upselling" right away, claiming they couldn't find the vehicle I found online through Ford. When I shut him down and hung-up, a few minutes later his manager called and asked about my complaint, then proceeded to tell me he wasn't "upselling", that I didn';t know what I was talking about, and then proceeded to do the same thing.
[Jpost] A historic High Court of Justice hearing began on Tuesday morning when all 15 justices entered the courtroom all together for the first time to hear arguments to strike down the judicial reform's reasonableness standard law. To recollect: the amendment says the High Court should not be able to nullify a decision of the Government/Knesset by saying it's unreasonable (and their definition of "reasonable" is straight from UN/NGOs).
And yes, I expect the High Court of Justice to limit its own powers. (do I need sark?)
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[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors also charge Habtamu Assars with threatening a woman with a knife, assaulting a man with a plank, and ’indecent acts’ toward police who tried to arrest him.
I assume Mr. Assars is a legal Ethiopian Jewish immigrant or part of the first generation born in Israel, rather than an illegal migrant or asylum seeker — a quick internet search revealed no other information on the gentleman.
A 23-year-old man was charged Monday in a Tel Aviv court with attempted murder for the stabbing of a police officer last month during a protest against law enforcement’s handling of a probe into a hit-and-run that killed a child.
Habtamu Assars, a Holon resident, was also charged with threatening a woman with a knife, assaulting a man with a plank, and "performing indecent acts" toward police who tried to arrest him.
The charge sheet said Assars planned the attack on an officer at the Tel Aviv protest, bringing a 32-centimeter-long (12.5-inch) knife to the demonstration.
The protest was led by members of the Æthiopian community, who accuse authorities of racism and leniency toward the driver who hit and killed 4-year-old Rafael Adana in May.
The traffic officer was stabbed in the shoulder while on duty relatively far from the protest itself, police said. He was moderately hurt with a stab wound between the neck and shoulder and taken to Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital for treatment.
In a separate incident that occurred five days after the stabbing, Assars threatened a woman with a knife in Tel Aviv. When another man intervened he beat him with a wooden plank, the charges said.
The prosecution asked the court to extend Assars’s remand in jug, calling him "a violent mostly peaceful and dangerous person."
Shortly after the stabbing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement saying, "Stabbing a police officer crosses a red line. Protests are a sacred right in a democratic country, but we will not accept... any type of violence."
Another three officers were maimed during the same protest, police said, when some protesters threw stones and other objects. At least 10 people were arrested during the protest for "throwing stones, attacking coppers, and violating public order."
Subsequent protests have also turned violent mostly peaceful.
The Adana family said in a statement at the time, “We’re asking our brothers, sisters and friends to show restraint. There is great pain, but we don’t want an escalation, but solutions and justice for Rafael.”
“The last thing that we want or need is for them to portray our whole community as violent and problematic,” the family said.
Hundreds of demonstrators, mainly from Israel’s Ethiopian community, repeatedly gathered in Tel Aviv to draw attention to the death of Adana, who was hit by a car while walking with his grandfather in Netanya on Shabbat, May 6. He was critically wounded and died in a hospital several days later.
The driver, 70-year-old Carol Fessler, fled the scene, later claiming she “didn’t feel” the vehicle striking anything. She turned herself in to police several hours later and provided testimony about the car collision, Channel 12 reported.
Many members of the community were furious that even several months later, the driver had not been charged in the incident, and have accused the police of dragging their feet and expressing leniency toward the driver. The community has charged authorities with discriminatory legal treatment in the past.
The death of Adana has also been the subject of a wealth of rumors and misinformation. While many initial accounts claimed that the driver’s daughter, Dr. Heidi Fessler, was also in the car during the incident, police later released evidence showing that the elder Fessler was alone at the time. Other false rumors, some of which have fueled the protests, include a claim that either mother or daughter attempted to hide evidence on the car, which the police have also denied.
Prosecutors have said that evidence collected proves the accident was unavoidable, and that Fessler will be tried for negligence, and not for manslaughter.
[BenarNews] The Chinese ships began to swarm around the BRP Cabra soon after 7 a.m. on Friday, sailing uncomfortably close to and hemming in the Philippine Coast Guard ship as it escorted civilian boats toward Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal.
A China Coast Guard ship, with bow number CCG 21616, was the first to arrive on scene some 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) from the shoal located in South China Sea waters within the Philippines exclusive economic zone.
A BenarNews correspondent and other news hounds, who were given special permission to travel aboard the Cabra and another coasties ship for the resupply mission, witnessed the tense moments at sea.
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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.
[GEO.TV] Rescue efforts continued Monday to search for survivors under the rubble as the latest 
