HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — Atlantic Beach Police Chief Quentin Robinson was among at least 10 people arrested Tuesday and booked into the Horry County jail on prostitution charges, according to online records for the J. Reuben Long Detention Center.
The arrests were part of an operation led by Horry County police, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.
Robinson, 41, posted a $500 bond Wednesday morning and was released from jail, online records showed.
Robinson has been with the department since 2015, according to South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy records. He joined the department after working at the Florence County Detention Center from 2012-15.
News13 has reached out to Horry County police and the mayor and town manager in Atlantic Beach to get more information about the investigation and Robinson’s arrest but has not heard back.
"He joined the department after working at the Florence County Detention Center from 2012-15."
So a background in Corrections, not enforcement and prevention. Curious choice to lead a department. Oh wait - "The historic four-block town of Atlantic Beach has four officers, with Robinson included..."
With him on administrative leave, the town will be down to three officers.
Prediction: He’ll be discovered to be a mentally ill drug addict with a long history of arrests for impulsive, violent behaviour who was just recently returned to the streets, mere hours after his previous arrest.
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A man has been arrested after a woman was brutally stabbed to death while using a train in Los Angeles. Elliot Nowden, a 45-year-old black male from L.A., has been charged with murder. Police believe others may have been victimized by Nowden. Read: https://t.co/zZUM2wC8mi
A homeless man has been arrested and charged with murder in the stabbing an elderly woman on the Los Angeles metro in what has been described as a random and unprovoked attack Monday morning.
Elliot Tramel Nowden, 45, was taken into custody shortly after the woman, whose identity has not yet been released, succumbed to her injuries in a nearby hospital.
According to KTLA, the incident took place around 5am onboard a southbound B Line train as it approached Universal City station. Nowden allegedly stabbed the woman numerous times in the neck with a pair of small kitchen knives.
When the train pulled up to the station, they both stepped onto the platform. As she was transported to hospital and bled to death, he expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
Via footage obtained from security cameras at the station and descriptions of the suspect provided by witnesses, officers with the LA Police Department were able to track Nowden down in the area of Ventura Boulevard and Vineland Avenue half a mile away.
He was apprehended and charged with murder and is currently being held on $2 million bond.
"This does appear to be completely unprovoked from what witnesses have told detectives," LAPD Detective Meghan Aguilar told KTLA. "There was no altercation prior to this violent mostly peaceful mostly peaceful attack."
There was also no evidence that Nowden and the woman knew each other.
The incident halted service on the B Line for hours as authorities conducted their investigation, however a bus bridge was set up to assist passengers. Since it was Earth Day, the entire transit system was free.
As KTLA reports, while many have felt as though they are less safe on the metro than before, statistics show that transit crime has gone down 10 percent since this time last year.
That happens when the DAs refuse to prosecute action they refuse to designate as crimes.
On the other hand, property theft crime as of late 2023 showed an increase of 42 percent over the two years prior in LA. Other property crimes such as motor theft as well as burglaries also spiked the time frame while violent mostly peaceful mostly peaceful crimes dipped at the same time.
[People] A Montana woman’s final words before she died after visiting a sushi restaurant have been revealed.
On April 17, 2023, Donna Ventura, 64, was struck with what her husband believed was food poisoning and went into cardiac arrest after consuming a sushi roll containing salmon and uncooked morel mushrooms at local dining spot Dave’s Sushi. She died 12 days later in the intensive care unit on April 29.
During her hospitalization at Bozeman Deaconess Regional Medical Center in Montana, Donna was left unable to speak. She communicated her last words to her family in handwritten messages, sharing that she was ready to go after being in too much pain, her husband Jon Ventura shared.
"Some of the messages she wrote were, 'I’m not sure I can go on much longer, how are we going to manage, I can’t stand the pain,' " he told local outlet KBZK. "The last couple she wrote were to me and our son where she wrote, 'I love you,' and to our son, she wrote, 'I love you, Mr. C.' "
[WND] FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Eva Edl turned 10 years old in a World War II-era death camp.
She believes she may die in a United States prison.
Charged by President Joe Biden’s Justice Department with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, Edl faces up to 11 years in prison and $350,000 fines. She is about to turn 89 years old.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Belgian brewery worker had a drink-driving charge against him dismissed in court on Monday after doctors found he has a rare condition that causes his body to produce alcohol.
The 40-year-old suffers from auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), which causes carbohydrates in his stomach to be fermented, increasing ethanol levels in his blood and resulting in signs of intoxication.
His lawyer, Anse Ghesquiere, said it was an 'unfortunate coincidence' that her client works at a brewery, but three doctors who independently examined him confirmed he suffered from ABS.
The court recognised that factors unforeseen by law applied to the man's case and acquitted him of the charge.
Currently, only some 20 people globally have been officially diagnosed with the condition, but Ghesquiere said the number of cases is underestimated.
The brewer ended up in court after police in April 2022 pulled his vehicle over and registered him giving a breathalyser reading of 0.91 milligrammes of alcohol per litre, and again a month later when his breath contained 0.71 milligrammes.
The legal limit in Belgium is 0.22 milligrammes per litre of air exhaled, which corresponds to a blood alcohol level of 0.5 grammes per litre.
Previously, in 2019, the man had received a fine and a driving licence suspension despite protesting that he had not drunk any alcohol.
He was apparently unaware of his syndrome before his latest run-in with police.
Ghesquiere said she and her client were awaiting formal notification of the acquittal. She noted that the prosecution service had a month to lodge an appeal if it wished to do so.
The man meanwhile was following a carbohydrate-light diet to avoid his stomach producing more alcohol.
At his initial court appearance in March, the prosecutor requested he avoid any alcoholic beverages, the Belgian state television channel VRT reported.
Other ABS sufferers have undergone strange medical procedures to cure the condition.
In 2020, another Belgian man underwent tests after he felt sporadically drunk over a two-month window, even though he had not touched a drop of booze.
He was diagnosed by doctors at the University Hospital Ghent with ABS and was also prescribed a low-carb diet, but this did nothing to prevent his condition, leading doctors to attempt a drastic course of action.
They resorted to performing a faecal transplant, which sees a healthy faecal sample taken from a donor and implanted into the patient's gut. Faecal transplants are becoming increasingly common to replace ineffective or faulty bacteria in the body with microbes which work properly.
It is an established procedure which is also being investigated for its use in helping people infected with C. diff as well as cancer patients. This is done either directly into the colon, or through tubes that go up a person's nose, down the throat and then into the gastrointestinal tract.
Fecal transplants appear to be useful for all sorts of conditions, including restoring health to those with chronic fatigue syndrome. But the FDA decided a few years ago to insert itself into what was an off-label mechanical procedure, so in America it has effectively disappeared as a treatment option.
Other methods include freeze-drying the faecal sample into a pill-like object and having the patient swallow it.
My preferred method, versus drinkinga so-called chocolate milkshake ,a nasal tube, or an enema.
The man reported his symptoms disappeared shortly after the treatment, and a follow-up appointment 34 months after the procedure confirmed that symptoms had not resumed.
[AFRICANEWS] Nigeria has said it is seeking up to 2.25 billion dollars in World Bank loans, in a statement by Finance Minister Wale Edun.
Speaking following the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington D.C. at the weekend, Edun said the Nigerian government is also aiming to issue diaspora bonds later this year to attract foreign exchange into the country.
The World Bank loans would comprise 1.5 billion dollars in development policy financing and 750 million dollars in programme-for-results financing.
The bank's board is expected to meet in June to approve the request, Edun said.
Nigeria has faced a foreign exchange shortage that pushed its naira currency to record lows versus the US dollar this year, though it has since rebounded.
The country is also dealing with record debt, high unemployment and large central bank financing although the finance minister said recently the government had halved federal borrowing from the central bank.
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[AFRICANEWS] Nigeria's consumer protection watchdog has ordered the closure of a Chinese-owned supermarket in Abuja following allegations of racial discrimination. The authorities claim the supermarket exclusively permits individuals of Chinese descent to enter, sparking outrage among Nigerian citizens. Ha! The thieves of the continent. Even the Chinese get it.
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) summoned the supermarket's owner for investigation following widespread social media outcry. Nigerians shared videos online recounting their experiences of being turned away by security personnel at the supermarket's entrance.
Former senator Shehu Sani joined the calls for closure, stating that any store inaccessible to Nigerian citizens should be either forcibly opened or dismantled.
In response, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Nigeria denied the racism allegations, emphasizing their commitment to equality and inclusiveness. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the FCCPC remains firm, demanding compliance from the supermarket's owner, who has been summoned to appear before the agency. "No dogs or Nigerians?"
The controversy has shed light on the issue of discrimination and access to commercial spaces in Nigeria. With the closure of the supermarket pending the owner's response, the incident underscores the importance of ensuring equal treatment for all shoppers, regardless of their nationality or ethnicity.
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[Breitbart] Roughly half a million Colombians took to the streets of the nation’s main cities on Sunday in what is considered the largest peaceful protest yet against the nation’s far-left President Gustavo Petro.
Nobody wants socialist healthcare, which in the endprovides either health nor care.
While Petro himself has publicly downplayed Sunday’s attendance numbers, claiming that only some 250,000 participated nationwide, local security authorities have estimated that roughly 350,000 citizens flocked to the streets of the city of Medellín alone, and an additional 180,000 participated in the capital city of Bogotá. Peaceful demonstrations were reported in other Colombian cities such as Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, and Bucaramanga.
Local opposition politicians have declared Sunday’s protests larger than the historic peaceful protest against the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terrorist organization in 2008.
Sunday’s event, nicknamed the “March of the White Coats,” featured peaceful protestors rejecting Petro’s proposed socialist reforms, with a special emphasis on opposition to Petro’s attempts to a reform the nation’s healthcare system. Petro, a former member of the Marxist M19 guerrilla and the nation’s first left-wing president ever, has made socialist healthcare reform a flagship policy of his administration.
“We are protesting against pension reform and also against healthcare reform. We are against everything our president is doing to our country,” one of the protesters told Radio France Internationale (RFI).
“We don’t want a dictatorship like Venezuela’s. Out Petro! Out Petro!” Another protester said.
Over the past two years, Petro has attempted to introduce leftist healthcare reforms to grant the state more control of Colombia’s healthcare resources, facilities, and programs while severely diminishing the role of private providers.
The controversial reform package was officially defeated in the Colombian Congress in early April. Petro, however, has insisted on pursuing the reform and responded to his project’s defeat in Congress by starting to forcibly implement it via decree. One of the decrees ordered an intervention of Colombia’s largest state-owned healthcare insurance providers, which Colombian opposition politicians denounced as authoritarian.
In addition to the healthcare reform, Petro is seeking to implement socialist changes to Colombia’s social, economic, labor, and political laws. Much like the defeated healthcare reform, none of his other proposals have been able to pass in Congress at press time.
Petro has openly threatened to call for a “Constituent Assembly” to rewrite the constitution to codify his failed reforms — a move that echoes plans enacted by other leftist regimes in the region such as Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador.
Members of the Colombian opposition and civil society have held frequent, near-monthly peaceful protests against Petro and his far-left government. Last month, an estimated 50,000 Colombian citizens participated in the “March of the Majorities,” expressing their energetic rejection of Petro and his policies.
Petro responded to Sunday’s peaceful events with a lengthy social media post in which he claimed that the purpose of the peaceful protests is to allegedly “overthrow” his government in a “soft coup” plot against him. Petro also downplayed Sunday’s massive turnout, claiming that only 250,000 had participated nationwide, a number that is roughly half of what local security estimated.
“The main objective of the marches is to shout ‘Out Petro’ and overthrow the government of change. This process has already begun and it is a soft coup to annul the popular decision for change in 2022,” Petro’s message read.
“Some sectors of the mobilized people want a pact to undo the reforms that are in favor of the people in order to maintain the capture of huge amounts of public money used as private profits,” the message continued.
Petro asserted that the “popular forces must respond” to Sunday’s peaceful protests on May 1 during the communist “May Day” holiday, summoning his sympathizers to march on that day in support of his leftist government.
“It is not a question of dividing the country, it is already divided. It is also about the popular voice. In the face of these different voices, the government will seek paths of understanding.” Petro said.
“If the right wing wants to circumvent the elections and disrespect the vote of the people, there will be no understanding. The national pact is for the future and not for the past,” he continued.
Petro concluded his message by claiming that his government has “always been open” to dialogue, but warning that “change is about more Social Justice and more equity for the people.”
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Actually there are poisonous snakes. Asian keel backs are both venomous and poisonous being rear fanged. Recently it has been found that they are poisonous since they accumulate toxins from toads they feed on.
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The typical snakebite victim is someone who sees a snake in the backyard and tries to kill it, instead of just making a noise and driving it into the least liked neighbors place.
[Jpost] Police arrested 21 individuals suspected of planning a Passover sacrifice in Jerusalem. The Hanenu organization's legal center was notified of eight arrests.
During police activities throughout the city, officers identified several suspects carrying a goat, or hiding a goat in various ways, including inside shopping bags and strollers.
Religiously, as I understand it, this is nonsense. Until the Temple is rebuilt, sanctified by the sacrifice of pure red heifers without blemish by properly trained priests from the Cohen sub-tribe of the priestly Levite tribe, no Jewish sacrifice on the Temple Mount can be acceptable.
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.
[WND] FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Eva Edl turned 10 years old in a World War II-era death camp.
