[11 Alive] ATLANTA — Police are taking action after car thefts at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport have more than tripled from last year to this year.
According to data from the Atlanta Police Department's crime data, there have been at least 311 motor vehicle thefts this year to date in the airport area. Last year, there were only 95 motor vehicle thefts in 2023, data showed.
11Alive's Rarione Maniece spoke with APD Airport Commander Maj. Kelly Collier about the recent thefts following a news conference about Thanksgiving travel at the airport on Tuesday. He blamed the uptick in thefts on the manufacturing of cars.
"It's the easy access to programmers where suspects can program key fobs to vehicles, and that has gotten us here where we are," Maj. Collier said. "We are taking steps to prevent this. As I stated earlier, it's more of a manufacturing issue. It's extremely easy to steal a car these days."
Collier stated that during the Thanksgiving travel holiday, more officers will be on patrol and on foot, monitoring cars and cameras.
"We have made a lot of changes to how we operate. We have adjusted to this new way of stealing cars, so we will be ready and bring them to the bar of justice," Collier added.
He added that the officers are testing anti-theft technology and other ways to mitigate the thefts. So far, Collier said APD has made several arrests but did not say how many people were arrested.
"It's frustrating. It shouldn't be that easy to steal a $42,000 to $150,000 vehicle. It just shouldn't be that easy to steal that type of car," Collier said on Tuesday.
11Alive has reached out to the Atlanta Police Department for more information on the thefts and more about the incidents.
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Have cars become 3 times easier to steal in the last year or is an organized gang working the airport? Side bets on whether the perps speak Spanish.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Catherine Harper, 45, and her husband Corey Harper, 47, have been charged by cops in Norfolk, Virginia after a 24-year-old worker at MOD Pizza was slashed on Monday.
Court documents described a horrific scene that cops arrived to around 2pm, as the male victim, who has not been identified, was stabbed across his torso.
The stab wound exposed the employee's intestines, and the vicious nature of the injury led a judge to deny the Harper's bond and keep the couple locked up.
Despite his organs being exposed in the shocking episode, the worker's injuries were described as non-life-threatening after he was raced to hospital.
Both Catherine and Corey are charged with malicious wounding, and Corey was also slapped with an additional charge of brandishing a firearm.
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So much to unpack here
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Back in the day people would reduce their tip in that situation.
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So lucky - I heard when they put your intestines back in, there's a good change for serious infection.
Article might have an exaggeration as I never heard of such a wound not being life threatening.
Woke America has terrible consequences, man I hate it in all its forms. Restaurant employee is stabbed and the org releases this statement: Moments like these force organizations to re-examine employee training and look for ways to reinforce values and expectations.
Exit question, do you think the perps were DEI Candidates or Normies?
[ET Via Zero] President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming border czar said he would prioritize locating or rescuing 300,000 unaccounted-for children who entered the United States as illegal immigrants and are at risk of exploitation.
"The third rail is we got over 300,000 missing children," Tom Homan told Fox News on Monday, likely referring to a government report issued earlier this year. "Over half a million children have been trafficked into the United States. This administration released them to unvetted sponsors, and they can’t find 300,000. And based on three-and-a-half decades, some of these children are in forced labor."
Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) inspector general released a report finding that 323,000 illegal immigrant children are unaccounted for inside the United States. As of May 2024, more than 32,000 children who were served notices to appear in court did not appear, while the safety of an additional 291,000 could not be verified because they were not placed into removal proceedings, making monitoring their status challenging, according to the report.
Those figures came from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and covered the period from October 2018 to September 2023
"We already found some in forced labor, some of them are in for sex trafficking, some of them are with pedophiles," Homan said. "We need to save these children. That’s going to be the third rail."
The DHS report noted that ICE, which Homan had overseen under the first Trump administration, should "take immediate action" to ensure those unaccounted-for children are safe.
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Question: As some of these poor kids are found, what happens to them? Probably don't know where their parents are even if the parents are safe to send them back to. Do they stay here? Are they DACA'd?
[JustTheNews] The issues in officer Michael Byrd's background included a failed shotgun qualification test, a failed FBI background check, a suspension for a lost weapon and referral prosecutors for firing his gun at a stolen car.
The Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 riots and then was promoted has a lengthy internal affairs and disciplinary record that includes firearm-related incidents, a sweeping congressional investigation has found.
The issues in Captain Michael Byrd's background included a failed shotgun qualification test, a failed FBI background check for a weapon's purchase, a 33-day suspension for a lost weapon and referral to Maryland state prosecutors for firing his gun at a stolen car fleeing his neighborhood, according to congressional and police documents obtained by Just the News.
Byrd’s record was uncovered during a larger House Administration Oversight Subcommittee investigation into the Capitol Police disciplinary process and was chronicled in a letter Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., the panel's chairman, sent Wednesday to the department's chief, Thomas Manger, in which the lawmaker expressed concerns about the officer’s promotion to captain.
“This Subcommittee is dedicated to ensuring USCP has autonomy from political pressures so it can make operational and personnel decisions,” Loudermilk wrote in the letter. “However, based on the information obtained by the Subcommittee regarding USCP’s handling of Captain Byrd following January 6, 2021, and his significant disciplinary history, I have concerns about USCP’s decision to promote him to the rank of Captain.”
LIST OF INCIDENTS:
The incidents described in Loudermilk's letter are corroborated by congressional records and police reports that date as early as 2004 including:
A 2004 incident where Byrd, who was off duty, fired his weapon at a stolen vehicle as it was fleeing in his residential neighborhood;
A 2015 "conduct unbecoming an officer" complaint filed by a fellow officer after Byrd, again off duty, confronted him while the officer was working at a high school football game in an incident with racial overtones;
A 33-day suspension in 2019 after Byrd left his service weapon unattended in a public Capitol Hill bathroom;
A failure to pass a routine background check shortly after Jan. 6 when attempting to purchase a shotgun for home protection, after the USCP worked to provide Byrd a department-issued shotgun instead, he failed the training; and
Three further referrals to the Capitol Police Office of Professional Responsibility for which records are reportedly missing.
Mark Schamel, the lawyer representing Byrd did not respond several requests for comment. The U.S. Capitol Police also did not return several inquiries from Just the News.
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That's why he was Capital Police. No other Police Force would accept such a poor candidate. He was a DEI Affirmative Action Hire. Worst of the worse. Did you see his trigger disciple? Lousy cop.
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Yogananda Pittman In handcuffs would be my preference.
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All this while Derek Chauvin sits in prison.
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Tinfoilers who were saying he couldn't pass a background check if he were a regular citizen before the censors really turned the screws, collect your winnings.
Tinfoilers' batting average adjusted up a hundred points recently.
[CNN] President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, a nongovernmental entity helmed by billionaire Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, is expected to make a push for an end to remote work across federal agencies as a way to help reduce the federal workforce through attrition.
Both Musk and Ramaswamy have recently publicly lamented the number of employees working remotely across the government.
A source familiar with early discussions about the focus of DOGE, as the initiative is known, told CNN that while nothing is final, early priorities include an effort to immediately end remote work across federal agencies, making a five-day work week a requirement for all federal employees.
"It’s a no-brainer step and many companies have done this. So why shouldn’t federal employees who are paid with taxpayer dollars be required to be in office?" the source said.
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In cases where productivity can be monitored and there is a savings for the government, I am not against some remote work. The current percentage is ridiculous and has not resulted in infrastructure savings.
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France is going to convert the warheads from old AC58 and APAV40 rifle grenades into drone bombs. These are anti-tank shaped-charge munitions launched by any NATO rifle with a muzzle adapter. They would serve better as precision guided warheads, mounted on an FPV. 1/2 https://t.co/C1pq9XFiQqpic.twitter.com/bUGUAKW572
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Not just the military, B. Old story about NASA spending millions to have a pen developed that could write in micro-gravity. The Russians used pencils.
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.
