[MSN] Shaurn Thomas, who was released from prison and paid $4.1 million by the city after serving 24 years for a murder he says he didn't commit, pleaded guilty Thursday to killing a man over a $1,200 drug debt.
There are lots of bad habits to be picked up in prison, unfortunately.
Thomas, whose 1992 murder conviction was overturned in 2017, was convicted of third-degree murder and related crimes for fatally shooting 38-year-old Akeem Edwards last year.
That admission of guilt — by a millionaire who killed someone over a relatively paltry sum — means that the now 50-year-old Thomas, who has already spent half of his life behind bars, will now return there to live out much of what is left of it. At least he has coin for the prison commissary
More than 30 years ago, a jury convicted Thomas of second-degree murder for the 1990 robbery and shooting death of a North Philadelphia businessman. For that, he was sentenced to life in prison.
His conviction was vacated by a judge on appeal in 2017, after documents emerged showing that detectives knew Thomas had a potential alibi, but did not try to verify it. Investigators zeroed in on Thomas based on statements made by two alleged coconspirators, whose stories shifted and who later recanted their testimony. One of the men said the detectives fed him a false story, and assaulted him until he repeated it.
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He’s probably broke. His lawyer is probably spending balling.
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[NYPOST] A crocodile is dead, an alligator is recovering, and two brothers are in jail after an argument about anime turned fatal in Alaska.
Tyler and Rickey Lowe's Thursday night feud came to a head when they tossed each other's exotic pets out the window of their shared apartment and into the snow, according to Alaska State Troopers.
Tyler, 33, threw Rickey's pet alligator and Rickey, 30, launched Tyler's crocodile from their Wasilla apartment, Alaska News Source reports.
It is not clear what anime kicked off the dispute.
State troopers were able to locate the alligator, which survived, but were not able to locate the croc, who is presumed dead, according to the report.
A neighbor recounted his bizarre encounter with a trooper who was tasked with finding the very out-of-place critters.
''They go 'Have you seen an alligator run past here?' And I go 'You guys are kidding, right?','' Matt Strickland, next door neighbor to the Lowe brothers, told Alaska News Source.
Strickland, who has lived in the apartment building about an hour outside of Anchorage for a month, said he had no idea that a croc and a gator were right next door.
Troopers were called by Rickey Lowe from the street after he left the apartment with his 2-year-old child, according to the report.
The brothers were both arrested and charged with animal cruelty and assault.
Rickey Lowe faces additional charges of DUI and child endangerment.
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Bizarre. Florida Man in Alaska.
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Why would any women leave these two to babysit a two year old kid?
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[FoxNews] A former Massachusetts migrant shelter director is speaking out against what he says were incidents of widespread violence, child sexual assault and rape at shelters in the state
A former director at a Massachusettsmigrant shelter is speaking out against what he says were incidents of widespread violence, child sexual assault and rape at shelters in the state, including an incident where a father impregnated his 14-year-old daughter.
Massachusetts, a sanctuary state, has been one of a number of states that have been overwhelmed by the migrant surge coming from the southern border.
The state has spent nearly $1.1 billion of taxpayers' money this fiscal year to house and feed the border crossers who have often been placed in hotels converted into shelters.
One such migrant shelter in Marlborough, Massachusetts, was managed by Jon Fetherston from November 2023 to July 2024, who painted a chaotic picture of his time there with violence, wasteful spending and rape.
"There was a lot of violence," Fetherston told The Daily Wire of the crowded 550-person shelter at Holiday Inn at 265 Lakeside Ave. "Unfortunately there was a gentleman in the hotel that impregnated his own daughter and got very violent when the state removed her from the shelter."
A Maine Wire report from June appears to corroborate the claim, reporting that illegal immigrant Ronald Joseph allegedly raped his 14-year-old daughter numerous times on the journey to the U.S. — both before and after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Dept. of Children and Families (DcF) interviewed the young girl before making the decision to remove her from her father’s custody on an emergency basis," the document obtained by The Maine Wire states.
Joseph was then given a taxpayer-funded Lyft ride to another shelter in Worcester, Massachusetts, after he started yelling and making threatening gestures at the shelter staff, The Maine Wire reports, citing Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC) records.
"They had me send them to Worcester County," Fetherston told the Daily Wire. "And I, for the life of me, don’t understand why he wasn’t locked up. A man who admits he committed rape, you’re just going to put in another shelter so he can rape again another day? It makes no sense."
That shelter is also paid for by taxpayers and residents receive the full slate of benefits while staying there, according to The Maine Wire, which reports that the official report did not recommend that any criminal charges should be brought against Joseph.
In another disturbing incident, Fetherston says that a 16-year-old female student says she was raped multiple times by a 29-year-old man.
"She told the police officer that she was raped multiple times. It was probably the most disturbing conversation I’ve ever heard in my adult life," Fetherston told the Daily Wire.
The man, identified as Gladimy Rodene by The Maine Wire, was arrested, removed from the shelter and was reportedly issued an abuse prevention order, which forbade him from approaching the Marlborough Holiday Inn or the local High School where his victim is a student.
Rodene reportedly sexually assaulted another girl, according to the Daily Wire, citing a report from a security guard recounting a statement from the original victim.
A spokesperson for ICE told The Daily Wire that they do not have a detainer on either of the individuals.
In another violent incident at a Massachusetts shelter, a pregnant woman was allegedly raped and assaulted at a different hotel shelter in July by 34-year-old Haitian national Marc Kervens Beauvais, per the Boston Globe.
In August, ICE says it arrested 26-year-old Haitian national Cory Bernard Alvarez, accused of aggravated rape of a 15-year-old child in a Rockland migrant shelter.
Fetherston also spoke about migrants fighting over microwave access and in one incident, a migrant drove a car into Fetherston’s office, knocking him off his chair, in what he claims was retaliation for refusing to hand out diapers to migrants on government benefits.
"If you were receiving benefits and you were receiving those, then we were going to start scaling back on providing diapers, formula and wipes," Fetherston said. "That did not go over well with the migrants. They thought that they were being attacked. A gentleman then drove his car into my office."
Fetherston told the Daily Wire that his daily tasks included assisting migrants with enrolling in social services like food stamps and government health insurance. The migrants were given three meals a day from catering companies, and he purchased essential items such as toiletries, diapers, strollers and baby wipes for them.
He also coordinated state-paid, same-day dry cleaning for the migrants and arranged Uber rides to work when needed. He added he was given an Amazon budget and other accounts to buy necessities for the migrants with no spending cap.
"They maybe have two days’ worth of clothing on them and they have no toiletries, they don’t have any IDs, they don’t have anything," Fetherston told The Daily Wire. "The state contract was that you provide everything that they would need. So a lot of the days you spent ordering."
The news comes as Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has said that her state police will "absolutely not" be cooperating with the expected mass deportation effort by the incoming Trump administration, warning that she will use "every tool in the toolbox" to "protect" residents in the blue state.
President-elect Trump has pledged to launch the "largest domestic deportation operation in American history" to deport millions of illegal immigrants. One report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) estimated 50,000 migrants have arrived in the state since 2021.
"I do think it is important that we all recognize that there is going to be a lot of pressure on states and state officials. I can assure you we're going to work hard to deliver," Healey said following President-elect Trump’s resounding election win last month.
Last year, Healey declared a state of emergency in the state due to the surge and called for federal action. She also acknowledged that the state’s policies may be a draw for migrants.
"Many of these families are migrants to Massachusetts, drawn here because we are and proudly have been a beacon to those in need," she wrote in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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Now we own all this mess. The kids are going to need help. The people offering to help need to be seriously vetted to make sure they aren’t another version of Hillary’s Haitian helpers.
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We left Massachusetts this time last year. As my wife says, we got out just in time.
I feel like screaming "GET OUT" to our friends who are stills stuck there.
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The news comes as Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has said that her state police will "absolutely not" be cooperating with the expected mass deportation effort by the incoming Trump administration, warning that she will use "every tool in the toolbox" to "protect" residents in the blue state.
[GEO.TV] A then six-year-old boy found a strange rock on a beach in Sussex, England and didn't tell anyone for the next three years, having lost track of it. The rock has now been identified as a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal hand axe.
Curator of archaeology and social history at Worthing Theatres and Museum James Sainbury received an email from the mother of the boy named Ben about the rock, he did not expect the object to be something out of the ordinary, he told Live Science.
"I get emails like this all the time, especially about beach finds, and they're usually just pebbles that look funny," he said.
"But as soon as I saw the photo, I thought, 'That's an Upper Paleolithic Neanderthal hand axe.' It's an absolutely incredible find,'' Sainsbury added.
The Neanderthal hand axes are relatively small and have dark two-sided flints, making them recognisable, according to the curator.
To be more specific, Sainsbury identified the artifact to be a Mousterian hand axe, meaning "it's from that very late Neanderthal period when their days were really numbered in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and Britannia''.
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Kid is going to win show-and-tell, no doubt.
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[RT] US President-elect Donald Trump has met briefly with French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky in Paris. No joint statement was released after the trilateral talks, but Zelensky hailed the conversation as “good and productive.”
"We're going to get things straightened out in this country," Trump said
[FoxNews] The incoming president was honored alongside other heroes at the sixth annual Fox Nation Patriot Awards.
The incoming president was honored alongside other notable recipients across the nine categories.
Other awards include the "T2T Stephen Siller Back the Blue Award," "Young Patriot," "Salute to Service," "FOX Weather Ultimate Patriot," "Service to Veterans," "Culture Warrior," "Bravery" and "Courage."
🚨🇨🇳CHINA'S NEW SPHERICAL POLICE ROBOT: CRIME-FIGHTER WITH AI
China has introduced a revolutionary spherical police robot equipped with AI, capable of autonomous operation. Unlike Western models focused on surveillance, this robot actively pursues criminals.
I like how the infomercial for the use of an AI Droideka was put together by an AI; surprised by the lack of mentioning 'also for search and rescue'. And LOL, just bumps the DOGBOT and it goes down and is done.
[Pricklypear] A sobering report by the Public Building Reforms Board paints a grim picture of federal employees’ blatant disregard for duty.
The report found that 94% of federal workers do not show up in person regularly, highlighting the poor service delivery and complacency in government offices.
The Department of Energy, the Agency for Global Media, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture topped the list of absentee/absconders with abysmal occupancy rates of 0%, 2%, and 6%, respectively.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (7%), the Environmental Protection Agency (8%), the Department of Labor (9%), and the Nuclear Regulation Commission (9%) followed closely with their appalling numbers.
Federal agencies with the highest office occupancy rates include the Department of Commerce, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Office of Personnel Management, each with an attendance rate of a measly 11%.
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Most federal jobs require what is known as "access" (a security clearance) as a condition of employment. If they fail to report to work, revoke their access.
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.
[MSN] Shaurn Thomas, who was released from prison and paid $4.1 million by the city after serving 24 years for a murder he says he didn't commit, pleaded guilty Thursday to killing a man over a $1,200 drug debt.
Tyler, 33, threw Rickey's pet alligator and Rickey, 30, launched Tyler's crocodile from their Wasilla apartment, Alaska News Source reports.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
