Posted on 12/29/2016 5:12:43 AM PST by HomerBohn
A convicted crack dealer who left prison early as part of the Obama administration’s mass release of federal inmates has been indicted by a grand jury for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend and her two kids in Columbus, Ohio. The gory crime drew national attention because the children, ages 7 and 10, were murdered to eliminate them as witnesses in the brutal massacre of their 32-year-old mother.
This week a grand jury in Franklin County returned a 10-count, death-penalty indictment against the ex-con, 35-year-old Wendell Callahan, for the triple murders. Callahan broke into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment and stabbed the three victims, according to a statement issued by Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien announcing the indictment. The bloody crime scene was discovered by the woman’s current boyfriend, who subsequently engaged in a fight with Callahan before he fled. The indictment includes charges of aggravated murder with prior calculation and design and aggravated murder of victims under the age of 13. “There are multiple charges regarding the three victim deaths because there are different methods to commit the crime of murder and the Prosecutor’s Office typically charges all methods”, O’Brien stated. Callahan is in jail on $3 million bail and is scheduled to be arraigned later this week.
Callahan should have been in jail when the crimes occurred, but he was released four years early because federal sentencing guidelines for crack dealers got reduced. The change is part of President Obama’s effort to reform the nation’s justice system as a way of ending racial discrimination. The initiative was technically launched back in 2010 when the president signed a measure that for the first time in decades relaxed drug-crime sentences he claimed discriminated against poor and minority offenders. This severely weakened a decades-old law enacted during the infamous crack cocaine epidemic that ravaged urban communities nationwide in the 1980s. As part of the movement the U.S. Sentencing Commission lowered maximum sentences for drug offenders and made it retroactive, leading to the early release of thousands of violent thugs like Callahan.
In November the administration began releasing 6,000 drug convicts coined “non-violent” offenders whose sentences were too long under the old guidelines. News reports quickly surfaced contradicting the administration’s assessment that the newly released convicts were not violent. Among them was the leader of a multi-million dollar operation that smuggled drugs from Canada to Maine. Prosecutors refer to the 29-year-old con as a “drug kingpin” who was one of “America’s Most Wanted.” Shortly before the administration’s mass release of drug convicts, federal prosecutors warned that drug trafficking is inherently violent and therefore the phrase “non-violent drug offenders” is a misnomer. The nation’s prosecutors also cautioned that reducing prison sentences for drug offenders will weaken their ability to bring dangerous drug traffickers to justice.
As if it weren’t bad enough that the administration is rewarding thousands of criminals with get-out-of-jail cards, huge amounts of taxpayer dollars are being spent on programs to help them find housing and jobs. In the aftermath of the mass release of federal prisoners Judicial Watch reported on two “re-entry” programs to ease the transition from jail. One received $1.7 million and ordered public housing facilities not to reject tenants with criminal records. The other allocated $20 million to the Department of Labor (DOL) to help ex-cons find work and thus end the “cycle of poverty, criminality and incarceration.”
I have been saying that for decades.. but I am looked down for being too harsh :p
If it deals with involving the murder/death of innocents (kids), I would expect the harshest punishment.
This article connects the dots. But your local media got away with obscuring the connection, because there are a few degrees of separation between Obama and this particular early-released inmate:
The initiative was technically launched back in 2010 when the president signed a measure that for the first time in decades relaxed drug-crime sentences he claimed discriminated against poor and minority offenders. This severely weakened a decades-old law enacted during the infamous crack cocaine epidemic that ravaged urban communities nationwide in the 1980s. As part of the movement the U.S. Sentencing Commission lowered maximum sentences for drug offenders and made it retroactive, leading to the early release of thousands of violent thugs like Callahan.
Singapore’s system has worked perfectly. They do give a second chance to an addict to clean up their act, but with dealers there’s no second chance.
They not only have clean streets, but they have a better behaved and educated class of human beings.
America will continue descending into the contaminated swamp in spite of the efforts of our new and much welcomed president, but the drift will be slowly. America’s problem is that there is a huge permanent underclass with IQs in double digits. It seems to take forever for them to kill each other off.
The Tea Party, much like the Republicrat Party, has become adulterated with non-believers.
Reminds me of when Norman Mailer managed to spring Jack Abbott from prison back in 1981, because he wrote a book on the evils of the prison system.
Then Abbott murdered a waiter and went back to prison for life. now dead.
If Obama had a son it would be a miracle.
Those two daughters are leased.
Deserves re-airing six months later.
Damned guns.
the gun told him to use a knife.
A criminal alien who has been called president for eight years is happy to release even more criminals on a clueless citizenry.
Sounds a lot like Gotham City.
Where’s Batman? We need an army of Batmen! Plenty of jokers, penguins and other assorted perverts who seem to be running things.
No whites. Plenty of negroes and Messicans.
By all means with three weeks to go, let’s impeach???
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No need to impeach him. Have the U.S. Marshals apprehend him on January 22, and indict him for his countless crimes. Denial of bale and a speedy trial, followed by a speedy execution. Otherwise this fiend will continue to attack America and its citizens in every way he can. HANG HIM!
He should have been vetted, outed and ousted shortly after he swore a phony oath.
Amen, Cajun!
The myth of the “non-violent drug offender”. I’m pretty sure that these are the exception and not the rule. Al Capone was a tax evader but not a “non-violent tax evader”.
Yup...that would work...
In an alternative universe...
I feel more outrage at the Republicans who didn’t have the backbone to impeach this reprehensible excuse of a president.
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Yes, they should never be forgiven for their failure to lift a finger to protect America from that despicable Kenyan Fraud.
Our Terrorist in Chief has no clue this happened. His yes men won’t tell and he’s not likely to see it on tv in Hawaii. He has so much blood on his hands.
The family should send him the funeral bill.
Prez Choom Gang was thinking ahead. It’ll be a bit harder to find reliable dealers when he and Malia are out of the WH.
My “local” media in Columbus is extremely liberal, catering to the large and growing LGBT community, the Somalian population and every other minority imaginable. My parents were friends with the original Columbus Dispatch owners, the Wolfs a very conservative family. As a child when there was a get together and they were at our home, I can still hear the political conversations that went on for hours. John Wolf would roll over in his grave if he saw what his newspaper has become. I went around with the editor over the Trayvon Martin reporting, after I caught the little smartass in a pickle, he said he didn’t have time to talk to me any longer and suggested I find another news source, that the Dispatch was not for racists. (Long story but I said nothing that could be construed as racist)
I’m shocked!
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