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The four Ohio teens who pleaded guilty to dropping a sandbag off a freeway overpass that killed a 22-year-old man were given a suspended sentence and ordered to a treatment center on Friday. Marquis Byrd was the passenger in a vehicle that was hit by the sandbag dropped onto Interstate 75 in Toledo last December. Byrd was left in critical condition and died three days later in the hospital. The four teens, all aged 13 or 14, pleaded guilty to either murder or manslaughter. The boy who dropped the sandbag pleaded guilty to murder while the other three pleaded to...

(KPRC) A 17-year-old in Texas who avoided abduction managed to chase down the suspect with the help of strangers. The incident happened Thursday morning while the victim says she was walking to school. There, in broad daylight, she says a man pulled up in a truck and tried to take her. "He grabbed my arm, actually, telling me to get into the truck," the victim said. She says she pulled back and was able to get away, just as another teen and her mom were pulling up

Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales was born in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, a mecca for cartels and the land of notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Lagunas grew up never knowing his father. His mother left him with his grandmother as a child. Lagunas left his hometown at the age of 15 without finishing high school, moving to the nearby municipality of Culiacán and washing cars to make a living, he said in an interview in July. It was in this adopted town that he took on the nickname that would later become known across cyberspace: “El Pirata de...

Cartel violence in Tijuana continues at an alarming rate in 2018 with 549 homicides registered in the first three months, according to government statistics. A total of 184 killings were noted in March alone, according to local reports. Breitbart Texas previously reported that one of the problems cited by the state attorney general’s office of Baja California is that most homicides go unsolved. Of 132 registered homicides to start 2018, only five resulted in arrests with a total of 11 suspects detained. The bloodshed continues despite the deployment of 400 elements of the Mexican Army there to crack down on...

An Upstate New York woman has been charged with murder following the death of a 7-year-old boy in Monroe County. Hanane Mouhib, 36, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder.... She is being held at the Monroe County Jail without bail. Mouhib allegedly killed her son, Abraham Cardenas, in their home in Sweden, New York, on Thursday night.... Mouhib used a large kitchen knife to stab Abraham in both the upper left area of his back and in his neck, and severed his head from his body, according to investigators.... When deputies arrived Thursday night, Baxter said they had...

An Alabama teen who had turned down a 25-year sentence in a plea deal laughed and smiled in court on Thursday as he was sentenced to 65 years in prison for felony murder and other charges. The judge even overheard Lakeith Smith saying "I don’t have time for this" as he was waiting for his case to be called, according to WECT. "You got plenty of time for this," Judge Sibley Reynolds told Smith as he sentenced him to consecutive terms in an Elmore County courtroom. "When I called the case earlier you said you ain’t got time for this,...

After I thought about it, I realized the question of whether reducing guns in a society will lead to fewer murders is a testable hypothesis. Watching the recent emotional speeches and marches supporting gun control, I canÂ’t shake a question that nags me: Would we be safer with fewer guns?Gun control advocates have an intuitive argument. Guns are an efficient way to commit murder. If we reduce the number of guns in society, we axiomatically will reduce murders. Reducing gun violence is a desirable goal, particularly when one sees shooters mowing down children. After I thought about it, I realized...

A 78-year-old homeowner has been arrested by murder detectives after a suspected burglar he fought with in his own kitchen died of a stab wound. The pensioner was upstairs asleep with his wife when he was woken by the two men breaking into his suburban home in Hither Green, south-east London last night. He was forced into his kitchen by one of the men, who was armed with a screwdriver, before a struggle ensued. The intruder, a 38-year-old man, was left with wounds to his chest and local residents say he collapsed in a neighbouring road and died in hospital.

The new law will reduce the number of 16- and 17-year-olds who have been charged with a handful of violent offenses from entering the adult criminal-justice system. It also extends juvenile jurisdiction to age 25, up from age 21, for those convicted of certain crimes. By Sara Jean Green Seattle Times staff reporter Robbing a convenience store at gunpoint or spraying bullets from a moving vehicle are the kinds of crimes that will no longer see 16- and 17-year-olds automatically sent to adult court — and likely, on to adult prison. Gov. Jay Inslee recently signed legislation that represents what...

Facebook COBB COUNTY, Ga. - The frights are supposed to end at Six Flags Over Georgia once you get off the rides. That wasn’t the case for Joshua Martin on July 3, 2007. The 19-year-old Marietta kid was with his brother and their friend just outside the park when several gang members descended upon them at a bus station 200 feet from the amusement park’s property line. It was a flurry of brass-knuckled punches and kicks. Martin had a shoe print embossed on his forehead when he was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital from Austell. He was in a coma...

Tourists taking the ferry from this tourist town to the island of Cozumel now walk down a wharf lined with police, heavily armed soldiers and bomb-sniffing dogs. Those safeguards came after a Feb. 21 explosion ripped through one of the ferries, injuring 24 people, including five Americans. Explosives were later found on another ferry owned by the same company.

While this country is embroiled in a shouting match over gun violence, Germany finds itself in an internal debate about the rise in knife violence. Unlike this country, though, many in Germany seem to be focused on finding the root cause and, hence, the solution. As The Local reports of Germany, "police statistics [show] that refugees and asylum seekers are significantly over-represented in violent crime statistics."Titled "String of knife attacks further fuels debate over refugees and violence," the article begins by listing a series of violent knife attacks. Almost all of the attacks were done by male teenage refugees....

A young black transgender woman was shot dead in a Louisiana motel this week, becoming at least the seventh transgender woman known to have been killed in the United States this year, rights advocates said. The woman, Amia Tyrae, 28, was killed Monday at about 1:15 a.m. at a motel on Airline Highway, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department. Dr. William Clark, the East Baton Rouge Parish coroner, ruled Ms. Tyrae’s death a homicide, caused by a gunshot wound to the chest. The Police Department said Friday night that Dedrick Butler, 22, of Denham Springs, La., had been arrested...

A woman sees a man at night on an empty street and she starts running. The man chases her into an alley while making aggressive grunts. Cornered, the man calls her names for running and walks away. Discuss.

After one of her constituents was killed while attempting to rob a bank, Madison, Wisconsin city councilwoman Amanda Hall called the shooting "unnecessary" and demanded "an alternate approach. What this looks like to me is we have a young man, who didn't have the community support and the community opportunity to make a different choice with what he was going to do with his Thursday. And now he's dead." "Allowing banks to deploy armed guards is a desperation measure that comes too late to achieve the best results," Hall contended. "It foments an arms race between those who have money...

Two teens have been arrested after a New Jersey man was beaten to death on the street by eight people in a seemingly random attack. Police said the other suspects in the deadly attack on Sebastian Aguilar, 36, are still being sought after the vicious onslaught on 70th Street between Broadway and Hudson Avenue in Guttenberg on Wednesday night. The two who have been arrested, a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old, have been charged with aggravated assault and endangering an injured victim, but additional charges are expected to be filed against them. A person living in the small town said it's...

-snip- Today, the area is still largely divided by race, not by law but through decades of white flight. New Castle County, which includes Wilmington and its suburbs (many of which are unincorporated communities), is nearly two-thirds white; the city of Wilmington, on the other hand, was 58 percent black as of the 2010 census. The difference in how children in both of these populations grow up is drastic: in New Castle County, the child poverty rate as of 2016 was 15 percent; in Wilmington, it was more than double that, at 35 percent. A 2017 report by a state...

Madison, WI – A member of the city’s common council has questioned the wisdom of having an armed guard at a Chase Bank that has been robbed repeatedly. - snip - Police said a masked man entered the bank at about 4:50 p.m. and postured as if he had a weapon, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said the man handed an employee a bag and demanded cash. The armed security guard saw the robber acting as if he had a gun and fatally shot him, Chief Koval told the Wisconsin State Journal. None of the...

Guns and gun crime are the new climate change: those who know nothing about the subject are suddenly "experts." I call this faux expertise Albert Gore-itis, and I discuss it at length in my upcoming first book, 10 Warning Signs Your Child is Becoming a Democrat.

If you have a NETFLIX account, I suggest watching Deep Undercove, episode 7, called Operation Casablanca. There is a reason the swamp likes Mexico. In this episode US customs has infiltrated the world of Money Laundering by the cartels. It also tells how DEA and the DOJ shut it down and why. It really got my blood to boiling and why I fear for the Presidents safety in his quest to shut down the cartels.