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Florida could become first state to execute convicted drug dealers for selling lethal doses of fentanyl

Kelly Weill
Daily Beast
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 01:00 UTC
Florida to execute drug dealers
© Daily Beast
Selling fentanyl to someone who dies is now first-degree murder in Florida.
Sonny Priest's friend found him dead in his home in Altamonte Springs, Florida, the week before Christmas 2016. Priest had overdosed on alprazolam, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl, a medical examiner ruled.

Six months after Priest's death, Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a law expanding the state's first-degree murder code to include selling a lethal dose of fentanyl. The law, which only applies to adults, took effect Oct. 1. Priest's alleged dealer, Tamas Harris, was eight days into adulthood when Priest died. This month, 18-year-old Harris will go to court an accused murderer. If convicted, he faces the death penalty.

Florida law already allowed dealers of drugs like cocaine or heroin to be charged with first-degree murder when their drugs led to fatal overdose. But overdose rates have skyrocketed in the state with the proliferation of fentanyl, a drug up to 50 times more powerful than heroin. Fentanyl and heroin are sometimes combined without the buyer or distributor's knowledge, creating a cocktail of indeterminate strength.
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Toddler's evidence in court helps put child abuser behind bars


RT
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:25 UTC
child abuse
© Fred Prouser / Reuters
A two-year-old girl has become the youngest person to give evidence in a British criminal case, leading to a man being jailed for 10 years for sexual abuse.

The girl spoke to a specialist child abuse police officer answering simple "who," "what" and "where" questions, and pointing to parts of the body on a paper figure.
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DOJ gives 'sanctuary cities' 15 days to comply with immigration law


RT
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 21:03 UTC
Mexican immigration immigrant
© Jorge Luis Plata / Reuters
Cities and states with "sanctuary policies" have 15 days to provide evidence of compliance with federal immigration laws, the US Department of Justice has announced, singling out five jurisdictions including Chicago and New York.

Chicago, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia and Cook County, Illinois, "adopt the view that the protection of criminal aliens is more important than the protection of law-abiding citizens and of the rule of law," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Thursday.

"I urge all jurisdictions found to be out of compliance in this preliminary review to reconsider their policies that undermine the safety of their residents," he added.
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Baltimore surpasses New York & Chicago as murder capital of America


RT
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 21:03 UTC
police crime murder homicide scene
© AFP
The Baltimore Police Department has announced the deaths of three men shot in two separate incidents, pushing the city's homicide count to 278 so far this year ‒ ahead of New York in terms of total murders, and Chicago in murders per capita.

Of the last 100 homicides, the majority were shooting deaths. The highest numbers of deaths were for black males in their 20s, 30s and 40s, with 41, 22 and 16 homicides respectively, according to data compiled by the Baltimore Sun. All generations were hit, however - from teenagers as young as 15 to the elderly at 97 years old.

Overall homicides were up 16 percent over last year as of October 7, according to the data, and it is on pace for its deadliest year on record, on a per-capita basis and in total homicides. Baltimore's current population is just over 621,000.
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Illegal border crossings from U.S. to Canada on the rise


Washington Times
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 21:16 UTC
Justin Trudeau
© Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Canada is experiencing a sharp surge of illegal aliens, and they're not just a few angry Hillary voters making good on their bluster about moving north if Donald Trump won the election.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a high old time needling America in January, tweeting, "To those fleeing persecution, terror and war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith." Thousands of the tired, the poor and the huddling miniature masses have taken him at his word. He's offering not hospitality now, but quibbles.

Ottawa says Royal Canadian Mounted Police has intercepted 13,211 persons attempting to sneak into Canada from the United States this year, as of mid-September, including 5,712 in August alone. The August figure is twice the number intercepted in all of 2016.

The Canadian figures seem miniscule compared to the hundreds of thousands attempting to slip into Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas from Mexico every year. Relative to Canada's population, however, the border is aswarm with prospective newcomers.
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19-year-old DACA recipient accused of murdering teen girl

John Binder
Breitbart
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:13 UTC
Daniel De Jesus Rangel Sherrer
An illegal alien accused of murdering a teenage girl in Greenville County, South Carolina, was shielded from deportation as he was a beneficiary of the Obama-created DACA amnesty program.

Daniel De Jesus Rangel Sherrer, 19, was one of the nearly 800,000 illegal aliens shielded from deportation and given a work permit under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) confirmed to Breitbart Texas.

Sherrer, as Breitbart News reported, was charged in connection with the murder of 18-year-old Diana Martinez-Gonzalez after she was found shot to death in a wooded area in the town of Easley, South Carolina.

During a press conference, Master Deputy Ryan Flood said the DACA recipient confessed to a deputy about his alleged murder of Martinez-Gonzalez, a high school student.

Sherrer allegedly murdered the girl in the wooded area because she had spread false rumors about him, the illegal alien told deputies. Police say the DACA recipient had also held another teenage girl against her will, but that she escaped the scene.
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How a beauty queen jihadist landed a top job at a UK Labour council

Ian Miles Cheong
Dailly Caller
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:04 UTC
Mulumebet Girma
© REX/Shutterstock
A female jihadi who was jailed for ten years for her participation in the July 21, 2005 failed terrorist strike in London now holds a top job with a Labour council.

Thirty-three-year-old Mulumebet Girma signed up with the Southwark Council after she lied about her history. Colleagues who failed to do a proper background check on Girma didn't realize they were working with a convicted criminal.

According to the Daily Mail on Tuesday, Girma never declared her criminal past or her role in aiding and abetting her terrorist brother-in-law, Hussein Osman, who tried to blow up a packed London commuter train.

The explosives failed to go off and all the main suspects were arrested. She was convicted of hiding him in her home and for failing to inform the police about his plans prior to the failed terrorist attack, which she was well aware of.

A former model, the Ethiopian-born Girma managed to lie her way through the ranks of the London council all the way to the top, and even appeared on the cover of its magazine to promote an apprenticeship program.
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Trump signs executive order, alters healthcare rules, more market choices


RT
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:37 UTC
Honk sign
© Legal Insurrection
Trump just honked!
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order allowing the purchase of health insurance across state lines, aimed at creating more choice on the marketplace and reining in the rising insurance premiums. The new executive order will increase competition, choice and access to healthcare for millions of Americans, while costing the US government "virtually nothing," Trump said.

Introducing the president, Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) called the executive order "the biggest free-market reform of healthcare in a generation."

Vice President Mike Pence called it the "critical step to lower the cost of health insurance."

Allowing people to buy insurance across state lines will create "tremendous competition," Trump said, adding that "insurance companies will be fighting to get every single person to sign up," and costs will go down as a result. He said the new executive order would provide millions of Americans with relief from the Obama-era Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare.

Comment: Back in the day, the proponents of Obamacare had their 'savior' promotions, as well as hefty warnings by nay sayers. Opinion is just opinion until the reality of it proves to be one way or the other. Changes have to be made. Are these the right ones? Only time and process will determine the answer and if healthcare stays the course.

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Airbnb found rigged with hidden cameras, police say there could be hundreds of victims

Alberto Luperon
Law Newz
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:14 UTC
Wayne Natt
© Longboat Key Police
Police said on Monday that a man put his townhouse up an Airbnb, but the home was loaded with hidden cameras, according to a WFTS report.

This story comes out of Longboat Key, Florida. An Indiana couple told cops that they were renting the home of 56-year-old Wayne Natt. They noticed that one of the smoke detectors had a unsuspected pinhole, they said. They checked, and it turned out to a hidden camera pointed right at their bed, they said. Alleged victim Derek Starnes, who works in tech, told the outlet he and his wife were freaked out. When cops arrived at the scene, investigators discovered two "smoke detector" cameras with HD-quality footage and audio, the report said.

"We seized a lot of computer storage data devices, hard drives, computers, laptops SD cards anything that would store data," police Lt. Bob Bourque said. "We don't know if there are local victims, someone who may have been dating him or a companion that doesn't realize they are being videotaped, and then we have the other side of who he rented to through Airbnb."

Natt was arrested and charged with video voyeurism, soon posted bail, and lawyered up. Airbnb told WFTS that they've banned him from the service.
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'Cooked to death': The lethal toll of hot U.S. prisons

Maurice Chammah
The Marshall Project
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 07:00 UTC
Robert Allen
© Bryan Schutmaat/Weather Channel/The Marshall Project
On Mother's Day in 2011, Sidney Webb stunned his mother by suggesting that they visit his younger brother Allen in prison. As boys, he and Allen fished and got into mischief together but over the years had grown estranged. Allen struggled with alcohol and occasionally landed in jail, while Sidney built a life as a fire chief and funeral supply store owner near Houston. When their father, who had lung disease, fell and suffocated to death while Allen was with him, Sidney blamed him for not calling 911 sooner.

In 2009, Allen called from prison. He had been convicted of robbery. "I told him he was dead to me," Sidney said. "I didn't mean it, but I was trying to reach him, to say, 'This is the end of the line.'"

While incarcerated, Robert Allen Webb (his full name) was diagnosed with below average cognitive ability and housed with other developmentally disabled prisoners. Over time, Sidney grew to see his brother's behavior as more than just a series of bad choices. "Christ forgave us all," his wife told him. "What gives you the right not to forgive your brother?"

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