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WASHINGTON (KABC) — The Secret Service apprehended a man who climbed over the White House fence Tuesday evening. A service spokesman said the man, who was not immediately identified, was taken into custody just steps from the gate by agents who guard the White House complex around the clock. Continue reading… abc7.com

WASHINGTON (KABC) — The Secret Service apprehended a man who climbed over the White House fence Tuesday evening. A service spokesman said the man, who was not immediately identified, was taken into custody just steps from the gate by agents who guard the White House complex around the clock.

Continue reading… abc7.com

High-res A Revenge Plot So Intricate, the Prosecutors Were Pawns Soon after Seemona Sumasar started dating Jerry Ramrattan, she had an inkling that something might be wrong. He said he was a police detective, but never seemed to go to work. He seemed obsessed with “C.S.I.,” “Law & Order” and other television police dramas. About a year after he moved into her house in Queens, their relationship soured. One day, he cornered her, taped her mouth and raped her, she said. Mr. Ramrattan was arrested. But he soon took his revenge, the authorities said. Drawing on his knowledge of police procedure, gleaned from his time as an informer for law enforcement, he accomplished what prosecutors in New York called one of the most elaborate framing plots that they had ever seen. Continue reading… NYTimes This story is surreal. There must to be Dateline NBC, a docu-drama and a documentary (hopefully a Frontline), all in the works for this. Simply astonishing. 

A Revenge Plot So Intricate, the Prosecutors Were Pawns

Soon after Seemona Sumasar started dating Jerry Ramrattan, she had an inkling that something might be wrong.

He said he was a police detective, but never seemed to go to work. He seemed obsessed with “C.S.I.,” “Law & Order” and other television police dramas.

About a year after he moved into her house in Queens, their relationship soured. One day, he cornered her, taped her mouth and raped her, she said. Mr. Ramrattan was arrested.

But he soon took his revenge, the authorities said. Drawing on his knowledge of police procedure, gleaned from his time as an informer for law enforcement, he accomplished what prosecutors in New York called one of the most elaborate framing plots that they had ever seen.

Continue reading… NYTimes

This story is surreal. There must to be Dateline NBC, a docu-drama and a documentary (hopefully a Frontline), all in the works for this. Simply astonishing. 

  • The New York Times

Alex Trebek Chases Down Burglar At San Francisco Marriott Marquis - HuffPo

Early Wednesday morning at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis, the Jeopardy host chased down a burglar on foot and assisted in her arrest, injuring himself in the process, according to the Bay Citizen.


At approximately 2:30am, 56-year-old Lucinda Moyers broke into Trebek’s hotel room and stole cash and a bracelet his mother had given him, stashing it near the ice machine. The 71-year-old star then pursued her on foot, snapping his Achilles tendon in the process, according to ABC7. (Surely while shouting, “don’t mess with Trebek!”)

The Michigan madman who massacred seven people before offing himself “went out hunting people down,” police said Friday. Ex-con Rodrick Dantzler’s victims included his 12-year-old daughter, a 10-year-old child, two ex-girlfriends, and three other people, Grand Rapids Police Chief Kevin Belk said. Continue reading… NYDailynews

The Michigan madman who massacred seven people before offing himself “went out hunting people down,” police said Friday.

Ex-con Rodrick Dantzler’s victims included his 12-year-old daughter, a 10-year-old child, two ex-girlfriends, and three other people, Grand Rapids Police Chief Kevin Belk said.

Continue reading… NYDailynews

“Among the most deliberate and abhorrent mass violations of privacy committed in recent memory did not come as a result of technology, social services, databases, hackers, thieves, leakers, or governments. It was an act of a news organization, News Corp., which hacked into the phones of a reported 4,000 people, including not just celebrities but dead children and the families of the victims of terrorism and war.”

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When Donald Trump Didn’t Need Proof In 1989 Donald Trump took out a full page ad in four New York City newspapers calling for the execution of the alleged rapists in the infamous Central Park Jogger case. Never mind that the five alleged assailants were all minors, or that rape wasn’t a capital crime. There was a moral panic to be stoked. And stoked it was. New York’s media parted with their tradition of not publishing the names of minors accused of crimes. The case gave us the term “wilding”, described at the time as the name violent youth gangs gave their sprees of crime and terror, but which was most likely the result of an NYPD detective who misunderstood the lyrics to a Tone Lōc song. The case made national headlines, and fueled the growing myth of the super-predator, in which the law-and-order crowd terrified white suburbia with tales of a rising class of young, black uber-criminals. The explosion in violent juvenile crime predicted by the likes of William Bennett and John DiIulio, Jr. never happened. If Trump had his way, all of the Central Park Five would have been dead by 2002. That’s the year Matias Reyes, already in prison for rape and murder, confessed to the crime, and insisted he acted alone. DNA tests had already confirmed that only one person raped victim Trisha Meili. Further testing showed Reyes was that person. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morganthou later vacated the convictions of the other five suspects, all of whom had already served their sentences for the attack. Now, one of the wrongly convicted, Raymond Santana, wants Trump the presidential candidate to apologize. Continue reading… Reason

When Donald Trump Didn’t Need Proof

In 1989 Donald Trump took out a full page ad in four New York City newspapers calling for the execution of the alleged rapists in the infamous Central Park Jogger case. Never mind that the five alleged assailants were all minors, or that rape wasn’t a capital crime. There was a moral panic to be stoked.

And stoked it was. New York’s media parted with their tradition of not publishing the names of minors accused of crimes. The case gave us the term “wilding”, described at the time as the name violent youth gangs gave their sprees of crime and terror, but which was most likely the result of an NYPD detective who misunderstood the lyrics to a Tone Lōc song. The case made national headlines, and fueled the growing myth of the super-predator, in which the law-and-order crowd terrified white suburbia with tales of a rising class of young, black uber-criminals. The explosion in violent juvenile crime predicted by the likes of William Bennett and John DiIulio, Jr. never happened.

If Trump had his way, all of the Central Park Five would have been dead by 2002. That’s the year Matias Reyes, already in prison for rape and murder, confessed to the crime, and insisted he acted alone. DNA tests had already confirmed that only one person raped victim Trisha Meili. Further testing showed Reyes was that person. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morganthou later vacated the convictions of the other five suspects, all of whom had already served their sentences for the attack.

Now, one of the wrongly convicted, Raymond Santana, wants Trump the presidential candidate to apologize.

Continue reading… Reason

“Making money is my thang.” [A]ccording to a police report, and the suspects moved them from room to room as they stole a wallet and jewelry. As the suspects fled, police said, the man who lives at the home ran outside after them. During a struggle, a T-shirt fell out of the suspects’ vehicle. The black T-shirt showed a photo – apparently a mug shot – of a young man and read “Making money is my thang.” The victim realized the photo was of the man who had just robbed him, police said.Read more

“Making money is my thang.”

[A]ccording to a police report, and the suspects moved them from room to room as they stole a wallet and jewelry.

As the suspects fled, police said, the man who lives at the home ran outside after them. During a struggle, a T-shirt fell out of the suspects’ vehicle.

The black T-shirt showed a photo – apparently a mug shot – of a young man and read “Making money is my thang.”

The victim realized the photo was of the man who had just robbed him, police said.

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“A 21-year-old man who said he feared for his safety after witnessing the gang rape of a Richmond girl outside a high school homecoming dance has been missing for more than two weeks,”

police said today… Rodriguez was a witness to the Oct. 24 gang rape of a 16-year-old girl who had just left Richmond High School’s homecoming dance. In a nearby courtyard, police said, as many as 10 men assaulted the girl for two hours while others watched and took photos.”

Witness in Richmond gang rape case vanishes