Author: Jonn Lilyea

  • James Eric Davis Jr arrested for parents’ murder

    James Eric Davis Jr arrested for parents’ murder

    According to the Chicago Tribune, James Eric Davis Sr, a police officer and an Iraq War veteran while he was serving in the Illinois National Guard for 24 years, and his wife Diva Jeneen Davis, a cancer survivor, were murdered by their son, 19-year-old James Eric Davis Jr when they came to the campus of Central Michigan University to pick him up for Spring Break yesterday.

    After several hours on the run, the younger Davis was hospitalized for drug problems.

    People who knew the family called Davis Jr. “respectful” and “a good kid” and his parents “upstanding,” and said they saw no obvious signs of trouble with the teenager, who was a sophomore at the school in Mount Pleasant, Mich.
    James Eric Davis Jr.

    “He was a good kid, always,” said Deantre DeYoung, 20, who met Davis Jr. when they were high school freshmen at Plainfield South High School and had kept in touch. “You would never expect something like this to come from James.”

    And, yet, there he was. An underage teen in possession of a firearm and now being treated for what is probably a drug overdose. I’m guessing that he had a handgun, because if it was a rifle, we would have heard about it. I’m also guessing that he got possession of the handgun by illegal means, because the media and the police aren’t discussing it.

  • Daniel Frisiello mails white powdery substance to Trump. Jr

    Daniel Frisiello mails white powdery substance to Trump. Jr

    Reuters reports that Daniel Frisiello was arrested for mailing threats and a “white powdery substance” to Donald Trump, Jr as well as Democratic U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, actor and Republican U.S. House of Representatives candidate Antonio Sabato Jr., interim U.S. Attorney for California Nicola Hanna and a law professor at Stanford University.

    Frisiello’s Facebook page, linked above, claims that he is an employee of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston.

    His letters made threats, but the “white powdery substance” was harmless.

    The first letter, sent to Donald Trump Jr.’s address in Manhattan, contained a letter that read in part, “You are an awful, awful person … you are getting what you deserve,” prosecutors said in court papers…All five contained threatening messages and a powdery substance that investigators found not to be hazardous.

    Frisiello was arrested in his Beverly, Massachusetts home.

    “These kind of hoaxes may not cause physical harm, but they scare the heck out of people because most of us recall the anthrax mailings in the early 2000s when five people were killed,” Andrew Lelling, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, told a news conference.

    He’s looking at about ten years in the slammer.

  • Illinois students arrested for social media threats

    Illinois students arrested for social media threats

    Juan Bello, an 18-year-old in Illinois was arrested last week when he communicated a threat to a high school on social media, according to a Chicago Tribune article sent to us by EX-PH2. A juvenile accomplice was also arrested.

    The Snapchat post warned students not to go to school because, “Mundelein ain’t ready for this.” The post also displayed a photo of a hand holding a handgun, according to a Saturday night statement by District 120.

    By Sunday night, school officials announced that two Mundelein High School students had been taken into custody and charged with crimes.

    Juan Bello, 18, of the 800 block of Walnut, was charged with disorderly conduct, a class 4 felony. The second student is a juvenile and has been referred to juvenile court, police said.

    The charge carries a potential sentence ranging from probation to three years in prison, said Cynthia Vargas, spokeswoman for the Lake County State’s Attorney’s office.

    Vargas said Bello appeared in bond court Monday morning where his bail was set at $5,000, meaning he may be freed after posting a $500 bond.

    Bello and his little juvenile friend claim that they never meant any harm, that they were only goofin’. But it’s amazing how far the law and the technology has come since the school shooting in Florida, isn’t it?

  • Saturday morning feel good stories

    Saturday morning feel good stories

    From Detroit, Michigan;

    Police said the unidentified 46-year-man received a “telephonic” message that the residence he owned was being burglarized in the 2900 block of Lakewood. He engaged the two suspects after one pointed a gun at the homeowner, and he shot the 16-year-old in the groin, right arm and back.

    The juvenile remains in critical condition at an unidentified hospital. Police said a handgun was recovered at the scene, and the homeowner is cooperating with authorities.

    Another black male, who was wearing all black with no other description, escaped from the scene on foot.

    In Dallas, Texas;

    During the burglary, the homeowner got his gun and confronted the burglary suspect as the suspect tried to burglarize the homeowner’s car located in his side fenced in driveway.

    As the homeowner confronted the suspect, the suspect approached the homeowner at which time the homeowner fired a weapon and shot him.

    The suspect fled the location, but was discovered deceased a short distance from the scene. The homeowner was taken to the Jack Evans Headquarters to be interviewed and was released.

    From Madison, Wisconsin;

    Madison police say an attempted robber is dead after a security guard tried protecting those inside a east side bank on Thursday.

    It happened at the Chase bank on the 4500 block of Milwaukee Street around 5p.m., roughly an hour before the bank closed.

    Officers say a masked man walked in and was shot dead by a private security guard who police say started working at the branch just three weeks ago.

    Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said the would-be robber was shot one time and died inside the bank after he barged in and demanded money.

    “He pulled a mask up over his face and postured as if he had something in his hands cause his hands couldn’t be seen as something was draped over them as if he had something that he was grasping,” said Chief Koval.

    It’s still not known if the man had a weapon, but a private security guard took no chances. He shot the attempted robber in front of seven people inside the bank including at least one customer, according to Koval.

  • Weekend open thread

    Weekend open thread

    March 2, 2018

    Watch and Wait

    A tokay gecko waits for nightfall in Ubud, Indonesia. Its name is an onomatopoeia, mimicking the croak the nocturnal gecko makes while in pursuit of a mate.

    This is not an advertisement for the Government Employees Insurance Company.

  • Neenahjah Rae-Kwon Purvis; deserter arrested for murder in Georgia

    Neenahjah Rae-Kwon Purvis; deserter arrested for murder in Georgia

    Neenahjah Rae-Kwon Purvis of Stone Mountain, Georgia shot and killed Maliki Jawuan Holt during a home invasion last week. DeKalb County Sheriff Deputies arrested him the other day for the murder when they discovered that he is also a deserter from the US Navy according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

    Purvis, 22, was armed when he entered a motel room in the 4800 block of Memorial Drive, according to arrest warrants. He and Holt shot at each other and Holt was fatally wounded, Williams said.

    Though Purvis faces felony murder and first-degree home invasion charges in DeKalb, he will also be held for extradition to federal authorities on the military desertion charge.

    Picking up deserters on military warrants can save lives.

  • Marine Corps Forces Reserve data breach

    The Marine Corps Times reports that the Marine Corps Forces Reserve sent the personally identifying information of more than 21,000 personnel to people who weren’t authorized to have that information outside of the Marine Corps.

    The compromised attachment included highly sensitive data such as truncated social security numbers, bank electronic funds transfer and bank routing numbers, truncated credit card information, mailing address, residential address and emergency contact information, Maj. Andrew Aranda, spokesman for Marine Forces Reserve said in a command release.

    That email was a roster sent out by the Defense Travel System, or DTS, Marine Corps Times has learned. DTS is a Defense Department system that assists military and civilian defense personnel with travel itineraries and settling expenses from official authorized trips.

    “It was very quickly noticed and email recall procedures were implemented to reduce the number of accounts that received it,” Aranda said.

    The upside is that we’re being told about the breach only days after it happened, as opposed to other breaches that we found out about months after it happened.

  • Tony Garces disarms church gunman

    Tony Garces disarms church gunman

    Mick sends a link to the story of Tony Garces who was at Faith City Missions in Amarillo, Texas on Valentine’s Day when a gunman took the congregation hostage. After the gunman got off a round, some of the men there wrestled the gunman to the ground and Garces disarmed him.

    When Amarillo police arrived on the scene, they ordered Garces to put down the gun. He was a little slow in complying, so the cops shot Garces twice.

    Garces was rushed to the hospital and the man who was the actual gunman, Joshua Len Jones, was arrested. Jones is facing six charges of aggravated kidnapping.

    Today, Garces is out and back on his feet after spending time at Northwest Texas Hospital for a blood clot in his lung and now faces steep medical bills, probably a lot of long-term physical problems, and a possible legal battle with the city of Amarillo, according to his lawyer, Jeff Blackburn.

    No good deed goes unpunished.

    Garces recently got out of prison and was trying to turn his life around at the Faith City Mission. He described the move as a “natural reaction,” something he credits to the help of the program, and although he was shot, he said he would do it again “in a heartbeat.”

    Garces doesn’t consider himself a hero because of the actions of the men who took the gunman to the ground.

    “I disagree with him,” [Garces’ lawyer, Jeff Blackburn], told Fox News. “I think that’s pretty heroic.”