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Author: Jonn Lilyea

  • Monday morning feel good stories

    Monday morning feel good stories

    From Washington, DC;

    Miguel Smith, of Oxon Hill, Maryland, tried to leave Safeway on Saturday morning with around $15 in groceries he hadn’t paid for, according to D.C. police.

    An officer confronted Smith, who made a grab for the officer’s gun.

    The gun came partially out of the holster, then went off. Smith was hit in the leg, but still managed to limp away on foot.

    Police found Smith at the Rhode Island Avenue Metro stop after police received a call that someone had been shot.

    D.C. police said they determined that Smith was the suspect from the Safeway robbery.

    He was taken to the hospital for treatment and then arrested on charges of theft and assault on a police officer.

  • Bill Hightower; phony SEAL

    Bill Hightower; phony SEAL

    Our partners at Military Phonies share their work on this Bill Hightower fellow who claims to be a Navy SEAL on his Facebook Page;

    He also claims to be a Navy Chief on LinkedIn, even though he can’t spell the rank;

    He goes all secret squirrel when confronted;

    Well, he was in the Navy and he served on the Gearing-class destroyer USS Bailey (DD-713) but the ship was in Charleston, South Carolina the entire time he was assigned according to her logs.

    Based on Hightower’s FOIA Summary Sheet, it shows that he did just under 4 years of active duty in the Navy and not the 48 + years that he claimed. Bill was discharged as a Seaman Recruit (SR) E-1 vs. his claim of being a Chief (E-7).

    There is no record of Bill Hightower attending BUD/S, NO jump school, and NO SEAL Command.

  • Sunday morning feel good stories

    Sunday morning feel good stories

    From Philadephia, Pennsylvania;

    An alleged would-be burglar called the cops on himself after an off-duty officer’s mother apparently shot at and struck the suspect, Philadelphia police said.

    The unidentified suspect ran to a nearby car wash after the shooting early Saturday, climbed to the roof of the business and called 9-1-1, police said.

    He suffered injuries from broken glass and a possible graze wound from a bullet, police said. The 43-year-old man was being treated Saturday at Hahnemann Hospital, where he was held in police custody.

    The initial alleged burglary occurred sometime before 5 a.m. on Poplar Street near Watts Street in North Philadelphia, police said.

    Officers found the suspect a couple blocks away on the rooftop near North Broad and Brown streets.

    The suspect is stable at the hospital. The city police officer was not involved in the shooting, cops said. A weapon was recovered, police said, but it is not clear if it is the homeowner’s or the suspect’s.

    From Corpus Christi, Texas;

    A man in his early 20s is dead after investigators say he attempted to break into a home through a window. That break in happened early Saturday morning just before 1 a.m. at a home on Kimbrough Drive near Airline Road.

    According to detectives, the victim was shot several times by a friend of the homeowner who was visiting at the time. Detectives believe the victim was trying to break into the home to see a girl living there. The man died at the scene before first responders could arrive.

  • Steven Shapiro; phony 9/11 firefighter

    Steven Shapiro; phony 9/11 firefighter

    One of our ninjas send us a link to the story of Steven Shapiro who has been pretending to be one of the first firefighters on the scene of the 9/11 attacks on New York City;

    In his biography, he claims his fire department was ‘the first rescue squad on scene from Connecticut on that horrific morning’, and said he and his colleagues were on ‘the pile’ for more than two weeks.

    Shapiro claimed to other first responders of the terror attacks and online that he was there in his role as Lieutenant for the Fairfield fire department (pictured is a hat he claimed was part of his uniform) – but the department can find no record of him ever working there
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    Shapiro claimed to other first responders of the terror attacks and online that he was there in his role as Lieutenant for the Fairfield fire department (pictured is a hat he claimed was part of his uniform) – but the department can find no record of him ever working there

    ‘After passing the psych evaluation, I was off to the races drinking myself into oblivion.

    ‘In November of 2002, I retired after driving an engine full of water to a fire (alone and drunk) and almost tipping it over on a carload of children.

    ‘For a long time, I suffered from post traumatic stress and trauma from 9/11 and all the sights and sounds that we all go through in our profession.’

    Shapiro said while he’s now sober, he can still hear the sounds of PASS alarms going off – but has the tools to deal with the trauma.

    Prince, who was a volunteer fire chief at Brookhaven Fire Department until 2007, says he and his fellow first responders are enraged by Shapiro’s behavior.

    Shapiro did a pisspoor job of tracking actual history and uniforms;

    Shaprio told people he worked for the Fairfield fire department in Connecticut, but the department Deputy Chief, Kyran Dunn, said he had no record of Shapiro’s employment.

    Photographs on Shapiro’s social media accounts are also fakes, Mr Dunn said, claiming the department’s hats are a different color and do not show ranks.

    Furthermore, Dunn said his department was not at Ground Zero on 9/11. Fairfield was only called in to help in the days after the terror attack.

  • UCLA ROTC instructors saving the world

    UCLA ROTC instructors saving the world

    Stars& Stripes reports that the staff of the UCLA ROTC detachment were all in a minivan when they witnessed and accident ahead. Maj. Tyrone Vargas, UCLA assistant adjunct professor, Lt. Col. Shannon Stambersky, UCLA professor of military science, Maj. Steve Kwon.Rear from left: Sgt. 1st Class Rhu Maggio, military instructor, Romeo Miguel, recruiting operations officer, Victoria Sanelli, manager of UCLA Army ROTC all leapt into action;

    Maggio and Maj. Tyrone Vargas helped the driver from the burning rig before realizing that a crumpled Honda was pinned under the truck and rapidly becoming engulfed in flames.

    “That’s when we all rushed to aid the trapped driver of the car,” said Maj. Steve Kwon, who was visiting UCLA from Fort Knox, Ky., according to a university news release. “The fire was already burning and was picking up flames.”

    The man was on fire but rubble from the truck blocked his rescue;

    Soon, someone arrived with a battery-powered saw. One of the soldiers cut through the obstacles another pulled the driver from the wreck.

    “Within 30 seconds, the entire vehicle was engulfed in flames,” Kwon said.

    The driver was transported to UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center with third-degree burns. The soldiers planned to walk across campus to visit and check in on his recovery, officials said.

    “I truly believe they saved his life,” California Highway Patrol Sgt. Jose Ahumada told KTLA. “To them, we say thank you very much.”

    The soldiers credit their success with their military training.

    Vargas, a 22-year veteran, said he’s been drilling it into the cadets to make decisions and be leaders that others will follow. The day after the crash, he said, a cadet approached him after seeing video of the rescue.

    “Good job,” the cadet said. “You walk the walk.”

  • John Kerry tries to resuscitate Iran deal

    John Kerry tries to resuscitate Iran deal

    According to the Boston Globe, John Kerry is occupied doing what he does best – conduct US foreign policy discussion when he has no authority to do so. He did it in 1971 with the communist North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris Peace Talks. Now he’s trying to resuscitate the dying Iran deal, the crowning foreign policy achievement of the Obama Administration.

    With the Iran deal facing its gravest threat since it was signed in 2015, Kerry has been on an aggressive yet stealthy mission to preserve it, using his deep lists of contacts gleaned during his time as the top US diplomat to try to apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside. President Trump, who has consistently criticized the pact and campaigned in 2016 on scuttling it, faces a May 12 deadline to decide whether to continue abiding by its terms.

    […]

    “It is unusual for a former secretary of state to engage in foreign policy like this, as an actual diplomat and quasi-negotiator,” said Michael O’Hanlon, a foreign policy expert at the Brookings Institution. “Of course, former secretaries of state often remain quite engaged with foreign leaders, as they should, but it’s rarely so issue-specific, especially when they have just left office.”

    Kerry declined to be interviewed for this story. The quiet lobbying campaign — by him and others — is being conducted below the radar because he and his allies believe a high-profile defense of the deal by prominent Democrats would only backfire and provoke Trump, making it more likely the president would pull the United States out of the deal.

    While it may be unusual for former secretaries of state, it’s certainly not unusual for John Kerry. He stuck his nose in the Syria business while the Bush Administration had their own policy dealing with Assad, he did the same meddling in Afghanistan with the Karzai cartel.

    The Trump Administration is prepared to reimpose sanctions on Iran if they are found to be in violation of the agreement, and Kerry would prefer that we just ignore the fact that Iran hasn’t abandoned their nuclear weapons program, just to keep his agreement alive and preserve the appearance of success, disregarding the national security implications.

  • Stephen Sanders; phony Green Beret

    Stephen Sanders; phony Green Beret

    Our Partners at Guardians of the Green Beret share their work on this fellow Stephen Sanders who claims in his campaign for mayor of Lubbock, Texas to have been a special forces trained supply guy;

    He was stationed at Fort Bragg with the 27th Engineer Battalion, of the XVIIIth Airborne Corps but he wasn’t even parachutist qualified;

    The Guardians called him and he stuttered his way through an interview;

    Stephen Sanders, fake Green Beret from Guardians Of The Green Beret on Vimeo.

  • Saturday morning feel good stories

    Saturday morning feel good stories

    From Hamblen County, Tennessee;

    The Hamblen County Sheriff’s Office arrested Derrick Logan Jefferson Thursday, who’s suspected of attempted first degree murder, aggravated assault and aggravated burglary.

    Deputies said they were called out to a burglary on Oak Lane. The homeowner said the suspect had went upstairs and state he had a gun. Officers said the homeowner fire a shot into the wall and then ran from his home before calling 911.

    When officers arrived and made contact with the suspect in an upstairs bedroom closet, they said the suspect fired a single shot at them and tried to fire again when his firearm malfunctioned.

    Officers said Jefferson told them he intended to kill them. Officers were able to arrest him without injury and booked him into the Hamblen County Jail.

    From Dallas, Texas;

    It happened around 12:40 a.m. Friday at a Race Trac gas station in the 18500 block of Marsh Lane. Police said a man opened fire when he saw someone trying to drive off in his black Honda.

    The man wounded the suspect, who turned out to be a teenager. The teen got out of the car and ran about a mile before asking for help.

    He was taken to Children’s Hospital under guard and is expected to face charges for unauthorized use of a vehicle.

    His wounds are not life-threatening, police said.

    From Bountiful, Utah;

    One person is dead after a shooting at a pawn shop in Bountiful Friday morning, police said.

    Two armed individuals attempted to rob Bountiful Pawn and Sales at 135 S. 500 West when it opened around 10 a.m., according to Bountiful police Lt. Dave Edwards. A scuffle between the two men and the pawn shop store employee ensued, and one of the men was shot and killed.

    The other man fled from the store and police are asking for the public’s help in locating the man.