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Author: Jonn Lilyea

  • Vanessa Guerra; saving the world

    Vanessa Guerra; saving the world

    Tim sends a link to Fox News which tells the story of Vanessa Guerra, a nurse who happened to spot two police officers struggling with a male and a female criminal while she stopped by a convenience store.

    As Sgt. Walters attempted to restrain the woman, identified as 21-year-old Olivia J. Boomsma, the “male was able to blade his body toward Sgt. Walters and forcefully kick Sgt. Walters on the right side of his face and head,” according to the police department.

    The kick was so forceful Walters lost consciousness.

    Around that same time, an off-duty medical assistant who had stopped in the convenience store on her way home came to the rescue.

    Divine Savior Hospital employee Vanessa Guerra ran toward the officers after she noticed Walters had fallen unconscious. As she was checking on him, the “female suspect was beginning to fight with Officer Loewenhagen again and was yelling about having a knife in her pocket,” police said.

    From the Portage, Wisconsin Police Department’s Facebook page;

    An off duty nurse from Divine Savior Hospital saw the struggle and realized Sgt. Walters was not moving and unconscious. The nurse came to Sgt. Walters aid and while checking on him realized the female suspect was beginning to fight with Officer Loewenhagen again and was yelling about having a knife in her pocket. Concerned that the female was going to stab Officer Loewenhagen or the unconscious Sgt. Walters, the nurse disregarded her own safety to help protect the officers and took it upon herself to engage the female suspect by body slamming the female suspect against a wall and held her there until Sgt. Walters resumed consciousness and was able to handcuff the female.

    From AZFamily;

    The nurse restrained the woman until Walters regained consciousness and arrested her.

    “When I heard the word knife, at that point I thought: ‘It’s going to be you or me,’” Guerra said. “At that point it was her.”

  • Saturday morning feel good stories

    Saturday morning feel good stories

    From Greenville County, South Carolina;

    The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office said a resident arrived home Friday morning and found someone inside their home on Easterlin Way.

    Deputies say the resident fired at least one round before going outside to call law enforcement.

    Deputies responded to a reported burglary at the home around 8:10 a.m. Friday.

    Officers found the subject dead in a closet.

    The investigation is underway.

    From St Louis, Missouri;

    Five people were inside that home at the time, and one of them, a man, 67, was struck by gunfire in the back. A man, 29, inside the home then grabbed his own gun and shot the suspect in the leg, police said.

    The robber fled, but continued to fire shots. That’s when the off-duty officer saw him, pulled out his gun and shot at the fleeing vehicle, police said.

    The robber returned fire at the officer, but the officer was not struck, police said.

    Police then arrested the injured suspect on Harlan Avenue, off North Broadway in the Baden neighborhood.

    St. Louis police have since determined the suspect was not struck by the officer’s gunfire, but by the victim’s gunfire.

    From South Bend, Indiana;

    South Bend police responded to a shooting on the city’s west side late Thursday morning

    Initially, one man was reported injured. Later, as the investigation unfolded, police reportedly discovered that the shooting happened during an attempted robbery, and when the victim attempted to defend himself, he was shot.

    But the victim also returned fire, according to a release issued by the South Bend Police Department Thursday night.

    There were two suspects in the attempted robbery, and it was not immediately clear whether either of the suspects was shot.

    But police later responded to a possible gunshot victim in a Niles hospital and concluded the person hospitalized there was one of the suspects in the attempted robbery.

    Both the victim and the suspect reportedly were treated for injuries.

    From Covington, Georgia;

    According to a Newton County Sheriff’s Office incident report, law enforcement responded to the home on Rosemoore Drive just past midnight April 18 on a report of the robbery attempt. An NCSO spokesperson said the homeowner had just arrived home when he was approached by an unknown male suspect brandishing a handgun who demanded his property.

    When the suspect raised his gun, the homeowner drew his own weapon and fired a shot. The would-be robber fled the scene and the homeowner observed a vehicle drive by at a high rate of speed. After hearing what he thought was a gunshot, the homeowner fired a shot at the vehicle.

  • Weekend open thread

    Weekend open thread

    April 20, 2018

    Dust City

    At Black Rock City—the temporary city raised in the Nevadan desert for the annual Burning Man festival—camps are laid out as if on a clock. On a street in the 7:30 camp sector, festival-goers bike through the omnipresent dust as the sun sets.

  • Andrew Cuomo: I’m an undocumented immigrant

    Andrew Cuomo: I’m an undocumented immigrant

    The legacy governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, declared that he’s an undocumented immigrant for some stupid reason, according to Fox News;

    “I’m undocumented. You want to deport an undocumented person, start with me because I’m an undocumented person,” Cuomo, 60, said during a bill signing.

    During the bizarre speech, the New York governor criticized the “extreme conservative movement” for being “anti-immigrant.” He said his family, who emigrated to the U.S. from Italy, was constantly ridiculed with a racial slur that he said meant “without papers.”

    “I’m an Italian-American. I came from poor Italian-Americans who came here. You know what they called Italian-Americans back in the day? They called them wops,” Cuomo said, referring to the pejorative slur for Italians. “You know what wop stood for? Without papers.”

    Well, Cuomo was born in Queens, his father was born there, too. While they are indeed wops, in the vernacular of my more youthful days, that’s not what the term means;

    According to the Online Etymology dictionary, the slur originated from southern Italian dialect “guappo,” which means “dandy, dude, stud.” The dictionary said it’s not an acronym.

    Since Cuomo is second generation Italian, he’s not undocumented. In fact, real undocumented aliens aren’t happy with Cuomo’s attempt at virtue signaling;

    Immigrant advocacy group Make the Road Action has called on Cuomo to apologize for the comments.

    “To Dreamer and immigrants like me, these fabrications are offensive,” Make the Road Action member Antonio Alarcon said in a statement, adding that the governor “has no idea what it’s like to live as an undocumented person.”

    “For those of us who came to this country with our parents to find a better life, and have struggled daily to get by and faced the threat of being torn from our family, it’s unbelievable that the governor would try to claim to have shared our experience,” he said.

    Immigration officers shouldn’t let the fact that Cuomo isn’t an illegal alien keep them for deporting his dumb ass, though.

  • Sgt. Noel Ramirez and Deputy Sheriff Taylor Lindsey murdered

    Sgt. Noel Ramirez and Deputy Sheriff Taylor Lindsey murdered

    Mick sends us a link to Fox News which reports that Sgt. Noel Ramirez, 30, and Deputy Sheriff Taylor Lindsey, 25 of the Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office were murdered while they ate their lunch at the Ace China restaurant. A gunman shot them through the plate glass window.

    “As fellow deputies responded to the scene, they found the shooter deceased outside the business,” the statement read.

    Gilchrist County Sheriff Bobby Schultz said Thursday night it was unclear if the gunman had killed himself. A motive for the shooting wasn’t immediately revealed.

  • Friday morning feel good stories

    Friday morning feel good stories

    From Gary, Indiana;

    One man is dead and another is on the run after a customer at an auto dealership shot and killed a robbery suspect in self-defense, police said.

    The customer and an employee were outside of Ocampo Auto Sales, a used car lot at 401 W. Ridge Road, when two men approached them, according to Gary police.

    Officers and EMS were called out at about 2 p.m. to investigate.

    A second robbery suspect fled the scene, police said. Police did not immediately have a description or other information about the second suspect.

    The Lake County coroner’s office identified the gunshot victim — and robbery suspect — as Markis D. Square, 30, of Gary.

    From Evansville, Indiana;

    At a news conference Thursday, Evansville Police said 48-year-old Michael Anthony Foster of Evansville was shot by an officer.

    EPD said Foster had committed a violent rape at an apartment on Spring Valley Road near Green River Road.

    EPD said Foster left but threatened victim he was coming back. When Foster came back, he was confronted by an officer.

    Police said the officer asked him to drop his weapon, but instead Foster pointed it at the officer. The EPD officer then shot Foster several times.

    Foster is being treated at a local hospital. EPD is not identifying the officer.

    During their investigation, police said they discovered Foster was holding a replica gun, not a real one.

    Michael Antony Foster is a convicted sex offender, according to EPD. Foster was convicted of child molesting in 1997.

    From San Antonio Texas;

    Police were called around 9:37 p.m. to a home on the 7000 block of Valley Trails for reports of a shooting. Officers found a man with a gunshot wound to his chest on the living room floor.

    The man allegedly got in a fight with a relative before he was shot. According to police, the relative locked herself in a bedroom, which the man kicked open and started punching her.

    The suspect then grabbed her handgun and found the man chocking his family member. The suspect was shot once and pronounced the man dead at the scene by EMS.

  • “Ninja work” killers convicted

    “Ninja work” killers convicted

    We first wrote about Joseph Hunter in 2012 when he was arrested for plotting the death of a DEA agent for his drug cartel boss. He was convicted and sentenced to twenty years for that charge in 2016. This week Hunter and two cohorts were found guilty of a contract murder in the Philippines of a real estate broker;

    Prosecutors said the 52-year-old Hunter was working as a security chief for weapons and drug trafficker Paul Le Roux when he recruited Samia and Stillwell to travel from their homes in Roxboro, N.C., to the Philippines for what was called “ninja work.” They said Hunter provided firearms and silencers and told them Le Roux would pay them $35,000 a piece to get the job done.

    [Adam] Samia, 43, and [Carl David] Stillwell, 50, pretended to be potential clients of the broker. While returning from a trip to the countryside outside of Manila, Samia pulled out a .22-caliber gun and killed the broker by shooting her twice in the face as she sat in the back seat of a van, prosecutors said.

    After being paid, her killers were ordered back to the United States, where they were arrested in 2015.

    All three are looking at life sentences. We’ve unsuccessfully tried to get a FOIA on Hunter for six years, who everyone claims to be a special forces-qualified-soldier.

  • Code inspector Melinda Power suspended

    Code inspector Melinda Power suspended

    Jacksonville, Florida city code inspector who made national news the other day was suspended from her job when she tried to cite Jaguar Power Sports for flags on their building and ended up treating poorly a customer who was a veteran according to News4Jax;

    The city of Jacksonville has suspended a code inspector who sparked controversy Monday after she issued a warning citation to a Westside business over military flags and then was caught on surveillance video in a confrontation with a customer who objected to the citation.

    The inspector’s supervisor, who was present during the incident, has also been suspended, Mayor Lenny Curry said Tuesday.

    Both employees will still be receiving pay during the investigation, the city confirmed.

    Mayor Curry released the following statement;

    “Employees of the city of Jacksonville are the servants of taxpayers who have a duty to enforce our laws and regulations. I expect every one of them to do that job in a manner that is respectful and reflects the privilege we all have to serve this great city. What I saw reported is 100 percent inconsistent with how I expect every city employee to interact with our citizens.

    “I have ordered a review of the actions of the employee and pending the completion of that review, the employee and her supervisor have been placed on leave. Today I will ask every manager of city departments to review our procedures with each city employee. Once a review of the actions in this matter is complete, appropriate corrective action will be enforced for any wrongdoing.

    “As the son and grandson of military veterans, and the mayor of a city with a proud history of commitment to our nation’s defense, I will not tolerate disparagement or disrespect of the men and women who serve or served. On behalf of the City of Jacksonville I apologize to veterans and service members who are rightly troubled by the events that have been reported.

    “While current ordinance does not address residents or businesses displaying military flags, I will not allow any citation of those who demonstrate their support for the Armed Forces. My team is working with the city’s Office of General Counsel to bring clarity to the relevant city laws.”