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Category: Crime

  • Izaha Akins phony Senator

    Izaha Akins phony Senator

    Akins

    TSO and Bobo send us links to the story of 18-year-old Izaha Akins who fooled a school into thinking that he was a newly-selected State Senator and arranged for him to talk to students about being active in politics and political processes. The real senator, David Burke, was scheduled to speak in January, but Izaha Akins called the school and told them that Burke was ill and was planning to resign and Akins would be replacing him as senator. The school also resceduled the talk with students for a month earlier, in December. Of course, when Burke showed up in January, for the scheduled appearance, the school realized it’s mistake.

    The Toledo Blade provides Akins’ explanation for the ruse;

    Mr. Akins told The Blade concerns about school security tend to focus on “urban schools,” and that he was concerned about “the small community effect — they think that this can never happen to us.”

    “I was duping to prove a point, that these kinds of things can happen. They could easily have Googled me and they didn’t,” Mr. Akins said.

    The school has involved law enforcement and Akins is now answering charges of impersonating a peace officer and telecommunications fraud, both felonies.

    How many times have we seen schools allow phony veterans get into the schools and talk about their wartime and military service to impressionable students when that wartime or military service never happened. recently we discussed Steve Valcke who talked to students about his time a POW you know, even though his service had only lasted four weeks at Lackland Air Force Base and he hadn’t completed Basic training. I wonder if that school in Georgia is seeking charges against Valcke.

    But, I guess, Atkin’s escapade was more embarrassing to the government teacher who couldn’t verify whether a local government representative was ill and resigning his position. Google can be your friend.

  • Six dead in Kalamazoo spree killing

    Fox News reports that this Jason Dalton fellow went on a rampage in Kalamazoo last night, killing six people and wounding several others with his semi-automatic weapon. The police don’t know what motivated this freak to engages in this sort of behavior. Apparently, according to MLive, he was an Uber driver who took a passenger on a terrorizing ride just before the shooting. When the rider finally got out of the car, he reported the driver and police didn’t seem too interested in the report, according to his fiance, Mackenzie Waite, who posted about the ride;

    “They sideswiped a car blowing through the stop sign at Henderson Castle and West Main Hill, and the driver continued driving,” Waite wrote. “Then this man proceeded to drive 80 mph down West Main swerving in and out of oncoming traffic.”

    Waite posted that the man was acting “completely normal” while driving erratically, and that her fiance pleaded with the driver to pull over but he refused.

    “911 was called but surprisingly they didn’t seem all that concerned.”

    It looks like the fellow was completely off his rocker. At another link MLive describes the sequence of events. No rhyme nor reason for the shootings.

  • Video of attack on Marine

    Video of attack on Marine

    Thugs

    At the risk of antagonizing more of the apologists who don’t mind that an Hispanic man, Marine Sergeant Christopher Marquez, was attacked and robbed by at least four other people in Northwest DC, here is the surveillance video of the event;

    From Fox 5;

    Marquez want to make it clear he is not a racist and he said he just told the group to leave him alone.

    He also made of point of saying that he loves Washington D.C., he loves the people in the city, but it is troubling for him to hear about so many similar recent attacks and he is hoping his attackers will be caught.

    These thugs brought race into MacDonald’s that night. I lived in DC for ten years, I know that the race discussion is ugly there and brought up at the most inappropriate times. It’s really no discussion at all. The “Black Lives Matter” discussion has been appropriated by criminals as an excuse to commit their crimes.

  • More Clintoon “Private Email” News

    Still think there was nothing classified on that “private”, unauthorized, and ineffectively-secured email server Clintoon used to conduct official State Department business? If so, do you also still believe in the Tooth Fairy?

    Here’s a quote relating to the latest revelation about what was found on that “private”, unauthorized and unsecured server. I’ve added emphasis where I felt warranted.

    One of the classified email chains discovered on Hillary Clinton’s personal unsecured server discussed an Afghan national’s ties to the CIA and a report that he was on the agency’s payroll, a U.S. government official with knowledge of the document told Fox News.

    The discussion of a foreign national working with the U.S. government raises security implications – an executive order signed by President Obama said such unauthorized disclosures are “presumed to cause damage to the national security.”

    Don’t know about you, but my reaction on reading the above was, “Oh . . . sh!t.” Why? Because people literally can die if and when information like that falls into the wrong hands.

    Fox News has an article with more details.  It’s IMO worth a read.

    “Not classified at the time” my ass.  Someone would have to be a complete moron to believe that information was unclassified.

    Some people need to go to jail for this. For a loooong time.

  • Malachi Love-Robinson; phony doctor

    Malachi Love-Robinson; phony doctor

    Malachi Love-Robinson

    TSO and Andy11M send us a link to the story of Malachi Love-Robinson, an 18-year-old who has been arrested twice for impersonating a doctor in the last year. The first time he was pretending to be a gynecologist, the other day, he was pretending to be holistic charlatan and I guess they arrested him after he treated an undercover cop.

    What he didn’t have, authorities say, was a medical license — few 18 year olds do. Now the Florida teen is charged with practicing medicine without a license and theft after he allegedly performed an exam on an undercover agent and took almost $3,500 from an 86-year-old woman seeking treatment for stomach pain. He’s also accused of stealing three checks from her that he cashed for almost $2,800.

    Love-Robinson was released on $21,000 bail on Wednesday, one day after his arrest.

    “Those are just allegations,” he told The Associated Press in a brief phone interview.

    Yeah, well, the police were tipped off because he’d sent a patient to the hospital from his office. She left her purse with the good doctor and discovered that her bank account had been emptied when she was released.

    The problems began when they didn’t bother to charge him the first time and let him off with a warning. But, then it’s his right to self-identify as a doctor, isn’t it? It’s a free speech issue, isn’t it?

  • Sean C. Page convicted of stealing father’s valor

    GDContractor sends us a link to an article about Sean C. Page who was convicted of using his father’s credentials for securing government contracts. His father is a disabled veteran, Sean has never served.

    His father, a combat veteran, served in the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1981 and was deemed to be 100 percent disabled when he was honorably discharged, authorities said. The elder Page received two bronze stars during his service in Vietnam. And he did not know about his son’s scheme, investigators said.

    Page was convicted Friday by a federal jury in Sherman. He faces up to 10 years in prison. He was charged last year with scamming the federal contracting program out of about $1 million from 2009 to 2013 using two companies he formed.

    According to the article, the pair hadn’t seen each other for more than three years. Not only did young Sean use his father’s creds, after he was charged in late 2014, Page continued doing business as his father;

    Page continued to do federal contract work after his October 2014 arraignment in violation of a federal judge’s order, court records show. He earned $35,175 from a landscaping and snow removal job with the Veterans Medical Center of Salt Lake City while he was out on bond.

    So, he was just begging for it. It seems to me that he could have avoided all of this if he had just made his father the head of the company to begin with.

    When reached at home prior to the trial, Page’s father, Dalton Page, said he knows his son committed the crime.

    “We got all the proof that he did it,” he said. “Sean is my son but those programs are set aside for GIs such as myself. I am very disappointed in him getting those contracts like that. The contracts were put in my name. He had me backed in a corner.”

  • Bergdahl Court-Martial On Hold

    It appears that Bergdahl’s court-martial is now on hold.

    Bergdahl is facing court-martial for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.  His defense team has asserted that they need access to certain classified materials to defend Bergdhal.  The prosecution disputes this.

    The trial judge granted Bergdahl’s defense be given access.  However, the prosecution has appealed this decision to a higher military court.  We’re now awaiting that appeals court decision – and everything else is on hold until that decision is announced.

    As Political Insider notes here, the defense’s assertion is bull regarding the charge of desertion. Proving the specific form of desertion with which Bergdahl is charged merely requires proving that he absented himself to avoid hazardous duty. Leaving post without authorization in a combat zone to go AWOL constitutes exactly that, and proving that is simple – he either did or he did not absent himself. Nothing classified about that, and nothing classified needed to defend the case.

    Bergdahl’s legal team may or may not need access to classified materials in order to defend him against the charges of misbehavior before the enemy. Depending on precisely what evidence or theory the prosecution plans to present to prove that charge, the defense could indeed need access to classified information to defend.

    However, I think it’s far more likely that this is a classic instance of graymail. My guess is that the defense team is merely trying to prevent the public from finding out just how badly Bergdahl behaved while enjoying Thursdays with the Taliban and/or the Haqqani Network. Doing so might be necessary to preserve future book deals and such. So they’re requesting info to material that’s highly classified and hoping that the government flatly refuses to comply and the judge pitches the case.

    Stay tuned.

  • Oh . . . Sh!t.

    Like the perhaps-apocryphal “Chinese Water Torture”, more details about the classified information found on that unauthorized, unsecured Clintoon “private email server” keeps steadily drip . . . drip . . . dripping out.  In fact, it’s kinda like the movie Groundhog Day:  it more-or-less keeps repeating itself over and over – with respect to revealing more and more new “good news”, anyway.

    But this latest drip of “good news” concerning the information found – and presumably, now known by the Russians, Chinese, and Iranians – on Clintoon’s server is bad.   Extraordinarily bad.

    How bad? Allegedly, as in “compromised the identities of US spies and foreign sources” bad.

    This article from New York Observer’s website gives more details. If even part of what that article alleges happened is true . . . well, we could literally be talking lives at stake. Or already lost.

    Someone should already be doing time for this.  Serious time.

     

    (Hat tip to TAH reader/commenter “Climb to Glory” for bringing the Observer link above to my attention.)