Category: Crime

That Jonathan Michael Campbell, the fellow who pretended to be a soldier while wearing an Air Force uniform and wanted to talk to students in a Pennsylvania school about Veterans’ Day will likely receive probation and mental health treatment according to prosecutors says the Associated Press;

Campbell declined comment after Monday’s court appearance. His public defender didn’t immediately return a call Tuesday.

Authorities haven’t explained why Campbell pretended to be a veteran.

Mikluscak said Campbell has a history of mental health problems and his case will be disposed of through a new county mental health court. A judge must still approve the tentative plea bargain, she said.

Campbell was in county jail Tuesday, awaiting sentencing on charges of impersonating a public servant and disorderly conduct.

Well, that’s Jim Dandy, but would you guys make sure that you put an entry by his name in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) so he can’t buy a gun so we don’t have to read in a few years how he shot up a school and the rest of us legal, law abiding gun owners have to be punished for it…thank you.

So that happened overnight. The crowd in Ferguson wasn’t pleased, so they burned some cars and some buildings to punish people who had nothing to do with the incident, according to the Associated Press. Because that’s how we act these days – if the law doesn’t do what you think it should do, you should act out.

Smoke billowed from some businesses Tuesday morning and shattered glass covered the sidewalks in front of others, but the streets in Ferguson were mostly clear.

Monday night’s destruction appeared to be much worse than protests after August’s shootings, with more than a dozen businesses badly damaged or destroyed. Authorities reported hearing hundreds of gunshots, which for a time prevented fire crews from fighting the flames.

The Associated Press reported parts of the testimony of Darren Wilson to the grand jury;

Wilson said he asked a dispatcher to send additional officers, then backed his vehicle in front of Brown and his friend. As he tried to open the door, Wilson said, Brown slammed it back shut. Wilson said he pushed Brown with the door and Brown hit him in the face. Wilson told grand jurors he was thinking: “What do I do not to get beaten inside my car?”

Wilson said he drew his gun and threatened to shoot if Brown didn’t move back, fearing another punch to the face could “knock me out or worse.”

“He immediately grabs my gun and says, ‘You are too much of a pussy to shoot me,’” Wilson said, saying he thought he would be shot when Brown dug the gun into the officer’s hip.

Well, I guess Wilson was less of a pussy than Brown thought. Protesters gathered outside the White House, too, for some stupid reason.

Do I think that a fistful of cigars are worth the life of a man? Nope, absolutely not, but it looks like Brown made the decision to pay for those cigars with his life. Wilson decided that his own life wasn’t worth the cigars either.

Derek sends us a link to an article in the LA Times which reports that Erik Frein, the fellow who shot two Pennsylvania State Police officers has now been charged with being a terrorist to accompany the charges of murder and attempted murder after he admitted to investigators that his intent was to “wake people up”.

In an amended criminal complaint filed Thursday, police said that while being interviewed after his arrest, Frein said that “he wanted to make a change [in government] and that voting was insufficient to do so, because there was no one worth voting for.”

Frein also said that shooting the troopers was an effort to make that change and that the fatal shooting was an assassination, the complaint says.

Additionally, the complaint says police found a letter addressed to “Mom and Dad” on a thumb drive belonging to Frein. The letter laments the state of the country and says that only “another revolution can get us back the liberties we once had.”

Now that’s all well and good, but Nidal Hasan and Carlos Bledsoe made the same types of claims, admitting that they were agents of change, that their intent was to terrorize. I’m sure that Frein’s acts were no less terroristic than those other two. But he has that pale skin that goes along with the government’s perception of what terrorists should look like, I suppose.

According to NBC Philadelphia Anthony Davis Carter was arrested on Veterans’ Day for at least five incidents over the Summer during which Anthony burned flags and desecrated grave sites in Roosevelt Memorial Park near Bensalem, Pennsylvania;

During each incident, Carter removed dozens of American flags, veteran flag holders and decorations from the gravesites of veterans, according to investigators. He then allegedly placed the items in a pile and burned them.

Police were able to link Carter to the [vandalism] through their use of a local DNA database as well as analysis of evidence recovered at the cemeteries. Carter was arrested Tuesday and arraigned at 4 p.m. He was then sent to the Bucks County prison in lieu of 10% of $10,000 bail.

I’m wondering what kind of DNA he left at the crime scenes which linked him to the incidents. Wondering, but not all that curious.

Someone dropped off a link on our Facebook page about Kimberly Guajardo who stepped outside a bar in downtown Olympia Washington for a smoke. When she couldn’t give a cigarette to a fellow who was trying to bum one from her, he pulled a gun;

“I knew it was fake as soon as he pulled it out, because I have a little boy,” she says. “Then I just got angry.”

Without thinking Guajardo grabbed the gun, threw it over a nearby fence, and started hitting the man.

“Then he ran down the street, crying and freaking out.”

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Guajardo knows she’s also lucky she wasn’t hurt. But she says she’s glad she got at least one criminal off the streets of Olympia.

“Hopefully I taught him a lesson.”

It looks from the story that the perp went to the police station to report Kimberly. Sissy. He’s going to have a new boyfriend for sure.