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Category: Crime

  • Mohammed Pedro Whitaker held in KCMO highway shootings

    Mohammed Pedro Whitaker held in KCMO highway shootings

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    So this dude by the name of Mohammed Pedro Whitaker was arrested the other day and he’s facing 18 counts related to at least nine incidents of shooting at other drivers from his car, according to CNN;

    Probable cause statements show police connected the shootings through .380 bullets found in the vehicles. Starting in early March, motorists told police of being shot at in the I-435/I-470/Highway 71 interchanges.

    In several cases, the drivers reported seeing a dark green car near them driven by a man wearing sunglasses, a dark hoodie and sometimes a black ski mask.

    One break came when a witness looking for a lost cell phone beside a road found a Walmart bag containing .380 ammunition, the documents showed. Prints on the ammunition boxes matched Whitaker’s.

    After police started shadowing Whitaker, he was observed trying to buy a .380 handgun with a laser sight from a man in a Bass Pro Shop parking lot, the statements said.

    When police questioned the second man, he told officers he advertised the pistol online but refused to sell when Whitaker couldn’t provide identification, the statement said.

    So, you see, not all private transactions go the way the criminals want it to go. One honest gun seller had his own system for background checks.

    From the Kansas City Star;

    While under surveillance, police saw Whitaker allegedly driving aggressively and stalking potential victims by pacing cars in their blind spots on highways, according to court records. Whitaker even braked rapidly to allow another motorist to pull up alongside. Whitaker turned to face the motorist, not knowing he was an undercover officer, the records show.

    No one is saying what his motivations were, so I guess we’re left to speculate. He targeted random drivers, so, my guess is that he wanted to terrorize the entire city. Luckily he wasn’t very well trained, since there was a bullet hole inside his car. We keep getting lucky.

  • Frazier Glenn Cross, aka Frazier Glenn Miller; the Jewish center murderer

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    By now, you’ve probably heard about the tragic murder of three people at the Jewish Centers in Missouri yesterday. The murderer, Frazier Glenn Cross, aka Frazier Glenn Miller. Fox News says he’s a veteran;

    Miller, an Army veteran and retired truck driver, was the subject of a nationwide manhunt in 1987 after he violated the terms of his bond while appealing a North Carolina conviction for operating a paramilitary camp. The search ended after federal agents found Miller and three other men in an Ozark mobile home, which was filled with hand grenades, automatic weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Miller tried running for U.S. House in 2006 and the U.S. Senate in 2010.

    According to the database of Vietnam veterans, which lists him as “MILLER, FRAZIER G J”, he joined the Regular Army in March, 1959 and left the service in June 1979, so odds are good that he did go to Vietnam. He retired as a Sergeant First Class, but his military occupational specialty (MOS) was 71L – a clerk – so it’s just as likely that his service was in no way related to his deed yesterday at the Jewish Center. I think his run for Congress had more to do with it than his military service – we all know how you have to be a cut-throat murderer to be a politician.

    I’ve also heard that this fellow claims to be special forces. The database lists his Primary MOS as 71L4S – the “S” used to be the identifier for special forces qualified before the “18” series MOSs were created, but I’ve never heard of a special forces qualified clerk. It also lists his Duty MOS as 71L4P, an airborne clerk, which is easier to believe.

    But we’ve filed for his records, based on his social security number. So until we get them, that’s all we have.

  • WWII vet and wife repel attacker

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    Several of you sent this link this morning about 89-year-old Ruby and 92-year-old Hugh Mathis who let a neighbor into their home. They thought they were helping him out until he pulled a knife and told them to give him their money. Well, Hugh told him to go to Hell and Ruby went to get their gun;

    “They were talking real low, and I came in to see what it was and when I did he was standing in front of Hugh with a knife saying, ‘Give me the money out of your pocket,’ so when I heard that I ran to the bedroom and got the gun,” Ruby Mathis said.

    Hugh Mathis said he had no intention of handing over his money.

    He said Kelly knew they didn’t fear him.

    “He ran out the door. I was getting up to get a club and then I was going to work him over real good,” Hugh Mathis said.

    Springfield Township issued a warrant and Kelly was arrested a short time later.

    I’m telling you criminals out there, old people don’t give a shit, we’ll kill you. There’s a video report at the link.

  • Alex Hribal charged as adult in stabbing attack

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    According to the Washington Times, 16 year-old Alex Hribal, the fellow who stabbed more than a score of his classmates yesterday in his Murrayville, Pennsylvania school has been charged as an adult for 4 counts of attempted homocide and 21 counts of aggravated assault. He used two large knives to stab and slash his schoolmates.

    Patrick Thomassey, the family’s attorney, said they all ate dinners together each night and that Alex was also a good student who got along with others, ABC News reported.

    “His parents are devastated and send their condolences to everybody involved,” Mr. Thomassey told ABC News. “They can’t figure it out.”

    Mr. Thomassey’s description of Alex differs from what students at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville say about him. Classmates called him quiet and someone who kept to himself, Fox News reported.

    Morgan Ritchey, who said she had a class with Alex, characterized him as “a little misunderstood” and someone she felt always “had a different side to him that nobody knew,” ABC News reported.

    There’s no word on whether young Alex had deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.

  • Yer Sunday Funny: “Truth In Advertising”

    Meet Ross McMakin, a 21-year-old resident of Corvalis, Oregon.

    Yeah, you guessed it. He was recently busted for DUI while wearing that shirt. That’s his mug shot.

    At least he was honest. (smile)

  • Alexander Lenox gets prison time for using vets’ stolen records

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    MCPO Ret. in TN sends us a link to the story about Alexander Lenox, a convicted felon, who gets to add on another 7 1/2 years to his prison career résumé for stealing medical records from the local James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, apparently the hospital’s prosthetics unit and using them to commit tax fraud. He was busted when the cops smelled pot outside his Motel 6 room.

    Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Sweeney told U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore that authorities hope to bring charges soon against the person who was working at Haley and selling veterans medical records.

    The judge was horrified at the fraud, which was part of a wave of identity theft tax refund fraud that washed over the Tampa area the last few years. Tampa at one point was the recognized epicenter for this kind of theft, which involved the use of stolen identity information to file fraudulent tax returns to con the government into giving out bogus refunds.

    Nice to know your medical records are this valuable, isn’t it? And I’m thinking that everyone has their price…even some VA employees

  • NRA Life of Duty; US C-SOG

    The NRA’s Patriot Profiles (sponsored by Smith & Wesson) sends us their latest video in their series about US Corrections – SOG and it focuses on one training officer, Senior Team Leader Joseph Garcia and the way he trains his officers;

    With more than 2.3 million inmates in America’s penitentiary system today, our correctional officers are severely outnumbered and under the constant threat of attack inside and outside prison walls. US C-SOG Senior Team Leader Joseph Garcia has made it his life’s mission to train and prepare warriors and operators to deal with the most violent, enraged and often disturbed criminals in the system. A true man of character, Garcia is an operator not playing a part, but living the various roles he must perform day in and day out.

  • “You can run. You can hide. But you can’t run and hide forever.”

    Kudos to the US Marshals Service.  Due to their efforts, an Army fugitive on the run for more than 36 years has been captured.

    James Robert Jones was captured yesterday in Pompano Beach, FL.  Jones committed premeditated murder and aggravated assault while in the Army.  In 1974, he was tried by court-martial, convicted, and sentenced to 23 years in prison for his crimes.

    Jones escaped from Leavenworth in 1977.  Four years later, he surfaced – under an alias – in Florida.  He’s apparently been living there, quietly, since.  He’s known to have lived in Deerfield Beach, FL, since at least 2005.

    This January the Army asked the US Marshals Service for assistance in finding Jones.  Using facial recognition software and other techniques, they located him.  He’s now in custody and will be returned to Army control.

    Had Jones simply served his sentence, he’d have been a free man 16+ years ago.  Now, he’ll likely die in prison – deservedly so.

     

    Note:  this article’s title is a quote from US Marshals Service spokesman Barry Golden.  I thought it was fully apropos here.