Category: Crime

According to the Chicago Tribune, James Eric Davis Sr, a police officer and an Iraq War veteran while he was serving in the Illinois National Guard for 24 years, and his wife Diva Jeneen Davis, a cancer survivor, were murdered by their son, 19-year-old James Eric Davis Jr when they came to the campus of Central Michigan University to pick him up for Spring Break yesterday.

After several hours on the run, the younger Davis was hospitalized for drug problems.

People who knew the family called Davis Jr. “respectful” and “a good kid” and his parents “upstanding,” and said they saw no obvious signs of trouble with the teenager, who was a sophomore at the school in Mount Pleasant, Mich.
James Eric Davis Jr.

“He was a good kid, always,” said Deantre DeYoung, 20, who met Davis Jr. when they were high school freshmen at Plainfield South High School and had kept in touch. “You would never expect something like this to come from James.”

And, yet, there he was. An underage teen in possession of a firearm and now being treated for what is probably a drug overdose. I’m guessing that he had a handgun, because if it was a rifle, we would have heard about it. I’m also guessing that he got possession of the handgun by illegal means, because the media and the police aren’t discussing it.

Reuters reports that Daniel Frisiello was arrested for mailing threats and a “white powdery substance” to Donald Trump, Jr as well as Democratic U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, actor and Republican U.S. House of Representatives candidate Antonio Sabato Jr., interim U.S. Attorney for California Nicola Hanna and a law professor at Stanford University.

Frisiello’s Facebook page, linked above, claims that he is an employee of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston.

His letters made threats, but the “white powdery substance” was harmless.

The first letter, sent to Donald Trump Jr.’s address in Manhattan, contained a letter that read in part, “You are an awful, awful person … you are getting what you deserve,” prosecutors said in court papers…All five contained threatening messages and a powdery substance that investigators found not to be hazardous.

Frisiello was arrested in his Beverly, Massachusetts home.

“These kind of hoaxes may not cause physical harm, but they scare the heck out of people because most of us recall the anthrax mailings in the early 2000s when five people were killed,” Andrew Lelling, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, told a news conference.

He’s looking at about ten years in the slammer.

Juan Bello, an 18-year-old in Illinois was arrested last week when he communicated a threat to a high school on social media, according to a Chicago Tribune article sent to us by EX-PH2. A juvenile accomplice was also arrested.

The Snapchat post warned students not to go to school because, “Mundelein ain’t ready for this.” The post also displayed a photo of a hand holding a handgun, according to a Saturday night statement by District 120.

By Sunday night, school officials announced that two Mundelein High School students had been taken into custody and charged with crimes.

Juan Bello, 18, of the 800 block of Walnut, was charged with disorderly conduct, a class 4 felony. The second student is a juvenile and has been referred to juvenile court, police said.

The charge carries a potential sentence ranging from probation to three years in prison, said Cynthia Vargas, spokeswoman for the Lake County State’s Attorney’s office.

Vargas said Bello appeared in bond court Monday morning where his bail was set at $5,000, meaning he may be freed after posting a $500 bond.

Bello and his little juvenile friend claim that they never meant any harm, that they were only goofin’. But it’s amazing how far the law and the technology has come since the school shooting in Florida, isn’t it?

Neenahjah Rae-Kwon Purvis of Stone Mountain, Georgia shot and killed Maliki Jawuan Holt during a home invasion last week. DeKalb County Sheriff Deputies arrested him the other day for the murder when they discovered that he is also a deserter from the US Navy according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Purvis, 22, was armed when he entered a motel room in the 4800 block of Memorial Drive, according to arrest warrants. He and Holt shot at each other and Holt was fatally wounded, Williams said.

Though Purvis faces felony murder and first-degree home invasion charges in DeKalb, he will also be held for extradition to federal authorities on the military desertion charge.

Picking up deserters on military warrants can save lives.

Mick sends a link to the story of Tony Garces who was at Faith City Missions in Amarillo, Texas on Valentine’s Day when a gunman took the congregation hostage. After the gunman got off a round, some of the men there wrestled the gunman to the ground and Garces disarmed him.

When Amarillo police arrived on the scene, they ordered Garces to put down the gun. He was a little slow in complying, so the cops shot Garces twice.

Garces was rushed to the hospital and the man who was the actual gunman, Joshua Len Jones, was arrested. Jones is facing six charges of aggravated kidnapping.

Today, Garces is out and back on his feet after spending time at Northwest Texas Hospital for a blood clot in his lung and now faces steep medical bills, probably a lot of long-term physical problems, and a possible legal battle with the city of Amarillo, according to his lawyer, Jeff Blackburn.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Garces recently got out of prison and was trying to turn his life around at the Faith City Mission. He described the move as a “natural reaction,” something he credits to the help of the program, and although he was shot, he said he would do it again “in a heartbeat.”

Garces doesn’t consider himself a hero because of the actions of the men who took the gunman to the ground.

“I disagree with him,” [Garces’ lawyer, Jeff Blackburn], told Fox News. “I think that’s pretty heroic.”

We first wrote about Ryan Payne when he was head of security at the Bundy Ranch four years ago and telling the media that he was a Ranger. Actual Rangers questioned his claims. It turns out that he wasn’t Ranger qualified, nor had he served in a Ranger unit.

Payne turned up again at the Malheur bird sanctuary occupation and stolen valor convention two years ago, where eventually he was arrested. The Herald and News reports that he was sentenced for his leadership role in that incident to three years and a day in prison.

Payne, 34, helped seize the bird sanctuary in southeastern Oregon on Jan. 2, 2016, in a protest against federal control of Western lands and the imprisonment of two ranchers convicted of setting fires. He and standoff leader Ammon Bundy had come to Oregon two months earlier, warning Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward of civil unrest unless he told the federal government that ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond would not report to prison.

Federal prosecutors said Payne had a leadership role during the ensuing occupation. In charge of defense, he coordinated armed guards and provided tactical training.

The judge also ordered Payne to stop associating with the “Patriot” movement. But Joe Rice is still running around a free man.