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Stillwater corrections officer, inmate indicted for meth smuggling operation<\/h3>\n

A Minnesota corrections officer charged with bringing methamphetamine into prison has now been federally indicted, along with the inmate she conspired with, in connection to the operation.<\/p>\n

Faith Rose Gratz, 24, was indicted by a grand jury on charges of conspiracy to distribute meth and possession of meth with intent to distribute. Additionally, 35-year-old Axel Rene Kramer, an inmate at the Oak Park Heights Correctional Facility, was indicted on the charge of conspiracy to distribute meth.<\/p>\n

According to the indictment, Gratz worked at the Stillwater Correctional Facility and used her position as a prison guard to smuggle meth into the prison, which she then provided to Kramer.<\/p>\n

The indictment states that Gratz smuggled several cellphones into the prison and gave them to Kramer, who then used them to communicate with other inmates inside and outside of the Stillwater prison and facilitate a drug distribution network.<\/p>\n

Gratz and Kramer allegedly communicated regularly about the drug distribution conspiracy, upcoming searches of inmates\u2019 cells and possibly getting married when Kramer is released from prison. He\u2019s currently serving a 288-month sentence for murder and could be released in 2024.<\/p>\n

Another Stillwater prison inmate, who has not been indicted, is also believed to have worked with several people outside the prison who supplied the drugs that Kramer then had Gratz pick up and bring into the prison.<\/p>\n

The documents state Gratz smuggled drugs into the prison on six different occasions before she was caught while trying to smuggle around a half-pound of meth into the prison on April 8.<\/p>\n

Gratz was charged a few days later in Washington County court with first-degree drug sale and first-degree drug possession. Her next hearing on the state charges is set for July 21.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source; KSTP<\/a><\/p>\n

Falmouth residents oppose AR-15 deal between police and gun store<\/h3>\n

Residents are concerned that a deal between the Falmouth Police Department and Powderhorn Outfitters in Hyannis may end up placing semi-automatic weapons in the wrong hands.<\/p>\n

The deal entails the police department buying 38 semi-automatic weapons from Powderhorn Outfitters, and trading in 21 semi-automatic weapons, 20 of which are AR-15s, to receive credit toward the purchase.<\/p>\n

Over 300 Falmouth residents signed a petition for the town to dismantle and destroy the police department\u2019s surplus weapons rather than trade them in, said the Rev. Deborah Warner, who created the petition.<\/p>\n

Town Counsel Maura O\u2019Keefe advised the Select Board at a June 6 meeting that the contract, which was signed by the town manager, is legally binding.<\/p>\n

The deal was approved by Acting Town Manager Peter Johnson-Staub after Powderhorn Outfitters agreed to only sell the weapons to local law enforcement, he said.<\/p>\n

However, Richard Duby, president of the Falmouth Gun Safety Coalition, said despite assurances that only local law enforcement will handle these weapons, they still pose a public risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless people are under the delusional belief that these officers are going to keep these weapons for the rest of their lives, they will end up in the public sector,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Duby, as well as Warner, said local law enforcement officials could purchase the guns legally. They could then re-sell them to people in states where AR-15s are legal, or to a gun dealer who would then sell them out of state. That scenario could potentially put them in the hands of someone dangerous.<\/p>\n

Warner said the news about the deal between the Police Department and Powderhorn Outfitters became public around the time of a shooting in Uvalde, Texas which claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers at the hands of a man with an AR-15 style assault rifle.<\/p>\n

The shooting in Texas prompted Warner to act.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t stand back, everybody has to stand up and make their voices heard, especially around assault rifles,\u201d said Warner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source; Cape Cod Times<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Hypocritical\u2019 defund NYPD advocate moved out of Harlem for \u2018safety issues\u2019<\/h3>\n

A left-wing state lawmaker who has pushed for cutting police funding first moved to the district she is seeking to represent in Congress because \u201csafety issues\u201d near \u201cthe projects\u201d in Harlem prompted her to shack up with her tech bro then-fianc\u00e9 in the Financial District, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou (D-Lower Manhattan) told a local publication in 2016 \u2014 when she was campaigning to initially get elected to her current seat \u2014 that she headed to the wealthier Manhattan neighborhood because she witnessed a pair of disturbing crimes and fell victim to one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually was robbed when I was living in Harlem. My boyfriend at the time, my fianc\u00e9, didn\u2019t think I was safe up there, so he told me to move in, and so that\u2019s how I moved to the Financial District with him,\u201d she explained in an interview with the Lo-Down NY. \u201cHe was already living there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Four years later, the since-updated issues section for her most recent Assembly campaign read, \u201cShe believes that we are long overdue for police reform in this country and that we need to defund millions from the police in order to put critical funding back into our social services, education, and housing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Niou bid to represent the newly configured Lower Manhattan-Brooklyn House seat has earned endorsements from \u201cSex and the City\u201d star and former gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, left-wing group New York Communities for Change and state Sen. Julia Salazar (D-Bushwick), among others.<\/p>\n

In 2016, while vying to replace disgraced ex-Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, she recalled to the local outlet that two separate frightening \u201cincidents\u201d drove her out of her apartment on 106th Street and 1st Avenue in East Harlem.<\/p>\n

In one, she claimed she \u201cwatched a girl get raped on a pile of garbage, right across the street from the projects,\u201d where she was living. In the other, the candidate said she witnessed a man \u201cslam a girl\u2019s head \u2026 into an ATM machine\u201d and rob her before fleeing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of safety issues,\u201d Niou reportedly said in April 2016. \u201cSome of the things that happen on the Lower East Side are very parallel, so these are all incidents that kind of led to me moving down to the Financial District and moving in with my partner.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Must be nice when you can afford to just move out of the crappy neighborhood. Too bad most of her constituents don’t have such luxury.<\/p>\n

More at the source; NY Post<\/a><\/p>\n

Unhappy Arizona Wendy\u2019s customer assaults employee over botched fries and nuggets, police say<\/h3>\n

Authorities in Arizona are looking for a woman who was apparently upset that the fries she ordered at a Wendy’s restaurant were cold and the chicken nuggets were not spicy before allegedly assaulting an employee.<\/p>\n

The Casa Grande Police Department said the unhappy customer took things too far when she notified the fast-food restaurant of the botched order. A surveillance photo released by authorities shows the woman accused of assaulting a worker at a drive-thru window.<\/p>\n

“She said that she got spicy nuggets instead of normal ones, saying they were burnt” Varina Hunt, a witness to the alleged attack, told Fox Phoenix as she was in the drive-thru line trying to place her order.<\/p>\n

The woman was apparently yelling at the employees to fix the order.<\/p>\n

“The lady was being harassed by another woman. She was saying, \u2018give me my f\u2019ing food.’ She was calling her names and said, \u2018I\u2019m gonna throw it at you, and I\u2019m gonna hit you,” she said. “And I heard something being thrown.”<\/p>\n

The suspect allegedly threw the bag with fries and nuggets at the employee as well as a drink.<\/p>\n

“The lady was definitely overreacting,” Hunt said. “There\u2019s definitely better ways to handle it. It\u2019s called temperament control \u2013 like my 3-year-old knows this.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source; Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Drunk’ Colorado man, 33, steals officers’ Dodge Durango patrol car and RESPONDS to a domestic violence call before 110mph car chase and shootout<\/h3>\n

A Colorado man faces a slew of charges after he allegedly stole a patrol car while intoxicated and showed up to a call for domestic violence.<\/p>\n

Police say Jeremiah James Taylor broke into an unstaffed Park County Sheriff’s substation early Monday morning and stole a 2013 Dodge Durango.<\/p>\n

Taylor, 33, then drove the car to nearby Teller County after officials broadcast a domestic violence incident.<\/p>\n

He was arrested more than two hours later after he led police on 110mph chase, crashed the Durango and fled into the woods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source; Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n

Happy the elephant is not a \u2018person,\u2019 New York\u2019s highest court rules<\/h3>\n

Just how in the fuck did this need to go to NY’s highest court? What a world we live in. This was a 5-2 decision. There are two Court of Appeals (the same level as a state supreme court in other states) that think an elephant should be considered a person under the law.<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s highest court has ruled that Happy the elephant is not a \u201cperson\u201d as it tossed a lawsuit seeking to free the animal from the Bronx Zoo.<\/p>\n

The 5-2 decision likely marks the end of the line for an animal rights group that since at least 2018 has been seeking to spring the 50-year-old Asian pachyderm through habeas corpus \u2013 a legal principle used for challenging wrongful imprisonment.<\/p>\n

But the state Court of Appeals on Monday rejected that argument, finding habeas corpus \u201chas no applicability to Happy, a nonhuman animal who is not a \u2018person\u2019 subjected to illegal detention.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile no one disputes that elephants are intelligent beings deserving of proper care and compassion, the courts below properly granted the motion to dismiss the petition,\u201d reads the majority decision authored by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore.<\/p>\n

Still, two of the seven-judge panel disagreed with DiFiore\u2019s opinion, finding that Happy should have the right to petition for her freedom.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should recognize Happy\u2019s right to petition for her liberty not just because she is a wild animal who is not meant to be caged and displayed, but because the rights we confer on others define who we are as a society,\u201d Judge Rowan Wilson wrote.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Judge Jenny Rivera wrote in her dissenting opinion: \u201cThe law has a mechanism to challenge this inherently harmful confinement, and Happy should not be denied the opportunity to pursue and obtain appropriate relief by writ of habeas corpus.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NonHuman Rights Project has argued that Happy \u2013 as an intelligent creature \u2013 should live free from captivity after over 40 years cooped up in the zoo and more than ten years living alone.<\/p>\n

But the case has been struck down by lower courts which have ruled that Happy is an elephant and not a human and therefore habeas corpus rights can\u2019t be applied to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe applaud the powerful dissents by the Honorable Judges Jenny Rivera and Rowan D. Wilson, which we see as a tremendous victory in a national and global struggle for nonhuman animal rights which we\u2019ve only just begun,\u201d the NhRP said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time, this is not just a loss for Happy, whose freedom was at stake in this case and who remains imprisoned in a Bronx Zoo exhibit,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cIt\u2019s also a loss for everyone who cares about upholding and strengthening our most cherished values and principles of justice\u2013autonomy, liberty, equality, and fairness\u2013and ensuring our legal system is free of arbitrary reasoning and that no one is denied basic rights simply because of who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

A lawyer for the zoo did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source; NY Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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