Friday, December 20, 2013
Woman Sues After 6-Hour Cavity Search
Last December, a US citizen was crossing the border from Mexico into the United States when Customs and Border Protection agents, who suspecting she's a drug mule, stripped searched her. Unsatisfied they didn't find the drugs they thought they would, the agents took her to a hospital for further search and after an excessive 6-hour cavity search in which the woman was poked and prodded she claims she's no longer have sex with her husband, so she's suing everyone.
"Jane Doe is a petite 54-year-old United States citizen. She resides with her husband in Lovington, New Mexico," the complaint states. As she returned from Mexico via El Paso's Cordova Bridge on Dec. 8, 2012, a "drug sniffing dog jumped on her," Doe says in the lawsuit. Two Border Patrol agents took her to a private room, she says, where they examined her anus and vagina with a flashlight. "Doe was understandably humiliated and she began crying," she says in the complaint. The agents did not find any drugs or contraband inside her, Doe says, but they took her in handcuffs to the University Medical Center of El Paso for more examination. She claims that the agents, with two doctors, then subjected her to six hours of demeaning searches "without obtaining consent." They gave her a laxative and watched her bowel movement, she says. They handcuffed her to a hospital bed, and ordered an X-ray of her stomach. The agents watched as a doctor forced a speculum up her vagina to see her insides, stuck his fingers up her vagina while pressing on her abdomen, and put his fingers in her rectum, she says. "Doe was shocked and humiliated by these exceedingly intrusive searches. That an audience of CPB agents and medical staff observed her being probed compounded her feeling of degradation," the complaint states. Not finding any drugs, they decided she needed a CT scan, Doe says. The complaint states: "After the CT scan, a CBP agent presented Ms. Doe with a choice: she could either sign a medical consent form, despite the fact that she had not consented, in which case CBP would pay for the cost of the searches; or if she refused to sign the consent form, she would be billed for the cost of the searches. She refused." Doe claims that since the ordeal she can no longer be intimate with her husband and "stays at home whenever possible" because she feels that people are staring at her in public. Adding to her outrage, Doe says, is that the hospital billed her more than $5,000 for the cost of the exams. She seeks punitive damages for civil rights violations. She is represented by attorneys with the ACLU in Houston and New Mexico. A CBP spokesman declined to comment. Defendants include The El Paso County Hospital District; its board of directors; the University Medical Center of El Paso; Drs. Michael Parsa and Christopher Cabanillas; two unknown CBP agents, and CBP Agents Portilla and Herrera, whose first names are not mentioned in the complaint.
source: CN
That is all.
Meanwhile, in Athens, Georgia
I don't even know what to add, but this happened...
A tractor trailer was making a delivery in northeast Athens on Wednesday when it struck a portable toilet and sparked an altercation with the man who was inside at the time, Athens-Clarke County police said. When the driver of a big rig showed up at Noramco on Olympic Drive at about 9 a.m. to make a delivery, he realized he was at the wrong building and began to back up, police said. He struck a portable toilet, and upon getting out of his cab to check on any damage an irate man came out of the toilet, cursing and screaming at the driver, police said. The driver was apologetic for his accident, but the man he disturbed would not calm down, according to police. He took a swing at the trucker but missed, police said, at which time bystanders intervened and separated the two men. When an officer arrived at the scene, the man who had been in the portable toilet explained “he lost his cool and his temper got the best of him when he took the swing at the victim,” according to a police incident report. No arrests were made, but the officer gave the truck driver a case number and explained the warrant application process should he decide to press a simple assault charge.
source: Athens Banner-Herald
Woman Publicly Shames Man Who Attacked Her After She Rebuffed His Advances
Last weekend, Alisha Hessler went clubbing with two friends and their male friend (Gabriel Urena). Toward the end of the night, Gabriel began to come onto Alisha. She rebuffed his advances. Then he tried to grope her. She says she struck him to get him to stop. Gabriel beat and punched her in the face, leaving her with a concussion and a broken nose. She later tracked him down on Facebook and game him an ultimatum. Either hold up the sign for 8 hours at a busy intersection while wearing a dunce cap, or she's pressing charges. He opted for what's behind door number one. That'll learn him.
source: WTVT
This Crack Head Made More Than $1.5 Million Ripping Off Target Stores
Long before hackers stole 40 million of Target customers' credit and debit card information, this ↑↑↑ lady has been taking the country's second largest discount retailer to the cleaners. Meet Terry Darcy. She's been a Target shopper for about five years. By "shopper," we mean thief. The 51-year-old drug addict was arrested in Phoenix last two earlier this month after a six-week investigation that began after Target store analysts suspected Terry was passing bogus, homemade coupons to get large amounts of goods for free. According to police, records indicated Terry have been operating the scam since 2008 and could have obtained more than $300,000 a year in fraudulent theft and returns. She admitted to cops to the scam and that she has a $145-a-day heroin addiction. She was jailed and charged with theft by misrepresentation, possession of forged instruments and trafficking in stolen property.
source: KPHO
Friday, December 6, 2013
Man Jailed For Possession of Breath Mints
Last October, the city of New York paid substance abuse counselor George Pringle, 57, $42,500 after police accused him of crack possession after finding peppermints in his pockets in April 2011. He told the officers it was breath mints and told the officers to "taste it" or let him taste it, but they were sure it was crack cocaine. George spent almost 27 hours in jail that ended with the misdemeanor charge dismissed after the lab report confirmed what he had told the cops all along. So, he sued and won. Obviously. Shockingly, it has happened again. A man from Brooklyn has slapped the NYPD with a lawsuit after he was arrested in April and framed for possession of Ecstasy pills, when in all actuality all he had on his person were breath mints.
A Brooklyn man was arrested and spent 30 hours in custody after cops thought his bag of breath mints were ecstasy tablets, according to a new lawsuit. Robert Hankins was arrested outside his Bed-Stuy home on April 2 after a nurse with “professional training” in identifying MDMA, better known as ecstasy, pointed Hankins out to cops. Hankins said he was arrested despite pleading with cops to take a whiff of the mints to prove it wasn’t the club drug. He was taken to the 79th precinct, then transferred to Brooklyn Central Booking, all the while trying to convince police the “drugs” were only mints. Hankins was eventually released by the judge before his arraignment, after spending an estimated 30 hours in custody. Charges against Hankins were only dropped on Oct. 3, a little over six months later. Hankins, with his attorney Gabriel Harvis, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the NYPD and the nurse who indicted him for false arrest, unlawful stop and search, malicious prosecution, and denial of constitutional rights.Like George's lawsuit, this one will probably be settled, too.
source: WPIX
'...You Can Go Party. You Can Drink. You Can Come Home With Two Toes Missing'
Here's a story we -- nor police -- can't figure out. Last October, Margirae Peek of Jacksonville, Florida, says she went out for drinks with some friends when she awoke in a daze surrounded by strange men in car at a gas station with a gun pointed at her head. Startled, she jumped out of the moving car. While supposedly fleeing for her life, two of her toes were severed. Margirae says she was roofed, but according to the police report only states she was intoxicated. It's unclear if she was sexually assaulted, because the police report makes no mention of it. Margirae told a local TV news station: "I never thought this would happen to me. I never thought that night that I went out to have fun to have a couple of drinks and chill with a few people I knew, that I would not come home that night. I wouldn't come home until five days later with a part of my body missing....It's not just a body part that's missing, my heart is hurting. I have to struggle everyday with being scared." Um, sorry to hear that, but.......
source: WTLV
This Gentleman Tried to Throw 8-year-old Son Out Window
Everybody knows drugs are the devil. Brenden Fairbanks, 32, of Glendale, Arizona, was arrested earlier this week after he went batshit crazy and tried to throw his 8-year-old son out a window.
On Tuesday, a 911 caller said Fairbanks was running around naked at an apartment complex near 43rd Avenue and Bethany Home Road. He was said to have a child with him and there were reports that he had been yelling with a woman inside an apartment. When officers arrived they found Fairbanks wearing shorts inside the apartment. Officers said they saw items all over the floor, including a broken picture frame and a Christmas tree that was knocked over. Police said Fairbanks picked up his son while holding a large plastic pen, approximately 12 to 14 inches long, in his fist. Officers told him to put the child down, but he refused and lunged toward a bedroom window, according to court documents. The boy's feet struck the window, causing it to break. Officers grabbed Fairbanks by the shoulders and pulled him back. Fairbanks "smashed the blinds and shook the window as he was attempting to throw his child out the window," the court papers said. Police said it was an approximate 3-foot drop to the ground and there was a block wall a few feet away from the window. Fairbanks continued to disregard commands to release his son and aggressively fought the officers, reportedly jabbing the pen into the left side of an officer's vest. Officers eventually freed the child and took Fairbanks into custody.Branden is facing several charges including child abuse, endangerment, resisting arrest and aggravated assault on an officer.
source: KTVK
Meanwhile, in Kansas
Jeanne Ouellette says she trying on bras Monday afternoon in the dressing room of a Kohl's store in Lenexa, Kansas, when she saw a hand holding a cell phone under the partition. Jeanne and other shoppers chased the perv through the store. Jeremy F. Bradley, 35, was arrested and charged with breach of privacy. If convicted, he could face up to a year in jail as well as a $2,500 fine.
source: WTVR
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Nelson Mandela is Dead
Former South African President Nelson Mandela died peacefully at his Johannesburg home on Thursday after a prolonged lung infection, President Jacob Zuma announced today in a nationally televised address. "Fellow South Africans, our beloved Nelson Rohlihla Mandela, the founding president of our democratic nation, has departed," Zuma said. "He passed on peacefully in the comfort of his home." He said Mandela would have a full state funeral. He ordered flags to be flown at half mast.
Mandela, the country's first black president and anti-apartheid icon known in South Africa by his clan name of Madiba, emerged from 27 years in apartheid prisons to help guide South Africa through bloodshed and turmoil to democracy. [...] Mandela rose from rural obscurity to challenge the might of white minority apartheid government - a struggle that gave the 20th century one of its most respected and loved figures. He was among the first to advocate armed resistance to apartheid in 1960, but was quick to preach reconciliation and forgiveness when the country's white minority began easing its grip on power 30 years later. Mandela, imprisoned for nearly three decades, was elected president in landmark all-race elections in 1994 and retired in 1999. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, an honor he shared with F.W. de Klerk, the white Afrikaner leader who released from jail arguably the world's most famous political prisoner. As president, Mandela faced the monumental task of forging a new nation from the deep racial injustices left over from the apartheid era, making reconciliation the theme of his time in office. The hallmark of Mandela's mission was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which probed apartheid crimes on both sides of the struggle and tried to heal the country's wounds. It also provided a model for other countries torn by civil strife. In 1999, Mandela handed over power to younger leaders better equipped to manage a modern economy - a rare voluntary departure from power cited as an example to African leaders. In retirement, he shifted his energies to battling South Africa's AIDS crisis and the struggle became personal when he lost his only surviving son to the disease in 2005. Mandela's last major appearance on the global stage came in 2010 when he attended the championship match of the soccer World Cup, where he received a thunderous ovation from the 90,000 at the stadium in Soweto, the neighborhood in which he cut his teeth as a resistance leader. Charged with capital offences in the infamous 1963 Rivonia Trial, his statement from the dock was his political testimony. "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.Nelson Mandela was 95.
source: Reuters
Here's a video biography of Mandela.