Va Inmate's Execution Stayed: A federal appeals court issued a temporary stay of execution for a Virginia death row inmate convicted of hiring a man to kill his ex-girlfriend in 2006. Alanna Durkin Richer of the AP reports that 37-year-old Ukrainian native Ivan Teleguz plans to take his case to the U.S. Supreme Court after his April 13th execution was halted by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Teleguz's attorney argues that there is no physical evidence tying his client to the crime, but following a 2012 hearing on his innocence claim after two prosecution witnesses said they lied during their trial testimony, a U.S. district judge said Teleguz failed to prove his innocence and subsequently refused to overturn his conviction. Teleguz was sentenced to death a decade ago for hiring a man to kill his former girlfriend in order to get out of paying child support for their infant son.
102 Illegals Apprehended Crossing Rio Grande in One Day: Border Patrol agents working in the Rio Grande Valley along the southern border Tuesday apprehended 102 illegal immigrants attempting to cross into the United States. Susan Jones of CNS News reports that the group of 102 people included 73 men, 12 women and 17 juveniles, though their nationalities are unknown at this time. The border sector in the Rio Grande Valley is a common route taken by people fleeing Central America, and agents assigned to the sector make more apprehensions than any of the other seven sectors. U.S. Customs and Border Protection detains as many as 924 people attempting to cross the border illegally on a typical day, a number which includes both the southern and northern border.
Central CA City sees Spike in Robberies, Car Theft: Yet another California city saw a sharp increase in crime in 2015, with this city seeing a rise in robberies and stolen vehicles, and local police believe AB 109 and Proposition 47 are to blame. Mike Eiman of the Hanford Sentinel reports that 2015 statistics for major crimes recently released by the Hanford Police Department show an 84% increase in robberies and a 52% increase in stolen vehicles, as well as smaller spikes in petty thefts and firearm thefts. However, a recent trend the department has observed is petty thefts escalating into robberies, a possible reason why they haven't seen a larger spike in petty thefts. Hanford police Chief Parker Sever believes the increases are due to AB 109 and Prop. 47. AB 109 was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2011 and allowed "nonviolent" offenders to serve their sentences in county jails rather than state prisons, resulting in early releases; Prop. 47 was approved by California voters in 2014 and reclassified felony drug charges and property crimes to misdemeanors, resulting in shorter jail sentences. Sever said many people have told him that they decided not to report property crimes because of the belief that the criminal wouldn't face serious consequences under Prop. 47.
102 Illegals Apprehended Crossing Rio Grande in One Day: Border Patrol agents working in the Rio Grande Valley along the southern border Tuesday apprehended 102 illegal immigrants attempting to cross into the United States. Susan Jones of CNS News reports that the group of 102 people included 73 men, 12 women and 17 juveniles, though their nationalities are unknown at this time. The border sector in the Rio Grande Valley is a common route taken by people fleeing Central America, and agents assigned to the sector make more apprehensions than any of the other seven sectors. U.S. Customs and Border Protection detains as many as 924 people attempting to cross the border illegally on a typical day, a number which includes both the southern and northern border.
Central CA City sees Spike in Robberies, Car Theft: Yet another California city saw a sharp increase in crime in 2015, with this city seeing a rise in robberies and stolen vehicles, and local police believe AB 109 and Proposition 47 are to blame. Mike Eiman of the Hanford Sentinel reports that 2015 statistics for major crimes recently released by the Hanford Police Department show an 84% increase in robberies and a 52% increase in stolen vehicles, as well as smaller spikes in petty thefts and firearm thefts. However, a recent trend the department has observed is petty thefts escalating into robberies, a possible reason why they haven't seen a larger spike in petty thefts. Hanford police Chief Parker Sever believes the increases are due to AB 109 and Prop. 47. AB 109 was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2011 and allowed "nonviolent" offenders to serve their sentences in county jails rather than state prisons, resulting in early releases; Prop. 47 was approved by California voters in 2014 and reclassified felony drug charges and property crimes to misdemeanors, resulting in shorter jail sentences. Sever said many people have told him that they decided not to report property crimes because of the belief that the criminal wouldn't face serious consequences under Prop. 47.
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