Parolee Attempts to Kill CA Civil Sergeant: A man accused of attempting to kill a Yuba County sheriff's civil sergeant last week is a parolee who remained free despite several violations and disciplinary issues, and also had a history of assaulting police officers. Monica Vaughan of the Appeal-Democrat reports that Joseph Hazen, 38, assaulted the sergeant unprovoked on June 6 while the sergeant was serving civil papers in a multi-unit home. Hazen, who was not the subject of the papers, stuck the sergeant with a metal pipe, knocking him out and inflicting a severe head laceration. Hazen has only been in California for a year, first coming to Yuba County in June 2015 after the state agreed to have him transferred from Wisconsin so he could live with his mother while on parole. Two months after arriving, parole officers recommended Hazen's parole be revoked after numerous violations. When Wisconsin refused to take him back, he was released from custody in October and given permission to continue living in Yuba County. Hazen has pleaded not guilty to the near-fatal attack on the civil sergeant.
Jury to Decide on Death Penalty for 2 OK Men: A jury heard argument Thursday urging a death sentence for two Oklahoma men who murdered six people attending a party in November 2009. Seth A. Richardson of the Reno Gazette-Journal reports that Denny Edward Phillips and Russel Lee Hogshooter, both 38, were convicted Monday in the deaths of six people, including two pregnant women, during a home robbery nearly seven years ago. Two other men who participated in the crime, David Allen Tyner, 34, and Jonathan Allen Cochran, 37, were convicted of six life sentences and 25 years as part of a deal, respectively. Both testified against Phillips and Hogshooter, asserting that Phillips gave orders via cellphone and Hogshooter tortured one of the victims, a 22-year-old woman who was seven and half months pregnant, before shooting her in the head. Both Phillips and Hogshooter were found guilty on six counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder, each receiving a sentence of 35 years for the conspiracy charge. Jurors will decide next whether the two men receive life, life without parole or death in the first-degree murder charges.
Illegal Families Surge Across Border, Breaking 2015 Records: Homeland Security statistics released Friday reveal that the number of illegal immigrant families crossing the southwest border has already topped all of 2015. Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times reports that last month, 6,788 people traveling as families were apprehended at the border, a more than 20% spike over April and putting the total for the first eight months of the fiscal year at almost 45,000. While the total thus far into the year has not surpassed the exploding surge that occurred in 2014, it has already beat the 2015 yearlong total of fewer than 40,000 illegal immigrants caught. Several justice officials blame the Obama administration's lax enforcement policies that have enticed more people to migrate to the U.S., with some going as far as abducting children in order to appear as a family unit and take advantage of the policies.
Jury to Decide on Death Penalty for 2 OK Men: A jury heard argument Thursday urging a death sentence for two Oklahoma men who murdered six people attending a party in November 2009. Seth A. Richardson of the Reno Gazette-Journal reports that Denny Edward Phillips and Russel Lee Hogshooter, both 38, were convicted Monday in the deaths of six people, including two pregnant women, during a home robbery nearly seven years ago. Two other men who participated in the crime, David Allen Tyner, 34, and Jonathan Allen Cochran, 37, were convicted of six life sentences and 25 years as part of a deal, respectively. Both testified against Phillips and Hogshooter, asserting that Phillips gave orders via cellphone and Hogshooter tortured one of the victims, a 22-year-old woman who was seven and half months pregnant, before shooting her in the head. Both Phillips and Hogshooter were found guilty on six counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder, each receiving a sentence of 35 years for the conspiracy charge. Jurors will decide next whether the two men receive life, life without parole or death in the first-degree murder charges.
Illegal Families Surge Across Border, Breaking 2015 Records: Homeland Security statistics released Friday reveal that the number of illegal immigrant families crossing the southwest border has already topped all of 2015. Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times reports that last month, 6,788 people traveling as families were apprehended at the border, a more than 20% spike over April and putting the total for the first eight months of the fiscal year at almost 45,000. While the total thus far into the year has not surpassed the exploding surge that occurred in 2014, it has already beat the 2015 yearlong total of fewer than 40,000 illegal immigrants caught. Several justice officials blame the Obama administration's lax enforcement policies that have enticed more people to migrate to the U.S., with some going as far as abducting children in order to appear as a family unit and take advantage of the policies.
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