OH Serial Killer headed to Death Row: After a two-month trial, a Cleveland serial killer was sentenced to death Thursday for the rape and murders three women. John Harper of Cleveland reports that following the recommendation of the jury, Judge Nancy R. McDonnell decided to sentence Michael Madison to the death penalty for the deaths of Shirellda Terry, 18, Shetisha Sheely, 28, and Angela Deskins, 38, who were choked and beaten to death. Their bodies were discovered mutilated and decomposing in trash bags around Madison's apartment complex. The family and friends of the three victims expressed relief in the judge's decision to send Madison to death row. Executions are currently on hold in Ohio while state prison officials struggle to obtain the drugs needed to carry out lethal injection.
DC Must let Ex-guards Pack Heat, Court Rules: A federal court ruled Thursday that four former prison guards were improperly barred from carrying concealed guns, striking down a previous stance that the 2004 federal law giving off-duty and retired law enforcement officers the right to pack heat didn't apply to them. Fox News reports that in a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Washington D.C. Circuit ruled in favor of the four plaintiffs, all of whom were denied concealed-carry licenses despite disclosing that they regularly received threats from inmates they once guarded. Washington D.C.'s Department of Corrections had argued that because the four men lacked arresting authority, the 2004 Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act, which guarantees the right to carry a concealed firearm to law enforcement officials, did not apply to them. The federal court's Thursday ruling clarifies that the LEOSA must extend to retired and off-duty corrections officers in addition to state and local and federal agents.
Smuggling Network Guided Illegals to U.S. from Terror Hotbeds: A review of internal government documents reveal a smuggling a network that managed to sneak illegal immigrants from Middle Eastern terrorist hotbeds into the U.S. Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times reports that the Brazilian-based network connected at least a dozen Middle Eastern men, who had family ties to terrorism, with two Mexicans who guided them to the U.S. border late last year. Only six of the men made it all the way to the U.S. border without first being nabbed in Central America. Once there, they crawled under a border fence in Arizona and traveled 15 miles before being apprehended. Five of the men in that group have since been released into the U.S. after claiming asylum. The revelation confirms fears of a pipeline that can smuggle terrorists from the Middle East into the U.S., despite the Obama administration's longtime claim that the southwest border isn't a likely route for operatives. The name of the smuggling network is being kept confidential, as requested by law enforcement.
DC Must let Ex-guards Pack Heat, Court Rules: A federal court ruled Thursday that four former prison guards were improperly barred from carrying concealed guns, striking down a previous stance that the 2004 federal law giving off-duty and retired law enforcement officers the right to pack heat didn't apply to them. Fox News reports that in a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Washington D.C. Circuit ruled in favor of the four plaintiffs, all of whom were denied concealed-carry licenses despite disclosing that they regularly received threats from inmates they once guarded. Washington D.C.'s Department of Corrections had argued that because the four men lacked arresting authority, the 2004 Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act, which guarantees the right to carry a concealed firearm to law enforcement officials, did not apply to them. The federal court's Thursday ruling clarifies that the LEOSA must extend to retired and off-duty corrections officers in addition to state and local and federal agents.
Smuggling Network Guided Illegals to U.S. from Terror Hotbeds: A review of internal government documents reveal a smuggling a network that managed to sneak illegal immigrants from Middle Eastern terrorist hotbeds into the U.S. Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times reports that the Brazilian-based network connected at least a dozen Middle Eastern men, who had family ties to terrorism, with two Mexicans who guided them to the U.S. border late last year. Only six of the men made it all the way to the U.S. border without first being nabbed in Central America. Once there, they crawled under a border fence in Arizona and traveled 15 miles before being apprehended. Five of the men in that group have since been released into the U.S. after claiming asylum. The revelation confirms fears of a pipeline that can smuggle terrorists from the Middle East into the U.S., despite the Obama administration's longtime claim that the southwest border isn't a likely route for operatives. The name of the smuggling network is being kept confidential, as requested by law enforcement.
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