Chicago Gangs Allegedly Plot to Shoot Cops: An alleged meeting last week between leaders of three Chicago gangs was reportedly held to discuss plans to kill police officers in response to the officer-involved shooting death of an 18-year-old last month. Fox News reports that the Thursday meeting involved the gangs Vice Lords, Black Disciples and Four Corner Hustlers. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, which issued an alert to Chicago officers on Monday, the Four Corner Hustlers have "provided guns" and pinpointed a "sniper in place," and is funneling weapons to the two other gangs. The threats follow the July 28 death of Paul O'Neal, who was fatally shot by officers after stealing a car and engaging officers in a chase. The O'Neal family attorney and the Independent Police Review Authority then spouted "inflammatory and false rhetoric" that fueled the current threats, says Dean Angelo, the president of Lodge 7 of the Fraternal Order of Police. Superintendent Eddie Johnson has stripped the involved officers of police powers, but has not yet disclosed the policies that were violated.
Sentence Tossed for PA's last Female Death Row Inmate: Pennsylvania's sole female death row inmate had her sentence vacated last month by a judge, who cited inadequate representation at her 2005 trial. The AP reports that Shonda Walter, 37, had her death sentence thrown out on July 26 and received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole in the 2003 hatchet killing of her neighbor and World War II veteran James Sementelli, 83. Walter killed Sementelli in order to steal his car and sell it to pay off court debts and gain entry into a street gang. Authorities said Sementelli sustained over 60 stab wounds, 18 fractures and 45 bruises during the attack, several of which were on his head, face and neck. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced a temporary moratorium on executions in February 2015. The state has a total of 176 inmates on death row, all of them men. Since capital punishment's reinstatement in the mid-1970s, only three inmates have been executed in the state.
Previously Deported Illegal Immigrant Charged with Child Rape: A previously deported illegal immigrant who was released from custody last year after officials refused to honor a federal immigration request to hold him is now facing charges of raping a child under the age of 13. Caroline May of Breitbart reports that Ramon Aguirre-Ochoa, 45, a Mexican national previously deported in 2009 only to return to the U.S., had a detainer request placed on him in 2015 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but Philadelphia officials ignored the request and released him. Philadelphia is a sanctuary city, where local officials incorporate policies that bar law enforcement from honoring federal detainers or notifying immigration officials of upcoming released of criminal aliens. ICE has filed yet another detainer against Aguirre-Ochoa, who is facing charges of involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, indecent assault on a person less than 13, indecent exposure and simple assault.
Sentence Tossed for PA's last Female Death Row Inmate: Pennsylvania's sole female death row inmate had her sentence vacated last month by a judge, who cited inadequate representation at her 2005 trial. The AP reports that Shonda Walter, 37, had her death sentence thrown out on July 26 and received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole in the 2003 hatchet killing of her neighbor and World War II veteran James Sementelli, 83. Walter killed Sementelli in order to steal his car and sell it to pay off court debts and gain entry into a street gang. Authorities said Sementelli sustained over 60 stab wounds, 18 fractures and 45 bruises during the attack, several of which were on his head, face and neck. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced a temporary moratorium on executions in February 2015. The state has a total of 176 inmates on death row, all of them men. Since capital punishment's reinstatement in the mid-1970s, only three inmates have been executed in the state.
Previously Deported Illegal Immigrant Charged with Child Rape: A previously deported illegal immigrant who was released from custody last year after officials refused to honor a federal immigration request to hold him is now facing charges of raping a child under the age of 13. Caroline May of Breitbart reports that Ramon Aguirre-Ochoa, 45, a Mexican national previously deported in 2009 only to return to the U.S., had a detainer request placed on him in 2015 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but Philadelphia officials ignored the request and released him. Philadelphia is a sanctuary city, where local officials incorporate policies that bar law enforcement from honoring federal detainers or notifying immigration officials of upcoming released of criminal aliens. ICE has filed yet another detainer against Aguirre-Ochoa, who is facing charges of involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, indecent assault on a person less than 13, indecent exposure and simple assault.
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