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Calista241's JournalThousands of Trump-shaped ecstasy pills seized in Germany
Source: The Hill
German police on Tuesday announced the seizure of thousands of pills of the club drug ecstasy bearing a likeness of President Trump.
In a translated statement on a police website, officials say the pills — worth tens of thousands of dollars — were allegedly in the possession of a 51-year-old man and his 17-year-old son, who said they were traveling in northwestern Germany after unsuccessfully attempting to buy a car in the Netherlands.
“In the control of the car, the officials found 5000 Ecstasy Tablets, with the portrait of the American President Donald J. Trump. In addition, a large amount of cash has also been secured,” reads the statement. Also in the car was a "larger amount of cash," according to police.
The orange pills are shaped to resemble the president's head, with his face on the front. The back features his name and may have been designed to look like the New York real estate mogul's campaign signs.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/347472-thousands-of-trump-shaped-ecstasy-pills-seized-in-germany
I lol'd.
PETA to pay family $49,000 for euthanizing 9-year-old girls dog
Source: NY Daily News
PETA apologized to a Virginia family and said it will pay them thousands of dollars for taking and euthanizing their pet Chihuahua.
Wilber Zarate filed a lawsuit against the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals for taking his 9-year-old daughter’s dog from their mobile park home and then putting the pooch down ahead of the state’s mandatory five-day grace period.
A pair of women affiliated with the animal rights group said they traveled to the Accomack mobile park in 2014 because its owner asked for help capturing wild dogs and feral cats. While there, they removed the leash and picked up an unattended Chihuahua named Maya — she’d been a Christmas gift for Zarate’s daughter, Cynthia.
The pup was put down the same day despite a law that requires such organizations wait five days before euthanizing animals. PETA paid a $500 fine for the violation.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/peta-pay-family-49-000-euthanizing-9-year-old-girl-dog-article-1.3419753
Mattis warns North Korea of 'end of its regime,' 'destruction of its people'
Source: ABC News
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis cautioned Wednesday that North Korea's actions "will continue to be grossly overmatched by ours and would lose any arms race or conflict it initiates," a day after President Donald Trump issued a similar warning in the wake of reports North Korea is continuing to advance its nuclear capabilities.
Mattis added that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un should "take heed" of the United Nations Security Council's "unified voice," referring to recent sanctions issued against the nation, and called for the country to "cease any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people."
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/mattis-warns-north-korea-end-regime-destruction-people/story?id=49116627
Portland mayor selects first African American woman to be next chief of police
Source: Oregon Live
Danielle Outlaw, a 19-year veteran of the Oakland Police Department who started as a police explorer when she was in high school, will serve as Portland's next police chief, only the third outsider named to lead the Police Bureau.
Her appointment Monday by Mayor Ted Wheeler comes at a critical time when community and police relations are strained and the force faces a daunting list of federally mandated reforms.
The mayor said Outlaw shares his goals of improving bureau relationships with Portland's communities of color, increasing diversity on the 950-member force and embracing equity.
Outlaw, 41, who has served as a deputy chief since 2013, rose to the top of a pool of 33 candidates who applied for the job. She becomes the first African American woman to lead Portland's police bureau.
Read more: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/08/portland_mayor_selects_outside.html
Bout time.
Venezuela Troops Take Prosecutor Office as Enemies Targeted
Source: US News
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Security forces surrounded the entrance to Venezuela's chief prosecutor's office Saturday ahead of a session of the newly installed constitutional assembly that is expected to debate removing the onetime loyalist turned arch government critic.
Luisa Ortega denounced what she called a military "siege" on Twitter, publishing photos apparently taken from security cameras showing some 30 national guardsmen in riot gear standing outside her headquarters in Caracas. Access to the downtown block where the building is located was completely restricted amid a heavy troop deployment.
The move comes as members of the all-powerful constitutional assembly pledged to move quickly against President Nicolas Maduro's opponents beginning as early as Saturday, when the body meets for just the second time.
"Don't think we're going to wait weeks, months or years," former Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez said on Friday after she was voted unanimously by all 545 delegates to lead the assembly. "Tomorrow we start to act. The violent fascists, those who wage economic war on the people, those who wage psychological war, justice is coming for you."
Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-08-05/head-of-venezuelas-super-assembly-vows-to-target-opponents
Woman who encouraged boyfriend to kill himself via text sentenced to 15 months in jail
Source: LA Times
A Massachusetts woman who badgered her depressed boyfriend to kill himself in text messages was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in jail in a novel manslaughter case that examined the question of whether words can kill.
Juvenile Court Judge Lawrence Moniz gave Michelle Carter a 2 1/2-year jail sentence but said she had to serve only 15 months of that. He also sentenced her to five years of probation.
Michelle Carter was 17-years-old when 18-year-old Conrad Roy III rigged up a generator to his pickup truck and poisoned himself with carbon monoxide. Carter had sent numerous text messages telling Roy to “just do it” and was on the cell phone with him during the suicide, at one point ordering him back into the truck when he got cold feet and exited to gasp for air.
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In his verdict, however, Judge Lawrence Moniz, focused his ruling on her telling Roy to "get back in" after he climbed out of his truck as it was filling with carbon monoxide and told her he was afraid. The judge said those words constituted "wanton and reckless conduct" under the manslaughter statute.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-teen-texting-suicide-20170803-story.html
Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win maths' Fields Medal, dies (Nobel Prize for Mathematics)
Source: BBC
Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to receive the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics, has died in the US.
The 40-year-old Iranian, a professor at Stanford University, had breast cancer which had spread to her bones.
Nicknamed the "Nobel Prize for Mathematics", the Fields Medal is only awarded every four years to between two and four mathematicians under 40.
It was given to Prof Mirzakhani in 2014 for her work on complex geometry and dynamical systems.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40617094
San Jose serial cat killer gets 16-year sentence
Source: SF Gate
A serial cat killer in San Jose who pleaded guilty to torturing and dismembering a number of beloved neighborhood felines was sentenced Friday to a maximum term of 16 years in jail.
Robert Farmer, 26, pleaded guilty in October to 21 felony counts of animal cruelty. Though Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Sharon Chatman imposed the strictest sentence she could on Farmer, she did not require him to register as a sex offender as county prosecutors had requested.
Prosecutors and owners of the cats alleged that Farmer had sexually abused one of the slain felines, but the judge rejected that argument.
The owners of the dead cats — police say he killed up to 16 of them, though only four bodies were recovered — say that Farmer terrorized their Cambrian Park neighborhood in south San Jose for months, causing pet owners to keep outdoor cats inside as animal after animal disappeared.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/San-Jose-serial-cat-killer-gets-16-year-sentence-11290539.php
What kind of insanity possesses people to do stuff like this?
FBI nominees most memorable case? Jailing of ex-Brave Pat Jarvis
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Christopher Wray, the Atlanta attorney who is President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, has had a long career in private practice and at the U.S. Justice Department on which to hang his hat.
That includes a guilty plea squeezed out of Sept. 11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, and working as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s personal attorney during “Bridgegate.”
But according to the Washington Times, Wray listed the 1999 prosecution of former Atlanta Braves pitcher Pat Jarvis on a questionnaire that asked him to name his most memorable case. By way of explanation, there was none:
Mr. Wray, in his committee filing, did not explain why he felt the Jarvis case so significant.
Read more: http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/07/07/fbi-nominees-most-memorable-case-jailing-of-ex-brave-pat-jarvis/
Federal judge blocks California ban on high-capacity magazines
Source: The Sacramento Bee
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a voter-approved California law that would have forced gun owners to get rid of high-capacity ammunition magazines by this Saturday.
U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, who is based in San Diego, issued a preliminary injunction Thursday that found the law was likely unconstitutional because it prevented people from using firearms that employed “whatever common magazine size he or she judges best suits the situation.” The law would have barred people from possessing magazines containing more than 10 bullets.
“The State of California’s desire to criminalize simple possession of a firearm magazine able to hold more than 10 rounds is precisely the type of policy choice that the Constitution takes off the table,” the injunction read.
Benitez added that “a final decision will take too long to offer relief, and because the statute will soon visit irrevocable harm on Plaintiffs and all those similarly situated a state-wide preliminary injunction is necessary and justified to maintain the status quo.”
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/article158965184.html
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