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Monday, May 08, 2017

Somerset County Sheriff's Office reports on most recent arrests 5-8-17

Stephen Vincent Schuckert of Princess Anne, arrested 4-7-17 on warrants for violation of probation. Schuckert was later held without bond.

De’Von Leshawn Cannon of Crisfield, arrested 4-7-17 on warrants for cds possession not marijuana, cds distribution of narcotics, and cds distribution within 1,000 feet of a school. Cannon was later held without bond.

Carl Antonio Harris of Princess Anne, arrested 4-13-17 on a warrant for failing to appear in court. Harris was later held on a $500.00 bond.

Deshay Domique Cephas of Crisfield, arrested 4-17-17 on a warrant for violation of probation. Cephas was later held without bond.

Marcus Damien Echard of Salisbury, arrested 4-17-17 on a warrant for failing to appear in court. Echard was later held on a $500.00 bond.

Jalisa Janay Jenkins of Salisbury, arrested 4-18-17 on a warrant for failing to appear in court. Jenkins was later released on personal recognizance.

Lisa Lynn Sterling of Crisfield, arrested 4-21-17 on a warrant for failing to appear in Wicomico County court. Sterling was later released on a $3,000 unsecured bond.

Matthew Adam Mehl of Salisbury, and Tyler Leonard Sergent of Princess Anne, arrested 4-22-17 for 2nd degree assault, affray (fighting) , and disorderly conduct. Both subjects were later released on a $10,000 unsecured bond. Deputies responded to the area of Red Head Drive, Princess Anne regarding a disturbance. When Deputies arrived Mehl and Sergent were engaged in a physical altercation with each other in the front yard of the property while neighbors were outside.

Samuel Lee Whaley of Princess Anne, arrested 4-27-17 for 1st and 2nd degree assault, and disorderly conduct. Whaley was later held on a $25,000 bond. Deputies were called to the Department Of Social Services regarding an assault. Deputies later discovered that Whaley was acting in a disorderly manner, and attempted to assault staff with his cane.

Melissa Victoria Brown of Salisbury, arrested 4-27-17 on a warrant for failing to appear in court. Brown was later held on a $5,000 bond. Ashley Ann Nissley of Princess Anne, arrested 4-27-17 on a warrant for failing to appear in court. Nissley was later held without bond.

Luvernea Khadjia Hodge of Crisfield, criminal summons served 5-1-17 regarding 2nd degree assault. Hodge was later released on signature pending court actions.

Eric Eugene Wilson Sr. of Salisbury, arrested 5-2-17 on a warrant for failing to appear in court. Wilson was later held on a $1,000 bond.

Taveria Lasha Campbell of Crisfield, criminal summons served 5-3-17 for 2nd degree assault. Capbell was later released on signature pending court actions.

Richard Kinder of Crisfield, arrested 5-6-17 for failing to stop for Deputies who attempted to stop his vehicle for speeding on Crisfield Highway. During a brief pursuit, Kinder was taken into custody without incident. Kinder was later issued multiple traffic citations, and released on signature.

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Federal Court Demands Release Of Hillary's State Dept Emails On Benghazi Attack

A Washington DC federal court judge has ordered the State Department to turn over Hillary Clinton’s emails that immediately followed the terrorist attack in Benghazi to the conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch.

As RT reports, US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson reviewed the documents and rejected the government’s contention that the records had been properly withheld under FOIA exemption.

The “Defendant contends that it properly withheld eight identical paragraphs in two different emails, which were summaries of calls between the President of the United States and the Presidents of Libya and Egypt in the aftermath of the Benghazi attack,” wrote Judge Jackson in her memorandum opinion on March 20.

The State Department argued the summaries were meant to provide information to senior officials to be used in their decision making on how to respond to a national security crisis.

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Expert: North Korea Prepping EMP Catastrophe Aimed At U.S. Homefront

While the international community and news media focus on North Korean missile tests and the country’s nuclear program, one expert warned on Sunday that North Korea may be secretly assembling the capability to take out significant parts of the U.S. homeland via an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack.

Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and is the chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission.

Speaking on this reporter’s talk radio program, Pry pointed to two North Korean satellites that are currently orbiting the U.S. at trajectories he says are optimized for a surprised EMP attack. “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” is broadcast on terrestrial radio on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM in Philadelphia and online.

Pry was referring to the KMS 3-2 and KMS-4 earth observation satellites launched by North Korea in April 2012 and February 2016 respectively.

He warned: “They are positioning themselves as sort of a nuclear missile age, cyberage version of the battleship diplomacy in my view. So that they can always have one of them (satellites) very close to being over the United States or over the United States.

“Then if a crisis comes up and if we decide to attack North Korea, Kim Jong Un can threaten our president and say, ‘Well, don’t do that because we are going to burn your whole country down.’

On April 30, South Korean officials told The Korea Times and YTN TV that North Korea’s test of a medium-range missile on April 29 was not a failure, as widely reported in the world press, because it was deliberately detonated at 72 kilometers altitude. 72 kilometers is the optimum burst height for a 10-Kt warhead making an EMP attack. …

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Current & Former Employees are now Suing CNN for Racism

There has been much ado - and rightly so - over the goings on at Fox News Channel - sexual harassment, hush money allegedly paid to victims, a string of high-profile resignations (some of which were really firings).

Less in the news is a lawsuit by 13 plaintiffs against Fox, alleging racial discrimination (although CNN covers the store here (but the author writes "Jim Crown" where we're guessing he meant to write "Jim Crow").

Bust even less in the news is a massive lawsuit against CNN. The class-action suit has been growing by leaps and bounds ever since it was first filed in December. Now, some 175 current and former employees have contacted lawyers about going the case.

Only a few publications followed up on the story at the end of April, when the case exploded.

"The lawsuit against CNN, meanwhile, claims the company's Atlanta headquarters is rife with racism," The New York Post wrote on April 27.

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Police: Montgomery Co. high school guard busted for sex with student

WASHINGTON — A Montgomery County high school security guard has been taken into custody for having sex with the same 17-year-old female student he was ordered to stay away from in early April, police said.

Mark Yantsos, 57 of Gaithersburg, who was on administrative leave as security chief at Richard Montgomery High School, was arrested Friday, according to Montgomery County police.

Yantsos faces charges of sex abuse of a minor and fourth-degree sexual offense.

Under charges filed in April, Yantsos was accused of carrying on a sexual relationship with the girl and providing her gifts — including an iPhone7 and a diamond pendant.

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Below is an update to the article above
Guard jailed for sex with student worked with teens for 30 years

Fake law-- How Trump-hatred warps the judiciary

Something ugly is happening to the First Amendment. It is being contorted to enable judges to protest Donald Trump's presidency.

The perennial impulse of judges to manipulate the law to achieve morally and politically desirable ends has only been exacerbated by the felt necessity to "resist" Trump. The result: Legal tests concerning the freedoms of speech and religion that in some cases were already highly dubious are being further deformed and twisted.

Welcome to the rise of fake law. Just as fake news spreads ideologically motivated misinformation with a newsy veneer, fake law brings us judicial posturing, virtue signaling, and opinionating masquerading as jurisprudence. And just as fake news augurs the end of authoritative reporting, fake law portends the diminution of law's legitimacy and the warping of judges' self-understanding of their constitutional role.

Those who try to police the relentlessly transformational projects of constitutional progressives had much to dread from the Obama administration, an inveterate ally of the legal left that did what it could to graft the aspirations of progressives onto the Constitution. But Trump's presidency may be even worse, because too many judges now feel called to "resist" Trump and all his works—no matter the cost to the law's authority and to the integrity of the judicial role.

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Campaign Kick-Off June 1st

Dear Friends,

Thank you for all of the support that you have given me through the years. Your prayers, encouraging words, and donations have always motivated me to keep moving forward. As a Mayor, a Maryland State Delegate, a Chief of Police, and a career law enforcement Commander, I feel prepared for the next call to service.

Please join me for our Campaign Kick-Off Event as we announce my candidacy to be the next Sheriff of Worcester County. Above are the details. Laura and I look forward to seeing you on June 1st at the Atlantic Hotel in Berlin!

Godspeed,

Mike McDermott

Pirro: 'You're A Loser, Hillary, Get Back In The Woods'

In her Opening Statement, Judge Jeanine Pirro called out Hillary Clinton for playing the "poor me" card and continuing to make excuses for her election loss.

"We've had it with you Clintons claiming victimhood," Pirro said, after Clinton told an audience she would have been president if the election came before FBI Director Jim Comey sent an October letter to Congress.

Pirro added that since Clinton previously took responsibility for her loss, she should stop blaming "boogey-men" like Comey and others.

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SPD Weekly Shoplifting Arrests 5-8-17


Berlin MSP DUI Press Release 5-8-17


Two juveniles, ages 12 and 13, arrested in connection to fatal shooting of 13-year-old, police say

BATON ROUGE, La. -- A 13-year-old and a 12-year-old were arrested Saturday in connection to the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old on Friday, East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office said.

Deputies say a 13-year-old was charged with negligent homicide and a 12-year-old was charged with possession of a firearm. They were both booked into juvenile detention, CBS affiliate WAFB reports.

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New President Of The Wicomico County GOP


Good afternoon! As your new President I address you all with the hopes you and all of your families are enjoying good health and prosperity this season!


In saying that I also am reaching out to all of you and asking you help me help build up our great County. We are partnering with The Hebron Fire Department this Summer during their annual carnival. This carnival is crucial for this volunteer unit to pay for equipment to keep portions of Wicomico safe and lives intact. 


I am asking for everyone to pitch in and volunteer for at least one shift at a booth, or a ride whatever the needs of the station requires. Sometimes the stress of such an event takes its toll on a stretched thin Fire Department and they need our help.


An organization such as our is absolutely meaningless unless we support the County in which we reside. Lets stand up and show the community we not only exist but are powerful and strong enough to stand up and be seen!! This message is also directed at our elected officials, I'm talking to all of you too!


As always feel free to contact me personally at 443-880-3603 or at sbradley66@yahoo.com. 


There are at least 500 plus members of this page, I'm counting on you to help me make this possible.

Veni Vidi Vici !!
Shawn A. Bradley
President





7,000 bodies from mental institution believed buried on Mississippi campus

At least 7,000 bodies could be buried on the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus, officials have estimated.

The bodies are former patients of the state’s first mental institution and underground radar revealed that their coffins stretch 20 acres across campus where the school wants to develop, The Clarion-Ledger reported Saturday.

School officials have ran into an issue in exhuming the bodies: cost. The newspaper reported that it could cost $3,000 to exhume and rebury each body, an effort that could cost up to $21 million.

The school is looking for cheaper alternatives in handling the exhumations possibly bringing down the yearly cost to $400,000 over the next eight years. The school is also looking at possibly creating a memorial for the bodies and opening a visitors center and a lab to study the remains, the paper reported.

“It would be a unique resource for Mississippi,” Molly Zuckerman, an associate anthropology professor at the school, told The Clarion-Ledger. “It would make Mississippi a national center on historical records relating to health in the pre-modern period, particularly those being institutionalized.”

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Amid Gas-Tax Revenue Decline, New Fees on Fuel-Efficient Cars

Second in an occasional series of stories on how states are overhauling tax codes to adapt to a new economy.

Lawmakers in California, home to almost half of the nation’s electric vehicles, decided this year to impose an annual fee on the owners of plug-in electric cars beginning in 2020.

Meanwhile, Maine is considering an annual fee on both plug-in electric vehicles and more popular hybrids, which run on both gasoline and electricity and recharge as they go. Both kinds of vehicles still make up a tiny share of cars on the road, but supporters of the idea are hopeful that revenue will rise as they become more popular.

State Rep. Andrew McLean, who chairs the Maine Legislature’s joint transportation committee, acknowledged that the new fee won’t raise a lot of money right away, but he said the move makes sense as a way to “begin the conversation” of tapping more revenue from electric and hybrid vehicles as their numbers grow.

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Say It Ain't So: 129 People Have Already Filed To Run For President In 2020

There are way too many signs that the 2020 election is already beginning.

CONSIDER:

-Here's a crazy stat: 129 people have already filed to run for president in 2020, as of Friday afternoon. In fairness, in 2016, more than 1,700 filed. But...

-One of them is President Trump. He's not only already set up a reelection committee earlier maybe than anyone in history, but his campaign released the first ad of the 2020 cycle. Remarkably, it's touting what he's accomplished — in his first 100 days (!).There's already been a flap about stations not running it because of a falsehood in it.

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Don't Count On The Senate To Save Obamacare, Or To Save The House

In the Rose Garden last week President Trump and the House Republican leadership celebrated their vote to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act as though it had actually repealed and replaced the 2010 law colloquially known as Obamacare.

It had not, of course. Several more giant steps remain in the process. And more than a few of these same Republicans may well be grateful.

The House, its leaders and rank-and-file alike know that what they have done so far is not yet law. It may not even qualify as a rough draft.

In reality, the House has shoveled a mammoth pile of problems off its porch and onto that of the U.S. Senate. That chamber has announced it is writing its own bill. That is common knowledge, and more than a few House votes were cajoled with assurances that "the Senate will fix" this problem or that.

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FCC Looking Into Complaints About Stephen Colbert’s Anti-Trump Jokes

TV host Stephen Colbert recently responded to President Donald Trump’s insulting remarks to CBS reporter John Dickerson with a slew of invective of his own. Now, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says his Commission is looking into complaints that the Late Show host’s remarks may have violated obscenity regulations. 

Tiger Withdraws From 2017 The Players Championship, Calls Out Rory McIlroy!

(ESPN) The PGA is rumored to be launching an investigation into Rory McIlroy over His use of performance enhancing supplements. Tiger Woods stated last week that He thinks the supplements Rory is taking are on par with cheating. Woods, a four-time Augusta National tournament winner, will not play in the 2017 The Players Championship, announcing Friday night that he would be withdrawing from the competition. When asked to elaborate Tiger stated "I want to play but when players like Rory are taking extremely beneficial supplements like Pure Nitro Max – it creates a situation.” Tiger went on to explain his position.

“I know for a fact Rory is using performance enhancing supplements and in my opinion that’s cheating. I know His camp is encouraging Him to continue using Pure Nitro Max as the results have been nothing short of amazing – better focus, more energy, increased hydration and metabolism - how is this fair? Rory's play has improved dramatically lately and I think He can thank Pure Nitro Max for those results.”

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