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Friday, March 02, 2018

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Easton Barrack February 2018 Criminal Investigations and Arrest Warrants

(Easton) During the month of February, Troopers of the Maryland State Police Easton Barrack responded to over 1200 calls for service throughout Talbot, Dorchester and Caroline Counties. The below Criminal Investigations and Arrest Warrants were executed throughout February. It should be noted the Maryland State Police Easton Barrack still has several on-going investigation that will be released at a later date.

Criminal Investigations

February 8, 2018, Troopers responded to Hickman, Rd., Dorchester County, regarding a burglary and assault. Troopers arrested Calab Boczon, 37 of Denton, for second degree assault, burglary and malicious destruction of property. He was seen by a court commissioner and released on his own recognizance.

February 9, 2018, Troopers responded to the 4200 Block of Main Street, Trappe, MD and arrested Leo James Kinsey, 29 of Preston, Md., for assault with a weapon and cited for possession of marijuana less than 10 grams. He was seen by a court commissioner and held without bond at the Talbot County Detention Center.

February 20, 2018, Troopers responded to Cambridge, regarding a second degree assault.Joshua Andrew Katulis, 24 of Cambridge, Md., was arrested and taken before a court commissioner. He was held on $3000.00 bond.

February 24, 2018, Troopers responded to the area of Almshouse Road, Denton, Md, regarding a disturbance call. Crystal Lynn Minor, 37 of Denton was arrested for second degree assault. She was seen by a court commissioner and released on her own recognizance pending a court date.

February 25, 2018, Turhanda Andrea Opher 26, of Cambridge, was arrested for false name and hindering investigation during a traffic stop in Easton, Md. He was held on $3000.00 bond.

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Easton Barrack February 2018 Drunk / Drug Driving Arrest

(Easton, Md) The Maryland State Police Easton Barrack continues to identify drunk and drug impaired drivers throughout Talbot, Dorchester and Caroline Counties. Troopers have made over 60 Drunk and Drug driving arrest in 2018.

February 3, 2018, Jeffrey Keith Korell, 39 of Henderson, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after a traffic stop in Greensboro, Md.

February 3, 2018, Derek Andrew Korell, 34 of Greensboro, responded to Caroline County Sheriff’s Office to provide his brother a ride who has been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after troopers observed and spoke with him in the parking lot prior to entering the Caroline County Sheriff’s office.

February 3, 2018, Neil Edwin Ritter, 40 of Denton, Md., was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and issued a civil citation for possessing marijuana less than 10 grams.

February 3, 2018, Stephen Leocha 60 of Easton, Md., was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after a traffic stop in St. Michaels, Md.

February 4, 2018, Donnie Molock, 67 of Cambridge, Md., was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after a traffic stop in Trappe, Md.

February 4, 2018, Marcus Bramble 3rd, 69 of Cambridge, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after his vehicle left the roadway and struck a ditch in Cambridge, Md.

February 5, 2018, Judith Ann Schnupp, 74 of Denton, Md., was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after a traffic stop in Denton, Md.

February 5, 2018, Brianna Donovan, 21 of Ridgely, Md., was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after a traffic stop in St. Michaels, Md.

Trump Wants Joe Manchin's Gun Control, Rejects Steve Scalise's National Reciprocity Push

President Donald Trump embraced Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) gun control bill but rejected Rep. Steve Scalise’s (R-LA) push for national reciprocity during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers Wednesday afternoon.

After listening to Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT), Trump looked at toward the end of the table and asked Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) to detail their gun control bill.

The Manchin/Toomey gun control bill is the same universal background check legislation supported by Barack Obama in the wake of the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School. It the very bill that was defeated in the Democrat-controlled Senate on April 17, 2013.

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5 Easy Ways to Ruin Your Life

I know what you’re probably thinking. “My life is going too well! I wish I could find some way to screw it all up. That would be AMAZING!” If that is what you’re thinking, I am here for you. I have seen lots of people really screw up their lives and, lucky for you, it almost inevitably follows a pattern you can replicate.

1. Become Addicted

It doesn’t really matter what the addiction happens to be; it just matters that you have one. It can be drugs, alcohol, food, sex, gambling, shopping or hoarding. Just find some unhealthy pursuit and let it consume your life. Watch your health go downhill. Lie to your friends and family. Hell, even better, lie to yourself until every bit of your self-respect and personal integrity is gone. Do things you NEVER thought you’d do. Go to sketchy neighborhoods to buy drugs. Take money out of your kid’s college fund to bet on horse races. Take food, throw it in the trash and then take it out and eat it anyway. Get your stomach pumped after getting alcohol poisoning… again. You can dance this kind of dance your whole life and never get your footwork right.

2. Marry the Wrong Person


New York is begging for a black-market cigar industry

In an attempt to close New York state’s $4.4 billion budget deficit, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a package of $1 billion in tax hikes and fee increases as part of his 2018-2019 Executive Budget unveiled in January.

Among the list of “revenue raisers” is a proposal to change the formula for the way state excise taxes on cigars are calculated. The new rules would make the cigar taxes based on invoice costs instead of manufacturing costs, beginning on Sept. 1. If passed, this would raise state cigar taxes from the industry standard of 28.5 percent to 75 percent.

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Thursday, March 01, 2018

Stop hiding the surveillance video of the Parkland shooting

Open government isn’t just good government. It’s the public’s right.

In Florida, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office and Broward County school district are fighting to keep exterior surveillance video from the day of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Schoolhidden from view. As journalists and citizens who’ve waged uphill battles against secrecy well know, government agencies too often invoke broad disclosure exemptions in the name of protecting public safety when they’re really just trying to protect their own jobs.

Feckless Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel and media darling school Superintendent Robert Runcie are defendants in an open-records lawsuit filed Tuesday by the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the Miami Herald and CNN.

The local officials claim that surveillance videos from cameras outside the school are completely exempt from sunshine laws because they would expose the district’s security-system plan; are part of an active criminal investigation; and involve an active internal affairs investigation of school resource officer/BSO Deputy Scot Peterson, whom Israel notoriously threw under the bus last week.

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Body of Plane Crash Victim Recovered


March 1, 2018

(OCEAN CITY, MD) — Maryland State Police, along with local and federal agencies, recovered a body of a plane crash victim in Worcester County.

Shortly after 10 a.m. today, federal officials notified the Maryland State Police Special Operations Division that an aircraft believed to be a single-engine, four-passenger plane left Martin State Airport last night en route to Ocean City and had not yet returned. It is unknown for certain how many people were on board the plane. It was determined the aircraft was not at the Ocean City Airport.

A search of the area near the Ocean City Airport was initiated late this morning. The crew of Maryland State Police Aviation Command Trooper 4 and Civil Air Patrol personnel located what was described as an oil slick in the ocean, about 1.5 miles from the Ocean City Airport.

Rescue personnel are focusing their search on that area at this time. Although the aircraft has not been spotted, Natural Resources Police officers in the water near the oil slick have recovered debris believed to be associated with an aircraft.

Search efforts continued throughout the day. Just before 5 p.m. this evening, Maryland State Police, Natural Resources Police and the Coast Guard conducted side scanning operations in an underwater debris field. The debris field was located approximately 5 miles from the initial oil slick in the Atlantic Ocean.

Rescue personnel advised the aircraft was located in severely deteriorated conditions. A body was recovered from among the pieces of the plane. The body recovered was a male wearing the same clothing as described on the pilot who left Martin State Airport yesterday. The body will be transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for autopsy.

Search efforts concluded at just before 6 p.m. this evening. Dive teams will resume searching for other passengers once the impending storm passes and the ocean conditions permit. The investigation continues.

‘No more violence’ school walkout ends with arrests after students attack police, smash car windows

Students in Stockton, California walked out of class Friday as part of an anti-gun protest, only to undermine their own message with vandalism and violence against armed police who corralled them back to class.

Students from multiple Stockton schools ditched class en masse a little after 10:30 a.m. to chant anti-gun slogans and wave signs demanding an education in a place where they “feel safe,” Fox 40 reports.

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Consumer Confidence Rises to 17-Year High on Trump Tax Cuts, Job Optimism

U.S. consumer confidence jumped to a 17-year high as optimism about employment prospects grew and Americans began seeing additional money in their paychecks from recently enacted tax cuts, data from the New York-based Conference Board showed Tuesday.

Highlights of Consumer Confidence (February)

Confidence index rose to 130.8 (est. 126.5), highest since Nov. 2000, from downwardly revised 124.3 in January
Present conditions measure climbed to 162.4, highest since 2001, from 154.7
Consumer expectations gauge increased to three-month high of 109.7 from 104

Greenspan: US 'Underestimating Impact' of Trump Corporate Tax Cut Read Newsmax Article: Newsmax.com - Breaking news from around the globe: U.S. news, politics, world, health, finance, video, science, technology, live news stream Urgent: Do you approve of Pres. Trump’s job performance? Vote Here!

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan applauded President Donald Trump’s landmark corporate tax cut and touted its economic benefits for America.

“Remember that the stock market is being driven to a large extent by the one thing that I think the Trump administration did right: got the 35 percent marginal corporate tax rate and brought it down to 21 percent,” Greenspan said during a recent discussion at the American Enterprise Institute titled, “The Bubble Economy – Is This Time Different?”

“I think that what is happening here in the United States is we’re underestimating the impact of that,” Greenspan said.

“All you have to do is move the tax rate several percentage points, and a whole cascade of projects will fall on a ‘let’s-do-it’ type relationship, and I think that’s what’s happening at the moment,” said Greenspan, who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006.

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NBC: 7 States' Election Systems Compromised by Russia Read Newsmax Article: Newsmax.com - Breaking news from around the globe: U.S. news, politics, world, health, finance, video, science, technology, live news stream Urgent: Do you approve of Pres. Trump’s job performance? Vote Here!

U.S. intelligence agencies had evidence that state websites or voter registration systems in seven states were compromised by Russia-backed operatives before the 2016 election — but never told the states involved, NBC News reported.

Top-secret intelligence requested by President Barack Obama in his last weeks in office identified the states where analysts believed Russian operatives had compromised websites or databases, the news outlet reported.

As of January 2017, the intelligence community believed the states were Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas, and Wisconsin, NBC News reported.

But though officials in Washington informed several of those states in the run-up to the election that foreign entities were probing their systems, none were told Russia was behind it, NBC News reported.

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Judge Sides With Trump on Challenge to Mexico Border Wall

A judge who was taunted by Donald Trump during the presidential campaign sided with the president Tuesday on a challenge to building a border wall with Mexico, removing what could have been a major obstacle to the signature campaign pledge.

U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel rejected arguments by the state of California and advocacy groups that the administration overreached by waiving laws requiring environmental and other reviews before construction can begin. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit said a 2005 a law that gave the Homeland Security secretary broad authority to waive the reviews had expired.

Trump berated Curiel during the campaign for his handling of fraud allegations against now-defunct Trump University, suggesting the Indiana-born judge's Mexican heritage reflected a bias.

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SDSU Course on "Removing Trump from Office"

San Diego State University is offering a course dedicated exclusively to the topic of removing Donald Trump from office.

The one-unit course--“Trump: Impeachment, Removal, or Conviction?”--will be offered in March and is set to be taught by Professor John Joseph Cleary. The required text for the course is Allan Lichtman's The Case for Impeachment, a book published in response to Donald Trump’s election that advocates for the President’s removal from office.


"Focus will be on the two constitutional grounds: impeachment and removal (25th Amendment), and the possible charges of the independent counsel, the powers of the president,” and “a history of the creation of [the presidency] and the comparison of divine right and rule of law leadership.”

The curriculum will also address “grounds for impeachment, removal, or indictment,” such as “conflict of interests, foreign emoluments, climate change, racism, religious bias, improper influence, nepotism, and a host of crimes, including conspiracy, false statements, and obstruction of justice.”

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Chileans lose faith as Vatican scrambles to contain sex abuse scandal

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - To understand why Chile, one of Latin America's most socially conservative nations, is losing faith in the Roman Catholic Church, visit Providencia, a middle-class area of Santiago coming to terms with a decades-old clergy sex abuse scandal.

Providencia is home to El Bosque, the former parish of priest Fernando Karadima, who was found guilty in a Vatican investigation in 2011 of abusing teenage boys over many years, spurring a chain of events leading to this week's visit by a Vatican investigator.

A Chilean judge in the same year determined the Vatican's canonical sentence was valid but Karadima was not prosecuted by the civil justice system because the statute of limitations had expired.

So many Chileans were shocked in 2015 when Pope Francis appointed as a bishop a clergyman accused of covering up for Karadima, and defended that choice in a visit to Chile last month.

Chile remains largely conservative on social issues. It only legalized divorce in 2004, making it one of the last countries in the world to do so. Chile's ban on abortion, one of the strictest in the world, was lifted in 2017 for special circumstances only. Same-sex marriage remains illegal.

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Unions are the free riders, says government worker challenging labor fees at Supreme Court

The man challenging the power of public-sector labor unions, a major case that the Supreme Court will take up Monday, scoffs at critics who accuse him of trying to get a "free ride" from unions.

It's the opposite, says Mark Janus, the plaintiff in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. And that’s why he is fighting to end public-sector unions’ power to force mandatory fees from government workers like him.

“People talk about the ‘free rider.’ Well, from my perspective, the union is the freeloader here because they’re the ones getting away without doing anything,” he told theWashington Examiner. He doesn’t think the union is making things any better for him, so why should he have to pay?

“It’s not about the money for me. It’s about my rights. My right to say ‘no’ is at least as important as my right to say ‘yes,’” he said.

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The Tax System Explained with Beer

US mother and daughter fend off shotgun-wielding robber

A mother-daughter duo are confronted by an armed robber in their family's liquor store in Oklahoma, but they quickly pull out their own guns and shoot him several times, and its all caught on CCTV.

The incredible heart stopping footage shows Tina Ring, 53, and her daughter Ashley Lee, 30, appearing to cooperate after giving the armed robber money while they are being held up with a shotgun at their Forest Acres Liquor Store Thursday night.

However the fast acting women grabbed two small pistols hidden under the register and lock him in the store with a button, turning the tables on the would-be robber, who police identified as Tyrone Lee, 36.

First Tina shoots Lee once at point blank range, as he runs off she pumps off two more shots in his direction. Her daughter Ashley looks to be dialing 911 while her mother covers them waiting for the brazen robber to return.

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America’s In Trouble Because Nobody Respects Rules

My wife and I try to instill in our kids the same values that were instilled in us growing up. Honor. Dignity. Faith. Love. Respect for rules.

Unfortunately, it appears as if there’s no such thing as “rules” to some people in this country.

Over the weekend, the University of New Hampshire put up this post on Facebook:

“If you’ve applied or been admitted to UNH you should know any disciplinary action stemming from peaceful protests exercising your first amendment rights will not jeopardize your admission decision. We support your right to stand up for what you believe in.”

Allow me to summarize. Break the rules that align with OUR liberal politics and you’re fine.

Just make sure you don’t screw up a thing on your application or submit it a few hours past deadline. THAT would cause disqualification. But breaking the rules when it comes to our politics? We’re cool with that.

I called the school out on it. And what happened? Snowflakes began melting in defense of the college.

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Coast Guard, Maryland responders search for 2 from plane crash


BALTIMORE — The Coast Guard, Maryland State Police and Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police are searching for two missing people by air and water Thursday, after debris from their small plane was found in the water near Ocean City Inlet.

Missing are Banica Richard Robinson and Marcson Ngwa.

The Air Force Rescue Coordination Center began coordinating search efforts when the Cessna 172 didn’t return to Martin State Airport as expected and was not transmitting its location beacon. They left from Martin State Airport and were seen practicing touch-and-gos at the Ocean City Municipal Airport Wednesday evening.
 

A natural resources police helicopter crew located a sheen off Ocean City at about 11:30 a.m. Thursday and the Coast Guard was called to take over coordination of the search. A mariner, natural resources police boat and Coast Guard boat crews located debris from the airplane near the sheen.

Watchstanders at the command center at Coast Guard Sector Maryland-National Capitol Region are coordinating response efforts with Coast Guard Station Ocean City boat crews, Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City helicopter crews, Maryland State Police divers and the natural resources police boat and helicopter.

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