Crime

Regulator Sues Anti-Police Activist Who Spent Charity Funds on Himself

The District of Columbia’s attorney general on Monday sued an activist known for his calls to abolish the police, saying that he diverted $75,000 from a charity to pay for mansion rentals, a trip to Cancún and designer clothes.

Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb, an elected Democrat who oversees nonprofits in the city, said Brandon Anderson had turned an anti-police-brutality charity called Raheem AI into a piggy bank for himself.

Mr. Schwalb also sued Raheem AI. He asked a judge to shutter the organization, bar Mr. Anderson from leading any other Washington nonprofit and order Mr. Anderson or Raheem AI to repay the $75,000. The money would then be given to a charity chosen by the judge.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Depolicing", #BlackLivesMatter, Crime

What Really Happened Between Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely

Six minutes. That’s all it took for two men to meet on the F train in New York City—and for their lives to change forever. It began a little after 2 p.m. on Monday, May 1, 2023. Jordan Neely, a homeless black man who suffered from schizophrenia, began screaming on the F train that he was looking for food. According to witnesses, Neely said he was “ready to die.” That he would “kill a motherfucker.” The other riders were scared.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Who is D.B. Cooper? New Evidence May Crack One Of America’s Greatest Mysteries

More than five decades ago, a mild-mannered passenger in a business suit boarded a Seattle-bound flight in Oregon under the name Dan Cooper on Nov. 24, 1971. He ordered a bourbon and soda, and once in the air, handed a stewardess a handwritten note demanding $200,000 in cash and four parachutes under the threat of what appeared to be a bomb in his ratty briefcase.

The plane landed in Seattle, and authorities complied with the hijacker’s demand. After refueling, the airliner took off again.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

‘Switches’ are turning handguns into machine guns on GTA streets

Toronto police have seized more devices that illegally transform semi-automatic handguns into fully automatic machine guns this year than ever before, according to new data shared with CBC News.

A Toronto Police Service spokesperson said the agency has seized 109 firearm auto switches — also known as auto sears — so far this year, compared to 29 in all of 2023 and 32 in 2022.

The small metal or plastic device, roughly the size of a quarter, allows a firearm to shoot “900 to 1,200 rounds a minute,” said Toronto police senior firearm officer Matthew Passmore.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Seven-year hunt for ‘cryptoqueen who stole £3.6bn’ shifts to Cape Town

The hunt for a Bulgarian “cryptoqueen” wanted over one of the world’s biggest cases of fraud has spread to South Africa.

Ruja Ignatova, a Bulgarian citizen who was educated at Oxford, is the only woman on the FBI’s top 10 most-wanted list.

She allegedly swindled £3.6 billion out of millions of investors as part of a scam involving the fake cryptocurrency OneCoin.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Crime

‘Canada’s Epstein’ is forced to surrender his mansions after being accused of decades-long child sex abuse

A Canadian billionaire has been ordered to surrender two of his mansions at the request of four women who allege he sexually abused them as minors.

Robert Miller, 81, is to have his two Montreal homes seized after Justice Serge Gaudet handed down a ruling against him on Friday.

The plaintiffs have argued that the two homes, valued at $2 million Canadian each, were listed under companies in an attempt by Miller to conceal his wealth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Tren de Aragua gangster Jose Ibarra sentenced to life in prison for vicious murder of nursing student Laken Riley

ATHENS, Ga. — Tren de Aragua gang member Jose Ibarra was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday for the vicious murder of promising nursing student Laken Riley in a case that ignited a national firestorm over the Biden administration’s open border policy and coddling of illegal immigrants.

The sentencing was meted out a little more than two hours after Judge Patrick Haggard announced the guilty verdict on all charges on the fourth day of the Athens, Georgia, murder trial, in which 29 witnesses were called by the prosecution.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Crime

Toronto police confirm all guns involved in mass shootout were smuggled from US

Toronto police on Thursday morning confirmed one of the 23 arrests laid after Monday’s gang shooting at a west end recording studio was a teen wanted for his involvement in a deadly attack.

The 16-year-old boy was wanted by police for his involvement in a deadly home invasion in Etobicoke in April. The boy, whose identity is protected because he’s a juvenile, has now been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Matthew Bergart on April 25.

I blame Taylor Swift’s entourage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Crime

Hollywood fights to be first over story of Sam Bankman-Fried

He was a poster boy for cryptocurrency whose sudden ascent to stratospheric wealth was matched only by his downfall, as his financial empire fell to pieces and he found himself in a federal prison.

Now Hollywood studios are lining up to tell the story of Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former-billionaire who stole $8 billion from investors and customers of FTX, the trading exchange he founded, that he had promised was a safe way to buy and sell bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Crime

Guns and drugs seized from organized crime group linked to Mexican cartel, RCMP say

Members of the RCMP’s federal police say they have arrested three men in B.C. for their alleged role in a “transnational organized crime group” they say is connected to Mexican drug cartels and importing cocaine into Canada.

Part of the enforcement was a raid on the group’s “heavily fortified headquarters” in Surrey on Sept. 23, according to a news release issued Wednesday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

FBI says tips coming in on whereabouts of fugitive Canadian ex-Olympian Ryan Wedding

More than three weeks after the FBI first offered a reward of up to $50,000 US for information leading to the arrest of Ryan Wedding, investigators say tips have been coming in. But the manhunt continues for the former Team Canada Olympic snowboarder, accused of leading a murderous, transnational drug trafficking operation.

“The FBI has, and continues to receive, information related to the whereabouts of Ryan Wedding,” FBI spokesperson Rukelt Dalberis told CBC News in an email. “Tips received at this point have yet to lead to an arrest.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime, USA

Liberal minister’s former business questioned over ‘Indigenous’ claims in government contract bids

A company that belonged to federal Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault said it was Indigenous-owned while bidding on federal contracts.

While Boissonnault, who at the time co-owned Global Health Imports, has said in the past that he is Indigenous, he recently stated publicly that he is white.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cultural Appropriation", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Crime