Crime

Utah bereavement author charged with husband’s murder

A Utah woman who published a children’s book about grief after the sudden death of her husband has been charged with his murder.

Kouri Richins, a mother of three, called police late one night in March 2022 and said her husband, Eric Richins, was “cold to the touch”.

She told authorities she had made her husband a mixed vodka drink before finding him unresponsive hours later.

A medical examiner later found Mr Richins died from a fentanyl overdose.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The driver of an SUV that killed eight people when it slammed into a bus stop in Brownsville, Texas has been charged with manslaughter, police said Monday as investigators tried to determine if the crash was intentional.

Authorities believe driver George Alvarez, 34, of Brownsville, lost control after running a red light Sunday morning and plowed into a crowd of Venezuelans outside a migrant center.

The activist Left’s indulgent reaction to Jordan Neely’s death is courting populist frustration with tolerance for violent criminality.

Jordan Neely, a homeless man reportedly exhibiting outward signs of mental illness and menacing passengers, should not have been on the F train on Monday afternoon. The Marine veteran who subdued him with the assistance of his fellow passengers shouldn’t have been in that position. The application of force that resulted in Neely’s death shouldn’t have had to occur. But it did.

"If we have to strap up & come out here start popping, it's gonna happen"

“You try to encroach on any of us, we lay you the f— down.”

Comrade Don Curtis, a convicted murderer & violent robber, leads a BLM-style protest for #JordanNeely in NYC.
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— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) May 5, 2023

Police in Canada have laid charges against an Ontario man following allegations he sold a lethal substance to people in dozens of countries, including four people who killed themselves in Britain and one in the United States.

Kenneth Law, 57, is due to appear in court on Wednesday after Peel regional police charged him with two counts of counselling or aiding suicide on Tuesday in relation to Canadian adults.

The Left shredded the bonds that tie a nation together.

There are two ways society can reduce crime and violence.

1. Maintain a strong sense of moral values and mutual trust. Create and socially enforce codes of conduct. Quickly suppress any groups that dissent from maintaining these standards. Give people the confidence to believe that they will be treated decently and fairly. And that there will be consequences for those who don’t.

2. Lots of police and prisons

If you don’t have the former, you’ll have to settle for the latter. That’s what we see in crime statistics in rural vs urban areas.

Six people are wanted in an alleged coordinated theft from a downtown Toronto store — and police they have been involved in similar incidents across the GTA.

The nation’s spy chief, a longtime college president and top women in finance. The circle of people who associated with Jeffrey Epstein years after he was a convicted sex offender is wider than previously reported, according to a trove of documents that include his schedules.

William Burns, director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021, had three meetings scheduled with Epstein in 2014, when he was deputy secretary of state, the documents show. They first met in Washington and then Mr. Burns visited Epstein’s townhouse in Manhattan.

Kathryn Ruemmler, a White House counsel under President Barack Obama, had dozens of meetings with Epstein in the years after her White House service and before she became a top lawyer at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in 2020. He also planned for her to join a 2015 trip to Paris and a 2017 visit to Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.

Good snapshots in this thread.

BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Calendar just dropped. The calendar includes meetings with the man who’s now the current Director of the CIA, William Burns, among other prominent names including Rothschild, Kissinger and many more. https://t.co/9CcLlzenoB

— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) April 30, 2023

h/t Mauser

Fearing a voter backlash over public safety, U.K. Conservatives are belatedly cracking down on violence involving sharp instruments.

While some British politicians tout the politically favorable claim that violent crime has fallen 38 percent since 2010, new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) depicts a rather different and darker situation. The figures show that the number of people killed with knives in England and Wales in 2021 and 2022 was the highest since record-keeping began, 77 years ago. Across England and Wales, the number of knife offenses has increased by 34 percent since 2010. Now, 40 percent of all homicides involve a knife or sharp instrument.

In a case that appears unprecedented in Canada, three men have been sentenced for posting the image and audio of a key Crown witness in a Toronto murder case to a series of Instagram accounts with a total of more than 500,000 followers.

“These are not simple, mischievous pranks that will go unpunished,” Ontario Court Judge Phil Downes said, describing the case as an opportunity to send a strong message of deterrence that, as the courts embrace online video conferencing, “this type of abuse will not be tolerated.”

The following is part of a rare interview with a Chicago police officer and Federalist Staff Writer Evita Duffy-Alfonso, in which they discuss the surge of violence, political corruption, gun control, Black Lives Matter, and rap music. To protect the officer’s safety and his job, he has been granted anonymity.

Brutal.

Over 550 vehicles recovered and over 300 charges laid in ongoing Project Stallion, a Toronto Police Auto Theft Investigation

Toronto police have recovered more than 500 stolen vehicle and have charged dozens of people following a months-long investigation into auto theft in the city’s west.

The investigation, dubbed ‘Project Stallion’ began in November and was largely focused on the Etobicoke neighbourhoods located in 22 and 23 Division.

Police say that as a result of the investigation 556 stolen vehicles worth more than $27 million have been recovered to date.

119 Perps charged.

h/t DS