On Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.
All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.
If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration newsAround 2:00 a.m., on January 16, 2003, Norfolk Police Officer Sheila Herring, 39, arrived at a bar on East Brambleton Avenue, in response to a shooting call.
When she and her fellow officers exited their vehicles, they encountered several men standing outside the bar. One of those men quickly drew a handgun and began firing. Officer Herring was struck three times.
The other officers returned fire and fatally wounded the gunman, Mario Roberto Keen, a Jamaican national in the country illegally. In 1990, he was sentenced to five years in prison for distribution of cocaine, and was later deported.
Officer Herring was hit in the abdomen, just below her vest. She was taken to Norfolk General Hospital, where she died less than an hour later in surgery.
Officer Herring had only been with the Norfolk Police Department for 11 months when she was killed. Prior to joining the department, she was a Detroit police officer for 10 years. She also served for three years with the Norfolk Airport Police Department.
Officer Sheila Herring left behind an 18-year-old daughter.
Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news pollsOn Monday, Virginia Beach police responded to a Crime Solvers tip on the location of a suspect in a recent string of robberies, which led them to a motel on Bonney Road. The SWAT team executed a warrant on one of the rooms and took four suspects into custody.
Those arrested were:
-Matthew Turner, 2, charged with 13 felony counts of robbery
-Olivia Weir, 23, charged with eight felony counts of robbery
-Mytisha Warmack, 22, charged with three felony counts of robbery
-Kyle Smith, 20, charged with seven felony counts of robbery
The suspects are accused of committing three robberies to individuals, as well as holding-up two Albano Cleaners and Pappa Joe’s Smoke Shack between January 5-20.
According to police, one of the accused was recognized when surveillance footage of the robbery at Pappa Joe’s Smoke Shack was aired on a local newscast.
Virginia Beach has been hit with a rash of robberies of late, with more than 35 occurring in the city since New Years Day.
Read more about the growth of violent crime in Virginia Beach: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/gangland-virginia-beach-va
Powered By iWebRSS.comread interesting immigration news opinionsOn Wednesday, Carlos Hernandez, 24, pleaded guilty to a September rape and abduction which began at the Virginia Beach oceanfront.
According to Virginia Beach Commonweatlh's Attorney Harvey Bryant, the victim was walking through a McDonald’s parking lot in the 2100 block of Pacific Avenue when she was abducted at knifepoint by Hernandez and his accomplice, Santiago Jiminez, also an illegal alien.
The woman was forced into an SUV and driven to another location, while both Hernandez and Jiminez took turns assaulting her.
They eventually stopped at a convenience store in Chesapeake, where the victim escaped and called police.
Upon questioning, Hernandez quickly confessed to raping the woman. His sentencing is set for June 1, 2011.
Powered By iWebRSS.com immigration news - sex crimes of illegal immigrantsOn Wednesday, the Virginia Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted 12-3 to defeat SB 876, known as the “Castle Doctrine.â€
The measure would have allowed “a lawful occupant use of physical force, including deadly force, against an intruder in his dwelling who has committed an overt act against him, without civil liability.â€
For the last several years, the same bill has been defeated in the Democratically-controlled Senate, while the same version has passed in the Republican-controlled House.
The committee voted as follows:
Against:
Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Reston) Sen. Louise L. Lucas (D-Portsmouth) Sen. Henry L. Marsh (D-Richmond) Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-Williamsburg) Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-Charlottesville) Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) Sen. Donald A. McEachin (D-Richmond) Sen. John S. Edwards (D-Roanoke) Sen. Fred M. Quayle (R-Suffolk) Sen. Richard L. Saslaw (D-Alexandria) Sen. Toddy Puller (D-Mount Vernon) Sen. William Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)
For:
Sen. Richard H. Stuart (R-Fredericksburg) Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-Mechanicsville) Sen. Mark D. Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg)
Read more about the continued defeat of Virginia’s Castle Doctrine, and the possible reasons behind it: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/virginia-legislators-side-with-home-invaders
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Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration newsOn Wednesday, the Virginia Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted 12-3 to defeat SB 876, known as the “Castle Doctrine.â€
The measure would have allowed “a lawful occupant use of physical force, including deadly force, against an intruder in his dwelling who has committed an overt act against him, without civil liability.â€
For the last several years, the same bill has been defeated in the Democratically-controlled Senate, while the same version has passed in the Republican-controlled House.
The committee voted as follows:
Against:
Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Reston) Sen. Louise L. Lucas (D-Portsmouth) Sen. Henry L. Marsh (D-Richmond) Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-Williamsburg) Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-Charlottesville) Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) Sen. Donald A. McEachin (D-Richmond) Sen. John S. Edwards (D-Roanoke) Sen. Fred M. Quayle (R-Suffolk) Sen. Richard L. Saslaw (D-Alexandria) Sen. Toddy Puller (D-Mount Vernon) Sen. William Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)
For:
Sen. Richard H. Stuart (R-Fredericksburg) Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-Mechanicsville) Sen. Mark D. Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg)
Read more about the continued defeat of Virginia’s Castle Doctrine, and the possible reasons behind it: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/virginia-legislators-side-with-home-invaders
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Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration newsOn Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.
All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.
If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Powered By iWebRSS.comwatch immigration news videosAround 2:00 a.m., on January 16, 2003, Norfolk Police Officer Sheila Herring, 39, arrived at a bar on East Brambleton Avenue, in response to a shooting call.
When she and her fellow officers exited their vehicles, they encountered several men standing outside the bar. One of those men quickly drew a handgun and began firing. Officer Herring was struck three times.
The other officers returned fire and fatally wounded the gunman, Mario Roberto Keen, a Jamaican national in the country illegally. In 1990, he was sentenced to five years in prison for distribution of cocaine, and was later deported.
Officer Herring was hit in the abdomen, just below her vest. She was taken to Norfolk General Hospital, where she died less than an hour later in surgery.
Officer Herring had only been with the Norfolk Police Department for 11 months when she was killed. Prior to joining the department, she was a Detroit police officer for 10 years. She also served for three years with the Norfolk Airport Police Department.
Officer Sheila Herring left behind an 18-year-old daughter.
Powered By iWebRSS.comwatch immigration news videosOn Monday, Virginia Beach police responded to a Crime Solvers tip on the location of a suspect in a recent string of robberies, which led them to a motel on Bonney Road. The SWAT team executed a warrant on one of the rooms and took four suspects into custody.
Those arrested were:
-Matthew Turner, 2, charged with 13 felony counts of robbery
-Olivia Weir, 23, charged with eight felony counts of robbery
-Mytisha Warmack, 22, charged with three felony counts of robbery
-Kyle Smith, 20, charged with seven felony counts of robbery
The suspects are accused of committing three robberies to individuals, as well as holding-up two Albano Cleaners and Pappa Joe’s Smoke Shack between January 5-20.
According to police, one of the accused was recognized when surveillance footage of the robbery at Pappa Joe’s Smoke Shack was aired on a local newscast.
Virginia Beach has been hit with a rash of robberies of late, with more than 35 occurring in the city since New Years Day.
Read more about the growth of violent crime in Virginia Beach: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/gangland-virginia-beach-va
Powered By iWebRSS.comread interesting immigration news opinionsOn Monday, Virginia Beach police responded to a Crime Solvers tip on the location of a suspect in a recent string of robberies, which led them to a motel on Bonney Road. The SWAT team executed a warrant on one of the rooms and took four suspects into custody.
Those arrested were:
-Matthew Turner, 2, charged with 13 felony counts of robbery
-Olivia Weir, 23, charged with eight felony counts of robbery
-Mytisha Warmack, 22, charged with three felony counts of robbery
-Kyle Smith, 20, charged with seven felony counts of robbery
The suspects are accused of committing three robberies to individuals, as well as holding-up two Albano Cleaners and Pappa Joe’s Smoke Shack between January 5-20.
According to police, one of the accused was recognized when surveillance footage of the robbery at Pappa Joe’s Smoke Shack was aired on a local newscast.
Virginia Beach has been hit with a rash of robberies of late, with more than 35 occurring in the city since New Years Day.
Read more about the growth of violent crime in Virginia Beach: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/gangland-virginia-beach-va
Powered By iWebRSS.comread interesting immigration news opinionsOn Wednesday, the Virginia Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted 12-3 to defeat SB 876, known as the “Castle Doctrine.â€
The measure would have allowed “a lawful occupant use of physical force, including deadly force, against an intruder in his dwelling who has committed an overt act against him, without civil liability.â€
For the last several years, the same bill has been defeated in the Democratically-controlled Senate, while the same version has passed in the Republican-controlled House.
The committee voted as follows:
Against:
Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Reston) Sen. Louise L. Lucas (D-Portsmouth) Sen. Henry L. Marsh (D-Richmond) Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-Williamsburg) Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-Charlottesville) Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) Sen. Donald A. McEachin (D-Richmond) Sen. John S. Edwards (D-Roanoke) Sen. Fred M. Quayle (R-Suffolk) Sen. Richard L. Saslaw (D-Alexandria) Sen. Toddy Puller (D-Mount Vernon) Sen. William Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)
For:
Sen. Richard H. Stuart (R-Fredericksburg) Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-Mechanicsville) Sen. Mark D. Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg)
Read more about the continued defeat of Virginia’s Castle Doctrine, and the possible reasons behind it: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/virginia-legislators-side-with-home-invaders
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Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration newsOn Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.
All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.
If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Powered By iWebRSS.comwatch immigration news videosAround 2:00 a.m., on January 16, 2003, Norfolk Police Officer Sheila Herring, 39, arrived at a bar on East Brambleton Avenue, in response to a shooting call.
When she and her fellow officers exited their vehicles, they encountered several men standing outside the bar. One of those men quickly drew a handgun and began firing. Officer Herring was struck three times.
The other officers returned fire and fatally wounded the gunman, Mario Roberto Keen, a Jamaican national in the country illegally. In 1990, he was sentenced to five years in prison for distribution of cocaine, and was later deported.
Officer Herring was hit in the abdomen, just below her vest. She was taken to Norfolk General Hospital, where she died less than an hour later in surgery.
Officer Herring had only been with the Norfolk Police Department for 11 months when she was killed. Prior to joining the department, she was a Detroit police officer for 10 years. She also served for three years with the Norfolk Airport Police Department.
Officer Sheila Herring left behind an 18-year-old daughter.
Powered By iWebRSS.com immigration news - sex crimes of illegal immigrantsAround 2:00 a.m., on January 16, 2003, Norfolk Police Officer Sheila Herring, 39, arrived at a bar on East Brambleton Avenue, in response to a shooting call.
When she and her fellow officers exited their vehicles, they encountered several men standing outside the bar. One of those men quickly drew a handgun and began firing. Officer Herring was struck three times.
The other officers returned fire and fatally wounded the gunman, Mario Roberto Keen, a Jamaican national in the country illegally. In 1990, he was sentenced to five years in prison for distribution of cocaine, and was later deported.
Officer Herring was hit in the abdomen, just below her vest. She was taken to Norfolk General Hospital, where she died less than an hour later in surgery.
Officer Herring had only been with the Norfolk Police Department for 11 months when she was killed. Prior to joining the department, she was a Detroit police officer for 10 years. She also served for three years with the Norfolk Airport Police Department.
Officer Sheila Herring left behind an 18-year-old daughter.
Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration newsOn Wednesday, the Virginia Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted 12-3 to defeat SB 876, known as the “Castle Doctrine.â€
The measure would have allowed “a lawful occupant use of physical force, including deadly force, against an intruder in his dwelling who has committed an overt act against him, without civil liability.â€
For the last several years, the same bill has been defeated in the Democratically-controlled Senate, while the same version has passed in the Republican-controlled House.
The committee voted as follows:
Against:
Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Reston) Sen. Louise L. Lucas (D-Portsmouth) Sen. Henry L. Marsh (D-Richmond) Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-Williamsburg) Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-Charlottesville) Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) Sen. Donald A. McEachin (D-Richmond) Sen. John S. Edwards (D-Roanoke) Sen. Fred M. Quayle (R-Suffolk) Sen. Richard L. Saslaw (D-Alexandria) Sen. Toddy Puller (D-Mount Vernon) Sen. William Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)
For:
Sen. Richard H. Stuart (R-Fredericksburg) Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-Mechanicsville) Sen. Mark D. Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg)
Read more about the continued defeat of Virginia’s Castle Doctrine, and the possible reasons behind it: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/virginia-legislators-side-with-home-invaders
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Powered By iWebRSS.com immigration news - sex crimes of illegal immigrantsOn Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.
All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.
If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Powered By iWebRSS.com immigration news - sex crimes of illegal immigrantsAround 2:00 a.m., on January 16, 2003, Norfolk Police Officer Sheila Herring, 39, arrived at a bar on East Brambleton Avenue, in response to a shooting call.
When she and her fellow officers exited their vehicles, they encountered several men standing outside the bar. One of those men quickly drew a handgun and began firing. Officer Herring was struck three times.
The other officers returned fire and fatally wounded the gunman, Mario Roberto Keen, a Jamaican national in the country illegally. In 1990, he was sentenced to five years in prison for distribution of cocaine, and was later deported.
Officer Herring was hit in the abdomen, just below her vest. She was taken to Norfolk General Hospital, where she died less than an hour later in surgery.
Officer Herring had only been with the Norfolk Police Department for 11 months when she was killed. Prior to joining the department, she was a Detroit police officer for 10 years. She also served for three years with the Norfolk Airport Police Department.
Officer Sheila Herring left behind an 18-year-old daughter.
Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news pollsOn Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.
All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.
If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration newsOn Wednesday, the Virginia Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted 12-3 to defeat SB 876, known as the “Castle Doctrine.â€
The measure would have allowed “a lawful occupant use of physical force, including deadly force, against an intruder in his dwelling who has committed an overt act against him, without civil liability.â€
For the last several years, the same bill has been defeated in the Democratically-controlled Senate, while the same version has passed in the Republican-controlled House.
The committee voted as follows:
Against:
Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Reston) Sen. Louise L. Lucas (D-Portsmouth) Sen. Henry L. Marsh (D-Richmond) Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-Williamsburg) Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-Charlottesville) Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) Sen. Donald A. McEachin (D-Richmond) Sen. John S. Edwards (D-Roanoke) Sen. Fred M. Quayle (R-Suffolk) Sen. Richard L. Saslaw (D-Alexandria) Sen. Toddy Puller (D-Mount Vernon) Sen. William Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)
For:
Sen. Richard H. Stuart (R-Fredericksburg) Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-Mechanicsville) Sen. Mark D. Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg)
Read more about the continued defeat of Virginia’s Castle Doctrine, and the possible reasons behind it: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/virginia-legislators-side-with-home-invaders
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Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration newsOn Wednesday, the Virginia Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted 12-3 to defeat SB 876, known as the “Castle Doctrine.â€
The measure would have allowed “a lawful occupant use of physical force, including deadly force, against an intruder in his dwelling who has committed an overt act against him, without civil liability.â€
For the last several years, the same bill has been defeated in the Democratically-controlled Senate, while the same version has passed in the Republican-controlled House.
The committee voted as follows:
Against:
Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Reston) Sen. Louise L. Lucas (D-Portsmouth) Sen. Henry L. Marsh (D-Richmond) Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-Williamsburg) Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-Charlottesville) Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) Sen. Donald A. McEachin (D-Richmond) Sen. John S. Edwards (D-Roanoke) Sen. Fred M. Quayle (R-Suffolk) Sen. Richard L. Saslaw (D-Alexandria) Sen. Toddy Puller (D-Mount Vernon) Sen. William Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)
For:
Sen. Richard H. Stuart (R-Fredericksburg) Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-Mechanicsville) Sen. Mark D. Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg)
Read more about the continued defeat of Virginia’s Castle Doctrine, and the possible reasons behind it: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/virginia-legislators-side-with-home-invaders
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Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news pollsAround 2:00 a.m., on January 16, 2003, Norfolk Police Officer Sheila Herring, 39, arrived at a bar on East Brambleton Avenue, in response to a shooting call.
When she and her fellow officers exited their vehicles, they encountered several men standing outside the bar. One of those men quickly drew a handgun and began firing. Officer Herring was struck three times.
The other officers returned fire and fatally wounded the gunman, Mario Roberto Keen, a Jamaican national in the country illegally. In 1990, he was sentenced to five years in prison for distribution of cocaine, and was later deported.
Officer Herring was hit in the abdomen, just below her vest. She was taken to Norfolk General Hospital, where she died less than an hour later in surgery.
Officer Herring had only been with the Norfolk Police Department for 11 months when she was killed. Prior to joining the department, she was a Detroit police officer for 10 years. She also served for three years with the Norfolk Airport Police Department.
Officer Sheila Herring left behind an 18-year-old daughter.
Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news pollsOn Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.
All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.
If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news pollsOn Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.
All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.
If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Powered By iWebRSS.comread interesting immigration news opinionsOn Wednesday, the Virginia Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted 12-3 to defeat SB 876, known as the “Castle Doctrine.â€
The measure would have allowed “a lawful occupant use of physical force, including deadly force, against an intruder in his dwelling who has committed an overt act against him, without civil liability.â€
For the last several years, the same bill has been defeated in the Democratically-controlled Senate, while the same version has passed in the Republican-controlled House.
The committee voted as follows:
Against:
Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Reston) Sen. Louise L. Lucas (D-Portsmouth) Sen. Henry L. Marsh (D-Richmond) Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-Williamsburg) Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-Charlottesville) Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) Sen. Donald A. McEachin (D-Richmond) Sen. John S. Edwards (D-Roanoke) Sen. Fred M. Quayle (R-Suffolk) Sen. Richard L. Saslaw (D-Alexandria) Sen. Toddy Puller (D-Mount Vernon) Sen. William Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)
For:
Sen. Richard H. Stuart (R-Fredericksburg) Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-Mechanicsville) Sen. Mark D. Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg)
Read more about the continued defeat of Virginia’s Castle Doctrine, and the possible reasons behind it: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/virginia-legislators-side-with-home-invaders
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Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news pollsOn Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.
All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.
If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration newsOn Friday, Williamsburg police arrested Desmond Holland, 18, and are still looking for Jamal Roane, 19. Both are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen burglaries.
All of the burglaries have taken place in Williamsburg since from September.
If you have information on the whereabouts of Jamal Roane, you are asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration newsOn Friday, Henry Morton, 52, was sentenced to 40 years in prison with Circuit Judge James F. D'Alton Jr. suspending all but 8 of those years. Morton had already pleaded guilty to two counts of malicious wounding.
On the morning of November 17, 2009, Cristy Wright, 35, arrived at the Petersburg East Complex at 110 Croatan Drive, where she worked as the manager. As soon as she exited her   vehicle, Morton ran up to her, threw a cup of gasoline in her face and set her ablaze.
As the flames enveloped her upper body, Morton beat her with a metal pipe before fleeing the scene.
Several parents and children at a nearby school bus stop heard Wrights screams and came to help.
Prosecutor Ken Blaylock described the scene, saying: “People just rushed right up to her, running with coats and everything trying to put her out. She was lucky that there were a lot of people around.â€
Witnesses told police they saw Morton board a Petersburg Area Transit bus, and a special alert was issued to all city bus drivers.
Within minutes, a bus driver reported a passenger who fitted Morton's description and police quickly arrested him.
Morton told the arresting officers that he “just snapped.â€
The day before the attack, Morton had been fired from his job as a maintenance worker at the Petersburg East Complex.
Morton’s lawyer, Petersburg public defender John Cobb, said: “He felt that she was somewhat responsible for losing his job. He kind of felt like she didn't like him from the very beginning, and that it was her mission to get him fired.â€
His victim, recovered from the blow to her head, but she suffered permanent burn to her forehead from the flames.
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Powered By iWebRSS.com immigration news - sex crimes of illegal immigrantsOn Tuesday night, someone broke into a vehicle parked in front of the home of a Chesapeake police officer and stole a semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun and ammunition from the trunk. The officer lives off of South Lynnhaven Road in Virginia Beach.
According to the police report, the stolen items: the rifle, 60 rounds of ammunition, a rifle case, a Remington shotgun with five shells, and a nylon case are worth a total of $2,170.
All of the equipment stolen was issued to the officer by the Chesapeake Police Department. Officer Dorienne Boykin, a CPD spokeswoman said the officer was authorized to bring the weapons home, and did not violate department policy by leaving them in the trunk of his personal vehicle.
However, Bokins did say: “This may cause us to review the practice of how we safeguard weapons in vehicles.â€
Virginia Beach detectives are investigating the incident.
Anyone with information on this crime should call 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Powered By iWebRSS.com immigration news - sex crimes of illegal immigrantsOn Monday afternoon, a 9-year-old boy was robbed at gunpoint as he sat on the stairs outside his family’s apartment. The man stole the boy’s handheld Playstation he received for Christmas.
The robbery occurred in the Wynnwood Apartments on Nelson Street, in Richmond’s East End.
The suspect remains at large.
Because the family fears for their safety, the boy’s name is being withheld.
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-804-780-1000.
Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration newsOn Friday, the body of a former Bush administration official who also led the effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was found in a landfill in Wilmington, Delaware. Police have ruled the death of John P. Wheeler III, 66, to be a homicide.
Newark Police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall said that Wheeler had not been reported missing before they received a call that a body had been dumped from a garbage truck at the landfill.
Police believe Wheeler's body was dumped into a garbage bin in Newark sometime before the truck arrived to empty it.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that Wheeler was last seen traveling on an Amtrak train   from Washington to Wilmington, last Tuesday.Â
Wheeler was a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and served in the Reagan administration as well as both Bush administrations.Â
During the Reagan years, Wheeler served as chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. He went on to found the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, which helps veterans find jobs. He also helped to create the Earth Conservation Corps during the George H.W. Bush administration. From 2005-2009, Wheeler served as a special assistant to George W. Bush.
Wheeler, a Hampton High School alumnus, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966, and had degrees from both Yale and Harvard.
The Newark Police Department is asking that anyone with information into Wheeler’s murder contact them at 1-800-TIP-3333.
Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration newsIn September 2007, a Surry County grand jury affirmed two state charges against Vick…one count of unlawfully torturing and killing dogs and one of promoting dogfights. Each felony charge could have resulted in a five-year prison term.
Vick eventually pleaded guilty to one count under a plea deal and not guilty to the other, and that charge was dropped. Surry County Circuit Judge Samuel Campbell approved the plea agreement and sentenced Vick to a three-year suspended jail term and probation.
Vick actually went to prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge of bankrolling the dog fighting operation. He served 18 months of a 23-month sentence at Leavenworth federal prison.
So, despite the claims by Vick’s supporters that “he has paid for his crimes,†he actually has not.
The truth is that Michael Vick has never spent a day in prison for animal cruelty. He merely went to prison for financial crimes.
When police raided Vick’s house in Surry County in 2007, they found 65 dogs (nearly all pit bulls), a dog-fighting pit, blood-stained carpets, and various equipment commonly used in dog fighting.
One of the items found on Vick’s property was a ‘rape stand’ which is a device in which female dogs are strapped into and restrained, to allow a male dog to breed with her.
According to the federal indictment, when dogs at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels lost a fight, or failed to perform well in ‘test matches,’ they were routinely killed by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming†the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.
Vick took part in these executions along with his partners Purnell Peace, and Quanis Phillips. The indictment detailed a March 2003 incident, in which a female pit bull who had just lost a match was killed. Vick and Peace decided to kill her by “wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting her.â€
The reason Vick may be so despised by so many, is that he was never punished, nor will he ever be for brutalizing and killing so many helpless victims.
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Powered By iWebRSS.com immigration news - sex crimes of illegal immigrantsOn Thursday, former NFL star Lawrence Taylor, 51, pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute, both misdemeanors. While Taylor will not receive any jail time, he will have to register as a sex offender. He will also serve six years on probation.
In June 2010, Taylor was indicted by a grand jury just outside New York City on charges of rape, criminal sexual act, endangering the welfare of a child, patronizing a prostitute, and sexual abuse.
If he had been convicted of those charges, Taylor could have spent the rest of his life in prison.
The plea deal which keeps Taylor out of prison was accepted largely because of his assistance with human trafficking investigations since his arrest. Prosecutor, Arthur Ferraro, told reporters outside the courtroom on Thursday that Taylor "was of assistance in the field of human trafficking in several jurisdictions and with federal authorities."
On May 6, Taylor was arrested at a Montebello, NY, Holiday Inn, accused of paying a 16-year-old prostitute $300 for sex.
According to Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe, the Bronx runaway told detectives that she had been threatened and physically assaulted. She was allegedly brought to Taylor’s hotel room by a pimp.
Taylor, who initially denied the allegations, grew up in Williamsburg, Va., and played in the NFL from1981-1993, spending his entire pro career with the New York Giants.
The Hall of Fame linebacker is no stranger to the law. In the 1990s, Taylor was jailed twice for purchasing drugs from undercover police officers. Last year, he was arrested in Miami for leaving the scene of an accident.
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Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration newsOn Tuesday, Gloucester County Sheriff's deputies arrived at the home of a 64-year-old man, who had been brutally assaulted and robbed after leaving the hospital. His alleged attacker was actually the same young man who volunteered to drive him home.
Deputies arrested Shawn Eric Blankenship, 21, of New Point Comfort Highway, and charged him with unlawful wounding, grand larceny, and destruction of property.
The victim said Blankenship took him back to his apartment, and then assaulted him, stealing his wallet and his truck.
According to the police report, the man suffered very significant injuries and was transported by helicopter to Riverside Regional Hospital.
Blankenship is being held without bond at the Gloucester County Jail.
Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration newsOn Friday, Henry Morton, 52, was sentenced to 40 years in prison with Circuit Judge James F. D'Alton Jr. suspending all but 8 of those years. Morton had already pleaded guilty to two counts of malicious wounding.
On the morning of November 17, 2009, Cristy Wright, 35, arrived at the Petersburg East Complex at 110 Croatan Drive, where she worked as the manager. As soon as she exited her   vehicle, Morton ran up to her, threw a cup of gasoline in her face and set her ablaze.
As the flames enveloped her upper body, Morton beat her with a metal pipe before fleeing the scene.
Several parents and children at a nearby school bus stop heard Wrights screams and came to help.
Prosecutor Ken Blaylock described the scene, saying: “People just rushed right up to her, running with coats and everything trying to put her out. She was lucky that there were a lot of people around.â€
Witnesses told police they saw Morton board a Petersburg Area Transit bus, and a special alert was issued to all city bus drivers.
Within minutes, a bus driver reported a passenger who fitted Morton's description and police quickly arrested him.
Morton told the arresting officers that he “just snapped.â€
The day before the attack, Morton had been fired from his job as a maintenance worker at the Petersburg East Complex.
Morton’s lawyer, Petersburg public defender John Cobb, said: “He felt that she was somewhat responsible for losing his job. He kind of felt like she didn't like him from the very beginning, and that it was her mission to get him fired.â€
His victim, recovered from the blow to her head, but she suffered permanent burn to her forehead from the flames.
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Powered By iWebRSS.comread interesting immigration news opinionsIn September 2007, a Surry County grand jury affirmed two state charges against Vick…one count of unlawfully torturing and killing dogs and one of promoting dogfights. Each felony charge could have resulted in a five-year prison term.
Vick eventually pleaded guilty to one count under a plea deal and not guilty to the other, and that charge was dropped. Surry County Circuit Judge Samuel Campbell approved the plea agreement and sentenced Vick to a three-year suspended jail term and probation.
Vick actually went to prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge of bankrolling the dog fighting operation. He served 18 months of a 23-month sentence at Leavenworth federal prison.
So, despite the claims by Vick’s supporters that “he has paid for his crimes,†he actually has not.
The truth is that Michael Vick has never spent a day in prison for animal cruelty. He merely went to prison for financial crimes.
When police raided Vick’s house in Surry County in 2007, they found 65 dogs (nearly all pit bulls), a dog-fighting pit, blood-stained carpets, and various equipment commonly used in dog fighting.
One of the items found on Vick’s property was a ‘rape stand’ which is a device in which female dogs are strapped into and restrained, to allow a male dog to breed with her.
According to the federal indictment, when dogs at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels lost a fight, or failed to perform well in ‘test matches,’ they were routinely killed by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming†the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.
Vick took part in these executions along with his partners Purnell Peace, and Quanis Phillips. The indictment detailed a March 2003 incident, in which a female pit bull who had just lost a match was killed. Vick and Peace decided to kill her by “wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting her.â€
The reason Vick may be so despised by so many, is that he was never punished, nor will he ever be for brutalizing and killing so many helpless victims.
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Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration newsOn Friday, the body of a former Bush administration official who also led the effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was found in a landfill in Wilmington, Delaware. Police have ruled the death of John P. Wheeler III, 66, to be a homicide.
Newark Police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall said that Wheeler had not been reported missing before they received a call that a body had been dumped from a garbage truck at the landfill.
Police believe Wheeler's body was dumped into a garbage bin in Newark sometime before the truck arrived to empty it.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that Wheeler was last seen traveling on an Amtrak train   from Washington to Wilmington, last Tuesday.Â
Wheeler was a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and served in the Reagan administration as well as both Bush administrations.Â
During the Reagan years, Wheeler served as chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. He went on to found the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, which helps veterans find jobs. He also helped to create the Earth Conservation Corps during the George H.W. Bush administration. From 2005-2009, Wheeler served as a special assistant to George W. Bush.
Wheeler, a Hampton High School alumnus, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966, and had degrees from both Yale and Harvard.
The Newark Police Department is asking that anyone with information into Wheeler’s murder contact them at 1-800-TIP-3333.
Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration newsOn Tuesday night, someone broke into a vehicle parked in front of the home of a Chesapeake police officer and stole a semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun and ammunition from the trunk. The officer lives off of South Lynnhaven Road in Virginia Beach.
According to the police report, the stolen items: the rifle, 60 rounds of ammunition, a rifle case, a Remington shotgun with five shells, and a nylon case are worth a total of $2,170.
All of the equipment stolen was issued to the officer by the Chesapeake Police Department. Officer Dorienne Boykin, a CPD spokeswoman said the officer was authorized to bring the weapons home, and did not violate department policy by leaving them in the trunk of his personal vehicle.
However, Bokins did say: “This may cause us to review the practice of how we safeguard weapons in vehicles.â€
Virginia Beach detectives are investigating the incident.
Anyone with information on this crime should call 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Powered By iWebRSS.com immigration news - sex crimes of illegal immigrantsOn Friday, the body of a former Bush administration official who also led the effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was found in a landfill in Wilmington, Delaware. Police have ruled the death of John P. Wheeler III, 66, to be a homicide.
Newark Police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall said that Wheeler had not been reported missing before they received a call that a body had been dumped from a garbage truck at the landfill.
Police believe Wheeler's body was dumped into a garbage bin in Newark sometime before the truck arrived to empty it.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that Wheeler was last seen traveling on an Amtrak train   from Washington to Wilmington, last Tuesday.Â
Wheeler was a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and served in the Reagan administration as well as both Bush administrations.Â
During the Reagan years, Wheeler served as chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. He went on to found the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, which helps veterans find jobs. He also helped to create the Earth Conservation Corps during the George H.W. Bush administration. From 2005-2009, Wheeler served as a special assistant to George W. Bush.
Wheeler, a Hampton High School alumnus, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966, and had degrees from both Yale and Harvard.
The Newark Police Department is asking that anyone with information into Wheeler’s murder contact them at 1-800-TIP-3333.
Powered By iWebRSS.comwatch immigration news videosIn September 2007, a Surry County grand jury affirmed two state charges against Vick…one count of unlawfully torturing and killing dogs and one of promoting dogfights. Each felony charge could have resulted in a five-year prison term.
Vick eventually pleaded guilty to one count under a plea deal and not guilty to the other, and that charge was dropped. Surry County Circuit Judge Samuel Campbell approved the plea agreement and sentenced Vick to a three-year suspended jail term and probation.
Vick actually went to prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge of bankrolling the dog fighting operation. He served 18 months of a 23-month sentence at Leavenworth federal prison.
So, despite the claims by Vick’s supporters that “he has paid for his crimes,†he actually has not.
The truth is that Michael Vick has never spent a day in prison for animal cruelty. He merely went to prison for financial crimes.
When police raided Vick’s house in Surry County in 2007, they found 65 dogs (nearly all pit bulls), a dog-fighting pit, blood-stained carpets, and various equipment commonly used in dog fighting.
One of the items found on Vick’s property was a ‘rape stand’ which is a device in which female dogs are strapped into and restrained, to allow a male dog to breed with her.
According to the federal indictment, when dogs at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels lost a fight, or failed to perform well in ‘test matches,’ they were routinely killed by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming†the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.
Vick took part in these executions along with his partners Purnell Peace, and Quanis Phillips. The indictment detailed a March 2003 incident, in which a female pit bull who had just lost a match was killed. Vick and Peace decided to kill her by “wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting her.â€
The reason Vick may be so despised by so many, is that he was never punished, nor will he ever be for brutalizing and killing so many helpless victims.
                                                       Â
Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news pollsOn Tuesday night, someone broke into a vehicle parked in front of the home of a Chesapeake police officer and stole a semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun and ammunition from the trunk. The officer lives off of South Lynnhaven Road in Virginia Beach.
According to the police report, the stolen items: the rifle, 60 rounds of ammunition, a rifle case, a Remington shotgun with five shells, and a nylon case are worth a total of $2,170.
All of the equipment stolen was issued to the officer by the Chesapeake Police Department. Officer Dorienne Boykin, a CPD spokeswoman said the officer was authorized to bring the weapons home, and did not violate department policy by leaving them in the trunk of his personal vehicle.
However, Bokins did say: “This may cause us to review the practice of how we safeguard weapons in vehicles.â€
Virginia Beach detectives are investigating the incident.
Anyone with information on this crime should call 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration newsOn Tuesday, Gloucester County Sheriff's deputies arrived at the home of a 64-year-old man, who had been brutally assaulted and robbed after leaving the hospital. His alleged attacker was actually the same young man who volunteered to drive him home.
Deputies arrested Shawn Eric Blankenship, 21, of New Point Comfort Highway, and charged him with unlawful wounding, grand larceny, and destruction of property.
The victim said Blankenship took him back to his apartment, and then assaulted him, stealing his wallet and his truck.
According to the police report, the man suffered very significant injuries and was transported by helicopter to Riverside Regional Hospital.
Blankenship is being held without bond at the Gloucester County Jail.
Powered By iWebRSS.com immigration news - sex crimes of illegal immigrantsOn Friday, Henry Morton, 52, was sentenced to 40 years in prison with Circuit Judge James F. D'Alton Jr. suspending all but 8 of those years. Morton had already pleaded guilty to two counts of malicious wounding.
On the morning of November 17, 2009, Cristy Wright, 35, arrived at the Petersburg East Complex at 110 Croatan Drive, where she worked as the manager. As soon as she exited her   vehicle, Morton ran up to her, threw a cup of gasoline in her face and set her ablaze.
As the flames enveloped her upper body, Morton beat her with a metal pipe before fleeing the scene.
Several parents and children at a nearby school bus stop heard Wrights screams and came to help.
Prosecutor Ken Blaylock described the scene, saying: “People just rushed right up to her, running with coats and everything trying to put her out. She was lucky that there were a lot of people around.â€
Witnesses told police they saw Morton board a Petersburg Area Transit bus, and a special alert was issued to all city bus drivers.
Within minutes, a bus driver reported a passenger who fitted Morton's description and police quickly arrested him.
Morton told the arresting officers that he “just snapped.â€
The day before the attack, Morton had been fired from his job as a maintenance worker at the Petersburg East Complex.
Morton’s lawyer, Petersburg public defender John Cobb, said: “He felt that she was somewhat responsible for losing his job. He kind of felt like she didn't like him from the very beginning, and that it was her mission to get him fired.â€
His victim, recovered from the blow to her head, but she suffered permanent burn to her forehead from the flames.
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Powered By iWebRSS.com immigration news - sex crimes of illegal immigrantsOn Tuesday night, someone broke into a vehicle parked in front of the home of a Chesapeake police officer and stole a semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun and ammunition from the trunk. The officer lives off of South Lynnhaven Road in Virginia Beach.
According to the police report, the stolen items: the rifle, 60 rounds of ammunition, a rifle case, a Remington shotgun with five shells, and a nylon case are worth a total of $2,170.
All of the equipment stolen was issued to the officer by the Chesapeake Police Department. Officer Dorienne Boykin, a CPD spokeswoman said the officer was authorized to bring the weapons home, and did not violate department policy by leaving them in the trunk of his personal vehicle.
However, Bokins did say: “This may cause us to review the practice of how we safeguard weapons in vehicles.â€
Virginia Beach detectives are investigating the incident.
Anyone with information on this crime should call 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Powered By iWebRSS.com immigration news - sex crimes of illegal immigrantsIn September 2007, a Surry County grand jury affirmed two state charges against Vick…one count of unlawfully torturing and killing dogs and one of promoting dogfights. Each felony charge could have resulted in a five-year prison term.
Vick eventually pleaded guilty to one count under a plea deal and not guilty to the other, and that charge was dropped. Surry County Circuit Judge Samuel Campbell approved the plea agreement and sentenced Vick to a three-year suspended jail term and probation.
Vick actually went to prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge of bankrolling the dog fighting operation. He served 18 months of a 23-month sentence at Leavenworth federal prison.
So, despite the claims by Vick’s supporters that “he has paid for his crimes,†he actually has not.
The truth is that Michael Vick has never spent a day in prison for animal cruelty. He merely went to prison for financial crimes.
When police raided Vick’s house in Surry County in 2007, they found 65 dogs (nearly all pit bulls), a dog-fighting pit, blood-stained carpets, and various equipment commonly used in dog fighting.
One of the items found on Vick’s property was a ‘rape stand’ which is a device in which female dogs are strapped into and restrained, to allow a male dog to breed with her.
According to the federal indictment, when dogs at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels lost a fight, or failed to perform well in ‘test matches,’ they were routinely killed by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming†the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.
Vick took part in these executions along with his partners Purnell Peace, and Quanis Phillips. The indictment detailed a March 2003 incident, in which a female pit bull who had just lost a match was killed. Vick and Peace decided to kill her by “wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting her.â€
The reason Vick may be so despised by so many, is that he was never punished, nor will he ever be for brutalizing and killing so many helpless victims.
                                                       Â
Powered By iWebRSS.comread interesting immigration news opinionsOn Tuesday, Gloucester County Sheriff's deputies arrived at the home of a 64-year-old man, who had been brutally assaulted and robbed after leaving the hospital. His alleged attacker was actually the same young man who volunteered to drive him home.
Deputies arrested Shawn Eric Blankenship, 21, of New Point Comfort Highway, and charged him with unlawful wounding, grand larceny, and destruction of property.
The victim said Blankenship took him back to his apartment, and then assaulted him, stealing his wallet and his truck.
According to the police report, the man suffered very significant injuries and was transported by helicopter to Riverside Regional Hospital.
Blankenship is being held without bond at the Gloucester County Jail.
Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news pollsOn Friday, the body of a former Bush administration official who also led the effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was found in a landfill in Wilmington, Delaware. Police have ruled the death of John P. Wheeler III, 66, to be a homicide.
Newark Police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall said that Wheeler had not been reported missing before they received a call that a body had been dumped from a garbage truck at the landfill.
Police believe Wheeler's body was dumped into a garbage bin in Newark sometime before the truck arrived to empty it.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that Wheeler was last seen traveling on an Amtrak train   from Washington to Wilmington, last Tuesday.Â
Wheeler was a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and served in the Reagan administration as well as both Bush administrations.Â
During the Reagan years, Wheeler served as chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. He went on to found the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, which helps veterans find jobs. He also helped to create the Earth Conservation Corps during the George H.W. Bush administration. From 2005-2009, Wheeler served as a special assistant to George W. Bush.
Wheeler, a Hampton High School alumnus, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966, and had degrees from both Yale and Harvard.
The Newark Police Department is asking that anyone with information into Wheeler’s murder contact them at 1-800-TIP-3333.
Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration newsOn Friday, the body of a former Bush administration official who also led the effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was found in a landfill in Wilmington, Delaware. Police have ruled the death of John P. Wheeler III, 66, to be a homicide.
Newark Police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall said that Wheeler had not been reported missing before they received a call that a body had been dumped from a garbage truck at the landfill.
Police believe Wheeler's body was dumped into a garbage bin in Newark sometime before the truck arrived to empty it.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that Wheeler was last seen traveling on an Amtrak train   from Washington to Wilmington, last Tuesday.Â
Wheeler was a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and served in the Reagan administration as well as both Bush administrations.Â
During the Reagan years, Wheeler served as chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. He went on to found the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, which helps veterans find jobs. He also helped to create the Earth Conservation Corps during the George H.W. Bush administration. From 2005-2009, Wheeler served as a special assistant to George W. Bush.
Wheeler, a Hampton High School alumnus, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966, and had degrees from both Yale and Harvard.
The Newark Police Department is asking that anyone with information into Wheeler’s murder contact them at 1-800-TIP-3333.
Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration newsIn September 2007, a Surry County grand jury affirmed two state charges against Vick…one count of unlawfully torturing and killing dogs and one of promoting dogfights. Each felony charge could have resulted in a five-year prison term.
Vick eventually pleaded guilty to one count under a plea deal and not guilty to the other, and that charge was dropped. Surry County Circuit Judge Samuel Campbell approved the plea agreement and sentenced Vick to a three-year suspended jail term and probation.
Vick actually went to prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge of bankrolling the dog fighting operation. He served 18 months of a 23-month sentence at Leavenworth federal prison.
So, despite the claims by Vick’s supporters that “he has paid for his crimes,†he actually has not.
The truth is that Michael Vick has never spent a day in prison for animal cruelty. He merely went to prison for financial crimes.
When police raided Vick’s house in Surry County in 2007, they found 65 dogs (nearly all pit bulls), a dog-fighting pit, blood-stained carpets, and various equipment commonly used in dog fighting.
One of the items found on Vick’s property was a ‘rape stand’ which is a device in which female dogs are strapped into and restrained, to allow a male dog to breed with her.
According to the federal indictment, when dogs at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels lost a fight, or failed to perform well in ‘test matches,’ they were routinely killed by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming†the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.
Vick took part in these executions along with his partners Purnell Peace, and Quanis Phillips. The indictment detailed a March 2003 incident, in which a female pit bull who had just lost a match was killed. Vick and Peace decided to kill her by “wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting her.â€
The reason Vick may be so despised by so many, is that he was never punished, nor will he ever be for brutalizing and killing so many helpless victims.
                                                       Â
Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news pollsOn Tuesday, Gloucester County Sheriff's deputies arrived at the home of a 64-year-old man, who had been brutally assaulted and robbed after leaving the hospital. His alleged attacker was actually the same young man who volunteered to drive him home.
Deputies arrested Shawn Eric Blankenship, 21, of New Point Comfort Highway, and charged him with unlawful wounding, grand larceny, and destruction of property.
The victim said Blankenship took him back to his apartment, and then assaulted him, stealing his wallet and his truck.
According to the police report, the man suffered very significant injuries and was transported by helicopter to Riverside Regional Hospital.
Blankenship is being held without bond at the Gloucester County Jail.
Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration newsOn Tuesday night, someone broke into a vehicle parked in front of the home of a Chesapeake police officer and stole a semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun and ammunition from the trunk. The officer lives off of South Lynnhaven Road in Virginia Beach.
According to the police report, the stolen items: the rifle, 60 rounds of ammunition, a rifle case, a Remington shotgun with five shells, and a nylon case are worth a total of $2,170.
All of the equipment stolen was issued to the officer by the Chesapeake Police Department. Officer Dorienne Boykin, a CPD spokeswoman said the officer was authorized to bring the weapons home, and did not violate department policy by leaving them in the trunk of his personal vehicle.
However, Bokins did say: “This may cause us to review the practice of how we safeguard weapons in vehicles.â€
Virginia Beach detectives are investigating the incident.
Anyone with information on this crime should call 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration newsOn Tuesday, Gloucester County Sheriff's deputies arrived at the home of a 64-year-old man, who had been brutally assaulted and robbed after leaving the hospital. His alleged attacker was actually the same young man who volunteered to drive him home.
Deputies arrested Shawn Eric Blankenship, 21, of New Point Comfort Highway, and charged him with unlawful wounding, grand larceny, and destruction of property.
The victim said Blankenship took him back to his apartment, and then assaulted him, stealing his wallet and his truck.
According to the police report, the man suffered very significant injuries and was transported by helicopter to Riverside Regional Hospital.
Blankenship is being held without bond at the Gloucester County Jail.
Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news pollsOn Friday, the body of a former Bush administration official who also led the effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was found in a landfill in Wilmington, Delaware. Police have ruled the death of John P. Wheeler III, 66, to be a homicide.
Newark Police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall said that Wheeler had not been reported missing before they received a call that a body had been dumped from a garbage truck at the landfill.
Police believe Wheeler's body was dumped into a garbage bin in Newark sometime before the truck arrived to empty it.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that Wheeler was last seen traveling on an Amtrak train   from Washington to Wilmington, last Tuesday.Â
Wheeler was a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and served in the Reagan administration as well as both Bush administrations.Â
During the Reagan years, Wheeler served as chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. He went on to found the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, which helps veterans find jobs. He also helped to create the Earth Conservation Corps during the George H.W. Bush administration. From 2005-2009, Wheeler served as a special assistant to George W. Bush.
Wheeler, a Hampton High School alumnus, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966, and had degrees from both Yale and Harvard.
The Newark Police Department is asking that anyone with information into Wheeler’s murder contact them at 1-800-TIP-3333.
Powered By iWebRSS.comread interesting immigration news opinionsIn September 2007, a Surry County grand jury affirmed two state charges against Vick…one count of unlawfully torturing and killing dogs and one of promoting dogfights. Each felony charge could have resulted in a five-year prison term.
Vick eventually pleaded guilty to one count under a plea deal and not guilty to the other, and that charge was dropped. Surry County Circuit Judge Samuel Campbell approved the plea agreement and sentenced Vick to a three-year suspended jail term and probation.
Vick actually went to prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge of bankrolling the dog fighting operation. He served 18 months of a 23-month sentence at Leavenworth federal prison.
So, despite the claims by Vick’s supporters that “he has paid for his crimes,†he actually has not.
The truth is that Michael Vick has never spent a day in prison for animal cruelty. He merely went to prison for financial crimes.
When police raided Vick’s house in Surry County in 2007, they found 65 dogs (nearly all pit bulls), a dog-fighting pit, blood-stained carpets, and various equipment commonly used in dog fighting.
One of the items found on Vick’s property was a ‘rape stand’ which is a device in which female dogs are strapped into and restrained, to allow a male dog to breed with her.
According to the federal indictment, when dogs at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels lost a fight, or failed to perform well in ‘test matches,’ they were routinely killed by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming†the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.
Vick took part in these executions along with his partners Purnell Peace, and Quanis Phillips. The indictment detailed a March 2003 incident, in which a female pit bull who had just lost a match was killed. Vick and Peace decided to kill her by “wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting her.â€
The reason Vick may be so despised by so many, is that he was never punished, nor will he ever be for brutalizing and killing so many helpless victims.
                                                       Â
Powered By iWebRSS.com immigration news - sex crimes of illegal immigrantsOn Tuesday, Gloucester County Sheriff's deputies arrived at the home of a 64-year-old man, who had been brutally assaulted and robbed after leaving the hospital. His alleged attacker was actually the same young man who volunteered to drive him home.
Deputies arrested Shawn Eric Blankenship, 21, of New Point Comfort Highway, and charged him with unlawful wounding, grand larceny, and destruction of property.
The victim said Blankenship took him back to his apartment, and then assaulted him, stealing his wallet and his truck.
According to the police report, the man suffered very significant injuries and was transported by helicopter to Riverside Regional Hospital.
Blankenship is being held without bond at the Gloucester County Jail.
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