The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Low-Level Drug Crimes

In September 2013, sheriff’s deputies in Mobile County, Alabama, spotted a stolen car parked in front of a home in the rural community of Wilmer. Deputies knocked on the door of the house, seeking to speak to Kenneth James Colburn (pictured above left) who was suspected of stealing the car. Deputies became aware of “a […]

Still Another Aspiring Rapper Update

Say hello to Kemandre King, 20, and Marlon King, 24, who are not aspiring rappers, so far as I know. Instead, they are associates of the late Desoni “Lil Theze” Gardner who, as we told you in November, made the mistake of attempting to carjack a retired police captain in Oakland, California. Ersie Joyner had […]

Aspiring Rapper Update: ‘5050 Chuck’ and Girlfriends Charged in Murder

Say hello to Charles Berltran, a/k/a “5050 Chuck,” 31, who is behind bars in Texas for the murder of Marisela Botello, 23. The Seattle woman had traveled to Dallas in October 2020 to visit a friend, then went out to a bar where police say she met Beltran. She went missing until March 2021, when […]

Welcome to New York City

The pro-criminal/anti-police agenda seems to be working out great: A vagrant slashed another man who confronted him for masturbating in front of his wife outside Penn Station late Wednesday, according to cops and police sources. The unidentified 21-year-old suspect — who is listed as a “John Doe” in police records — was pleasuring himself near […]

What ‘Social Justice’ Really Means

New Yorkers are about to get what they voted for, and they deserve it: Manhattan’s new liberal district attorney sent guidance to his staff this week saying he does not intend to prosecute several offenses, suggesting that “decriminalization” will help “make us safer,” according to reports. Alvin Bragg, who was sworn in as Manhattan district […]

‘A Philadelphia Gentleman’s Club’

Euphemism alert: Authorities have identified two suspects wanted in a double homicide that happened outside a Philadelphia gentlemen’s club on Tuesday. Investigators say a 32-year-old man and a 42-year-old man suffered fatal gunshot wounds when an argument turned deadly in the parking lot of Club Risqué on Tacony Street around 2:30 a.m. (Because where else […]

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to Harrison Foster of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. This is a mugshot from 2008, after Foster was arrested for robbing pharmacies and the judge ordered a “mental evaluation” that sent him to “Fulton State Hospital’s maximum security lockdown.” Foster was 21 at the time, and I don’t know what the results of the “mental […]

Denver Shooting Rampage Update: Gunman Identified as Tattoo Artist Lyndon McLeod, Was Known to Cops

Before the identity of the Denver shooter was known, I’d predicted that we would “eventually be told the gunman ‘struggled with mental health issues,’” and sure enough, Lyndon James McLeod, 47, “had a history of psychiatric episodes,” according to “multiple law enforcement sources.” McLeod had twice been the subject of police investigations in the past […]

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