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Why Wasn’t He Already in Jail?

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News from rural Louisiana:

The Eunice City Marshal’s Office said their agents located and arrested a man wanted on warrants for attempted second-degree murder.
Devidre Domal Doyle, 20, of Eunice, was wanted on two counts of attempted second-degree murder for a shooting which occurred in the early morning hours on Monday, Feb. 22. He was located by marshals while on routine patrol. . . .
Eunice Police Chief Randy Fontenot said Devidre Doyle was out on bond for an Oct. 26, 2019 incident in which he was charged with attempted first-degree murder.
Fontenot said police responded to a shots-fired call at around 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 22 at the intersection of Fred and Nimitz streets. Doyle allegedly fired at a passing vehicle with two occupants in it. Video from a nearby home’s security system is being used as evidence for Doyle’s involvement.

So, he was out on bond for an attempted first-degree murder in 2019, now he’s charged with attempted second-degree murder — and it’s on video this time, so perhaps they’ll keep him in jail more than overnight, eh? We keep finding cases like this, where people get shot by someone who arguably should never have been out on the streets, and it’s hard to reconcile this reality with liberal rhetoric about “mass incarceration.”

The “catch-and-release” approach to law enforcement is, of course, more common in liberal states like California, but the crusade to empty the prisons in the name of “social justice” has recently spread across the country. Consider the triple murder in Oklahoma we reported Feb. 19 (“Family Demands Answers”), where Lawrence Anderson had been released from prison just three weeks before he killed a neighbor, then murdered two relatives. This was because the state’s Republican governor commuted Anderson’s sentence:

Convicted cocaine dealer Lawrence Paul Anderson was ordered back to prison in 2017 for 20 more years after being caught with a gun and using drugs.
Anderson “remains a threat to both society and himself,” his probation and parole officer reported at the time.
He got out Jan. 18, after a little more than three years behind bars.
On Tuesday, he killed his uncle and a 4-year-old and attacked his aunt at their home in Chickasha, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation reported.
He since has admitted to also killing a neighbor, The Oklahoman has learned.
Grady County District Attorney Jason Hicks is upset Anderson, 42, was out at all.
“This has to be addressed by the Legislature, sooner rather than later, because more people are going to get killed,” the prosecutor said. “We’re seeing this all over the state. Repeat offenders go to prison. They’re not there very long. And they come home and they’re committing crimes just like this.”
Anderson was released after Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted his sentence last June to nine years in prison, the interim secretary for public safety said. . . .
Anderson was first sentenced to prison in Oklahoma in 2006 for four years for attacking his girlfriend, pointing a gun at her and possession of crack cocaine with the intent to distribute, records show. He was out in less than two years.
He went back to prison in 2012 to serve a 15-year sentence for selling crack cocaine near an elementary school in Chickasha. He also was ordered to spend 20 years on probation after his release. He was out in less than five years and four months.
He was sent back to prison in December 2017 to serve 20 more years when a judge both revoked his probation in full and sentenced him for new crimes.
His probation violations included testing positive for PCP and cocaine use. His new crimes involved having a gun and sneaking PCP into jail.
“He should serve his whole sentence,” prosecutors told the Pardon and Parole Board in a 2017 report.

Oh, and the neighbor woman Anderson murdered? He cut her heart out, took it to his house, then “cooked the heart with potatoes to feed to his family to release the demons,” according to his confession.

Does anyone remember that case last year in Houston? “Judge Releases Satan-Worshipping Murder Suspect, With Predictable Result.”

Have I mentioned lately that Crazy People Are Dangerous?




 

‘She Frequented the Truck Stop Often’: Murder Exposes Ex-Model’s Sad Decline

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Earlier this month, police found the body of 47-year-old Rebecca Landrith near an exit ramp off I-80 in rural central Pennsylvania. According to her online biography, Landrith was a former fashion model, but it appears her life had gone downhill in recent years. Perhaps the most significant passage in news coverage of her death was this:

[On Feb. 9] Milford Police in Connecticut shared that Landrith’s 2007 Honda Civic, which had South Dakota plates, was towed from a CITGO gas station there four days prior. The gas station owner reported it as having been abandoned several days, arrest papers state.
Investigators followed up with employees of a Pilot Travel Center next to the CITGO who recognized Landrith and said she frequented the truck stop often with truck drivers, according to arrest papers.

Ugh. What a horrible fate for any woman, to become a truck-stop whore and then to get murdered by one of her tricks:

The over-the-road truck driver accused of killing a woman at an Interstate 80 ramp earlier this month is in the Union County Prison without bail.
Tracy Ray Rollins Jr., 28, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of homicide and abuse of corpse following his return from Connecticut where he had been arrested Feb. 10.
Rollins said nothing as he was escorted from a state police plane at the Williamsport Regional Airport to a cruiser for the trip to the Milton state police barracks where he was arraigned by video.
Rollins, who is from Dallas, was advised by District Judge Jeffrey Mensch the maximum penalty for homicide is death.
However, District Attorney D. Peter Johnson said later it is not a death penalty case at this time but declined to elaborate.
Mensch’s stated reasons for denying bail were the homicide charge and Rollins’ lack of ties to the community. The preliminary hearing is scheduled on March 5.
Rollins is charged with killing Rebecca Landrith, 47, a model who lived in New York City.
Her body was found just before 7 a.m. Feb. 7 by a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation worker along the I-80 eastbound exit ramp at the Mile Run interchange near Loganton.
She sustained multiple gunshot wounds to her face, neck and chest area plus two on a hand that state police called defensive.
Eighteen bullets were removed from Landrith’s body during an autopsy, the arrest affidavit states. . . .
Landrith did not have any identification on her but investigators found in a jacket pocket a note containing Rollins name, cell phone number and email address along with receipts from businesses.
“A lot of incredible work” went into this case, [Pennsylvania State Police Capt. Sherman] Shadle said, citing all the state police divisions that were involved.
The victim’s brother, George Landrith, also has given investigators high marks not only for arresting a suspect but in the way they have treated the grieving family.
Rollins told investigators, according to the arrest affidavit, he had met a woman named Leslie at a truck stop near Milford, Conn., and she had been traveling with him.
Information was obtained from Milford police that Landrith had made hotel reservations in December under the name Leslie Myers, the document states.
According to Rollins, “Leslie” accompanied him to Maine, back to Connecticut, then to Brooklyn, New York and Wisconsin, where he picked up a load to be delivered in Maine.
Using the receipts found in the woman’s pockets and Rollins’ cell phone records, police said they traced his travel from Wisconsin to Maine with a stop at the Mile Run interchange from 12:11 until 12:26 a.m. on Feb. 7.
Because of the discovery of brain and flesh-like material, bullet holes and casings, it appears the shooting occurred in the cab of Rollins’ truck, police said.
No motive for the killing has been disclosed.

Eighteen bullets? Why shoot somebody 18 times?

This is just one of the mysteries surrounding Landrith’s death, but the largest mystery is how someone who was working as a New York fashion model just a few years ago could have ended up as the sort of woman who “frequented the truck stop often,” in a reporter’s euphemistic phrase.

“Lot lizards,” truckers call them, for the way they prowl around the truck-stop lots where truckers park to sleep overnight. If “lot lizards” are not the sleaziest whores on the planet, certainly they’re near the bottom of the prostitution hierarchy, and it’s difficult to fathom how a willowy blonde former New York fashion model could fall so low.

Poring over news coverage, there were a few minor clues:

Landrith’s brother, George Landrith, told PennLive she had separated from the rest of the family five years earlier.
“For that reason, he said he knows little about her life since then,” PennLive reported.
Landrith was the youngest of five children. She had never married. Her parents were divorced, and their father lived in Utah.

What accounts for Rebecca Landrith’s estrangement from her family? We don’t know, but it seems a logical inference that her lifestyle choices might be connected to why she hadn’t communicated with her relatives for the past five years. Yet even if she was alienated from her family, how does it make sense that she became a “lot lizard”?

Was she on drugs? Opioids, methamphetamine, crack cocaine?

Here’s a wild guess: In addition to being a fashion model, one might suspect that Rebecca Landrith also once worked as a stripper.

As I say, that’s only a wild guess, but it might explain her otherwise inexplicable downfall into the status of truck-stop whore.

An attractive woman can make big bucks working strip clubs, but that business disappeared when COVID-19 shut down most bars last year. So a stripper who might have been making two or three thousand dollars a week could have found herself suddenly short of cash. Again, I must emphasize that this is only a wild guess, but it’s very difficult to come up with any other guess that would explain what happened here.

In reporting on Landrith’s death, the trucker site CDL Life notes that some have made inferences about the dead woman’s fate:

Although there have been several social media posts inferring that Landrith was to blame for her own situation because she had been willingly “running around with truckers,” officers say that position has no influence on the investigation, noting that Landrith is a victim of homicide and should be treated as such.

Well, most feminists are pro-“sex worker,” and feminists also routinely denounce “violence against women,” but I don’t expect them to pay attention to the murder of Rebecca Landrith, for some reason.




 

Philadelphia: Carjack City, U.S.A.

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Carjackings increased 80% last year in Philadelphia, when there were 404 carjackings, and January’s numbers show an even further rise:

There has been a surge in the number of these brazen crimes across the city in recent months. Police aren’t quite sure what’s fueling the rise.
In January, there were 59 carjackings, up from 18 at the same time last year, according to the Philadelphia Police Department — a more than threefold increase.
This year’s uptick is a continuation of a disturbing trend that unfolded through last year, when many were out of work or had to work from home because of the coronavirus. There were 404 carjackings in 2020, up from 225 in 2019 and 230 in 2018, according to the department.

Fifty-nine carjackings in a single month — that means there are two carjackings in Philadelphia on a typical day. I learned of this disturbing trend last night after I watched video of a Friday police chase:

Philadelphia police arrested a man late Friday night who they believe carjacked two people, including a pizza delivery driver whose family was inside the car when it was stolen.
Investigators say a driver for City View Pizza was making a delivery on the 3600 block of North Broad Street around 9 p.m. when Marcel Jenkins hopped into his Saturn L200 and drove away.
The delivery driver’s 25-year-old wife and 2 young children were inside the car when it was stolen, according to police. The family was later reported safe.
Jenkins, who police say lives in North Philadelphia, rammed into several parked cars on the 700 block of Race Street and later abandoned the stolen car on Spring Garden Street.
Police say Jenkin stole a Toyota Scion from a 29-year-old woman shortly after ditching the Saturn. Jenkins then lead officers on a high-speed chase through the city during which he ignored traffic signals and drove opposite of traffic.
The chase came to an end when Jenkins drove into Franklin Square Park and eventually came to a stop. He was pulled from the car by officers and taken into custody. He is being held on $750,000 bail.
The District Attorney’s Office on Saturday announced four sets of charges being brought against Jenkins following his rampage through the city. The charges include kidnapping, carjacking, criminal mischief, vandalism and assault.

The District Attorney’s office won’t do anything to stop this epidemic of carjacking in Philadelphia. Lawrence Krasner is one of the “progressive” District Attorneys elected with funding from billionaire George Soros. Krasner has implemented a “turn ’em loose” agenda that guarantees most criminals will be back on the streets within hours of their arrest.

Allowing criminals to terrorize Philadelphia is “social justice,” you see, and if anyone in Philly complains about Krasner’s pro-criminal agenda, these complaints are dismissed as right-wing racism.

Remember that Philadelphia rioted last October when police shot a black man, Walter Wallace Jr., who charged at them with a knife. This is what “social means” — black men have a right to stab police, because the knife-wielding criminal is a victim of “systemic racism.”

Walter Wallace Jr. had more than a dozen arrests on his record before he made the fatal mistake of bringing a knife to a gunfight last October. In any sane community, Wallace never would have been released from prison, but Philadelphia is not a sane community. Joe Biden got more than 80% of the vote in Philadelphia, and if you don’t think that is conclusive proof of insanity, I don’t know what will convince you.

Crazy People Are Dangerous and the madness in Philadelphia has had fatal consequences. Skylar Owens-Mooney was one of the victims.

Philadelphia police on Friday [Oct. 9, 2020] identified the 29-year-old man an officer fatally shot in Germantown early Thursday, and said it occurred after the man entered a church around 3 a.m. carrying an assault rifle, confronted a woman he knew who lived in the rectory there, and said he wanted to kill somebody.
The gunman, Stanley Cochran, then made a series of “bizarre” demands for nearly an hour before leaving the church, police said. What he did next cost two people their lives.
One of them, according to Lt. Jason Hendershot, of the unit that investigates police shootings, was 19-year-old Skylar Owen Mooney, who Hendershot said was fatally shot by Cochran when he tried to steal the car she was driving.
The other was Cochran, who Hendershot said had several confrontations with police officers while trying to run away from the area — refusing to drop his gun, firing at at least one officer, and at one point attempting to steal a police cruiser. . . .
Homicide Lt. Norman Davenport said Cochran was a suspect in a double slaying committed in West Oak Lane on Monday, but that police had not developed enough evidence to be sure that Cochran was the killer. . . .
Hendershot said Thursday’s events started when Cochran entered the rectory at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church carrying a rifle and confronting a woman who lived and worked there. Cochran named a person he wanted to kill and asked the woman to bring that person to him. The woman said she didn’t know who Cochran was talking about, Hendershot said.
Over the next 30 to 60 minutes, according to Hendershot, Cochran made a series of demands, telling the woman to give him food and money, and to drive him to Wawa. She declined.
Cochran ultimately fired a shot, missing the woman. But she dropped her car keys, and he stole her Kia Spectra and drove away, Hendershot said. He crashed near Chelten Avenue.
Cochran then approached a woman driving a black Volvo and told her to get out of the car, Hendershot said, causing her to speed away in reverse for several blocks. She saw police nearby and alerted them about Cochran.
Meanwhile, Hendershot said, Cochran fired shots at an Infiniti sedan being driven by Mooney. She was struck in the head, and later taken to Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, where she was declared dead. . . .
Cochran, according to Hendershot, then encountered several police officers in different parts of Germantown as he attempted to flee. Police said he did not obey commands to put his gun down, and that four officers fired shots at him. Hendershot said Cochran fired at one of the officers and unsuccessfully tried to steal that cop’s patrol car.
After Cochran was shot, he was taken to Einstein, where he was pronounced dead at 4:36 a.m., Hendershot said.
Hendershot said a Mini Draco firearm was recovered at the scene; it was purchased in 2018 in Richmond, Va., but Hendershot said authorities were still investigating how Cochran — who has a criminal record and could not have legally owned the gun — obtained it.
Cochran had several convictions, according to court records, most recently a guilty plea in 2017 to firearms charges. He was sentenced to 11½ to 23 months in jail and five years probation, the records say. In February 2020, his probation was continued, according to the records, which do not provide additional details.
Davenport said homicide detectives received a call Thursday from someone who said Cochran was responsible for a double slaying Monday on the 6500 block of Lambert Street, where a 48-year-old woman and 29-year-old man were found fatally shot inside a house.

Did you catch that? Cochran was a career felon with “several convictions,” including weapons charges, and was prohibited from possessing firearms. Keep this in mind when Democrats try to pass gun-control legislation. Criminals don’t obey existing gun-control laws, and Democrats don’t want to put criminals in prison for violating those laws.

“Social justice” means that Stanley Cochran served less than two years for his most recent conviction, and was then turned loose on the streets of Philadelphia where he killed a 19-year-old woman. If the January numbers are any indication, there will be more than 700 carjackings in Philadelphia this year. How many more people will be killed by “social justice” in Philadelphia and other hellhole cities run by Democrats?




 

Family Demands Answers

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Whenever police kill a black criminal, it is now predictable — as night follows day — that the media will run a story about how the family of the deceased suspect “demands answers” about the shooting. Generally speaking, there will be a “civil rights” lawyer at the press conference, and there will eventually be a lawsuit against the cops. We take this for granted nowadays, along with the media interviewing relatives of the deceased criminal, who had an extensive felony record, saying that he was really a wonderful person, a beloved father, blah blah blah.

All of this is part of building up the Black Lives Matter narrative that law enforcement is about “systemic racism.” It is necessary to mention in this context that cops kill white criminals, too. In fact, the majority of suspects shot by cops are white, and sometimes the circumstances surrounding these shootings are tragic (e.g., Sage Crawford, shot in front of her small children after she charged cops with a knife), but cops shooting white people doesn’t become a 24/7 story on CNN, and nobody’s rioting over these cases. No, it is only black criminals getting shot by cops that get CNN saturation coverage, and we are not supposed to notice the upside-down values involved in this liberal media narrative, wherein everyone is expected to sympathize with lifelong criminals.

OK, but what happens when cops don’t kill criminals? What happens when fear of being accused of racism convinces people that it’s a good idea to turn criminals loose, just because they’re black?

The latest news from Chickasha, Oklahoma:

It’s been over one week since a four-year-old and her 67-year-old grandfather were stabbed to death inside their Chickasha home. All of it was allegedly by one of their own family members, 42-year-old Lawrence Anderson.
Monday night, investigators said that same family member may be responsible for a third murder.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations is still investigating the unfolding story in Chickasha, but the family of the third woman killed are demanding answers. They said they want to know why the man’s sentence was commuted in the first place.
“We’ve lost a part of our heart that we will never get back,” said Brooke Burris Wofford, a cousin of 41-year-old Andrea Blankenship, who was found dead in her Chickasha home.
Anderson was just released from prison in mid-January. He was out for less than three weeks on a commuted sentence when the crimes occurred.
Investigators said Anderson stabbed his uncle and 4-year-old Kaeos to death. However, the alleged spree didn’t end there. Detectives now believe Anderson also murdered Blankenship, who was found dead in her home on the same street as the first two murders.
“We need some more answers,” Burris Wofford said.
OSBI officials said on Thursday they now have evidence that Anderson killed Blankenship before he killed Leon Pye and Kaeos and stabbed Delci Pye.
Wofford said Blankenship was a single mother of two who lived alone and worked from home. She said the family is unaware of any relationship between her and her alleged killer.
“We want to know why this monster who is dangerous was released,” Wofford said.
Anderson was originally sentenced to prison in 2006 for attacking and pointing a gun at his girlfriend. He went back to prison in 2012 for selling crack cocaine near an elementary school. Anderson was sentenced again in 2017 for having a gun and sneaking drugs into jail. However, just three years later, Gov. Kevin Stitt signed off on a commuted sentence, which was granted by the state pardon and parole board. Anderson was released from prison for a third time on Jan. 18.
“Let us know the reasoning behind why he would release such a violent criminal,” Burris Wofford said.

He attacked his girlfriend and sold cocaine near an elementary school, but why he should be in prison? That’s “systemic racism”! No, let’s turn him loose, because what could possibly go wrong?

Why did the Republican governor of Oklahoma approve this commutation? Without bothering to research that question, my guess is that someone in the governor’s office decided it was a good idea to release inmates who were imprisoned for “non-violent” offenses. Selling cocaine near an elementary school? That qualifies as a “non-violent” crime. Nobody bothered to check whether Lawrence Anderson had any previous history of violence, and this is what happens when “social justice” replaces common sense as the guiding principle of law enforcement. That some Republicans are buying into this mentality should concern us.




 

The Death of ‘Teflon’

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Ramiro “Teflon” Carrasco began his life of crime at a young age, with a record dating back to 2003, the year he turned 14. In late June 2011, Carrasco was wanted on six active warrants, including failure to appear in court to face charges of fraud, domestic violence and probation violation, when police spotted him in Loveland, Colorado. Carrasco managed to elude police for two more days before he was finally arrested with the help of a SWAT team and a police K-9. Six years later, in February 2017, Carrasco was wanted on four outstanding warrants — including two felonies — when Loveland police tried to arrest him again, but he barricaded himself inside an apartment and once more, the SWAT team had to be called to take “Teflon” into custody.

You might think that a lifelong felon who had twice been the subject of SWAT interventions might have gotten a lengthy prison sentence. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, “Teflon” was a known gang member, whose face was covered with tattoos. Despite his felonious history, Carrasco was released from prison in Colorado in January 2019. His obituary was published 13 months later:

Ramiro Carrasco, a loving father, son, brother, uncle, cousin and friend. Ramiro left this world unexpectedly at 30 years young on Feb 26, 2020.

“Unexpectedly”? His death was actually quite predictable. The cause of death was three gunshot wounds from a Greeley police officer’s pistol.

At the time of his death, Carrasco was out on bond on charges in Larimer County. He also had an outstanding warrant in Boulder County. He and a woman named Keya Marie Pobanz (who had also done time in prison) had spent a few days smoking marijuana and methamphetamine. About 1 a.m. on February 26, 2020, Carrasco and Pobanz were in a green Honda in the parking lot of the Island Grove Village Apartments, “an affordable rental housing community” near a park on 14th Avenue in Greeley.

A police officer “was conducting crime suppression patrol” in the neighborhood, which was known “to be a high crime area specifically, narcotics and a dumping ground for stolen vehicles.” The officer spotted the Honda, which was “suspicious” because it did not have a front license tag and was backed into a parking space. Exiting his vehicle, the officer approached the Honda, and his bodycam video captured what happened:

 

Watching the video with an untrained eye, you might not realize why, at about the 42-second mark, the officer raises his pistol and orders Carrasco: “Stop moving. Put your hands up right now, dude.”

What happened? The officer shined his flashlight on Carrasco and saw he had a pistol on his lap. Carrasco moved his hand to try to conceal the pistol, and that’s when the officer drew his gun. A tense standoff followed for more than a minute, and the officer moved away from the car door for his own safety. Just about the time backup arrived, the officer saw Carrasco reach for the gun and BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Despite being hit with three shots, Carrasco still had the presence of mind to try to get rid of his gun — a Ruger .380 semi-auto — by tossing it out the open passenger door. You can actually hear it hit the pavement at about the 2:29 mark in the video. Despite this, Pobanz continued insisting that Carrasco did not have a weapon until the next day:

Pobanz told Commander Smith she was with Teflon for the last few days. During this time Teflon had told Pobanz he was not going back to prison as he has spent the better part of his life in prison. She didn’t know why he kept the gun lying on his lap as the officer approached. She said they knew the cop was going to contact them when he pulled into the lot, and she did not know why Teflon did not hide the gun prior to being contacted by the police.

Well, I think we all know the answer to that mystery. “Teflon” didn’t hide the gun because he wanted to have it handy, planning to shoot the cop and then try to escape. But the cop was smart, and when “Teflon” saw the backup police cars arriving, he made the only choice he had left.

Was he going to shoot, or was Carrasco reaching for the gun in a desperate last-minute attempt to hide it before more cops arrived?

It doesn’t matter, really. The shooting was justified because the officer had reasonable cause to believe his life was in danger. In releasing his report on the incident, the district attorney explained that he was not naming the police officer because of Carrasco’s “very strong and documented ties to known criminal gangs,” which could put the officer at risk of retaliation from Carrasco’s gang associates.

And that’s the story of how a career criminal “left this world unexpectedly.” His nickname was “Teflon.” But it wasn’t Kevlar.




 

Why Wasn’t He Already Behind Bars?

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Say hello to Leonard Ortega, 47, of Seattle, a lifelong criminal who was inexplicably out on the streets earlier this month:

Police say 47-year-old Leonardo Ortega pulled a shotgun on 68-year-old Phil Salmon, and stole his pick up truck Wednesday morning [Feb. 3] from a Chevron gas station in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. Salmon’s son Dan says it could have been a lot worse.
“A lot worse if he had pulled the trigger, it would have been over he was only 3 feet away,” says Dan.
Authorities say Ortega then proceeded to take officers on a car chase with speeds reaching up to 75 miles per hour on city streets during the morning commute, ending with a huge crash several miles away at the corner of Broad St and Alaskan Way along the downtown waterfront. Ortega was immediately arrested.
Friday afternoon, Ortega waived his right to appear in court for his bail hearing. He’s facing multiple charges including motor vehicle theft and evading police.
Ortega has a lengthy criminal history including seven felony convictions such as being in possession of a stolen gun and stealing cars.
“We know from police they are investigating him for multiple cases not only in Seattle but in other cities as well,” says Casey McNerthney with the King County Prosecutor’s Office.
But there are now questions about why a judge released him last month after being arrested for allegedly stealing an empty FedEx truck in the Northgate neighborhood.
“In those docs that we got from police, law enforcement didn’t object to the release,” says McNerthney, which allowed Ortega to be on the street before this latest arrest.
“I’m not sure if the officer who looked at that case when they put together that form knew the extent of his history. So that’s not meant to knock the police at all,” says McNerthney.

Gosh, what has happened in Seattle recently that might result in a policy of unusual leniency toward criminals? But if you pay attention to crime stories, you see these kind of cases all the time — the suspect in a heinous case that makes headlines is almost always a career criminal who is out on probation or parole for an earlier crime. Most serious crime in this country is committed by lifelong criminals who will predictably return to their felonious habits as soon as they are released from prison.

Is leniency toward criminals “social justice”? Consider this story that ran in the Washington Post a couple of years ago:

In the past decade, nearly 26,000 murders have gone without an arrest in major American cities.
Of those, more than 18,600 of the victims — almost three-quarters — were black.

You can, and should, read the whole thing, but think about what this means: There are more than 20,000 murderers on our nation’s streets. In reporting on these unsolved homicides, the liberals at the Washington Post undoubtedly intended to imply that law enforcement exhibits an indifference to the deaths of black people, because of “systemic racism.” But these unsolved murders are occurring mainly in liberal big cities, where leniency toward crime is usually the policy. In such cities, “social justice” translates to “turn ’em loose.” Allowing criminals to roam the streets will result in a lot more unsolved murders, and if most of the victims of these crimes are black, well, whose fault is that?

Good luck finding a liberal who can answer that question.




 

‘Fame Whore’ Update: Hurry Up, Guys, Julia Allison Is Available Again

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Julia Baugher, a/k/a Julia Allison, in a 2012 interview.

“Young women who believe they can whore their way into a committed, long term relationship with top quality men have mental health issues.”
— from a recent Reddit thread about Julia Allison

Readers may remember Julia Baugher, a/k/a Julia Allison, the erstwhile Internet celebrity who tried to make Sex in the City her guide to the happy life, only to suffer shame and heartbreak as a consequence. At one point in 2010, she was publicly recognized as the girlfriend of John Sidney “Jack,” McCain IV, son of the Arizona senator and then a 25-year-old Navy pilot, but like all of Julia’s relationships, that ended badly. About six months into their affair, after she had moved into Jack’s apartment, Julia was reportedly evicted by Jack’s mother.

In 2014, Julia “married herself” at the Burning Man festival and, falling head-first into the whole “alternative” culture, began dating a New Age hippie musician who called himself “Rain PhuturePrimitive.” That ended in 2017 when he decided he was into “polyamory,” and in 2018, Julia had an epiphany and decided it was time to settle down with a “reasonable choice” — a relationship which a few months later predictably went down in flames like the Hindenburg at Lakehurst.

“File it and forget it” is my usual modus operandi, and I hadn’t given any thought to checking up on Julia Allison for more than two years until Tuesday, when I noticed some incoming traffic from a Reddit thread, reporting that Julia had been dumped — again! — and was now back on the dating market at age 39. Unfortunately, the anti-Julia hate site “RebloggingDonk” has disappeared, so there is no longer an online clearinghouse for gossip about the erstwhile relationship-advice columnist. According to a tipster, however, what happened was this: Julia had been dating a doctor in the San Francisco area, who shall remain nameless. She used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to move in with him, but after a few months of her craziness, he kicked her out.

Allegedly, I hasten to add. Julia’s father is a lawyer who has been known to threaten lawsuits, and it is therefore my obligation to emphasize that this is just “sources say,” as unverified as anything a D.C. journalist reports from anonymous “White House officials.” However, a quick glance at her Instagram account reveals that Julia is now in Bali, and has apparently deleted all posts about her previous relationship.

Did you know that Julia Baugher once published a 73-point checklist of conditions for any guy who wanted to date her? A digital copy of the complete list has been archived at Reddit, and you have to marvel at the lack of self-awareness of a woman who begins her list by stating that a man must love her “unconditionally,” then sets out 72 conditions necessary for her to reciprocate his love. Meanwhile . . .

Speaking of updates, you are simply not going to believe this one. Do you remember Kaitlyn Hunt, the teenage Florida lesbian who briefly became a gay-rights cause célèbre in 2013 after she was charged with illegally having sex with a 15-year-old? What made that story so fascinating was not necessarily Kaitlyn’s legal problems — what part of “take the plea bargain” is so hard to understand? — but rather the deranged behavior of the online #FreeKate cult that sprang up around the case.

Indian River County Jail inmate Kaitlyn Hunt in November 2013

It was, really, not much different from most other statutory rape cases, except that Kaitlyn and her deranged supporters seemed to believe they could pressure prosecutors to drop the charges by accusing them of “homophobia.” The problem with that belief, however, is that such a precedent would have rendered Florida’s age-of-consent laws effectively null and void. If the people of Florida really wanted to declare 15-year-olds “fair game,” they could lobby their legislature to change the law, but the #FreeKate lunatics thought they could turn Kaitlyn into a civil-rights hero for underage homosexuality. There were several obvious problems with this belief, including the fact that Kaitlyn was sending sexual videos of herself to her underage girlfriend, providing prosecutors with digital evidence that could not be ignored. When all was said and done, Kaitlyn spent Thanksgiving 2013 in the Indian River County Jail. She was eventually sentenced to three years probation. She then married an older lesbian named Latisha Thomas, with whom she had a son, reportedly conceived by artificial insemination. Well, guess what?

1. Kaitlyn and Latisha broke up;
2. Last year, Kaitlyn announced she was engaged again;
3. And also, pregnant;
4. She recently gave birth;
and
5. She’s actually in a relationship with . . . a man!

How she boomeranged around into heterosexuality is, I’m sure, a very interesting story. When a tipster informed me of this development, I could scarcely believe it, and asked if there were some online evidence. Now that I’ve actually seen the photos, I believe it, even though I find it impossible to understand. How does someone go from being a lesbian cause célèbre at 19 to being a heterosexual housewife at 27?

Is there a moral to this strange tale? Well, I guess if you’re a guy looking to settle down, you’ll have better luck with a lonely lesbian than you would with Julia Allison. But your mileage may vary.




 

YouTuber Wins Darwin Award

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Timothy Wilks had a great idea for a YouTube prank — fake a robbery by charging at people with a giant knife. The result wasn’t funny:

A man was shot and killed Friday night in Nashville, Tenn., after wielding a butcher knife for a robbery “prank” intended for YouTube, police said, according to reports.
Officers were called to the car park of Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park around 9:20 p.m., according to a news release from Nashville police.
Police said Timothy Wilks, 20, and his friend brandished knives and approached a group that included David Starnes Jr, 23.
Police said Starnes shot Wilks in what he thought was self-defense, Nashville’s WSMV-TV reported.
Authorities are investigating the case and no charges have been filed against Starnes.

OK, maybe it was funny, if you have a sick, dark sense of humor. Me? I’m just reporting the news that there is one less idiot in the world.