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Not only was a male allowed in a women’s prison he was given a female cellmate. And the male as a history of “Cole has had other felony convictions dating back to 2012, including for robbery, DOMESTIC BATTERY and receiving stolen property.”

Reduxx has obtained details on the identity of the trans-identified detainee who is alleged to have sexually assaulted a female inmate while in custody at the Justice Center in Hamilton County, Ohio.

On January 4, FOX 19 reported that the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) was investigating an alleged rape that had taken place between two detainees at the county jail. The perpetrator was described as a trans-identified male who had been sharing a cell with the female detainee. The HCSO had the male detainee listed as a “female” for the purposes of their classification.

While neither parties were named by FOX 19, Reduxx has now learned the identity of the alleged perpetrator after speaking with the Sheriff’s Office. 

Michael Cole, also known as Michelle, was in the Justice Center awaiting trial after having been deemed a “violator at large” by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. Cole had escaped a local halfway house and had been placed in custody after being located by authorities. 

Cole has a lengthy criminal history spanning multiple states, and a perplexing track record of court documents referring to him both by male and female pronouns. 

In 2011, Cole was charged in Indiana for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, or drunk driving, and was to serve time at Steuben County Jail. The next year, Cole was indicted as a fugitive in Ohio, and later appeared in Indiana’s Steuben Circuit Court for his failure to return to lawful detention following his drunk driving charges. He was sentenced to serve time at a local county jail. According to a Cleveland.com report, Cole has had other felony convictions dating back to 2012, including for robbery, domestic battery and receiving stolen property. 

In 2017, Cole and his then-fiancée were indicted on charges related to the 2016 murder of another trans-identified male Cole had met through a “transgender support group” on Facebook. The victim, Brandon aka Brandi Bledsoe, had agreed to meet with Cole in person for drinks at a local bar in Akron, Ohio on the night of October 7, 2016. 

The next day, Bledsoe’s body was found dumped in the driveway of a residence in Cleveland’s east side. The victim was described as “wearing only underwear and had white plastic bags covering [his] head and both hands,” according to police reports. The corpse was found by a 5-year-old boy while he and his 12-year-old brother were out riding their bicycles. The victim died of a gunshot wound to the chest, but the medical examination also indicated trauma to the head.

Court documents from Cuyahoga County, where the murder took place, were very carefully worded and suggested some confusion as to what pronouns to use to reference Cole. At the time, it was reported that Cole “[did] not exclusively identify as a man or a woman.”  

Cole was then sentenced in 2018 to serve six years in prison for the charges of tampering with evidence, obstruction of justice, and gross abuse of a corpse. The charges for aggravated murder and two felonious assaults were nullified. Presiding judge Pamela Barker referred to Cole with “his/her” pronouns and stated that the “defendant is a transgender individual,” but official court documents still listed his gender as male and he was initially sent to serve his sentence at Lorain Correctional Institution for men.

At some point during his detention, Cole was transferred to a women’s institution. 

Reduxx found that a 2020 letter from Cuyahoga County Court denying Cole’s motion for judicial release was addressed to the Dayton Correctional Institution, a facility which houses female inmates.

Following the January 4 rape allegations, Cole was moved from the Hamilton County’s jail back into the custody of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. Despite being booked as a male under his male name, Cole is at the Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW), a female facility. Reduxx received confirmation from the ORW that Cole arrived to the facility on January 6 and is currently pending a returned violation hearing.

An ODRC spokeswoman had previously confirmed that Cole is being housed in the infirmary and is separated from the general population at the women’s prison. He will be at this facility serving the remainder of “a sentence that expires soon.” Cole’s expected release date for the 2018 charges associated with the murder of Brandi Bledsloe is Monday, January 30, 2023, but as the investigation into the alleged rape continues, he may face new charges in coming weeks.

Following the alleged January 4 rape, the victim immediately reported what had happened to a corrections officer. She stated that she had woken up to Cole’s hand over her mouth in an apparent effort to silence her during the ordeal. She was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center to be examined by a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner.

While Cole reportedly told detectives it was not “physically possible” that he could have raped the woman, court documents reportedly containing photos of “male genitalia” were obtained by investigators. Cole also told detectives that his “classification” had been sorted out at the state level, and that he was a “female.”

By Yuliah Alma Yuliah is a junior researcher and journalist at Reduxx. She is a passionate advocate for women's rights and child safeguarding. Yuliah lives on the American east coast, and is an avid reader and book collector.

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One Student Arrested after Two Threat Investigations at Chattanooga Area Schools

On Thursday, September 19, 2024, the School Resource Deputy assigned to Central High School was made aware of a student who reported a vague school-related threat. The alleged threat was a Snapchat video saying someone was going to pull a fire alarm and shoot people as they exited the school. The alleged video did not, however, name a specific school. An investigation was immediately begun;…

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The Hound of the Baskervilles: Three Broken Threads

Hat tip to @myemuisemo for another excellent post that covers much of what I was planning together:

Data protection was not really a thing back in 1889. However, paper hotel registers would be something filled in by the front desk staff, not the guest. They would contain details of extra charges incurred as well, all stuff generally done by computer, but you can still buy paper copies today. Particularly for the Indian market, where less than half the population have Internet access. These registers are generally mandatory and in some countries, the data will still be passed to the police when it concerns newly arrived foreigners. That's why they ask for your passport.

Newcastle upon Tyne, the one people generally talk about as opposed to Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, was at the centre of a major coal mining area in North-East England, the Durham and Northumberland coalfields being in close proximity. The industry was still employing children - boys as young as 12 could work in mines - and was still a pretty dangerous, not to mention unhealthy industry.

The British economy was heavily reliant on coal, especially the newly built electric power stations. While the railways had a big coal trade for internal transport for domestic purposes, boats also played a big role, either going via canal or down the East Coast of Great Britain to the London Docks. This route would become vulnerable to German attack in the World Wars, particularly in the second war from fast torpedo boats known to the British as "E-boats"; the East Coast convoys are a lesser-known part of the naval war, with Patrick Troughton having served with Coastal Force Command.

The Mayor of Gloucester, like most civic mayors in England, is the chair of the council, elected to a one-year term by their fellow councillors. The current holder is Conservative councillor Lorraine Campbell. It's a mostly ceremonial role involving going to various events while wearing a red cloak and a big hat:

Gloucester's Deputy Mayor is called the Sheriff of Gloucester. There is still a Sheriff of Nottingham, by the way.

The Anglophone Canadian accent was historically noticeably different to an American one and of course had its own varieties. They've gotten closer over the decades, especially due to television.

Sir Henry would have limited luggage space on the ship over, so three pairs of boots would be reasonable. He'd have to ship over anything else at further cost, so it could be cheaper to buy new in London.

Deliveries of telegrams that weren't in the immediate area of the office cost extra. Bradshaw's Guide for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland would state the nearest telegraph office for a town, as the 1866 edition demonstrates:

Sir Charles' estate was worth around £80m in today's money, but that would not even get him onto The Sunday Times Rich List, which starts at £350m (Sir Lewis Hamilton, i.e. the F1 driver). It tops out with Gopichand Hinduja and his family at an estimated £37.2 billion, whose conglomerate is many focussed on India, but also are the biggest shareholders in US chemical company Quaker Houghton.

Westmoreland was a historical county in Northern England; it was absorbed into Cumbria in 1974, but its area became part of the Westmoreland and Furness unitary authority in 2023.

"Entailed" means that Sir Charles has stipulated in a legal document that the Baskerville estate would have to pass to Sir Henry's heir intact. This was a feudal era practice that has now been abolished in most jurisdictions, with limited remaining use in England and Wales. Simply put Sir Henry is not allowed to sell the house or the land, even part of it. He can do what he likes with the cash and probably the chattels, the movable property like the candlesticks and the toasting forks.

This page covers it in relation to the works of Jane Austen with relevant spoilers:

Borough is another name for the area of Southwark. It got a Tube station in 1890, when the City and South London Railway opened, now the Bank branch of the Northern line. It also is famous for Borough Market, then a wholesale food market under cover of buildings from the 1850s. Today it is a retail market for specialty food; kind of like a farmers' market.

In 1888, the 10:30 from Paddington would get to Exeter at 15:35, a journey of five hours. @myemuisemo provides route maps. I would add at this point, GWR services to SW England went via Bristol, adding a lot of time to the journey, while the LSWR route from Waterloo was a lot more direct. Wags dubbed the former "the Great Way Round". The construction of two cut-off lines allowed the GWR to go via Westbury and Castle Cary.

I will cover the modern day condition of the route in my Chapter 6 post.

The GWR still had some broad-gauge track at 2,140 mm(7 ft 1⁄4 in) left that Brunel had favoured, but this would be finally eliminated in 1892.

Finally, Holmes is referencing the sport of fencing when he learns the cabbie has been given his name. The foil is the lightest of the three swords used in competitive fencing, such as the Olympics.

In an age before electronic fencing equipment, point scoring relied on the eyesight of the umpire... and the honesty of the competitions.

I was in my fencing club at university. I can't say I was that great. I preferred the epee, which doesn't have the priority rules...

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Post 988

Before and After....

Because the inmate attempted to bring drugs into the jail using a cigar tube hidden in a body cavity, the Sheriff decided to invest in a full body scan machine...

Shad Allan Martin, Ohio SID C954588, born 1977, incarceration intake in 2017 at age 39, released

Introducing Contraband into a Correctional Facility

In August 2018, a Mineral Wells, Ohio man who expressed deep remorse when he pleaded guilty to smuggling drugs into the Washington County Jail in 2017 successfully applied for judicial release after serving half of a 36-month sentence.

Shad Martin, 39, made a brief appearance in Washington County Common Pleas Court. Judge Mark Kerenyi granted his request for judicial release after Washington County Prosecutor Kevin Rings said he had no objections.

Martin will spend three years under community control.

Martin was a drug user who had been clean for several years and was a founder of the Latrobe Street Mission in Parkersburg, West Virginia; which is an evening safe place for homeless men that included emergency assistance and addiction counseling. At his sentencing in April 2017, he told Kerenyi he had relapsed in late 2013 after being clean for four years.

He was arrested on charges of possession of drugs and trafficking in December 2014. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve out his sentence on weekends in the Washington County Jail, but in May 2016 he was found in possession of drugs hidden in a body cavity when he checked in. 

The Jail Administrator, Greg Nohe, at the time said that when Martin came in for his commitment they took him in for an interview. The interview prompted by confidential sources notifying the jail that inmates had been bringing in drugs.

Martin denied bringing in any drugs to the facility, and that's when Nohe says they proceeded to x-ray him. "We were able to set up a mobile xray machine, which detected that Martin had some sort of obstruction in his bowels. When reapproached Martin indicated that he did have an item stuck in his rectum. He identified the item as a cigar tube," says Nohe.

The cigar tube was filled with marijuana, heroin, a syringe, rolling papers and a sleep aide.

Martin said he and his family had been threatened by two other prisoners with violence unless he agreed to smuggle the drugs into the jail.

Martin supported his claims with a video from the jail showing him being beaten by two other inmates.

An assistant county prosecutor at the time, Kelly Hamilton, told the court at Martin’s sentencing in April 2017 that his office would not oppose judicial release after Martin served 18 months provided he met standard conditions.

Because Martin had attempted to bring the drugs into the jail using a cigar tube hidden in a body cavity, Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks decided to invest in a full body scan machine for the jail.

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In which library workers and booksellers aren't zealous enough about banning books, so a bunch of karens want to literally have police threaten them.

"In March, special counsel to the sheriff of Hamilton County, Tennessee, Coty Wamp, was campaigning for district attorney when she met with a group of parents calling themselves Moms for Liberty. Wamp said afterwards that she had facilitated a meeting between the 'parents’ rights' group and the sheriff’s office because she thought law enforcement could help the group in its goal of banning books."

This is what we're up against.

Don't let them win.

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"OTHER CLAIMS," Hamilton Spectator. September 16, 1933. Page 21. --- Made By Walter Lasher After Period in Jail ---- Other claims were made by Walter Lasher, alias Lionel Bedeur, on whose trial on charges of false pretenses and forgery and uttering the county court jury could not agree yesterday. besides those which he made under the fire of the crown's cross-questions in the witness box, it was reported at the office of Sheriff Leeming A. Carr this morning. Lasher claimed that when he was first admitted to Barton street jail, his dinner plate was all alone at one end of the table.

"I thought I was going to be poisoned, so I wouldn't eat," he stated. "I was told I could pick my own plate and sit anywhere I liked. I knew that they wouldn't poison all the prisoners just to get me so I started to eat something."

In the box yesterday Lasher claimed that he hadn't eaten for nine straight days at the city jail and referred to his part in the Burwash prison investigation.

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Male Shoots And Kills 3 Women –One Of Them His Own Mother–Dead, At Three Separate Locations, In Manatee County Florida; Suspect Shot And Killed By Deputies While He Was On His Way To Shoot And Kill A Person In Georgia – Tampa Florida reporting

Witnesses told deputies that 28-year-old Javontee Brice came to the motel and shot his mother for unknown reasons, then fled the area, possibly heading to Georgia, according to the sheriff’s office.

Around 9:40 p.m., deputies said they were called to another shooting, there, a 29-year-old woman had been shot while sitting inside a parked SUV. Palmetto police officers tried to save the woman’s life, however, she died about an hour later. Witnesses identified Brice as the shooter.

Deputies said they received information that another shooting happened shortly after in Bradenton Florida. Police there said they learned that Brice had shot a woman before fleeing the area. The woman later died at a hospital.

Manatee County deputies said Brice was shot and killed by Hamilton County deputies after near the Florida Georgia border he fired shots at them around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Detectives in Manatee County said they learned that Brice was traveling to Georgia with the intent to kill another person.

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Weapons Stashes Found Among Jew Hating Terrorist Students at Columbia, University of Texas at Austin, UCSD

As I have said, this is not just about Jew hatred. It’s about taking down America.

Weapons have been found among anti-Israel activists at Columbia, University of Texas at Austin as well as UCSD

Guns were found by police at student protests at both the University of South Florida (USF) and the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) this week, authorities say. Atah Othman, 39, was one of 10 demonstrators arrested on the USF campus on Tuesday — and he was busted carrying a gun in his waistband, Fox 13 Tampa reports.

Anti-Israel protester Atah Othman, 39, was one of 10 demonstrators arrested on the USF campus on Tuesday — and he was busted carrying a gun in his waistband, Fox 13 Tampa reports.

Othman faces four charges including possession of a firearm on school property, trespassing, unlawful assembly and resisting arrest, arrest records show. He was released on bond just after midnight on Wednesday, hours after protesters gathered at the Orient Road Jail calling for the ten people arrested to be released.

Guns were found by police at student protests at both the University of South Florida (USF) and the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) this week, authorities say. (Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office)

It is unclear if Othman is part of the school system or an outside agitator. The identities of the remaining nine people arrested are unclear.

USF says that up to 100 people arrived at campus for the protests yesterday and some were not affiliated with the university.

The arrests came after dozens of protesters gathered near Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza on campus for a rally, the same location where three people were arrested on Monday for similar protests.

USF gave a 5 p.m. deadline for protesters to disperse and, after then declaring that the demonstration was no longer lawful, police moved in with tear gas, warding off agitators and making arrests.

Meanwhile, a UT Austin spokesperson says that guns were found on its campus hidden in a breezeway on Monday, Fox 7 Austin reports. Buckets of large rocks, bricks, steel-reinforced wood planks, mallets and chains were all found on campus belonging to protesters.

“University staff found a 5-gallon bucket filled with large chunks of concrete strategically hidden in a breezeway of Calhoun Hall leading to the South Lawn,” the spokesperson told Fox 7.

“An identical bucket was found in a similar location during last Wednesday’s protest. Similar buckets of rocks have been used during past protests in Austin to assault responding officers.”

Nearly 80 people were arrested at UT Austin’s protests on Monday after demonstrators set up tents and a barricade on the South Lawn despite lawmakers banning camping in public areas in 2021.

Most of the protesters were charged with criminal trespass, one person was given an additional charge of obstruction and another was charged with interfering with public duties, Travis County Attorney Delia Garza said.

At the University of California, Los Angeles, on Tuesday night, violent scenes broke out with protesters throwing chairs, using sticks and weapons to beat each other and shoving and kicking one another.

Meanwhile, approximately 300 agitators were arrested by New York City police overnight Tuesday into early Wednesday between protests at Columbia University and the City College of New York.

NYPD officers in riot gear break into a building at Columbia University on April 30, 2024. NYPD sources tell Fox News that about 230 protesters were taken into custody during the incident. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

NYPD sources tell Fox News that about 230 protesters were taken into custody at Columbia University and of that number, between 40-50 were arrested in connection to the occupation of Hamilton Hall. The remaining protesters were arrested at City College.

A statement released by a Columbia spokesperson said officers entered the campus after the university requested help. A tent encampment on the school’s grounds began nearly two weeks ago to protest the Israel-Hamas war.

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​Love For All: Forever Palestine 🇵🇸! Student Protests On “The War Criminal, Fascist, Apartheid, The Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell’s” Gaza War Engulf US Campuses. Here’s The Latest

Police enter Columbia University after defiant students dismiss university's expulsion threat, and Brown University agrees to hold Israel's divestment vote. We bring you the latest on the wave of campus protests.

— Source: TRT World 🌍 & Agencies | Monday May01, 2024

Pro-Israel protesters hold objects at an anti-war encampment on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 1, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Student Spring protests have popped up at many American college and university campuses in which the students are calling for universities to cut ties from companies advancing Israel's war on Gaza, and, in some cases, from Israel itself.

The demonstrations — the most sweeping and prolonged unrest to rock US college campuses since the Vietnam war protests of the 1960s and 70s — have led to several hundred arrests of students and other activists.

Officials are trying to resolve the protests as the academic year winds down, but students have dug in at several high-profile universities. Here Is The Latest On Campus Protests👇

University of California, Los Angeles

Police deployed in force on the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) campus on Wednesday morning after Israel supporters attacked a camp set up by anti-war protesters.

Witness footage from the scene showed people wielding sticks or poles to attack wooden boards being used as makeshift barricades to protect Israel's Gaza war protesters.

Footage from the early hours showed mostly male counter-demonstrators, many of them masked and some apparently older than students, throwing objects and trying to smash or pull down the barriers erected to shield the encampment.

Some yelled pro-Jewish comments as anti-war protesters tried to fight them off.

"They were coming up here and just violently attacking us," said protester Kaia Shah, a researcher at UCLA.

"I just didn't think they would ever get to this, escalate to this level, where our protest is met by counter-protesters who are violently hurting us, inflicting pain on us when we are not doing anything to them."

Columbia University

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has said about 300 people were arrested in police crackdowns on anti-war protests at Columbia University and City College.

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik released a letter on Tuesday in which she requested police stay on campus until at least May 17 — two days after graduation — "to maintain order and ensure that encampments are not re-established."

Adams, a Democrat who was formerly a police captain, insisted that while the people who entered Columbia’s Hamilton Hall included students, “It was led by individuals who were not affiliated with the university.”

“There is a movement to radicalise young people. And I’m not going to wait until it is done to acknowledge the existence of it,” Adams said Wednesday morning.

University of Texas

In a confrontation between police and protesters at the Austin school late on Monday, 79 people involved were jailed, according to the Travis County sheriff's department. Most were charged with criminal trespass.

About 150 protesters sat on the ground as state troopers and police encircled them, with hundreds of other students and protesters shouting when officers dragged someone away.

After police cleared the original group of demonstrators, hundreds of students and protesters ran to block officers from leaving campus.

Protesters pushed in on officers, creating a mass of shoving bodies before police used pepper spray on the crowd and set off flash-bang devices to clear a path for a van to take those arrested off campus.

NYPD officers transport arrested students in a bus as they evict a building that had been barricaded by pro-Palestine student protesters at Columbia University

Brown University

Brown University becomes first Ivy League institution to consider severing financial ties with Israel, marking a significant milestone in pro-Palestine Student Spring protests sweeping US campuses and beyond.

Brown University has reached an agreement with students protesting against Israel's war on Gaza to end an encampment they have been maintaining on school grounds since April 24 in solidarity with Palestinians.

"Students agreed to end the encampment and refrain from further actions that would violate Brown's conduct code through the end of the academic year," Brown University said in a statement.

The university, located in Providence, Rhode Island, said although the establishment of tents and other activities have violated a range of policies, the university leaders agreed that ending the encampment will be viewed favourably in disciplinary proceedings.

The university agreed that five students will be invited to meet with five members of the Corporation of Brown University in May to hear their arguments on why the institution should divest from Israel.

"In addition, [Brown University President Christina] Paxson will ask the Advisory Committee on University Resources Management to provide a recommendation on the matter of divestment by September 30, and this will be brought to the Corporation for a vote at its October 2024 meeting," the school said.

Harvard University

In a statement, protesters said the Cambridge, Massachusetts, school "has sought to shut off all outside access and visibility to the encampment."

"The Harvard administration has initiated disciplinary action against nearly forty students and student workers," the statement said.

Last week, Harvard limited access to its famous Harvard Yard to those with school identification after a camp was set up.

University of New Mexico

In Albuquerque, police in tactical gear tore down tents and clashed briefly with protesters who occupied the University of New Mexico's student union building for about seven hours on Monday night into Tuesday morning.

University officials said 16 people were arrested, including five students and 11 people not affiliated with the school. They alleged the protesters vandalised the student union building and sprayed painted graffiti across campus. They didn't immediately provide a damage estimate.

California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt

Protesters have occupied two buildings at the Northern California school. Dozens of helmeted police officers carrying batons marched onto campus and cleared both halls. The university said 25 people were arrested, and there were no injuries.

The university earlier announced a "hard closure," meaning that people were not permitted to enter or be on campus without authorisation. At 3:24 am, the university's website posted a shelter-in-place order for campus residents "due to continuing criminal activity on campus."

The order was lifted several hours later but residents were told to stay in living, dining and market areas.

Yale University

Yale authorities cleared a protesters' encampment after students heeded final warnings to leave, university officials said.

No arrests were reported. Demonstrators said on social media that they were moving their gathering to a sidewalk area.

Princeton University

The university's president, Chris Eisgruber, posted a statement on Instagram saying 13 protesters — 12 affiliated with the university — have been arrested after briefly occupying Clio Hall, the campus graduate school building.

"All those arrested received summonses for trespassing and have been barred from campus," Eisgruber said in the statement.

"The students will also face University discipline, which may extend to suspension or expulsion."

Northwestern University

The school in Evanston, Illinois, said that it had reached an agreement with students and faculty who represent the majority of protesters on its campus since Thursday.

The university said in a statement that it agrees to answer questions within 30 days about "holdings and investments in specific companies, including those whose investments support Israeli apartheid."

It also said it would reconvene an advisory committee this fall "with the ultimate goal of ensuring that any vendor who profits from the Israeli occupation will not be given the opportunity to provide services on our campus."

The statement said the university plans to support visiting Palestinian faculty and students and invest further in supporting Muslim and Jewish life on campus.

Northwestern says it will permit peaceful demonstrations that comply with university policies through June 1, which is the end of spring quarter classes. The university says it will allow one aid tent to remain, and all other tents must be removed.

University of Connecticut

Police moved in on a campus encampment at the Storrs, Connecticut, school and arrested protesters after giving them several warnings to leave, UConn spokesperson Stephanie Reitz said.

The number of arrests was not immediately available and officers were clearing the scene. The arrests came a day after protest leaders met with university officials.

University of South California

Encampment organisers met with university president Carol Folt for about 90 minutes on Monday. Folt declined to discuss details of what was discussed but said the purpose of the meeting was to allow her to hear the concerns of protesters.

Another meeting was scheduled for Tuesday. The university has cancelled its main graduation ceremony, set for May 10.

It already cancelled a commencement speech by the school's pro-Palestinian valedictorian, citing safety concerns.

George Washington University

Pro-Palestinian students and activists continued to sustain their Gaza solidarity encampment at George Washington University in Washington, DC.

The Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement that it will continue monitoring the situation and that the protest remained peaceful.

Commencement is scheduled for May 19.

The university said it would move law school finals to a different building because of the noise from the protests.

Virginia Tech

Dozens of protesters at Virginia Tech have been reportedly arrested overnight as the student-led Gaza Liberation Encampment grew to occupy a larger area of campus.

Protesters occupied the lawn of the Graduate Life Center on Friday. After protesters took further steps to occupy the lawn and outdoor spaces on Sunday, the university advised those gathered to disperse.

Those who failed to comply were warned they would be charged with trespassing, the university said.

Case Western Reserve University

Dozens of students, faculty and staff camped out overnight at the Cleveland school hours after a similar encampment had been broken up and more than 20 people were detained but later released.

School officials initially had said protests would be limited to daylight hours but announced Monday night that students and others affiliated with the school would be allowed to stay at the makeshift encampment on the school's public green.

Officials were checking the participants' identification before they were given wristbands signifying they could remain at the site. Roughly 100 people camped out overnight without incident, officials said.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

About 30 people were detained by campus police on Tuesday morning after the university said encampment protesters refused to leave. At 5:30 am, a university statement said protesters needed to remove tents and other items and leave the area by 6 am or risk arrest.

Clearing out the encampment took approximately 45 minutes, according to the university.

During the sweep, the university said protesters blocked police vehicles and threw objects at officers.

University of Florida

Nine people, including six students, have been arrested at Gainesville University — where about 50 people began protesting last week — by campus police and state troopers.

Steve Orlando, the school's associate vice president of communications, said many of the protesters are "outside agitators" and they had been warned for many days that prohibited activities would result in a trespassing order, barring them from campus for three years.

Individuals who didn't comply were arrested after campus police gave them multiple warnings, he said.

Virginia Commonwealth University

At the Richmond, Virginia, campus, police clashed with demonstrators overnight after officers tried to remove a makeshift encampment.

Protesters put up tents and built a barricade with shipping pallets. Police, some wearing riot gear, charged the line of demonstrators to clear the crowd, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.

Some protesters were seen hurling water bottles and other objects at police. Officers made numerous arrests and took down the tents.

VCU said in a statement on Tuesday that 13 people, including six VCU students, were charged with unlawful assembly and trespassing. VCU said officers used pepper spray to disperse the crowd.

Portland State University

A small group of students at the downtown Portland, Oregon, school broke into its library late on Monday.

Students have been protesting in a park on campus and on the library steps since Thursday, but the demonstration has been mostly peaceful. The campus was closed on Tuesday due to the library occupation.

Tulane University

Tulane University said it has closed three buildings on its main campus in New Orleans after Monday protests.

New Orleans news outlets reported six arrests.

Dozens of protesters walked among about a dozen tents pitched on a grassy lawn on Tuesday morning as rush-hour traffic flowed by. The university said classes normally held in the closed buildings would be held remotely.

University of Georgia

Police arrested protesters on Monday who tried to set up an encampment at the university northeast of Atlanta. A spokesperson wouldn't say how many people were arrested on the final day of classes before spring exams.

Athens-Clarke County jail records showed 12 people had been booked into the jail by mid-afternoon by University of Georgia police on criminal trespassing charges. State troopers aided university police.

The Red and Black student newspaper reported 16 people were detained at the site.

University of Utah

Protesters at the University of Utah have been forcibly disbanded and 19 were arrested, local media said.

Protesters erected an encampment at the Salt Lake City school on Monday. About two dozen tents were set up on the lawn outside the university president's office, and roughly 200 students held protest signs and Palestinian flags.

Later on Monday, dozens of officers in riot gear sought to break up the encampment.

Police dragged students off by their hands and feet, snapping the poles holding up tents and zip-tying those who refused to disperse. About 19 people were arrested on Tuesday. The university says it's against the code to camp overnight on school property, and the students were given several warnings to disperse before police were called in.

University of Minnesota

Students at the University of Minnesota are in the midst of the seventh day of demonstrations on Minneapolis' East Bank campus, local media reported.

Hundreds of protesters gathered on Monday at the Twin Cities campus, setting up dozens of tents in solidarity with Palestinians. Dozens of students sat in and near the tents while others participated in a Muslim prayer outside on the campus.

The university said earlier on Monday in a statement that it was closing several buildings "to ensure the safety of those who work and study on our campus" during protests that are expected to continue on campus in the coming days.

Ali Abu, who said he is a protest organiser, said the students plan on staying "as long as possible" until their demands are met.

Depaul University

Tents were erected on Tuesday on the school's Chicago-area campus.

The university said in a letter that tents and other structures without permits violate school policies.

The school also warned that actions that interfere with operations, damage property or are disruptive will lead to disciplinary measures, including suspension, expulsion and criminal sanctions.

Violence Erupts At UCLA As “The Terrorist, Fascist, War Criminal, The Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 of Isra-hell’s Supporters” Attack Pro-Palestine 🇵🇸 Encampment

Violence erupted at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) early on Wednesday when a group of pro-Israel supporters attacked pro-Palestinian students with sticks and poles, and attempted to destroy their makeshift student encampment.

The violence erupted at around 22:50 local time (05:50 GMT) on Wednesday when the pro-Israel supporters arrived at the encampment and launched fireworks at the pro-Palestine protesters and deployed what appeared to be bear spray, local TV station KTLA reported. Local media showed the pro-Palestine students covering themselves with umbrellas from the spray. According to KTLA, at least one person was taken away by an ambulance for treatment.

Several videos posted on social media appeared to show the pro-Israel supporters wielding sticks and poles, and throwing punches at some of the students at the makeshift encampment after breaking through a barrier.

The Daily Bruin reported that around 100 pro-Israel supporters had stormed the Palestine solidarity encampment at Dickson Plaza, while police reportedly "watched." Administrators at UCLA had called in police to try to and stem the violence, with Mary Osako, a vice-chancellor at the university, saying: "horrific acts of violence occurred at the encampment tonight."

"The fire department and medical personnel are on the scene. We are sickened by this senseless violence and it must end," she said in a statement.Writing on X, the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, also condemned the violence, calling it "absolutely abhorrent and inexcusable."

For over two weeks, UCLA, along with other universities across the US, have been the scene of protests against Israel's war on Gaza, which has killed at least 34,500 Palestinians, most of them children and women.Student activists are demanding their institutions commit to divestment from Israeli companies and that the US stops bankrolling Israel's bloody campaign.

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Bitcoin Scam Alert

The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office has received reports of a current scam that involves Bitcoin and the extortion of personal information. All of the reports indicate the scammer is using the same general guideline, threats of spyware or malware being on the victim’s phone and monitoring the victim’s apps/browsing history with the threat of releasing embarrassing information/pictures of the…

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Northern Iowa man faces vehicular homicide charge after long investigation into auto accident

WEBSTER CITY – A Northern Iowa man who allegedly ran a stop sign while drunk driving and then crashed in a ditch, killing his passenger, is facing serious charges in the incident. The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office has arrested Dustin Humlicek, age 40 of Webster City, following a lengthy investigation on a September of 2023 fatal accident. Kevin Beightol, 48, of Webster City was fatally injured…

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Courts across the country are increasingly embracing probation as an alternative to jail or prison sentences for minor offenses. But one Indiana county is taking a unique approach to their probation program by making offenders wear a scent-based identification bracelet.

The Hamilton County Probation Department recently partnered with Syntress LLC, an Silicon Valley-based start-up, to launch its scent-based probation program. Under the program, offenders are required to wear an identification bracelet which contains a coding liquid that releases a unique scent when heated to body temperature. This allows officers to easily recognize offenders when they enter public areas.

The bracelet has proved controversial; some have argued that it violates inmates' privacy and could lead to stigma or discrimination. Proponents of the program argue that the bracelet provides an extra layer of security and is important in deterring offenders from breaking the terms of their probation.

Sheriff Mark Bowen of Hamilton County is unapologetic about the program. "This program is an important tool for enforcing probation orders, and as a program designed to help us enforce those orders, it works," Bowen said. "Offenders are more likely to abide by the terms of their probation if they know we have this extra layer of monitoring in place. Making sure those offenders are living up to their obligations is our top priority."

So far, the smell-based bracelet has proven an effective tool for the Hamilton County Probation Department, and officials are confident it will help lead to a more successful probation program. For now, though, Sheriff Bowen is confident that the program is helping keep the community safe.

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The 'Greenhouse Getaway' - The 1992 Escape from the W.Va. Penitentiary - Part One

PREVIOUS ESCAPES There were countless escapes from the West Virginia Penitentiary.  Some means of escape were going over the tall walls with rope ladders, digging under the walls burrowed ten feet deep into the earth, through the Wagon Gates, dressed as women, one was even buried underneath a pile of stinky garbage in the outgoing garbage truck. One inmate attempted a creative escape.  He fashioned a hot air balloon out of mattress covers and took it to the top of the Industry Building. His escape was not successful as he couldn’t get it airborne. His attempt, as well has his spirit, deflated. While the inmates supplied the labor to build the gothic like architecture of the penitentiary from 1866 to 1870, there were 103 escapes and forty-six were never captured. According to The Tour at the West Virginia Penitentiary, there were 538 escapes from 1960 to 1995. In the late 60’s, prisoners who escaped were required to wear gray shirt and gray pants upon their return. The shirt had two white patches on front and one white patch on back that measured twelve by eighteen inches. The purpose of the patches was so Correctional Officers in the towers could easily spot them and watch them carefully. When a new inmate asked what the patches meant, he was told that those inmates were E.T.’s. Inmates with ‘escape tendencies’.  Camp Fair Chance, the 212-acre prison farm, had 160 inmates supervised by only four Correctional Officers. Since the escapes occurred frequently and were so easy, the farm was mocked as “Camp Sure Chance.” Those who did escape from Camp Fair Chance were rebuked by the other inmates who successfully escaped from the penitentiary. The Camp Fair Chance evaders were told, “You didn’t escape, you just walked off. You are a ‘walk-off’.” There were many other notable escapes but one fascinating one was perpetrated by Fred Hamilton, Tomie Mollohan, and David Williams.  All three inmates were convicted of murder and serving life sentences. Hamilton remains incarcerated today in the state's only maximum-security facility. FRED HAMILTON Frederick Dean Hamilton was born on January 22, 1958 in Greenfield, Ohio. As a young man, he excelled athletically. During Fred’s senior year of high school, he was ranked the third best golfer in the state of Ohio. Guy Sivert, the golf coach for Davis and Elkins College, recruited him on a full scholarship.  Fred’s future was bright. Blessed with athletic talent and a gregarious, popular young man in college, Fred appeared as if he had a perfect life.  Something snapped within him when he was nineteen years-old and he dropped out of college and began committing crimes. During his malicious six-week stint, Fred kidnapped car salesman Robert Kamauff of Cumberland, Maryland. He didn’t harm Kamauff and eventually released him on a deserted Maryland road.  Fred was arrested on October 12, 1978 for armed robbery and kidnapping when a stolen orange corvette was found in front of his house. He was initially housed in the Randolph County Jail. Two days later, Fred was taken to the Tucker County Jail by West Virginia State Trooper Bruce Brown. At the Parson, West Virginia jailhouse, Fred began devising a plan on how to escape and became unruly. Another State Trooper, Corporal Marshall Davisson stepped in to assist Trooper Brown in subduing the cantankerous young man. Fred pushed Trooper Brown aside and quickly snatched Trooper Davissons’ .357 caliber handgun from his holster. Both officers immediately grabbed Fred and two shots rang out. The first shot fired struck Corporal Davisson’s metal belt buckle and didn’t injure him. The second shot Fred fired hit Trooper Brown in the chest causing him to stagger to the nearby stoop where he collapsed. Four hours later, he breathed his last breath. When Tucker County Sheriff Darl Pine saw the commotion, he fired at Fred and struck him in the leg. Once Fred was hit, he stopped fighting and surrendered to them.  In a matter of several minutes, Fred’s bright future drastically dimmed. Once a gregarious, likable college student, now a convicted cop killer. Fred’s impulsive violent choice robbed Trooper Brown, a young man only 25 years old of his future.  Fred had previously escaped from the penitentiary in July 1984 while being medically treated at the Reynolds Memorial Hospital in Glen Dale, West Virginia.  When he exited the restroom in the prison ward of the hospital, he snatched a walkie-talkie from a correctional officer and absconded down a fire escape. He hid along Little Grave Creek and then surrendered to law enforcement authorities three days later. Inmate #3568074, Frederick Dean Hamilton, is now incarcerated at Mount Olive Correctional Complex in Montgomery, West Virginia. Mollohan's sentence was extended, of course, following the 1992 escape, and he later died behind bars. TOMIE MOLLOHAN Tomie Lee Mollohan was born in Miami, Florida on March 10, 1942 and eventually traveled up north to the Mountain State of West Virginia. He earned money by doing odd jobs for people and had a mechanical aptitude to fix things. Unfortunately, Tomie became tired of making a meager living and made a tragic choice. While milling around in Brounland, West Virginia, a small unincorporated town just thirteen miles southwest of Charleston, Tomie murdered Cebert Pauley. Tomie was staying in his cabin and on June 13, 1973, Pauley was discovered dead. His cabin was ransacked and his trouser pockets turned inside out. Pauley was known to carry a large amount of cash in his pants and that was missing when his body was found. Tomie’s fingerprints were found on the outside of a can of potted meat inside of the cabin. There were several witnesses that placed Tomie in the vicinity of the cabin before the murder. Tomie was arrested on March 19, 1973 in Manchester, New Hampshire by the police. West Virginia State Troopers Haynes and Shaw were sent to transport him back for trial. During the trip back, Tomie confessed to the troopers he was the one who murdered Cebert Pauley according to the court case, State v. Mollohan, no. 13927. Tomie later recanted his statement but the court felt there was sufficient evidence to convict him.  He was sentenced to life in prison. Sadly, this wasn’t the first time Tomie took someone’s life. In Bluefield, West Virginia, there had been a widely publicized unsolved murder that occurred on December 28, 1972.  66-year-old, Mary Osborne, a member of the First Church of God on South Street, helped clean the church. She was found at the church savagely beaten to death with a hammer.   Tomie testified he took the bus and traveled through Bluefield the day of the murder but had not gone to the church.  The Mercer County Prosecutor stated the church is only fifty feet from the bus terminal. In September 2017, the F.B.I. was able to close this cold case by connecting Tomie’s fingerprints near the scene of the crime. Tomie was convicted of this murder as well.    The greenhouse getaway was not the first time Tomie escaped the penitentiary. He, David Williams, and Bobby Stacy, who killed a Huntington police officer in 1982, escaped on April 3, 1988. They broke into the basement of the old Administration building and found bolt cutters in a metal locker. They then jumped through a side window and landed behind a large ventilation unit that was being installed. When the coast appeared clear, they ran to the chain link fence along Jefferson Avenue and cut their way to freedom. When Tomie left the penitentiary, he headed south to a town called Cameron, which is approximately nineteen miles away. He had been spotted a few times and police found lean-to shelters he probably built by Fork Ridge.  He also broke into at least two homes where he stole guns, blankets and clothing. At one of the homes, he left a note which detailed what he stole and that when he got some money, he would pay them back. Two weeks after escaping, Tomie was almost captured near Beeler’s Station off of U.S. Route 250. Marshall County Deputy Denise Hart saw him with a suitcase and stopped him asking for identification. While she checked his identification, he ran into a thick wooded area and escaped.  Deputy Hart fired five shots at him but missed. Tomie was apprehended on May 9, 1988 by Cameron Police Chief Charles Kotson. Tomie returned to the West Virginia Penitentiary until his next escape in 1992. After his capture then, he did not escape again and died at the Mount Olive Correctional Complex in Montgomery, West Virginia. The Old West Virginia Penitentiary at Moundsville is very popular tourism destination today. DAVID WILLIAMS David Williams was a hard-working coalminer who kept to himself.  However, the terrible choices of one evening changed his future.  David and an accomplice crossed the line of civility and committed a horrific crime. On Sunday, December 7, 1980, Harold Testerman returned home to Marytown in McDowell County.  He had been hunting and he told his neighbor he would be going to a wake of a neighbor at approximately 5:30 p.m.  But his truck remained in his drive-way all day which caused suspicion. At 11:15 p.m., a neighbor saw two people recklessly driving away from Testerman’s house.  Fifteen minutes later, another neighbor reported a fire at Testerman’s house.  After the fire was extinguished, the firefighters and police noticed the house was extremely disorderly as desks and drawers were tossed haphazardly through the rooms. Then there was a ghastly discovery of the charred remains of Testerman in the living room. At Testerman’s autopsy, the coroner, Dr. Ivin Sopher, revealed his cause of death was severe head injuries with a blunt object.  He was alive when the fire began but would have passed away because of the intensity of his wounds.  Several witnesses came forward and stated that David Williams and Floyd Franklin had been seen at Testerman’s house after he returned from hunting. Floyd Franklin was arrested first and charged with murder, arson, and robbery.  Franklin admitted to stealing from Testerman but claimed he had nothing to do with the fire or the murder.  In April 1981, Franklin is convicted of charges of robbery but acquitted of the murder and arson charges.  Franklin received forty years in the penitentiary. Williams could not be found at first but was tracked down to his family’s house in Big Jenny Hollow in McDowell County on January 16, 1981.  When the police arrived at the residence, they were told he was not there.  They did consent to a search of the property and Williams was found hiding under a bed in one of the bedrooms.   When Williams was tried, he was convicted of first-degree murder, arson, and robbery.  He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.   Williams constantly attempted to escape in the penitentiary.  In 1983, he tried to climb over the wall by Tower 4 with a rope fashioned from a sheet.  In 1985, a plot was discovered where he was going to escape from the prison dining hall.  He, Mollohan, and Stacy were successful in the 1988 escape but he was captured in McDowell County shortly after they escaped. It has been reported that David William committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell at the Mount Olive Correctional Complex on December 18, 2018. Read the full article

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Teen Mom star Ryan Edwards’ rehab girlfriend, Amanda Conner, has once been arrested for possession of meth, heroin, dealing drugs and more charges throughout the years. 

The U.S. Sun reported Ryan, 35, is dating single mother Amanda, 33, after meeting in rehab. 

A source close to Amanda exclusively told The U.S. Sun that she is “infamous” in Chattanooga, Tennessee because of her bad girl reputation. 

The insider claimed: “Amanda is trouble. She has been in and out of the system since she was old enough to catch a charge.

"She is not a good influence on Ryan.”

The U.S. Sun obtained court records from a handful of drug-related arrests.

On September 22, 2016, Amanda was arrested on “multiple warrants.”

The incident report read: “Upon arriving to Hamilton County Jail, Amanda was subject to a strip search due to a history of narcotics charges. 

“Female jail staff found a small zip lock plastic bag containing a white crystal substance that [Conner] stated was meth. The bag was located in [Conner’s] bra.

“The substance is consistent with meth with an approximate weight of less than ½ a gram.”

She was charged with simple possession. 

Her bond was set at $6,000 and she entered a guilty plea on March 23, 2017. 

She received a jail sentence of 11 months and 29 days. 

The Chattanooga Police Department then arrested Amanda on April 25, 2018, after a call was made for a “suspicious person” at a CVS. 

When officers arrived at the scene, Amanda was in a car with two other men. 

The report read: “Another officer conducted a pat down of the female suspect. [The officer] located a small lump in the left side of [Conner’s] bra. When asked about it, she offered to remove it from her bra.

“She removed a small clear baggy of methamphetamine from her bra and a small clear baggy of light tan power that appeared to be heroin.”

In the vehicle, the officer found spoons and small clear plastic bags “commonly used for selling narcotics.”

The report continued: “During the interview, [Conner] gave a spontaneous utterance that she sells narcotics.”

She was arrested and charged with possession of controlled substance.

Amanda entered a guilty plea on July 12, 2018. 

She received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days in jail that was ultimately suspended and to be served on probation because of “good behavior.”

On November 6, 2021, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office busted Amanda with an expired registration and a license plate that didn’t belong to the vehicle. 

The report read: “I located numerous items considered to be considered to be drug paraphernalia during a probable cause search of the vehicle.

“I also located marijuana and meth. I charged [Conner] with the misuse of registration, simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.”

All of the charges were dismissed, per the District Attorney’s Office, on April 10, 2023. 

On June 31, 2022, an officer from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office stopped Amanda when he observed no registration displayed on her car. 

The report read: “The above violator was in possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and multiple food stamp cards and debit cards that belonged to other people.”

She was charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and fradulent use of credit/debit card. 

The possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia were dismissed by the District Attorney’s Office.

For the fraud charge, she received a suspended sentence for good behavior for 11 months and 29 days to be completed on probation.

On June 21, 2023, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office arrested Amanda on warrants for driving under the influence, and two counts of possession of a controlled substance.

She was listed as being “homeless” in the court papers. 

These charges are what landed her at CADAS rehab at the same time as Ryan. 

The U.S. Sun previously reported on her long history of legal troubles going back to 2009 in Hamilton County alone. 

According to the Hamilton County Court website, some arrests include theft under $500 in February 2009, where she received a suspended sentence of 11 months and 29 days and was placed on probation, and theft of property in June 2016, where she received the same judgment. 

In August 2017, she was arrested again for possession of controlled substance. She pleaded guilty and was ordered to CADAS rehab.  

Amanda found herself in trouble again when she was busted on August 19, 2023 for drugs general category for resale, possession of controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, and contraband in penal institution.

All charges were dismissed by the District Attorney’s Office.